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.
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Then again, maybe not
whales, which are considered sacred ancestors by some indigenous Polynesians.
Is that why so many Polynesians are plus-size?
Which, in general, comes down to “be nice to evil people”.
She said, thinking that is situational awareness that would never get you sucker punched.
Not with enablers like her.
From the replies:
Quite.
In fact, pretending you don’t see them is also dangerous.
hyper-sexual, fungus-infested zombie cicadas
Band name.
The Two Ronnies missed it by -><- that much.
[ Notices that thread has gone quiet. ]
It’s jag-war, not jag-u-ar.
No. It’s jag-wahr. Or jag-wire may also be acceptable. Either way, it’s a two syllable word. At least according to this guy…
https://forthright.livejournal.com/208167.html
I notice since last looking this up a few years ago, there has been a considerable America hating trend on this subject. I could swear I found a definitive (whatever that means) phonetic etymology of “jag-wire” being much closer to the Central American pronunciation.
Of course all of this ancient pronunciation, like even with latin and greek (MO-lan la-BEH), is BS because no one really knows these things. Yet EVERYONE knows EXACTLY these things.
No. It’s jag-wahr. Or jag-wire may also be acceptable. Either way, it’s a two syllable word. At least according to this guy…
… and under no circumstances can we abide the word tiger being pronounced “tagger”. I see you midwesterners, specifically Detroiters. You’ve infected Canadians in Windsor with your witchcraft.
… and under no circumstances can we abide the word tiger being pronounced “tagger”.
…and its Broo-ins (Bruins) not Brunes. Don’t get me started. Oops, too late.
I’ve never heard a Midwesterner pronounce it that way. Must be a Detroit aberration.
The original indigenous word was yaguara, which is rendered in Spanish as jaguar [ha-GWAR].
Quoth wiki: Because that word also applies to other animals, indigenous peoples in Guyana call it jaguareté, with the added sufix eté, meaning “true beast”.
Note the period outside the double-quote, wherein we see that Wikipedia is hewing to the British convention rather than the American. I guess in the name of decolonization.
It has been noted before that much of leftist thinking…
…is an oxymoron…
Curious how alone I am in this…I have no bloody idea what this dʒæɡwɑːr is trying to tell me? I see this literal nonsense in wiki all the time and think WTF did this start? Dee-backwardsrthree-greek diphthong-gwah-hearts colon-rrrr. Rrrrrrrrrr. I never totally bought into that upside-down-e ‘shwah’ BS back in the second grade but I went along with it because everyone else did. It’s all my fault, isn’t it? If only I had stood up to Mrs. Mistr (aka Mrs. Monster) when I was seven years old and said clearly, emphatically, “Shove that BS up your…” we wouldn’t be here. Or maybe I wouldn’t be here anyway. One way or another…
Heh. And that part. “Ette” being latin-language diminutive/feminine. Yet here meaning “true beast”. Well, at least that makes some sense.
Damned if I know when it started, but…if you click on that you will be taken to a help page for IPA (International Phonetic Language*). It seems that Wiki editors want to be maximally international, which means throwing away the dictionary notation we learned in school in favor of something nobody learned in school, I assume (just like Esperanto.) Eff them.
* India Pale Ale? Internet Pissants League? Insufferable Pricks and Loonies?
Heh. This woman never watched Yes, Prime Minister. Just think, all those BBC dollars wasted.
Heh. I may use that the next time someone tries to pawn off an IPA beverage on me.
Looking back, I’ve never met an Esperanto enthusiast who wasn’t a loony prick.
ok…
No. Badge I can accept, but ‘giant’ is, if anything, jeye-ant. Who puts a ‘d’ in front? And don’t get me started on wHare, or whatever, for ‘where’. Again, that monster Mrs. Mistr.
I used to love, love, love watching them lose, lose, lose on Jeopardy. Heh…’Jeopardy’.
Something I’ve wanted to ask progressives: “You demand drug legalization. Freedom to take drugs. Well, how about freedom to take the consequences? Such that being high ceases to be a mitigating factor in all criminal trials? Get high and kill someone, you’ll get charged with first degree murder, not second degree or manslaughter, because you knew before you got high that drugs make people do stupid and crazy things.” But I am pretty sure I know what the responses would be.
As if the left is interested in consequences for anyone not their opponent.
And if leftists suffered the consequences they deserved…
Hmmm.
It would be awfully nice if I could honestly say I’m surprised.
This, though, is unwarranted:
What AI should be used for
From a few years ago, a couple of creepy commercials for ice cream.
Halo Top – Eat the Ice Cream – YouTube
Wait for it. Little Baby’s Ice Cream — Love Lickers – YouTube
Zombie cicadas
“But there’s also something else unusual about it,” he said. “There’s this hyper-sexualized behavior. So, males for example, they’ll continue to try and mate with females — unsuccessfully, because again, their back end is a fungus. But they’ll also pretend to be females to get males to come to them. And that doubles the number of cicadas that an infected individual comes in contact with.”
Has there been a mutation and interspecies transmission to humans?
All of that. Is today’s word ‘duty’?
As so often, there’s an implication of parasitism, or nihilism. Of enjoying the benefits of a high-trust society while actively opposing its necessary upkeep, which entails a low tolerance of repeated violations, and which is denigrated as terribly unsophisticated and low-status. Something that Our Betters don’t wish to be associated with.
Or as Ms Gill and Mr Owens put it in the piece linked above, punishing repeat offenders is “exactly the wrong approach” and reveals only “the worst instincts of the electorate.” Instead, it seems, we should embrace the prospect of a more demoralised, more dangerous, low-trust society, in which we lock away anything that a paying customer might want to buy – making life uglier and needlessly complicated – while the criminals roam free. To continue doing what criminals do.
What with them being so “vulnerable,” you see.
For those of you with a bent for spam-filter statistics, since I tweaked its settings, the spam filter is rating itself as 98.48% accurate, with two missed spam items and ten false positives. This has apparently saved me “two hours” of “cleaning-up time.”
I shall therefore be using that time to head out into the Peak District for a pub lunch.
[ Checks hair, straightens coasters, slides tip jar to prominent position. ]
Halo Top – Eat the Ice Cream – YouTube
Holy. Shit.
How the hell did that get green lit? But brilliant millenium mad man thought, wow, this will really sell our product? I could see how someone would argue but it will hold their attention without thinking the association of feelings of despair with their brand.
How about average daily counts?
A good choice.
Or from humans?
One has to wonder what sort of twisted minds came up with those. Not living in my neighborhood, I hope…or near any schools and hospice care facilities.
I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.
A total of 798 spam items, of which 777 were handled correctly and 12 were false positives and false negatives? 798 over what period of time?
YouTube “pranksters” come to mind, for some reason.
Somewhat to what I was saying earlier about Kurt Gödel and intelligence, I ran across this snippet from what I was referencing.
I’ll just leave this here.