Friday Ephemera (662)
Perhaps there’s a word for this new dance-move sensation. || Big-ass paper plane. || A brief history of topiary. (h/t, Things) || Answers on a postcard, please. || ChatGPT does physics, with partial success. || Jupiter. (h/t, Dicentra) || Volcanic eruption seen from space. || Remember, always respect the media. || The progressive retail experience, parts 453 and 454. || Is your smartwatch powered by slime mould? || Nommy nommy nom. || Historical con-women of note. || You may clench when ready. || Why, yes, there will be a test. || When you’ve been severely educated. || Drag for kiddies. || “That’s the goal.” || Glass viruses and bacteria. || Fifty-tonne crystals. || Unsolid footing. || And finally, for those unfamiliar with the world of Japanese music sirens.
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A very confused individual.
We don’t want to refer to someone who did something bad enough that they are in jail as an “inmate” or “convict” because….not clear why. It is useful information that someone is or has been in jail and why. They want us to not know. Sure, give a credit card to a swindler, rent your airbnb to a rapist, hire a dangerous person for daycare. What could go wrong?
This is the end of times.
Maybe this, too.
We don’t want to refer to someone who did something bad enough that they are in jail as an “inmate” or “convict” because….not clear why. It is useful information that someone is or has been in jail and why. They want us to not know. Sure, give a credit card to a swindler, rent your airbnb to a rapist, hire a dangerous person for daycare. What could go wrong?
Well, back in my twenties I knew lots of people who say things like “He’s paid his debt to society” in conjunction with demands that there should be no stigmatization of, or discrimination against, criminals–sorry, persons formerly convicted. All jobs should be open to them. No landlords should reject them. Nobody should refuse to socialize with them. Their “reasoning” was that there was no reason to believe that someone who had offended before might offend again, and by serving whatever sentence the courts had imposed upon them, the books were balanced–as if that was all there was to it. We were supposed to assume that they were just like everyone else.
Memory fades after so many years, but among those “smart” people there turned out to be some drug dealers, sex offenders, thieves, and so on–plus their numerous friends who knew and said nothing.
The Jon Pertwee-era Doctor Who people would have killed for those.
Another adult-sudden-death. At age 19.
The Jon Pertwee-era Doctor Who people would have killed for those.
Why? I’m not familiar with Doctor Who.
In 1974, they famously had some difficulties with dinosaurs.
In 1974, they famously had some difficulties with dinosaurs.
Not surprising, then: Dinosaurs are notorious for poor diction, forgetting their lines, and overacting.
I get the “plant based mashed potatoes” because if I bought mashed potatoes from a shop I would expect it to contain milk and/or butter.
My daughter, who is mildly allergic to milk proteins, would appreciate the plant one, without needing to be vegan.
The insane defense of criminals comes from the false premises that 1) crime is solely due to racism/poverty caused by racism and 2) many blacks are locked up who are innocent. This ignores entirely that there are criminals of all races and throughout human history, that there is crime in all-black countries, and that murders of black by black are a little hard to attribute to racism. It also ignores incentives: if you let criminals know that they won’t do time, they will do more crime.
A new production of Swan Lake has dropped.
The insane defense of criminals comes from the false premises that 1) crime is solely due to racism/poverty caused by racism…
Don’t forget the Marxist dogma that crime is also caused by poverty which is caused by capitalism exploiting the workers, and that the elimination of poverty and inequality will lead to the end of crime. Blaming racism (and sexism and etc) was relatively recently bolted onto traditional Marxism by Cultural Marxists and black nationalists and so on.
Dave Brubeck’s house
Dave Brubeck’s house
Gorgeous. More here.
And all the young girls had to stand by and pretend.
Today’s word is symbolism.
I see Chris Rufo has been busy.
Today in Racism™, Episode 9487, “Psychedelic Induced Hallucinations”.
RTWT, Latinx, who are hwite adjacent, I guess, are also implicated.
Today in Racism™, Episode 9487, “Psychedelic Induced Hallucinations”.
So much black insanity.
Here’s a thought: About all those blacks who say they need “black spaces” to escape the trauma of being near whites: I’ll speculate that it is not because they fear white people will harm them, but because they can’t relax and fully express their racism if whites are around to hear and know how racist and deranged they are.
