Friday Ephemera (717)
Custom cars for rats. || Mouse trap. || Incoming. || Incoming 2. || Navigational error. || Nature and its wonders. || Also available in red. || “What’s your job on the leftist commune?” “Pouring hot cocoa for folx in the reading alcoves.” Also, “writing workshops,” “therapist.” || Related. || Also related. || Having it both ways. || Bath time peekaboo. || By “radical pursuit of pleasure,” she means her amputated breasts displayed in a jar. (h/t, Paul Dover) || The top speeds of beasts. || The progressive retail experience, parts 546, 547, and 548. || It’s amazing how quickly the day can turn to shit. || Tread carefully. || Let’s go ice fishing, they said. || It’s “fully functional” and will sort itself out in no time. || “The fake bus stops keep them from wandering off.” || The perils of fitness activity.
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A model SJW.
The lesson was not intended to promote a specific agenda or ideology […] (via Not the Bee)
Perhaps the condescension and despite wouldn’t be so galling if the lies weren’t so blatant.
Oh for criminey’s sake. Who, in the last 40 years or so, has entered any retail place without noting in-plain-sight surveillance cameras? Those black bubbles above the cashier aren’t there for decoration.
Don’t want to be watched by the eye in the ceiling of a store? Order online, pay, and have the stuff delivered.
Oops… I think I’ve stumbled on to the real motivation … that “paying” thing that stands between the woman and her wants.
Approximately ten percent of the population are habitual criminals and hooligans. Permanent separation would benefit the civilized ninety percent. Perhaps Israel can advise us regarding the construction of walls.
[ Removed. Inadvertently duplicated. ]
The deranged and evil consequences of “disparate impact” laws:
Do you discard job applications from people with criminal records? That’s racist!
“Sheetz Inc., which operates more than 700 stores in six states, discriminated against Black, Native American and multiracial job seekers by automatically weeding out applicants whom the company deemed to have failed a criminal background check”
David: you can make money as a benefactor of humanity:
A world map of locations in need of correction booths.
My shocked face.
It’s not the capturing that is the problem, it’s the retention. When/if (granted speculation here) they match a random retained face, or other biometric data, to a specific identity and that identity is innocent of any wrongdoing, if they retain that data, there’s a problem. I don’t know what/where the legal lines are drawn but there is considerable gray area that could be exploited. Especially given the lag time between what gets decided in some court case and what is actually implemented in the running code. Anyway, it’s Target. F ’em.
I think that’s exactly the point. Here’s someone else with an inexplicable fetish: https://twitter.com/WomenReadWomen/status/1781133048626679906
I saw a video a few months back of a psychologist reading a case study of a dude who had grown up in a home full of hoarders, where the garbage was piled high and he was devalued, such that he felt like a piece of garbage.
So when he grew up, being devalued like garbage became a turn-on (what is it with men?), so he decided to trans into a woman, because he wanted to be treated like trash. Which is what it means to be female, I guess.
What do you even do with that? Don’t we have the sense to look at disordered behavior and say, “dude, get help for that,” instead of congratulating ourselves for being tolerant of the intolerable?
Sorry, but fuck Illinois. I don’t care what happens to Target … I haven’t shopped there in years and never will. BUT I also know the value of surveillance video — be it dash cams, body cams OR retail cams.
Tape from multiple locations was crucial in putting that case together. I know, since it was prosecuted out of the DA office where I was Chief Clerk.
You have no expectation of privacy in public. HOW the information is handled and stored is definitely something to have strict guardrails around. But consider, convicted commercial burglars – even misdemeanor petty theft – have as a condition of probation “stay away” orders concerning the places they robbed. In the past, businesses kept mugshot books so security could identify someone that was barred from the store. Storage of video should be no different.
Bill Maher is still a smarmy creep, but he’s taken a few red pills lately.
The modern ethos, it seems, on pretty much every front.
If you habitually indulge the presumptuous and undeserving, the uninvited, and if you flinch at every gratuitous utterance of the word racist, the results will not be gratitude and harmony. Quite the opposite.
It would not, I think, occur to me to choose to relocate to a country, halfway across the world, whose language was utterly alien to me, and which I could not speak, at all, in even the most basic way. It certainly wouldn’t occur to me to then expect every other bugger to spend lots of their time and money accommodating my perversity, as if this were a right.
As if indulging me – my selfishness and lack of forethought – must obviously be worth the effort, and worth the wilful inconvenience to countless others. And while mouthing, or having others mouth, accusations that any failure to do so must be racist and atoned for publicly.
