Friction: People who stop in the middle of the road because they just realized they need to turn at the next intersection. Are you the only person in the world and your goals/desires the only thing circulating in your skull? Getting my sexist on (it is indeed a fine line between stupid and clever), it invariably turns out to be a young/middle aged female. Why? Entitlement? The fact that there are less social consequences for young women in many situations? Or maybe it’s all confirmation bias, though I try to account for that.
Friction: Red-light running. Technocrats/planners often mistakenly assume people are interchangeable pawns whose behavior is static and can be manipulated (looking at you libertarian nudgers). One manifestation that I noticed recently is in red lights. Proposition – People are running red lights, causing accidents. Solution – Make the duration between turning red in one direction and green in the other, longer and longer. And then LONGER. That way, we’ll never have accidents. Well, my personal observation is, that over time, people have adjusted their estimation of how long into a yellow to “go real fast“; So we have just as much red light running, and people now actually seem to see a newly turned red light as “treat that like you used to treat yellow”. Result – just as much red light running as before. In fact, it looks like more to me and deeper into the next green phase, though maybe I’m just noticing it more since I’m fuming at sitting there for 5 seconds… Did I mention I hate red-light runners (checks anarcho-libertarian creds at the door)?
I believe this sign was meant as a positive…
Friction and Thought: Safety culture. Has “Safety culture” contributed to our overall decline as a culture (assuming you agree there’s been such a decline)? The problem was identified decades ago with the coddling of children and the emergence of the idea of “free range” kids (the simple fact that you need an organized ‘movement’ for free kids is ominous in and of itself). Sheltering ‘children’ from responsibility leads to very fragile adults. Maybe we don’t want 13 year old girls getting married – well, OMWC probably does – but is it really a good idea to keep all children from starting to assume some adult responsibilities? Fragile adults created by over safety-ized children bring “safety culture” to the work place and institutionalize it to the point of condescending absurdity. Like many things, safety culture can identify real issues, but no-one attracted to this sort of activity seems to have any filter or sense of trade-offs. When safety becomes the primary or only metric, every other value – especially freedom – will, by necessity, take a back seat. We need more Calvins.
Thought: On USA as free vs other countries (Ozy) and whether/how to fight back (trsh). Can we have internalized the idea that we’re are the freest country so deeply that we’ve actually sort of changed the direction of causality subconsciously? We’re free. We’re willing to X. Therefore X is freedom? So we are more free than anyone else, and why would we fight back? We’re free! A somewhat poorly developed thought, I’ll grant.
Thought: Laws don’t protect you. Unless those in positions to enforce and adjudicate said laws understand and respect their basis, they are useless at best and more likely are a net harm since they will be used asymmetrically. Had this thought when reading comments here about election reform/tightening election security. Fighting a rear guard action on ballot security is necessary, but at some level fruitless. It is not the cause, but the symptom. Unfortunately, if I label all the bad things as ‘symptoms’ of an underlying rot (which I seem to more often than not), then there is no solution other than a dedicated and organized effort to ‘march through the institutions’; that’s not a short term solution and we may end up having to suffer through several generations of ‘dystopia’; and be in a situation where said march is enthusiastically crushed by any means by TPTB, rather than celebrated/embraced, or at least tolerated, as the previous one was.
Friction and Thought: When the solution to every problem (or ‘crisis’ if you want to be really effective) is the same, one is justified in wondering if the enactment of the solution is really the ultimate goal, not actually addressing the problem (sorry, CRISIS!).
Thought: Why do left leaning people seem so susceptible to the covid ‘narrative’? One can easily say ‘naive, dumb, authoritarian’; to differing degrees, those may even be true, but it can’t be overwhelmingly why. I think people on the left are more prone to the grand narrative of human action. Everyone wants to see themselves as important and participating in/contributing to the progress of humanity. But most of us do not, except in very small ways. Perhaps those of a more conservative bent, whatever their political stripe, are either through naivety or a deep wisdom, more likely to see doing the best they can within their small domain as what humans do – maybe it will lead to ‘great’ things; probably not, but at least you will have been a positive influence in your circle. Those with a more progressive bent don’t see that as enough. They must be important in a larger sphere. Signing on to crises and ‘doing your part’ satisfies that need to think of yourself as participating in important things; of being important. As humans we are all capable of viciousness – maybe when expressed in the grand narrative scheme, it’s much easier for the viciousness to wear the cloak of righteousness and be justified in the pursuit of ‘important’ goals.
PUPPIES!!!: On a lighter note, I do not FLA, but I always look forward to Sunday afternoon, because dogs is good people.
Friction, the sound of my my index finger snapping off a disc, very disticint, the sound of a Great shot,
Howdy!
And Doggos!
HYPOCRITE! GET A LOAD OF THIS HYPOCRITE HERE!
I will confess to my hypocrisy. I even voluntarily turned in my anarcho-lib credentials.
I will also confess to being very disappointed with your second. It’s like you don’t even care anymore. It’s sad to see one fall so far in so short a time.
When The First That Will Change Everything comes into this world, you will eat those words. For now, I bide my time. Conserving strength. The First Of All Firsters rises.
Perhaps I am simply not (yet?) worthy of a First. I will try harder and endeavor to earn the honor of a True First.
In Georgia, we have blinking left turn yellow arrows after the green arrow. This way, you can turn left in an intersection with signals if there is no oncoming traffic.
We still have a bunch of signals that dont have the blinking yellow turn light but idiot out of staters are turning left without yielding to oncoming traffic and getting T-boned.
We are also building a bunch of small round-abouts to avoid 4 way stop intersections.
We have the same situation here in North Dakota…both the blinking yellow arrows and small roundabouts have been increasing in number over the last 5-ish years or so. I approve of both. I’ve also seen the same in Minnesota.
I suppose there must be federal funding paying for them all.
The blinking yellow arrow just showed up here. I guess people just couldn’t handle having a solid green light in a turn lane.
I think localities have some leeway in some road building. Round abouts also appear cheaper to build/maintain and doesnt use electricity like a signal intersection.
I think someone who knew said those signal poles with signals cost $25,000+ each.
Roundabouts are all over here in Colorado (and also in SC, when I was there). I love them. There is one light in amongst a huge section of roundabouts in one area, guess which intersection has a regular backup?
There is no reason to ever have a 4-way stop instead of a roundabout, that I can think of. Let cars keep moving even if slowly.
Sometimes a light is necessary, but regrettable.
People certainly are capable of viciousness.
I can’t wait to get another poochy. But I’ll have to (wait). 🙁
I have 4 years left before I can get a Doggo, I haz sad,
Yusef, why do you have to wait 4 years
I live alone and have to work, so I won’t leave a doggo alone, it’s not cool,
10-4, I know what you mean. I lost my sweetheart of 14 years back in April and it still hurts. But when I brought her home in 2007, I couldn’t leave her by herself, so I got a package to board her at the “puppy hotel”, EVERY.SINGLE.DAY. I’d drop her off on the way to work and pick her up on the way home. And it cost probably about what it costs to put a kid in daycare.
Anyway eventually I got some help and didn’t have to take her there anymore, but it was rough because I felt the same way, I didn’t want to leave her in a place all by herself for 10-12 hours a day, especially when she was a pupper.
This is the first thing you’ve ever said that I respect.
I feel like we’ve broken through some barriers here. With an axe. And we look a lot like Patrick Bateman and can laugh. Hysterically. Good session.
By the way B you’ve giving us blue balls with the ultimate first. When’s it coming?
When I kick his mom out and she goes back to banging him.
