Friday Ephemera (753)
Just a bit of a bump. || Boiling water is hard. || How to build an omni-directional bike. (h/t, Elephants Gerald) || Bills above. || The adventures of Rupert the Bear. || Because he has been deemed more important than you, ladies. || Dinner and a show. || I’m guessing it tickles. || Good to know. || I suppose it would pass the time. || And it’s wipe-clean, which is always a bonus. || Clearly, she was feeling it. || Venting, near and far. || Vending-machine diplomacy. || Does a doctor’s self-vasectomy video count as oversharing? || Fat Japanese mascots jammed in infrastructure. || More joys of public transport. || Today’s words are time and place. || Pianist enhancement. || Pottery and LEGO, together at last. || Four legs good. || And finally, the experiment in time travel was not without its hazards.
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So… he IS condemning the subway system as a lawless labyrinth.
Layers of editors and fact-checkers. Yup.
[Paraphrasing “Chinatown”]
Forget it, Di.
It’s the New York Times.
“My new gender is defiance”, and the world quakes in terror.
Meanwhile, for reasons that are no longer important, I have had to set type by hand and because of that know the difference between typeface and font though the latter fits better in a drop down menu, however, I’m just glad I never had to hand set this new typeface which is, “…an unapologetic celebration of self-care for all skin…”.
Or, mentally ill man is mentally ill.
Truly, we live in an age of wonders.
I wonder if it is possible to go after those who persecuted him. That would be an excellent form of additional winning.
Change “more likely” to “absolutely certain”.
Those who advocate such lunatic policies–and especially those who exercise power to achieve them–should be treated in the spirit of what Abraham Lincoln said:
Let them be the ones to freeze in the dark.
And in their eyes were are not really people, rather mere pawns to manipulate in their games of power and status.
That.
Yes, I wish I’d thought of that one myself.
And ours is an age in which the most appalling naïveté – to put the kindest possible spin on things – is regarded as a virtue, the very measure of virtue.
More importantly, a government actively working against the well-being of its populace has forfeited any expectation of fidelity and obedience.
Why? It’s not as if these malevolent trolls masquerading as well-meaning naïfs are deserving of kindness.
A reminder that not all security guards are particularly competent or moral. (With the caveat that the lawsuit’s claim needs corroboration.)
THE CASE AGAINST DR. EITHAN HAIM IS DISMISSED!
I had never heard of him so I googled his name to see what the case was about. I found an AP article from last June entitled “Texas doctor charged with taking private patient information on transgender care.” The story begins with “A Texas doctor who calls himself a whistleblower on transgender care for minors . . .” Not a real whistleblower, obviously. That phrase “transgender care for minors” appears several times in the article. Not once is there a mention of just what that “care” consisted of. Compassionate medical procedures like massive drugging or mutilation of children, even castration. That’s what the AP calls “gender affirming medical care.”
Truly, we don’t hate the media enough.
Heh. Well, I was thinking more of the people who regurgitate such pieties with little thought beyond green is good, as in the discussion mentioned upthread. The kinds of people who don’t know about, or enquire about, the obvious downsides of the policies they support, albeit in fairly vague terms. As if downsides and trade-offs couldn’t exist, and as if those entrusted to make policy decisions couldn’t possibly be incompetent, or worse.
But yes, you’re right. I shall endeavour to be less forgiving.
[ Flicks kitten in eye. ]
I don’t get this. I would think/hope that taking one’s borders seriously should be the very first order of business for any country. Energy policy not being taken seriously is a far more recent and less concerning trend. The Big Red Flag was border security/immigration. It’s just that all the electricity going off is a harder thing for the proles to pretend isn’t happening. Though it won’t surprise me if they gaslight (NPI) them over that as well. I’m sure the bureaucrats and MSM will resent having to work harder to sell that one so…hope?
Not, perhaps, the wisest move.
Well, you’d think that the most basic functions of a government would include enforcing the law, keeping the lights on, and repelling invaders. You’d think those would be somewhere near the top of the list.
Yet on all three counts, our government is failing in ways that a younger me would not have thought possible.
Nor Google, etc.
