Friday Ephemera (799)
Some stability issues. || Sea bunnies. || Today’s word is breakdancing. || Senator invokes the biology of make-believe. || It’s absolutely essential, says she. || It’s a pull-and-blow kind of thing. || A collection of found cassette tapes (of variable quality). (h/t, Things) || Ah, simpler times. || Sprite, Australia. || As a lifestyle influencer, she likes looking at herself. || Just add flesh. || A gallery of strange phenomena. || He gives relationship advice. || “A different relationship to property,” says she. || Scenes from the Las Vegas Housekeeping Olympics. || A handy stick. || A history of English windmills, 1968. || When one just isn’t enough. || “We need help.” || Ill-equipped for the task of living. || PhDs. || Ice, hot copper. || Positioning of note. || For those long winter evenings. || Funny who you run into.
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I don’t think that you understand how brainwashing works. The Costanza Rule is a very effective element.
This. This explains so much of what I have tried to communicate regarding the brainwashing, a word used by Devon here a bit dismissively but as a broader context/coin-of-the-realm thing it works, and intelligence in general. Fits with my (very limited, mostly second hand) experience with large language models/AI as well.
[ Heroically works way through bag of Italian shortbread biscuits. ]
Hey, I’m freeing up space in the cupboard.
Illegals harming immigrants. Which is this cop crying about?
“I’ve been mugged three times in London, but it’s rubbish to say it’s not safe”
(found via Sargon.)
I’m reminded of a short film I saw on TV 40 or so years ago. The filmmaker put up a camera and recorded a street scene, but the audio was all post-production of the filmmaker-as-director giving directions to the people in the scene or the putative crew. Things like, “Look puzzled as though you’re not certain whether you locked your car,” followed by the person on the sidewalk (who of course didn’t know she was being filmed) going back to check the car.
The punchline of the film is that the guy was filming a scheduled controlled building implosion/demolition, so the last bit of commentary was along the lines of, “That building in the background is destroying my view of the scene. Take it out!” At which point the building gets blown in.
Minnesota isn’t a state — it’s a neo-Confederate criminal organization.
A quibble. “Equally” isn’t “same”. As as old lady that lived through the whole “women’s libber” movement (and realized early on what a sham it was), all *I* wanted was the liberty to explore my interests and have my skills and talents with equal opportunity to see if I would succeed OR fail.
I’ve never wanted to be considered “the same” as a man, I just don’t want to be precluded from testing if I can do ‘X’.
There were a few of those that were shown on SNL way, way back in the pr-AI days and when SNL was actually funny. One was a guy on a run and he approaches a street crossing with two buttons, one “push button to cross street” the other “push button to blow up building”. The guy distractedly, carelessly pushes the one to blow up a building and at that moment a building in the background is destroyed. IIRC, he sheepishly shrugs his shoulders and continues on his way.
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Agree. It pains me to say these things and I am definitely not the proper wordsmith to say them eloquently, but they need to be said. And for quite some time now I have operated with the comprehension that eloquence has failed to get the job done for decades.
[ Returns from re-gritting paths, roars in triumph. ]
[ Demands biscuit. ]
With regard to liberal objections to striking Iran and Venezuela, this.
“I’ve been mugged three times in London, but it’s rubbish to say it’s not safe”
https://archive.is/LpDdD
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zing_Tsjeng
A Singaporean who came to England at the age of 16 to study at Cheltenham Ladies’ College – does the oppression never end. Not clear if she’s a UK citizen now, but as of 2020 was reluctant to become one, because Singapore takes the attitude that good citizenship comes from committing to one country. The British Broadcasting Corporation, on the other hand, takes the attitude that this is just the person to present a podcast telling the British what it really means to be British.
As far as we know, she still has the luxury of being able to return to Singapore, where the socially-stable majority status of her racial group is explicitly and actively protected, and where there’s no tolerance for “minor” crimes. If her vibrant urban life starts to look too much like a slum, she has another home to retreat to, but she tells the ethnic English, the ones whose only home is here, that they should live in a foreign slum and not complain about it.
I do agree with her that so-called conservatives tend to use euphemisms like social trust or crime or Western culture when what they really want to say, and should say, is that there are too many foreigners here for our own good, especially insolent foreigners – either the insolent type who grope girls in parks 72 hours after claiming asylum, or of the insolent type given media platforms above their talent or usefulness or pleasantness just so they can shout “gotcha, racist” at whites. At some point whites have to say we don’t care any more what names you call us, we still want you and your type out of our countries.
Step 4 unlocked
BTW, isn’t the unreliability of British crime reporting proverbial?
Not euphemisms, but rather descriptions of the problems these invaders bring.
But yes, there is nothing immoral about saying “unassimilating foreigners out!”
I’ll go out on a limb and venture to guess that in her heart she despises England and cares nothing for the well being of its people. And that in itself is an excellent reason to expel her, even if she has committed no crimes whatsoever.
I recall struggling very hard, when I was little more than a kid, to understand deconstruction and postmodernism, and such claims as “there is nothing outside the text” and “the text can mean anything”, until I realized that it was simply bullshit and that the people advancing this garbage were either grifters or malevolent subversives.
Michael Shellenberger: Left-wing authoritarianism is almost identical to narcissism
It’s all so tiresome.
This account from a Venezuelan security guard….
On the one hand, at least they are consistent in their commitment to illegal aliens worldwide, on the other nobody in their right mind on this side of the pond gives a fat rat’s ass where they “stand”.
https://www.numbeo.com/crime/region_rankings.jsp?title=2025-mid®ion=150
Bradford, Marseille, Coventry, Birmingham, Naples, Grenoble, Montpellier, Liege, Nantes, Paris, Lyon, Manchester, Nice, Malmo, London
What is it about these sleepy European provincial cities that they’re turning up on top-10 lists of crime hotspots? And it’s worse in Paris, is it? This is hardly the “checkmate, racists” that she’s presenting it as.
It would require a trip to the regrooving chamber to suggest it might have something to do with where the mayors and other panjandrums “stand”.
That reads kinda…interestingly. Probably some truth in there but the “killed hundreds” seems a bit iffy. That and a couple other things.
it might have something to do with where the mayors and other panjandrums “stand”.
Bradford (#1 in Euro crime charts) in West Yorkshire, Coventry (#3) and Birmingham (#4) in West Midlands, Manchester (#12), London (#15). All their mayors on the list of signatories.