Friday Ephemera (761)
Street food. || Lumpfish. || Crab versus grape. || Woman versus sofa-bed. || Boneless. || Just like blogging. || A collection of cartographic objects from the thirteenth century onwards. (h/t, Things) || It’s a lot to unpack. || Aspiring to cliché. || She, not he, was deemed a “risk to the public.” || The Unspanked walk among us. || He wasn’t sure what they wanted him to do with it. || “Do not comment on my shit,” says she. || Today’s word is dupe. || Airport scenes. || Question asked. || It’s seasonal. || Just a touch more. || She teaches small children. || I’ll bet the ladies feel reassured. || That’s exactly how I would’ve done it. || What he said, and then some. || There was smoke, some shouting. || Hiking scenes. || “They needa give y’all refund.” || And finally, the joys of parenting.
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Trans in military: the judges who want to stop the ban think this is just “discrimination”
People, including those ^%(*&*&%*& judges, are either ignorant or purposely ignoring the fact that this is a volunteer military, and they do not have to take you just because you want to join. They can’t refuse if you are healthy in mind and body but they don’t like your skin color, but they can refuse you if you are not fully physically and mentally healthy. I was rejected for slight physical limitations that I have no control over, and don’t really affect my normal life, but I guess the US Navy decided they didn’t need a desk jockey that badly. Oh well – suck it up, change plans, figure something else out. The US military doesn’t owe anyone a spot.
They can even refuse you when they are drafting cannon fodder. My father was rejected during a GI draft for the Korean War, on the grounds he had allergies and flat feet. Guess they didn’t want him sniffling and sneezing in a foxhole or something, and they definitely wanted him able to march long distances carrying heavy stuff. No lifetime supply of antihistamines and custom orthotics for him!
ComputerLabRat: you are guilty of irrefutable logic. Which has nothing to do with “its not faaaaaiiiir!”
Remember Terrence Howard and “Terryology”, his crackpot system by which he “proves” that 1 times 1 equals 2? He’s still at it.
Don’t do drugs, kids.
Probably gonna need another bookmark, this is getting long.
I had Bronx in the studio while trying something out and posed to check lighting.Shut up, he got treats for his assistance.
It would be nice to be surprised occasionally.
May the force be with you.
But that’s not who we are. Thus that bitch’s shit will never get burned. And she knows this. With significant confidence. And conservatives…”conservatives” lose. It’s not so much that her shit actually, literally needs to burn but it’s that’s “conservatives” will never allow even their rhetoric to come anywhere close to a serious consideration that her shit might actually get burned. See, the left knows that they can spew all the hateful rhetoric they want and when people like her pop up, or the people pop up who actually burn actual stuff remotely associated with anyone on the right…actually act, they can deny that their rhetoric had anything to do with it. It is all the right’s conspiracy theories. And “conservatives” accept that explanation. But when anyone anywhere on the right, or even imaginary Jesse Smolting events happen, “conservatives” can be counted on to go into deep soul searching mode and ask themselves how they could have ever allowed themselves to do such a thing. And thus “conservatives” lose. They are always on the back foot. Let a Donald Trump or an AfD appear to try a new approach and it’s soul searching time again.
And thus “conservatives” lose. They are always on the back foot.
The Left’s National Pastime
My sister, fluent in Japanese, says the Doritos are fake and the bag reads “electric massager Doritos”.
Again,
This assumption of Playing Sociopathy In God Mode is why, when such creatures declare their assumed right to burn other people’s property for shits and giggles – a charter for the malignant narcissist – they should, ideally, and quite promptly, be punched in the face. One could then say, “Ah but, you see, I too have assumed a unilateral right – in this case, to shatter your teeth on the nearest kerb stone.”
It might be messy and exhausting, but it would be morally instructive – and not, I think, unfair.
I’d also add that it’s imperative to neutralise the standard excuses, the customary pretence. These creatures are not indulging in this behaviour, these monstrous liberties, as “protest” or as some heroic necessity. They’re not burning the belongings of random strangers reluctantly or under duress. They’re doing it because they enjoy it. It’s recreational. It makes them feel powerful.
It’s not politics, it’s sociopathy. Spite is their go-to high.
And in a saner world, one would respond accordingly.
No, not insane at all.
I love that the White House media team is embracing trends . . .
You wouldn’t want to be inside that head. Or indeed anywhere near it.
Nothing less than Tit for Tat can teach leftists this important lesson.
Of course, what they deserve is far more than that.
People who exult in vandalism and spite, and who habitually lie about their motives, are unlikely to respond to reason or shame. They may, however, still be susceptible to fear.
And if that’s all we’ve got to work with, then I guess that will have to do.
Playing Sociopathy In God Mode
While we are on the subject…
“Queering the genome…”, in The Journal of Medical Ethics, because of course it is. I do not fell compelled to fork of 64 frogskins for the article, but some more here.
Hey, it worked in mice, so why not.
Teen brings gun to school and gets her entire family arrested.
A teen criminal nearly always means criminal parents, grandparents, siblings, neighbors.
The mother(?) chanted “might as well kill me” as she was put in the squad car, which is true in a sense: Society would benefit from the permanent incarceration of the entire family.