It takes 9 months for a mere child to come to fruition. The First That Will Change Everything? Who am I, but a humble servant of the Great Firster, to say?
Somewhat disagree.
The fraudulent voting schemes we have now are absolutely a tool for Democrats to install permanent rule; why else do they fight honest elections so furiously?
I guess I mean symptom in the sense that the drive to permanent rule is a reflection of the fact the that government has so much importance in your everyday life. And the fact that people, by an large, seem willing to tolerate it or substitute emotion (you don’t hate democracy to you? and I think that some people actually don’t see past that emotional level when things like e.g. absentee voting, and no ID come up) for a rational analysis. These measures actually will invite and protect fraud. The presence of widespread election fraud is a reflection to the underlying culture, and winning a few battles in that arena, while important, will not fix the root cause.
In the grander scheme of things, yep I agree. There are levels and levels and levels.
Republicans want to dial things back to the 1990s, when they won an upset because the old Democratic coalition was breaking down organically and the restructuring of the party, the government, and the country hadn’t fully progressed yet. But this apparent dawn of a new era for the GOP was actually its twilight. Its signature accomplishments, like dialing down defense and welfare spending, would be undone by the party itself in about a decade hence. They would ultimately “win” by ceding the last vestiges of authority from the executive to the legislative-judicial-bureaucratic-corporate state that exists today, and then in an orgy of post-9/11 “do something”-ism, lavishly funding the final push to take over that same state by their base’s enemies. They would finally crown this achievement by acting bewildered (though perhaps only for show) that this instrument would be wielded against them. This, we are told, is when democracy worked unlike today when it doesn’t (either because the system is rigged, or because the system isn’t rigged the right way).
I don’t disagree with Rhywun’s point is that they want single-party rule. I just want to point out that they already have it. The reduction to a literal single party is a bureaucratic simplification; an administrative reduction of unnecessary paperwork. I think it should be fought, because any fight you give up is just giving the enemy a shorter march to their next battleground, but let’s not kid ourselves about the army we have. If the conservatives want to win, they need to fight for control, not democracy.
Love the pooch on the left. That’s kind of the face I give most people.
It was just perfect for the caption. “I’m not so sure about you… you might wanna back off.”
The guy on the right is just the perfect dumb-ass look of pure joy.
Yeah, I don’t get that look very often.
That’s my OMG what did I eat death fart should I see a doctor I hope no one comes to see me look.
what did I eat death fart should I see a doctor I hope no one comes to see me
There? Been. Done? That.
Like many things, safety culture can identify real issues, but no-one attracted to this sort of activity seems to have any filter or sense of trade-offs. When safety becomes the primary or only metric, every other value – especially freedom – will, by necessity, take a back seat.
I don’t know about that. Safety in the workplace increased in the early days of the industrial revolution because it made no sense to have conditions that killed the workers. Ya, some dick head safety people now are dick heads but not all. I wasn’t. Societal safety is just an ignorant endeavor. It is too large.
Mike Rowe has a good take on it.
https://mikerowe.com/2020/10/off-the-wall-safety-third/
I wore my “Safety Third” mask to work until it wasn’t required anymore.
Mine’s in the mail
Mission first. Risk assessment will help determine acceptable risks and mitigation.
Heh, I used to rant that “safety first” is a lie. Nobody puts safety first, or else we’d all stay home in bubble-wrapped cocoons. Every business objective, every factory target, every feature worth adding, every mission worth pursuing, always comes first. Safety is important but it’s not first.
I wish I had heard about “safety third” earlier.
Someone said today how all those unclean nurses who quit were “heros” a mere months ago.
You know its not about safety when Lefties cozy up to communist china and push hospitals to be short staffed.
Not to mention Kungflu might be a biological attack by communist china or an incompetence problem by warmongering communist china.
I was trying to address that by the idea of identifying real problems. But when institutions spend time and money putting up posters in the bathroom telling people how to walk on ice or telling to you to examine your urine for signs of dehydration, and generally treat everyone like idiot children, it goes to far. And those are the harmless manifestations. The harmful ones come from the elevation of safety at the cost of all other values which seems all too common in the safety culture. Recognizing serious risks and danger whose mitigation costs don’t out weigh benefits is good. But we can never seem to learn where to stop.
This, I think, is the key.
In certain branches of FedGov, the Operational Risk Management training is pretty solid in its concepts and principles. But then, the examples they have you work through make you come across as a micro-managing nanny who deserves a throat punch. (“That friend climbing a ladder is unsafe. Tell him a plan of action to be safe, then debrief after.”)
And the irony to me is what I quoted from you: They identify this very mindset (unwillingness to accept ANY risk) as a problem, since nothing could get done and you create more issues than you solve, yet in practice we get the posters of “don’t run on the ice” or “drink water when it’s hot”.
telling to you to examine your urine for signs of dehydration
We did get training on that, but then we were working outside in Alaska where the cold will stealthily dehydrate you.
“telling people how to walk on ice”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1Uf4kc2aTk
I wish I’d read that sign…
People who stop in the middle of the road because they just realized they need to turn at the next intersection.
There’s an entire class of driving issues along the same lines as this one. I find that they’re each done by a different demographic.
1) going straight out of a turn lane
2) cutting across 4 lanes of queued traffic because you were in the left turn lane but needed to go right
3) putting on your signal while queued and sitting there until somebody lets you cross three lanes of traffic to make that turn you missed
4) putting the car in reverse on any multi-lane road
5) putting a corner of your car into the buffer space of a car the next lane over as an indication that you’ll be cutting them off when the light turns green
Of course, there is an easy solution in 99.999% of the situations where you miss your turn. Take the next available turn in the right direction and backtrack for all of maybe 2 minutes. Heck, go flip a U-turn at the next cut in the margin if you’re too impatient to spend 2 minutes backtracking.
I have some more:
1.1) making a left turn from a through lane
4.1) reversing on an onramp
6) making a right turn on red than a U-turn across a double yellow because you are impatient and somehow think that is less dangerous than making a left turn on red (happens enough at a nearby intersection).
7) making a 3-point turn across a double yellow on a two-lane, 55 MPH highway
Making a right turn from the left turn lane because you’re too much a prick to wait for the right turn lane. I’d like to beat those shitheads to death with a tire iron.
*pictures reenacting Office Space printer scene on said motorist with Tulip*
The wife and I call that Goin’ Full Oregon. We have seen more of that up here than in any other area.
Beating people to death with a tire iron? Wow. Portland really is out of control.
You’re my kind of woman.
Another I haven’t seen as much since I stopped using the downtown train station:
Going the wrong way down a one-way street because it is faster than going around the short block. Fortunately they were normally not going fast.
Bonus if they’re going in reverse.
With traffic law nullification lights flashing?
Ha, Mrs. Parnell gets super annoyed when I miss the line of cars waiting to turn (left, usually) and go to the next light to make a U-turn, instead of her preferred method of coming to a complete stop, rolling down my window, and gesturing/yelling at some rando in the left turn lane hoping they’ll let us in.
I have found, at least in Houston, that a signal and driving slightly faster than the other lane other drivers will let me in. I have an idea it’s my “Viet Nam Vet” plates so they know I’m a geezer and they are not being courteous, only self preservation.
Enter sam kinison scene about “I was up to my knees in rice paddies….looking for charlie”.
In high school, one of the major ways out had a dead-end street going straight while most kids had to wait on a left turn stop sign. But, if you went down the dead-end street, hooked a u-turn right after the stop sign, and then made a right to get out, we called this Flippin’ A Bitch. Super fun to see all the kids who just got their license and were waiting patiently to get out of school, see you go “fully quasi-legal” at the stop sign.
