Jill Filipovic with her reliably bad take on any subject under the golden rays of Our Beloved Sun.
The problem with all this talk about two-parent ‘privilege’
Having a child outside of marriage has taken a similar course: more common across classes than it was a few decades ago, but much more common among poorer Americans and those with the lowest levels of education. One Johns Hopkins sociologist found that, between 2017 and 2018, 24.5% of college-educated women were unmarried when they birthed their first child, a radical increase from 1996, when just 4% were unmarried.
But among Americans with less education, the results are even more startling: Between 2017 and 2018, 86.5% of women without a high school degree gave birth while unmarried, as did more than 60% of those with a high school diploma. The numbers also reflect stark inequities among racial lines: Close to three-quarters of Black mothers have a child outside of marriage, compared with 66% of American Indian and Native Alaskans, 53% of Hispanics, 29% of Whites and 17% of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.
Weird. The Solution is always more government.
Why Aren’t Disabled Astronauts Exploring Space?
Even with hopeful futures like that of space travel, we can expect the production of disability. Space is already disabling for humans. Just as the built environment on Earth is not suited for disabled bodies, space as an environment is not suited to any human bodies. Every astronaut comes back from the low gravity of space with damage to their bones and eyes—and the longer they are off Earth’s surface, the worse the damage. Some things can be restored over time, but some changes are long-lasting. These realities are absent from futurist writing about technology, which is framed as simply magicking away the disabling effects of space travel.
This is why technofuturists’ discussions of “The End of Disability” are so silly. Disability isn’t ending; we’re going to see more and newer forms of disability in the future. This doesn’t mean that all medical projects aimed at treating disease and disability are unpromising. But we need to prepare for the disabled future: becoming more comfortable with other people’s disabilities, accepting the fact that we ourselves will eventually be disabled (if we aren’t already), learning to recognize and root out ableism—these are all moves toward building a better future for everyone. Planning for the future in a realistic way requires embracing the existence, and indeed the powerful role, of disabled people in it. We must rid ourselves of technoableism—the harmful belief that technology is a “solution” for disability—and instead pay overdue attention to the ways that disabled communities make and shape the world, live with loss and navigate hostility, and creatively adapt.
As a disabled, I want healthy people exploring space. I don’t know how this is controversial.
When this fucker eats you, you stay eaten.
Quetzalcoatlus northropi is an azhdarchid pterosaur known from the Late Cretaceous of North America and one of the largest known flying animals of all time
[read more: https://t.co/jm7PGKbJgo] pic.twitter.com/J009w4ukTO
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) September 27, 2023
That’s a big bird.
Wings for days.
It doesn’t look like it could fly.
I strongly suspect it is closer to “glide”, personally.
Switching to Glide – The Kings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoCvq8VS4u4&ab_channel=TheKings-Topic
This gets into a bit.|
https://gizmodo.com/largest-ever-flying-animal-jumped-8-feet-into-the-air-b-1848181323
tl;dr The attachments of the muscles to the breastbone were developed enough to enable flight.
Just watch out for its imaginary friend, Snuffleupagus Rex.
Ackshually, not a bird. A pterosaur.
If birds are descendants of dinosaurs, why can’t I call it a bird?
You can call it anything you can pronounce.
Even Johnson
With all the pedants around here, you really think you get to call it a bird?
Because Pteroaurs were not actually Dinosaurs. They’re a parallel branch.
Even if they were, they don’t demonstrate the cladistic features that define birds.
Jill Fillopovic has got to be one of the stupidest women alive, and that, really, is saying something.
And yet, she isn’t on either The View or The Talk.
She can’t apply before peri-menopause.
If it bleeds, it leads!
Or, in the land of the blind, the one eyed harridan is king.
Our Beloved Sun? Heresy!
Sol Aeternus
I was expecting this Battle Cry
You say Battle Cry, I’m thinking this.
Disability isn’t ending; we’re going to see more and newer forms of disability in the future.
Disability as a growth sector. I tapped out here.
Relevant.
RESPECT MY OBESI-TAH!
Have you all not seen Gattaca?
I recall reading an article that stated that some uncomfortably large percentage of people (like 25-30%) would be will to lose an appendage to gain a handicapped parking tag.
Mrs. Animal has handicapped plates on her truck and has had them for almost thirty years. She’d give them up in a split-second if she could get rid of her physical and neurological issues.
And, yes, I’m an enormous prick about people who abuse handicapped parking spaces.
I try not to judge — but I do find it odd how many Corvettes have handicap plates these days.
I just saw one a couple days ago, wondered if it had 4 on the floor.
You can’t buy a Corvette unless you’re bald and need a hip replacement.
I could probably qualify for handicapped plates/windshield but I won’t. A matter of not wanting to admit it. I laugh, even if it hurts, when I see a handicap sticker and an able body jump out of the shotgun seat and run into the store.
