Friday Ephemera (740)
It’s a big, deep funk machine. || “But you can’t be drooling,” said the cross-dressing pervert. || Apocalypse digs. || Callers in the night. || It has 140,000 neurons. || Neptune. || Incoming. || Outgoing. || Daring escape. || Garden seat of note. || Theremin sink. || Yours for £575,000. || Flyless. || Hefty cuts. || Hinges of note. || Those runaway Honda blues. || “I’m riding a bike, I have more rights than you.” Cause and context. || Hers is bigger than yours. || Questionable covers of 80s synth pop, including a steel-band version of Gary Numan’s Cars, and a soul version of Eurythmics’ Sweet Dreams. || Pick a percentage. || Well, yes, people died, but what about her stuff? || Amsterdam’s transport revolution, 1974. || Today’s word is modernity. || And finally, in comparison, how was your day?
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these declarations are thoroughly totalitarian and ultimately destructive of civilization.
https://archive.is/zJsEX#Flight%20of%20the%20Cadgers
“I want everyone to know I’m offended by everything.”
I love it that the driver’s ticket was dismissed thanks to his dash cam, and the cyclist was ticketed and fined for disorderly conduct.
(x-posted from my post on x): Remember that nutjob in San Francisco in Dec. 2022 who had a meltdown because a fire dept. ambulance was parked in the bike lane and the driver was on break? Quote from her “They’re killing us.” Repeated several times.
And I know this because I just consulted the copy I managed to get of her video, with her voice rising almost to the point where only dogs could hear it.
Is that dog how they power Teslas?
I thought it was skittles s******* unicorns.
You learn something new every day.
And unable to do simple arithmetic, or to read the safety instructions on their own equipment. “Diverse” firefighters who struggle with questions about whether it’s acceptable to steal money from the people being rescued.
Progress, comrade. Onwards to the future.
I believe the camera itself steals the soul,
NGL, when I engage in a little street photography, I view it as adding to my collection.
See? I told you she’s a sorceress.
Who cares what it is? Let’s steal it!
Ikea hardest hit, apparently.
Pertinent but prohibited observation.
“as her male attacker smashed her head against the concrete repeatedly”
A trans version of Trayvon Martin, but without getting what Trayvon got and deserved.
Banter between two old friends.
Useful tip from Control-a-Cat LLC.
Rights impose no obligation beyond forbearance on others.
‘Rights’, such as those demanded by the UN, are a way to re-impose serfdom on the cheap.
@pst314, ‘hold’. Or that was the intent. I’d misremembered something & by the time I realised that it was too inconvenient to change things.
But, but, did they mis-gender anyone?
And they’ll be the aristocracy, looking down their noses at us as they ride by.
That’s how communists see themselves.
If you’re not suspicious of the Americans who signed on to these transnational documents, you’re not paying attention…or you’re on the other side.
It’s the actions (and inaction) of the purported adults that shocks.
The perfect Midwest Halloween costume doesn’t exis—
Haut couture in the Midwest.
Our betters, caring.
Smiling at their triumph.
Lock them in a plexiglass cube (the sort favoured by magicians), add Dermestids, & let the fun begin.
I can’t imagine what mortal force would make me attend a lesbian and gay conference – I’d be gnawing through the ropes in an attempt to escape the tedium. But when spiteful little bitches try to stop people from even talking to each other by releasing crickets throughout the venue – creating a mess that someone else will have to spend hours cleaning up – then those spiteful little bitches should lose some teeth.
As a reminder to behave.
How about branding them on both cheeks with marks identifying them as outlaws who may be assaulted with impunity?
Taking a break from jokes about UK-vs-USA food/customs/culture.
Playing the knockout game, but with automobiles.
We shoot mad dogs.
Author Larry Correia, who lives in that area, weighs in.
As noted here not too long ago, if you were to suggest that a significant number of motorists are aggravating and inconsiderate, or just too stupid to drive safely, this would be unlikely to provoke much denial from other motorists, who doubtless spend a fair amount of time faced with this unhappy reality. But to suggest that many cyclists are also aggravating and inconsiderate, and sometimes dangerous, is more likely to result in denial – often quite indignant denial – from other cyclists.
As if simply being a cyclist were the measure of a person’s virtue.
