Bucket, Spade, Sunblock
Sensitive readers may wish to brace themselves. Consider this a trigger warning.
Next week, for the whole week, and for the first time in a long time, I will be away on holiday. A proper holiday, elsewhere, doing other things. I realise that for some of you this may be crushing news. Be brave. Dry those tears.
To prevent you from roaming the streets in a daze, consider this an open thread, in which to share links and bicker. To kick things off, here’s an interview with Thomas Sowell, now a mere 93, in which he discusses his latest book, Social Justice Fallacies. Copies of which can be bought via your host’s Amazon portals, here for the US, and here for the UK.
In addition, you could always pass the time by browsing the Reheated series.
Oh, and the edit-comment option should now be working properly.
Play nicely. Use coasters.
Adding a comment so David won’t be disappointed by only one page when he comes back.
Well, of course not…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12542479/f35-crash-south-carolina-storms-bad-weather.html
OTOH, on the page to which that link points, there’s…
0 people are interested. That many?
This “affirmation” thing. I can’t help feeling they’re doing it wrong.
I believe they are discussing Female to Male “transitions”, where the biological female who menstruates wishes to be like a biological male who does not.
Why the fuck feminists are interested in that topic is beyond me. Might explain the number of people interested in the event.
While I remembered this story I had forgotten it was a Harrier jet. So F-35B keeping up the tradition of V/STOLs crashing in populated areas. At least this one didn’t take out a house.
Canadian police shut down 1 Million March 4 Children speech by Meghan Murphy after far-left trans activists attack the stage
Suppose, as an otherwise irrelevant sociology academic, I invent a formal model for categorising human types that I call “Fender”. I then create categories that, for example, I call “squirrel” or “monkey-nut” and allocate people to these categories based on largely inscrutable criteria.
So far, so good and one would hope that the world would do little more than laugh and get on with their lives.
Suppose, however, that I now create Fender categories called “man” and “woman”, assign individuals to them arbitrarily, but then insist that officialdom require of the populace that they replace the existing biological categories of “man” and “woman” with these new superseding categories of “Fender-man” and “Fender-woman”.
One would hope that those officials would jeer and throw rocks at me.
Unfortunately, we currently live in the Age of Stupid.
Because we expect the officials to do the jeering and throwing of rocks instead of doing it ourselves. We get the stupid we deserve.
For some reason I read that like “fuck feminists” were a thing. Like ‘fuck’ was an adjective to ‘feminists’. Which, while kinda fun, makes little logical sense. I mean how many feminists would that subgroup realistically consist of? Silly, I know.
Often times, mind you.
Menstruation is often times associated with females? Biology as Teh Science (TM) is really taking a hit here. It makes the poor babies feel bad if their biologically female bodies are doing biologically female things? Wahhh. Grow (not sew) a set.
The expectation that the rest of the world has to reorient reality around them has drained my sympathy reservoir. Tyranny of the minority indeed.
Mayhap this isn’t the cultural enrichment they were looking for
Again, if you watch Bezmenov it all makes perfect sense. Remember the ultimate goal is destabilizing your target society so badly that it cannot resist an armed revolution and the subsequent invasion. You want multiple incompatible groups constantly fighting for power and supremacy. The useful idiots may be confused that their Muslim pets aren’t 100% down with teh ghey, but the people who started this avalanche know exactly what they’re doing.
F-35
One of the conspiracy theories floating around is that the area where the pilot ejected is know for militia activity and that the plane was hit from the ground by multiple large calibre rounds, on the order of .50 BMG, causing the pilot to punch out. Given that the plane was flying low and slow on VSTOL maneuvers it’s at least plausible.
Given that the design and implementation is a clusterf**k, a clusterf**k of Occam’s and Hamlin’s Razors seems much more plausible.
Or Hanlon’s Razor. Whatever works.
The military mindset:
This is also why we get clusterf*** weapons like the F-35B.
https://twitter.com/FromKulak/status/1705424522738909447
Via Ace…
Similarly, this:
A philosophical rabbit hole that applies even down to mathematics. But very important to understand as to why we have so many severely educated “smart” people. They understand the words as concrete concepts. They can regurgitate the words. But the underlying realities not so much.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66890945
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/ontaro-twins-inuit-status-claims-1.6814782
So we’re supposed to imagine this as blue-eyed founding-stock Canadians looking for ethnic cred because of a family story about their great [x7] grandfather out on the frontier where there were no white women. But is anyone allowed to notice obvious clues of ancestry? Surname Manji, which is Indian [subcontinental]. Physiognomy: do Indians of either type recognize them as belonging to their own race? Which of their alleged mothers do they look like more? Are they single or mixed race? Obviously journalists and white people aren’t allowed to ask, but surely the indigenous registration board is allowed to ask an applicant about where their father and mother are really from?
“Non-indigenous” is an interesting word choice, given that the more frequent scheme of goodies/baddies is of indigenous/settler/immigrant, the moral purpose of the immigration being to redeem or punish the settlers for what they did to the indigenous. But if this is immigrants scamming the indigenous of the reparations given by the settlers, surely that’s the interesting and diverse thing about the story. When birth and ancestry are the essence of the story, is it beyond the initiative of a journalist to try to track down birth certificates, which would establish not only that the fraudsters are non-indigenous, but that they’re of immigrant stock?
This.
One for the ‘joys of public transport’ file.
The United States military is a f*****g disgrace.
But they’re using approved pronouns so it’s okay.
What I would like to know, which isn’t knowable because everyone f’n lies on all sides, is do a significant number of military people who know better, especially the officer corp but the more senior NCOs as well, ever speak up about this s**t? This sort of thing doesn’t happen overnight. There has been a slow degradation going on, likely for decades now. Do they just keep their heads down like good little soldiers and sailors? I’m tempted to ask some friends who have children still in the military but I can’t think of a one that I could open such a conversation with where the whole thing would go sideways real quick. Especially as they are people that I haven’t had much interaction with in a few years. I think I will post that on FB and see if I hear anything back.
“A patient cured is a customer lost.”
Actually solving a problem means that you won’t continue to be paid for trying to solve it. You might even want to move the goal posts by changing the language a bit.
Really? How did those squatters enter the base and not be detected?
Well, exactly. This could be BS reporting, a misapplication of words such that the housing in question was not physically on a base but somewhere outside? Patrick AFB in central FL, A1A runs between the base and some beachside housing so maybe in places where that happens? It’s hard to tell if the “report” doesn’t name the bases but given many other stories, some recent some not so recent, this story doesn’t seem too far fetched. It’s not just one base, though again assuming the story isn’t complete BS. But if BS has there been significant denial? This is (supposedly) a GAO report.
Always wondered what the translation was.