It is by will alone I set my mind in motion
It is by the brew of the bean that thoughts acquire speed
The teeth acquire stains
The stains become a warning
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion
Say what you will about David Lynch’s Dune, it gave us some good stuff.
Speaking of good stuff, what do the stars have to say this week? Chaos. Tempest. Wild horses and howling wolves. Forces pulling you in multiple directions simultaneously. That’s what you get when you’ve got the moon on your right hand and Mercury on left. Which you do in this case if I need to be more definitive. Unless of course you live in the Southern Hemisphere, in which case the conflicting, chaos-causing currents are concordantly coordinated, but opposite (relatively).
The sun is in Sagittarius, which is a particularly auspicious time for astrology and astrologers. For the rest of you, expect a time of wisdom, precision, rectitude, all that good stuff. Only a few more weeks for Capricorn to deal with the Jupiter-Saturn weight. You all know about Mars in Aries. The moon joins Venus in Scorpio, which is a warning to look out for hidden hazards, but also is a recommendation for role-playing in the bedroom. The “watch out for hidden dangers” bit still applies though, and the Moon in Taurus is a warning against trying anything requiring acrobatic skill.
Sagittarius: The Star – Loss, theft, privation, abandonment, hope, bright prospects
Capricorn: 10 of Cups reversed – Repose of the false heart, indignation, violence
Aquarius: 8 of wands – Activity in undertakings, the path of such activity, swiftness, great haste, great hope, speed towards an end, that which is on the move; also the arrows of love.
Pisces: Knight of Coins – Utility, serviceableness, interest, responsibility, rectitude
Aries: 10 of Coins reversed – Chance, fatality, loss, robbery, games of hazard, gift, dowry, pension
Taurus: King of Coins – Valor, realizing intelligence, business and normal intellectual aptitude, mathematical gifts and attainments of this kind
Gemini: 7 of Coins reversed – Cause for anxiety regarding money especially with regard to lending
Cancer: Page of Swords reversed – Authority, overseeing, secret service, vigilance, spying, examination but all of theses against you. Unforeseen, unprepared state, sickness, a clumsy or inexperienced enemy.
Leo: Ace of Swords reversed – Overreaction, overplaying your hand, your bluff called. Overexertion leading to injury
Virgo: 4 of Cups – Weariness, disgust, aversion, imaginary vexations, a beloved dish tasted too often
Libra: 5 of Wands reversed – Losing a competition, litigation, disputes, trickery, contradiction
Scorpio: The Lovers reversed – Failure, foolish designs, marriage frustrated and contrarities of all kinds.
Cancer: Page of Swords reversed – Authority, overseeing, secret service, vigilance, spying, examination but all of theses against you. Unforeseen, unprepared state, sickness, a clumsy or inexperienced enemy.
It is not good to wish ill on your fellow glib
Sagittarius: The Star – Loss, theft, privation, abandonment, hope, bright prospects
Errr… okay?
OT and stuff
Grosjean’s car literally ripped in half and burst into flames, the worst crash I’ve ever seen in 15+ years of watching F1, thank god he’s okay #BahrainGP
https://twitter.com/americaneedshim/status/1333055510212435968
He walked out after sitting in the fires for a good 30 secs
https://twitter.com/PiedPiperValley/status/1333058494371569665
And then halfway through the first lap of the restart, a car flipped.
check out Senna’s wreck, or Nikki Laudas’ wreck, or Jackie Stewart’s wreck at Spa, where he was trapped in a pool of gas ,in a Farmhouse basement, for half an hour…..
Tom Pryce was the worst open wheel crash I’ve seen
You all know about Mars in Aries.
I do?
Ouch.
Guessing “doom”.
It’s a sexual position.
I’m glad we’re back to phrasing.
‘…realizing intelligence, business and normal intellectual aptitude,…’
I realized I only have normal intellectual aptitude on a good day a long time ago, thank you very much.
Leo: Ace of Swords reversed – Overreaction, overplaying your hand, your bluff called. Overexertion leading to injury
Seems legit. Tomorrow is squat day.
Looks like a bad week for Leos to Glibfit.
As for the rest, meh. I’m keeping my head down these days.
I figure Thanksgiving and leftovers were already bad for GlibFit this week.
Yeah. Not even trying. I’ll start back at it tomorrow. I took all of last week off. Didn’t run. Didn’t do low carb/keto stuff. I sat on my sofa and drank bourbon and played guitar all day. Except Wednesday, the wife and I took a five mile walk through the arboretum and the ship canal. It’s Thanksgiving, why even try?
