Friday Ephemera (658)
His, as you can see, is considerably bigger than yours. || And face it, his outfit is better than yours. || Blockage detected, chap comes running. || Narrow bars. || Two illustrations of small effects, amplified rather dramatically. (h/t, Elephants Gerald) || Plant life. || You shall not pass. || Prosthesis of note. || Puppy drama, with background here. || Breakfast bangers. || “Within 100 light-years, things get bad.” || So how was your day? || Can confirm. || Incoming. || The thrill of Argos catalogues, 1973-1991. || No good deed. || Woke and biased, yes, and also incompetent. || A Japanese museum of mistranslated phrases. || Norwegian snowfall. || Look away now. || I’m sure I’ve seen that face before. || And finally, a tale of curiosity, temptation, and unfriendly natives.
Just another reason we are leaving California in 4 months.
She’s going through the change.
A curious sex difference.
Like no rodeo I’ve ever seen.
Puppy drama,
The stress really woke me up. So thanks for that, David.
Oh, look, consequences!
Morning, all.
“As long as the puppy doesn’t run into the oncoming traf… oh.”
That’s not going to go well, is it? (The attitude on display, I mean, and the indulgence of it. The move sounds eminently sensible.)
I’m still trying to reconcile a “political science, history and social justice department” with a “thriving and intellectual community.”
And finally, a tale of curiosity, temptation, and unfriendly natives.
They’re 50 km from an airport- what do they make of the planes they must see?
Woke and biased, yes, and also incompetent.
Don’t they always go together?
They’re 50 km from an airport- what do they make of the planes they must see?
Shake their spears at them!
Ms Valenti’s ability to mouth contradictory ideas, and to do it quite emphatically, has been noted here before.
In her book Sex Object, Ms Valenti tells us that she lost her virginity at 14, majored in Women’s Studies, flunked, and slept with her boyfriend’s roommate. So, I suspect that decision-making may not be her strong suit.
Men and women do, in aggregate, tend to score differently on tests of spatial reasoning and spatial acuity.
Puppy drama,
I kept looking for the white Ford Bronco and O.J.
Men and women do, in aggregate, tend to score differently on tests of spatial reasoning and spatial acuity.
Insert joke with punchline “All their lives they’ve been told that’s six inches” here.
On wearing trousers.
A “political scientist” speaks.
Similarity of note.
A “political scientist” speaks.
The oppression of being an associate professor of BS Studies at the University of Edinburgh.
Pray for her liberation.
Similarity of note.
Had to check that was real…
As I said on Twitter, in another context the obliviousness might be charming. Unless, of course, it’s just practised dishonesty, so common among the type, in which case, charming isn’t the word.
Oh, look, consequences!
She forgot to yell “I can’t breath!” at the top of her lungs.
But anyone who has a fit in class, yelling and screaming, is not emotionally ready for college.
OK, I’m 2 hours and 37 minutes in; does something happen? The suspense is killing me.
I’m still trying to reconcile a “political science, history and social justice department” with a “thriving and intellectual community.”
One department for all three categories is a clear warning of intellectual rigor…mortis. And it’s at a “historically black college”, which means even lower intellectual quality.
The snow is intermittent. So there’s that.
On wearing trousers.
All four legs, obviously.
That was my thinking. I mean, otherwise it would just be silly.
And finally, a tale of curiosity, temptation, and unfriendly natives.
An actual land that time forgot.
Men and women do, in aggregate, tend to score differently on tests of spatial reasoning and spatial acuity.
Yes indeed–although that particular difference is unusually large, which is why Charles Murray took note.
Ms Valenti’s ability to mouth contradictory ideas, and to do it quite emphatically, has been noted here before.
In that thread, a reader finds it charming that you interact with your readers.
I hope you continue to find us charming. [ Smiles ingratiatingly. ]
[ Peers over spectacles. ]
The late Norm Geras – of Normblog – didn’t permit comments and didn’t see much point in them. But as I said in the earlier thread, and to Norm, it seems to me that comments are an important part of blogging. It’s entertaining, for one thing, and it helps create a sense of community. And as a result, we have something akin to a disreputable bar. Which is nice, I think. There’s also the fact that by interacting, you get to bring your own thoughts into focus. Which is why the threads are often more interesting than the posts.
@pst314: “And it’s at a “historically black college…”
I can only assume that to be a misprint, and it should read ‘hysterically black college’…
coal miners: as I have said before, when people worked jobs like that (or in parts of the world where they still do) there is not much time or energy for woo. You also encounter lots of “cause and effect”
ducks and peas: I think the expression “like a duck on a junebug” refers to how ducks eat, as in this vid
Valenti: it is sad when feminists discover that the sex drive is actually related to reproduction…too late.
sex differences: the horizontal line test is one. Navigation is another. Men navigate with a mental map that has north at the top and they try to keep straight where they are on that mental map. This has been shown even in underground navigation in the tunnels under the U of MN campus. Women tend to use landmarks. Not helpful when you run out of landmarks. Another is history. In an admittedly non perfect sample, someone interviewed college students about major wars (amer rev, civil war, WWII). Most women had no idea. Most of the men knew all about the wars, dates, who fought, why, what happened. Men have more affinity for machinery.
