Friday Ephemera (781)
You want one and you know it. || They watched the wheels leave without them. || Meet the cosmologists, 1963. || At last, humanoid robot kickboxing. || Bearing gifts. || He was hiding in the girls’ toilets. Previously. || Apparently, the hormones widened his eyes and made his glasses grow. || Neighbour of note. || The joys of social interaction. || Nommy-nommy-nom. || Switched-on and swinging in Caracas, 1969. || Hair crisis, 2025. || Clearly, bold choices were made. || Low impulse control. || On personality and pet preference. || Feedback loop. Also, inevitably, pronouns in bio. || More joys of public transport. || The progressive retail experience, parts 649, 650, 651, 652, 653, and 654. || Poison in the social bloodstream. || Something error happen. || Paint job. || Pleats. || Trolley problem.
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You’ve the gist of it. The altar has been supplied with a mirror. One from a funhouse it seems.
Not so. Thorough despite and desire to eradicate do indicate interest.
It’s the noticing of it.
That. 🎯
. . . and they do it still to this very day.
… that long period during which any criminality or display of incompatible values can be used to deport them …
From the CBC, For Humboldt trucker, what punishment is enough? – “but there’s also been another consequence hanging over Sidhu, one unique to non-citizens in Canada, and that’s deportation”
High skilled immigrant, graduate of a one week trucking course, kills 16 hockey players and injures/cripples another 13. We’ve heard a lot from the victim’s families, but what about the driver, who because the Canadians are being little bitches about it, now only has a chance to fulfill his dreams in the 194 countries of the world where he hasn’t killed 16 people. Opinions among the families of victims are mixed, but let’s give the majority of the airtime to the one family who have forgiven him and want him to stay.
This interview with the wife is very interesting – “Canada is our home country now” – according to you, but Canadians might like to have more of a say. “We have seen our future here, we have dreams in this country” – under the circumstances, at least according to our Western moral intuitions, not the polite or sensitive thing to say. A guest doesn’t expect to be invited to stay if he kills his host’s children, even by accident. But that’s the full implication of “Canada is our home country now” – she doesn’t see herself as having the obligations of a guest.
On which, more tomorrow.
fat acceptance: Do you want to die at 45? Lose your legs to diabetes? Have a stroke? The belief that it is just about appearance is utter rubbish. AND if you reach your 60s and can barely walk, that is not a good time.
As to people’s reactions to appearance: we have an inborn attraction to signs of health and vigor and a repulsion to signs of ill-health. It has been an evolutionary advantage for 2 million years to have these reactions.
I heard Ten Years After:
Paul Joseph Watson chimes in
I had to look that one up.
Still fuming.
The next line of the song rather gives the game away:
Tax the rich, feed the poor
‘Til there are no rich no more…