“I recall reading an article that stated that some uncomfortably large percentage of people (like 25-30%) would be will to lose an appendage to gain a handicapped parking tag.”
I find that impossible to believe.
30% of people think Biden is doing a great job, is honest, and has made America a better place.
And?
These realities are absent from futurist writing about technology
Somebody hasn’t read The Expanse?
Beltalowda!
more and newer forms of disability
Stupidity is not and never will be a disability. You’re just stupid.
A new book by economist Melissa Kearney makes a readily apparent but still-provocative argument: Children raised by two married parents do better than children raised by single parents.
Yes, it’s readily apparent. No, there’s nothing provocative about it. We’ve known this for centuries, if not millenia.
It is provocative to the body of people that have spent half a century arguing that men aren’t necessary.
Almost like people have been saying for decades that the best way to avoid poverty is to finish high school and marry before having kids or something. So provocative :eyeroll:
Say what, you bullshitter? I guess I imagined all those stories discussing radiation shields from water ice, spinning up asteroids to give gravity environments for birthing / exercise, bone density issues, etc.
Read something other than Harry Fucking Potter, you philistine!
L Neil Smith wrote about it at length. I guess he doesn’t count because he was a libertarian?
A closer look at the facts on the ground, though, shows that the problem isn’t a cultural rejection of marriage, or a nationwide feminist rejection of the nuclear family (I wish). Most people want to get married. The problem is that decades of largely conservative policy-making have fueled inequality, gutted the working class, left a generation of men isolated and under-employed and unmoored, impoverished families and made it harder for women to both control their own fertility and find suitable partners.
That’s just what I would have said.
That calls for the clip the Critical Drinker is fond of… “I definitely smell shite!” Bizarroland.
It’s not conservative policy making that’s caused these things.
I suppose it is if you’re left of left of Mao or something.
She wishes for a nationwide rejection of the nuclear family? What would she replace it with?
The Bene Tleilax / Bene Gesserit approach.
The Handmaiden’s Tale, of course.
It’s nice when they say so out loud, for record-keeping purposes. Especially folks who write for taste-making mainstream publications.
“That’s preposterous! No one is advocating the destruction of the nuclear family!”
*pulls out folder of articles by leading voices advocating the destruction of the nuclear family*
That. has been a goal for practically all tyrants in history but Marx had a particularly harsh attitude towards the nuclear family. That social structure is the strongest bulwark against their dreams of total human slavery, thus it must be extinguished totally.
Creches run by the state, of course.
Renewable Energy Family.
They’re wind powered.
“…a cultural rejection of marriage, or a nationwide feminist rejection of the nuclear family (I wish). ”
More creepy ‘new soviet man’ thinking.
Yep. Their ideals go against the nature of man, therefore the nature of man must be changed to conform to their ideals.
You have to read Rousseau to understand man’s true nature!
Hah. Rousseau can bite my shiny metal ass.
the problem isn’t a cultural rejection of marriage, or a nationwide feminist rejection of the nuclear family (I wish)
So she should be happy with the breakdown of the family. What is her issue here? I know RTFA.
Holy crap that is delusional.
You really can’t argue with people like this who are so completely unmoored from reality.
Savatage!
*Raises fist, head bangs giant green conker
I know. I haven’t heard anything by them in a while.
When I get home tonight, I’m breaking out Dead Winter Dead.
The women who are living the feminist dream, on the other hand — who graduate from college, who wait to find love before getting married, who delay childbearing and focus on their careers and who largely vote for Democrats
*outright prolonged laughter*
Why did I read that Fillopovic article?
Ah, yes. The conservative policies of perverse incentives and social decay. What a stupid twat.
Still, the numbers are really amazing.
Just shows how many people walked away from tradition and embraced social chaos. It happened fast. It’s reflected in the massive base for the democrats, who have made policy every since Reagan left the white house. Amazing how she could misread the room and blame conservatives.
It took 60 years or so.
It’s not unreasonable to think it will take another 60 to regain something approaching a functioning society again.
That’s optimistic. It will take a lot longer to restore than it did to destroy. If it’s even possible, since the freedom and prosperity enjoyed by America and the west is an anomalous blip in human history.
She did not misread anything. It is just boilerplate progjection.
Hey now. I’ve rejected quite a few traditions as I sit here unmarried. I just don’t see any advantage to getting married as a guy (especially when there are no children involved).
So you’re saying you’re a feminist?
It’s Republican policies that made Democrats act like ho’s.
Hmmmmm. I have seen many different portrayals of Quetzalcoatlus. I am not confident that any of those are very accurate.
Pointy beaks like that are meant for spearing, usually fish. For large terrestrial birds of prey I think this would be a more successful form:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phorusrhacidae
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/95/59/6e/95596ef9341c2bd1a024dd26d38a32f7.jpg
A family of birds appropriately known as terror birds.
