Friday Ephemera
Nest relocation of note. || Things girls don’t often do, a possible series. || A feel-good ass-kicking. || Grandma’s still got it. || How to test goggles. || Today’s words are bat genitals. || His is bigger than yours. || How many atoms are in your body? (h/t, Elephants Gerald) || Skills detected. || Dall-E 2. || Ladies at large. || Department store scenes. || 10 hours of New York penthouse ambience. || The progressive retail experience, parts 423, 424, and 425. || Act casual, say nothing. || “Do not open the window or sing.” || Somewhat related. || Assorted structural shortcomings. || You can’t say that. || You must affirm toy’s toyself. || Font crisis. || And finally, when your opinions are fashionable, but not load-bearing.
Wishing a Happy Beer Day to everyone in America.
“Do not open the window or sing.”
So has Minority Report dethroned Demolition Man for most accurate depiction of the future?
And finally, when your opinions are fashionable, but not load-bearing
“I don’t know the answers to these questions!” is telling. He’s never thought about this issue for one second, but he knows how he’s supposed to respond. It’s Pavlovian.
“Do not open the window or sing.”
That’s some straight-up, BladeRunner dystopia shiznitt.
I could actually hear those Vangelis horns . . .
Act Casual say nothing
hey, I thought it was some fancy roll, too . . . I was surprised as he was.
A feel-good ass-kicking.
Karma. 🙂
Ladies at large.
I’m not a biologist, but…
Morning, all.
I’m not a biologist, but…
I, too, have questions. I did enjoy how the taxi driver slowly pulled away. Having presumably seen the same drama many times.
He’s never thought about this issue for one second, but he knows how he’s supposed to respond. It’s Pavlovian.
And so, for many educators, the ideal modern student.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/oberlin-must-pay-record-31m-award-to-bakery-it-defamed-as-racist-says-appeals-court
This barely reported story is an isolated case of where the progressive retail experience didn’t end well, mainly for the Oberlin faculty members who for once failed in their attempt to re-write reality.
“Ladies at large.”
Inside every Scouse cabbie, there must be a book to be written…
an isolated case of where the progressive retail experience didn’t end well, mainly for the Oberlin faculty members who for once failed in their attempt to re-write reality.
Some background to the drama here.
Note that recreational shoplifting, bare-faced lies, vindictive hysteria, vandalising people’s cars, and attempting to destroy the livelihoods of entirely innocent people are described as “brave student activism.” And note how supposedly grown adults, professional educators and college administrators, were all too willing to indulge in the kinds of behaviour one associates with delinquent children.
She has seven buttons.
She seems to think they’re magical.
She has seven buttons.
The checkers at my local grocery store like to wear buttons to signal their virtue. But the joke is on them as Kroger slowly replaces checkout stands with self-checkout. Which I like to use to minimize any time interacting with button wearers.
And I remind people – even if I agree with your sentiments, if you have over three stickers on your car, you’re crazy. I suppose I will apply the same rule to button wearers.
Remember when it was all ribbons, all the time? It’s like the stupid LGBTQPIA2S+ flag, they ran out of colors and patterns.
if you have over three stickers on your car, you’re crazy.
Apparently, we’re supposed to be fascinated by her buttons, and have both the time and inclination to squint and read them, and then defer to whatever messages are inscribed upon them.
Somewhat related, magic earrings.
self-checkout. Which I like to use to minimize any time interacting with button wearers.
Ah, there I differ. Not the button-wearing bit, the self-checkouts. I detest using them. My general feeling is that if I’m spending money in a store, the least the owner can do is have a human being acknowledge me as I hand over said money. Ideally, while stuffing my purchases in a bag. Doesn’t seem a lot to ask for.
Font crisis.
*snort*
*snort*
Along similar lines.
On the subject of buttons and flags has anyone else noticed that the latest alphabet version with the tasteful blue and white chevron would make an excellent apron to be worn in an intersectional Masonic Lodge.
…and then defer to whatever messages are inscribed upon them.
