Friday Ephemera (672)
Bonus bounce. || His is bigger. || I bring you the arts. || Being overly curious. || Best not to, really. || The thrill of laundry. || In a gentleman’s colon, obviously. || Guys, you’re not helping. || Hair crisis. || Incoming. || Incoming 2. || In case you were wondering. || I want one and so do you. || “Within walking distance” – Apollo 12, lightning strikes, and Playboy bunnies. || The progressive retail experience, parts 462, 463 and 464. || Always respect the media. || Pagbag. || I’m guessing some of you will have an opinion on this. || When you’re unaccustomed to consequences. || Direct hit. || I didn’t know this was a thing. || “Thank you.” || Two types of customer, or a lesson in the aforementioned consequences. || And finally, via Mark, the volume control interfaces you’ve always dreamed of.
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Yeah, but Orthodox Easter is next week, the 16th, right?
Yes it is, but Ukrainian Catholics follow the gregorian calendar and celebrate Easter with the rest of western christianity. My grandmother was comfortable in either church. For most of her life she followed the Catholic calendar.
Don’t do drugs, kids:
“A naked burglar covered in wheel-bearing grease, peppermint oil and his own blood was caught jumping in a stranger’s pool and on their trampoline in the middle of the night Friday.”
Heh. Having known a few other Orthodox, Greeks, etc. I was aware of the calendar differences. Did the Ukrainians always differ from…Orthodox…that way? My wife is half descended from Ukrainian Catholic but she is a bit…unreliable on these matters. Though tbf her memories are mostly of following Roman Catholic rites, etc. Her great uncle was a “Very Reverend Canon” who fled Ukraine with his wife and several daughters during/after WWII. Itself a very interesting story which was detailed in a book about her cousin’s murder back in the 60’s. I was under the impression that some of those differences were smoothed over with Vatican II but being a heretic Protestant it’s not really a thing I follow.
New chicago mayor: truly stunning. This is what happens when you have a 1 party city. Last repub mayor was 1931. 92 yrs ago. BUT this new guy is peak clownshow. (I know, the peak is never reached.)
Did the Ukrainians always differ from…Orthodox…that way?
Most Ukrainians are Orthodox, I think over 80%. My grandmother didn’t always have access to an Orthodox church, so she spent most of her life going to Catholic churches, Ukrainian Catholic churches if they were available. It’s a bit of a hybrid Catholicism though. They follow some of the same tenets as the Orthodox church, but are mostly Catholic. For example, a priest in the Ukrainian Catholic church is allowed to get married so long as he does it before he is ordained, once ordained he can’t marry. It’s the same in the Orthodox church. Ukrainian Catholics use the gregorian calendar while the Orthodox use the julian.
The Ukraine is a slavic crossroads and existed mostly as an ethnic entity for a lot of its history. My grandmother’s birth certificate says she was born in Austria in the Austria/Hungarian empire. But the village was ethnically Ukrainian and is today part of the Ukraine. There is also overlap with Russia, Poland and I believe Germany. To put the timeline in perspective, my Grandmother came to Canada just after the Russian revolution. The closest church to where my father was raised was protestant, so she the kids to the protestant church. The same church I went to as a child.
Will people still work if there’s no capitalism to make us do it?
It seemed strange to me that a left-winger was promoting extended-family Männerbund doing men’s work, presumably while the womenfolk were looking after the kitchen and the children, also for the inherent satisfaction.
Turns out from the extended video that she was anticipating objections to her utopian plans – you deluded right wingers, you cousin-marrying backwoods WASPs, when you have your unseasoned Thanksgiving dinners in your log cabins, you all pitch in when there’s work to be done, and therefore that’s a basis for organizing society.
I thought that the America based on “those backward blacks/Irish/Italians should learn to behave like WASPs” had been discredited as racist or whatever, and that the Global Majority doesn’t really feel guilty about sitting about doing nothing, or letting the women do the work.
I also thought that the classic left wing used to be very suspicious of the notion that workers overlook the unpleasantness of a job if it’s socially important. Leftists used to think that workers who do such jobs should be able to buy a house, support a family, and vacation in Hawaii. And then funny enough the employer would be incentivized to apply automation and division of labor to make the job less unpleasant so everyone wins in the long term.