We take for granted the relative safety we enjoy in our terrestrial environment today. Looking at the fossil record of inland 60 ft. long crocodiles, 12 ft. tall terror birds, fresh water sharks, short faced bears, cave lions and so on we have benefited greatly from various extinctions. Jeebus, imagine a bear 3X the size of a grizzly, digitigrade rather than plantigrade, sneaking up on you in the dark. The ones we have now are like puppies in comparison.
There be dragons today but not nearly as bad as there used to be.
If that were the case, I’d become a shoulder therapist. Because any gun that can take out a 60′ crocodile is going to have a helluva recoil.
Better for scale: https://anonhq.com/ancient-carnivorous-terror-bird-found-argentina/
The terror birds are pretty much all I remember from the movie 10,000 BC. Though they died out long, long before that time, and never lived where the movie takes place.
Terror birds didn’t die our, we just renamed them geese.
Back to the food discussion from the last thread:
Award-winning journalist, Alex Newman, on the effort by Bill Gates and other advocates of global depopulation, to deliberately collapse the food supply, so people will have no choice but to eat insects and lab-grown fake meat:
Collectivism as a whole and perhaps this particular aspect of it is, in my opinion, the evilest ideology in history.
The Malthusians want to murder their way to their idea of an ideal population. The murdering always seems to include everyone but them.
Then I wonder who is going to do the work and produce tangible results. King Midas is a fairy tale.
Hush you! Practical details are not important!
A higher minimum wage would put more money in the pockets of families who need it
I love that one. Raising wages at the bottom would have no effect whatsoever on prices.
Completely oblivious to the past 3 years.
If you want to raise wages at the low end, try enforcing the border.
See, this is what proves they are immune to cognitive dissonance.
I don’t think they even get to the cognitive part.
They have enough cognitive function to use language. And they certainly proclaim that they think and are educated.
“A Missouri mom who was mistakenly declared dead in 2007 says she has been living a ‘haunting’ nightmare ever since.
Madeline-Michelle Carthen, 52, claims she has struggled to hold down a job, get a mortgage or rent an apartment due to an erroneous social security number error made nearly 20 years ago.
In 2007, she was denied financial aid as a student at Webster University, ultimately forcing her to drop out.
And since then, she hasn’t been able to complete basic life tasks – like rent a car.
‘It messed up my whole life,’ she told KSDK.’ It’s impacted my life, financially. If I wanted to buy a house, that won’t happen.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12567441/Missouri-mom-life-ruined-wrongly-declared-dead.html
At least she can vote Democrat.
Does she have to pay taxes?
Sounds like BS to me. But the solution is easy, she just needs to be declared undead.
I bet Pie could help with that!
Simple solution. Just get a flight to Mexico, burn your papers, and walk back over the border. You’ll get a new ID, phone, and a stint at a nice hotel.
Can confirm. I live a few blocks away from a pair of side-by-side hotels that now house illegal immigrants. They wander back and forth from the store, often carrying pizzas and bags of clothes and such, typing away on their phones, etc. An encampment has sprung up across the street from the hotels. The hotels previously housed homeless people, but I guess they have assumed a lower ranking in the leftist priority stack. Local news tells me that the newcomers largely Venezuelan. I remember back in the day, when Hugo Chavez won an election, Joe from Lowell at TOS informed everyone to “trust democracy.” Fuck Joe from Lowell.
I do trust democracy. I trust democracy to produce the exact results that inspired the Founders to avoid it like the plague.
We should probably just grant immediate asylum to people fleeing socialist shithole countries. Give them visas so they can get jobs. It worked with the Cubans.
If they are fleeing for political reasons, yes. If they are fleeing for economic reasons, fuck no.
Hard to tell the difference with commie countries, when just wanting to work to build yourself a better life puts you at odds with the government.
Good thing your Social Security number isn’t to be used for identification purposes.
It’s easier to steal an identify and the government never look into but harder to show you are alive.
What does work to help kids and families: Giving women and men alike the ability to marry into mutually stable, supportive, and financially viable relationships
A culture of work, self-reliance and self-respect?
She sounds like a Nazi.
She wishes for a nationwide rejection of the nuclear family? What would she replace it with?
Universal pre kindergarten indoctrination centers.
My favorite oversized raptor.
Extinct around 1400
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haast%27s_eagle
Disabled astronauts?
Nope. I’ll read Jill Filipovic, but even I have limits.
I know that being disabled, I require a bit more care and supplies than most people. And it’s a lot easier for me to get injured or sick. I would not send me into space. Maybe in the distant future when those Starships make it much cheaper to transport supplies.
TOK is right. No one is gonna send my MS ridden ass into space. I am much more fragile, need extra medication, and so on. I would be a waste of space, in space.
I would go if I can take my walker with me. It doesn’t weigh much and it folds up…
To all of the disabled or handicapped Glibs…..stick around. We need y’all down here.
You can’t take the old Jew because he’s not going to be as prolific a breeder as the rest
Damn, that’s still funny.
