The Other Majority Of The Time
No, don’t run away. She wants to tell you about herself:
These people are becoming gender-soup. 💀
pic.twitter.com/mgZRiyCAV2— L G B (@L__G__B) January 9, 2024
And remember, competitive complication is the name of the game.
Also open thread. Share ye links and bicker.
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MAKE IT STOP
Are you not inexhaustibly fascinated by her complications?
She’s “a weird amalgamation of genders and vibes,” you know.
And “sparkles,” obviously.
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I WANT TO BE MORE INTERESTING THAN I AM.
I paraphrase, of course.
You don’t hear the phrase “It’s a cry for help” so often these days.
Ironically.
What’s the betting a video such as this would be scrutinised by the new Ofcom team set to enforce the new Online Safety Act 2023?
Diversity!
*manic phase has entered the chat*
Her gender is fat and tedious.
A fake.
No infected nose ring. And out of nowehere they reverts to ‘binary.’ You cannot be half a woman even by way of fantasy.
[ Feels strong urge to send nailbrush, soap. ]
Having watched this (I know, no refunds – credit notes only) the following has occurred to me:
Also, apologies for being OT but has everyone seen the story from NYC about tunnels under a synagogue? 2024 is starting strong in the weirdness stakes. Buckle up folks, I think it’s going to be a rough one.
And the solution to being tedious is to make every goddamn conversation about yourself and how complicated and fascinating you are. Obviously.
Heh. I’ve been busy, but I caught a bewildering glimpse. For a second, I thought it was a comedy sketch.
Is scrofulous a gender?
Elementary my Dear Watson.
What’s the betting she’s answering a question no one asked…?
Yes I have. Articles in various American and Israeli newspapers. The initial reports said that the tunnel was the work of a small but militant group of dissident students and that the leaders of the synagogue welcomed police assistance in stopping them. I’m waiting for the details to become more clear in subsequent reports.
I’m really tired of weirdness, and like Rincewind long for dullness.
I have long used “that’s interesting” as a euphemism for “that’s stupid/insane”.
Not unrelated…
Aye, a bonnie lassie.
Of course the article uses “she/her” BS throughout.
“Well isn’t that special.”
–Church Lady, Saturday Night Live
The complications above reminded me of the way in which some insecure teenage girls feel a need to point out how “weird” they are – meaning how weird they think they ought to seem – while not being particularly weird at all.
Yes. As much as semiautomatic weapons.
Make it stop yourself. You have just as much power to correct these people/problems as they have in creating them. For now anyway. Though there have been attempts to take away your power. Especially in the UK and Canada. There’s still hope for the US and maybe some other countries in the West.
Wanting to be interesting: the problem they face is that actually being interesting takes a lot of work. Like my friend, a christian, who escaped Iraq on the back of a motorcycle while being shot at and then became a dentist here in US. THAT is interesting. Being a good conversationalist is hard work and requires you to attend to what the other person is interested in so you don’t bore them–much too hard for a narcissist. Reading interesting books so you have something to say–too much work. Having a really cool hobby like glass-blowing or hosting rescue dogs—yep, too much work.
And this is why we don’t do drugs.
Don’t see how tubercular lymph nodes could be a gender but there’s likely some useless academic twit working on it.
And potatoes.
Don’t forget potatoes.
I live in that neighborhood, so I can supply a little more detail.
There has indeed been an ongoing issue for years with that small group acting as if they own the place; there have been several altercations in the past. Dealing with it is made more difficult by the fact that “770” is both a synagogue and a yeshiva, and as such is open to the public (i.e., the powers that be can’t simply say that you can’t enter without a student ID or similar). There has also been an ongoing lawsuit for years about the ownership and management of the property, and of course that doesn’t help any either.
As I understand it, then, boys from this group dug the original tunnel during the Covid shutdowns, and used it to sneak into the synagogue to pray and study. (In Chabad thought, “770” is seen as almost a miniature of the Temple in Jerusalem, so one assumes that they figured they have to get in, come what may.)
Since then they’ve dug it out further (partially undermining the building structurally, which is how it was discovered), with the claim that the synagogue is too small and needs to be expanded (there has indeed been talk for years about enlarging it), and indeed some of these boys apparently have been using the tunnels as a combination study hall/dormitory. (Naturally, too, anti-Semites have been having a field day with all kinds of lurid claims about what’s been going on there…)
What boiled over, and brought in the police, was when those in charge brought in cement trucks to fill in the tunnels, and some of these “dissidents” tried to physically prevent that, tearing down parts of the walls in the process.
