Friday Ephemera (661)
The machine uprising, day 5. (h/t, Emil) || The machine uprising, day 6. || Someone else’s dinner. || Arsehole detected. || A map of undersea cables. || A triumph of elastication. || Combat aircraft concepts. (h/t, Things) || Courtesy in odd places. || Suburban scenes. || When you need nine hours of cassette-play. || Music typewriter, circa 1950s. || Your expectations of punctuality are “white supremacy,” and sexist, and also homophobic, you bigot. || His incriminating browser history is probably worse than yours. || Hers, I dare say, is bigger than yours. || Bit snug, some chafing. || Couch glider. || Assorted German pipe organs. || Pick your champion. || The progressive retail experience, part 452. || Passenger came prepared. || When you defer to the lie, complications will ensue. || And finally, with some patience, it takes a village to park a car.
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For the State Department, Comic Sans would be more appropriate.
Even more so for academia.
Danny Wakefield trans dad: these people who are dosing on male hormones and then get pregnant are doing a huge experiment on the baby. The human reproductive system is easily fouled up during pregnancy. Women can get pre-eclampsia which can suddenly transition to life-threatening eclampsia. Babies who nurse do better on all measures than those bottle fed. They are putting their psychosis ahead of the welfare of the child.
Sans serif: shouldn’t they be using Comic Sans? Just sayin.
“problem solving”–the idea for educators is to get them off the hook for all that boring practice stuff. Without a base of knowledge, you cannot solve problems. College graduates today literally know nothing.
Somewhat related.
Well, the claim is that recent studies…
NY Times usual unnamed experts studies e.g.:
Oh good, the department “DIE” supernumerary. Ignoring the fact she evidently hasn’t a clue as to the function of serifs, the name alone gives pause about her having an opinion worth listening to.
Shaver-Troup, the name aside, Ed.D, enough said.
Whose inclusive website has tiny type one nigh needs binoculars to read.
You’ll excuse me, I hope, if I get out my salt lick regarding their “studies”, not like the NYT was going to cite anyone with a contrary opinion.
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You’ll excuse me, I hope, if I get out my salt lick regarding their “studies”, not like the NYT was going to cite anyone with a contrary opinion.
Heh. Indeed.
Heh.
And all with the consent, encouragement even, of doctors and the medical profession in general. And 99.9% of the time due to the patient’s self-diagnosis. Yet I gotta argue with my doctor about vaccines and cholesterol and BP meds and he doesn’t hear a damn thing I tell him. Because I’m the ignorant patient. He is the wise and all-knowing professional. We have deep, deep problems and y’alls dreams on the previous page of comments about cleaning up just the teaching profession are so darn cute in their naive innocence. What a sick, sick society.
That begs to be summarized as a Haiku. There goes the rest of my morning. Fortunately it’s a quarter to 12 right now so…
The glamour of air travel.
Yes, notice how the pathetic, mostly useless cops let rainbow girl run her mouth while telling the otherwise orderly passengers who simply want to get to their destination to shut up. They let obviously belligerent rainbow girl even make threats to the other passengers. She even says what exactly she plans to do and only when she charges past the female airline employee (?) do they finally make a serious effort to address the situation. F*** da police. Sick of this crap where the scum are permitted tremendous leeway. I doubt rainbow girl will face any serious consequences.
Shot and killed, Just As He Was Turning His Life Around.™
Such nice people.
I doubt rainbow girl will face any serious consequences.
I fear you’re right. The consequences should have been immediate and agonizing. And to hell with the “liberals” who protect vermin from the proper consequences: They are supposed to know better than the animals, which makes their sins worse.
Take them both out back of the courthouse and shoot them in the head.
And hardly uncommon. But as with, say, Antifa, the overlap of ‘activist’ and ‘person with serious personality disorder’ will be quite large.
…and y’alls dreams on the previous page of comments about cleaning up just the teaching profession are so darn cute…
Florida universities
State legislatures
Nobody said it would be easy or overnight, but if you give up before you start, you aren’t certainly not going to get anywhere..
Speaking of Al Gore, I just saw a clip (unknown date) where he was ranting on some stage that climate change would cause climate refugees, so many that we (the US) would lose the ability to govern ourselves. Of course, that has no bearing on the present flood of illegals…when you compartmentalize your thoughts.
DIE training: advocates claim it is just about equity and justice, but these classes demonize whites and incite hatred. If you just switched jews or blacks for whites in the lectures, people would be outraged. It is pure up evil. We had to take one of the milder courses and people were very shaken up with the accusations.
And those are political solutions to a cultural problem. Which is fraught with huge potential failure if you fail to move the culture. The medical culture, the legal culture, the police culture need to be changed internally. Only then will the political efforts have any long term effect. Forcing political change on people, most of whom seem to have been permanently brainwashed, will result in a political backlash.