16 years old, driving across country on what was later known as The Great Family Trip, driving along a road heading into El Paso a summer afternoon /evening I was shocked to actually see Mexicans wading back across the Rio Grande into Mexico. I had heard about such things. They had been mentioned in the news. But actually seeing it happen drove it home to my young mind how out in the open it was. These weren’t people sneaking across a thousand mile desert border undercover of night, dodging rattlesnakes and Canis latrans, this was their regular commute. I was amazed by it and it did occur to me that they didn’t have to all be Mexicans. It just worked out that way.
Last November we had five power outages in three weeks, only one of which might plausibly be attributed to bad weather.
In the heart of Silicon Valley. Absolutely unheard of during my youth here.
Oh, and the largest-by-far water reservoir in the area has been empty for a dozen years, and will no doubt be empty for another dozen.
Welcome to California!
Via the Babylon Bee.
Oh ho ho. But anyway, there’s no way this could go wrong, as Robert Schumann could tell you.
The Critical Drinker pans the new Star Trek movie.
Seen online: It’s Portlandia in space.
They still make those?
What motive would Middle Eastern asylum-seekers have for hanging around an English primary school?
Answers on a postcard.
Most people really don’t have the disposition or intellectual wherewithal to think in terms of second-order effects or unintended consequences. The thought of breaking from the herd terrifies them. They’d rather die than be associated with Those Awful People.
“Questioning Net Zero is what fascist right-wingers do. I don’t want to be [thought] a fascist. So I’m not going there.”
Low in trait openness, in other words. Prolly not their fault. They’ll have to fall in the pit themselves before they believe it exists.
“unapologetic” = we have no shame
“Speak now or forever hold your peace.”
They make them using the Crap-o-Matic 9000 Franchise Sequel Extruder.
Sinister.
Useful guide.
Feds.
A touch of opera.
Indeed:
This sort of stuff is a nice antidote/palate cleaner to the usual news.
If you watch a video in the X app, full-screen, it will play video after video in sequence, no pause. I’ve trained the algorithm to give me birds, kittens, and flowers.
X giveth the stress and X taketh it away.
As is this.
Huh. Earlier this week I had been assured that Patriot Front had been disbanded.
Not that the footage itself has any obvious dates.
I think they call this “tipping your hand.”
Stephen King novels have nothing on this scary story.
I mean, wow. That is so over-the-top it’s criminal. Trump needs to drop the hammer on a LOT of people.
Not unrelated, this.
Meanwhile, on Reddit.
And let us not forget, this was a real thing. A thing that occurred.
People actually sat there, cowed and deferential, without laughing loudly.
Meanwhile, on Reddit.
Redditors are truly the retards of the world. Presently mods of subreddits like r/knitting – knitting, for fuck’s sake! – are banning links to X because Elon gave a totes Nazi salute. It is a foum of epic cringe.
David, your three words should join the lexicon of short phrases with clearly nuanced meanings in our pop culture, much like Seinfled’s “not that there’s anything wrong with that.” Whenever someone wants a subtle way of saying that’s some retarded shit, they should simply say, “Meanwhile, On Reddit . . .” and look away.
It’s been my experience that Reddit moderators are among the most weirdly neurotic of any platform moderators, which is saying something. There’s a bizarre zeal. Trying to unpick the thought process, the basis for prohibition, could drive a person mad.
Meanwhile, on Reddit.
Right. Their argument that Musk is a Nazi is so strong that they had to change the logo to make their alleged point.
Given the number of Reddit links of late, I worry, David, that you are spending too much time over there. Is an intervention in order?
…which might explain why some conservative men appear to liberals to be more, “afraid” of big cities. I think what’s happening is that these are men who are especially attuned to implicit threats of violence and who are correctly picking it up everywhere they go in urban areas.
Change “afraid” to “alert”. I have known libtard men who were utterly unaware of threats until they were arrived up in their faces. A dramatic example: I saw, 100 yards away, a “diverse vibrant” individual harassing a young couple. My liberal friend noticed nothing until he began to bother us. Even afterwards he had difficulty correctly processing the things that creep said to us.
It only needs a monolith to be complete.
Guys.