Meanwhile, a new all terrain weapons platform.
There’s something happening here, what it is ain’t exactly clear, but I am not sure I want to know what. (NSFW, I think)
“Family friendly”, maybe for the Mansons, not sure about anyone else. (Caution)
President of the Humanist Association of San Diego has thoughts about the 17 year old little TERF voyeur offended because this
guylady was in the women’s locker room.“black only spaces” go visit the South Side of Chicago. You can spend the day and rarely see a white person. I have been the only white person in black gatherings, to turn the event around, and it was odd a little but hardly scary or oppressive. But I guess white people have all that white voodoo or something…
Full marks for the, er, head boobs around six seconds in.
Once upon a time comedians like those on Monty Python and SNL would mock the establishment. So stunning and brave they were. Accepting accolades for their stunning bravery. The establishment did nothing. Today the establishment mocks those comedians, dares them to speak up. But they are too afraid. The stunning and brave have, in some cases literally, had their balls handed to them.
Hard to believe…and yet not so much.
Full marks for the, er, head boobs around six seconds in.
Speaking of boobs...
Modern romance.
“We did this.”
In a way, she’s right. White LEFTists “did this”. Between budget cuts and watering down qualifications cuz “diversity”, THEY set this up.
“Converted to Islam” – somehow I’d bet this doesn’t fly at the local mosque.
“Does anyone know why?” Yes, you have temporal lobe epilepsy, apparently.
President of the Humanist Association of San Diego has thoughts about the 17 year old little TERF voyeur offended because this
guylady was in the women’s locker room.Notice the creepy smile on the “humanist’s” face.
Just about all these “humanist” and “skeptic” and “rational inquiry” organizations seem to be fronts for radical left subversion of our culture and liberties.
There’s something happening here, what it is ain’t exactly clear, but I am not sure I want to know what. (NSFW, I think)
San Francisco?
“San Francisco?”
Looks like. Reminds me of Zombietime, but I checked and it’s not there.
“what is a woman”–The feminists have only themselves to blame. They have spent 50+ years insisting that women are just like men (ie men with boobs), that they are fine in combat, that being a mother is loathsome, that loving your husband is oppressive, that families need to be destroyed, and so on. What did they think would happen?
Reminds me of Zombietime, but I checked and it’s not there.
Zombie hasn’t been posting lately, though, right? So no recent incidents would be there.
Progressive retail experience UK style:-
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11689645/Harrods-customer-tells-young-daughter-walked-pool-blood-man-stabbed.html
If only the worlds most famous store had CCTV to help identify the stabber (the UK and particularly London weapon of choice in case overseas readers were unaware).
If only the worlds most famous store had CCTV to help identify the stabber (the UK and particularly London weapon of choice in case overseas readers were unaware).
I thought those CCTV cameras were everywhere in London.
They are everywhere.
It’s a bit of a puzzler how often they fail to work when knife crimes are involved.
They are everywhere.
It’s a bit of a puzzler how often they fail to work when knife crimes are involved.
It’s possible that some are dummies: Security professionals have told me that this is sometimes done.
“Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”
Calling yourself moonself and glitchself won’t make you interesting, love.
Really, it won’t.
Calling yourself moonself and glitchself…
Vermillion Grace Smythe (Fae/Faer/Faers) has thoughts on the matter as well as misgendering.
Vermillion is an expert, being a DIE consultant for the NHS and who outlines the priorities of same:
Number 5 is pretty radical.
“moonself”–the problem with fiction is that it is difficult to pull off. Most novels are unreadable. You have to create a believable world and characters people can relate to. “moonself” does neither. Sorry
A note on the last as I missed the 37.5 second edit window, Vermillion may be a parody, but it is hard to tell these days
Heh. What ccscientist said. In spades.
Two more performances from the Finnish figure skater.
Two more performances from the Finnish figure skater.
I’m thinking the Finnish judge might be on the take.
