Friday Ephemera (663)
Crabs give pedicure. || Deaf man and his cat. || Not quite what I imagined. || Calling International Rescue. || The calculator drawer. || Random Street Views. || City living scenes. || A.I. attempts to make sign-language manual. (h/t, Dicentra) || At last, music generated from text. || Smart slime and throbbing bloblets. || Bruising of the soft tissue. || You had one bloody job. || But only when it rains. || Back passage of note. (h/t, Damian) || Ancient Earth Globe. || Theirs is considerably bigger than yours. || Gently does it. || A decision was made. || Thriller, Indian version. || Chain reaction. || ChronoPhoto, a photographical history game. (h/t, Things) || Coffee can do anything. || And finally, don’t worry, it’s a weight-saving measure.
City living scenes.
Dancing to “Baby Shark” song?
A decision was made.
I would take that as a warning to not buy the house. God Only Knows (TM) what nightmares of wiring and plumbing are concealed within the walls.
No, no! I look forward every Friday morning to reading the Ephemera. It’s still Thursday night here in Appalachia, so I shall resist.
Not having a good day.
Medicine guaranteed to make you feel better, no matter what ails you.
Find the trans person.
ChronoPhoto, a photographical history game.
Addictive! Top score so far 3542.
I laughed and I am not ashamed.
I’m still trying to figure out how the street views got an underwater picture of a humpback whale, perhaps Captain Nemo has a clue.
If this harsh sentence doesn’t teach him the error of his ways, nothing will.
Addictive! Top score so far 3542.
New high score 3703! Please make it stop.
If this harsh sentence doesn’t teach him the error of his ways, nothing will.
They’ll use chemical castration for “transitioning” teens but not for these monsters.
Please make it stop.
Indeed.
3984, but this batch was easy – Cassius Clay at the ’60 Olympics, the Spanish Civil War, one that was at Shorpy recently.
Is that how you summon Cthulhu?
Morning, all.
I see my work here is done.
“I genuinely believe the shit that I say like this down to my fucking gut.”
One for the ladies.
Additional dimensions not included.
Chat GPT was very bad at identifying this, proposing ‘Lethal Weapon’, ‘No Man’s Land’ and ‘The Half of It’ after a couple minor re-wordings of the description.
“Movies or TV series in which a dead body is discovered on the border of two countries, forcing cooperation between two cops of different backgrounds. In some versions the body is female and discovered to be cut in half with upper and lower halves from two different people.”
I Gefyra 2022
Greece / Turkey
The Bridge 2018
Russia / Estonia
The Bridge 2018
Singapore / Malaysia
The Bridge 2013
USA / Mexico
The Tunnel 2013
UK / France
The Bridge 2011
Sweden / Denmark
Bon Cop, Bad Cop 2006
Canada (Quebec / Ontario)
Maybe there are more but I gave up after finding these…
ChronoPhoto
That is kind of fun
I did not know these existed.
Bookmarking Random Street Views for when I want to joyfully waste some time in the day.
Dysmorphic man has two transgender children. A coincidence, I’m sure.
Dysmorphic man has two transgender children. A coincidence, I’m sure.
Transhausen-by-proxy.
I genuinely believe the shit that I say…
Personal property is OK, but not private property. We all right then.
Meanwhile, in other leaps of logic, a headline of note.
That does seem to be the most likely explanation. And so the cross-dressing child abuser declares his own pride and accuses others of being hateful. Of being “barbaric and morally repugnant.”
This, ladies and gentlemen, is where we are now.
While Scotland wrestles with the existential question “Are trans women rapists women rapists?”, Italy has a solution of sorts.
The cynic in me wonders if coffee rescue guy was the one who froze the kittens to the ice in the first place. You know, for the millions of views.
I’m gonna go find me some puppies since today is -25C…
The cynic in me wonders if coffee rescue guy was the one who froze the kittens to the ice in the first place. You know, for the millions of views.
Tails do seem very unlikely to get frozen in place. And there do seem to be a lot of amoral opportunists on the internet.
Slime mold: I wrote a program 20 yrs ago to solve a spatial optimization problem based on slime mold behavior. The journal accepted it in 4 days without revisions–fastest I ever did.
Who the hell thinks pennies have a smell? And is that supposed to be an insult?
ChatGPT: It will confabulate a journal citation for a fact that it gets wrong because it can only assess words in relation to other words, and not reality or truth.
It has been programmed to refuse to provide an argument against climate change or against covid vaccination. Whatever the topic if you just ask for a summary, it will give you the most likely thing, without assessing arguments.
Cheerleading scenes.
Wow. White supremacy and toxic masculinity!
“Do you want to buy my frozen gloves?“
What could possibly go wrong?
Take the test yourself! Completely free of bias!
I did not know these existed.
Further down that thread, a sign: “Stop killing babies to make baby oil“.
