It’s been a busy week Chez Candy- an old friend of mine from the Netherlands is here for the next couple months. We’ve also been professional collaborators, so we’re likely going to have several articles and papers come out of my lab. He’s bemused and amused by the political stuff we talk about, but has, for a European, a remarkably realistic view of the world. That said, it will be fun to see his reactions during the presidential debates next week when he’ll be surrounded by WebDom, 1ObOt, and me.
Fun goings-on at the university as well, but that will be a story for tomorrow.
Speaking of fun goings-on, there are birthdays today, including a chick known for her taste in collars; a guy who could run rings around anyone else; a guy whose name has become synonymous with “taxpayer bailout”; a guy whom the Tin Man should have met; a guy who shows up in just about every NY Times crossword; a guy famous for saying, “Behave, or I’ll get out the belt!”; a guy honored every year on St. Thomas; a guy famous for his glasses and getting killed; a woman known for her blue hair; and the Republican version of Thomas Friedman.
With that, mijn vrienden, Links.
Columbia U takes strong measures to rid itself of antisemitism.
Never change, NPR, never change.
The rehabilitation is complete. Don’t worry that he’s a mass murderer.
Oh, the irony is so absolutely delicious.
Big city Team Blue mayor is corrupt? Unpossible.
When your best defense of a candidate is, “Don’t worry, she’s lying…”
For reasons, this song always reduces me to a puddle. Perfect voices, perfect arrangement, and… damn, it’s dusty in here. The Old Guy really needs to avoid things like this.
With that delicious-looking concoction pictured on the home page, there just HAS to be a Dutch oven joke around here somewhere…
Good morning, Old Man!
You don’t put a dutch baby in a dutch oven.
Unless it’s Jewish.
What? Too soon?
Who the fuck’s Anne Frank?
Too soon? Well, you need to let it bake at least 15 minutes.
You have to be patient and wait for the button to pop up.
Frankly, don’t the Dutch keep their ovens hidden in the attic?
15 minutes? What’s with y’all and the raw meat? The only civilized way to eat a baby is well done.
De gustibus and all that, just so long as you don’t put ketchup on it.
Pacific time is the worst.
Good morning, U. Still operating on EDT?
Sorta.
I have my alarm set for 5am local, and went to sleep at midnight eastern. So I’m well rested for a long day of driving.
You take the coolest vacations, UCS. Me, I’ll settle for a week on the beach to unwind from the stresses of retirement.
I’m tired. I’m going to need a break from my vacation.
Take a Vacation!
Tbh, it’s been over a year and I’m still not quite adapted to central time. It’s a shame the entire west coast is completely unsuitable for living.
Pulleeeeeeeeaze!
I’m still adapting to Japan Time. I’ve never, ever, ever been good with time. Even if everyone is in the same time zone, there is a very good chance, I fuck up when the meeting was supposed to be.
This 14 hours ahead? I’m fucked.
the entire west coast is completely unsuitable for living
*check pulse*
Still alive here.
My life choices being what they were, I’ll never earn a sufficient income to compensate for the political dysfunction and tax thievery out west. Hell, even if all my best laid plans had come to full fruition, I still probably wouldn’t. But if a beneficent libertarian dictator takes over California in a coup, I’ll be packing a U-Haul for San Diego.
Dick Cheney, isn’t he the guy that took a shot ? His political accuracy was the same.
“Deficits don’t matter”
His opinions haven’t changed too much
Good morning, 4(20)!
There are some people for whom endorsing one candidate is probably more helpful to the other.
Has anyone’s political endorsement ever swayed voters?
My thoughts exactly GT. If there is any single reason not to vote KammyD it’s Dick’s endorsement.
Let’s see. RFK and Tulsi vs. The Cheneys.
I like my chances.
However, I’m pretty sure the MSM will run with some story about how many GOPe’ers have decided not to vote for Trump soon.
It’s amazing how the Cheney name has been rehabilitated so thoroughly in just 20 years. The fact that I’ll like live long enough for Trump to become the moderate, sane Republican by contrast to the next generation of Republican LITERALLY HITLERS gives me some shred of amusement to look forward to in my decrepitude.
