Friday Ephemera (802)
The machine uprising, day 11. || How to catch a human. || Fully automated to save time and effort. || “I love me,” says she. || When you have a CT scanner and a whole bunch of animals. || I think there may be something under the house. || Incoming. || Suboptimal scenario. || Big thing bring green. || Moral support, I’m guessing. || It takes a lot of spray. || I believe some physics occurred. || Rise of the Vegetarians, 1972. || New Orleans jollity, 1962. || The Chinese earthquake-detecting seismoscope. || On the making of Jaws. Oddly, the trained shark idea didn’t pan out. || Determined to make things worse, a possible series. || The progressive retail experience, parts 695, 696, 697, and 698. || Question asked. || But could be thinner. || And finally, for those who missed it in the comments.
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I wonder how many there were a century earlier: A vegetarian restaurant is mentioned in the Sherlock Holmes story “The Red-Headed League”.
This cat’s name should be Shadrach.
The moment when America declared war on Britain
The moment when Britain declared war on America
Hair?
Any landing you walk away from . . .
Street physics > laboratory physics.
A wag in the comments says, “I tend to masturbate in the lingerie section…”
the progressive puppy-buying experience
“The Great Replacement is a hoax!” they said.
“The Great Replacement is here, and it is a GOOD thing!” they say.
So even further to the Bloody buttons and other BS discussion…Don’t know who needs to hear this but if you have a fancy-shmancy electronic Yale combination lock on your home, your STR, or an STR you are or may be staying in…they can, automagically just decide to unlock themselves due to some BS feature called “passage mode”. They apparently think this is a good idea. Some people even seem cool with it. How one can be comfortable with a door lock that just unlocks itself is another mystery. I don’t see much concern looking for links but there is no reason a door “lock” should do this. Took me a good bit of hunting around to find a post pointing out this problem.
https://www.reddit.com/r/smarthome/s/tE7uajUynt
Shadrach? Oh, no!
I mean…Oh, no! Who knew there were so many versions?
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life.
“And this is the natural result.”
When the umbilical cord looks like a popsicle.
Well, no, you can’t always tell, but so what? He goes on to argue that it’s really unfair to ALL women that if a woman doesn’t meet harsh social standards of what a woman should look like, then she’s not really considered a woman. He implies that it happens to homely women, too. And therein lies the unfairness of keeping certain women out of dressing rooms and sports — the exclusion is this arbitrary, antiquated standard of womanliness that apparently is maintained by a cadre of incels on the internet, who control the whole convo.
Further, one might notice that he lays out his arguments in a systematic, highly structured, logical way. In a very MALE way. In a very Aspie male way.
Which is as far from being female-brained as you can get.
Who are the psychopaths who continually build these enormous, nightmare faces and try to pass them off as FUN FUN FUN!
I was just about to vituperate Las Fallas de Valencia, but the image search turns up some amazing recent pictures of non-nightmare-inducing figures, for once.
We have to put lithium in the water supply, don’t we? — MaryCate Delvey
“This is the ancient magic. The elder magic. The magic of times lost and lore forgotten.”
I did not see that coming.
I do appreciate that the giant clown head has its own air defense system. That’s foresight.
Ma’am, I’m going to have to ask you to leave the store.
That theory sounds good, but ignores that many of these women have children that they could be expending that alleged “maternal instinct” on. And then there’s the abortion rate.
I have an alternate theory: that the alleged “maternal instinct” is nowhere near that universal nor powerful, and is easily subordinated by women’s desire for status and social influence within the herd.
Memes are proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
But the door did open…
Question asked.
Rhetorical, I presume?
WTP: “…but if you have a fancy-shmancy electronic Yale combination lock on your home, your STR, or an STR you are or may be staying in…they can, automagically just decide to unlock themselves due to some BS feature called “passage mode”. …“
As a lazy person, I adore voice control and automation – Nest thermostat to choose to boost the heating while I’m on the Tube home, Hue lights that come on without me flicking a switch, telling the TV to turn itself off or on via Alexa, I have them all.
This, and those keyless entry systems for cars, I will never ever countenance.
Morning, all.
And yet what I noticed was the hair.
I just wish the footage had sound. I want to hear its smooth, effortless operation.
A high tolerance of internal contradiction:
Or, low in conscientiousness.
Glinner’s posts are protected.
An alternative, same scene.
Same hair.
Wardrobe solutions.
Not unfair.
Yes, I noticed too. Verging on a beehive from the 60s, but it would need a helmet of hairspray.
In my area, the shorts-in-the-snow people are usually students from SoCal living in a temperate zone, and they’re essentially in denial.
IOW, these types are everywhere.
[ Peers out of window at light dusting of snow. ]
I’m impressed by the motor.
Shorts in snow is a bit much but as someone who isn’t bothered by the cold much, I often wear shorts in cooler weather. Especially if it isn’t windy, it’s a sunny day, and the humidity is low. Why this bothers other people, especially…specifically women such that as complete strangers they are compelled to ask me if I am cold or make moderately derisive comments about it is a mystery to me.
[ Checks lawn for bears. ]
Two crows and a squirrel.
Stand down red alert.
Free lunch.
So how was your day?
Attention, compliant citizens. You have been enriched.
Hair?
I’ve watched that nineteen times whilst trying to translate it. No joy yet…
[ Fetches hose. ]
Memes are proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
That’s hilarious. Even more so when you think there are also lonely, crazy liberal women using Google translate to send him love letters.
[ Checks lawn for bears. ]
[ Laughs at David in Appalachian. ]
Hey, sister, we’ve had badgers. Fierce, mighty badgers.
On the one hand, I admire David’s dedication to his craft, perhaps an OBE for service to the King for exposing what he does, on the other, I have to wonder if a health and safety intervention is in order due to the amount of time dredging through the fetid swamp of reddit particularly given the random crap that turns up, viz.:
Sounds like fun, but what is the event and the product? Oh, nevermind.
Meanwhile, amongst other random links, a new pride movement has dropped along with the accompanying shaming, of course. Sound off, I am not sure they thought through some of the images in the accompanying video.
[ Takes empty wine bottles out to bin. ]
What?
Hey, sister, we’ve had badgers. Fierce, mighty badgers
Never 100% satisfied. Obviously “gender dysphoria” is not the real issue. I am starting to wonder, though, given the number of same flaunted, is whether the mastectectomies are done by lousy surgeons, or if the far from aesthetic closures are a deliberate “look at what I have done” signal.