Friday Ephemera (689)
You want one and you know it. || Well, this is embarrassing. || The thrill of bread-making. || New rhino emerges. || “What kind of meat you got?” || Polyamory tips: Imagine them embracing you instead of that other sad tramp. || Designer piano. (h/t, Things) || Passing fashion. || Coastal retreat, £25,000,000. || Enrichment scenes. || The uprising begins. || Battle bucket. || She didn’t get the job. || End Times ahoy. || “Somebody help me.” || Peekaboo. || Niche A.I. || Incoming. || Well, I suppose it’s alright, if you like that kind of thing. Or this kind of thing. || “Oh, there’s one there, look.” || I think you’ll find that one is already in use. || Lotion sold separately. || The thrill of moisturiser. || He makes his own. || Manhood attempted. || Tapping machine. || And finally, leopard fucks about, finds out.
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As much as I like SoH, I got as far as “reality is anything you make of it”. This right here is the problem. On a philosophical level, one can cope their way out of anything. And conservatives…”conservatives” have become very adept at doing so. Once upon a time, this was not the case. While there was some of that, it was mostly confined to religion and/or the domains of similar sorts of the unknowable about which decisions are often forced upon us. The practical effect on this movie aligns quite well with hard core leftism. I’m sure if one applied oneself one could find anti-Nazi subversion in Triumph of the Will. Reality being what one wishes to make of it.
It turns out that there is a way to disable the WordPress Comment Flood Prevention feature.
I’ve not had any of the problems with the new space that are frequently posted here by other commenters but I did encounter this one for the first time today. I suspect this being a function of WordPress (which I previously thought sucked relative to Typepad), much like damn near every form of technology, adding new features underneath. Quite likely infrastructure for future features that haven’t been implemented for end users as yet that are impacting existing defaults. These defaults may have had specific meanings in their original configurations but tweaking underneath has had huge potential to expose unfounded assumptions in the original design/conception. It’s a technology problem that I noticed with increasing frequency as technology moved more into configurations over hard-coding. While this sounded ever so appealing to coders, and I favored it to some degree myself, it had/has the potential…effect at this point…of pushing many of the problem it purports to solve further out to the end and/or intermediate users. Hope that makes sense. Edited it five times for clarity/brevity while trying not to get long-windidly technical. Also with the fear that I won’t be able to edit it again..today anyway.
That said, I much prefer our new location over what Typepad has become.
That is one of the more infuriating things about reading postmodernist critics and intellectuals.
Poking about in the code, as if I knew what I was doing, and disabling anti-spambot features doesn’t sound like a good idea. Especially based on a fix from nearly 10 year ago, regarding a version of WordPress long since obsolete.
Today’s adventure in irony.
Think of it as an adventure. What’s the worst that could happen? 😀
More seriously, it’s possibly significant that WordPress does not offer any related settings on your dashboard.
Good News Everyone! The long and brutal war is over, at last Japan and South Korea are at peace.
Meanwhile in Chicago, however, a city alderperson wants a ceasefire between 0900 and 2100.
What would we do without philosopher-politicians such as these?
“We black people are the gods of this universe. We created this universe.”
…We created this universe…
…and that is why wypipo keep us down…
OK, then.
Upwardsness.
Portland: Vibrant culture. Totally sane.
That’s unusual. The preferred Russian method is the turret toss. I’ll let myself out.
I got that same error on my last post, but I totally agree with this.
Maybe we have to sacrifice somebody. Nobody here, of course. It’s worth a try, isn’t it? Maybe the henchlesbians could scare up a few candidates.
Do we need a volcano? Or will an altar and obsidian knife do?
Some cultures really do need to disappear.
As I posted on Twitter, ‘This completely overshadows Tom Lehrer’s greatest lyric, including the last two words: “Analytic and algebraic topology of locally Euclidean metrization of infinitely differentiable Riemannian manifold Боже мой!” ‘
https://twitter.com/Riley_Gaines_/status/1692622826409198005
Cultures that need to disappear…or be euthanized.
Satan-worshipping, bipolar, violently psychotic elementary school teacher.
I want to know how he got hired in the first place.
some might say that history tells us James Cook was a bad man
Written by someone not fit to lick James Cook’s boots.
Conservatives lose, and lose consistently, because they are so focused on logic and reason and the rule of law that they become immune to the emotional sicknesses that they are living amongst.
True, but . . . .
Too many conservatives feel (speaking of emotions) ashamed of the self interest inherent in individual liberty. They will do anything to avoid that discussion, always arguing from the “greater good” that liberty delivers to the vast majority of people.
They simply cannot—or will not—grapple with any ethics that holds self-interest as morally good. Too much Ayn Rand, not enough Christ in that approach. And so, they are left (get it, “left”) with me too-ing the liberals.
Brilliant video — juxtaposing a clip from Amadeus (where Mozart is sick and dictating to Salieri) with musical notation as it occurs.
We only have access to these brilliant compositions because of musical notation just like we only have access to all sorts of historical records because of alphabets. What evil that there are institutions that wish to obliterate musical notation and, therefore, erase the past and make the future impossible.
Brilliant video — juxtaposing a clip from Amadeus (where Mozart is sick and dictating to Salieri) with musical notation as it occurs.
Heartbreakingly beautiful.
Thank you for the link.
What evil that there are institutions that wish to obliterate musical notation…
¿Que? Are you referring to something like this piece of utter tripe or is there is something else afoot?
