Friday Ephemera (735)
You first. || For the latest eye-colour fashion. || Fortresses, palaces and perched churches, a thread. || Could you survive a nanosecond on the Sun? || Well, really. || Make way. || Well, you would. || Namibian waterhole livestream. || How to climb volcanoes. || Will Newquay ban beatniks? || Is language dumbing down? || Our betters wring their hands. || Obligatory crotch grab. || Grooming scenes. || “I can’t even imagine what parent would buy this for their daughter, a child under five years old.” I can. || Incoming. || An excess of dramatic tension. || Help/hazard ratio. || Is your blue my blue? || How snakes move. || Atomic trampoline. Making one isn’t easy. || Today’s word is professionalism. || Sunfish of size. || And finally, from questions asked back in 1975: Are aliens abducting England’s dogs?
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At some point we’re going to have to do something about these Cluster B nightmares.
Looking for something that’s a lot like Instapundit but it isn’t Instapundit. Suggestions?
Try a purple wine gum to see. (Purple sweeties are always the best tasting)
A Greek influence? Poor man’s retsina
When the newcomers start eating your protected species.
If you raise this matter – say, at a public meeting – then you’re obviously a racist, a scandalously bad person, because “the real issue is racism, pure and simple.”
Not, say, manners.
Somewhat related to the above:
Why, yes, dear reader. She did.
I’m assuming something has happened…
The NeverTrumper-while-pretending-not-to-be-NeverTrumper thing. Had enough of it. Especially that Driscoll guy. Posts the same crap over and over. The comments on his posts have become overwhelmingly about how nobody likes him. Rarely have I seen such contempt by consumers for the product being offered. It’s really quite tiresome. The serious news posts are increasingly diluted by the pretend-NeverTrumper-loser-wannabe stuff, stuff about going to da moooooon and Maaaars and spaaaaaace, the weakly substantiated hottest health news. It’s becoming a joke. It’s a shame because on substantial issues, it’s a decent source. Mostly because picking through the (sometimes unhinged) comments, especially given the volume of them, I can rather quickly get multiple perspectives on a given story.
Low testosterone predicts leftist opinion.
Only a liberal could be so stupid as to think savages are virtuous just because they are suffering–and therefore invite those savages here to do their evil unimpeded.
One of my biggest complaints with the Catholic Church, of which I am a practcing member, is the attitude of some that somehow poverty = nobility and much leeway is given to people of that socioeconomic status, even when demostrating they are, in fact, mean and callous. And rabid grifters of charity.
For instance, an IQ in the 120’s – 130’s is needed to succeed in engineering.
There is some difficulty with that graph, it shows teachers between 110 and 125. As the current crop is incapable of “Gathers, infers own information” they should probably be 85-100 along with nurse’s aides and clerks.
That’s even crazier than the enthusiast who made it from Hawaiian Punch.
Don’t be knocking Pruno, h8r.
Ooh, this. I see some of that in the Appalachian protestant “conservative” churches as well. An aside, we went to a different Catholic Church the last three weeks(wife is Catholic). Last week the lectern guy or wth he’s called brought up
glowball warmingclimate change and how it is devastating the poor of the world. We’ll be doing Baptist this morning. The two known entity Methodist options being of the “conservative” protestant kind I describe above or the rainbow Methodist ilk.I’ve given my reality-TV-show pitch a post of its own.
Comments that-a-way.
I believe that is exactly the calculation. There is no virtue in the liberal/woke world except to be oppressed. This is the only way they themselves can be virtuous is to exclaim on behalf of the “oppressed”.
As to IQ, Jordan Peterson has some great videos on it. If one takes an individual responsibility view, each person can try to do the best with what they have. I could lament that I have no sports ability or I can play to my nerdy strengths (which is what I have done). The not so bright can do ok if they just stay out of jail. My local hispanic painters and yard guys make a decent wage. If, however, you have a view that only cosmic justice is allowed, that all must end up equally rewarded by life, then infinite resentment and redistribution (ie theft) are the order of the day.
Low testosterone=progs
This matches with the data that lifting weights turns you conservative. The reason for low T in my view is that no one gets any exercise these days. Exercise increases your T.
Academic cheating in China: my one data point is my visit to a uni in China 25 yrs ago, my hosting prof proudly showed me his book that was a straight-up translation into Chinese of an american text which he then put his name on. It was also common practice to make copies of US software and distribute them–just pay for 1 copy for 100 people. In a university.
China is “a one copy country” as my employer said over 30 years ago.
To be fair, there is some disagreement over the reliability of that data. But I do find it plausible from my non-biologist point of view.
Some of the leftists I’ve known worked out regularly, but not many as I recall.
And of course we’re talking here about tendencies. Those overlapping bell curves again.
AND if they are not constantly prey to criminals who are never locked up.
One way to help the poor is to increase their security by putting away the criminals and the anti-social punks.
See also the deep thoughts of, again, Zoe Williams.
It’s a pity I can’t IM her each morning with my daily exercise.
I exercise more today than I did ten years ago, but I don’t think I’ve gotten more conservative. On the other hand, in relative terms I have because the liberals I used to know have moved farther to the left, often loony left.
This black racist scrunt should be denied all the protections afforded by the police, the courts, and the laws of the United States. All.