What is absolutely pathetic, and thus beyond sad regarding this figure skating insanity, is the bloody idiocy of everyone involved in the process. Even those with reservations who participated in producing such idiocy regardless. It’s a lot of people. And somewhere out there there is/are young women who worked very hard and deserved that moment in the spotlight. Yet they, their parents relatives and friends, and the people putting on this farce, the people broadcasting it, etc. etc. etc. are too chickenshit to say anything. Very much like the Penn swimmer who continues to pursue his farce. And yet even at this point very, very few people in the swimming community says boo about it. Pathetic. My general feeling is the women get what they deserve. But that comes with consequences. Personally I find it increasingly hard to take women and their general political complaints seriously. They’re a disgrace. A lot of people, not just women but many men as well, made significant sacrifices for women to have what they have today and they’re willing to piss it all away because their moral vanity is just too precious. A moral vanity which they ultimately will lose anyway.
I’m thinking the Finnish judge might be on the take.
Or the entire effing ruling class.
It’s a bit of a puzzler how often they fail to work when knife crimes are involved.
ISTR they all failed quite suddenly when the Met Police shot Jean Charles de Menezes dead on the underground. I may be mistaken – my backups are maintained by the same people who operate the CCTV system.
Psychedelic Induced Grammar
Ayahuasca is a natural plant that naturally grows in nature (just like marijuana), meaning it’s safe.
One does wonder where else and how a natural plant might grow. As for the assumption it must be safe…opium poppy, foxglove, various species of mushrooms, poison ivy etc.
It’s not vanity. They’re afraid of losing what they have. And they have good reason to be afraid. Only a small number of so-called TERFs have dared to challenge the trans ideology, and they have been met with much real hate and some actual violence. I really do understand. But honestly, this is an attack on their own being; and if they won’t fight for that, who do they expect to do it for them? “Allies”?
They have depended on the basic decency of most men and taken that for granted at the same time as they vilified men. Now they are up against people totally without that decency. Atlas Shrugged: “You’d better get it straight that it’s not a bunch of boy scouts you’re up against… We’re after power and we mean it.”
Women used to complain about how fragile their gains were. It turns out they were much, much more fragile than they thought.
“Because I was thirteen once.”
And since you ask, no, not his first time.
I’ll just leave this here, I think.
President of the Humanist Association of San Diego has thoughts about the 17 year old little TERF voyeur
His smile is unsettling. But then, anyone who feels the need to include aqua aerobics in their list of professional credentials is unsettled.
Last time I saw figures, roughly half of dysmorphic male prisoners – trans women – are there for sexual offences, including, quite often, violent offences and offences against children – a rate that is much higher than that for the male prison population in general, whether for adult sexual offences or paedophilia. The same pattern is found both here and overseas.
And as noted here before, regarding news items of this kind, dysmorphic men (and dysmorphic women) report severe childhood abuse, often childhood sexual abuse, at rates far higher than is found in the wider population. Adults who have been violated as children are in turn much more likely to have, shall we say, issues regarding normal boundaries, and to act inappropriately with minors.
The consequences of which aren’t exactly hard to find.
Maybe not for all of them but it is for about half of them. The more vocal ones who are actively engaged in pissing it away. The others are afraid. But for many of them, afraid of what? Yes, there has been some violence on this issue but relatively speaking, not a lot. A friend of mine raised a similar point regarding people in the movies, television, J.K. Rowling, etc. yet in most of those businesses people make plenty of bank such that they don’t really need to keep working in that business. The trannies and such can destroy their careers in the context of entertainment but most of these women can do other things. The threats only work because those threatened let them work. The people, men and women, who fought for these rights had much, much more on the line than people today. Kudos to Rowling for pushing back. But given her millions (billion?), is it really so hard? At this point, fighting back is far more important than anything else she is likely to do with her life.
I’ll just leave this here, I think.
From the twit replies:
It’s these desperate attempts to shoehorn this absurdity into an even remote sense of normal scare me more than the crazies. They are actually the more dangerous ones IMNSHO. There’s some moral vanity in that as well, though a bit more subtle.
Added: All the while being completely oblivious to the fact that this freak has taken the place of some unknown young woman who worked very hard to deserve that chance to perform.
…oblivious to the fact that this freak has taken the place of some unknown young woman…
On the bright side, as noted in the comments, it is the first time a man has failed to dominate a women’s sport.
Speaking of sports, I can see this probably being a future Olympic event.