I suppose it’s the familiar pattern of activists and “community organisers” making their pet demographic seem less endearing and simultaneously expecting deference. Say, by demanding that others learn Congolese and its various sub-tongues, and demanding cuts to policing budgets in order to further accommodate the uninvited.
Again, I miss the concept of shame.
You could almost think of it as elaborate, socially-affirmed self-harm. Which it pretty much is.
I’m just going to leave this here, for no reason whatsoever.
Wouldn’t it be funny if the next time there’s a demonstration the police refuse to attend until those who might have been affected have submitted enough evidence of criminality for the DA to build a case? Imagine it taking a week – the cars all stacked up abandoned on the bridge, the protestors cemented into barrels slowly starving, the rest of San Franshitto moving on, and the police and the DA refusing to act first.
“No you need to bring me evidence of a crime before I can charge anyone”
“No you need to charge them with a crime before we can attend”
Yes. Agree. But the fine details, how those details are interpreted as defined in the law, or worse in the law made up by individual court cases as determined in various jurisdictions across the country is a minefield for whatever surveillance measures taken and thus nearly impossible for anyone designing and implementing such a system to keep up even if they want to*. This is how we got to lawfare. Were this some non-woke retailer I would be on the other side of the issue. And as you say as well, F Illinois. But Target has make serious, conscious effort to join the left in politics. Seeing them potentially get eaten by their own, considering that they are guilty of contributing to the degradation of the rule of law, they are getting what they deserve.
*Having worked in the biometrics business that developed systems for CJIS and FBI, looking back it was rather stunning how cavalier the attitudes toward privacy were just a dozen years ago or so relative to today. Myself included. Granted, big difference between what government can get away with relative to the private sector.
You’re face is not private. In what possible world could you demand that people forget what you look like?
Of course not. But it’s your face combined with your identity and the storage and retention of that information that creates the problem. Especially by a private business when they then turn that information over to the government. Of course we’re assuming that the law means anything to begin with here. We have blown through those guardrails long ago,
A typical New York liberal, it seems. At the very least, his popularity condemns liberals as similarly vile.
Speculation: People become comfortable with what they are used to, even if what they are used to is abuse and suffering, and as a result they cannot feel comfortable with healthy relationships and situations and keep returning to the abuse.
Speculation: These are profoundly ignorant people and it never occurred to them that they were heading for a land where nobody spoke their language and where the lingua franca was one they did not speak.
And what’s more, a land where literacy is vital and illiterates are essentially doomed.
I wonder what activists have been telling them. We know that numerous NGO’s are heavily involved in facilitating this “migration”. Might they be not just offering guidance and assistance but also promising a land of milk and honey eager to give them endless free stuff?
They do appear to have been encouraged to behave like an ungrateful, unwelcome houseguest.
Among the terms deployed are “respect” and “cultural competency challenges,” though both are seemingly directed only at the natives – and by extension, the taxpayer – not the new arrivals, many of whom are illiterate and in the country illegally. Illiterates whose very first act is to violate one of the country’s most fundamental laws.
Such quality material.
This:
Combine with this:
Exactly. These people from all over the world are not just suddenly thinking to themselves, “Gee, I think I might try to go to…MEXICO…first and then get to the USA”. They are not surviving first in Mexico and learning to get by in Spanish.
As this guy was clearly a threat to the huge pro Hamas demonstration I can see why Sergeant Plod threatened him with being arrested because he was being “quite openly Jewish”.
Right, the mere sight of a single kippah will turn this peace loving mob into a mostly peaceful mob and an offence under the Public Order Act.
“Quite openly Jewish”. Somewhere I suspect Oswald Mosley is laughing.
Speculation: These are profoundly ignorant people and it never occurred to them that they were heading for a land where nobody spoke their language…
Speaking of which, America’s BBC just makes up language…
Nothing says “inclusion” like
“affinity group”“segregation”.Not to slag on the Spam-No-Mor (Ausf. G)™ more than necessary, but as a heads up, it hangs on archive.(wherever) links.
[ Liberates comment, heads out for haircut. ]
Peaceful Brits must not become demonstrative in the face of Muslim aggression and violence, and must hide lest they offend Muslim immigrants invaders.
Will I get put on a government list if I speak of treason?
Monty Python comes to mind:
My money is they know submission by authorities to their demands is to be expected. Certainly they know they’ll receive government subvention before they start their journey.
You must not have much contact with high school graduates.