I’m not saying these efforts should not be made, and I definitely agree that one should not throw up one’s hands, lie back and accept it. But the latter position is where most conservatives…”conservatives” are. They are too weak to give up their professional sportsball addictions even when presented with viable, and in some cases even more entertaining and fulfilling sportsball alternatives. And that’s just in the sportsball domain. Throw in the movies and TV shows and book franchises that they worship, almost literally worship (the Star Wars Christmas displays are really starting to creep me out, especially by my more religious friends), and as I say the problem is very, very deep.
And those are political solutions to a cultural problem
Although in the case of New College, it is a cultural change … the board, professors and curriculum are replacing woke with classical education. That promises a cultural change in the students who graduate from there.
I am encouraged by this as I am by parents recapturing school boards.
And those are political solutions to a cultural problem
The present cultural problem, going back to the ’60s when this crap started, was and remains a political one.
And this is why we lose. The left took over the politics because the right was asleep at the wheel regarding culture. The elites, traditionally going back to those days were predominantly Republican and the predominant Republicans felt the need to kiss the elite’s behinds. While correct on principles, they completely failed to grasp that they were in a culture war. Reagan, whom much like Goldwater the elites despised, pushed back on that somewhat, and even got some traction. Having been a Democrat, even a union ban (though granted of the highest paying movie star kind) he understood how to communicate to the working man. Bush, not so much. Like not at all. And it has been a hard downward slide since then. As much as I dislike much of Bill Clinton, I could read his ability to read the culture. Even he saw the D’s were pushing a bit too hard and pulled back, slowed that train a bit. But the right, aside from Gingrich, failed to push it. The cocktail crowd were uneasy with Newt (who was almost Trump-like in his foibles). Yet they had no desire to seek out nor make peace with the Reaganish underclass.
Again, politics is downstream of culture. Fail to understand this, fail to address the culture and to rely on politics (which most people don’t pay enough attention to to grasp) and you will end up with a resentful society that will reverse those temporary gains as soon as the political winds shift. That said, there is one HUGE political move that would have significant impact in the near term on the culture and that would be to bring attention to, and thus bury, the campaign finance laws that allow the media to support the Democrats without it being considered an in-kind donation. But that itself is a hard political fight that outside of DeSantis a very few (maybe 20 congress reps and possibly a half-dozen or less senators) in the GOP support.
As am I as well. Yet the NeverTrumpers (like your former colleague Patterico) melt at the thought of allying with the great unwashed. Afraid that they may say something to embarrass them. Most conservatives…”conservatives” have no backbone. Which itself is a cultural issue. Life isn’t perfect. The left understands that and thus see no need to make apologies for the worst scum that support their cause. Yet the right, the elite right anyway, melt away at the first awkward word put forth by the commoners. They simply must, must, must maintain their starched collar status. Even if it means a society that cuts the penises of of little boys, the breasts off of developing girls, and poisons the rest.
For your forearm.
For your forearm.
Forearmed is forewarned.
[ Hides coat ]
Most conservatives…”conservatives” have no backbone.
It’s even worse than that: Most conservatives and libertarians will not do anything even when there are no social costs at all. One of my experiments was to point out authors who had given material aid (not just words) to actual terrorists and suggest that at the least one could stop buying their books. (Never mind suggesting to friends that such conduct put authors beyond the pale.) Even that was unacceptable and contrary to their claimed ideas about freedom.
I didn’t know Moe Howard was still alive.
I didn’t know Moe Howard was still alive.
Oh, a wise guy, hey?
but can clutter what is on the page,” Ms. Abercrombie-Winstanley
a bit like double-barrelled 21-letter surnames
but can clutter what is on the page,” Ms. Abercrombie-Winstanley
…of Ulm.
And those are the “thinkers”. They give the sheep comfort. And I say that as someone who is horribly uncomfortable using the sheep/sheeple analogy. Similar to how the Babylon Bee is often confused with the “real” news…and sarcasm…FFS everything is so bloody absurd that I have no idea how to communicate anything without my point being misconstrued one way or the other.
Good News Everyone! The Scientific
AmericanSoviet has new Newspeak definitions for us!Go on…
We mere mortals are too stupid to understand sciency science like the authoress, a J-school grad and law school dropout.
For example, the term “natural disaster” really means “man made”, and “retreat” means “proactive relocation”. Earthquake=Chernobyl, and Custer failed to proactively relocate.
It all makes perfect sense if you are a journalist or idiot, BIRM.
Good News Everyone! The Scientific
AmericanSoviet has new Newspeak definitions for us!The Three Stooges were preferable to these clowns.