I’ll pick it back up when the leftovers are gone. So a couple more days at least.
On the bright side my weight stayed stable, and based on averages I only gained about 2 pounds.
Wild horses and howling wolves, eh?
Dehd – Horses https://youtu.be/iesNIkhVHvk
The Nils – I Am the Wolf https://youtu.be/dKmsO52UzSQ
@NotAdahn, I have another book project that involves Tarot. May I pick your brain at some point(s) in the future?
Elvis Costello – King Horse https://youtu.be/EklhZUbXV00
999 – Wolf https://youtu.be/jUUte7I2YzA
Los Tones – One Horse Race https://youtu.be/Qk1hmmlrl94
King Khan & BBQ Show – Killing the Wolfman https://youtu.be/-w_MMWj8-NU
Jacuzzi Boys – Heavy Horse https://youtu.be/1yFa2bizEOU
Spiral Stairs – Dance (Cry Wolf) https://youtu.be/le8nQjXRkiA
Grosjean’s car literally ripped in half and burst into flames
It’s not supposed to do that.
I’m surprised he didn’t get electrocuted by the KERS.
Mercury in Retrograde – https://youtu.be/e5nOxc-p-eM
Cool Ghouls – Gord’s Horse https://youtu.be/nsbA5wke17E
Penicillin Baby – Teen Wolf https://youtu.be/lTg04C383No
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/a-belief-in-meritocracy-is-not-only-false-it-s-bad-for-you?utm_source=pocket-newtab
(Emphasis, mine)
Those guys were just lucky that they seized the opportunity they found themselves in, and they were just lucky that they had good parents who brought them up. And were of good Genetic stock.
I’ll take my advice on success and opportunities from the Pet Shop Boys, thank your very much.
well I am not a fan of meritocracy myself as I said before, but even if it is luck thems be the breaks. Even assuming every characteristic of a person is luck – which is silly – this does not change the fact that is best to leave people who are genetically blessed to use those gifts to get shit done . So libertarianism ftw
“Age And Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, And A Bad Haircut”
PJ O’Rourke
This is the big thing i have against this whole shtick by the left. I don’t believe that the world _is_ perfectly meritocratic, nor am i really convinced that it could be, because it would mean that there is some universal way to measure merit, which doesn’t really make sense, it’s subjective.
But the idea that no one “earned” anything because “it’s all luck, and your good qualities are just luck” is abhorrent to me.
because it would mean that there is some universal way to measure merit, which doesn’t really make sense, it’s subjective
One of the great advantages of capitalism is that if you want to drop out of life, so to say, and live modestly, it’s fairly easy to do. If you want to try to drop out of socialism, good luck with that.
You comrade were unlucky enough to born into this society that you owe everything to, in other words you are a slave to society.
The left believes in meritocracy more than the right, actually. A ruling class of well-meaning types with academic pedigrees should get to rule over us all, according to them.
It’s just a different kind of merit.
+1 apparat.
+1 Philosopher Kings
Fuck Plato with a rusty chainsaw.
“this does not change the fact that is best to leave people who are genetically blessed to use those gifts to get shit done”
Well said.
Of course, New Soviet Man will selflessly use his gifts to benefit the collective with no desire for reward or recognition.
With no joy or pleasure, the nomenklatura will suffer the heavy burden of residing in their dachas on the Black Sea or Baja Mexico because it’s their duty.
Otherwise why would they have put the dachas there? It’s not public housing, I mean, C’mon, man, use your head.
Talent and the capacity for determined effort, sometimes called ‘grit’, depend a great deal on one’s genetic endowments and upbringing.
Genetic endowments? Brian Shul laughs at you.
Upbringing does play into it, but rather than recognizing that we should encourage more people to raise their kids in a way that makes them ‘gritty’, you’re gonna suggest that we handicap people who do the right thing. The left is becoming the “punish all virtue” movement.
^^^ This. we talked about this the other day, but the left wing has blatently become the coalition of demoralization and turning viciousness into virtue and virtue into vice.
It always has been.
His speed check story
https://youtu.be/8AyHH9G9et0
His full length speech is worth a listen when you have an hour. Motivating to the maximum
I’ll take my advice on success and opportunities from the Pet Shop Boys, thank your very much.
