Friday Ephemera (715)
And then he gets indignant. || The Ogmios School of Zen Motoring. (h/t, Elephants Gerald) || An unhappy angle. || Notable ceilings. || Cheeeldren of the night. || Coffee time. || Worried cucumber. || Condiment cunning. || “What is in your freezer?” 1976. || They’re made of British. || Because you demanded it, AI music. || I bring you art. Related. || “Someone who is unable to pinpoint their gender due to the stress of the questioning process.” || The progressive retail experience, parts 542, 543, 544, and 545. || Protect your Cybertruck from “electromagnetic pulse disturbances.” (h/t, Things) || Dawn chorus. || “Deeply weird,” indeed. || Question asked, answered. || Children speak of things to come, 1966. || Giraffe and chiropractor. || And finally, scenes of emergency service.
If inclined, you can follow me on X / Twitter.
To register with the blog and thereby enable extra commenting options – including @username mentions and live notifications – scroll down to the black ‘Meta’ box at the very bottom of the page. It’s free and quite painless.
Depraved, even. Or how else to explain sympathy for sadistic monsters?
I did? When?
A British atrocity.
They’re made of British.
Are they made from real girl scouts?
People who accidentally found their doppelgängers in museums – a thread
He seems to understand.
Question is asked.
Protect your Cybertruck…
Somehow I am thinking that the ultimate doomsday vehicle isn’t going to be one that needs electricity from the grid taken out by the EMP that you need a truck cover for.
OTOH, all the doomsday EMPs in the world won’t do squat to an F-100 – OK maybe take out the AM radio, but other than that…
Mark Twain raises his hand.
A symptom of a corrupt ruling class: NYC mayor Adams: “We’re the safest [subway system] on the globe!”
How to get boys interested in geography.
re: Faraday cage for the Cybertruck.
It occurs to me that the cage would also prevent unauthorized remote commands and other mischief from external sources.
I hate the single point of failure that going all-electric represents. A couple years back the power went out so the furnace did not work, and I went out to my car and ran the engine/heater for a bit. (I also have a portable kerosene heater if necessary.)
I want options for generating heat or power. OPTIONS.
A British atrocity.
At first glance, I thought it was caramel and peanuts.
Well, it is Seattle.
Kendall Gilding
A taste:
A tale of woe
The end of the Gilding article:
If she’s after sympathy it won’t be coming from me. An article of narcissism wrapped inside idiocy inside a bucket of spew.
“Cheeeldren of the night.“
Yikes! And she doesn’t drop a single stick of firewood!
Because he’s never been told the world doesn’t revolve around him.
That’s usually a father’s job.
Morning, all.
“That’s what thee said.”
“A strong sense of self.”
Miracles of the modern world.
[ Slurps coffee. ]
Don’t know what to call that but I like it.
I suppose it’s a new genre of calming dashcam video. Which is about as improbable as it sounds. Whether he’s pondering the size of a Lexus or the importance of a little acknowledgement, or navigating the street dancing of Hasidic Jews, he manages to conjure a dreamy quality. And I do like that he’s transformed what most people would regard as an infernal ordeal and something best avoided – driving around London – and turned it into… well, whatever that is.
I see what you did there.
What the hell is “British flavoured”?
Ah, the flavour of Britain. Nommy-nommy-nom. Unless, of course, they mean “British, flavoured.” Which is still worryingly non-specific.
That was a hard watch.
But also one I feel better for having seen.
A lot can happen in 90 seconds. And sometimes that’s a good thing.
Ogmios zen made my day
Positive vibes, as I believe they say. Though not often around here.
Perhaps.
But on the whole I think it’s something else, rather more extreme.
Children raised mostly or even wholly by other children – siblings, cousins, ‘cousins’ (i.e. other children from the same block or housing estate) – will never not be disastrous.
This is especially true where the only mature and sensible adults present are:
See 543 for how this plays out in real time.
And this is even more true when those children raised by children in this environment have their own children and, God help us, grandchildren.
By that stage, egocentrism, callousness, cruelty, pettiness, emotional incontinence, are so ingrained in everyone and everything that his indignation should hardly come as a surprise to anyone.
The only real question is whether or not the process is irreversible and, if it is, do those in power have the will to put it in reverse?
And Friday Ephemera makes my week 🙂
Ah, my raison d’etre for a Friday morning . . .
More peeved, if you ask me.
What the hell is “British flavoured”?
Beans on toast.
Meanwhile, a debate among the “don’t dare call us unstable” “trans” community.
At the same time, over in the Pacific, this seems a reasonable goal.
Then again, maybe not.
Work smarter, not harder.
I’m now pondering the concept of a “transethnostate.”
Didn’t see that coming.
Meanwhile, at Planet Fitness, where anything goes.
There’s something particularly unseemly about criticizing your spouse in print for millions to see.
I’m now pondering the concept of a “transethnostate.”
Me too, I’m not sure you can run a national economy based on drag shows, “pride” parades, identity flags, and ginned up indignation.
For some reason, this came to mind:
The star of the drama, Gemma Hartley, is “a freelance writer and poet.” And, needless to say, an AWFUL*.
*Affluent, white, female, urban liberal.
Didn’t see that in the link, but assume it means invading women’s intimate spaces. What a bizarre reinterpretation of an old human rights expression.
A particularly female sort of nastiness–although I have seen a few men do it too.
Oh, don’t be such a negative nelly. How will we know unless we give it a shot. Put them on an island somewhere and see what they can do. I suggest Haiti.
Damn you “climate change”!
It is amazing how many senior corporate officers embrace this evil. A continuing question: Are the ones who rise to such positions that politically naive, having narrowly focused for so many years on marketing and etc? Or amorally willing to be leaves in the wind of perceived public opinion? Or fearfully ready to comply with pressure groups? In my limited personal experience, they do tend to be pretty damn clueless, with opinions derived from whoever controls the industries of news and culture.
Oh, don’t be such a negative nelly. How will we know unless we give it a shot.
I am not at all against giving it a shot, but only if there is zero foreign aid from anywhere.
This problem was apparent 30+ years ago when they got wrapped up in mandatory diversity training, sexual harassment training, etc. wasting corporate resources not just buying the diversity and such “products” but also by distracting and wasting the time that they were paying their employees (supposedly) to work. Tying any of that crap to the bottom line was BS and a form of groupthink coming out of Inc and Forbes and other BS management magazines and other dogma sources. And those corporate officers were, for the most part, “conservatives”, Republicans. Probably many still are today.
A common problem across many specialty domains. Many top doctors, scientists, engineers, etc. spend so much time focusing on their specialty that they neglect their social and civic and even family responsibilities. There’s only so many hours in a day, after all. They also consequently live in bubble societies/communities for similar reasons and thus don’t interact much with people outside of their station. It’s a very serious problem that I noticed decades ago as making such people vulnerable to these very kinds of charlatans and such.
Also bullshit touchy-feely corporate “retreats” and “workshops” and “sharing of feelings” which have nothing to do with the business and everything to do with useless consultants peddling therapeutic hokum.
Faith Popcorn anyone? The company I worked for back then actually hired her for a conference they were hosting. The sort of mid-wit executives who run most of our Fortune 500 to Russel 2000 companies fall for this crap. Quite the grift she ran for decades.
Only a fool would hire someone with a name like that.