But if I suddenly became aware that I was needlessly delaying and frustrating large numbers of people, and had been doing so for some time, I would most likely be embarrassed – and apologetic. Say, if I and my companions were cycling two- or three-abreast on a country road with a 60mph speed limit, resulting in a long backlog of traffic, many dozens of cars, with drivers unable to safely overtake and therefore being forced to travel at barely a third of that 60mph. Without acknowledgement and for long stretches of time.
I don’t think the scenario above, which hereabouts is common, is something about which I could be, at best, indifferent or, as is often the case, visibly self-satisfied.
That level of sadistic sociopathy, at such a young age, suggests a “problem” which is incurable.
Re my previous, I should add that I have seen considerate cyclists who, for instance, wave backlogged traffic past them when they see a safe opportunity. On two occasions I recall, the group of cyclists actually stopped and moved over to allow the jam to clear. A jam they’d created, but still.
But this is more of a pleasant surprise than a typical experience.
The only adult male in the room is the drag queen.
@David, who commented:
Yeah… That covers a lot of ground, that does.
What’s actually going on with these people is a mental disorder that really ought to be in the DSM. I’d call it “Imperative Histrionic Performative Virtue Signaling Syndrome”: The people with this disorder feel forced to demonstrate and impose what they see as their own virtue on others, particularly those they feel superior to or who they view as transgressing against the forces of virtue.
You could observe this very same syndrome across much of Europe, back during the religious wars. Ask the Cathars how they felt about all the “virtue” they had poured upon them…
Today’s version of the “virtuous” are creatures like this Peacock freak and wotshername, the little school dropout from Sweden: They just know they’re right, about everything, and feel like they’ve the right to force their views on everyone else.
You see little Greta, the dummy who can’t do school, but who knows better than everyone else? You’re looking at Joan of Arc, modern times version. It’s demonstrative faith, weaponized.
As well as utterly irrational.
Every time you see one of these people? You’re witnessing unhoused and untreated mental illness. Behave accordingly; I’d advise having weapons to hand, and dealing with them appropriately.
What’s really amusing is that the understanding I have of what Mr. Peacock did, under Utah state law, entitled his victim to presume mortal threat. Once he opened that car door, he could have been shot down like a dog for what he did.
I had a run in with someone like this, once upon a time. Total idiot, had no idea what he was doing or how it would look to a police officer or judge. I informed him of what he’d essentially enabled, and that if I were to respond as I was authorized by law, he’d be killed in front of the family he was showing off for. Bit of a shock, that was… And, when the sheriff’s deputy he summoned upon hearing that from confirmed the fact, once having the circumstances explained…? It was amusing to observe the ego-deflation.
There is something fundamentally wrong with these people, and they are dangerous. Respond appropriately.
Am Yisrael Chai.
A curious observation: Like many others, I saw a jump in careless, reckless, and aggressive driving during/after the COVID panic. But I also saw a jump in careful and courteous driving, a jump which persists to this day. When I am out for my hour-long morning walk, I will often encounter drivers at an intersection who hang back almost ostentatiously to show I am free to cross safely, even when they clearly have the right of way in which case I must wave them though to show I respect their rights.
…I wonder if I would see a different pattern if I lived in the city rather than a rather pleasant suburb.
Why you’re supposed to get well away.
In the current election in US, the dems are doing some very strange things.
1) In a bid to attract male voters, Obama is calling black men to be “man enough” to vote for a black woman. In very snarky, condescending terms.
2) In bid to attract “real men” (ie straight conservatives) they chose as one spokesman a black african who is bisexual and does porn. In another they chose a metrosexual (too hip and stylish, though supposedly straight)
3) Widmer, the gov of Michigan, gave “communion” with a dorito to a young woman who was acting all sexy, thus insulting Catholics and some other groups who do communion.
They can’t help insulting people in spite of claiming they want everyone to vote for them.
Or they’re doing it on purpose knowing the fix is in & whether people actually vote for them or not is of no consequence.
@ccscientist, who said:
Alternatively, they don’t realize that what they’re doing is insulting in any way.