If the state is going to mandate driver licensing, then make the licensing challenging for those that wont learn the rules of the road.
Rejection rates of 10% for drivers licensing would likely fit how shitty some drivers are.
They are giving drivers licenses away because they cannot get a national ID approved. Its the de facto national ID, democrat voter registration scheme, and organ donor racket.
Result – just as much red light running as before. In fact, it looks like more to me and deeper into the next green phase, though maybe I’m just noticing it more since I’m fuming at sitting there for 5 seconds
Maybe I can properly do the tags on this one ?
There was an intersection I used to dread in Carmel, IN. It was a six lane divided roadway with traffic lights at the crossroads. This particular crossroad had a protected left turn for the northbound side that didn’t last nearly long enough, resulting in a train of tailgating red-runners. It was bad enough that I could leisurely notice the green, get on the gas slowly, and still have to brake for the 2nd or 3rd to last in line. I, being a 20 year old testosterone soaked man, decided to see how many of them I could make piss their pants.
Being a mumble-mumble-mumble-not-20-year-old, I still do that! Have to lay on the horn the whole time to really startle them out of their dream state. Come, on you’re barreling down a strip of asphalt with enough kinetic energy to destroy steel and bone, FUCKING FOCUS ON WHAT YOU ARE DOING!
Focus? I have important things to attend to, like checking Facebook.
Friction: People who stop in the middle of the road because they just realized they need to turn at the next intersection. Are you the only person in the world and your goals/desires the only thing circulating in your skull? Getting my sexist on (it is indeed a fine line between stupid and clever), it invariably turns out to be a young/middle aged female.
Something similar I’ve noticed over the last few years in New Hampshire: People stopping for no reason to let folks out. For example: I’m at a stop sign at a T intersection. The road I’m on ends at the intersection. The cross road does not have a stop sign. I have my left turn signal on. People on the cross road coming from the right will stop, sometimes blocking traffic to do so, to let me out. Sometimes they are going straight, sometimes they are turning left onto the road I am turning on. I’ve noticed it’s almost always a woman doing it. Almost every single time I see it, I will sit there and wait.
Has “Safety culture” contributed to our overall decline as a culture (assuming you agree there’s been such a decline)?
Yes.
It is not the cause, but the symptom. Unfortunately, if I label all the bad things as ‘symptoms’ of an underlying rot (which I seem to more often than not), then there is no solution other than a dedicated and organized effort to ‘march through the institutions’; that’s not a short term solution and we may end up having to suffer through several generations of ‘dystopia’; and be in a situation where said march is enthusiastically crushed by any means by TPTB, rather than celebrated/embraced, or at least tolerated, as the previous one was.
Any fix will be a long-term fight. The Progressives didn’t win overnight. They’ve been working for a long time.
Why do left leaning people seem so susceptible to the covid ‘narrative’?
You’re taking the Hoffer line here. I think both of you are right.
In Hawaii it is the curse of stopping well behind the white line at intersections. Not just a foot or two, but sometimes an entire car length behind the white line. It is like they think they need to watch the line the entire time they are stopped just to make sure it doesn’t move.
Ive been told that stopping to let people out is “courtesy”. Fuck all the drivers behind you who now have to wait longer because of your delay and one more car in the long line of “courteous” drivers.
This whole safety culture is actually ran on fear. Not the fear of being unsafe, rather the fear of incurring the wrath of the authoritarian safety mongers. There’s no other explanation for why so many businesses will happily fire such a large chunk of their workforce on the heels of such a shitty ear and right in the middle of a labor shortage. They watched with awe the massive power the left wielded against OMB and how they stole a presidential election and the whole world just shrugged. They know what they are going to get if they don’t tow the lion. So, yeah, it’s all scardey cats.
It started a long time before now, I would say with Nader and Unsafe at Any Speed. Once the legislative state realized there was a vast, untapped area of regulation it was all over for rugged individuals.
As a result, we will never see another “Terminator Ninja.” Sad!
https://tubitv.com/movies/592879/ninja-terminator?start=true
I think there is an element of this, but only because we’ve defined “unsafe” to be so broad as to encompass almost everything!
Two power strips daisy chained together with a small desk fan the only load? UNSAFE!
Not putting on sunBLOCK when going outside in the fall? UNSAFE!
Standing within 6 feet of someone for a minute? UNSAFE!
So ya, I agree that’s all authoritarian, but many people I know honestly believe that “safe” = “no risk”, so therefore everything is potentially dangerous…
“No Risk=safe” also translated into people forsaking the path of starting their own business and just shrugging shoulders and getting a “safe” corporate job.
Great point. I must admit that I have this fear, rational or not.
Would love to start my own business, but am afraid I don’t have the marketable skills, or the drive, or could get the clientele. That, and the perceived security of benefits, or a steady paycheck, etc., tells me that it’s just too risky and that I need to stay “safe”.
I wish I were braver.
It takes a certain mindset to run a business. It’s not so much about being being safe as being honest about whether you have that mindset or not.
This. Most of my immediate family has, at one time or another, own a business. It is a serious nose to the grind stone thing, but with the knowledge that you are the payoff. It was fun and frustrating and harrowing and an education for me, and I will be going back to it, after the covpocalypse.
Except the old paradigm is dead, so I will be doing something else. I was in many ways crap at working for other people, as I hate jumping through hoops. Being your own boss really lets you see what you are doing really quickly.
I thought the same, until I did it. If there is any way possible, (and their usually is if you look hard enough) try and do a part-time hustle until you increase your skills, clientele, and bravery enough to take the plunge. Drive may or may not come, but I’ve found that success -even small- increases the drive. I’m still in “hustle” mode, but I can see full-time self employment on the horizon.
Can we have internalized the idea that we’re are the freest country so deeply that we’ve actually sort of changed the direction of causality subconsciously?
My only quibble is that I don’t think it’s subconscious at all. Why do libertarians exist outside the Overton window? Because freedom and liberty, even to the limited extent they existed at the founding of this country, are actively scorned. Who taught everybody that the Progressive Era was some massive win for the country? It wasn’t some thought we all independently arrived at together. The government school narrative has been anti-freedom for generations, but we simultaneously were sent the mixed message of “land of the free, home of the brave” and “liberty and justice for all” while learning about the “freedom and liberty” of our mostly fascist system. As such, the average person associates social security [or insert any other progressive era or war on poverty program] with freedom.
Freedom is not having to worry.
Everyone has a right to medical care
Except those icky unvaxxed.
Because freedom and liberty, even to the limited extent they existed at the founding of this country, are actively scorned. Who taught everybody that the Progressive Era was some massive win for the country?
That wasn’t taught in my schooling.
I know the public schools are rotten. It’s why when folks post to DerpBook and mewe groups I’m on about pushing back against school masking and pushing back against CRT, I sometimes say, “This is a good start, but unless you are willing to abolish the public schools, you aren’t serious about saving your kids.” Some people understand, some don’t.
Boomers entered the workplace and educator fields before my gen X and they have been Commifying it ever since.
Honestly, I am amazed at how many non-Commies are still in America. Incrementalism has been working for Lefties and this sudden desperate thrust into tyranny is just going to roll back Communism in America by decades.
The government school narrative has been anti-freedom for generations, but we simultaneously were sent the mixed message of “land of the free, home of the brave” and “liberty and justice for all” while learning about the “freedom and liberty” of our mostly fascist system.
I blame FDR and his four freedoms for this. He obviously wasn’t the progenitor of the idea of confusing positive and negative rights together, but I think more than anyone else he’s guilty of being the prime promoter of this error.
positive and negative rights
Propaganda terms. There are rights and entitlements. A right needs to be defended but doesn’t need force.