Mornin’, Old Man and GT!
I actually guessed one of the birthday boys today! Sonny Rollins FTW!
ELP quotes St. Thomas at the 2:20 mark here. When I first heard this I thought, damn, that sounds familiar.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QqWRI2GYwec
I got the belt guy.
I missed Morgan. I was guessing Lee Iacocca.
This was my guess as well.
That was a good guess.
Happy birthday Sasha Grey?
Happy birthday Lee Iacocca?
Happy birthday Jan Crouch?
Happy birthday Mollie Sugden?
a guy who could run rings around anyone else
how do you know these obscure organic chemists
OMWC is a Professor of Chemisty.
yes I have read about his dating life
Takes one to know one?
If the last 10 years have taught us anything, it’s that you can always trust the word of celebrity billionaires.
Yeah, I am not buying that. The thieves have gotten their fingers in every pie there is so the only thing left are pies not yet baked. It is exactly the sort of thing they would do.
It’s a stupid defense. Cuban is a successful businessman but has questionable political takes. He gets his clock cleaned on X.
The Israelis are doing settlements in the West Bank while fighting in Gaza?
Way to make friends.
Wars have consequences.
Someone tell the Palis.
They’re too busy holding onto 80 year old grievances.
Since we’re all friends here, we’ll just pretend that history actually reset at Y2K and the West Bank territory didn’t come under Israeli occupation when my now-dead mother was 3 years old, after Egypt blockaded the Straits of Tiran, subsequent to their fuckery with the Suez a decade earlier, and prematurely rattled the sabre of their then-new alliance with Jordan, leading to their getting caught with their pants down and humiliatingly losing a war to a state 1/10 its size in less than a week.
I was thinking at a smaller scale. Dudes show up at your house with a bulldozer, tell you that they now own the property, and shoot you if you make a fuss.
I’m just saying, it’s not as if anyone now living in the West Bank should be surprised by the Israeli presence, even if you oppose the Israeli presence. Hell, Ukraine’s borders are a lot younger than the 1967 lines, and we’re ready to exchange nukes with Russia over them.
All politics are local.
They do. The consequence of WWI was WWII. The consequence of this war will be lasting grudges also.
The U.S. isn’t going to be around much longer to protect Israel. When we are gone, they are truly fucked. Sharon seemed to know it.
ehh….
When Israel dies, Mecca gets nuked.
If they got pushed into that corner, considering their current military arsenal and nuclear capability, I find it doubtful to the point of comedy that there’s any possibility whatsoever that the same coalition of Arab states that’s lost half a dozen previous wars to them, including a sneak attack on a religious holiday, would somehow come out on top when actual genocide is on the table. Not even the most left wing peaceniks in Israel are going to let shoah 2: electric boogaloo happen.
—“The consequence of this war will be lasting grudges also.”—
Which is really a shame since there were no long term grudges previously. This war would end immediately if Hamas (remember them, they started the war) would lay down their arms and surrender unconditionally. There was a cease fire in effect on Oct. 7. Hamas disregarded it, as they have every cease fire they agreed to. Fuck a cease fire. If Hamas doesn’t surrender, crush them. As for civilians (and how many Israeli dead and Israeli hostages were civilians), they are usually the largest group of casualties in war. Unfortunate but true.
Cunctator gets it.
The U.S. isn’t going to be around much longer to protect Israel.
Hooray! USA in the toilet! Good times! End of the evil empire!
While I’m disinclined to celebrate it as such, the end of American empire, such as it is, would be an unqualified good for America, which being my native-born home, is the only country I really give a shit about. Whether that shakes out better or worse for Israel, the stateless people in the former British Mandate Palestine, or any other country on earth is immaterial.
I’d like to see it too but I doubt the end of an empire will be peaceful or the end results better off.
War is ugly. And if you open that door, you get to see the monster sitting on your doorstep.
