Friday Ephemera (663)
Crabs give pedicure. || Deaf man and his cat. || Not quite what I imagined. || Calling International Rescue. || The calculator drawer. || Random Street Views. || City living scenes. || A.I. attempts to make sign-language manual. (h/t, Dicentra) || At last, music generated from text. || Smart slime and throbbing bloblets. || Bruising of the soft tissue. || You had one bloody job. || But only when it rains. || Back passage of note. (h/t, Damian) || Ancient Earth Globe. || Theirs is considerably bigger than yours. || Gently does it. || A decision was made. || Thriller, Indian version. || Chain reaction. || ChronoPhoto, a photographical history game. (h/t, Things) || Coffee can do anything. || And finally, don’t worry, it’s a weight-saving measure.
School bus,
Try to imagine the reaction starting from the White House and spreading across the entire world if two 14 year old white boys were filmed beating up a 9 year old black girl.
OK, some extra steps to become a heterosexual couple, but mazeltov!
Try to squat to show off your ass
Okay, so a few posts ago I described my encounter with a young woman wearing tights that showed everything. What this “squatter” is wearing is exactly what the young woman was wearing, only she wasn’t in a gym, she was in the passport office, in public. Not complaining, but impressed with the sheer audacity. As a member, of the patriarchy I’m sure I would face some form of feminist regrooving.
Everything that is wrong with modern “entertainment” (scroll down to cast).
“A cast that reflects multiple representations of race, gender, and ethnicity…”
Still, it’s good to be reminded that the bulk of our official culture is produced by a remarkably narrow social and political class. Or caste, if you prefer.
Not entirely unrelated.
“Scroll down to cast”
Are we playing spot the tranny again?
I have questions:
Why are these videos always mirrored?Why is that woman wearing a skimpy tank top but a woolly hat?Why does her vodka bottle have a drizzly top and not pour normally?Why is dried mozzarella?Why isn’t this listing tool working?
I think I might know the answer to 3). Is it because she drinks?
“A cast that reflects multiple representations of race, gender, and ethnicity…”
Hardly, all but four use she/her pronouns. I say cancel them all, except the
confusedfour, of course.I hope you are feeling better, David.
Today in “The World of Stupid™”:
1. Mr, Beast is abelist for paying for 1000 cataract surgeries.
2.1,000 year old “non-binary” corpse.
3.A man has difficulty with names and pronouns.
@Farnsworth M Muldoon
Oh, I see that your list function worked fine?!
Didn’t you hear? The war is over. It ended in a surrender. Via Ace.
Oh, I see that your list function worked fine?!
No, that thing is hideously annoying as if you add a space after the number (as is the custom) it automatically indents to start the list over,
1.The list function is a POS;
Further the damn thing won’t turn off even if you were to highlight the second number one above and hit the numbered list icon to deactivate it.
Another example of fucking things up under the guise of making it easier.
…and there it undid it. Time for a test.
1.A list
As I said a POS.
An inconsistent POS as it doesn’t display as previewed where the second list was indented in preview.
Nuke it from a Chinese balloon and bring back manual HTML.
We conservatives became “extremists” by remaining where we were, while liberals became “middle of the road” by moving to the far left:
Today in “The World of Stupid™”:
1. Mr, Beast is abelist for paying for 1000 cataract surgeries.
I remember reading something at least 20 years ago about “deaf rights activists” who condemned surgeries that enabled previously deaf people to hear.
On the pediatric immobilizer tweet, it’s nice to see at least one of the replies mention Bonsai Kitten.
@Muldoon
It is the sad destiny of engineers to build tools which enable incompetents to perform tasks which were once the sole preserve of expert engineers.
Wallow in the fact that they don’t work too well.
Also – damn you and your list stealthings!
@David
While we’re on the subject of moaning about the comment widget – is there any chance of having it manifest at the bottom of the comment list? Where the new comment will in fact appear. Or alternatively of inversely ordering the comments?
Oddly enough I find myself generally commenting on remarks made more recently, not those at the top, and find referencing them quite tedious when they are at the opposite end of the page.
Long may your comment pages be. Peace upon them.
cataract surgery: sure, blindness is not a problem…to the commentariat. If the people did not want the surgery, they could have declined. In the old days, there were so many blind people due to cataracts. No good deed is ever good enough.