Red-light running.
We have those. But until I moved here I didn’t encounter red-light anticipators. These people slow down when approaching a signal anticipating it will turn red. It is often a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Those people need to die in a fire.
I don’t disagree with you, really, but will say – in a mild-mannered defense of those folks – that this can be a learned response, when revenue-seeking municipalities make the yellow-to-red time so short that you will ALWAYS get a ticket if it turns while you’re approaching the intersection. So we learn to coast or even brake when we sense we’re close to the signal change time.
And my “we” I mean “not me, ever, of course, but those people”
Red light cameras have changed the default yellow light behavior in some areas from “gun it” to “hard brake”.
When I lived in Madrid 50 years ago a light turning green did not mean ‘Go’. It meant to wait for the next 3-4 cars to zoom through on red. Worst offenders I have ever seen plus many, many inexperienced drivers. They were just recovering from Franco’s imposition.
For Tonio: https://explore.org/fat-bear-week
LOL I enjoyed the guessing game before scrolling down.
Well played!
There’s even a section on chubby cubbies for OMWC.
It is not the cause, but the symptom. Unfortunately, if I label all the bad things as ‘symptoms’ of an underlying rot (which I seem to more often than not), then there is no solution other than a dedicated and organized effort to ‘march through the institutions’; that’s not a short term solution and we may end up having to suffer through several generations of ‘dystopia’;
Fight, withdraw, submit. Those are the three options. Each option involves sacrifice of some sort. We are never guaranteed the next day, let alone a continuation of the status quo.
Even if you march through the institutions, you still have 200M people out there who are sympathetic to the prog-fascist cause to some extent. What happens to them?
you still have 200M people out there who are sympathetic to the prog-fascist cause to some extent. What happens to them?
That’s the couple of generations of living through some dystopia. It may not be a winnable battle in the short term, and you have to start your march and hopefully, in 30, 40, 50 years, there’s not a population of 200M that are sympathetic to the prog-fascist cause. They’ve aged out, died off and been replaced with a cohort that is not so sympathetic owing to your efforts in the institutions. Viable? I don’t know, especially since the current prog-fascists seem to have no problem destroying you, unlike those of us who tolerated and encouraged them when they started the process. Plus I’d rather have a solution that I can enjoy being the selfish libertarian I am.
Yeah, the progs have a hundred-year head start. It’s going to take another hundred years for them to die out/be rooted out.
Commies in America are outing themselves and giving non-Lefties the moral high ground to defend ourselves with violence.
When is enough…enough? Lefties are stealing, lying, murdering, imprisoning, forcing companies to fire people, taking kids, enslaving, cheat in election, and they havent even done the really nasty things Commies do.
“Even if you march through the institutions, you still have 200M people out there who are sympathetic to the prog-fascist cause to some extent. What happens to them?”
You can target this question just as easily at the ~100M people out there who are opposed to the prog-fascist cause, and the answer is still the same. What happens to them? They either adapt to the dominant culture, or they willingly place themselves outside of it.
Your body, your mind, and your soul. Pick any two.
The only difference is that the prog-fascists’ fellow travelers have a MO of killing a substantial portion of the 100M, thus cowing the rest.
I’m not drawing any kind of a moral equivalency here. I completely agree that the prog-fascists are worse than their present opposition. But for the point I’m trying to illustrate, they don’t have to be worse. Just different.
When the dominant culture comes into conflict with your personality, you can submit to the dominant culture to some degree, you can resist the dominant culture while concealing your true self, or you can explicitly make yourself an outlaw. You give something up any way you choose to go.
Only a small portion of colonists fought for independence. Some 2%.
With 330 Americans, that would be about 6.5 million patriots fighting today. We know from kungflu hysteria that cities would have supply problems and starve within 30 days if the were cut off.
One of the things worth realizing is that it’s not 200 million. It’s more like 2 million. But they’re a very important 2 million and they’re not in any way, shape, or form, American. Some of them may have been born here, but their nation is the world (and each other), and their identity is, to borrow a phrase, rootless cosmopolitanism (though that is often a pejorative euphemism for “Jew” that’s not how I mean it here). They want to have breakfast in New York, lunch in Baghdad, and dinner in Beijing all in one day and never have to see a lowly peasant nor hear his concerns about family, culture, work, or life. Local flavor is just decoration. Borders are just lines on a map reflecting antiquated trivialities. Governments and other powerful entities exist to serve them and do what they want, and elections serve to ratify the rightness of their desires. These are the people who ended apartheid in South Africa, or to put it another way, the people who ensured South Africa could not decide its own fate.
Deal with them and the 200 million in this country don’t matter. The latter are not crusaders, they’re not the handful of people who tried to stop Hitler before it was too late (and were killed for their trouble), they’re not even brave enough to don the black mask and riot in the streets. They will do what their TVs or smartphones tell them to do. Some absolutely tiny percentage of them will become genuine dissidents, and their ideas will be far better than the sludge we see from “the left” today, but they will mostly just observe and write about it. You think they’d be concentration camp guards, and who knows maybe in some timeline they are, but the truth is the difference between the average concentration camp guard and average concentration camp prisoner is pretty damn small. Don’t build the camps in the first place and you won’t get so many guards.
As a small elaboration on my last point: think of the hypothetical 90-something-year-old German man who was “discovered” to have been a concentration camp guard and then hauled before a court full of people too young to have even heard a living memory of the Holocaust, never mind to have experienced it. That man lived a normal, non-oppressive life for 60 years after the end of the war.
Italian police seem a he’ll of a lot better than Aussies.
https://www.infowars.com/posts/epic-italian-police-stand-down-and-stand-in-solidarity-with-protesters/
I really wouldn’t have taken Australia as an authoritarian shithole before all of this. Seems like an environment that would encourage individualism. It’s kind of sad that we’re seeing the greatest pushback in countries like Italy and France. Is there just less government worship in those countries?
Italy and France have a long history of ornery protests – usually from the left/labor but not always.
The English-speaking countries just don’t have that history, at all. Seems like they have always been more reserved and unfortunately, compliant.
I’m of that generation that was conditioned to think of the Aussies as the tough-as-nails “that’s not a knife this is a knife”, Jocko wrestling the battery, Fosters chugging, “man in Brussels who’s 6 foot 4 and full of muscle” badasses.
The videos I’ve been seeing the past week or so have really disavowed me of that notion and it’s a little deflating.
All my information about Australia is obviously second/third/fourth-hand, but I’ve heard that Australia has the same urban/rural divide that the US has, and that the stereotypical representation of Australia you describe is still predominate in the “wilds” (Aussies claim that the rural areas are flouting all restrictions with relative impunity), but that this of course encompasses only a minority of Australians, and it is the fascist/submissive cities that we see all the bad news from, and which also control the government by dint of democracy.
Who was it the other day that said:
“Australians are the descendants of prisoners, but also their jailors.”
I wish to present you with a proposition.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7V-CW_SUos&ab_channel=firstlookpictures
We call them “obliviates” and they piss me off more than almost any type of person in the world. The ones who literally cannot think outside themselves to remember there are other people in the world. The literal one track mind and that one track leads to “me me me”. The hair on my arms is standing straight up just thinking about them.
With you there. I’m an Aries, so I have to fight that tendency in myself 🙂
The ones (pre plague) slowly walking in the middle of the sidewalk staring at their phone making everyone else avoid colliding with them.
The ones that get on a subway car and stop in the entry area.
Bonus points for doing both of the above at the same time.
The ones that get on a subway car and stop in the entry area.
