Friday Ephemera (680)
Nommy-nommy-nom. || Scenes from Quebec’s Museum of Civilisation. || Strange doggo. || Dogs, as understood by artificial intelligence. || He does this better than you do. || Bathing suit. || Brum brum. || The erotic arts. || Tickle my hindquarters. || Best to give it some clearance, I think. || Romancing detected. || New rules issued by unhappy man. || The fear that men know. || Pretentious guilt will take you to some strange places. || The unspanked at large. || The situation, alas, did not improve. || Stayin’ Alive. || His day at work was worse than yours. || For people who like folding and unfolding their furniture. (h/t, Mark) || A little something for feet enthusiasts. || Fly with confidence, they said. || And finally, via Darleen, have you fiddled with yours in the last twenty minutes?
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Pretty sure I saw those dogs in John Carpenter’s The Thing.
Fans of H P Lovecraft will have immediately identified the breed as a Hound of Tindalos.
For the uninitiated Wiki provides this remarkably unhelpful advice:-
“A person risks attracting their attention by traveling through time”.
I have questions.
Hentai Larper–fire pussy. Gentleman, as tempting as it may be–don’t do it.
What I’m curious about is why are those two dressed better than most of the people at the fancy steak restaurant we went to last night where I dropped over $350 for two of us?
If you replace the “www” in Reddit URLs with “old”, it uses the old layout, which is still perfectly usable and much less of a pain in the arsular regions. Can’t guarantee it’ll fix this, mind you, but it never asked me to log in.
https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2023/06/02/u-s-womens-soccer-team-destroyed-12-0-team-older-male-wrexham-players/
O/T Another proud day for women’s sport.
(12 – 0 in just 40 minutes. Could easily have got embarrassing if the game had gone on for longer).
If you replace the “www” in Reddit URLs with “old”…
Spasiba, it works, but now I am wondering why any of those would be “over 18”.
Having previously just chuckled or shaked my head at various short excerpts I’ve now watched “What is a Woman”” for the first time.
Anyone who hasn’t seen the whole thing really should. Delusional nutters doing TikTok’s are funny, this isn’t. To paraphrase Bob Monkhouse, I’m not laughing now.
A “doctorate-carrying scientist” (they/them) assures us sex is not binary.
His doctorate is in (adjusts glasses) flower ecology so he must be an expert.
New rules issued by unhappy man.
Sir? Ma’am? Self-absorbed asshat.
Scenes from Quebec’s Museum of Civilisation
They took all the civilization, put it in a civilization museum
Charged all the people a buck and a half to see ’em
we’ve gone from the ideal of burly chaps who will apprehend lawbreakers as forcefully as necessary and send them on their way towards the nearest dungeon, to ladies in funny hats who will be terribly sensitive and empathise with our loss
Literally the premise of the Police Academy movie series.
as told by the blowhard speaker, mostly made up
They always are. Any story whose kernel is the AI behaving like an amoral human being is always made up. The danger with AI is not that it will make decisions like a sociopathic human being; it’s that it will make decisions completely unlike a human being, with consequences we won’t be able to predict.
For those eleven people who made it all the way through the third Matrix movie, if you listen carefully to the Architect the notion that the AIs are bound by Asimov’s Three Laws is entirely compatible with what the film shows you to be objectively true. The AIs have decided that left alone, humans will destroy themselves and so they’re acting to preserve the human race as a whole. This permits the elimination of individual human beings if their actions or influence threatens the survival of the species collectively.
Another proud day for women’s sport.
The NBC commentary makes a lot of the “mutual respect” between the goalie who by throwing herself around gamely kept the score below 20, and the 47 year old ex journeyman pro who put four of the goals past her.
The theory driving mixed teams and competitions is that women’s sport hasn’t reached its potential because the men have been hoarding all the respect, so to remedy this we need TV scenes where male athletes are seen to grant respect to female athletes as opponents and teammates, and reciprocally to treat female athletes as authorities whose respect is valued.
Otherwise people might think that encouraging post-match words to an outclassed opponent are just polite, sportsmanlike, or God forbid chivalrous.
Brilliant – that works – thanks
Clearly, the urge to self-flatter by signalling ideological piety – via, for instance, a “positionality statement” – is much stronger than any preference, should one exist, for being coherent, or accurate, or indeed honest.
It’s conceivable that future generations will look back on this phenomenon with a mixture of incredulity and utter horror.
Also, OT, but fewer things could be more British than this:
Does that mean I get my next drink on the house?
[ Cruel laughter. ]
Sounds kinky.
Explains the title to the next post.
Well, it was worth a shot (pun intended).
Ouch!
Meanwhile in The Guardian:
And if you think that sounds awkward:
That sounds terrible.
On the other hand, I can’t get the image of some kind of homeopathic abortion clinic out of my mind now.
Jerome’s sensitive side:
I know it takes all sorts, but this seems like a very odd way to talk about your own 7 year-old child, even using a pseudonym, in an article ostensibly about your sex life.
It turns out there’s a whole series of these confessionals.