Soviet American newspeak: the Left and Greens are already there. My favorite is the future present tense: “storms already may be getting worse” based on forecasts of them getting worse, not on data. By the way, climate models can’t do “storms”. There was a news story about homes in NC falling into the sea “due to sea level rise”. The real story is that when the Canada ice sheet melted, E Canada began to rise and is still rising (rebounding from the weight removed). As a giant plate of rock, this causes NC in particular to tip down, like a seesaw. So, relative sea level in NC is rising but not due to sea level globally rising. But this is way too hard to understand for journalists.
Another big one is “natural disasters”. The climate weenies like to cite ALL natural disasters including earthquakes and tsunamis and call it climate disasters. This gave them a big mortality spike to point to when the tsunami hit SE Asia. In the real world, weather mortality is going down and cold kills more than heat (Winter mortality worldwide>summer).
We live in the world of lemmings (which don’t jump off cliffs). These idiots are going to shut down our economies and kill millions over a modest warming.
Security camera wallpaper. Secure beneath the watchful eyes, eh?
I find it hard to understand who would want this in their home or workplace.
I know its been done to death but…
Trans Knockers
band name
Meanwhile, in Love Island news.
Meanwhile, in Love Island news.
Do they pick stupid people for these shows for the same reason they pick women with big boobs?
No valid drivers licenses, no registration, no insurance.
Makes you wonder what further investigation will reveal: Criminal records? Or just very very stupid?
An epidemic of public insanity.
Also seen on the internet: Medical journal JAMA says that it is bad for your health to believe in freedom. Truly we are living in Heinlein’s “Crazy Years”.
The contempt I’ve had for lawyers has now been matched by the contempt I have for doctors. They need to police their own professions. But they won’t. I don’t see a way out of this without there being some sort of nasty purge. Either it is going to get really, really ugly or we lose our freedoms in the next ten years or so. And ten may be optimistic.
WTP: My hostility is largely reserved for the medical journals, which have been taken over by leftist ideologues and careerists and incompetents who are more interested in comfortable jobs than in actually helping sick people. With regard to incompetents, see for example Theodore Dalrymple’s recurring articles about garbage medical studies and garbage statistics.
My personal physicians have generally been good, and my perspective is that the field of medical knowledge is so huge and so changing that it is impossible for anyone to keep up with anything but a small sliver. Thus, doctors are reliant upon the accuracy of journals, both with regard to specific studies and surveys summarizing the state of knowledge about specific things.
False Positive: A Year of Error, Omission, and Political Correctness in the New England Journal of Medicine, by Theodore Dalrymple
If you so much as snicker, you are a horrible person.
How it started…
How it’s going.
“”How it started…“‘
“”How it’s going.“”
Learn to mine coal…
Shere Hite of The Hite Report lied about an Olivetti typewriter advertisement.
I wonder what else she lied about.
Sometimes you hope that a perp does not allow the police to take him alive.
Learn to mine coal…
Given that she and her ilk think that faffing about all day is “work”, I think she would implode if she had to show up 9-5, brown bag a lunch, and actually produce something.
A thread on the joys of a museum visit in modern times:
https://twitter.com/93vintagejones/status/1617158404295872512
Captain, my recent visit to the San Francisco deYoung museum consisted of equal parts being assured my culture was the worst in history, and squinting in the dim lighting to make out the art.
Once outside I could admire the First Order (Star Wars) aesthetic of the exterior. Horrible experience. 0/10, would not recommend. Go to the Legion of Honor instead.
Scientific American…
A mixture of the true, the vague, the false, and the polemical.
But I was stopped dead by her references to the Inflation Reduction Act, specifically the name. She comes right out and says that deceit in the name/ headline is useful and good because the rubes won’t look any farther. I.e. government should lie to the governed.
But I bet she’s all-in when it comes to “consent” in sexual relations…
Meanwhile, in Love Island news.
That is beyond stupid.
“What’s the difference between a country and a county?
Country’s got an R in it so it’s more important.”
Meanwhile across the channel, to solve the problem of climate lunacy because…
Wilted I tell you, everyone know people wilt into a dysfunctional goo if the temperature is over 72 Real Degrees unless they are at a beach or vacationing in Dubai. To solve this existential crisis Guillaume, Maxim, and their pals are planting saplings because…
10 air conditioners, wow, these people are going to make Paris positively arctic. Science!™
Isn’t that the truth, I had to get my oaks ipads because their incessant yammering was keeping me awake at night. However, as they make Paris an actual Novosibirsk it is important to remember…
Too true, is why I got my oaks shotguns. Damn squirrels going after their acorns.
Not a cult, nosireebob.