But they need to be the first off at their destination 6 stops down the line.
Stopping in the Grocery store exit to argue about a receipt,
Holding up a grocery store checkout insisting the store honor an out of date coupon that would save $0.10.
Waiting til the end of the purchase Then opening up wallet to extract coins and various bills,
Parking their cart dead center in the grocery store aisle while they ponder which crackers to buy.
Old people that have a need to chat with the check out person after the transaction has been completed.
Ya know, I really don’t care that your SIL’s cousin is just getting over the covid and still doesn’t wear a mask
Parents who chat up school bus drivers while a line of cars waiting.
The biblical seven deadly sins have always troubled me. Is a characteristic truly evil if it can be harnessed in the service of good? Gluttony in the service of wisdom, wrath in the service of justice?
So I started thinking, are there human characteristics that are truly inherently evil? That cannot even be twisted towards good, but that corrupt and soil goodness just by existing?
So far, obliviousness is one of the two I’ve come up with (the other is incompetence.)
I’m oblivious to my own incompetence. Always ready to place the blame on someone else.
I’m neither Gen Milley or President Biden, although my behavior closely aligns with either or both.
Is a characteristic truly evil if it can be harnessed in the service of good?
Do the ends justify the means? Focusing on the Biblical context, it’s a fairly strong “no”.
Outside of that context, *shrug*
(to be clear, that is “no” to the ends justifying the means and a “yes” to evil still being evil even when used for ostensibly good purposes)
I would argue that incompetence is not a characteristic but an outcome (i.e., you lack skills, talent, intelligence, etc., yet try to outplay your coverage. See: Biden, Joe, Harris, Kamala).
Which if I’m correct means, obliviousness might stand as the only truly inherently evil human characteristic. I knew there was a reason I despised those drivers.
The sins will lead a man astray even if he tries to do good. Evil is not a toy.
These guys beg to differ.
People who walk into others because they are too good to watch where they are going or expect others to move.
I used to courteously move and apologize for being in their path. Not anymore. I stop in my tracks and wait for them to run into me. I have numerous bump into me and fall back because Im bigger than them. I just laugh and keep walking.
Safety? PAY ATTENTION!
I can’t pay attention on my income.
At my rates, not paying attention will get me killed, ask those who know around here,
Mike Rowe’s excellent essay on safety.
It’s common sense applied to the task at hand that keeps you as safe as you can be, but there are no guarantees,
Sure, but what about old fat diabetic people? Won’t someone think about them?
“There is a time for planting and a time for harvesting”
“A beginning and an end”
“turn, turn, turn”
*hugs cat*
*goes to hospital for cat scratch fever*
Bad kitty.
So you’re going to see the doctor who will give you the cure?
I learned very early on not to try that with either of my girls.
I’m not a dog person but heaven knows why I’m a cat person. She really got me good.
The wife is always hugging the cats. The wife has scratchmark scars up and down her arms.
In high school, I raised my hand in class and my bestie kind of jerked and pointed to my arm all panicked. Poor guy thought I was cutting. Nope. Just a cat.
No need to go to the hospital.
https://youtu.be/I47floRRAFs
Friction.
Homage.
Better, really.
Strife. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj73dyyCPIc&ab_channel=SoundOpinions
And I gotta say, no. Television is one of the all-time greats.
Nice.
Television is one of the all-time greats.
They are, but Peter Koppes is a better guitarist. Either way, we both have impeccable taste. Remind me to buy you a beer sometime.
I think you nailed the lefties. My proggies really seem to find it critical that they are contributing to what the powers determine to be “the greater good.” They are nice people, mostly, but they create an almost unbearable amount of friction for me.
Most people are forgotten by history, but if they can be part of a movement …
Like PM stated, I’m more of do what I can behind the scenes. I don’t expect anyone to know my name in 100 years unless my descendants are into genealogy.
I think it really comes down to the intersection of the group vs. the individual. What side of that line do you place yourself on, and how far past it are you?
Maybe. We are social creatures, regardless of how uncool we think that is. I think our little group here proves it. There are so many divergent thoughts bouncing around this place, most normies would run in horror. The proggies like an easily digestible narrative that they can rally around. It’s nice. But man do they go insane when someone challenges it. Especially calmly.
I think they would prefer people like us just ceased to exist.
Oh, I am a very social creature. If I was in an office-type job I would be burning to get back, as I love talking to people around the water cooler, in meetings, on the warehouse floor, etc. But, I am a huge believer in the individual and their power to move things, as opposed to the borg. I am not a fan of group consensus, unless it is the only way, and do my best to eliminate it. This is why I am self-employed. I love getting out and talking to my clients.
But none of that allows an easily digestible narrative. None of that is safe. And that is what they want, safety in numbers.
Yes. Consensus is weird and unproductive. Our company is two people and we constantly challenge each other. I think that’s why we’ve survived so long.
And I too love to talk with people. Even those I totally disagree with, I find interesting.
And that is what they want, safety in numbers.
“safety”
It’s the herd instinct. From talking to many, many progs, they all want the guaranteed vacation, prepaid health care (gov or insurance), and a promotion every three years, no matter if they have done anything. Just a steady, upward path through life, with early retirement.
And I will take you up on that beer sometime.
In Compton, maybe?
In my experience, a lot of “progressives” have an excess of emotion that is untempered by reason. They really do believe in their heart of hearts that they are the saviors of the poor and the allies of the oppressed minorities. They see themselves as the wypipo marching alonside MLK in all those old pictures. But they don’t think through the actual consequences of their policies.
There is another subset though that seems motivated by pure hatred of rural America, Christianity, and anything perceived as “traditional”. These types seem to get a thrill out of “radical transformations” and believe that old equals evil, new equals good.
Man PutridMeat looks like you’ve really tapped into some primal rage with this one, bravo my friend. I have to ask though, what is FLA?
“fucking love astrology” — NotAdahn’s Sunday morning post.
Yarg, nimble fingered MLW!
IFLA — duh. Got it thanks, and I totally knew that….
It’s better than LFA.
that’s more up Tres’ alley,
Aren’t there locations where there is an impending green signal? I recall seeing a video.
Ja.
Danke.
The Philippines has signal countdown timers
We have countdown timers on most of our walk signals now; because of them, they sorta double as a countdown timer to when the light’s gonna go to yellow. A few of them break the pattern by not turning the traffic light yellow when they count to zero, which is irksome. Seems to be the abnormal behaviour mostly on roads with low traffic.
Interesting.
Another interesting thing I saw in East Germany in the 80s was an indicator in the same position as those, showing the speed you can maintain in order to get a steady stream of green lights.
JP nail it this time!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00HNpAG13Sk
Now or never Folks,
nails?
Red-light running: I thought the solution was put up cameras and shorten the duration of the yellow light in order to bring in more money via traffic tickets and cause more rear-enders.
Safety Culture; The Coddling of the American Mind discusses this at length, both “helicopter” parenting and – more importantly IMO – the fact that kids over the last 40 years have been trained to seek out an authority figure rather than resolving disputes themselves.
Is the USA more free than other countries? Well, more free than Australia at least.
Why do left leaning people seem so susceptible to the covid ‘narrative’? – Are they susceptible to the narrative, or is it just that the narrative – in the US at least – was ginned up to attack Trump and, by extension, his supporters? Even now that Trump’s gone, the narrative being pushed is that those horrible evil Trumpers are responsible for anything Covid-related because they’re [not getting vaccines | not wearing masks | etc].