Everything you longed to do is a sin? 🙂
What about people who aren’t good at things? Shouldn’t we falsely attribute success to them just to make them feel better? Who cares if we have to take stuff from people who deserve it. Why can’t we just upend the whole idea of “deserve” and substitute our own. Of course, we’ll have to block out the input from anyone who actually deserves anything, we all know how they’ll vote. Let’s just create a committee of experts and let them decide who gets what. Can I be on this committee? I’ll be fair, I swear!
If STEM people went to work at Starbucks they’d quickly start stirring up trouble,, re-inventing, making improvements in equipment, etc and putting people out of work.
Who needs ’em?
That’s why god invented Walmart, to give everyone an opportunity to excel.
And indeed, so many at Walmart are XL.
On both sides of the cash register
Walmart provides work for many people who’d have a hard time getting a job elsewhere and provides stuff for a lot of people who couldn’t afford to obtain it anywhere else.
So I don’t know why We Superior People should waste our talents on trashing Walmart or the people who patronize it.
Agreed. I may be superior but I never trash Walmart.
Agreed. My kid’s going to get a long head start on life (at 17) because of WM.
Despite the moral assurance and personal flattery that meritocracy offers to the successful, it ought to be abandoned both as a belief about how the world works and as a general social ideal. It’s false, and believing in it encourages selfishness, discrimination and indifference to the plight of the unfortunate.
“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars
But in ourselves”
I particularly hate the part about selfishness. As far as I know, every western religion encourages both personal excellence and charity. The author may want to try it some time.
“23 And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men”
The one thing we can be sure of, is that because of these idiots, we’re going to enter a new dark age and thereby solve global warming. Once you’ve taken away any incentive for anyone doing anything, no one will do anything. All progress, innovation, and production will come to a screeching halt and we’ll all live like peasants did 1000 years ago.
Not all of us. Surely there must be a class of nobles and ecclesiastics to shepherd over the peasants, just as there was then.
Success = Luck * Skills.
Nobody is saying that luck doesn’t have anything to do with it. But if you’re too clueless to take your luck when you see it, there is not much anyone can do about it.
There’s a lot of trust funder addicts living on the edge out there, we see examples all the time in the ER. Born rich, likely talented, and with tons of opportunity should they have chosen to try. How is this type of lucky person not automatically ruling us, while a kid who came from nothing and barely made it through high school becomes a wildly successful owner of a chain of plumbing supply stores? Guess everything is luck of circumstance and merit is meaningless.
I’m from a white collar family. I met a crack-addict in rehab that was horribly abused as a kid and was raised in pretty much utter poverty. Who’s the lucky one?
Now guess who made his first million before 25? Not me lol.
Given, he lost all of it and have shylocks on his ass but he’ll make it back way before I do.
But none of us would have made it anywhere if we stayed in our basement doing our stuff. Whatever the amount of luck we got.
It’s as if those people expect luck to come and knock on their door and will try to get in by the window if they don’t answer.
Roger Penske has a somewhat similar quote: luck = preparation + opportunity.
This particular argument ignores the larger issue.
Success is an aberration. The natural state is poverty and despair.
The only way to obtain any success in society is to allow those who are lucky and good to be rewarded for it.
This does not mean everyone who is capable will obtain success, but it does mean that those who raise the tide thru their success will lift all boats in some small measure.
By demeaning the imperfect yet successful system of meritocracy, they have made the perfect the enemy of the good.
Utopia does not exist.
“Success is an aberration. The natural state is poverty and despair.”
Why can’t you see that when we are all poor and in despair together, we’re all so much better off, because equality!
David Goggins would like a word.
Tacocat – Horse Grrls https://youtu.be/Bjbuj6t3egA
The Fresh & Only’s – Wolf Lie Down https://youtu.be/yq4phlfd3J8
So someone is gonna die, but I get money?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBEC2A1uwt4
I forgot just how homely Mare Winningham was/is.
LOL
She never did seem to fit in the Brat Pack.
Old gray Mare, she ain’t what she used to be.
She stars in a movie I adore so she’s all right by me.
https://youtu.be/j7vyLEL10dM
Ok I am sold.
I’m sold by the drugs falling out the dogs’ asses.
I can understanding putting your faith in a Great Leader if it’s an Alexander laying the world at his feet, a Charlemagne uniting the shattered empire, driving out the moslem invaders and bringing back law, or even a Napoleon. What I cannot understand is applying that impulse to seek the protection of the strong against the terrors of the dark to the stupid, cowardly, inept slime we are offered today.