1776: the american revolution created the most stable Republic outside of Iceland and a constitution that many countries have emulated. The US fought a civil war over slavery–I think that debt is paid.
the 1619 project is on Netflix. A lie full of lies, that the amer revol was fought to protect slavery. 1. The brits in 1776 were NOT about to end slavery 2) 95% of slaves in the early colonies were whites serving out a 5 (or other) year term to pay off their passage to the colonies. They were “indentured” but still had few rights and often were worked to death. Slavery in the South actually held back development.
Also – damn you and your list stealthings!
My what???
I agree: We shouldn’t have to live with people like this.
Nor should we have to live with the people who defend these people.
@ccscientist
Nice rant. You know what it could do with? Some sort of listing tool to break it up a bit in the middle there https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/svg/1f644.svg
Oh FFS. I give up.
@Muldoon
A different kind of stealthings. Although now I come to look it up, I discover all these years he was actually saying “stealth haze” 🙁
Oh NOW it puts in the emoji image. When I type it out in ascii. But when I paste in the fucking character it puts in some image url!
Oh FFS. I give up.
Me too, I got your stealth haze video to work on the third browser I tried.
I pine for the olden days before HTML5 and CSS when any site worked on any browser…
The floating maroon comment bubble, which appears bottom left, takes you to the comment form anyway, from wherever you are on the page. Which seems pretty reasonable. Besides which, I’m feeling too rough to start poking through the near-fractal settings submenus. At the moment, I can just about focus.
[ Emits feeble cough. ]
@Muldoon
I invite you to imagine that ->here<- I’d successfully managed to insert an eye-rolling emoji.
The list function is a POS
Yes, but it displays in the preview as indented and monospaced, so if you actually want it indented you would have to blockquote, because you can’t put a space in front of the autogenerated number, like so:
which takes the numbers off, so you would have to add them back which turns it back into an unindented number list.
The problem would be solved if number list was an option and not a default.
Same thing happens in Word unless you go into the settings and turn off autoformatting.
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Now boarding at Gate Infinity.
@David
I probably wasn’t clear – it’s not the position of the floating chinese balloon, er, bubble to which I object. It’s the positioning of the comment form itself – which I feel would be better at the bottom of the page, closer to the most recent comments, rather than the top.
But by all means feel better. Meanwhile the rest of us will soldier bravely on with this substandard equipment.
Karl, PiperPaul,
Don’t make me laugh, you bastards. It hurts when I laugh.
Don’t make me laugh, you bastards. It hurts when I laugh.
Would it help if I told you I am looking at an expensive Amazon purchase?
It’d better be a house.
I used MidJourney AI to make a sign language manual. In between signs in the language of Cthulhu, it did a nice one-finger salute.
From Ireland: This mugger seems unworried about being caught.
Just how do these “migrants” actually “enrich” the West?
Today’s word is sputum.
[ Eyes spittoon warily ]
Today’s word is sputum.
If I lived next door, David, I would bring you a gallon of chicken soup. 🙁
I’ll say it for David: No refund; credit note only.
2) 95% of slaves in the early colonies were whites serving out a 5 (or other) year term to pay off their passage to the colonies. They were “indentured” but still had few rights and often were worked to death.
Some of that indenture was involuntary, too. The Click family was sold out of an English debtor’s prison and forcibly brought to the colonies in 1697. They were brought to a Virginia plantation when they worked for at least 60 years before the “debt” was paid off. IOW there may have been some members who were born and died in this kind of bond-slavery.
Peruse old, classified ads of colonial America and see offered rewards for the return of “runaway slaves and indentured servants”.
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Another woke Millennial who feelz all history began with him.
She’s triggered the up-buggered link klaxon. Can’t even edit the bloody thing. There’s no URL in there.
It’s a disgrace.
I’m still trying to figure out how the street views got an underwater picture of a humpback whale, perhaps Captain Nemo has a clue.
I don’t, I’m afraid. Your guess is as good as mine.
Can’t even edit the bloody thing. There’s no URL in there.
ARGH … Try again. [hangs head in shame, reports to correction chamber]
With your criminal background, now come to light, I suppose we shouldn’t be surprised.
[ Stashes valuables in socks. ]