Friday Ephemera (748)
Interspecies attraction of note. || The oxygen tank is, I suppose, an innovative touch. || Not new, but evergreen. Related. || At last, drinkable mayonnaise. || More adventures in modernity. || “How can anything made of matter be that cold?” || Bold artistic breakthrough. || The litter bins of Disneyland. || The chair bodgers of the Chilterns, 1950. || Hercules. || At last, sewing machine techno. || Unauthorised parking anthropology. (h/t, Elephants Gerald) || The progressive retail experience, parts 599, 600, 601, and 602. || Oh, winter wonderland. || Swimwear. || When your foot’s hard on the brakes, but your car won’t stop, and you’re heading towards a lake, while pregnant. || Free at last. || Sweet potato, sharp knife. || The tomb of Queen Nefertari. || And finally, an uncanny deduction.
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Recent essay of note:
Apparently, the Bluesky app is now being dubbed BlueHair.
Because this is her pinned tweet:
Heh.
From the link:
“Obedient.”
He’s got a very good point:
To shift into neutral, yes. But to shift into third or second? Need the clutch.
Up or down, slip shifting, not recommended, but useful, as in my case, when the clutch master went out while on an Interstate.
“Who are you, you who are so wise in the ways of science?”
“Wrong gas station,” they said, in a matter-of-fact way.
Excellence in public schooling – and its enemies. Because admissions tests – and any attempt to fathom academic competence – are “racist” and “a continuation of white supremacy.”
But remember, you mustn’t ever mention that standard deviation.
The first step in creating a high-trust society is to remove those who make it a low-trust society. Permanently.
Er, what?
Is His Majesty’s government perverting the course of justice? I certainly looks that way.
Less messy just to eat the soy beans.
Umm . . . kinda?
It should be noted Dicentra was quoting & therefore not responsible for the poorly constructed sentence on display.
That was my entire point.
I sometimes have difficulty deciding who are more evil: street thugs, islamo-nazis, or our own deep state.
Which is the ‘trans’ part – the puppy or the girl?
Don’t make her mad.
When Di and Dar were banged up in ADX Florence, they were known as The Shiv Sisters. They were practically running the joint.
Wouldn’t think of it.
Clutch: my manual clutch truck (datsun way back in the day) lost clutch cable in Wyoming and I had to drive on to Colorado. Weekend in nowheresville so no mechanics. Was able to time my shifting without the cable, though not a good long term solution.
Likewise JuliaM, aka Ambush Predator aka Thylacosmilus aka Xenosmilus.
She did in Big Ronnie, you know. With high-tensile hosiery.
[ Casts eye over menu of local Chinese takeaway. ]
Warren Smith comments on Jordan Peterson’s first televised debate in 2016 on the show Power & Politics with physics professor A. W. Peet, a “woke” activist who supports legally mandated pronouns (Canadian bill C-16).
Within seconds, the “queer” alarm was going off, so I looked up Professor Peet on Wikipedia and verified that impression. I also saw this:
Only one coworker? I’m surprised.
There is no reason to ever assume any “woke” scholar is speaking the truth, but he does have, as they say, a very punchable face. Just the few minutes shown in this video show him to be a person likely to piss off normal people and do so repeatedly.
Apropos.
In these crazy times, could be both. I have no idea who Avril Lavigne is, and know little about Joan Jett as I was never fond of music celebrating bad boys/bad girls.
Cockroach farms
You may want to bookmark this:
https://kosherquest.org/kosher-symbols/
In Europe there is resistance to actually printing a symbol on the packaging, but the Chief Rabbinate usually has a list of certified products.
Easy one-line explanation:
Insurance isn’t a savings account, its a monthly lottery.
Said the suburban-raised, suppressed soyboy nerd who never was in a fight, hates his father, and still feels inadequate around “real” men.
Leftism + protected suburban cocoon = unrealistic, sentimental view of life’s thugs and bullies.They are so insistently non-violent that it comes out sideways.