In this case they are pronouns, they/them and he/his, which explains why she is in a snit over being “misgendered”. Hard cheese, missy.
I detest using them…he least the owner can do is have a human being acknowledge me…Ideally, while stuffing my purchases in a bag.
Agree if in a smaller shop, but a big chain grocery or big box store, I can get out quicker and, having done it one summer long ago, bag better.
The progressive retail experience…
Another one that despite the holy incantation, didn’t turn out quite as expected. (Language caution)
Agree if in a smaller shop, but a big chain grocery or big box store, I can get out quicker…
At the start of the pandemic drama, a local pharmacy, part of a big chain, installed two self-checkout stations, and closed one of the two conventional tills, having seemingly fired half the staff. As pharmacies tend to have lots of elderly customers, few of whom fancy grappling with an unfamiliar device, the stations weren’t at all popular and I rarely saw them used. Or indeed functional, judging by the beeps that signalled an error of one kind or another, and which went unaddressed due to the sudden shortage of human staff. Faced with disgruntled customers, many of whom needed items from behind the counter and therefore couldn’t use self-checkout, and growing queues for the one remaining till, the appeals to use the new, improved, high-tech option became increasingly plaintive, almost desperate. The whole mood of the place changed quite noticeably.
I don’t shop there anymore.
Another one that despite the holy incantation, didn’t turn out quite as expected.
Today’s words are unreliable narrator.
Ladies at large.
I’m afraid that thong doesn’t quite have the intended effect, unless sumo wrestling really was part of the night’s plan.
The parents were initially told they had “misinterpreted” the content of the classwork.
Of course they did, being gap-toothed hillbillies sending their kids to private schools in Manhattan. (NY Post, but possibly NSFW)
The parents were initially told they had “misinterpreted” the content of the classwork.
Danger, Will Robinson.
a local pharmacy, part of a big chain, installed two self-checkout stations, and closed one of the two conventional tills, having seemingly fired half the staff… The whole mood of the place changed quite noticeably.
Same happened at my local Boots.
Same happened at my local Boots.
The change in atmosphere was hard to miss. From a place where the elderly or unwell could ask staff for advice, easily, or for help finding what they needed, and generally feel acknowledged, to a big room with a bad mood in it. And lots of tutting.
And then of course there’s the irony of a pharmacy, with signs insisting that customers wear masks and maintain social distancing at all times, simultaneously telling customers to share the same touchscreen as hundreds of other people, despite said items being notorious bacteria farms and an excellent way to spread disease.
It was, in hindsight, almost funny.
You must affirm toy’s toyself
Hold on. How come I’ve only got one set of pronouns?
Not fair!!!
♪♫♪My little town blues
They are melting away
I want to be a part of it
New York, New York♪♫♪
I stand corrected.
Fake or not, it is on brand.
Look out, “Lia” Thomas, you have competition.
a local pharmacy, part of a big chain, installed two self-checkout stations, and closed one of the two conventional tills…
The big Walgreens chain experimented with them a few years before the COVID pandemic. I believe it didn’t work out well, and they eventually went back to human cashiers. (But it’s possible that my perception is colored by the fact that I have not been in a downtown Walgreens in years.)
the beeps that signalled an error of one kind or another
I have more or less mastered the self-checkout stations at my local supermarket, but there are defects that cannot be escaped, such as the robotic “please put the item in the bag” voice when you scan an item which weighs so little as to not be detected by the scale under the bag.
Self-checkout advantages: Much less waiting in line. Can bag fragile produce separately so it does not get crushed. Low-IQ bagger does not slowly examine each item before putting it in bag.
Checkout clerk advantages: Faster scanning and bagging. Human interaction! Immediate help if something scans wrong. Human interaction.
Some background to the drama here.
Kudos for pointing out Oberlin’s “culture of theft”. That does give a very important clue to the true nature of “progressive” ideology.
Kudos for pointing out Oberlin’s “culture of theft”.
The well-heeled and scrupulously progressive students, the ones banging on about “social justice,” were amusing themselves by stealing from local businesses, routinely, for laughs, and abusing people they considered their social inferiors. And that’s before they gleefully set about trying to destroy their reputations and livelihoods, and vandalising their property, and menacing random people.