There’s a term out there: TWANLOC, which stands for Those Who Are No Longer Our fellow Citizens. This construct gets to the heart of the actual problem, which is that the people behind these ads and actions have sailed into the sunset, away from us, and no longer consider themselves as either bound by the rules we are, or as members of our community. They’re superior, enlightened beings, above we remaining plebeian sorts.
Ever tried talking to one of these characters? Actually sat down with them? They’re all like those sanctimonious college sophomores, come home for the holidays, who see themselves as missionaries to the “Great Unwashed”. Their enlightenment has taken them to a sublime and perfect plane of existence, above everyone else.
Basically, they bought into the bullshit they were being sold. Just like the Maoist Red Guards, they’ve become doctrinaire ideologists, and will likely never wake up.
The funny thing about it all is that we’re paying for it, in so many ways. The universities were captured by the ideologues starting back in the 1960s, and they have been pumping these intellectual poisons into the body politic ever since. At some point, we’re going to have to face the fact that there’s no coming back from this, and that deprogramming these people isn’t going to happen. It’s going to have to be a wholesale slaughter, because they won’t ever admit to any form of error and back down; you want the country back? Most of these creatures are going to have to die, first… Because, they’re not about to “give it back”, believing that they’ve rightfully captured it. They’re like Islam; once it’s taken over once, it is theirs forever.
Smartest thing our ancestors could have done would have been to declare war on Russia back when the various Nihilist movements were getting started, and then wiped the entire country off the face of the earth. So much grief has come from that uniquely Russian madness, which infected all forms and varieties of socialism. Not to mention, the very measures made necessary by their intentional madness lead to exactly the repression that never existed before they made it necessary.
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I always read that as Those Who Are No Longer Our Countrymen.
Did you know that intelligentsia is a term of Russian origin, and in order to qualify as a member of that class you couldn’t just be intelligent and educated, you also had to be a political extremist?
How fucking fucked up do things need to get? Western civilization is an absolute fucking disgrace. The victim got a…FIVE DAY suspension…for fighting? Because again, as has been said by the fucking idiots that we let run our absolute disaster of an…EDUCATION system, “All fighting is wrong” and “It doesn’t matter who started it”. This didn’t happen overnight. This same bloody tiresome shit has been going on for half a century now at least. It’s just been amplified by the passivity of us in the face of our so-called betters. WTF that father hasn’t beaten the living shit out of the principal and every one of those worthless idiots who did the least they possibly could to stop that psycho is itself a disgrace. In any remotely decent society, the pictures of that girl’s swollen face should have brought this society of morons to a come-to-Jesus moment. But no. Nah, bro. That would be overreaction. Wrong. Not be prudent at this juncture. Not the hill to die on. George Floyd tho, bro. Not that similar shit hasn’t happened before this and nothing effective, nothing significant was done. Which is why this idiotic shit continues to happen. Because our “smart” people, like doctors and shit, will tell you ignorant morons that that guy in a wig is really, truly, honestly really a girl. Swearzies. It’s true. And the dumb stupid morons, especially, most especially, the dumb, stupid women, believe it.
This thing too. It’s not “courteous driving”, it’s a default position of passivity. What you are seeing has nothing to do with courtesy nor driving. It’s much more broadly a function of the feminization, and thus the humiliation of western civilization. If that sounds ridiculous to you, you are part of the problem.
Look around you in the US in this month of October. Any specific color jumping out at you? It ain’t the color of the leaves. It’s infused even into high school football games. The feminization of our culture. And men, manly men, men with beards who look like the manly man character opposite the NPC character in the numerous memes, those bearded manly men sit there and pretend that what is being shoved in their faces is not actually happening. They certainly don’t object to it. Not in any meaningful way. Call them pussies and they will show you what manly men they are. But dress up like girls and beat the shit out of their daughters, chop the dicks off their sons? Well, best not to overreact.
I believe he’s called “giga Chad.”
Well giga Chad is a fraud. All beard, no balls. Not for anything important anyway. If he were anywhere near as ubiquitous as his memes, principals across this country would be too afraid to collect their paychecks.