I remember being subjected to an experience just like this at a Peace Whores training event and being ostracized for giving similar responses.
The song in my heart at the time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib-Qiyklq-Q
Are you a cool cat or a jive turkey?
Take this quiz (narrated by Roscoe Lee Brown) to find out. I got 5 out of 10.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zB1le4fDr4
Today’s helping of derp:
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Teacher Explains Why More Kindergarteners Than Ever Are Starting School Still In Diapers
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However, children reaching the age of five without being potty trained is now becoming a growing trend. Kindergarten teachers reported to We Are Teachers that 15-20% of their classroom is not potty-trained, and even a few first-graders are still in Pull-Ups. This does not include children who suffer from medical conditions or physical or cognitive disabilities.
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[head desk]
Derp: thanks for the autobio piece. Look forward to more installments if you’re willing.
I’ll upload the next installment now.
It can have a…dramatic…effect on those who read it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i9J8dWorDk
Around here it’s a requirement to get into kindergarten. But I guess it’s racist to have standards or something.
One of the boys has hard headed about the whole toilet training. We didn’t care. Sent him to school and a few days of being poop pants he was quite willing to use the bathroom.
That might be peak PBS. I can just see the white, liberal wives all clutching their pearls, proud to be “hip” and “with it” to the ghetto community.
Hm, maybe. My vote is for the PBS special about rampant unemployment among liberal arts majors. The comments were disabled on that video.
actual video title: So You Have a Liberal Arts Degree and Expect a Job?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obpWwFa742Q
No, there will be no going against the narrative on PBS, only paeons to diveristy and how a Liberal arts degree makes you so much smarter. Now, watch Father Brown praise the lesbians in a celebration of the new Catholic in ’30s Britain.
I passed with 6 of 10. It must be because I’m 0.1% sub-Saharan African according to 23 and Me, or at least I was at one time.
I got the first 3, I was on a roll, then got 1 out 7. 4 ain’t bad, passing in public school and a participation award
7 for me with no sub-Saharan DNA.
This made me think of the commercial for pullup diapers where the kid sings “I’m a big kid now”. No, if you’re a big kid, stop wearing diapers.
7/10. I just guessed right on the jazz dude’s “slave” name, though.
age of five without being potty trained
You are shitting me.
No, they’re the ones still shitting themselves.
It happens
But I guess it’s racist to have standards or something.
Not shitting on the floor is acting white.
How about if you shit in a box like Sean?
Ok that was funny.
He’s not completely wrong; in fact he’s mostly right.
90s Democrat – safe, legal and rare.
Trump has no personal qualms about abortion and simply adopted a position he had to in order to represent the GOP.
The guy is probably personally responsible for half a dozen abortions. We know of a couple.
I’m sure the idea of aborting a baby at 9 months may give him some indigestion on a good day, but if it came down to paying for that kid for life out of his own pocket, it wouldn’t surprise me if he’d sign up for that, too.
And YET…
This is the Republican who actually gave the GOP a win on abortion while guys like George The Lesser just talked about it.
And the people who could be celebrating that are all “well, what have you done for us lately?”
Harsh to whom?
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-g6TAwGJYsyk/UehdWRvqLcI/AAAAAAAAAMA/iVOjWmd2YtQ/s1600/notyourbodynotyourchoiceabortionismurder_zps464aedad.jpg
Well, if it causes you to lose easy elections, then it is going to be harsh to you and your beliefs in the end.
Yet, there is a faction in the party that just doesn’t give a shit about winning. Oh wait, did I say faction? I meant almost all of them (just for different reasons).
Purity spirals are like centrifuges. The will spin and spin, forcing a change of the old and leaving you with something new.
Hence, Trump.
Can any of y’all recommend any resources for better understanding the Armenia situation?
I thought I read a good write up linked here, but I can’t find it now. Wikipedia has a decent background on “Nagorno-Karabakh conflict”. Short story a century of fa is turning into fo. Also, Zeihan had a decent explainer. They’ve been at war essentially since 1988 off and on. Tough geography, Soviet escapades, etc. have left pockets of ethnic Armenian and Azerbaijani enclaves surrounded by the other country. Armenia used to have a vastly superior military plus backing of the Russians. Azerbaijan has Turkish support, upgraded it’s military (including a shit ton of drones) and no one believes the Russki’s can do a thing for Armenia while it’s bogged down in Ukraine. Bad times for Armenia.
Thank you. It looks really bad.
Yeah, buy a bigger boat, give Noah a break.
SHOCKING
Sen. Tommy Tuberville, an Alabama Republican and former football coach, said Tuesday that the U.S. military is “not an equal-opportunity employer.”
The military is an equal-opportunity employer, and the Pentagon has an “Office of Equal Employment Opportunity.”
Tuberville made his comment about the military on Bloomberg Television’s “Balance of Power” as he explained why he was among a minority of senators last week who voted against confirming Air Force Gen. Charles “CQ” Brown Jr. as the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Brown is Black.