On the progs and Covid, it’s funny to me that if Trump wins that election or at least it isn’t stolen from him, it would be the left and their whores in the media who would be the anti-vaxxers. Though I’m not convinced that even Trump shilling for the vaccine would actually flip a lot of those on the right who are hesitant.
I think there’s more to it than just that covid was ginned up as an attack on Trump, though. Progressivism is the mainstream culture in this country. It’s what dominates all media. I think it boils more down to the fact that the people who are progressives are that way mostly because they are the go-with-the-flow types. It’s less that they are prone to believing this particular narrative and more that they are likely to believe any narrative pushed by the media this hard.
I think it was (and is) definitely more than an means of attacking Trump. Maybe it is go with the flow; but the ‘flow’ was designed to cast conforming and complying with being part of a bigger narrative. Doing your part to make a better world, and thereby asserting your virtue. I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad thing and it’s something we all have. But I suspect that people who lean left are more prone to manifesting that drive in a grand public narrative and hence are more susceptible in general to ‘going with the flow’ when the flow has been constructed to provide a grand narrative framework for them to live in and manifest their virtue. Or it could be my bias and I haven’t thought it through completely.
IDK, I’m hesitant to say that peoples’ brains work differently than mine, or they’re more susceptible to being fooled than I am, or anything like that.
I’m thinking it’s more like, there’s a narrative being pushed, and it’s politically convenient to believe that narrative, both as a means of signaling that they’re part of the good right-thinking tribe and as a way to hate on the stupid science-hating wrong-thinking tribe.
On first point, yes agreed. It can be dangerous to think like that. But it’s born out of a desire to understand how ‘they’ can see the world so differently. I’m not assuming I’m right about anything, I try to constantly question that. But how do we arrive at such different visualizations of the world. I don’t think they are being fooled; they just see things in a completely different way. Why?
And that leads somewhat to your second paragraph. That seems very much like a different way of saying their brains work differently from yours. Why do they arrive at the conclusion that hating on the ‘anti-science’ tribe is the right thing to do? Why the need to signal they’re part of the good right-thinking tribe? Honestly, I think we all have that desire and drive, it’s part of what it means to be human. But how do we all arrive at such different ways of manifesting it?
When you watch a hollywood movie about a heinous murder where the defendant is convicted sentenced to death and the movie suddenly makes the defendant the hero and capital punishment is bad.
Did you catch that hollywood is trying to push that narrative that death penalty is absolutely bad? Then you think differently than others.
When any politician talks about gun control laws,do you immediately know that the politicians are violating their oath of office because the 2nd amendment prohibits any infringement of the peoples right to keep and bare arms?
You think differently than many people do. And its good to see thru the BS propaganda.
I think (and I have said this here before) that there was an outbreak, around the world, of populism; Bolsinalro, Brexit, the Yellow Jackets, AFD, Modi, Trump, the list goes on. And the response to covid gave the central planners an excuse to show their skills. Not medically, but authoritarian. Every answer to covid has been an increase in authority, and none of it has worked. And that is because we have known how to deal with viruses’ for 100 years, but that doesn’t give the authoritarians a chance to do their thing. Trump was just the American version of all that populsim
Havent y’all noticed that Lefties are no longer using incrementalism to push Commie policy? Its authoritarian now.
To me that smells of desperation. Demographics are not going in democrats favor and they know it. Lefty states like Commifornia and New York are losing house seats.
Because Obama and Democrats were so shitty, we got Trump. Were about to get Trump 2.0 and I guarantee he wont make the same mistakes underestimating Lefties.
Were about to get Trump 2.0 and I guarantee he wont make the same mistakes underestimating Lefties.
Maybe. Trump 2.0 might be DeSantis, who does indeed seem much more competent, but Trump 2.0 might in fact just be Trump, again. If the Democrats truly shit the bed Trump is going to be chomping at the bit for a second go around for vindication and if the zeitgeist is spite the voters may just give him the green light. While unlikely, it is not unprecedented in this country for the electorate to vote in someone for nonconsecutive terms (see Grover Cleveland), and for those who just want to give the middle finger to the establishment Trump is still the go-to guy, not because he is a competent response to them but because he continues to drive them bananas to a degree unmatched by anyone else.
Why do left leaning people seem so susceptible to the covid ‘narrative’?
“Science!” is their god, and their god cannot falter. Disease has already been conquered. The only reason this persists must be because the forces of evil and ignorance conspire to make it so.
the fact that kids over the last 40 years have been trained to seek out an authority figure rather than resolving disputes themselves.
This is to some extent true, but in my experience (as a millennial) having a close sibling and strict parents taught both me and my brother the benefit of resolving disputes ourselves. The punishment served by our parents, while fair, was harsh enough that the guilty party had a strong incentive to try to placate the offended party before the dispute was brought before the parents for adjudication. Plus the fact that my brother and I were (and still are) best friends meant that while the guilty party was being punished the offended party was deprived of their best playmate, which incentivized the offended party to be reasonably lenient on the guilty party and accept reasonable reparations in lieu of seeing the guilty party punished by the parents.
What do you call a pedophile canine?
A dog groomer!
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
Jeez! you stacked em Tonight!
Are they also NSFWFH?
Depends if you are the kind of guy who keeps his wife in line or not.
I came across a number of unsold/unaired TV pilots today. 30 Rock was really interesting; the pilot was nearly identical to the 1st broadcast episode but featured Rachel Dratch as Jenna rather than Jane Krakowski. Sarah Silverman starred in Susan 313, and it was hilarious; I really wish it had been picked up.
I crapped out on sitcoms right around when 30 Rock got going – I think I saw one or two episodes of that and haven’t watched a single sitcom not named Tacoma FD since.
And not named Bob’s Burgers, if animated counts.
Bob’s is the best.
Oh, you’ve seen it? ?
I like the unaired Buffy pilot where they have some fat chick playing Willow.
Buffy is on my short-list of box sets that I need to acquire. What a great show.
Watch out for the HD Remaster, though.
Is there a not 20 minutes of autist version of that?
They left out most of the post-production lighting effects and let a computer handle the standard to widescreen conversion so the framing and composition is all fucked up.
https://www.facebook.com/notes/1422244004637317/
Well, maybe when I’m not succos-drunk I’ll try to sit through that other thing.
Thanks for the heads-up.
*sigh*
I had some bases with holes in them I needed to cover during the basing process, so I found some bitz, including a helmet to cover them. I’m putting more effort into painting these basing bits than I put into normal helmets on the models’ heads. It’s going to get other basing material slopped on it, and I’m wondering why I’m making sure all the little details are right.
Somehow I just discovered this. Or saw it years ago and forgot.
Anyway, the Blues Brothers mall chase scene reenacted with Legos. So cool.
That was Bueno. I think there are still enough Legos around this shit shack to put the g-kids right on it.
10/10
I have renewed faith in humanity.
(I also have to buy BB on disc)
For the EDT and CDT Glibs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3ENX3aHlqU
Here in the islands it is cocktail hour. A French 75 seems in order.
Why you gotta make me cry?
Bocelli performing at Leicester City’s final match upon winning the English Premier League a few years ago was one of the more bizarre and wonderful things I’ve ever seen in sports.
Brilliant.
Enjoy the French 75. The last time I had one was on my 25th wedding anniversary at a little restaurant in Turks & Caicos.
Good memories. Thank you,
‘Well, my personal observation is, that over time, people have adjusted their estimation of how long into a yellow to “go real fast“; So we have just as much red light running, and people now actually seem to see a newly turned red light as “treat that like you used to treat yellow”. Result – just as much red light running as before.’