Apparently the attacker had recently begun taking…ESTROGEN injections. Because of course. Explains so much more.
https://www.themainewire.com/2024/10/trans-student-had-history-of-sexual-harassment-prior-to-assault-biting-attack-that-left-maine-girl-concussed-vision-impaired/
Added: To be clear, I do not fault the trans student in this situation. I fault every worthless f’ing adult, except of course the (likely less educated and lower IQ) bus driver, involved. The doctors and medical staff that administered the injections, the medical system that approves of it, the AMA and every doctor who tolerates the AMA, the school system, the principal, the other staff involved, every teacher who tolerated this student’s behavior in the past without strong objection, this student’s parents, the student’s parents friends who were aware of what was going on…I dunno…probably a couple hundred more people but not the psycho kid. Even he deserved better treatment than what he has gotten.
The streets of Europe will run red with blood! There are over 5000 full size pickup trucks now registered in all of Europe. Have they learned nothing from the carnage from the 15,000+ in tiny Rhode Island alone?
4 tons lighter is “almost” I guess, but an E Class Mercedes exterior dimensions (except height) are actually larger than a Nazi Panzer I (a Nazi Panzer I being much worse than a ROC Panzer I) . What would we do without the
hysteriadeep dive research of journalists?That old chestnut – because children and pedestrians suddenly pop up de novo inches away from the front of a truck and you didn’t hit the luckless bastard because you were fiddling with your phone or otherwise woolgathering.
I will grant that a truck (or even an E Class) is harder to maneuver on streets built in the dark ages, but you will be surprised to learn our author (the Guardian’s European Environment Correspondent) thinks that wanting a truck or SUV makes you both selfish and responsible for the climate collapse that has been imminent for the last 60+ years.
Heh.™ Indeed.™
Although there are neighborhoods in many cities which I would not want to venture into without an armored vehicle of some sort. 3 mm of armor, gun ports, and a remotely operated turret. Oh–also armored run-flat tires and grenade launchers.
“Selfish” is a favorite accusation of the far left. It is sometimes dressed up in subtler, or intellectualized language, but the root is always a desire to exert total control.
‘Cause only pussies show courtesy to strangers. Real men are maximally aggressive at all times.
Yes. That’s exactly what I said. Did it trigger you? Or do you aspire to be triggered? It shows how good and sensitive you are, the triggering.
Just to be clear…
I noticed this as well. It is annoying AF when you are walking a dog, but even just walking. Approach an intersection in a suburban setting and drivers will grind to a halt, virtually insisting that you cross in front of them. It’s of course at that instant that the dog decides he needs to pee on something. This “courtesy” causes unnecessary confusion and is potentially more dangerous. If you have the right-of-way, for God’s sake take it. Depending on where the sun is, on window tint, on any number of other factors sometimes your waving at people cannot be seen. It’s a passive-aggressive pussy play. Moist, 150 lbs, even 400 lbs. pedestrians should always yield to 2000 lbs automobiles and their momentum. They used to teach this stuff in kindergarten.
So . . . the estrogen made him do it.
And never, ever applicable to themselves.
You’re just an asshole with a touch of psychopathy looking for a fight with virtually everyone.
I will now resume not engaging with you.
Maybe. Maybe not. It wouldn’t surprise me if that put him over the edge but either way, and it does bother me somewhat to say so as I believe in agency, he’s a kid. And his head, and much else, has been messed with by adults. Lots and lots of adults were in a position to help him but instead, out of their own moral preening, chose to destroy him and/or create an environment like this one. But hey, don’t take my word for it. Apparently I just might be a psychopath.
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Somebody needs to take the stick out of WTP’s butt. It’s clearly been there long enough to start causing issues.
“Apparently I might just be a psychopath” – re-read your own comments on this thread and then see if your sarcasm is really so misplaced.
In reference to the discussed item, namely the young she/he/it that beat up the girl, I’d like to suggest that the proximate cause for this crap is one thing and one thing only: Big pharma. Also, the blissful ignorance with which we’ve been pumping hormonal analogs into our environment and bodies over the last sixty-odd years.
I think there’s definitely “something in the water”, these days. I look around, and all I see are young men who seem to be testosterone-deficient, and I have to wonder if my prejudiced perceptions might not be accurate.
Aside from the health issues, consider the effect on their minds: You’ve taken a growing organism that relies on hormonal signals at the right time in order to properly mature. Disrupt those; what happens? Are you surprised that there are mental health issues?
