Reheated (99)
For newcomers, some items from the archives:
Romantic complications of a very modern kind.
To which, Mags adds, “He she didn’t use her his pronouns.” Indeed. A notable omission. One that results in finger-wagging from fellow Reddit forum regulars: “You do have to respect that SHE is the expert on her own gender, not you.”
It’s a bold claim. Despite which, the person being scolded – a woman who expects to be taken seriously as a man – can’t bring herself to take seriously as a woman her own male partner. There’s no she or her, just a grudging them. Which does rather cast some doubt on the broader enterprise.
It’s Trivial When The Victim Is Someone Who Isn’t Me.
Habitual car theft is a “victimless” crime, says Nora the socialist.
Assistant professor wants to censor the “violent” language of astronomy.
It’s all terribly oppressive – for the implausibly faint of heart, I mean. And should a colleague carelessly refer to a planet being stripped of its ozone layer by a catastrophic gamma-ray burst, this is obviously “misogynistic language” and a basis for the sternest of hands-on-hips chiding.
At which point, readers may wish to ponder whether the best people to be doing astronomy, or teaching astronomy, or to be making workplace rules for astronomers, are the kinds of people who mouth dogmatic assertions without any trace of supporting logic, and who are distracted, even distressed, by hearing the word collision being used to describe a collision.
Consider this an open thread. Share ye links and bicker.
‘Modern’ as in ‘totally cuckoo’?
Well, simply holding up a mirror, literally and figuratively, does seem to cause an awful lot of bother. And if initiates, those on the inside, can’t follow the rules, what chance do the rest of us have?
Still chuckling at the claim that “drag queen is a look,” a valid ambition, and viable romantic bait.
Can’t say I’m getting a tingle.
Boss title.
Thank you. It does, I think, tickle the nub of it.
I think someone should check his hard drive.
Dr Madrid does seem oddly animated by these things, breathlessly so. To a degree one might find eyebrow-raising. And then there’s his urge to exert control over people and what they may say, to infantilise grown adults and make them submit to his own weird preoccupations. There is, I think, some unhappy psychology in play.
As I said in the original thread, I’ve seen umpteen astronomy documentaries in which a white dwarf star cannibalises its neighbour, or in which reference is made to a gamma-ray burst stripping away the ozone layers of any habitable planets in its path; but any lurid sexual connotations – and thus somehow a pretext for the word “misogynistic” – have not been foremost in my mind.
But hey, maybe that’s just me.
You may have found a bouncer for this place.
If anyone’s getting aroused by this thread, I’m upping the price of the drinks.
[ Starts compiling Friday’s Ephemera. ]
Speaking of Ms. “Go ahead and steal cars,” she’d like to see the manager:
I would guess Dear Nora is annoyed by many unremarkable things. As opposed to habitual thieving, of course, which she merrily dismisses as of no importance.
Because, again, it’s being done to someone else.
Not going spelunking back down that thread but unless car insurance is significantly different in Canada, and thus Canadians pay a hell of a lot more for car insurance, the victims do not “get new cars”. Even if their car that was stolen was brand new, they aren’t getting anywhere near the same quality vehicle, let alone a “new” car.
I think he’s anticipating his charge sheet.
Matthew 23:24 comes to mind.
I’m still pondering Dr Madrid’s claim that,
Again, given the unequal distribution of interest, aptitude, and cognitive wherewithal, one might wonder why. No answer is offered, of course. The question is simply begged, along with so much else.
But I very much doubt that mathematics departments or fine art courses, or drama schools, or hairdressing courses, “reflect the composition of our society,” and I see no reason why they should. So why should astronomy departments? Why is it something astronomers should strive for, seemingly at the expense of other, more obvious duties?
How else is Madrid to advance in his career? Surely you don’t expect him to demonstrate any aptitude or merit.
Dr Madrid’s implication that female astronomy students, and especially female astronomy students who happen to be brown, will somehow be emotionally devastated by hearing the words collision or stripped uttered with regard to astronomical phenomena is, to say the least, a tad fanciful.
And not unlike the claim, aired here by Ricardo Rocha, that would-be botanists and biologists are in some way being psychologically injured by the fact that much of the “flora of New Caledonia” is “named after a man.”
These people should be chased away with brooms and chair legs.