Hamas went and opened that door, and now they want to close it after the monster is already in the room. As others have pointed out, they had a ceasefire, but they wanted dead Jews. Well, this is what you get instead.
And as far as grudges go, this has been going on for centuries now. This isn’t going to change that, and it is probably best to let it play out, and let the dust settle on the whole damn thing, see who comes out on top.
The grudges thing is fascinating and a deep understanding eludes me. The Abraham Accords recently demonstrated good relations are possible. It’s benefiting the participants. Meanwhile, other countries that would hugely benefit (I’m looking at you Lebanon) maintain their animosity. 🤷♂️
Been skimming, new grandson, had to put down Fluffy (our 10 y/o GSD/Husky mix in the avatar. I took that pic on her final car trip. Rough 2 months from diagnosis of oral melanoma to taking her in for the final ride.
The politics are annoying, fuck all of them. Took a break from it, made a couple of end-fed half-wave antennae for the 40-10m bands, took pics, will be writing up some stuff on the ham rabbit hole.
Have a great weekend all!
Oh fuck, I’m so sorry. Been there far too many times, most recently with Wonder Dog.
I think that this time, Kaiser will be the one taking ME on that last ride.
And I fondly remember stringing up a 40 Meter band dipole in my parents’ back yard…
Thanks. Fatman, the long hair Dachshund in the pic, is older, they came as a pair in March 2020 3 weeks in to the Austin lockdown. That pic sums up their relationship. He had his first seizure yesterday, I don’t expect him to last much longer with her gone.
I was having crazy high VSWR with the 40-10 fan dipole. Built the backpack efhw, same. Cursed, nanoVNA said cable was only 2m long (it is 72′), true LMR 400. Found out the 4′ of lmr-400 ultraflex from the entry box was bad. VSWR at < 2:1 , so happy there. The big hoss is higher, but still under 2.5:1 on all. I wound that as triple toroids at a 1:56 (I think why the swr went up) 2 primary 15 secondary windings. I have 3x 240-52 toroids on the way to wind at 1:49. The current stack is 3x 240-43.
Huh. Two lengths of wire, stretched between trees, a couple insulators, and RG-8 to my transmitter. 1.3:1 right out of the gate. ‘Tis a gift to be simple.
Yeah, I’m running between the big metal shop on one side, the other side is a big oak tree. Got the feed point/matchbox at around 18′ and the insulator end at about 10′, and I think that extra turn on the secondary hits vswr a little in trade for a more efficient core (heat). I will wrap the new toroid stack the same, test and compare to the current one, then wrap both at 1:49 (I’m really not expecting over 3000 ohms) and test again. Put the idea in the CFOs ear that I need to build a 1.5kw linear amp. I was able to pull in South America and Canada last night on 40m.
Sorry about Fluffy.
Congrats on the grandkid, old man!
I’m very sorry DTF. It’s been a bit over a year since my Lemmy passed. His ghost still lives in the house, in a good way. My new dog Waffles is his polar opposite which is also a good thing.
I am so sorry about that. They are more than “pets”
Thanks everyone on the condolences. She was the glue for the dogs and our cats. And yes, much more than just a pet.
Fatman is adorable. Sorry to hear about both.
Sorry about Fluffy. I put mine down nearly 2 years ago and I still think about him constantly.
I’m sure the company that gave us Project Dragonfly will be fully cooperative with the 2024 version of Radio Free Europe. Just in case you weren’t blackpilled enough, btw, something like 3/4 of Tor exit nodes are owned by the feds.
Huh. Four countries that are swirling down the drain most rapidly – imagine that.
I try not to engage in a lot of self-pity, but Jesus fuck I wish my life was as charmed as these fuckwits who have to concoct Roland Emmerich doomsday scenarios in order to find something to feel about.
*feel bad about.
This is designed to create unhappy people. They are putting the locus of control outside themselves.
American: “What happened to your empire?”
Pommy: “You’ll see.”