People have been comparing this to Oct. 7, and while I wouldn’t go that far, I – and lots of others – are hoping that at least it has the same galvanizing effect on the yeshiva administration and the other bigwigs, to get them to remove this group and to restore discipline.
“Students, eh? Love ’em or hate ’em, you can’t hit them with a shovel!”
–Terry Pratchett
Indeed. I’ve seen some such wild claims in comment threads on various sites, including Instapundit which has its share of Jew-haters and white supremacists in addition to leftist trolls.
How to be non-binary:
By all means, cut out and keep for later reference. Because, God knows, the odds are pretty good that it will crop up.
For those who missed it, somewhat related:
Because the scolding must never end. The scolding being the point.
Nah, bro. All those things on the right that other people have to do? No. Other people have to not do them. Refuse to do them.
Ye gods David – a little warning please! Settled in to your blog with my thermos of coffee, still somewhat half-asleep, clicked on “Continue reading” and BAM – that top screenshot hit me full on.
I know – no refunds, credit note only, but geez. I see you picked up on the crazy independent eyeball and the filthy nails too.
These people all seem the same – weird haircolor/bad wig, crazy eyes, assorted decorations drilled/plastered on, and the exaggerated facial movements and hand gestures. And that’s just from a few seconds with the sound off. Maybe they get different further in, but I’m not betting on it.
[ Triumphant cackling. ]
OK, so just actually watched that. I really didn’t need to because, it’s so close to exactly what I expected that it was pretty much exactly what I expected. I try not to comment without seeing the actual evidence but it’s really getting hard to sit through so much that turns out to be exactly what I expected. Plus it was 5 AM and I didn’t want to wake the wife with this BS…that said…
Therapy. The answer to this woman’s problem is clearly therapy. She needs to stop going to therapy. Her therapist needs to be delicensed, etc. Of course that will never happen because otherwise we wouldn’t be in this situation. Most therapists need to be delicensed, etc. (possibly even deloused) but Brandon’s unemployment numbers can only be fudged so much. In addition to what I said earlier about education, the therapy professions being taken over by hard leftists are also a HUGE part of the problem. Another big, big elephant in the room that conservatives…”conservatives” refuse to address. Even now that it’s bloody obvious and pretty much out in the open as to how f****d up they are, it’s crickets from the right.
This came to mind:
How far we’ve come.
OT – expert.
Thank you. Much appreciated.
Indeed. Shouting “I’M UNIQUE/SPECIAL” whilst resembling all of the others doing the same is just…
Don’t I know it! I, like many others, try to deal with them, but it’s like playing Whack-A-Mole.
Sometimes wonder if Glenn Reynolds et al could do more to permanently ban such people: Not so much because All Wrong Opinions Must Be Cancelled but because the hateful and/or stupid comments make those comment threads far less useful. I remember when I could depend on the comment threads in certain blogs to offer additional information and/or analysis, rather than endless “that’s right” and “that’s wrong” and “you’re a poopy face”, plus trolling of various sorts.
Problem is that they keep on regenerating their accounts.
Yes, but can’t they go a step farther and ban specific IP addresses? That would take care of any trolls that are not prepared to go the further step of masking their IP address.
Accidentally posted this on the previous thread but as this one is open, I think this is worth reposting. I have no issue if you choose to delete the other one..
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Found this in a comment by someone on Insty (handle of Astromathman). This is an excellent video, but long. I skipped the first 15 minutes and the last 5-10. One could probably skip the last 15-20. Not that those are a waste of time but the meat of it is most important. Not just about Artemus or space in general, but complex system design and the complexity of planning in general (cough, cough…economics…cough, cough).
https://youtu.be/OoJsPvmFixU?si=tleTHCjKt-sNhj5K
I’m sure most of the trolls over there use vpn’s or other means. I don’t block many people but I find that works as necessary. I don’t like the idea of banning except in the most egregious of circumstances. A certain Johnny OTOH…I suspect he’s the same troll who used to change his handle repeatedly on some play of then name Truth/Reality. It’s really a difficult play for the host as whatever you try will be eventually sidestepped anyway. I certainly wouldn’t put much effort into it if I were them.
It sounded more like she was discussing her spirituality than her gender. Is it possible the younger generation is so disconnected from the supernatural that they are trying to avoid questions of purpose and meaning with unusual gender identities?
It sounded more like she was discussing her spirituality
She would have a spirit animal – a hippo.