“I heard some things that he talked, about race and things that he wanted to mix into the military,” Tuberville said about Brown.
“Let me tell you something: Our military is not an equal-opportunity employer,” he said.
“We’re not looking for different groups, social justice groups,” Tuberville said. “We don’t want to single-handedly destroy our military from within. We all need to be one,” he added.
He also said, “Our military is becoming so political that we’re going to go south when it comes to readiness.”
We deem our military combat ready.
Many of the military’s finest did go South in 1861.
Our military identifies as the victors. Therefore you lose, China. Don’t erase our existence by failing to validate and celebrate our identity as winners.
“Hey, I know. We’ll send that blind guy to sniper school. At least he’ll be out of our hair.”
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Major Iván Castro (born 1967) is a U.S. Army officer who continued serving on active duty in the Special Forces despite losing his eyesight. He was one of three blind active duty officers who served in the U.S. Army and the only blind officer serving in the United States Army Special Forces.
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As an officer, Castro was not required to personally provide fire support to fellow soldiers in the exposed housetop position.[11] Nonetheless, he volunteered for the mission and was accompanied by Sergeant Ralph Porras and Private First Class Justin Dreese. A mortar round landed a few feet away from him, killing Sergeant Porras and PFC Dreese and severely wounding Castro. Shrapnel tore through his body, damaging a shoulder, breaking an arm, fracturing facial bones and collapsing his lungs. The blast also drove the frame of his protective eyewear into his face.[12]
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It’s kind of a nutpunch to discharge a guy who went through something like that, though I doubt he’d have any trouble getting a 100% disability rating.
You know what his real problem was? Toxic masculinity.
The Pentagon’s Office of Equal Employment Opportunity says it “operates to ensure all individuals are provided a full and fair opportunity for employment, career advancement and access to programs without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, disability (physical or mental), gender, age, sexual orientation,” and other categories.
I don’t see “crush your enemies” in there.
What they really mean to say is that they operate to ensure individuals of favored races, colors, national origins, females, and gays get priority in recruitment and advancement.
And they still can’t compete with the good old boy white guys who make up the backbone of our combat forces.
Not to mention, those lads are seeing the writing on the wall and avoiding the military just like they’re avoiding college. Why subject yourself to pariah status? Go to trade school, learn a skill, and spend your off time hanging out playing video games with your bros. I can’t say that I blame them.
All of those glorious victim classes have to pay going rates for skilled tradesman.
I personally make sure to always charge victim classes more to make up for all the benefits they get from the rest of society. I have to preserve my white privilege somehow.
“disability (physical or mental)”
Just generating an EEO statement like that for a war fighting institution shows it’s already in place. That and General Milley.
https://twitter.com/TheStudyofWar/status/1706157492462379203
“ Putin may have ordered the Russian military command to hold all Russia’s initial defensive positions to create the illusion that Ukrainian counteroffensives have not achieved any tactical or operational effects despite substantial Western support.”
Deep Thoughts
I thought the talking point was that Putin was so brilliant and everybody hated the preternaturally corrupt Zelensky so much that Kiev would fall in three days.
I see you’re still butthurt that the talking point isn’t “Zelenskyyy is a hero, pure as the driven snow, and Putin is literally worse than Hitler and also he’s retarded.”
But, did his mother dress him funny?
You could dive to the bottom of the deepest depths of the seas before you could reach the bottom of the derp needed to create that tweet.
With all the nonstop victories trumpeted by the western media, it’s quite surprising that Ukraine hasn’t just conquered the whole world already. It’s also odd that they keep needing more money and equipment.
Whatever victories that Ukulele has had are do in every part to the west throwing all it can against Putin, er, Russia.
Or, maybe, just maybe, the counteroffensive is a failure.
Ordered to hold their defensive positions? Did that come from the Department of Redundancy Department?
Let’s look at the reality for a moment. This Ukrainian soldier survived a near direct hit by an artillery shell. It blinded him and blew off his arms.
https://www.npr.org/2023/08/27/1194391578/ukraine-soldier-war-injury-prosthetics-amputation
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Unable to speak, he tried to spell out his questions in the air, waving a stump instead of his hand: “What’s happened to me? What’s happened [to] my hands? Do I have my hands? Why can I not see?”
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It’s a miracle that Andrii survived the blast that took his arms and eyes. Unfortunately, with no telling when the war will end, there’s little that can be done in Ukraine to try to make him whole again.
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Written by band members James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich, the song portrays a World War I soldier who is severely wounded—arms, legs and jaw blown off by a landmine, blind and unable to speak or move—begging God to take his life. In the music video, attempting to communicate with the hospital staff he jolts in his bed, spelling “Kill me” in Morse code.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM8bTdBs-cw
The term “basket case” is from WW1. It referred to multiple amputees, who unable to walk, and were transported in baskets.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/lS85U5EwSC6tQ1DHIg2-kA.16mb1OefHDEzukf0mpbbPN
A three ounce bag of hotness. Gonna dehydrate tomorrow.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/mayo-clinic-scrubs-page-admitting-hydroxychloroquine-can-be/
They took it down, but I’m amazed it ever went up in the first place.
