Friday Ephemera (705)
Judgement promptly validated. || Ice-cream scoop insertions and other medical emergencies. || Somewhat related: Things done to penises in 2023. || Recovered Kodachromes of New York in the Fifties and Sixties. (h/t, Lancastrian Oik) || Like conkers, I guess. || On crime and incarceration. || Question asked, answered. || Being so clever, he doesn’t believe in sky daddy. || Lion relocation. || If you got rid of the toaster, you’d have space for one of these. || Suboptimal road surface. || Set-up and payoff. || The progressive retail experience, parts 526 and 527. || Pressing oil. || For enthusiasts of diecast model cars, The Little Wheels Museum. (h/t, Things) || I laughed and I’m not sorry. || A little artistic licence. || At last, a shower-toilet combo. || And finally, a hawk encounters a kitten with a force field.
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U of Texas, Harvard, MIT, Stanford, ad infinitum. This sentiment comes to mind.
This. This this this this. Similarly it’s not exactly a recent trend where women want girl babies, get boys, then try to convert them. In the past it was limited by other social pressures and the fact that even a butcher’s attempt to change biological reality was a non-starter.
But just try saying such a broader thing (Donna e mobile) in the presence of a psychologist, psychiatrist, or even a great number of other physicians. Not saying you shouldn’t. In fact, encouraging you or anyone to try. You might be able to get half that point out before taking such abuse that you never get out the other half, but it needs to be said. Often.
In a recent interview, Jordan Peterson connected this to the fact that women are on average more anxiety prone (trait neuroticism) than are men.
Heh. Again with the data. I would be curious to see the numbers for single men vs married/in-a-long-relationship (heterosexual) men vs women, married or otherwise. Of course it’s all fuzzy data and can be bent, even lied about. Well, while we still have a marginally trustworthy society…
And they all ended up in the humanities.
I think it’s very reasonable: The statistics on male-female differences in various personality traits (conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism, etc.) are pretty solid.
That doesn’t mean there cannot be other exacerbating factors which relate to the current deplorable state of our culture, but the male-female difference is real.
Returning to this…
The real danger is neither Amazon nor the degeneration of our libraries, it’s the fluidity of meaning of words, ideas, history, science, etc. via the wiki model.
Coolest street name I’ve seen in a while….
When you think you can do whatever you want, whenever you want.
See the “SOS Cuba” banner. I believe this video is from the 2021 protests in Miami Florida in support of anti-Castro protesters in Cuba.
Coolest street name I’ve seen in a while….
No doubt in one of those quaint English villages where there is rampant murder as seen on TV…
When you think you can do whatever you want, whenever you want.
She forgot to scream “I can’t breathe” repeatedly. Poor form.
The UK seems to be packed end-to-end with them.
By law, only blacks and leftists may say that. /sarcasm
2024 will mark a run on popcorn. This will truly be a FAFO moment. Over and over and over again.
Coffee, black, no sugar. Not tea.
Interesting that this lone woman, granted behaving in a bothersome and improper way of protesting, elicited such a fairly brutal takedown by an obviously physically superior male cop. Maybe out of context but unless there were a number of others behaving , or threatening to behave, similarly that takedown seems rather excessive. She was endangering herself to some degree but traffic wasn’t fast or heavy, drivers seemed to be lightly impacted. A touch of the brakes at most. Once she was out of the road, the body slam to the pavement when he had pretty much complete physical control of her, and plenty of other cops available to help him, is a bit hard to justify IMNSHO. If pst is correct and the number of Cuban flags is some indication, I suspect our copper here has been enthused by the opportunity to put the hurt on a (likely) conservative. Where is this macho-macho brutality when it is truly needed in much more disruptive street takeovers? I smell a rat.
Hopefully it doesn’t turn into a cancelled-by-overkill situation. He seems a shade too enthusiastic here:
Plus I do not trust the recently woke-from-being-woke. Not necessarily that they are faking but also because their corrected thinking has had time to ferment.