I have a family member that has some kind of personality disorder that causes him to destroy things. If it is a good thing or something you have sentimental attachment to he will destroy it. I think he is saying “See. It’s just a thing, it doesnt mean anything. ” I guess that is what he is doing. It makes no sense to me. He has destroyed wedding photo albums, book collections, furniture, two of my goddamned chainsaws, guns, etc. of various other family members. Those are only the things that come to mind off of the top of my head. What the fuck, dude?
It seems we have the same phenomena going on society wide in our country today. The left is taking a giant shit on the most incredible country in the history of the universe. What the fuck, guys? Everything they do is destructive to people, our culture, our country. It’s fucking evil. Of course the Penguin is endorsing Kamala.
Exactly. It doesn’t make any sense except as some urge to cause chaos and ruin.
They are mentally ill.
They’d say the same thing about a libertarian anarcho-capitalist hellscape. And the fact is, they might be right. In any case, the disaffected turn to the psychopathic to save them. Same as it ever was.
I was married to one for 12 years or so. Those symptoms never get better, never go away. Distance is the only solution, that and time. The calendar solves all problems. Some take longer than others.
Intentionally or carelessly?
Sounds like a combination of both.
I’m really enjoying all the commie “Republicans” crawling out from under their rocks to show their true colors.
I keep hoping beyond hope that normals will wake up, see what is being done and the slimy fucks will have to slither back under the garbage pile to save their skins.
My brother is one of the neo-conservatives. I wonder what he is thinking now? He was always disturbed that I hated the Bush/Cheney axis of idiots.
It’s hysterical Randi Weingarten and Dick Cheney are endorsing the same candidate. There’s your axis of evil.
During that time period, I was sufficiently put off by the Ron Paul/Pat Buchanan “everything bad in the world is blowback from American intervention” wing of right-libertarianism and the ersatz anti-war theater of the Code Pink wing of the left that I found myself frequently defending Bush and Cheney, in spite of disagreeing strenuously with “compassionate conservatism,” and the Bush agenda in particular. They deserved better critics.
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The sole owner of OnlyFans paid himself $472MM in dividends last year
https://x.com/ballmatthew/status/1832064136798408835
Two things: I dub this guy the king of pimps. pimpin aint easy but it is profitable.
two, there are way to many simps in this world.
I know little, but still more than I’d like, about Andrew Tate, but I do find it somewhat humorous that he’s become this sex predator bogeyman for running a camwhore site while dudes like this guy and the MindGeek proprietors escape any pearl-clutching feminist scrutiny.
“No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.”
Seems universal to me.
“The sole owner of OnlyFans paid himself $472MM in dividends last year”
With revenue of 6 billion, that’s not so crazy.
Hugh Hefner wishes he had been born a couple of decades later.
Two of the linked candidates are well-known hard-core commies – not sure of the third one.
Adams might be a corrupt POS but at least he’s not a communist.
The state of modern US politics in a nutshell.
It’s like Bloomberg being followed by Deblasio all over again.
Bloomberg was awful in many ways but Deblasio… JFC. Hard-core commie.
Same thing is going to happen again.
“…a corrupt POS but at least he’s not a communist.”
This is what we have come to.
“corrupt POS” = any politician
honest politician = comedy hour
Maybe one of the major banks will finally have the good sense to leave.
Devon Eriksen
@Devon_Eriksen_
Here’s what Song of Ice and Fire actually wants to be, and why George can’t finish it.
https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/1831714435549057245
bit of a stretch
Doesnt seem like a stretch to me. Being that my parents are American boomers it appears insightful.
I started reading those books, read the first 3 or so, and at that point, I just lost interest. But, I can read James Ellroy, who if anything can out “morally grey” anybody, because his books are essentially about redemption. Martins aren’t. And I could never really put my finger on why (mostly as I just don’t care) until now.
I read that yesterday and was going to post it because it’s an excellent breakdown, and the forgot to post it.
Charles C. W. Cooke
@charlescwcooke
Once again: the press treats Harris like an ancient civilization, for which we have no surviving written records.
https://x.com/charlescwcooke/status/1832191583116042525
He is a treasure.