Gender identities test: hahahaha it basicly asks you if you are trans. That is it. Science!!!
clam-o-meter
You’re not alone in that…
Curious if I’m alone in this…Did anyone catch Groundhog Day on AMC last night? Not satisfied with scewing up Christmas, July 4, Memorial Day, Thanksgiving, etc. etc. the wokesters have moved on to Groundhog Day to find something to be offended about. We watched it last night. It started with a content warning about violence which seemed oddly amusing. I felt the movie was a bit disjointed. Scenes didn’t seem to flow right. Then we got to the end of the movie and I knew at least the scene where Bill Murray drives off a cliff or something with the groundhog had been cut. I checked the wiki on it and realized what we watched had been sanitized. All the suicide scenes had been removed. Like you’re not supposed to notice this in a movie the essence of which involves repletion such that people have watched it over and over again.
I did not know these existed.
Many such devices, because more often than not, this is tame compared to trying to do a procedure on most kids in ERs or clinics.
This is now my new profile pic on FB. Thanks!
Things that just seem to happen on a school bus. It is unfortunate. Terribly unfortunate that these things just spontaneously occur.
Step 1: Set up camera to show off your ass in gym;
Step 2: Try to squat to show off your ass but with way more weight than you can squat;
Step 3a: Be offended that people are looking at the ass you are trying to show off;
Step 3b: Wonder why no men are coming to help you;
Step 3c: Be too stupid to sit back and drop the weight.
Chose one or more from Step 3.
Ooh, this by Sarah Hoyt. Yet even she glosses over the dangers of a lot else about modern fiction.
Cat has issues.
Actual ephemera, on an actual Friday afternoon: When Did You Fall Out Of Touch With Popular Music?
(And I can see myself doing this over the weekend. Oh dear.)
Things that just seem to happen on a school bus.
Yes, “spontaneously”.
And the “civil rights” lawyers have made it virtually impossible to stop this.
The Guardian is still outraged when terrorists open fire but police dare to shoot back.
I never heard of this work of “art”. Just more bollocks, of course.
I hope this doesn’t mean war.
School bus,
Try to imagine the reaction starting from the White House and spreading across the entire world if two 14 year old white boys were filmed beating up a 9 year old black girl.
OK, some extra steps to become a heterosexual couple, but mazeltov!
Try to squat to show off your ass
Okay, so a few posts ago I described my encounter with a young woman wearing tights that showed everything. What this “squatter” is wearing is exactly what the young woman was wearing, only she wasn’t in a gym, she was in the passport office, in public. Not complaining, but impressed with the sheer audacity. As a member, of the patriarchy I’m sure I would face some form of feminist regrooving.
Everything that is wrong with modern “entertainment” (scroll down to cast).
“A cast that reflects multiple representations of race, gender, and ethnicity…”
Still, it’s good to be reminded that the bulk of our official culture is produced by a remarkably narrow social and political class. Or caste, if you prefer.
Not entirely unrelated.
“Scroll down to cast”
Are we playing spot the tranny again?
I have questions:
Why are these videos always mirrored?Why is that woman wearing a skimpy tank top but a woolly hat?Why does her vodka bottle have a drizzly top and not pour normally?Why is dried mozzarella?Why isn’t this listing tool working?
I think I might know the answer to 3). Is it because she drinks?
“A cast that reflects multiple representations of race, gender, and ethnicity…”
Hardly, all but four use she/her pronouns. I say cancel them all, except the
confusedfour, of course.I hope you are feeling better, David.
Today in “The World of Stupid™”:
1. Mr, Beast is abelist for paying for 1000 cataract surgeries.
2.1,000 year old “non-binary” corpse.
3.A man has difficulty with names and pronouns.
@Farnsworth M Muldoon
Oh, I see that your list function worked fine?!
Didn’t you hear? The war is over. It ended in a surrender. Via Ace.
Oh, I see that your list function worked fine?!
No, that thing is hideously annoying as if you add a space after the number (as is the custom) it automatically indents to start the list over,
1.The list function is a POS;
Further the damn thing won’t turn off even if you were to highlight the second number one above and hit the numbered list icon to deactivate it.
Another example of fucking things up under the guise of making it easier.
…and there it undid it. Time for a test.
1.A list
As I said a POS.
An inconsistent POS as it doesn’t display as previewed where the second list was indented in preview.
Nuke it from a Chinese balloon and bring back manual HTML.
We conservatives became “extremists” by remaining where we were, while liberals became “middle of the road” by moving to the far left:
Today in “The World of Stupid™”:
1. Mr, Beast is abelist for paying for 1000 cataract surgeries.
I remember reading something at least 20 years ago about “deaf rights activists” who condemned surgeries that enabled previously deaf people to hear.
On the pediatric immobilizer tweet, it’s nice to see at least one of the replies mention Bonsai Kitten.
@Muldoon
It is the sad destiny of engineers to build tools which enable incompetents to perform tasks which were once the sole preserve of expert engineers.