More cheese? I wonder if these thugs were from Wisconsin.
Ok, I finally heard an explanation for what Bragg is charging Trump with: Bragg is saying that Trump failed to report the payment to Stormy Daniels as a campaign contribution, thus the “falsifying business records”. But such a payment is not allowed as a campaign expense and if Trump had listed them as a campaign expense that would be a crime. Plus, the payments were in 2017, after the election. Plus he paid for them out of his own (corporate) pocket. The reasoning is that when paid for by himself but they were a campaign expense, they constituted a campaign contribution by him–but note that one can contribute unlimited amounts to one’s own campaign. Bragg is trying to make it illegal to pay off extortionists (or nuisance lawsuits if you prefer) which is not illegal. Also, the law he is citing is a NY state law for NY state office elections and cannot apply to federal offices.
Yeah…our legal system is a fucking joke. It’s all a game between lawyers where the process is either the punishment (criminal) or an extortion attempt (civil). I’ve seen the civil side of it a couple of times now, I pray to God I’m never in a criminal case. So much of it is now a minefield where they try to nail people on procedural issues or even the most desperate and pathetic “gotcha” statements. I’ve seen it twice now in my community regarding baseless lawsuits which we were not allowed to discuss things with our residents even though one of those issues cost our community $30,000. No due process. Not even a court hearing. But the insurance companies, based on a groundless legal threat cost us that much and the case isn’t even close to going to court yet. The lawyers of this country are fucking scum. And they are trying to gag us from speaking about how those bastards are screwing us. Every damn day. There is no law in this country anymore. It’s just what a bunch of lawyers and their scumbag buddy judges decide. And then just to rub our noses in it, they make us vote for these judge bastards while denying us any information on which to make a rational decision. It’s all “Here’s the judge, ain’t he swell. Ain’t his kids cute?” PR bullshit. Just like the things that they taught us about how “elections” work in totalitarian societies.
The irony being that the victim being saved here was an Indian, but the definition of minority excluded those ethnicities that don’t hate their host countries and indulge in massive crime rates.
Kudos, and exactly the kind of thing why, as a first gen Indian immigrant, get do enraged about all the bs of “structurally racist” UK or US, whatever the past sins of their forefathers might have been these are among the least racist places around today.
Again, it wasn’t some great feat of heroism on my part. The youth wasn’t robbing the store at gunpoint or knifepoint. He was stealing handfuls of stock, brazenly and with expectations of impunity, and shouting racial epithets, while gleefully trashing displays and throwing chocolate bars at the proprietor. I should think his assumptions of impunity, of nobody doing anything about it, were the reason he was so unprepared for physical correction.
Which suited me fine.
Exactly. God bless you sir. Actions speak louder than words.
Thing is, if you’ve ever been in a comparable situation and done nothing – as I had a couple of years earlier – the feeling is quite horrible.
Here in America, “progressive thinkers” will tie themselves in knots to excuse black racism* as the natural result of “white supremacy”, even though black hatred is directed at every other race and ethnicity.
But it is disheartening to see black racism in nations that never had slavery and Jim Crow, and where the racists are almost entirely African immigrants and their children.
* When they are not insisting that black racism is a myth invented by white racists.
Exactly. The fortunate thing was that the entirety of the situation was in front of you. Had you not known the business owner or were there some other unknowns it becomes a bit of a freeze factor of having to analyze the situation first. Which we as citizens have that luxury. Cops sometimes do, depending on the call/perp, but when they don’t the ‘Justice’ system pretends otherwise.
Feeding on Failure
How does one pronounce Asaol?
pst @ 6-something pm
Police had offered up to $10
So generous
Asao Inoue – a-sow i-noy. Or thereabouts.
More cheese
The suspects left the scene without receiving extra cheese.
Hip Hip Hooray
Asaol [Inoue] – a-sow i-noy. Or thereabouts.
Not arsehole then?
Ah. I see what you did there.
The article says $10,000 (not $10.)