Friday Ephemera (752)
I did not see that coming. || A not entirely compelling arrangement. || The next part of the plan is unclear to me. || Incoming. || A collection of Doctor Who title cards. || Mathematics and the Moon. || This is one of these. || An inexact landing. || Autonomous bus, China. || A brief history of arsenic. || Eating uranium, 1985. || Traffic obstruction. || Rugs. || Flattened dog rugs. || Gyrations. || Things deemed racist, a thread of some length. || An awkward pause, a rambling evasion. || Those poor darling looters. || He had a cunning plan. || Perfect for urban skies. || Problematic wheel orientation. || Surprisingly solid. || She hates America with a passion, but you have to pay her to leave. || Public domain image archive. (h/t, Things) || Artful. || Family activity. || And finally, it came from the asteroid belt.
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A community note said that the videos were part of a class project to welcome Ukranian refugees in from the war, but they weren’t actually broadcast.
Who knows?
I’m still processing the fact that Mr Newsom was elected by a large number of people who presumably think highly of themselves.
Watched a video on youtube about the defeat of the ottomans invading Europe in the 1500s. The story was fascinating. The author used AI to generate images of soldiers and battles. Pretty good but…in places a little off. At the time mostly bows and arrows with a few muskets. When guns were shown a few were correct but in another scene the rifles looked like WWI carbines (but off even for that). In an after battle scene, the debris on the battlefield has generic parts of things, including metallic globes about the size of a head that were not helmets or anything identifiable. One scene the general is wearing a modern wristwatch. hahahahah
Heh. Ever been to California? Boy, let me warn ya’…
I’m still processing the fact that Mr Newsom was elected by a large number of people who presumably think highly of themselves.
You have to remember the abnormal, like our self proclaimed “weird” queer, female-presenting, Jewish lesbian above, are the new normal, and the old normal are outnumbered by the abnormal.
I mean, setting aside what he actually says, which is bad enough, you’d think the incongruous grinning would be a clue.
Crazifornia.
But not nearly as highly as he thinks of himself.
Have you seen his shimmy?
Ko-ko-bop?
For those who didn’t catch it, the Dementia Patient in Chief has declared the Equal Rights Amendment ratified.
I’ve always been terrible at platform games, but I’d really lose badly to this guy.
Once you’ve rendered terms like “man, “woman,” “male,” and “female” unclear, what chance did “ratified” stand?
I mean, setting aside what he actually says, which is bad enough, you’d think the incongruous grinning would be a clue.
Serious Joker vibes from this guy.
GISS
Really need a That Thing That Never Happens category.
Sociopathy is what that says to me. Improper affect.
remember, never be the first to stop clapping
Prison misconduct statistics.
I got a really strong Saul Goodman vibe from Newsom. Not really a recommendation.
All good choices, but to me he’s a dead ringer for Patrick Batemen (Christian Bale’s character in American Psycho)
[ Slurps coffee. ]
The kinds of people, often progressive women, who enthuse about looting and rioting, and who seem to find it ideologically arousing, are not generally in the realm of coherent argument. I don’t think reality plays much part in what’s happening in their heads and then spilling out of their mouths. It’s about their own psychology, their own brokenness.
See, for instance, this.
The rush to denounce “respectability politics” – i.e., expectations of moral reciprocation and a general aversion to inflicting on others, arbitrarily, the kind of violation one would not care to receive – is, I’d say, a clue.
It’s not politics, it’s pathology.
One might, for instance, wonder how Ms Rachel Miller, the author of the Vice article linked above, would feel if she were the female Amazon driver seen being swarmed and assaulted here.
Having been assaulted and robbed, as if she were nothing, would she be overwhelmed with warm feelings?
I think we’ll give that one a post of its own.
Comments that-a-way.
Sounds like a good investment.
Another thing that never happens just happened.
I’ve been assured, many times and quite emphatically, that noticing the pattern is very much frowned upon.