Wallow in the fact that they don’t work too well.
Also – damn you and your list stealthings!
@David
While we’re on the subject of moaning about the comment widget – is there any chance of having it manifest at the bottom of the comment list? Where the new comment will in fact appear. Or alternatively of inversely ordering the comments?
Oddly enough I find myself generally commenting on remarks made more recently, not those at the top, and find referencing them quite tedious when they are at the opposite end of the page.
Long may your comment pages be. Peace upon them.
cataract surgery: sure, blindness is not a problem…to the commentariat. If the people did not want the surgery, they could have declined. In the old days, there were so many blind people due to cataracts. No good deed is ever good enough.
1776: the american revolution created the most stable Republic outside of Iceland and a constitution that many countries have emulated. The US fought a civil war over slavery–I think that debt is paid.
the 1619 project is on Netflix. A lie full of lies, that the amer revol was fought to protect slavery. 1. The brits in 1776 were NOT about to end slavery 2) 95% of slaves in the early colonies were whites serving out a 5 (or other) year term to pay off their passage to the colonies. They were “indentured” but still had few rights and often were worked to death. Slavery in the South actually held back development.
Also – damn you and your list stealthings!
My what???
I agree: We shouldn’t have to live with people like this.
Nor should we have to live with the people who defend these people.
@ccscientist
Nice rant. You know what it could do with? Some sort of listing tool to break it up a bit in the middle there https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/svg/1f644.svg
Oh FFS. I give up.
@Muldoon
A different kind of stealthings. Although now I come to look it up, I discover all these years he was actually saying “stealth haze” 🙁
Oh NOW it puts in the emoji image. When I type it out in ascii. But when I paste in the fucking character it puts in some image url!
Oh FFS. I give up.
Me too, I got your stealth haze video to work on the third browser I tried.
I pine for the olden days before HTML5 and CSS when any site worked on any browser…
The floating maroon comment bubble, which appears bottom left, takes you to the comment form anyway, from wherever you are on the page. Which seems pretty reasonable. Besides which, I’m feeling too rough to start poking through the near-fractal settings submenus. At the moment, I can just about focus.
[ Emits feeble cough. ]
@Muldoon
I invite you to imagine that ->here<- I’d successfully managed to insert an eye-rolling emoji.
The list function is a POS
Yes, but it displays in the preview as indented and monospaced, so if you actually want it indented you would have to blockquote, because you can’t put a space in front of the autogenerated number, like so:
which takes the numbers off, so you would have to add them back which turns it back into an unindented number list.
The problem would be solved if number list was an option and not a default.
Same thing happens in Word unless you go into the settings and turn off autoformatting.
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Now boarding at Gate Infinity.
@David
I probably wasn’t clear – it’s not the position of the floating chinese balloon, er, bubble to which I object. It’s the positioning of the comment form itself – which I feel would be better at the bottom of the page, closer to the most recent comments, rather than the top.
But by all means feel better. Meanwhile the rest of us will soldier bravely on with this substandard equipment.
Karl, PiperPaul,
Don’t make me laugh, you bastards. It hurts when I laugh.
Don’t make me laugh, you bastards. It hurts when I laugh.
Would it help if I told you I am looking at an expensive Amazon purchase?
It’d better be a house.
I used MidJourney AI to make a sign language manual. In between signs in the language of Cthulhu, it did a nice one-finger salute.
From Ireland: This mugger seems unworried about being caught.
Just how do these “migrants” actually “enrich” the West?
Today’s word is sputum.
[ Eyes spittoon warily ]
Today’s word is sputum.
If I lived next door, David, I would bring you a gallon of chicken soup. 🙁
I’ll say it for David: No refund; credit note only.
2) 95% of slaves in the early colonies were whites serving out a 5 (or other) year term to pay off their passage to the colonies. They were “indentured” but still had few rights and often were worked to death.
Some of that indenture was involuntary, too. The Click family was sold out of an English debtor’s prison and forcibly brought to the colonies in 1697. They were brought to a Virginia plantation when they worked for at least 60 years before the “debt” was paid off. IOW there may have been some members who were born and died in this kind of bond-slavery.
Peruse old, classified ads of colonial America and see offered rewards for the return of “runaway slaves and indentured servants”.
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Another woke Millennial who feelz all history began with him.
She’s triggered the up-buggered link klaxon. Can’t even edit the bloody thing. There’s no URL in there.
It’s a disgrace.
I’m still trying to figure out how the street views got an underwater picture of a humpback whale, perhaps Captain Nemo has a clue.
I don’t, I’m afraid. Your guess is as good as mine.
Can’t even edit the bloody thing. There’s no URL in there.
ARGH … Try again. [hangs head in shame, reports to correction chamber]
With your criminal background, now come to light, I suppose we shouldn’t be surprised.
[ Stashes valuables in socks. ]