From an article I read that I’m too lazy to look for right now, that page had been up on Mayo’s website since 2020 and it said it was effective only in a very narrow set of circumstances. There really is no smoking gun here. Not two days ago and not today.
Smoking gun for what? Because last I checked the branch covidians refused to admit that there was any effective use of Hydroxychloroquine in treating covid.
If the page meant nothing, why take it down? Was it wrong, or because it was embarrassing to the powers that be at the Mayo clinic?
The Mayo page said it only worked for hospitalized patients and had said that since 2020. But all of a sudden a couple days ago the internet started saying Mayo recently approved it for treating covid. They did not do it recently and they only said it was useful in a very specific situation. They took it down because the internet was pointing at it and claiming things that it didn’t say.
I’m not saying I agree with Mayo for taking it down. And saying it only helps hospitalized patients is fucking stupid, too. But pointing at the page and saying “now they admit hydrox’ cures covid!!11” is disingenuous.
More or less disingenuous that “FISYH TANK CLEANER!”?
They were disingenuous so we should be too?
Minnesoda Apologist !!!!1!1!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Worrall_Mayo
reportedly moved to MN to cope with his malaria
Sikorsky makes several craft that are smaller than some MN mosquitos
Unreal, how stupid they think we are.
I go back and forth on this.
The purpose of propaganda is to make the reader feel alone and isolate in their beliefs. It makes their policies easier sells, or stealing elections more believable.
Versus
Half the population really does buy into the dumb shit the media spins or at the least wants to believe, and it reaffirms them of their own goodness for doing so.
It’s something of a mixture probably. The true believers are a fraction of the fraction that goes along. And then you have the people who have disconnected completely because of the propaganda and can’t make heads or tails of things. And then there’s people who just don’t buy the bullshit.
Undeniably, propaganda works. Imo, too often. 😒
It reinforces the beliefs of the COVID fetishists, demoralizes the people that don’t buy into the official narrative, and confuses those who aren’t sure what to think so they fall back on the opinions supposed experts. They get a lot of bang for the buck with this this kind of thing.
https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/southeastern-pa/police-arrest-more-than-50-in-looting-of-stores-in-philadelphia-ceo-of-local-security/article_6a24864c-5d83-11ee-8bcd-ebd6469a21de.html
That’s a good start, but arrests aren’t convictions. That commie rat fucker DA will probably let them all go with a free ice cream cone.
Hey, they only stole because they kids waz hungry and the landlord was about to evict them, just when they waz getting their life in order and thinking of going to community college.
It’s like the entire seventies and eighties period of urban self-destruction is repeating – only squeezed into two or three years this time.
I don’t see “crush your enemies” in there.
I laffed
And hear the lamentations of the womenfolk?
you boyz are on fire tonight
NewWife wanted to know what’s so funny
but I’m not reading Autistic Rationalist to her
WhoGivesAShitAlert: I’m in a golf tournament during tomorrow’s post, so please go OT asap and, as always, Buck Fama!
Republican debate (I’m bored as shit) pandering to the UAW and the working man. Those cunts aren’t the working man. They’re union thugs who, if they get what they want, they’ll fuck over the rest of the country.
I didn’t waste my time.
DeSantis went after Trump now, too. They are demanding him to show up to these debates where he has nothing to gain. Because they know no one cares if he isn’t there.
DeSantis needs to engage Trump and do so forcefully. Trump this go around needs to just ride the wave and let the Dems usher him to the candidacy.
I don’t know who is hosting this debate, but it’s rather strange to me that the GOP debate would have a British dude, some Latina who you can barely understand her accent is too thick, and a women who asks if the Republican nominee will get rid of aid to country’s south of the border to address the causes of immigration at the border.
Buffy and X-Files here.
Binging Fringe on Amazon Prime.
I have never been able to watch Buffy. I just associated it with being a girls show as a kid. The way people talk about it, I’ve thought giving it a shot.
I’m softening in my old age.
I would say Seasons 1-3 of BtVS are pretty good. It’s OK after that, but I think loses some of the smartass edge.
*shrug* I think it gets better and better through S06. S07 fell off a cliff.
It’s a pity that Comet has S02 of Buffy paired with S07 of X-Files.
Buffy was just getting its groove on while X-Files was literally parodying itself.
Watch it.
It stands up after all these years. So watchable.
I went out in the shop to make some parts. Crashed the machine instead and am now ordering new tooling. Should have watched the clown show instead.
Hey, at least you are making chips. I am stuck in refurb hell.
Which is my own fault, as I just keep spending money on shit.
