Friday Ephemera (693)
“It doesn’t like my wife.” || AI deepfake translation demo. (h/t, Damian) || Insufficiently adhesive. || How to immobilise bees. || Bees and string. || Acid bassline generator. || It’s a job. || Or you could just brush. || Enrichment opportunity. || Stoopin’. || Nice save. || I can imagine your surprise. || Foodstuff disagreeable. || Stealth defecation. || “The 3D-printed surface is made of a material that repels faeces easily.” || Heimsoeth & Rinke K-model Enigma Cipher machine, circa 1940, £120,000. (h/t, Things) || Romantic night in. || Platform reduction in progress. || The progressive retail experience, parts 500, 501, 502, 503, and 504. || Patience tested. || When your children are props. || Not sure about the daylight gap. || On sorting. || One of these things is not like the other. || Today’s word is fondleworthy. || And finally, tremble, all ye enemies of freedom.
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Bicyclist was killed. Driver has been arrested. Stolen car, multiple thefts, and two intentional hit-and-runs all in one day. The criminal is a very good candidate for David’s suggestion of turning criminals into cattle feed. Likewise any passengers who thought all this crime was a fun way to spend the day.
Starbucks barista with diaper fetish filmed himself dispensing whipped cream into his diaper at work.
Feral pieces of shit look the same to me and have the same utility in my eyes; while it would be nice to integrate them into a civilized society, they can inspire the cabbages from beneath if the integration fails.
Ben Sixsmith has some thoughts on “polarisation.”
I see distorted reflections of the issue on the US side of the pond.
One of these things is not like the other. One of these things isn’t the same.
Bluto wrote a book?
Let’s not. BSE is bad enough.
“Polarization” can also refer to the intensity of feeling. For instance, I have long seen liberals as fundamentally mistaken about a great many things, but it took decades of hostility and abuse to transform me into someone who actually hates and despises liberals. (In stark contrast to how conservatives treated me when I was a naive liberal kid.)
If I had had AIDS/HIV, I could donate blood. Since I had eaten British beef whilest stationed in BRD (aka West Germany) in the early 1980s, I cannot.
Being paid a small (or large) fortune to play a game is exactly like being sold to work in an antebellum cotton field.
This came to mind:
Oh, there’s more.
I gots to get paid…. say, anyone have a pimped out escalade?
The progressive public transit experience. Do you feel enriched, England?
This came to mind.
Rightfully so, note that in the video the humiliation is only experienced by black players. The yte ones apparently just get to show up at the sportsball field where they lounge in the sun drinking umbrella drinks while being fanned by comely island women.
Kaepernick has been running this grift for 7 years & counting. The marks still haven’t caught on.
Is this becoming a trend? Seems like a possibility.
Unfortunately, the law protects the identities of these young killers. And news outlets refrain from giving descriptions more specific than “male youths”.
I know liberals who are in their 60’s and 70’s who have not caught on to anything.
How do they even know that much? Even if they do, for reasons similar as to why race isn’t released, why do we need to know what gender they identify with? How is that relevant if other characteristics are not? Seems it perpetuates the stereotype that males, especially those who identify as males, are more likely to commit crimes.
I see what you did there. Let’s become activists for male prison equity: Either the number of men in prison must be reduced by over 90 percent or the number of women must be increased ten fold. 😀
As far back as the 60’s I was seeing liberal demands that news be censored to conceal the race of criminals. Because evidence that blacks committed crimes far in excess of their share of the population would fuel racism.
We allowed to suggest candidates?
No. Jonah Goldberg’s responsibility, given his fondness for women’s prison movies.
It’s always the rappers, never the folk singers and classical musicians. I wonder why.
It’s always the rappers…
Oh, well then, perfectly understandable. Carry on
The truly sad part in the report is that they actually give Grammys to rappers.
Modest suggestion: When a rapper signs with a record label, a prison cell is set aside in his/her name.
“We put all our politicians in prison as soon as they’re elected. Don’t you?”
“Why?”
“It saves time.”
–Terry Pratchett’s The Last Continent
How soon they forget The Lizard King.
It’s always the rappers, never the folk singers and classical musicians. I wonder why.
Imagine the Principal flautist of the Berlin Phil. being gunned down for disrespectin’ buskers on mouth organs.
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[ Anticipates cheering, merriment. ]
[slides bottle of hump fat down bar to David]
[ Activates bar ramp so that offering slides back to sender. ]
I intentionally refrained from mentioning rock musicians. For so many reasons.
Here, try this.
[ Offers shuffleboard cue to Ted. ]
It works! It works! It really works!
[ insert photo of girlishly joyful Sally Field. ]
I GIVE humble and hearty thanks for the safe return of this feature which having endured the perils of Level One Support, and Level Two Support, now returns to me in reasonably functional condition.
I GIVE humble and hearty thanks that Support did not see fit to give this book to a new hire to “fix”, nor to deprecate it, nor to pretend that it never existed.
WHEN I lost this feature I deemed it as gone forever: I was resigned to the bitterness of the long parting: I never thought to look upon its functionality again.
BUT NOW that it is come back, I rejoice and am exceeding glad! Bring hither the fatted server cache and let us edit our posts and set them on the shelf of honour: for this my feature was lost, and is returned again.
PRESENTLY, therefore, I may fix some of the bugs in the code that I myself have written.
–shamelessly stolen and rewritten from The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley
Callooh! Callay!
A formally assigned side of the bed would be odd. (See Sheldon Cooper’s roommate agreement.) But it seems entirely normal and indeed usual that couples would fall into some sort of default arrangement without any discussion or conscious thought.
I can’t tell. I am seeing a few claims that the teens are black, but only from blog commenters, not from the police or an established news source.
This feral kid needs a bullet in the head. His parents too, probably.