The five laws of human stupidity.
And as a result, we have something akin to a disreputable bar.
Have one yourself, barkeep. 🙂
I can only assume that to be a misprint, and it should read ‘hysterically black college’
Reading Thomas Sowell and Walter E. Williams, it was disheartening to learn just how bad historically black colleges have tended to be.
Bless you, sir. May you never find yourself embroiled in a lengthy debate about exactly how firm, or indeed sloppy, scrambled eggs should be.
[ Wheels new range of bar snacks into view. ]
Perhaps those unfriendly natives know enough about us to want to keep us out.
One of the things that “political scientist” may be ignoring, is that cis white men have to work hard, likely start off poor and work their way up, and don’t spend their time complaining. It simply isn’t true that white men are just handed a job with no expectation of performance (well except for Megan and Harry, and Hunter, etc).
Don’t forget thongs!
Over the years, I tended to ignore the incomprehensible stylings of Ms. Valenti. However, sometimes her commitment to cloistered wokeness is so strident, I can’t help but look.
sex differences: the horizontal line test is one. Navigation is another.
Generally, true, though there is some overlap. I know my inner sense of NSEW is wholly unreliable. I taught myself to be diligent about maps (prior to GPS on phones, I looked forward to every new addition of Thomas Bros. maps). On the other hand, I’m much more history/date savvy than my husband.
As Jordan Peterson has pointed out several times, women are generally people-oriented, and men are thing-oriented. Hence the dominate presence of women in social services and men in engineering.
That’s exactly what I thought black pudding would sound like.
“Argos is a UK company that was formed in 1973.”
Not strictly true. Argos is the old Green Shield Stamps business. As inflation began to hit in the ’70s, the model of giving stamps away for later redemption broke down so they started cash sales, initially as “Green Shield Gift Houses”, rebranded as Argos in 1973.
On a similar note, last-minute Christmas shopping proves unexpectedly effective.
I suspect “Crap your hands” is deliberate. The Japanese have quite a self-deprecating sense of humour about their L/R confusion.
I’m cold just looking at it.
No… wait… it’s 2022 and gas costs a bloody fortune. I’m just cold.
Pity. They seem like my kind of people.
On a similar note, last-minute Christmas shopping proves unexpectedly effective.
And yet first on the sound track is what I believe is the Dreidel Song.
I find it interesting how many realities the woke simply deny. just to take feminists, they do not want to admit that much of female anatomy results from the demands of pregnancy and delivering a baby with a huge head. That men and women are attracted to each other and need each other. That it is easiest to get pregnant and the baby is healthiest in a woman’s early twenties. That female attractiveness to men is highest when they are young, healthy, and fertile, and not when they make more money or when they get tenure at the uni. That making men be more like women makes no one happy IRL.
Yeah. IRL it’s no longer just feminists who do not want to admit that. Just try pointing it out amongst a group of random people, coworkers, friends, etc. Especially amongst the more highly educated of such groups. Go ahead. I dare you.
edited/added: Rereading that I notice you did include “the woke”, but somewhat still to my point, it’s not just the woke either. A good number of conservatives… “conservatives” would take issue with pointing that out. Though I suppose it depends on where one draws the ‘woke’ line.
“Gay Norwegian filmmaker faces three years in prison after she said male-to-female transgender women cannot be lesbians“
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11545859/Gay-Norwegian-filmmaker-faces-three-years-prison.html
I’ve been entranced with walking videos as well as animated videos of cozy cabins, beach houses, winter car camping in a blizzard. I prefer Watched Walker, but have glommed onto London Walk by London Socialite, who favors nightlife walks through Soho, Chinatown, Piccadilly Circus. The number of young ladies wearing clubwear that barely covers them is both astonishing and pleasing.
Pondering whether to click or maybe it’s one of those David-style “check out the breasts on this gal!” type links that brings up a 450lb pig or something…
Yeah. IRL it’s no longer just feminists who do not want to admit that. Just try pointing it out amongst a group of random people, coworkers, friends, etc. Especially amongst the more highly educated of such groups.
Related: the many people who have absorbed Marxist ideas without having read any Marx. Or any other Marxist thinkers. It’s all through the educational system.
Fortunately, PiperPaul, London Walker puts up a screengrab showing the lovies. Don’t even have to play the viddy.
I see Julia’s been making friends on Twitter:
There may have been an accident in the lab.
Via Damian.