I had one of the radio shows on yesterday in the car and they pointed out our football coaches (NFL & NCAA) are required to hold a press conference every week and answer questions after a game. But a presidential candidate, not necessary to answer questions.
Infuriating. And she’s going to win.
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Cultural enrichment!
pigs being tortured in ‘twisted’ rituals – well some cops have it coming
At least the invaders are sacrificing animals. The Pols bringing them in are sacrificing humans – American citizens.
I love these new conservative ideas like *squints* Maoism.
https://x.com/agraybee/status/1831829893333827642
Yeah, granting the premise that lazy Americans won’t harvest crops without a permanent immigrant underclass unless forced to at the point of a gun might not be quite the winner they think it is.
Pol Pot agrees enthusiastically.
So dark lord Cheney is voting for the commie?Proof that once again, I’m on the right side of things. I wonder if I DDG his name only glowing articles come up today as opposed to how they felt about him back then. He was purportedly Bush’s evil puppet master I thought.
I also look forward to seeing my first Halliburton bumper sticker on a Prius or Volvo
Lol. It could happen.
There is a yard sign down the street from me, at a house that usually has a “In this house, we believe…” sign. The new one says “make lying wrong again.”
Now, is it just me, or isn’t at a tacit admission that the last four years have been one big lie? I mean, serious wording fail.
Tell them to just MoveOn.
Like the “We’re Not Going Back” signs.
Dark Lord? That sounds like Darth Vader. Darth Vader Cheny is not. He is the fucking Penguin brought to life.
Despite Trump’s many faults, that is yet another sign he has overall had a positive influence on the Elephant Party. Hopefully this means WarPig and his daughter are permanently defenestrated from it.
The thing with Trump’s supporters is that they tend to be reflexively anti-establishment, but without much in the way of coherent principle. If he took a shine to a war that the establishment didn’t like, a lot of his supporters would instantly turn into the most jingoistic, rah rah interventionists exactly like the neocons they displaced. Thankfully, Trump’s been disinclined to go down that road thus far, but he’s of such a capricious nature that I could see it happening if he’s got the right asshole whispering in his ear.
Three Year Letterman
@3YearLetterman
I cannot breathe 😂 😂 😂
https://x.com/3YearLetterman/status/1831444485106233854
community notes be weird sometimes
I remember the ancient times when slashdot, then wikipedia, then reddit began using the community dogpile method of content moderation, and thinking what an absolutely flaming bag of dog shit it was. In spite of daddy Elon’s takeover, I still don’t find it charming a quarter century on, even if the torch gets passed to a different group of dogpilers.
I dont understand any of that. Context I guess.
Three Year Letterman is a thirty-nine-year-old college dropout who resides in Northeast Georgia and lives for University of Georgia football. He’s a youth football coaching legend and a former three-year high school football letterman who still wears his letter jacket proudly at age thirty-nine. That’s all you need to know.
Pink Sauce Pasta: Original vs. Gourmet in New York City with Michele Casadei Massari
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nknu3LmPeZg
12 Mind-Blowing Perceptual Illusions https://stevestewartwilliams.com/p/12-mind-blowing-perceptual-illusions
1. A great example of how expectations guide perception
https://x.com/SteveStuWill/status/1832405655556387103
“NYC doc that boasts over 70K Instagram followers claims boss hit on her at ‘sexy lingerie’ party: suit
Gopal awarded Jaafar “best costume” at an October 2018 “sexy lingerie” party he hosted, then told her the prize “was spending the night in [his] apartment (which was an invitation to have sex with Dr. Gopal),” she said in court papers.”
https://nypost.com/2024/09/07/us-news/nyc-doc-that-boasts-over-70k-instagram-followers-claims-boss-hit-on-her-at-sexy-lingerie-party-suit/
Totally inappropriate for a sexy lingerie party.
Promoting her Instagram?
Yup. I suspect there’s even more craziness involved.
Each month, at the Talent Public Library, Ware attends Sustaining Climate Activists, a gathering of mostly retired adults led by an eco-chaplain. She went to her first meeting shortly after a wildfire swept through Lahaina, Hawaii, in 2023. She was upset by a report that claimed news organizations had failed to link the wildfire to climate change.