That’s really big of Facebook to acknowledge “you can disagree with this decision.” Why, thank you.
… didn’t end well, mainly for the Oberlin faculty members …
Good.
Fuck ’em.
The parents were initially told they had “misinterpreted” the content of the classwork.
No, probably not. It alarms some parents, but the furor will quickly die down. Of course the school is completely unrepentant.
Dalton — our faculty, staff, administration, and trustees — continue to stand firmly behind this program and those who teach it
So it’s a long battle.
… didn’t end well, mainly for the Oberlin faculty members …
Yes, although the outcome I hoped for involved judgements that bankrupted the faculty members, dooming them to life-long poverty: The only way to get leftists to behave is fear of ruinous consequences.
Dalton — our faculty, staff, administration, and trustees — continue to stand firmly behind this program and those who teach it
I knew a Dalton graduate. On balance, taking the good with the bad, the world would be better off without him.
I would say the goggle testing is also things girls don’t do often. hahahah so many things I’ve done that girls would never think to do, just because boys are full of T and can’t help it. When a girl says she is really a boy, does she have an urge to climb trees, get in fights, juggle random stuff, catch snakes, see how far from home you can ride your bike? No, probably not.
It’s worth pointing out that the Oberlin College case was about the university, in the form of its employees, libeling and slandering the store. It’s members passed out student flyers and ginned up the protests, and when the University Student Senate (snicker) passed a resolution libeling the store, the university let the resolution stay up (as in posted under glass) on university property.
In fact, the appeals court in the latest ruling specifically said: “This has nothing to do with the student protests, which is protected by the First Amendment,” but by what the college did and said.
Which didn’t prevent Robert Shibley over at Instapundit to still try to claim the store’s lawsuit “holds the college responsible for the speech of its student government.” Which inspired a raft of commenters saying, in essence, “read the fucking ruling, asshat. It says no such thing.”
Which points out that one of the deficiencies of a democracy, in which everyone has a voice, is that the stupid — when their illogical, mis-informed arguments are proven wrong — don’t shut up and go away, but insist on repeating said arguments like a fuckin’ parrot.
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Two Americans were walking down the street and one said to the other, “Have we really achieved full Progressivism? Is this it? Is this full Progressivism?” His friend replied, “Oh Hell no, things are going to get a lot worse.” [ paraphrasing from Ronald Reagan ]
I would say the goggle testing is also things girls don’t do often.
That too. Unless, of course, the ladies know better.
Here’s another thing that girls don’t do often.
A thing that aspiring rappers do often.
A thing that aspiring rappers do often.
It does seem that black lives don’t matter all that much to black people. Life is cheap in the ‘hood.
Oberlin: a lefty publication tried to spin it that now a college admin is responsible for the speech of students…this is a lie. The admin encouraged the activism/boycott, dropped the bakery from their vendor list, printed fliers for the protesters and brought them snacks, called them racist in emails, etc.
7 buttons: to read them, I would have to lean in and violate her personal space–and be staring at her chest. She needs large neon flashing signs to signal her virtue so no one can miss it.
How come I’ve only got one set of pronouns?
Don’t be shy, invent some for yourself.
As pharmacies tend to have lots of elderly customers, few of whom fancy grappling with an unfamiliar device, the stations weren’t at all popular
One of the large chain pharmacies in Canada recently added the automated check outs. It offers seniors a discount (20%) on Thursdays if they have a loyalty card. The loyalty card doesn’t identify the customer as a senior, so the cashier has to manually enter this information into the till. The way these retail geniuses deal with this on Seniors day is to open one cash and have one or two floaters working the automated check outs so they can enter the senior code. Meanwhile the seniors line up to the back of the store to use the cashier. We’re doomed.
Speaking of fonts, what’s going on with the font in the comment box? It has changed and appears to be bold or semi-bold. On my computer anyway.
Speaking of fonts, what’s going on with the font in the comment box?
Looks the same as usual to me.