Sunday. Its still only Sunday. My parents took off for a five week trip to France, Andorra, and Spain today. The got into walking tours about a decade ago, and this is their first real trip since the ‘Vidining. Pretty badass that two seventy somethings are going to walk 6-10 miles a day in the Pyrenees 24 days out of 35. I have my older two set up with email addresses, and my folks are going to email them every couple of days. I figure that’s as good an introduction to email as a kid can get. I mean, unless you discover it at 14 and you have people sending you porn pics. Not that that happened to me. I matured in the old dialup age where you had to guess well based on the thumbnails that loaded after waiting 5 minutes. Email was still in porn’s future
As if “wearing one’s ass as a hat” isn’t enough of an etymology for these asshats. Or as my high-school coach used to term it, “rectoasphyxiation” — “you got your head so far up your ass, it’s cutting off circulation to your brain.”
This food truck really blew it (up).
Holy shit I forgot geeks did shit like this
I ain’t superstitious
Should never have put those Dynamite Shrimp on the menu.
No, it was theBang-bang Shrimp!
“The Seafood Festival continued as scheduled.”
Do NOT come between Florida Man and his fried fish!
I want to bring asshead back as an insult.
My high school offered a one-semester class in Etymology, taught by the Latin teacher, and it was one of my favorite classes. The teacher was quite eccentric and started the class with completely off-topic readings before we got down to the business of learning Greek word roots and scribbling down the definitions of English words derived from those roots. One of the most memorable was when we were covering the “graph” root, and quite naturally the word “pornography” was one of the derived words. Since the “porn” part of the word pertained to prostitutes, our teacher listed a whole slew of euphemisms for same. My favorite was “laced mutton,” especially since my best friend (also in the class) was wearing sandals with the long ties that wrapped around one’s leg up to the knee.
That article about EverQuest was pretty interesting. For a few years I played on emulated Vanilla WoW servers and there are certainly some one time, scripted events, like opening the gates of Ahn Qiraj or the scourge invasion, but nothing quite like killing a server by waking a mega boss. Only thing I can think of is kiting Doom Lord Kazzak to a major capital city. He essentially becomes unkillable there so the GMs have to shut down the server or use a mod command to despawn him.
I gave up on MMO in the 90’s after encountering the Koreans on Ultimate Online.
“Ultima”
WoW was fun for a bit.
Probably for the best. What were the Koreans doing in Ultima Online that made you quit? Were you trying to rob their convenience stores during a riot?
They were organized and knew all the cheats. I basically spent all my time running away from them before getting killed and looted anyway.
I never got into them. I had coworkers who played WOW and EverCrack. It sounded like too much commitment. I want to play when I want for how long I want.
Pretty much the same. I want to be able to drop it and come back when I feel like it.
My encounter with Koreans via a MMO was fairly positive. About seven years ago I got sucked into a Google Play game comprised of a map with 50 dukedoms and 500 counties. After spending a few hundred dollars and god knows how many wasted hours building up my territories I accumulated twenty plus counties and three dukedoms. I was at my height the 8th ranked player. Along with my fellow alliance members we controlled about thirty percent of the entire map before going to war with a Korean based alliance. After a month or so of nonstop war we developed a grudging respect for each other, filtered out the dead weight and merged our alliances. We soon controlled almost half the map…then a small handful of Russians with no social life and limitless credit card balances bought up all the absurdly expensive pay for play gadgets and items invaded the server and systematically destroyed everybody in order to place one of their ilk as the King. Completely ruined the experience and server for everyone else.
I blame Putin.
City of Heroes became my benchmark for “is this MMO fun?” I played the crap out of it. It got worse with the advent of PvP and CoV.
Yup. PvP is the downfall of MMOs.
I have my older two set up with email addresses, and my folks are going to email them every couple of days. I figure that’s as good an introduction to email as a kid can get. I mean, unless you discover it at 14 and you have people sending you porn pics.
So your parents are going to be sending your kids porn.
limón party?
“Hey kids, you heard about two girls and a cup?”