Talking someone out of suicide is “coercion”
These are not good people. These are mortal enemies of civilization.
A fair point, but I was, like, 10 at last viewing!
Sense of humor.
For @David.
<blockquote.For @David.</i.
Where’s the Chips & Chili & Cheese?
Well, I thought I’d closed those tags.
Blog hosting server problems continue.
[ Listens for banging and cursing from the cellar. ]
[ Listens for banging and cursing from the cellar. ]
It’s when the banging & cursing stop that you start worrying.
Especially if there was a loud *pop* or the lights dimmed.
Have disabled all plugins for troubleshooting and maintenance. Please excuse mess for next 24-48 hours.
[ Banging intensifies. ]
In the interim, are we back to HTML tags as God intended, or, for instance, just slap in a url?
Is the regroover still operational?
I seem to have wandered into the large print section…
“This assumption of Playing Sociopathy In God Mode is why, when such creatures declare their assumed right to burn other people’s property for shits and giggles – a charter for the malignant narcissist – they should, ideally, and quite promptly, be punched in the face. One could then say, “Ah but, you see, I too have assumed a unilateral right – in this case, to shatter your teeth on the nearest kerb stone.” ”
Because it does matter who started it. Step one to pushing back on this insanity is getting it through the thick, stupid heads of what I believe to be the majority of “conservatives” that returning tit-for-tat is not only justified, but not doing so is itself a moral failure. Also tit > tat. Gotta have bigger tits. But we are still a long, long way from getting most “conservatives” comfortable with this necessity.
[ Banging intensifies. ]
So…we are getting more bang for our buck?
[ Pst314 curses, begins banging on cellar door. ]
“In the interim, are we back to HTML tags as God intended?”
But not as God and Heinlein intended, so there’s hope for a return of useful plugins.
“Is the regroover still operational?”
Diesel powered. Will run forever.
Please excuse mess for next 24-48 hours.
Ahh I was wondering what had happened to the blog.
The large print format was a bit jarring, but ok, although no blockquote made following threads require a bit more caffeine than I’ve had. But no images – I was kinda looking forward to @Stephanie’s dog bookmarks…
Hope things get sorted quickly.
Set your eye a-twitch: https://substack.com/@ikiquest/note/c-99154564
Current mood: The “No More Rice Krispies” TV ad.
Didn’t phase me a bit.
“Didn’t phase me a bit.”
It may be generally regarded as nonstandard and incorrect, but goes back two centuries:
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=irregardless&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=0&case_insensitive=false
“[ Banging intensifies.]”
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Next to the hump fat and inverted pork rectums.
Oh lovely, the blockquote tag doesn’t seem to work.
How about italic or bold? Or have I up-buggered the tags?
“Oh dear, our nude airport screamer”
I have mental illness fatigue. I am no longer interested in expending my time or money to take care of these freaks, from trannies to the homeless to crazy women in the airport.
I have nothing to offer them but a fist.
“They can’t refuse if you are healthy in mind and body but they don’t like your skin color,”
The Civil Rights Act really needs to be repealed.
The Triggernometry guys on Rogan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMsJHjtS5Do
Your argument is invalid.
I’m still pondering how it’s even possible to not notice Brian Blessed
Watching I, Claudius for the first time I completely missed that he’s playing Octavian because 1) he’s completely clean shaven, and 2) he’s playing Octavian instead of BRIAN BLESSED, so he’s speaking in a calm, understated tone. He’s very much playing Octavian in “primus inter pares” mode.
Until.
There’s a scene where he finds out that pretty much the entire Senate has been boinking his daughter and he lines them up and goes down the row asking each one in a calm, reasoned manner, “did you sleep with my daughter” and they shamefacedly nod. When he got to the end, the director told him “Now, Brian. Now you can be Emperor.”
It’s basically the BRIAN BLESSED origin story.
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The left is very fond of the slogan “by any means necessary”.
They can’t complain if we apply it to solving these problems of urban “disorder”:
https://x.com/unlimited_ls/status/1905943187794931823
And for this crime, just do to the perps what they did to their victim, but with an F-250:
https://x.com/unlimited_ls/status/1906161578921087195
Via Blackadder (https://x.com/LeAdderNoire), some by-now-unsurprising tortoise abuse: https://x.com/TrudeauBil63167/status/1905894900605858131
windbag
The street food one reminded me of when I worked for a paving company. One of the workers would pack chicken in aluminum foil and bury it under some of the asphalt in the paving machine. Cooked to perfection by lunchtime (I took his word for it.).
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https://goodreads.com/book/show/20209493.Manifold_Destiny
and
https://www.instructables.com/Cooking…-with-your-car/
I’ve been informed thompsonblog.co.uk is unsafe.
As if I didn’t know that.
I’ve been informed thompsonblog.co.uk is unsafe.
Same here – Brave (based on Chrome) wouldn’t let me in without a lot of forcing on my part. It’s apparently upset that the magic https is missing from the URL. That’s also probably why a search for “thompsonblog” doesn’t bring up anything until the bottom of the page of results, where previously the top result was the blog’s main page.
On the upside, images are loading again. Yay dog pics!