Now factor in the intentional disruption of those delicately-balanced hormonal signals and brain chemistry, via the good offices of random dosages of psychoactive substances, effectively at random. We really don’t know what the hell a lot of SSRI drugs actually do; we’re essentially whacking on the side of the machine with a great big hammer, and looking for positive results. Are you surprised when the results are violent? Insane?
None of this crap should be administered outside carefully controlled 24-hour clinical conditions. Putting people who’ve been dosed with this crap out in the public sphere is a criminal act, and the doctors responsible should be sued into oblivion for doing it.
I’ve been around people who were being treated for PTSD with the usual range of psychoactives. They didn’t tell the rest of us what was going on, because “privacy”, and the way they did it was basically “OK, here’s 5mg of this, to take three times a day… Try that for a few weeks, get back to us…”
Usual course of this would be everyone else in that individuals space going “WTF happened to Fred? He’s acting nuts all of a sudden…”
Then, they’d reevaluate, based totally on Fred’s reported perceptions of how it affected him, and maybe try something else. Then it’d be “F*ck… When did Fred become a narcoleptic zombie…?”
Rinse, repeat, until they found something that they thought worked. Meanwhile, Fred’s leadership is processing him for misconduct, because he assaulted someone while in his chemical haze, and beat up his wife, who left him…
None of this crap ought to be administered outside a clinical setting with full monitoring going on. The free-form experimentation on people who are out in public should be completely illegal, especially since “the public” often becomes unwitting victims of this medical experimentation.
Nuremberg outlawed medical experimentation on subjects who didn’t have informed consent. I say that ought to be extended out into the rest of the community that the subject is a part of: We should not be victimized by such medical experiment, modifying the chemistry of the human brain. Fred’s got a problem? Do the work on Fred in private, away from other people. He sure as hell shouldn’t be in public, driving a car, with access to weapons and everything else. If his mental state is such that you need to be working on it with chemicals? He shouldn’t be out in public until you get things figured out and working properly. Then, you should be required to tell everyone that Fred needs his meds on schedule, in order to function.
I don’t recall the name of the drug that was prescribed for Jordan Peterson, but it was only some time after his terrible reaction to stopping/reducing the dosage that such a problem became part of the medical literature for that drug.
We have huge numbers of drugs which with little or no long-term study of the effects, especially since the primary attention tends to be for serious effects rather than more subtle ones.
And then there is the problem of prescribing drugs and/or psychotherapy for problems best dealt with through behavioral counseling. (Shy and tongue-tied? Instead of years of psychotherapy on a couch, coaching to practice techniques to do things better and to slowly get past fears.)
And what about hormone-mimicking chemicals? I won’t claim to know much, but I do wonder about long term exposure to low levels of estrogen-like chemicals.)
Not really a catapult.
This is a popular copout IMNSHO. I believe the testosterone deficiency we are seeing is a direct result of the wussification (better?) of our culture. Boys need to engage in physical activity and especially physically aggressive sport. It doesn’t have to be martial arts or such but at least football, rugby, wrestling, hockey, even basketball, baseball, or soccer. Anything that triggers the physical fear factor to some degree. Sport that at least involves running into each other. Over the last half century or so fewer and fewer boys seem to be engaging in those sports. And I say this as a guy who only played those sports in pickup games, if that. While I played a good bit of pickup basketball, I wish I had done some football or wrestling. And started those much younger. I believe those sports, even if you’re not very good at them, even for a smaller guy, they help focus the mind and body for the real world and make for a stronger pool of stronger, more mentally serious men.
Agree 100% on this tho. Young people who require this degree of medical intervention should not be in the general population of young people. Mostly agree in regard to adults as well but there’s likely more wiggle room. Definitely defer to experts, assuming you can find any sane ones in that domain.
Full size American trucks are simply impractical on the streets of Europe. Aside from a few enthusiasts, it’s just not gonna happen, any more than rural America took to the Fiat 500.
They’ve been very popular for years in the Scottish highlands and islands, mind you. I’d imagine much of Scandinavia’s the same. Bloke who used to live along the street from me imported them. But usually from Australia, because RHD. I’d swear he drove a Holden-badged Silverado in the ’90s, but according to Wikipedia Holden was selling Isuzus back then, not Chevies. Definitely a Silverado, though.