The Other Majority Of The Time
No, don’t run away. She wants to tell you about herself:
These people are becoming gender-soup. 💀
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And remember, competitive complication is the name of the game.
Also open thread. Share ye links and bicker.
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.