Friday Ephemera (777)
Discourse was attempted. || It’s all in the tongue, I’m told. || A little snug. || Incoming. || Incoming 2. || Instant immortality, 1970. || A map of light pollution. || On why we might not want to detect, or be detected by, an alien intelligence. Previously, on relativistic weapons. || Splashes in a vacuum. || Suboptimal situation. || A spot of Chopin. || Parenting. || A project for the weekend. || When you forget you’re in charge. || The testosterone makes her sweat. || The thrill of self-touching. || “I studied non-binary identities in college.” || But he was only going to stab y’all. || Keyboard. || Discussion point. || For lovers of equations: “Why can’t you walk through walls if atoms are mostly empty space?” || It would be easier if you quit squirming. || Oh, and scenes of pumping and squeaking.
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“A total of five shots were fired”
If only the officer had kept firing, the world would have been improved.
One must give some neighborhoods a wide berth.
“But if you shut down your store, where am I going to shoplift? Racists!”
Abiogenic theory
Caveat: Contrary to that post, the theory remains unproved.
Not all heroes wear capes.
Why the left now hates bodycams.
I sometimes wonder how people justify certain actions to themselves.
A new menace, stealth trains.
Was she expecting an engraved invitation?
Today two coworkers expressed that they were having “big feels,” likely about politics (which we don’t discuss at work, so they didn’t say why), but for the life of me I don’t know which event or development they mean.
What happened today or yesterday that would cause left wingers to be freaked out or totes sad?
Hulk Hogan AND Ozzie within a few days?
“A project for the weekend.“
But remember folk, alway source your inhabitents responsibly…
😂
Morning, all.
Not unrelated, on the reality TV series Cops:
Much more at the link.
Devotional scenes.
On the economics (and outright lies) of blockbuster movies.
[ Slurps coffee. ]
But what happens next?
Squealing about ” peak oil ” (always something about 30-40 years out) feels to me like it has died down quite a lot in recent years.
Rather like squealing about the ” ozone hole ” eventually went out of fashion (Dupont did well out of that).
“They” must have achieved, or think they achieved, what they needed from those scares.
I didn’t probe further. But after all that exertion, he may need a rest.
I have to say, as an erotic enhancement, it’s not very… spontaneous.
Related:
And related to that, this:
A small number of ferals inflict a hell of a lot of misery on many, many people better than themselves.
Parasite detected.
I have questions.
Aluminum.
I rather like that we have a word that can mean absolutely, emphatically, to the fullest possible extent – and also mean – somewhat, moderately, fairly, a bit but not entirely.
It keeps those bloody foreigners on their toes.
Vital news story.
The housing in Kansas is “like boot camp” compared to (checks to see if this is parody) Somalia.
Our best and brightest.
Unexpectedly, of course.
I miss the concept of gratitude. Also, shame.
Are there hydrocarbons on other planets?
Are there hydrocarbons on other planets?
Yes.
Well, OK, a moon, but still…
I haven’t seen this in the basement yet.
Just think of the benefits of putting those ferals away (or down): Great reductions in misery. Huge economic savings, through reduced losses to crime, reduced expenditures to protect from crime, shifting of resources to productive purposes.
Because David and his henchlesbians prefer the personal touch.
The cost of the paperwork alone.
“I studied non-binary identities in college.”
For whom are these people making these videos? These seek to “educate” but what possibly makes them think people are interested in what they have to say, if only for the comedy and/or derision?
A spot of Chopin
Ah, the music to every advertisement on TV for the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, NC.
There was a time when the sun dappled the pond with golden light and people stopped to appreciate the beauty of nature, when friends would gather in the gloaming to sip a good wine and engage in lively conversation, when each evening brought a sense of a peaceful summer . . . it was last week, at the Biltmore.
Parasite eradication programs needed.
Parenting 2.
I don’t know about that one. According to one response even the Oxford English Dictionary says he’s wrong. Though who can trust dictionaries anymore? One thing I noticed working with/for a number of Brits is for Americans, the word ‘precisely’ is generally used to convey even greater accuracy than ‘exactly’. It often seemed like my Brit coworkers /bosses used those two words the other way around.
If only there were a way to separate the savages from the civilized people.
What are you worried about? We’re not going to eat you…yet.
Just think of the benefits…
Diversity is our strength.
Curious if anyone else has seen this…Got a bill for my recent new patient doctor visit, because my doctor I just saw in March has gone into a specialty. He never seemed terribly interested anyway so….anyway, I get my bill and there are two charges on there for a penny each. One for my systolic BP being too high and another for my diastolic being too high. Of course my insurance covered those two pennies so it’s sooooo stooooopid to even question it. Though given that my BP has been going up when in doctors offices ever since they went all in on covidiocy, I really think that should be on them.
That post was quite very.
Meanwhile across the pond, the Beeb gives us a lesson on “microaggressions” with ultra realistic portrayal of typical wypipo.
At nearby Oxford, another day, another lecturer.
Was rather.
I Dream Of Jinni…
All cultures are equal, bigot.
[ Summons jinn entities. ]
Shout the women craving self-annihilation.
Per previous post re sociology, our civilization is stupid with sociologists. And yet nobody seems to understand a damn thing about how insanely dynamic they are nor even begin to understand how much there is that they don’t know.