Anecdotal Observation: In the KC Metro Area the general rule of thumb is you have the few seconds needed to complete the crossing of an intersection if you’ve reached said intersection by the time you’ve reached the light as it’s turning yellow. Also, give the green light a second or so before crossing/turning at the intersection.
Basically: You have a second to steal and you have a second to wait. Even Steven.
you have a few seconds needed to complete the crossing…if you’ve reached [it] byt the time…the light turns yellow
Agreed and that’s how it should work. My observation has been that we now know that you have 5 seconds before it turns green in the other direction, so you keep going even if you know the light will be red before you reach the intersection. I’ve come safely to a stop for a red light without having to slam on
brakes or anything, only to have someone whiz by me in the adjacent lane from 5 car lengths back, entering the intersection under a red light. It’s completely removed any advantage derived from assuming that people will behave the same even though you’ve changed all the parameters of the problem. And I’m seeing more red light running, and it even seems to push further into the green cycle in the other direction than before. Guess it will require some statistics to see how it all shakes out. My suspicion is that accidents will be no different or perhaps worse than before.
All of these things, these frictions, will cease to exist after The First That Will Change Everything. There will be just euphoric calm.
Wait, are you Jesus?
Jesus was a but a mere prophet. I am The First Of All Firsters and The Vessel for the Great Firster who will usher in The Firstening.
I hope not all the frictions will cease to exist. Some friction, emotional and physical, is pretty nice some times. Wink-wink-nudge-nudge-know-what-I-mean?
I’ve got stereo dog snoring going on right now.
It may be time to call it. Have a great night, peeps.
Fantastic essay, PM!
Fine. Go. We didn’t need you, anyway.
Me and Loveconstitution1789 will keep this place hopping until dawn. Quitters aren’t welcome.
+1000
Good for Stossel. This could get interesting.
https://youtu.be/6qmht6Tbtzg
I dont always agree with stossel and I think is too forgiving of Lefty motives. He was one of the Lefties and knows them well. They hate himfor it.
I think part of why he is forgiving of the lefties is that he truly wants to persuade them, and if he is too extreme, they’d tune him out completely.
They do tune him out. Well most do.
I really think the only time true believers of Leftyism watch the heretic Libertarian-ish advocacy is when their world comes crashing down and they dont know where to turn.
Its important to have the truth out there when that happens.
Unfortunately, Commies in America are pushing so hard with authoritarianism, we are speeding to the bloodshed part of civil war 2.0. You cannot really negotiate with Lefties who wont stop until youre enslaved, robbed, and dead.
Which has what to do with his lawsuit against Facebook?
*imagines Stossel open hand slapping Zuckerberg* ‘Does this look like fake news to you? How about *this*?!?’
Getting up at 3am for a 9 hour shift with no breaks whatsoever is not for me
Crappy management makes it worse. No excuse for that anywhere. I know I’m soft, coddled. Maybe something new will come along.
I worked a 26 hour shift a few weeks back.
The First Of All Firsters has bills to pay yo.
Yikes. I hope you get crazy overtime pay for that long a shift.
That’s the first thing you’ve said that I respect. :^)
What the hell kind of work do you do that you need to put in a 26 hour shift????
Whoa. What do you do for a living limey?
Just a drive by – nice to see you’re all still at the hijinks, Glibbies.
Great essay, PM!
I gotta finish some stuff for filing tomorrow. And my day job. Shit.
I think people on the left are more prone to the grand narrative of human action.
I think this is indeed a large part of it, but I would also proffer as the other part of the explanation for the difference between the right-wing and left-wing reaction their generally different opinions on control. In general, conservatives tend to think that many/most things about the world can’t be changed while progressives tend to think that many/most things about the world can be changed. While there are obviously pros and cons to each attitude, and a successful society I think needs both (although, and it may be my bias showing, I think it needs more of the conservative than progressive impulse), I think this explains the disconnect on the virus. The conservatives generally don’t think nature can be controlled or man perfected, so from this perspective of course we can’t defeat the virus, but the progressives generally think nature can be controlled and man can be perfected, so from this perspective of course we can defeat the virus. This difference in attitude also explains the different approaches to the issue of climate change, among other things.
I wonder if the Christian influence on conservatism is responsible for that. I once read some kind of mission statement from the American Atheists stating that “we believe that heaven is something we should work for here on Earth”, so some “progressives” definitely have a delusion that they can make this world perfect if they try hard enough.
I’m nonreligious myself, but I can’t ignore the fact that religion, in some cases, makes the world a better place, while organized atheism seems to be a terrible influence on humanity. In other words: If the US split up into two factions with one run by the Catholic Church and the other run by the American Atheists, I’d grumble at both options but ultimately take my chances in Catholic country.
I wonder if the Christian influence on conservatism is responsible for that.
My bias says yes, but I do think that religion more generally is responsible, because having an afterlife does offer a relief valve for the frustration that builds when one inevitably confronts the imperfectibility of the world. Also, most religions do have stories in their holy books about the plans of man being thwarted (think the Tower of Babel in the Abrahamic religions, or the tale of Icarus in Greco-Roman mythology), so religious people are literally taught that mankind has limits it cannot exceed, try as it might.
Interesting. I get my dose of “imperfect world acceptance” from Stoicism and more recently Daoist philosophy. It really has made my life incalculably better.
WTF? He really says this.
<a href="https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/09/28/truth-being-ignored-victoria-australia-records-867-new-covid-cases-375-in-hospital-and-95-of-those-hospitalized-are-vaccinated/" title="Victoria Australia Records 867 New COVID Cases, 375 in Hospital and 95% of Those Hospitalized are Vaccinated” target=”_blank” >Victoria Australia Records 867 New COVID Cases, 375 in Hospital and 95% of Those Hospitalized are Vaccinated
A better link: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/09/28/truth-being-ignored-victoria-australia-records-867-new-covid-cases-375-in-hospital-and-95-of-those-hospitalized-are-vaccinated/
Yea, but how many were wearing masks when they caught covid?
I wouldn’t pin so much hope on this. It’s a complete reversal from a week ago press conference, which seems unlikely that the proportions would flip almost exactly. I can’t listen to the audio right now but I’m betting he either said not or misread his notes.
He won’t be the first one. Already happened in the UK and Iceland.
OT: Do you think it’s possible for a man to wear perfectly round glasses frames without looking like Harry Potter? I kind of want some to go with my early 1900s appearance, but I don’t want people to think I’m on my way to some wizardry cosplay convention. They’re more Dmitri Shostakovich glasses in my mind, but just thought I’d do an informal survey.
I think that all depends on how closely the man in question resembles Daniel Radcliffe.
Harry Potter? When I think of round glasses I think of Lennon specs, does that means I’m old and no longer with it?
I think Harold Lloyd.
Ben Franklin, forgotten, mopes around then goes out and beds the most fetching members of French aristocracy.
+ syphilis
suh’ fam
yo whats goody yo
Good Morning GT, Tres, Hayek, and other night owls or early birds.
Looks like ill be getting some milking sheep from Iowa soon. Just need to learn how to milk em.
(Wife says she can milk a human, and that means she can milk a sheep)
I think i need to make a seed order, and maybe do some (more) bulk buying at wallmart.
Farm supply store says that reason why they cant get more product (heh, like ivermectin) is that there are not enough truckers out there.
Insomnia at 1:30 is no fun. going to be a long day today.
Alas Babylon
“Wife says she can milk a human,…I think i need to make a seed order…”
I dont even know where to begin.
*unzips*
Good morning, robo, homey, & l0!
robo, I confess I’ve never thought of sheep as milk animals. Goats, yes, but not the wooly ones. Is the market for their milk for human consumption or for some other purpose? I knit & crochet, and one of my sisters spins and weaves (and is expert enough to conduct “Sheep to Shawl” workshops,) so naturally, we’re all about the wool.