“I just thought how on Earth are we ever going to get this problem solved if we can’t even talk about it and get good information from the newspapers that we think are the guardians of truth?” she said. “And then I just thought, ‘Wow, I am fried.’”
She needs help, that’s for certain.
High priests (or priestesses) for Gaia worship is unsurprising.
Democrats have controlled both legislative houses for 20 years and the governorship for close to 40. Not to worry, there are now punishments in place to prevent cloture walkouts (the same kind Democrats used before they controlled the legislature).
Totally totally buried context here. Much of Talent, including most of downtown, was burned to the ground in 2020. Wasn’t climate change though, it was a fucking bum that set a fire south that burned from Ashland to Medford. A fire that burned right up the Greenway (or really Brownway), a “nature” strip that runs the entire length and dries to crisp in the Southern Oregon heat every summer.
It was obviously covid that burned Talent down.
No message intended
Prosecutor Brad Smith declined to publicly disclose details that led him to charge Colin Gray in the Apalachee shooting. But in arrest warrants, authorities said he had provided a gun to his son “with knowledge that he was threat to himself and others.”
Smith acknowledged the Michigan case during a news conference Friday and said his case was a first for Georgia.
“I’m not trying to send a message,” he said. “I’m just trying to use the tools in my arsenal to prosecute people for the crimes they commit.”
Call it blood guilt. Punish the entire family. Maybe even friends and acquaintances. Put some teeth in “See something, say something”.
Do not, whatever you do, make any effort to consider root causes.
The shitstain was overcharged for sure, but I have no problem with him doing a dime in a cage for that level of culpability with his kid killing people.
3 Year Letterman caught a boatload of fish with his reply to Russell Brand
https://x.com/3YearLetterman/status/1832076472665649320
A fisher of men.
“REVEALED: Tim Walz helped secure millions in US funds for research center tied to Wuhan lab
Walz reportedly pushed for a $5 million federal earmark for the center in 2008 as well as helped it get $2 million as a congressman.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/revealed-tim-walz-helped-secure-millions-in-us-funds-for-research-center-tied-to-wuhan-lab
CWAA
Shapiro, the former New Jersey prosecutor, said all states likely have laws that can be used to hold parents responsible, though much depends on the facts and a prosecutor’s views.
“You don’t want to be able to allow parents to overlook those kinds of signs there is something seriously wrong or a serious risk,” he said.
Depending on the prosecutor’s political ambitions, of course.
The parents’ proper course of action is left to the reader’s imagination.
Postnatal abortions?
“The memo states ethnic studies is not about blame or guilt, racial superiority, indoctrination, a single course or class, or a mandated curriculum.
“A key goal of Ethnic Studies is to promote anti-racism and social justice, linking movements that aim to end all forms of oppression,” the memo goes on to say. “It provides a space for students to explore their own identities, understand the impact of systemic racism, and consider ways to contribute to a more just and equitable society.””
https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/wa-board-ed-looks-expand-controversial-ethnic-studies-graduation
Totally not indoctrination.
“Fostering Critical Thinking: Ethnic Studies is academically rigorous, encouraging
students to engage deeply with multiple perspectives and to think critically about the
world around them. By examining power dynamics and systemic inequalities, students are
equipped to challenge racism and other forms of oppression.”
LOLOLOL
Well, which is it?
It were the racism wot dunnit
Post Labor Day, however, coverage of the vice president will shift from the drama of President Biden’s withdrawal and the newness of her campaign to Harris herself. As that happens, the scientific literature suggests that her candidacy will run up against layers of bias that have primed the electorate to see her as less likable and less competent over time, and that are quite sticky once they set in.
How the Harris campaign navigates these often unconscious and unspoken biases may go further than any other factor in determining the result.
Across cultures, psychologists have identified two fundamental dimensions of social perception: warmth — sometimes defined as likeability — and competence. Politicians who receive our votes tend to score highly on both.