*golf clap*
Is a coconut involved?
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A now-fired British police officer and former prison guard faces imprisonment for sending “grossly offensive” memes about George Floyd on WhatsApp.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/05/14/fired-uk-cop-faces-prison-grossly-offensive-texts-about-george-floyd/
Prison time for mean memes. That used to be a joke-meme too.
That bust is grossly offensive. Just sayin.
You should see his pr0n.
The American left haz a boner over this.
Maybe by the time Europe is issuing international arrest warrants for foreign memers.
It’s heartening that the UK has solved actual crime.
I disagree that you should be sent to prison for memes. But writing an article about memes without including them should be grounds for being drawn and quartered.
There’s a probably a meme for that.
I assume the British journalists would be criminally liable under British law.
Tucker Carlson murdered 8 people by proxy, with his mean words.
https://apnews.com/article/buffalo-supermarket-shooting-442c6d97a073f39f99d006dbba40f64b?utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=AP
I am informed by numerous proggy froggies that eliminating the First and Second Amendments will solve this problem.
If they take my guns at least I’ll still have an SUV to rampage with.
…but I’m going to grandstand about it anyway.”
Ugh it’s going to be a long summer.
That was my thought too.
They need to investigate more, but it’s definitely a racially motivated hate crime because reasons.
I hate our media.
That was my thought too.
They need to investigate more, but it’s definitely a racially motivated hate crime because reasons.
I hate our media.
Yes it will be.
I wonder if we will take them at their word this time.
Ha JK
Ugh it’s going to be a long summer.
All the more reason to turn off the news and
build a gardendo almost anything else.also 4th and 5th, you can keep the 3rd for now
Nah, it’s 4chan’s fault. Or ebaumsworld. One of those.
I like how the article, towards the end, references the King Soopers shooting in Boulder last year. Hmm, what was the motive in that shooting? We may never know.
Sorry for OT– it’s 10pm here. No worries. I’m safe and in a comfortable place. (It’s actually pretty fun.)
I have soup from Subway. I should take it down to my hotel lobby to microwave it. However, I do not have a spoon. So drink it and use my 7-11 chopsticks? Not a terrible idea…Or the ramen I just got…I do have a kettle…
Tomorrow I’m gonna move back in with Lady. I will also go to Immigration to check on shit. Thankfully, Lady is just a min walk away. I want to make the 21st my last day here. Big chance to drum and perform with dozens and have a happy divorce from Daejeon. I know it’s dumb, but I’m also fucked and have lived here for seven years, in total. I want a good farewell. Not a Midnight Run desertion.
Here’s some fun: Boys, I want your opinion. We’re all different, especially me from Q. 1960s Sophia Loren, Rachel Welch, or ’90s Julia Louis-Dryfuss? I know which one I’d prefer for eternity, but in the moment…well. That’s a hard one to gather my mind around. Every bit of my brain wracks and jumps at the possibilities.
In an ideal scenario, all three.
Marilyn Monroe, the hottest of her time
Ill see your Norma Jean, and raise you (in a not gay way) a Jeanette Macdonald.
Ideal, all three. I’m going for Elaine Benes.
Oddly, I find Monroe, though stunning, overrated. But, absolutely Would, with extreme excitement and great urge to make Her happy.
Why don’t guys, especially younger guys, get that? (Because they’re young and stupid.) Make her happy, and you get more of It. That’s the fun. Happy wife, happy life, etc. Makes YOU happy, as well!
(Girls, I’m broken and dumb, but not THAT dumb. Y’all play the game differently than we do. Reliable stability is more important to y’all. For us, sexual fertility measures are the drive. Handsome, attractive, strong men are very viable to chicks. For good cause. But income, status, stability, are far bigger measures for girls. At least as far as I can tell. It’s almost like there’s a pyscho-social-bio difference between XY and XX.) But what do I know? I’m frequently stupid.
WRONG! WRONGER!! WRONGEST!!!
Raquel Welch in her prime has no equal among mortal women. Sorry, kids.