Quokka.
The unexpected consequences of liberal policies: “Food deserts”:
San Francisco Fillmore district grocery store to close. Crime is a big reason.
And when the store closes, liberals will say racism caused the “food desert”.
Can we start putting all the Progressives on the Golgafrincham Ark B? Can we?
One of the causes of desert enlargment is overgrazing. In the case of “food deserts”, that takes the form of theft.
Solutions include culling and the introduction of predators. Just sayin.
Delusional.
Delusional.
Far too many PhD’s are granted each year. Far more than the job market supports. And far more than the world needs. (Much of academia contributes adds nothing to knowledge.)
PhD’s: American universities operate on the publish-or-perish model: All professors are expected to publish original research, even though there are fields in which little remains to be learned. (Do we really need another boatload of Shakespeare research? Or research on The Trans Experience in Elizabethan England as Reflected in Contemporary Drama?)
But am I correct in understanding that British universities work differently? One can be hired for a tenure track position in which your duties are chiefly or entirely instructional?
Food deserts: in determining what is a food desert, Wokies do not include Target or Walmart that have a full grocery, do not count bodegas or gas stations. They also insist that people be able to walk to the grocery–by that criterion the suburbs are huge food deserts.
Ph.Ds: I know profs who have had 100 phd students–a pyramid scheme. Grad students are cheap labor for the prof’s research.
One of the causes of desert enlargment is overgrazing.
Especially by goats. They’ve done their work at denudation around the Mediterranean. Marginal lands in Africa and the Middle East are under siege. There is not much vegetation that they do not ravage – even trees.
You know, camouflage is used to conceal your intentions to harm others. I like assholes verbally exposing themselves.
Case in point: many years ago (early 1990s), a TA in one of my classes was quite upset about seeing someone wearing a T-shirt that made an off-color remark equating oral sex with a Chinese woman with the trope of being hungry for more after eating Chinese food. He thought that should not be allowed on campus.
I pointed out that any woman who a) read the damned T-shirt and b) was of Chinese ancestry would be able to stay the fuck away from him if she had any sense. I’m not sure he fully agreed with the argument (I believe he was liberal; I wasn’t sure he was insane.)
I suspect you don’t understand how IP addresses work.
“The other majority of the time, I’m like a void [….]”
Yeah, I think that’s your true default setting.
[EDIT: Of course our host picked up on that, now that I’ve looked at the post header. ]
I’m not sure what conservatives were supposed to have done in a free society. The people who gravitate to therapeutic professions (and the humanities) score high in traits empathy and openness, which also correlates with being left of center.
Were conservatives supposed to enter professions they didn’t like or were ill-suited for, just to maintain ideological balance? Was an authority figure supposed to exert control over those professions, forcing them to budge up and make room for those unhappy conservatives? Should censorship of radical ideas have taken place, or certain textbooks mandated, or the journals forced to publish certain types of article, just for balance?
Also,
Here’s an X thread about the Jewish tunnels.
And here’s Burns’s “To a Mouse” recited by Billy Connolly.
She invites questions from the viewers, but the only one I can muster is, “Who the hell did this to you, and why aren’t they in prison?”
Thank you, Dicentra. I’d love to know the guy who wrote that; he hit every nail on the head.
She sells crystals, by the way. As one does.
Quetzalovercoatl: “Social media is the worst thing to ever happen to the human race (so far!).“
No, like every other invention, it’s merely a tool. And without it, we wouldn’t be aware of how many people around us are well, like this one. It’s done us a favour.
Alex: “As I understand it, then, boys from this group dug the original tunnel during the Covid shutdowns….“
Anyone else wonder what other shoes are waiting to drop from the Mad Months?
To the geologically minded objects of abiding interest; for others, the symmetrical propensities of atoms and moleules are a source of wonder and admiration.
In the hands of wand wavers, frauds and whackos they lose their innate fascination.
[ Schedules tomorrow’s Ephemera, ponders breakfast options. ]
Tequila Sunrise?
Settled for Marmite on toast and a coffee refill. Got the job done.
Hey, I can’t be inspired 24 hours a day.
Breakfast of kings.
[ Considers setting up website CompareYourBreakfast.com. ]
They certainly can produce volumes of text, speeches, etc about abortion without having to get into the business of performing any. For just one, granted inflammatory example. Not every fight involves passing legislation or changing careers. There are still a few conservatives doing therapy but they don’t, or are afraid to push back on the lunacy. They could cut funding for some of it. There are any number of ways to address the problem without having to become a therapist.