I like your wife.
Morning, GT.
Good morning, U! How are you today?
Asleep.
Good man! That’s the way to be! Being awake is overrated.
I started some of the assembly line painting for the minis I had assembled and primed. Then next thing you know it’s midnight and I’d only done six shoulderpads and some detail work for bases of guys that were already painted.
Good craftsmanship takes time! Will you post pics when they’re done?
Sure.
No idea when that will be though.
No rush. I’m finally making (slow) progress again on a crochet project I’ve been working on for many months (years?) Watching so much less sports on TV has really cut into my yarnwork time.
Took me a while to figure out that you used the sports watching time to work on yarn.
Knitting or crocheting while watching TV sports makes me feel like slightly less of a couch potato.
We are not sure of our destination. While we are getting them from a sheep dairy farm, we don’t intend to be large scale providers of sheep’s milk.
Now sheep’s butter….. that stuff is selling $18 pound. That i will look at.
our long term goal is to breed these….
https://www.google.com/search?q=valais+blacknose&rlz=1C1AVNE_enUS619US641&sxsrf=AOaemvKVNGOiBg2KncYrpD-xr6zkw0zZJQ:1632911702635&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjymPCP_qPzAhUXvZ4KHYllD7wQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1536&bih=698&dpr=1.25
I like my wife as well. Awesome lady. Makes my life interesting.
SQUEEEEEEE!!! THEY’RE SO CUTE!!!! And of course, they remind me of my favorite sheep!
Yep, and they would be wool sheep only. No one better try to eat her pets.
I remember ages ago there was a kooky broad that hung out on courthouse square, and she would make yarn from dog hair, and knit with it.
Tres Sr.’s comment was always “thats a nice sweater, but I bet it smells bad when it gets wet.”
Sometime within the last couple of years, I found a book for my literal-spinster sister (not the unmarried one) about making yarn from cat hair. She would never run out of raw material.
A quick internet search shows that to be not quite as uncommon as I thought it would be. Some of it looks to be pretty well made stuff but ultimately it still looks like they’re wearing a dog.
Mornin’ GT. I’m no expert on sheep, but I did have a frat brother from Cyprus who was rather fond of them. On a more serious note, there are excellent cheeses mad from sheep’s milk.
You have my attention.
I’m usually not a fan of sheep milk cheeses, but manchego cheeses are pretty damn good.
2 out of 3 norns identified?
“Abdul-Jabbar doubles down on criticism of unvaccinated NBA players, wants them kicked out: ‘I don’t think that they are behaving like … good citizens’”
https://www.theblaze.com/news/abdul-jabbar-criticism-unvaccinated-nba-players?utm_medium=push&utm_source=pushnami
Surely you can’t be serious.
Given the NBA’s cozying up to the CCP, of what country does he want them to be “good citizens”?
It’s sort of the I’m a good person and therefore I do good things while those who don’t want to do those things are bad people. It’s a third grader view of social responsibility.
…and probably the stage of moral reasoning beyond which few people develop.
Mornin’ all. Gonna be a good day. A red fox just scooted across the front lawn. I choose to interpret this as an omen of great things.
Tod or Vixen?
Probably Tod. I heard him say “This is the big one! I’m comin’ home, Elizabeth!”
Good morning, ‘patzie! We’ll take the fox as a good omen…assuming you don’t raise chickens at your home.
On a walk saturday I found that someone down the street does keep chickens.
Ive considered it. A pair or maybe 3 laying hens.
I believe I’ve seen a small coop & pen for sale at Sam’s.
No kidding! Any idea if it’s legal in your municipality? Should be, but if not, you might be able to cut a deal for eggs in return for your silence. ?
I asked the chickens “Are you even legal?” then decided I didn’t care.
https://thumbs.gfycat.com/ImmenseFalseBuckeyebutterfly-small.gif
A Redd Foxx ?
+1 You Big Dummy
Ha! Chased a sow bear out of the yard! She had two tag-alongs, one black and one cinnamon colored. Cinnamon bears are exceeding rare up here so that was sort of neat. Cinnamon bear’s Dad – “N—–r in the wood pile!”
Do you get a lot of bears? There’s not many, if any, in my part of town but there’s plenty of moose. Those bastards love to eat the apples in my neighbor’s yard and glare disdainfully at cars passing by.
Mornin’ Folks! The Hair That Walks As A Man has announced new mandates. Everyone travelling by air or rail needs the passport. This is in addition to every federal worker needing the jab(s). Both of us work Fed-Gov adjacent jobs, Judi more than I. We’re about to see the shit hit the fan. Our Supreme Court is a bought and paid for extension of the Liberal Party of Canada. The outlook is pretty damned bleak.
Sorry to hear that. He’s a fucking joke and the lack of an alternative party to the Libs is even more depressing.
The Greenies are on death’s door and the PPC (the most Libertarian) picked up 6.5% of the popular vote. It’s not nothing but with first past the post t too is doomed to failure. I didn’t even bother to vote. Tory blue riding showed up +60% for the one that owns the sinecure. Hell, it’s been reported that upon winning the nomination some years ago, he exclaimed “I’m set for life !” Selfless public servant.
It baffles the mind that the NDP gets a single vote outside of Salt Springs, BC.
That sounds wonderful. No idea how this is going to play out, I’m m keeping an eye on NYC which is doing its’ best to mimic what your twerp is doing. They are about to lose 17% of their public school teachers and a significant number of health care workers due to the imposition of mandates. DiBlasio says he has a plan. If true, that would be a first. Anyhow, hope you’re able to get past this.
He does have a plan but it’s lost in that bird’s nest of an afro on his son’s noggin and Wifey is holding the hair pick. She needs another $800m grift.
America says “hold my beer“.
We’re going to spend tens of billions to create “community organizers” across the land. Let a million Obamas bloom!
Stuck at 99 on the NYT spelling bee this morning. Four hours of sleep isn’t helping.
It got a lil cooler out last night. The only plant that got special treatment was the peach reaper. Mostly cuz I’m lazy and it’s the most compact/efficient of the bunch.
I think I may have to bring a couple more inside tonight and tomorrow. Growing season is almost over though.
https://ktla.com/news/california/san-francisco-sheriffs-deputy-charged-after-allegedly-threatening-to-shoot-partygoers/
Sounds like a training issue. 🙄
Why are pretty much everyone acting like assholes, nowadays? Haven’t a clue….
There is actually a crime that Chesa will prosecute? Huh.
I guess I should buy a couple powerball tickets today.
Careful there, hoss. Winning the lottery may be hazardous to your health.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/michigan-man-found-dead-with-winning-lottery-ticket-report
Pretty decent debate last night. NJ gubernatorial candidates, incumbent asshole is probably a shoo-in.
https://www.nj.com/politics/2021/09/murphy-ciattarelli-clash-over-taxes-abortion-trump-and-much-more-in-feisty-nj-gov-debate.html
Murphy came across as strident and angry, Ciattarelli seemed calm and in control. Not a good look for Murphy, but his built-in advantage as a “D” is huge.
NJ is too far gone. There’s pockets of good people left, but they’re way outnumbered.
True dat. Holding out the slim hope that Murphy steps on his dick. He is fully capable of this.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-bars-flight-landing-with-americans-kabul-activists-2021-09-29/
Wut?
Baseball birthdays: Ed Norris, Gus Weyhing, Harry Steinfeldt, Dave Orr. All born in 19th century, the latest retired in 1911.