I see Julia’s been making friends on Twitter:
“Have you tried growing up?” applies to most of the people you post about.
Have to agree with Rita, “emoji pronouns”.
Psychological arrestedness is very common among the dysmorphic, especially dysmorphic men – like Jessie, for instance. As evidenced by the number of transgender adults with childish preoccupations, anime avatars, etc. And juvenile ideas of what a woman is, say.
Psychological arrestedness is mighty common, period. It is one of the lefts more effective tools. This person wants someone other than the creator of HP to take over HP and run it the way she wants. This is happening on a much broader scale on Wall Street and elsewhere every day. Because they want something, they get together and make it happen. The right just points and laughs thinking that some overarching truth will prevail. Somehow. Eventually. Which it will, after the Gods of the Copybook Headings show up. They tend to sleep late though.
The right just points and laughs thinking that some overarching truth will prevail.
Example: People graduating with “woke” degrees. Conservative pundits almost universally said they would end up working at McDonalds, but in reality they took over the corporate HR departments and created vast diversity bureaucracies in academia.
accident in the lab: two young scruffy men (and I use the term loosely) got on my plane. One was carrying a toy cat or such, the other carrying a big anime head, like a person would wear. Two furries. FFS grow up. But if there is no incentive to grow up, some won’t.
Japanese: some there think “fuck” is a general exclamation of approval or excitement, so they put it on the storefront or t-shirts. Pretty fucking funny. Of course they are not entirely wrong.
Regarding the Alexanderplatz aquarium that burst early Friday morning: Has everyone here read about The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919?
Two furries. FFS grow up. But if there is no incentive to grow up, some won’t.
Nearly all of the sci-fi fans I’ve known are frowning at your deplorable lack of tolerance and open-mindedness. [ eyeroll ]
From the dual PhD (do we call her Dr Dr?) in Edinburgh
my latest research also examines the gendered and raced impact of COVID-19
Good luck with that as a total waste of time. Covid-19, being neither gendered nor raced, treats all without fear, favour or phobic intent.
When I was there it seemed like the younger generation got a kick out of using it because they knew it’s meaning in English was offensive yet it meant nothing, or its meaning was significantly obscure, to traditional Japanese speakers like their parents. On Sundays in Tokyo I used to go to Omotosande Dori (or htf it’s spelled) to watch the bands play. One of the better bands was called King Fucker Chicken. To this day whenever I see ‘KFC’, that’s how I read it.
How is it a “total waste of time” for her? This is good example of the right’s misunderstanding of the game and how they get played.
Parenting of note.
Shopping spree detected.
shopping spree: sure, incur $1000 damage to transport your $30 balloons. Or like the guy towing a boat without a boat trailer. Darwin is really still doing his job.
(do we call her Dr Dr?)
I blame Robert Palmer.
Kris Hoyt (he/him), Male Feminist™ has thoughts.
Skip up to the first Innocent Bystander tweet, to read one of the most bizarre threads yet*.
*(it is still early)
Kris Hoyt (he/him), Male Feminist™
How exactly did you do that TM? My last attempt failed.
CTRL + ALT + T
How exactly did you do that TM?
On a Winders machine, NumLock>Alt+0153. Alternatively Run>Charmap, scroll down to find it and C&P.
Linux the unicode is U2122.
On a Mac I think you have to turn a big arrow and pull a string.
[ Wheels new range of bar snacks into view. ]
What is that? Eels? Fish?
[ Mumbling with lawyers, an exchange of looks. ]
Jerky.
OK, I said it was early…
“I’m “trans” so don’t execute me because I have mental health issues.” (Paraphrased)
OTOH, “trans” is totes normal and it is transphobic to suggest there are mental health issues associated, I have been told.
Wait, “women don’t rape”, I was also told.
Using womanface as a shield is a strange definition of “courage”, but OK, I guess.
Thank you.™ None of your suggestions for Windows worked, so I used the MS Word “insert symbol” feature.
Kris Hoyt (he/him), Male Feminist™
Also: “Asexual. Lutheran. Canadian. Agender. Pronouns: He/him”
LOL.
Public defenders are reliable sources of unintentional humor. They can always find some reason to praise even the most vicious criminal.
read one of the most bizarre threads yet*.
I keep thinking, “It’s got to be parody”, but he keeps going and going …
Just another reason we are leaving California in 4 months.
That reminds me of the New York City liberal who told me, a few years before the George Floyd riots, that Rudy Giuliani “went too far” in his efforts to curb crime. I wonder how he likes things now.
None of your suggestions for Windows worked…
Did you hold down ALT while you hit 0153?
More on the Missouri situation – public defender said executing a “trans”woman would be a first, but Missouri has execute a woman before, and I am told “trans”women are women, so not a first, or not a woman – pick one…
Did you hold down ALT while you hit 0153?