Remember that sizzling pick of her in the fur pelt from 1MM years BC? She was 26 – and the mom of two kids – in that pic.
Then check her out in “The Three Musketeers.”
Sophia Loren can pick up her Honorable Mention trophy on the way out. Marilyn Monroe doesn’t even come close, poor girl.
What Ozy said. Raquel, hands down.
Nahh, I’ll take the Bottle blonde thank you very much,
Raquel has a Mick Jagger jaw going on, hard pass
This is correct.
Rachel get’s my vote for the ’60s. But Julia…she’s my Dream Girl. I couldn’t fathom a more lovable lady. I like ’em tiny and talented. (Not that the others weren’t talented. Comedic talent.)
Audrey Hepburn
+1 ?, although bony.
I used to go for that, but these days I’d take Katherine overly Audrey.
*elbows too pointy. would not*
https://memegenerator.net/img/instances/500x/37347314/elbows-too-pointy-210-would-not-bang.jpg
Audrey, damn, she was cute. Katherine was more talented, however.
Christina Hendricks is lovely. I’m thinking there’s a tit-fuck, and more, in the future. I’m very charming.
Out of those three, I’ll go with Welch.
All bets off: Christina Hendricks. She is a goddess.
Smokin’ hot she is, +10000
My “would haves” are Elizabeth Montgomery and Grace Kelly.
MikeS has as good a taste in 50’s/60’s film and tv starlets as he does in 70’s rawk music. I’d take either of those two beauties above the three listed above in a heartbeat. Kelly in Rear Window is just an absolute smoke show while still somehow retaining a semblance of a girl next door. Montgomery was a childhood lust of mine when watching Bewitched on the old UHF station that played reruns.
That phony accent, though, on GK.
Still in reruns…
Grace Kelly in To Catch A Thief is peak screen starlet.
Absolutely amazing and crushes most of the chicks since.
And no goddamn tattoos.
This scene in Thief just…mmmm….
You misspelled Gene Tierney.
Vivien Leigh?
…in whose memory the “hot/crazy” matrix should be named?
Sadly two very beautiful ladies with mental health issues that their careers did not help.
Kelly for the blonde one. Always liked Donna Read for the brunette.
A “doctor”
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Same, I’m on Day 795 of self isolation
Please continue to self isolate. We don’t want the insane in the wild.
Good grief. Many of these folks undoubtedly had a ball mocking the germaphobe-in-chief a few years ago, before germophobia became cool.
One reply led me to this Reddit. The Church of COVID
Saw one user had their preferred pronouns as Phi/Zer. haha
“It is my sincere hope that this individual, this white supremacist who just perpetrated a hate crime on an innocent community, will spend the rest of his days behind bars. And heaven help him in the next world as well,” said Gov. Kathy Hochul, speaking near the scene of the attack.
Get up there on top of those bodies, Hokum.
And heaven help him in the next world as wellhinks
People who think they have a clue as to the disposition of souls imagine themselves to be destined for sainthood while condemning others in the same breath. It doesn’t work that way, Kathy.
Some people who believe they are going to heaven also don’t like the idea of sharing that space with “sinners”. Who wants to share heaven with a backslider or deathbed conversion?
As she busily works to spend my tax dollars on abortion tourism.
That is the irony, isn’t it?
30 years ago someone would have blamed video games. 40 years ago it was rock music with that satanic back-masking.
Now its Nazi’s everywhere.
“Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind;
The thief doth fear each bush an officer.”
What would you have her say? The guy murdered 10 people and left a letter/manifesto saying why.
I didn’t see anything about the manifesto. I must read closer. My first thoughts were it was another gang shooting.
Nuke it from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
several years of Latin, classical literature, American history, moral philosophy, and Western civilization, among other subjects.
This was pretty much the curriculum at my 1960’s HS (which I loathed for other reasons). Most colleges don’t cover this any more.
I think I see part of the problem…
Asshat
I dont know why that broad is at a Ren-Fair, but I find her adorable in a Bernadette Peters sort of way.
Adorable BP: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079367/mediaviewer/rm2866588417
She can help me find my special purpose anytime.
