Friday Ephemera

Here is an eye test for you.
It’s the Bonfire of the (Land) Manatees.

Funny how mainstream views are now counterculture.

I’m mostly on an iPad using Chrome and not really noticing much difference. Perhaps I’ve got a standard font override in the settings somewhere but God only knows. I found this rant as well as this and this one by Scott Adams regarding modern technology to be similar to many of my experiences lately.

and that enlarging via your browser was too exhausting
This, by the way, is how the blog displays for me, using Chrome on my laptop, at 100% zoom, and with Windows display scaling at the recommended default, i.e., 125%.

Those are your choices, it seems. Vote now.
I’m a purist. My preference is for the smaller font, which I actually found easier to read.

My preference is for the smaller font, which I actually found easier to read.
Exactly, just because some people buy their reading glasses at Dollar General, Canada Tire, or Pound Town is no reason to go making wholesale changes, next thing they’ll be demanding mobility scooters to read the blog.

Is what you’re seeing any different from the screengrab of what I see?
Ironically, how it appears in the screengrab isn’t actually a million miles away from how it used to look on my laptop.

Another adventure in public transportation.

let me know if it looks better, or worse, or is at least more legible.
I usually read this site on a tiny laptop screen or a tiny phone screen. The phone I just enlarge the screen until I can read it. The laptop I just squint because I am too lazy to ctrl-z, and unlike the phone I don’t like the site to be bigger than the screen. I have to say my initial reaction was the same at Cap’n Nemo’s “Gahh!” but then I started reading the posts, and it doesn’t seem so bad now. Definitely more legible. Does this mean I’m old?

Thus, it is better to go on the offensive as quickly as possible and to take no prisoners.
One side effect of spending so much time volunteering with victims of complex PTSD is that you end up learning the correspondences between the symptoms and the etiology – to the point that it takes very little observation to identify a victim of childhood sexual abuse, and only a moderate amount of observation or interaction to make a reasonably accurate guess about the age they were abused and who did the abusing.
In an argument with a demented leftists, this is not the Nuclear Option, it’s the goddamned Death Star. It’s cruel. I’ve used it exactly once, on a female dysphoric so toxic she’d been shrieking at me for minutes, at a party, for simply remaining silent in response to one of her diatribes.
I wouldn’t do it again. Not because of the social fallout (who cares) but because ultimately these people are incredibly damaged and making it worse is not kind.

In an argument with a demented leftists, this is not the Nuclear Option, it’s the goddamned Death Star. It’s cruel.
The vast majority of people who will call you a fascist or a racist are not demented people that we should pity.

“winning over allies”–the thing is, in jobs like that, we need serious people and these two do NOT qualify. Dressing up pretend is not a proof of competence. Just the opposite.

winning over allies and striking fear in the hearts of our adversaries
It is impossible not to believe that losing is the conscious goal of some leftists, while the rest simply do not care about winning.

Which should be the top priority? Removing these vermin from society? Or removing the liberals who protect them?

Another “migrant“. Need I comment on how policies should change?

NASCAR driver murdered, stabbed while pumping gas by this guy who just happens to have a considerable number of facial tattoos…who was out on parole…for reasons undetermined (for some reason). I was once “schooled” by a somewhat well known/read philosopher named Jeremy Stangroom on The Philosopher Magazine blog about a dozen years ago. Some discussion off shoot of the now more popularized Trolley Problem where I presented a similar dilemma, more complicated but basically the choice was based on saving a normal looking person versus someone with facial tattoos, much like this guy on the other. The Great Philosopher, along with pretty much everyone else there, was aghast that I would make such a decision based on this “superficial” observation. A pity it wasn’t Jeremy who encountered this guy instead of Bobby East.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11020379/NASCAR-icon-Bobby-East-37-MURDERED-California.html?ito=social-twitter_mailonline

The Philosopher Magazine
Were the editors named Broomfondle and Majjikthise?

Cats have no time for your pronoun bullshit.

How can I be a TERF when I’m not an RF?
Anyone who is not an Alphabet Person is by a default a TERF or ally which is the same thing, you fascist nazi yte male supremacist. Duh.
Educate yourself, do better.

eye test
I hate when they started using “curvy” and “curvier” to mean “fat” and “fatter”

By the way, I’m fiddling with the text size of the main posts.
Thanks for telling us. I was blaming it on Windows or Firefox.
I vote for the old size. My normal zoom almost everywhere is 80%. Until now, that was fine here. Now it’s a bit too small. The next zoom Firefox allows 90%, and that’s a bit too large. This wouldn’t be a problem if Firefox allowed finer zoom control. 85% would probably be right.
But FWIW, having read the blog in the new smaller size for a few minutes, I seem to be adjusting to it.
OTOH, now the text in the compose box is even smaller.

I seem to be adjusting to it.
OTOH, now the text in the compose box is even smaller.
I see now that my hope of pleasing everyone was doomed from the start.

Anyone who is not an Alphabet Person is by default a TERF or ally which is the same thing…
It really is time to terf out the commies and other debris.

Well of course they did.

Heh. Reminds me of how I learned to remember my employee id at an old job. It was x, y, y, x, x + y, y**2