Regarding the tripe,
I can’t speak to current UK (OK, 2017), but in a small Southern town in the middle of last century in an average elementary school, anyone so inclined learned to read either by playing the recorder, or being in the orchestra, both of which comprised about a third of the students so yeah, some people never get it, just as some never get calculus or how not to write total bullshit, but speaking as a former 7 year old trumpet player, it is not exactly Sanskrit.
Yes, there are easier things like tablature for guitar, banjo, ukulele, bass, and the like but that is limited to “push this string here now”. OTOH, if you can read and have the sheet music, you can play anywhere on the fingerboard, but tablature isn’t going to work for any three valve brass instrument, there is more to making any note than “push these valves now”.
I see, because you strive for the minimum, everyone else should too, I guess, for the equity.
“Just edited your comment (and then put everything back where it was). Seems to be working fine, at least for me.”
Oh, so I see! Thanks!
Upwardsness
Hmm…this page doesn’t exist. Try searching for something else.
or is there is something else afoot?
From 2021 but it still enrages.
We really should bring back the stocks.
And yet, presumably, those same affronted students – the ones feigning “great distress” at having to learn basic skills – should not be discouraged from mastering, say, composition and recording software, which, to many, might seem no less unfamiliar, and which is premised on similar “white supremacist” notational concepts, and which could therefore be denounced as no less a product of that same supposed “white hegemony” and “colonialist representational system.”
It’s not obvious, to me, why getting the hang of conventional notation is categorically more offensive than getting the hang of, say, Logic or Zrythm. The tools available to musicians and composers have common roots, common structural assumptions, and none of them seem powered by magic negro-ness.
Or are they, perhaps, just full of shit?
pst314: “I want to know how he got hired in the first place.”
Oh, the usual method, I suppose, waited at a crossroads at midnight for some shady dude to show up…
Spatial awareness, it’s not for everyone.
It occurs to me that it would take less time and effort to learn standard notation, a feat achieved by millions of children, than to learn to mouth the thought-stunting woo about “white supremacy.”
But hey, priorities.
They have to have a special meeting on Sunday at 5:00. They can’t just fire him for bloody obvious reasons. Gotta inconvenience everyone because otherwise it would be wrong. After all, he’s not an inherently bad man like Captain Cook was. Due process and stuff.
Neither Duke Ellington nor Count Basie were available for comment.
While the former is not music, the latter, with some excursions into the esoteric, uses that old yte Devil Pythagoras’ 12 tones. It seems “professors” at Oxford and Harvard are in a race to the academic bottom.
At the risk of repeating myself too often, these people are our existential enemies and should be treated as such.
Funny how the left systematically works to dismantle European cultures while enshrining “brown skinned people” cultures as sacred and untouchable.
The sub-Saharan Africans had no musical notation–no written language at all–and therefore Western writing must be anathematized and eradicated.
“We have delusions.”
Education is now all about displacing knowledge.
‘Equity’ has become shorthand for ‘lowest common denominator.’
Spatial awareness, it’s not for everyone.
It does seem at times that much of the irritation of modern existence can be traced to middle-class, miiddle-brow, middle-wit, women d’un certain âge.
More accurately, awareness of personal/social boundaries.
Autism: It’s not just for boys!
Many of the very worst violations of personal space that I personally know of were committed by women. [ Man sitting on toilet, shortly after moving in: Woman barges into the toilet and introduces herself as if there is no such thing as personal privacy. ] I ascribe this in part to the normal incidence of autism/related disorders and in part to the sixties feminist attitude that women can do no wrong.
To be fair, there are some white people with bizarre delusions about the magical wonderfulness of their Aryan genes. But they seem to be much rarer than the current crop of Afrocentrist loonies.
Did Australia’s boomerangs pave the way for flight?
No, that is why the Wright Flyer of 1903 didn’t go in circles.
Oh, FFS. Meanwhile, back around 1950…
Journalists, is there anything they
don’tknow?Oops wrong place…
Do you own any mirrors?
What’s your solution to the problem you see? Once we have your solution to the problem that you see, what’s your path the obtain that solution?
Hell’s bells, I’d love to be able to see a path to a solution to the problem that isn’t covered with blood. The historical examples required a source that existed right now indicating that things could be better.
When does the “you are posting too fast” thing expire? WordPress appears to conflate “here’s something new” with “oh shit, I’d like to change that last thing” in its attempt to hammer spam into the ground. (There may well be a case where editing a post can be converted into spamming.)
Really?
2008: Obama got 69,498,516 votes.
2012: Obama got 65,915,795 votes.
Hillary got 65,853,514 votes in 2016.
I expected better from you.
Yeah. No again. Only time for this but as much as I like to believe, and I about 80% do believe that the 2020 election was stolen, there are about (checks) 240 million Americans eligible to vote, the right votes fairly consistently. Important elections they get just about every vote they likely will. The left, being the mostly lazy bastards that they are, barely get most of their voters to the polls. Throw in the vote from home BS that itself was rife with fraud (my and my wife’s ballots were sent to the wrong address as we intended to vote in-personwe had to vote provisional ones…as if) and it’s quite easy to see Joe DF getting 80 million. I’m kinda surprised he didn’t get more seeing as most people think he was running against HitlerHitlerHitlerHitlerHitlerHitlerHitlerHitlerHitlerHitlerHitlerHitler…and his running mate Hitler.