Friday Ephemera (789)
Cleavage. || Big Derek and the haunted Sheffield nightclub, 1970. || American driver versus British roundabout. || At last, a rotary keyboard. || And in women’s volleyball news. || It goes on forever. || Yoga, you say. || How to get shot. || The 10 drunkest countries. || Dubious PhDs, from queer captioning and the “systemic ableism of visual arts” to lesbian houseboating. || Canned chicken, chowder, and freeze-dried cheese. || For $100 an hour, she offers coaching in “texturism” and “child liberation.” || Oh, to be young and in love. || The thrill of laundry. || Not quite grasping the concept. || Not quite sensing the causality. || It’s not a vape, it’s an anxiety pen. || Social interaction is always a pleasure. || Someone took her feathers. || And finally, enliven your houseplants with Mother Earth’s Plantasia.
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That’s not an American. That’s a soyboy.
The time-traveling dietary expert
The 10 drunkest countries.
Romania number 1 at 17.1L/year, or 36.1 Freedom Pints (30.1 1mperial).
Over a year.
One shot before retiring of an evening is 16.4L/year.
17.1L/year – even if it was absolute (not Absolut) alcohol, those are rookie numbers for drunks.
I assume those numbers are in pure alcohol equivalent liters.
Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota and Montana all have relatively high numbers, but that’s because residents use it keep their blood from freezing in the winter.
I assume those numbers are in pure alcohol equivalent liters.
As I said, even for absolute alcohol (minimum of 198 proof), rookie numbers.
“One lie demands ever more lies to survive.”
“Systemic racism” is the “deferents and epicycles” of blank slatism.
That is all.
Oh dear lord … what kind of self-loathing deadender is this?
How WWII really started.
Did she check the last carcase she dined at?
Is that… parody?
I have lost the ability to perceive it.
I kept wanting to insert something hydraulic in there.
Crazy that the world’s pyramids and cathedrals were built that way.
A.I. vs an actual writer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BnLbv6QYcA
“It remains to be seen whether it will catch on in the business world, where people use computers for actual work, and not just dicking around”
Ah, the days when The Onion was genuinely funny.
Also, the click-wheel was pretty nifty on iPods. I still have my Nano in a Bose speaker dock, but I can’t change which songs are loaded on it because none of my hardware recognizes the iPod anymore.
“How to get shot.“
He was no Eddie, was he?
Impressive hammering.
A big tool like that can quickly take it out of your ordinary feeble bloke (like me)
I won’t be watching the beach version of that
Fire and lots of it.
Morning, all.
He’s not wrong.
It is a bit much. What with “recalibrating video… to a multiplicity of bodies,” and “multisensory forms of listening,” presumably by deaf people.
But has your metadata been queered?
[ Slurps coffee. ]
*paedo alarm*
Newcomerliness.
I’m sure everything will work out fine, citizen.
Is he a doctor or an engineer?
This illustrates the great problem with “A.I”, the non-technical imagine it comes up with new ideas, when all it does is scrape existing ideas that show some algorithmic match.
I had a Sonos that used a similar control pad with a wheel, then Sonos decided to brick it despite it being perfectly functional, a strange case of the the hardware outlasting the software.
Meanwhile, in the world of neurotic progressive women…
She didn’t know the language. So she moved there, obviously.
Yoga, you say.
I heard there are certain . . . er, clubs . . . where people do that for fun.
[ Fetches winches, talc, mixtape. ]
How to get shot.
I like the black car – uh, listen, imma just skooch back here, ‘aight?
There’s a reason it’s called Anacrime.
She was 100% wrong. Top marks!
I am shocked that this fetching lass made any kinds of threats.
As always, some asshole “demands justice and accountability” from the police.
Are those black metal security bars over the window behind her?
Is that a relatively recent development?
I’ve only been there twice and it seemed okay–in the mid 60’s and in 1984.
And is the crime situation a post-George-Floyd thing? Or is it due to demographic changes in the area?
And while listening to her blatherings, I found myself getting irrationally irritated by her repeated use of the word like and her endless fiddling with her sunglasses.
I don’t think we’d get on, frankly.
Somewhat related, “When black women are speaking.“
She has a TikTok account. It’s what you’d imagine.
I’ll just leave this one here.
Speaking of the steadily decreasing age of violent criminals…
Their names and faces need to be published. Likewise their parents’. And the criminal histories of all their relatives.
Has anyone spoken to Elon Musk about the urgent need for a Golgafrincham Ark B?
I’ve seen claims that this sort of thing often happens because continuing to support older hardware imposes complexity costs on those enhancing the software. That would agree with my personal experiences in software development.
But that doesn’t make it any less infuriating for the user.
I did like the man with the sledgehammer, but as someone who has often used long-handled implements, I do get annoyed when they are not used ergonomically.
Starting position has dominant hand at the top of the shaft, other hand at the bottom. As you swing, slide the dominant hand down the shaft, while also pushing with it, accelerating the swing.
It really is much easier that way.
Here’s an example (start at 6:27)
Do the luxury environments miss her?
Damn. I hope the tree is okay.
I’m still processing the idea that these are the things they choose to share with the world. Presumably, while expecting either sympathy or applause.
Even money it’s the only way to shut her (?) up.
This was more or less exactly the case, the control pad did not have the internal memory capacity needed to use all the additional features Sonos wanted to implement.
However, this is because Sonos has since moved into supporting streaming music subscriptions as their major feature, their latest updates to the app removed functionality to search and scroll through your personal music library, which did not please their core fan base, many of which had tens of thousands of legally ripped music files.
So the sad part is they destroyed a perfectly functional piece of hardware because it did not fit their new business model, not primarily because it was costly to support, despite many users only needing it for it’s original purpose of maintaining a personal music collection.
The likelihood of legacy media mentioning a murderer’s race.
[ Considers dinner options, weighs merits of a Meadowfresh steak pie slice. ]
For illustrative purposes.