Interesting that this lone woman, granted behaving in a bothersome and improper way of protesting, elicited such a fairly brutal takedown by an obviously physically superior male cop.
A parade of black SUVs followed by a black ambulance and more motorcycle rozzers, plus the plainclothes or SS quys would seem to indicate there was some Important Person/s™ in the parade. Given the leftist proclivity for violence – note her skateboard (Skateboards™, The Favorite Weapon of “anti”fa, Get Yours Today!) wielding pal – and not knowing what she might have had in her shoulder bag, I can’t really fault him.
He seems a shade too enthusiastic here
This wasn’t about attacking him … they went after his wife. And for what? This moderate Democrat finds out that he is just too darned Jewish (how dare he support Israel over the poor oppressed Hamas “militants”) for the current party. And if they go after his wife, how soon his kids or parents?
After the AI statement you quote, he does go on to talk about the need to really nail down what is/is not “plagiarism”. The Ivies have been playing fast and loose as much with the charges of plagiarism as they’ve done with other “transgressions” like mis-gendering and allowing students to be harassed and bullied according to group identity.
Time to go scorched earth on these fat, entitled cows.
Reasoned debate from New Zealand.
Coffee, with full fat milk and Splenda.
Lapsang-soochong with honey, all winter.
All heretics to the comfy chair!
I agree in general but I am highly, highly suspicious of the overemphasis of this plagiarism angle. We don’t have a crisis of plagiarism on our campuses, not a crisis that directly impacts the rest of us anyway. We have a leftist indoctrination problem. By focusing too much energy on the easy play of plagiarism, that is something that they can easily fix and move on from without addressing the real, broader problem of leftist indoctrination and general incompetence. Again, where has Mr. Bigmegabucks been until now? This crap didn’t happen overnight.
Which grandmother is this, the one who arranged the 5 year old Ayaan’s genital mutilation? Is Ali being an elitist here (my superstitious illiterate grandmother wouldn’t have trusted Claudine even to herd the goats), or an anti-elitist in the mode of George W. Bush pretending to be a ranch-hand?
Plagiarism: This is NOT a problem in the hard sciences. You almost never are quoting anyone. If you mention something that is common knowledge, that is not plagiarism. Reviewers will force you to cite things that need citing. I suggest it IS a problem in the social sciences because there is a tradition of sloppy thinking, sloppy scholarship, and sloppy writing in those fields.
You’re overanalyzing.
Let the games begin.
I’d be more impressed if she practiced mokomokai . . .
They never stopped. God, how I wish they’d stop.
Happy New Year in New York.
I didn’t even know that yet another Alien movie was in the works. The Critical Drinker makes some good points, which remind me of the success of Die Hard which was in part due to Bruce Willis’ “ordinary guy” hero character instead of the usual Hollywood hyper hero fantasy.
All of them?
Revolutionary War fort we discovered inside old plantation house in West Virginia.
OT: The new BBC adaptation of All Creatures Great and Small is taking dramatic liberties with the original books, injecting personality conflicts that were not in the books. I have already commented disapprovingly on how the 1980’s BBC All Creatures Great and Small took liberties, spicing up the characters with personality quirks such as Tristan’s fecklessness. Both series are well done and entertaining, but it would be nice to see a TV series or movie which was more faithful to the original.
I love a good haka. My alma mater’s (American) football team used to perform one before every game; maybe they still do. It’s a great bit of ritualized trash talk before conflict.
I don’t know what point she’s making in that setting, tho. “Back off”? “I’m Maori and I’m gonna mess you up”?
It does cause thoughtful people to wonder if, perhaps, Maori culture is incompatible with civilization. And on that note, I wonder about Maori crime statistics.
Looks like someone’s got some sky daddy issues. Just sayin’.
Sorry- I know this is late, but I’ve had a few very busy days.
“See also the pompous eruptions that followed entirely apposite use of the word feral.”
Band name.