You can tell she has a PhD – she’s wrong on every point:
No – you’re thinking of training. Education isn’t directly tied to employment. It’s just a basic prerequisite.
If you need to spend a decade learning how to search for a job then you are both unemployable and uneducatable.
Often in a free market, the scarcity of things which have other attractive properties confers value. You cannot, however, produce this value by artificially creating a scarcity. Leaves, for example, will not have their value increased by burning down all the forests.
Now where’s my burger?
High praise indeed for something a tramp would eat.
Exactly. And it’s a tool conservatives ignore at their peril. As Vivek Ramaswamy pointed out in regard to TicToc. Not that there aren’t problems with TicToc (not a fan specifically myself) but that’s where so many of the eyeballs are. LibsOfTicToc (if I have the handle right) is doing The Lord’s Work in this regard.
Well, don’t leave us in suspense. What exquisite fancies did you conjure into being?
Well obviously I could have breakfasted magnificently. Unfortunately – it being a couple of weeks after Christmas I still have 10 lbs of cheese to munch through.
So I just threw a whole Vacherin Mont D’or in the oven with a few slivers of garlic and a glass of white wine then scooped it out with slices of toasted brioche after it went all melty.
Sorry.
Let the contest begin.
Well that’s my loins stirred!
And look – you could use Spock’s shovel to spread your Marmite.
[ Anticipates wildly escalating feats of breakfast-making. ]
[Anticipates cheese-induced coronary]
This morning, a ketolicious sausage, egg, and cheese scramble. With coffee.
All whilst the Weim Crime Syndicate gave me side eye after having to accept the dog food dumped onto their kibble from a can. Sorry, lads, I’m the alpha and get the goods.
In case you need more time to assemble your breakfast battle condiments.
They also include in their food desert maps such things as parks, forest preserves, airports, and freeway rights of way. These errors are not because they are stupid but because they are dishonest.
And cheap labor trumps any concern for the students’ job prospects.
We could also revisit the practice of hiring lots of part time instructors to teach lower level classes, paying them subsistence wages with virtually zero hope of ever getting a tenured full time position.
So much for the moral authority of academia.
Could be.
But my understanding is that website software, including blog software, can know a visitor’s IP address, an IP address which is (in casual terms) unique for each user’s computer or smart phone. Thus, trolls’ IP addresses can be added to a blacklist and blocked from commenting. The flaw in this is, however, is that a troll can use software to surf the web with a fake IP address.
Yes indeed. Very true. A major factor.
But it is also true that in recent decades leftist professors have implemented explicit policies to bar conservatives from those degree programs. And I am sure that even before the implementation of such policies those departments were hostile to conservatives, thus discouraging all but the most thick-skinned students. (And any reasonable student will think that if there is such hostility to undergrads then it will be greater towards grad students and greatest of all towards post grads seeking permanent employment.)
Eggs, spam, and coffee.
Tomorrow will be a spinach and corned beef omelette. And coffee, of course.
[ Attempts to build time machine in order to go back several hours and have a much fancier, more upscale breakfast. ]
But where’s the Triskelion girl in the aluminum foil bra? I feel shortchanged.
Years of keeping the nose to the scholastic grindstone seems to condition many students into never thinking much about such things.
Professors should be more forthcoming to their students regarding their realistic prospects. Freshman level STEM classes are designed to weed out the seriously unqualified, but there are also the marginally qualified who will not do well enough for a career as research scientists and who should be advised of what sorts of scientific careers they are likely to be able to have, such as instructor or planetarium staff or lab technician.
[ From the cellar, sounds of tinkering. Valves hum. ]
Lucky Charms here. Styrofoam of Kings, with 3 lbs added sugar. Delicious.
Indeed. And, to tie this in with the other subthread above, she’s a Chabad young lady. I guess we could say that she too is crazy – one would have to be, to put up with what she has and still persevere – but, unlike the boys with their tunnel, hers is a good and constructive kind of crazy.
Food deserts: in determining what is a food desert,
From the USDA:
Because of the nature of where I live, which falls in the latter category, I am in a food desert despite WallyWorld, one major and three minor regional chain stores, a real farmer’s market, and several local meat producers from whom you can buy direct, all within 15 minutes.
Another BS term made up by people who have never been anywhere but a big city.
Rest assured, nobody here is going to steal your Lucky Charms.
Delicious.
Magically delicious.
I hear Vikings.