If you’re handing out free shots to promote your liquor, it should at least taste good. SoCo, Ameretto, and sour mix is not balanced or good.
At least it was free?
I once loved Amaretto sours, but now they hurt my tummy. Southern Comfort is a product I’ve never taken a shine to.
BBC infringes on NYT intellectual property.
“Everything we worked for, that has taken 25 years, could be lost in a year,” says UN Women Deputy Executive Director Anita Bhatia.
I’ll believe it when she gets booted from her sinecure and goes back to ironing and changing diapers.
There hasn’t been anything intellectual at the NYT in a very long time, nothing to steal, I call fake news.
Yeah, caring for your family is such a fucking chore. Why can’t the government do that for us?
There’s something particularly abhorrent about the culture of high caste Indian women. They seem to have a real taste for communism and a loathing of the proles.
My hypothesis is that they’re used to being waited on hand and foot, and they recognize that same impulse in the elitist left.
And she’s writing an article on sake, which fits into the above how? But not to worry, she claims to do 80% of the unpaid work around the house while her husband only works a fraction of the day.
Now do labor participation rates of married women with children.
I just did my dishes and nobody paid me to do it. Not fair!
So the WTF is leading the NFC East at 4-7?
Sad!
WFT, but like the idea of redskin potatoes on the helmets and re-christening as the Redskins, the Washington Football Team just missed the opportunity to be the Washington Team of Football – which would have been so much better.
WTF. That’s the name. I have spoken.
Just wait for the rule change that you can’t make the playoffs without a winning season.
OK that would be hilarious
Sort of like Ohio State missing out on the Big10 title game if they have another contest cancelled?
I don’t know that it matters since Baron Von RothlisNaziBurgermeister has decided to use his white privilege and sit in the pocket carving up all the defenses. I thought we had gotten rid of this systemic racism?
What is particularly depressing here, is the obvious lack of any place for the majority of us. Educated? Yes, and too intelligent for the stupidity the Dems believe in. And populists are just as prone to busy-bodiness as liberal/proggie and short-sightedness if they believe in economic nationalism.
?
Did I not say it was depressing?
Why shouldn’t we attack those who promote cancel culture?
.8 billionaire and still die from a house fire. Check your smoke alarms, people.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hsieh
According to wiki he was visiting a friend and staying in a basement.
No idea on specifics here, but this is one of times where building codes and common sense actually intersect.
If you are going to have legitimate sleeping and full time utilization of a basement space you need a good means of egress.
Someone showed some interest in the Iowa 2nd District race last week (don’t remember who)
https://www.kcrg.com/2020/11/28/miller-meeks-holds-lead-over-hart-after-recount-for-iowas-2nd-congressional-district/
The Iowa Press-Citizen reports that Miller-Meeks had just six more votes than Democrat Rita Hart after the recount wrapped up Saturday in Clinton County, which was the last of the district’s 24 counties to report its results.
A state canvassing board is expected to meet Monday, the legal deadline, to certify the results of the race in which more than 394,400 votes were cast.
Looks like it’s going to be official. Pubs pick up two seats in Iowa at the same time 4 cities give the presidency to Biden.
Six votes?
All those libertarians saying your vote didn’t matter feel foolish.
Yes. Six votes difference with 394, 400 counted. After the recount of every county in the district.
Crazy close.
Does the winner get a mandate too?
Mandate, womandate, we don’t discriminate here.
Yes. They get the mandate to wield the power of the office, just exactly the same as the guy who wins 380,000 to 0. We don’t have a weighted system where really popular officials get extra power.
Thank Goodness. Or else you’d have people like AOC with ridiculous amounts of power.
So the Broncos don’t have a QB. I might watch the game today.
They’re got a running back filling in from my understanding.
Practice team receiver is what the Twitters are telling me. Don’t care enough to actually find out.
I wonder why they didn’t just postpone it like everyone else is doing.
So I see Copper Mountain is offering grab and go dining only this winter. Good thing I already decided to cancel my trip.
I thought that the deal was we all pretend Biden won the election, and in return they pretend that Covid is miraculously contained so we could restart the voluntary interactions with each other that we collectively call “the economy”.
This deal is getting worse all the time.
Relevant.
LOL perfect.
It seemed like a stretch that people so hungry for more power that they would trash the economy and Bill of Rights to get one person kicked out of office, would suddenly change their behavior and become indifferent to using that newly acquired power once they “won”.
Past—-glibfit post is up.
Whatcha waiting for, Nancy?