Pissed me off because I was on what should have been my last prove-out part. Made one “small” adjustment that was not actually small. Wham.
Chris Krispy Kreme is taking shots at Trump. In general, they seem to have adopted the kumbaya approach between one another.
My maternal grandpa was 11 when the stock market crashed in 1929. 7 years later, he got a job at a bottling plant in Baltimore. After his first day, 2 union thugs came up to him to yell at him and threaten him for working too fast. At this point in the story, he mentioned he was an experienced boxer. He skipped over what happened next, probably not to encourage me to be violent.
So he went to college, and some pinko professor was spouting off about how great communism and Stalin were. The professor said that the USSR was the world’s largest oil exporter. My grandpa knew a bit about the oil business from his dad and retorted “do you mean exports or proven reserves? Because Venezuela, not the USSR has the most oil in the world.”
The professor blew him off and said something like “well, sonny, you’re just a country bumpkin, so why should I care?”
A few months later, that professor got fired because he was a card-carrying communist. There was an FBI agent in that class who heard my grandpa speak.
FBI – they’re not all bad.
My father told me enough about threats for good work or opposing strikes to keep me away from union jobs.
How dare you make everyone else look bad, or worse, force them to *gasp* do work!
I had two very hot women stick their fingers in my mouth today.
/got my teeth cleaned
Actual footage of the days events
sigh
The trade school I went to had a dental hygiene program. It was full of above average looking women. You would have sworn a swimsuit contest was part of the entrance exam. The “ugly” ones were 6’s.
And the address for this school is…?
OU was exactly the same way. The school of dental hygiene provided its grads with pink tassels.
One of the best sideways complement I’ve ever heard was a girl tell another girl ” Oh, you’re so pretty. You could be a dental hygienist'”
Why the fuck is there some delusional guy from North Dakota on this debate stage?
It’s almost as bad as the other guy from North Dakota who thinks he’s First.
How is he doing?
Outside his unique eyebrows, he is entirely forgettable and spouting off bland GOP talking points.
VIvek has the most personality up there.
I think this is a just a practice run for him for 2028. And/or working for a cabinet position in a Trump administration.
Gotta get your name out there somehow. This is as good a way as any.
These moderators are fucking terrible. GOP voters don’t give a fuck about any of the things these clowns are asking.
The debate in America died with Lincoln and Douglass. You can get a better debate with a Burner frying on acid then you’ll ever get with a media retard running the show.
Well, I was watching hoping to be mildly entertained. Everyone on stage failed at that.
There is no pretty much nothing separating any of these candidates. Vivek on Ukraine stood out, and was quickly attacked. You get the occasional specific policy like Nickey Haley wanting to use special forces on Mexican cartels which is batshit crazy.
The questions these moderators are asking doesn’t help.
So others have adopted Viveks view to bomb Mexico
That’s how you win hearts and minds
/Dick Cheney
My child just came in to ask me if it’s possible for there to be a Marxist libertarian.
Um…no. [insert explanation] And anybody who says that doesn’t know anything about Marxism OR libertarianism.
Alternate response – explain to me how you can be a collectivist and an individualist at the same time.
You are free to be an individual as long as the collective approves.
Well Wikipedia will set you straight!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_socialism#Marxist
arglebargle oogeyboogey
What? It makes perfect sense to believe in the individual and their freedoms but deny them to own property that should be all owned by the collective but just don’t call it a government.
How can you not see that!
One of my favorite arguments online was with a guy who called himself a libertarian communist and was part of some radical left wing Kurdish group looking to establish small (nominally) democratic communities that would be communist.
It was liking speaking different languages. We didn’t approach anything from the same premises and I don’t really respect his arguments, but it helped me develop my own beliefs.
What it boiled to was this – real libertarianism as people around here would support, generally speaking, can accommodate socialism within ht. His “democracy” would require banning of private property and really all individual rights thereafter and could never really allow for free markets.
One of the points I enjoyed was another person jumping in on this point to point out how there are worker run businesses in the West, but in general they just aren’t competitive and the corporate model dominates. He was like that’s something you need to address. Which he of courser couldn’t. He basically admitted that his economic ideas couldn’t actually compete with markets.
I should say corpoirate/private business model.
He viewed everything in terms of systems, like a good communist. Individual rights are just a constructs. ‘He would defend the Soviets and their economic model because they were able to industrialized ie success was all how you measured it. The human misery brought with it weren’t that important nor were its ultimate failures as the standard of living was higher compared to tsarist Russia when the people were serfs.
He viewed everything in terms of systems
Then what the fuck was he toying with in terms of libertarian ideas? Or did he just use the word with absolutely zero understanding of what it meant to everyone else?
He was unabashadly not an individualist. People would, for instance, not have the right to leave his communities.
The libertarianism simply stemmed from the small scale and “democratic” nature of the communities. It would be run by the people through democratic means, though he would never identify what enforcement mechanisms there were to keep it communist. He never denied it when I said it would be force and that there would be no real democracy.