Somehow this doesn’t motivate me to buy a Peloton.
But trees are social and fare much better when planted in the company of fellow trees, explains Dozier.
Well, I have read that trees do respond to pollen and other substances emitted by neighboring trees. I seem to recall reading that those emissions change when I tree is diseased and that nearby trees react to that change.
And setting aside the link’s breathless language, trees do have a cooling effect. Which is just one reason why a street lined with tall trees is more pleasant. When I was a child, the mature elms shaded our houses quite effectively in the morning and afternoon. When the elms died of dutch elm disease, that cooling effect was lost until the (multispecies) replacements grew to sufficient height.
Trees exchanging water and nutrients? ahahaha no. They compete. Planted too close some will die unless you really water them. Do they exchange sunlight too?
People have been planting trees in cities since forever but these dolts just discovered it.
And where’s the pushback from doctors on this? The physician who is treating the patient has the primary responsibility for keeping those information sources in line and valuable. Who is funding those? It’s not like the broader profession lack resources.
Yeah, I find very few people in the medical profession understand much of anything about statistics. Especially nurses and lab techs. But I question the doctors as well. The problem is the doctors see no reason to answer back. I have noticed an effort by statisticians to try to communicate how statistics works and to clarify how little one can know with extreme confidence. But I don’t blame the statisticians so much. People, and especially the medical and pharmaceutical industries, have great financial and other incentives to misunderstand.
Count yourself lucky. I had a generally positive perspective on the medical field until my PCP passed and I had to find a new one for the first time in a couple decades. And I consider myself lucky to have had found that guy. I had one doctor who it eventually occurred to me was a drunk. And a referral grifter. After that experience I often wondered if our family physician from when I was a child was a drunk. But I only went to him for required checkup to satisfy school and athletic requirements. We didn’t run to the doctor with every case of the sniffles like others seemed to do back then. And as I referenced in my checkup last week, the knowledge is irrelevant if they don’t listen to the words that are coming out of the patient’s mouth. The assembly-line approach has turned some of these guys into virtual robots. Like they’re reading off a script. Last couple of visits were reminiscent of getting technical support from India.
Meh. Californians get what they deserve. In one video, not sure if the one you linked or other ones, he tells a victim they need to “get out of Cali back to where you came from”. Nah. Y’all need to stay right there in your crab bucket so the rest of us can keep an eye on you.
The plate is obscured. It’s a Tesla (granted south California but still..). Everyone has cell phones and dash cameras. There’s clear video of his face. How hard can he be to find? Pathetic.
Count yourself lucky.
My sympathies!
I did very briefly have one GP who was very unhelpful–always had to ask him to explain technical terms because he would not otherwise use plain language.
My current and longtime GP (internist) is pretty good, which is just one of the reasons I am hesitant about moving.
As a for-instance on doctors, I had questions about this ventilator stuff back when it started yet saw very little, like zero, discussion about such an intrusive device being used on people who were likely older and more frail.
Somehow this doesn’t motivate me to buy a Peloton.
I look like that already (well, except for the distinct absence of melanin) – why do I need to spend a couple thousand dollars on a Peloton? Kinda like the overpriced, low-quality crap Victoria’s Secret sells now, and advertises with their new DIE models. You see their stuff on big chunky models and you realize you don’t need to spend a ton of money to look like that. Walmart sells underpants that are just as poorly made, look the same on you, and cost $4 vs $20.
why do I need to spend a couple thousand dollars on a Peloton?
I think the selling gimmick is the video, which allows you to see and interact with others exercising, or pretend you are cycling outdoors. (Or am I mistaken?)
I’d just started a new job three months before the real panic started and the engineer that hired me at the time mentioned the same as that Twitter thread. I.e., that frail people were being put on ventilators, a large percentage of them were dying, and what’s what was sparking the hysteria.
“OMG! We had 10 patients come in with it and 3 of them died! [pulls out calculator] That means, ummm, carry the four… 30% of everyone who catches it is gonna die!!!”
that’s what was sparking the hysteria
In Ontario, the glossy magazine for retired people actually got away with the cover headline “80% Of COVID-19 Deaths Are In Retirement Homes” before the government had a chat with the publisher.
Here’s another thing…with all the bloody hysteria, the “free” vaccines being forced on people in the name of fighting this thing, why are we not testing for vitamin D levels? Seems they are very important to our immune systems and there are numerous studies pointing that way. Now personally I believe the overwhelming number of medical studies are mostly BS, yet the connection between vitamin D and healthy immune systems is nothing new. Why isn’t vitamin D a standard blood test item along with lipid tests and glucose and sodium and potassium etc.?
Added: And further more why are doctors not asking this question?