This was the same dynamic that led to the lionization of the Black Panthers by Leonard Bernstein and other NY liberals.
Same dynamic behind much pro-Palestinian nonsense.
Norman Mailer’s obsession with “authentic” violence?
Gosh, I wonder why. /sarcasm
Actually, it wasn’t Mike Oldfield that introduced the instruments on Tubular Bells. It was Viv Stanshall of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band.
It was Viv Stanshall of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band.
Thanks. I did not know that.
“Let’s do a really good job because they paid up first.“
There are moments when it seems not all is lost.
Meanwhile in Sweden the Social Democrats had a good idea:
What could possibly go wrong?
Well, OK, Sure, but other than what?
Is there any lower limit to leftist stupidity?
True?
Chestnuts roasting . . .
The wages of wokeism.
The wages of wokeism.
Torn from the same page, the LBJFKRMN*%+ are mad.
The full segment can be seen here.
Yersinia pestis has entered the chat.
Do they not realize what they’re admitting? That white people are more competent and intelligent than they are? They’re ACTUALLY BASING THEIR ACTIONS ON THAT PREMISE.
Nihilism and pathological resentment is a really bad reason to dismantle something. I’m just sayin’.
That reminds me: A couple years ago I saw a news item that health professionals in France expressed concern that the movie Ratatouille has influenced kids to cease to see rats as a public health problem.
Damn straight.
That, in fact, permeates DEI. Note the demonization of nearly all virtues as “white”.
Nihilism and pathological resentment are all they have left, after the deaths of their illusions.
“the downfall of society begins with the individual”
Peterson is really different here — no animation, no emotion — and I’m not sure if he’s trying to be the calmer guy or if he’s just devoid of feeling in the moment.
[When he was talking to that British “so what you’re saying is” reporter, he was cheerful and good natured. Then later he’s become kinda angry. Maybe he’s just tired of it all.]
Also, the debate gets way off track when they debate whether preferred pronouns are a courtesy.
Let’s say they are. Why are we putting the force of law behind a courtesy? That’s the entire issue.
Should it be against the law to not say “please” and “thank you”? Should it be illegal to not acknowledge a wave from your neighbor? Or to fail to open an email message with “Dear X” and close it with “Best regards”?
Legally compelled speech is oppressive on its face. It doesn’t matter how “nice” it is or how upset it makes people when you fail to use it.
Good grief, it’s a no-brainer, and yet here we are.
Something about the word ‘acting’ escapes them.
Yersinia pestis has entered the chat.
That, Hanta (any variant), Lassa , leptospirosis, and roughly 50 other pathogens ranging from potentially lethal to annoying.
Something about the word ‘acting’ escapes them.
“He is a dude, playing a dude, pretending to be a non-dude” (paraphrasing slightly).
One would think a man pretending to be a woman would be on point, but nothing makes that lot happy, however, I expect the number of “trans” Korean actors to be in the neighborhood of zero.
Via Insty, this classic essay by ESR from 2006: Gramscian Damage (emphases mine):
Also in that essay he cites Jeff Goldstein in Protein Wisdom, which seems to be before my time, and then concludes:
Way too many of these memes are still operative in 2024. But the work of hounding out this nonsense is underway. Finally.
Egotistical gay cat, the musical.
1. More appealing and far less pretentious than the original Jag ad.
2. Cat lovers are a much larger potential audience than whomever Jag thought they were appealing to.
I wouldn’t be too sure about that. South Korean society is messed up in a lot of ways.
This. Though it’s the better of the other likely path, that the right caves in and essentially joins the left against any liberal, tolerant civilization. As I said a long time ago, both the left and the right want to imprison their various enemies and free/protect their allies. A liberal, tolerant civilization, law-based society that respects the individual is a compromise. The right has been way too tolerant and willing to play by rules that the left ignores. A snapback is almost inevitable.
Britain really has gone ’round the twist.