Shotguns loaded with bacon rinds & rock salt.
I just got back from Houston and somehow managed to not be offended by this lake
The brooms and chair legs would be on fire, obviously.
*A Failure to Affirm*
All this, as if in every human language, from pre-history onward, pronouns for human beings have not been bifurcated for *sex*.
It’s one thing to come up with an occasional use of the pronouns based on “gender”, and another to try to annihilate the core meaning of basic words of every human language.
It’s pretty much what that one Newspeak Dictionary character from 1984 was trying to do—in annihilating words to try to kill the concepts behind them. And ultimately to make dissent unthinkable.
It’s the same deal for the race militants. They are trying to wipe out the meaning of “racism”. So it no longer refers to race-hate, bigotry or theories of racial superiority, but any rejection of hard-core CRT. (And black people can’t be racist!)
It’s the same deal for activists for whom your speech is “violence”, and even your “silence is violence”.
It’s all part of a larger project.
Oh, and in Thing-That-Never-Happens news.
As if putting the blasted things up wasn’t.
*via Weasel Times & Stoat Intelligencer
…injured by the fact that much of the “flora of New Caledonia” is “named after a man.”
Wait till they find out who named New Caledonia* after what.
*(Not to be confused with Caldonia)
“As no other plaques were targeted in the area, we can sadly only assume that the theft is targeted and racially motivated.”*
Whoa, you can’t put anything over on the Sussex Police Rural Crime Team, I figured the alleged perp used an entrenching tool and a backhoe.
England, I guess not being on the globe, only someone who, or whose ancestors, came from Cameroon or the Punjab can have a deep connection with (rereads) the Sussex countryside.
There you have it, it was the no oil freaks what done it innit.
I cannot countenance these cretins. It’s my position that if they want to ennoble the savage barbarians that their ancestors encountered in their explorations, then they should hie themselves off to those shores themselves, to live among them.
You want to know why so few boys engage with their schooling, why they won’t read books? It’s because all they’re presented with is this sort of demoralizing claptrap, telling them that their ancestors and their kind are evil and destructive, while simultaneously raising up the enemies of their ancestors as being somehow nobler, despite their barbaric customs and conduct.
Not to mention, most of the crap they’re offered up instead of Shakespeare is insipid vile work, unfit for much of anything besides serving as lining for the family birdcage.
You’ll be pleased to know that New York City has completed solved its jaywalking problem.
Jaywalking laws are racist, because blacks cannot be expected to obey laws.
@Darleen and pst314, who said:
The next step in this stupidity? Traffic and drivers are racist, because more blacks get hit by cars and trucks they walk in front of…
Blacks do not suffer the natural consequence of their actions, because “racism”. Which converts every inevitable outcome of their idiotic behavior into something that can be blamed on racism.
Inevitably, enough of them will be killed off by their own stupidity that it will effect change in the gene pool. It’ll take awhile, but it will happen: They’ll adapt to the environment and stop crossing streets. By which point, another hazard will present itself…
But non-blacks will be punished for hitting jaywalking blacks–punished by criminal law, personal lawsuit, and on-the-spot mob violence.
Via Coderdyne: Solidarity with Children: An Essay Against Adult Supremacy.
@dicentra: People do get arrested for DUI when riding a horse home from the pub.
I believe the rationale is that a drunk should not be giving directions to a horse.
I have a friend who would ride her horse to her local bar. The horse knew the way home so, according to her, as long as you don’t touch the reins and let the horse wander home, they can’t bust you. This was in quasi-rural Florida so YMMV.
Interesting. But YMMV sounds right: People have gotten arrested for DUI merely for getting into their cars while drunk. Sprawling in the back seat, even.
@pst314, who said:
Their own damn fault for living in proximity to blacks, I fear. Evolution will take place, as nature demands, and the white population will tend to select for whites that won’t live around blacks. The ones who will tolerate that environment will wind up subsumed into the population of blacks, and take on all their pathologies.
It is rather hard not to become a social Darwinist, when one examines the evidence.
The Evidence
But that means not just black neighborhoods but downtowns and entertainment/shopping districts. Not to mention out-of-towners who don’t know what routes to avoid when driving across town.
I’d classify that as an ape giving an opinion.