It was Marx’s dictatorship of the proletariat with the flimsy veneer of democracy. Sort of like the elections in North Korea.
You mean like everyone who calls himself an “anarchist” these days?
It should be noted that socialists calling themselves libertarian in Euro land isn’t that out of the ordinary. It has a completely different meaning to them than it does in the American context.
banning of private property
his economic ideas couldn’t actually compete
For me the only question is whether one is coerced to join a movement. People choose all kinds of stupid shit in the “free” United States under our “market economy,” so if somebody decides to join a commune and live in abject poverty because their brotherhood of basketweaving only runs a profit in leap years, I don’t care if they call themselves libertarian-Xwhatever. Half the proprietorships in town don’t make any money even though they are run by good Baptist Republicans; for me the question is simply do they expect to tax me to subsidize their bullshit.
Frankly, I wish everyone would declare themselves to be a libertarian-Maoist and run up in the hills and smoke dope and fuck ugly bitches in sundresses all day and starve so long as they leave me out of it. When you start taking my money and telling me how to live, I don’t care what your labels are: I hate you.
Anarcho-socialist is another of those.
Brendan O’Neill has a pretty coherent explanation of why he used to call himself a libertarian Marxist. To his credit, he plainly says you have to ignore everything after about the first hundred pages of the Communist Manifesto.
WTF?! I got the cartoon article in by Monday.
I submitted WAWR Saturday, it’s still in pending, (Shruggy punctuation thing)
Get up at get at it!
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq2jJLswL8I
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Good morning all!
Two relatively shorter pieces from Glass.
First, from The Photographer, A Gentleman’s Honor (Instrumental).
Then, from A Descent Into the Maelstrom, which I was privileged to see The Philip Glass Ensemble perform twice, The Maelstrom.
Share and enjoy!
Good morning, Beau and Sean!
I was a lot busier at work yesterday than I’d expected to be. I was pretty well caught up with anything that was left from while I was off, but I was reminded that it’s time to start getting ready for month-, quarter-, and (most dreaded of all) year-end – my boss asked me to start proofreading next year’s salary budget worksheet. 😕
On the bright side, I finally got back to a water aerobics class after missing the last two weeks. Then I promptly undid all the exercise by going to Culver’s for dinner (in my defense, I DID have a salad) and picking up some frozen custard to go… 🙄
When I picked up my breakfast salad this morning, the register spat out a coupon for $off Ice Cream.
I’m glad I had the willpower to just abandon the coupon.
You’re stronger than I am! 💪
This is after last night where I cooked 28oz of steak, fully intending to save 14 for today, and then ate 28oz of steak.
🙁 Now I have no steak, not even leftovers
Just proving once again that you can’t have your steak and eat it too.
Remind me not to invite you for dinner. Between you and my youngest I’d need to butcher an entire steer.
I’m trying to be less of a fat bastard. Which is why I intended to keep half of that NY Strip as leftovers.
Besides, that beef wasn’t on sale. It was $16.99/lb! It wasn’t all supposed to be one meal.
$16.99/lb. Yikes. NY strip is typically $12.99 here (but moving up the charts with a bullet), I wait for sales where it goes for $9.99. Garage freezer is the best investment I ever made.
It never gets down to $12.99 here, let alone $9.99
*sad trombone*
Beau, I meant to tell you yesterday – the instrumental you linked yesterday morning from Einstein on the Beach led me to one of the vocal sections of same. It featured a lot of “spoken word” and reminded me of what (admittedly little) I’ve heard of Laurie Anderson’s work.
Spoken word: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xO0klA7WHrc
Child Care at a Crossroads: COVID pandemic exacerbated decline in DC-area child care facilities
Come to NYC, we know how to make day care profitable. Here are two examples of our success
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/sources-husband-of-nyc-day-care-owner-arrested-in-childs-fentanyl-death/
https://nypost.com/2023/09/27/nyc-teen-manufactured-ghost-guns-from-his-moms-day-care/
“…ghost guns from his mom’s day care”
Legos – they’re not just for stepping on anymore.
Mornin’, reprobates!
Looks like yesterday was our weekly day of sunshine, back to dark and gloomy for the next few days. When did NJ become part of the Pacific Northwest?
Around here it’s foggy and drizzly.
It’s the best morning I’ve seen in a while – calm and cool.
Not unlike yourself.
Good morning, ‘patzie (and Roat!) I’m sorry it’s dreary where you are. We’re set for one more day of clouds and rain, but then it’s predicted to be sunny and warm for several days. Tranq Base, here I come! 😃
I get to be part of normal weather cycles. It is…refreshing.
Anti bias staff training that depicts white folks as mosquitos in some school district:
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1706917885409415372?
What a bunch of garbage, I swear to god.
Did you expect something more intelligent from what is probably a gender studies graduate?
That was spectacular.