Yes, but I hit 0153 on the keys in the top row which didn’t work. Now, using the numeric keypad, it does work. It’s been so many years since I’ve needed to use the number keypad for anything that I had forgotten that it had any special purpose.
“I’m “trans” so don’t execute me because I have mental health issues.” (Paraphrased)
She tried to kill herself multiple times, both as a child and as an adult.
So, turning down professional help in achieving what has plainly been a long-term ambition?
As you say FMM, early days
Now, using the numeric keypad, it does work.
Yeah – forgot to mention that part – sorry…
How exactly did you do that TM?
You can also use the html “& # 8 4 8 2 ;” (without the quotes and spaces) and it should work. As in below:
Test™
“Students” at The New School (so far to the left* it is going to fall of the edge of the Earth) are on strike with demands! Among these are
Not insulin needles, hypodermic needles – of course that might explain their demand that everyone get all As. RTWT (NTB links to original list), all the “demands are equally silly.
*(“All of our work involves critical inquiry and creativity aimed at fostering a more fair and equitable world.”)
Ms Valenti tells us that she lost her virginity at 14
It always, always, always comes down to childhood sexual abuse.
Heh.
In her book Sex Object, Ms Valenti tells us that she lost her virginity at 14, majored in Women’s Studies, flunked, and slept with her boyfriend’s roommate. So, I suspect that decision-making may not be her strong suit.
That.
Ms Valenti is interesting only in her dishonesty and dysfunction. And like so many of her woke peers, her principles, so-called, are entirely non-reciprocal.
She’s a woman who boasts, in print, of needlessly inflicting on others behaviour that she would very much resent if done to her, and would doubtless write about, badly. Someone who insists that her political opponents should be harassed and physically intimidated – say, when eating in a restaurant with their families – while simultaneously decrying as outrageous and unendurable any mockery or correction of her own errors. Corrections she reframes as “sexist abuse” and a heinous attempt to “uphold power structures.” Thereby suggesting that her own, often eye-widening incompetence is a kind of heroism, a basis for applause.
A validation.
“I’m “trans” so don’t execute me because I have mental health issues.”
I FFS’d hard when I read the article and saw what was written presumably with serious intent:
“It is extremely unusual for a woman to commit a capital offense, such as a brutal murder, and even more unusual for a woman to, as was the case with McLaughlin, rape and murder a woman,” Pojmann said.
…and even more unusual for a woman to, as was the case with McLaughlin..
Dude was convicted in 2003, but didn’t decide to become declare “trans” until 2019, so because all “transwomen” are women was he “transman” in 2003 and de-transitioned in 2019?
The received wisdom is that the recent Colorado shooter claiming to be a Person of Letters is a ploy, but this guy is unquestionably legit?
The whole edifice is on a foundation of sand in a fault zone.
She’s a woman who boasts, in print, of needlessly inflicting on others behaviour that she would very much resent if done to her, and would doubtless write about
The mildest example I can recall was a feminist who liked to make sexist jokes about men, and then say “Can’t you take a joke?” if you looked at her funny. Needless to say, remarks about the ignorance and foolishness of English Department feminists were not welcome.
“embracing who she is as a transgender woman in spite of the potential for people reacting with hate”
Objection! Facts not in evidence! “hate” is used when “looking askance” or “pointing and laughing” is what their actual risk is. Oh, and maybe being thrown out of a women’s bathroom.
Chemistry professor educated in the USSR compares it to US “academia”, and one can’t say she is wrong.
RTWT and the footnotes, for example:
1) CalTech cancels Robert Millikan (the electron guy) in favor of a political appointee because of his involvement in eugenics. Margret Sanger hall would remain, no doubt.
2) Does your word processor have grammar and spell check? OK, but how about an inclusiveness checker?
40+ more if you want to wade through all.
Even money is on she is now on the cancel list because of the paper.
I’d settle for a dictionary that, after even a minor update to Word or Outlook, remembers which language I speak.
From Farnsworth’s link:
A “teachable moment” within such a teachable moment is the danger of the arrogance of intelligent people and our deference to such people. The problem isn’t just in the complete canceling of Stark and/or his discoveries because of his hateful antisemitism. I would say the much more concerning danger is a society’s great desire to turn someone who knows a lot about what is really just a tiny portion of reality into a guru of all knowledge. Say what you will about Einstein’s theories and such but I sometimes think that the smartest thing he ever did was turn down the offer to be president of Israel. If you follow me…
canceling scientists: all humans have their flaws, some glaring, some only evident when we change the standards. Science allows flawed individuals to nevertheless make important discoveries. Unless it is a Mengele, it is inappropriate and stupid to apply woke criteria to someone from 100 yrs ago or even today. If you cancel all the non-woke scientists, we will have no science left.
In that thread, a reader finds it charming that you interact with your readers.
Grateful you do, David. 🙂