Unfortunately for Harris, women are often assessed as warm but not competent. This creates a higher barrier to convincing skeptical voters in states like Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin that she is up to the job.
Yes, of course. There is no possible alternative explanation for a Harris loss.
If you don’t vote for Harris, you’re a bigot.
“The WEF gleefully posted the following snippet to the “My Carbon” page of its website where they make a pitch for so-called smart cities, which is just another term for 15-minute cities.
The first of three “developments” that the WEF says must be in place before the world can evolve into its utopian vision of “smart and sustainable cities,” is compliance with restrictions on our freedom. It writes:
“1. COVID-19 was the test of social responsibility – A huge number of unimaginable restrictions for public health were adopted by billions of citizens across the world. There were numerous examples globally of maintaining social distancing, wearing masks, mass vaccinations and acceptance of contact-tracing applications for public health, which demonstrated the core of individual social responsibility.””
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/09/world-economic-forum-finally-tells-truth-about-covid/
It’s amazing how much individual social responsibility you can get when the alternative is being put in a cage guarded by men with guns.
Reminds me of the Ron White bit about getting thrown out of a bar: “We broke a chair on the way out, and I refused to pay for it, because we broke it over my thigh.”
Harris faces an additional degree of difficulty because Black women tend to rank lower on perceptions of warmth and competence. My own research explains why: Black women are perceived as less feminine than white women. The more stereotypically Black a woman appears, the less feminine she is perceived to be. Being a woman suppresses perceptions of competence while being Black negates the “warmth” boost she might otherwise receive from benevolent sexism.
So obviously true as to require no evidence.
My brother has become unhinged. It’s not really that he has completely abandoned everything he used to be/think/do. It’s that he wants so much to SHOCK us by his now-correct opinions and “sophisticated” behavior.
Dude, you KNOW we don’t approve of almost everything you’re doing right now (e.g., cheating on his wife with dudes because it’s dudes, not women, and his wife has accepted his sexuality, so it’s totes okay). We’re doing you a favor by keeping our mouths shut and letting you be a boor at restaurants. Why keep shoving our faces in it? Do you want approval? Not gonna get it. You know that. Do you want to just shock us? We aren’t shocked and we aren’t impressed. Is this your teenage rebellion phase that you never indulged in and are now feeling your oats? Okay, we’ll go along with that. Are you having a midlife crisis? Again, we’ll just keep our mouths shut. Do you want a fight? Not gonna get that, either. We aren’t that gauche and we just feel sorry for you.
He’s ranting all over Facebook about how the GOP loves Putin, because reasons. He sends our mom anti-Trump vids after she told you she wasn’t going to talk about it. It’s not enough you went off the deep end because you wanted to experience the George Michael side of life, but you want to convert us too? And you think hammering us with it is gonna work?
This is very painful because this is the brother who rescued us 5 years ago, but he wasn’t like this then. I want to have a relationship with him that doesn’t include getting worked over with a progressive cudgel.
Sorry 🙁
IMO, it’s a little bit tough for those who’ve been raised in a religion to understand the fervency of a new convert. I suspect for your brother, like a lot of others in this our post-religious age, politics has taken up the same space, and inspired the same zeal. In the same way a new convert is so “filled with the spirit” that they want to tell everyone all about it, certain people get the same inspiration from their politics. Particularly when they’ve got the cultural zeitgeist telling them they’re on the right side of history saving the world from literal Nazis.
“Fostering Critical Thinking: Ethnic Studies is academically rigorous, encouraging
students to engage deeply with multiple perspectives and to think critically about the
world around them. By examining power dynamics and systemic inequalities, students are
equipped to challenge racism and other forms of oppression.”
I’m sure they go into deep detail about why African nations are mired in crushing poverty while their rulers amass enormous fortunes in Swiss banks.
Along with the role of African tribes capturing and selling other Africans to the white slave buyers on the West African coast.
Iceland eruption is over…now we wait for the next one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7eeLUBlwc
CORRECT LINK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7eeLUBlwc8