Middle school girls show more courage than many adults about this issue.
Quite. It’s perhaps unfair that the girls should have to do it, but there we are.
I’ve just discovered that the shot used by men is almost twice the weight of that used by women. Presumably, we’re supposed to believe that this is entirely arbitrary and not a reflection of any physical realities.
And in activist-wanker-caste news. Not entirely surprising to regulars, I suspect.
You stupid whites expect all Africans to speak the same language. Africa, the continent I voted with my feet to get out of, is a place of such rich cultural diversity that I need to cross-compile Burundian patois into Swahili just to speak to my uncle, and that isn’t even going to work for my aunt. You understand? No, of course you don’t understand. We don’t expect you to understand, we just expect you to pay me and my cousins a salary as translators and community advocates.
And you’re evil if you ever ask “What benefit do we get from importing this Tower of Babel?”, or “What benefit do we get from hiring the literate English speakers (we’re hardly talking about rocket scientists here) to funnel their illiterate countrymen through our system?”
[ Tries to muffle WrongThought klaxon with damp tea towel. ]
At the palestine protests there are open calls for genocide (“No Other Option” signs for example) and leftie whites go right along with it.
The difference between chants of Death to America and Death to Israel, is that there is not even the remotest chance of the first being carried out, but the second has been a close call in several wars in Israel. If the Arabs put their minds to it they could obliterate Israel in a few weeks.
A commentator on Fox pointed out that the BLM and current riots have common signage unrelated to the supposed issue, like calls to end capitalism and communist flags. The issue is not the issue, it is the excuse.
Littering: in suburban neighborhoods litter mostly has escaped during garbage pick up and people pick up anything on their own lawn. The city where I Iive has never sent a litter crew to pick up litter. We get a street sweeper once per year after leaf pick up. But of course the difference in litter is surely a sign of racism…by all my Indian and Chinese neighbors.
From the original thread:
And yet, somehow, this isn’t mentioned.
[T]he first suffragette arsonist and bomber.
Not just a Babel of languages. Also a Babel of cultures, which is a greater problem.
And you’re evil if you ever ask “What benefit do we get from importing this Tower of Babel?”,
The great irony of the Tower of Babel story is that God used DEI as a punishment.
Hilary Cass, the highly-regarded paediatrician who conducted the most thorough review ever undertaken on the medical evidence for transitioning gender-confused children has been advised not to travel on public transport for her own safety.
…because leftists and “trans” people are just as sane as normal people, right?
From fascism to kebabism in 100 years.
The platonic ideal of a trans activist post.
The complainers are Activists, not regular joes. For all we know, the migrants themselves understand perfectly well that the onus is on them to learn English.
Mental illness impedes your ability to impose order on your surroundings. Hoarders usually have some kind of trauma in their past, such as the death of a child, and it completely ruins the instinct to prevent junk from piling up. They can’t see it anymore — because they can’t cope with it — and so it just gets worse and worse.
Sometimes I have trouble confronting the little corners of chaos in my house. It’s not that there’s something I’d rather do, it’s that I can’t muster the mental energy to sort through stuff, make decisions, and toss what I truly don’t need. After awhile I “don’t see it” anymore.
I have maid service to keep the main areas of the house in reasonably good order, but there are plenty of places that need addressing that I can’t deal with. I’ll probably need to hire someone to help me organize — which means letting go of things that I can’t bring myself to toss out but that really don’t “spark joy” either.
From fascism to kebabism in 100 years.
We had a new Fish & Chip restaurant open near us last week. Can’t tell you how happy I was to see it. Most frequent new openings in no particular order are for ramen (noodles), shawarma (kebab sort of), and burritos. Oh, and we got our first Chick-fil-A and Jersey Mikes.
Littering: in suburban neighborhoods litter mostly has escaped during garbage pick up and people pick up anything on their own lawn.
I think that is mostly true. Yet, I’ve lived in some very nice (read expensive) neighbourhoods where there has always been at least one house where people let garbage accumulate. In our last neighbourhood, we called these residents “the piggy people. It would seem that the cheaper the neighbourhood, the higher the number of “piggy people” on the street. So I’m not sure what causes that. In the more expensive neighbourhoods, these people have been whyte and lived in the country their whole lives.
When I visited the “social” housing estate, the litter was the first thing I registered. The amount of it, its prevalence, was quite striking. And this was a housing estate, set back from the road, not some high-traffic commercial area with fast-food outlets everywhere. The nearest fast-food joint was a fifteen-minute walk away.