@WTP and pst314,
The laws on just what constitutes a DUI vary so widely from jurisdiction to jurisdiction that it’s not even funny. What is legal there, is not legal here, and so forth.
I can’t wait to see all the tortured legal theory coming out of self-driving cars. Will it be a DUI to get in one and tell it to take you home?
Who is liable if the drunken sot giving instructions to the AI in such a vehicle does that in a manner which results in misadventure or death?
This is precisely why you will never, ever see flying cars. Imagine the outcomes of poor maintenance, impaired driving, and raw physics? Would you like a nice 200mph collision with your home, due to someone’s idiocy?
They bring that crap in, I foresee a huge market in suburban bunkers. The average home won’t fare well when someone the size/cargo capacity of a modern automobile is dropped into it from height.
@pst314,
You can work out the implications as well as I can. There will either be a reckoning, and blacks learn to conduct themselves as everyone else does, or there will be a great separation. They’ll be ostracized, at the least, driven out and/or slaughtered at worst.
Won’t be the white man doing it, either. As one of my pissed-off Mexican junior NCOs once told several of his less-than-stellar black subordinates, when the Mexicans are running things, things will be different. As in, most of the blacks will either be dead or they’ll be in prison doing hard labor; welfare won’t be a “thing” when it is Hispanic taxpayers and voters deciding who gets what. Only the whites are dumb enough to play that game…
Paraphrased, that’s pretty much exactly what he meant. The blacks did not like it; I had them come complaining to me about racism, and I directed them towards the EO channels to make the complaint. No idea how that actually went, but the issue was dropped… The Army EO system has no idea how to handle minority-on-minority racism and abuse. For that system, the only racism that exists is white-on-everyone-else, and nothing outside of that even fits the definition.
The next step in this stupidity? Traffic and drivers are racist…
That ship is already well over the horizon…and I believe has been visited here before.
Evolution in action?
Note:
It’s not horrific when it’s influencers.
@Kirk: DUI laws and black crime: You’ll get no argument from me. Only lamentation at the decent people being harmed and at what society may end up as. Don’t bother to ask me what punishment traitors deserve.
A quote I posted earlier this year is pertinent to black criminality:
Given that the black crime rate is 4 or more times the white crime rate, I speculate that we could adjust the above numbers upwards significantly for blacks.
This is my favorite crime-scene detail ever. Imagine the propriety of such a vandal who wishes to remove Artifacts of Wokeness from a nature trail and yet doesn’t want the hardware to be misplaced.
Also, you have to admire the emperor-level trolling.
In the 1890s? I’m thinking the discussion was a total anachronism.
Also, DUI on a horse seems really dumb. Horses have horse sense, QED.
I was talking only about very recent years. I strongly doubt anyone was getting arrested in the 1890’s.
“As no other plaques were targeted in the area, we can sadly only assume that the theft is targeted and racially motivated.”
The installation of the plaques is racially motivated, based on a racial assertion that Britain belongs to Africans, and targeting whites to remind them that there is no time and no place when Africans shouldn’t be in their consciousness: here we are on a lake or a moor or a down or a fell, but is it moral for us to be here where there might not even be an African within a mile, and can we truly experience or understand this place until an African explains it to us?
One of the original contributions of English heritage organizations was to remove tacky and intrusive signage but here they are inserting signage that nobody was asking for, signage demanding that people take their phone out and scan a QR code so that miles into the wilderness they can listen to the sort of blackety-black they’d get by switching on the TV at home.
@dicentra, who said:
Not to be offensive, but I can tell you’ve never spent much time around horses. Horse sense generally consists of spooking at cobwebs and things that have been in their stalls for year. The more rarefied the breed, the less damn sense.
As well, out here in the West, you have a lot of folks still using the horse for work. They go on a bar-crawl with the horse, and… Yeah. DUI. Justifiably so, because no matter how much horse sense the horse might have, it’s still going to do what the rider tells it to, and that may mean wandering out into traffic.
There’s a case I read about a few years ago where someone was drunk, rode their horse out into traffic, and the resultant accident killed the occupants of the car, the horse, and the sole survivor was the drunken idiot that rode the horse out into the roadway. He was charged with DUI, manslaughter, animal cruelty, and a couple of other things they came up with. Most of the community felt that he should have gotten the death penalty just for the horse…