Question asked.
Somewhere Chris Rufo’s speech at the New College of Florida regarding de-wokeifying the place was mentioned, what wasn’t mentioned was the pre-game show where the provost and acting president tried to shut it down.
You will be surprised at her reasoning.
“dating advice”: hahaha yes. My close circle of friends is mostly engineers, dentists, doctors, computing. A couple of the guys are handsome but most not. All the wives are good looking and socially adept. We guys talk about everything under the sun (soccer, bitcoin, ancient rome, when to replace your roof) but not ever about our wives or sex. Well, maybe a dirty joke now and then. We all understand the game and played it correctly. We DO share feelings about really big things. For example, when one guy’s dad (93) fell and couldn’t get up and call for help, we all gathered around him at a party and offered our solicitude. We supported a guy who started a business and was struggling. We just don’t whine about little stuff.
Another thing not mentioned besides a good income that women look for is whether he seems competent in the world–can he fix things, does he know how to handle himself, does he know what is going on. This makes them feel secure.
Women do not really want to hear your feelings except they want you to tell them you love them a lot. If you are upset that you are going bald, keep it to yourself.
Question asked.
“dating advice”
Jordan Peterson comes to mind. Serious advice, and not for those who just want to hook up every weekend.
You will be surprised at her reasoning.
Not surprised in the least: Leftists every threat and pseudo-threat as justification to shut down conservatives. (Mere criticism of leftists, however, is also used as justification to shut down conservatives. And to hire more leftists and schedule more leftist events.)
The remedy: Exclude leftists from all positions of power. Even though my “libertarian” friends object to ever taking the war to the enemy.
The Guardian warns us of the imminent threat posed by free speech.
(And elsewhere I saw what I think was a Guardian criticism of somebody’s typo, which was ironic considering that the Guardian has long been known as the Grauniad for its frequent typos.)
I learned a new word: “dysconscious”. And it is just what you may expect in today’s acceptance of Woke Lysenkoism.
The source said: “This prisoner has been difficult and manipulative over the years, which is why she [sic] is still behind bars after 17 years.
It is almost as it you tolerate garbage behavior, you get more of it.
When you defer to the lie, complications will ensue, along with quite a lot of farce.
I’d somehow missed this one.
“woke lysenkoism”: The objective is not to improve science but to destroy it. Of all human endeavors, science is the most race-blind. When you submit a scientific paper, many journals use a blinding system so reviewers do not even see your name and even when they do they do not know your race or even sex. Anyone can contribute to science. You don’t even need a Ph.D. or university job. The claim that science is structurally racist or colonial is merely an attempt to discredit it.
How to abuse the elderly.
How to abuse the elderly.
My conclusion: Abuse of woke bullies is merely justice. Insult them. Shun them. Exclude them from employment.
Seriously ladies. If Elvis couldn’t get you to understand, God only knows what it would take.
Heh. Years ago as I was assembling a barbecue grill, my dog sat there and watched every move that I made. I thought at some point he would get bored or thirsty or something, but no. He watched the whole process. Even cocked his head once or twice. I nearly asked him to pass me a screw. A curious child would not have been that patient.
how scientific epistemology and culture have strong links with capitalism, enslavement, colonization, and exploitation of female-bodied folks.”
Science has a lot to answer for
I can’t make out what she’s saying, except she seems to dislike Indians.
Regardless, we need to return to the old legal norms that allowed shop owners to use whatever force was needed to stop such behavior. “By any means necessary” as leftists say.
WTP: I think your dog knew what you were assembling. Smart dog.
WTP: I think your dog knew what you were assembling. Smart dog.
He’s waiting until you let slip the Secret of the Doorknob.
In other news, the froggies continue to fight the use of English expressions.
“All terms in the official journal become compulsory in texts published by state bodies”
2020 targets included “clickbait” (piège à clics) and “podcast” (audio à la demande).
[ Laughs in Anglosphere. ]
Say what you will about the Frenchies but at least they don’t wet their pants over the use of definite articles. We’re becoming so bloody stupid I’m beginning to warm up to the bastards.
We’re becoming so bloody stupid I’m beginning to warm up to the bastards.
Careful now, buddy.