The 30s film version is very pretty. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026714/mediaviewer/rm394923520
DEG – this perspective ring true to you?
Someone should remind this starry-eyed dreamer that the Republicans are supposed to be the Tories, not the Whigs.
This guy doesn’t like Trump or Trump being a kingmaker.
A couple things that jumped out before I get to what you quoted:
it’s clear that Trumpism has reduced what was once a powerful and moderate state Republican Party to a rotten receptacle filled with candidates fashioning themselves in his image.
Powerful? They won elections, so I guess that counts for something. What did they do with it? Shall-issue for gun permits and slapping Philly/Pittsburgh for local gun laws counts as something good, but I recall reading taxes have been slowly going up. And what happened with Corbett and privatizing the state store system? He had a Republican legislature that had no interest in… until Wolf, who would always veto such a thing, go into office. Fuck, people have been talking about privatizing the state store system since before I was born.
In the state as a whole, in both political parties, it looks like the “center” cannot hold, because it no longer exists. A “keystone” meant to hold an arch together is crumbling.
This “center” he talks about, I don’t think it was worth keeping.
An insanely complex hierarchy of local offices, judges and jurisdictions – itself a source of graft and indolence – still reigns even though drawn directly from medieval England.
Yeah, government below the state level in PA is a complex mesh of jurisdictions. But note some of the decentralization has helped blunt things like Wolf’s emergency orders. For example, DAs make the decision to pursue charges when the police are involved, not the state AG, though the DA can turn things over to the state AG. Lebanon County’s DA used this to shut down police enforcement of Wolf’s orders. She couldn’t stop civil enforcement, but police enforcement? Shut down. Later, other county DAs did the same thing. Yes, some fully supported Wolf. But contrast with NH where Sununu centralized everything because he could. Can’t do that in PA. So, the complex mesh and hierarchy is not necessarily a bad thing. Yes, it has bad aspects, but I’m not convinced the system is inherently bad.
voters rarely do. The species doesn’t really exist. The place is a schizophrenic political and geographic patchwork that James Carville famously described as “Pittsburgh and Philadelphia with Alabama in between.” Philly pays zero attention to Pittsburgh; For Pittsburghers, Philly isn’t a step up. New York is.
Mostly true. The Pittsburghers I know don’t consider New York a step up. They also don’t consider Philly a step up.
The glue that held the state together in modern times was a form of semi-benevolent centrism, financed by banks and railroads in the eastern part of the commonwealth and heavy industry and banks in western PA. It produced a long parade of “moderates,” leaning toward Lincoln Republicanism, and pro-labor Democrats. On the GOP side, that meant senators such as John Heinz, Arlen Specter, and Dick Thornburgh, and governors like Tom Ridge. On the Dems’ side, that translated into patrician liberals Sens. Joe Clark and Harris Wofford and cultural conservatives such as the Casey family, father and son.
“Semi-benevolent”? Uhh…. I guess it depends on your perspective. I run into lots of expat Pennsylvanians over the years. Oh, I used that word he says PA voters don’t use. If this “semi-benevolent centrism” is so good and worth preserving, why did those Pennsylvanians leave Pennsylvania? Oops, I used that word again.
So, and not surprisingly, most of the Trump-adoring candidates in the current GOP Senate primary have few or no real political roots in the state they claim to want to represent. Dr. Mehmet Oz got his medical degree at Penn, but is really from Turkey, New York, New Jersey – and, like Trump, is really from the State of TV Fame. Hedge-fund wizard David McCormick is a western Pennsylvania native, but made his bones in D.C., his fortune in New York, and was living in Connecticut before realizing how much he cared about his roots. Carla Sands, Trump’s ambassador to Denmark, was an actress who married a wealthy California developer and spent most of her adult life there. And comes now the suddenly famous and fast-rising Kathy Barnette, who arrives in my home state from an Alabama pig farm by way of Virginia. Three days before the primary, Trump endorsed for governor Doug Mastriano, an Army vet, ultra-MAGA zealot and New Jersey native who served most of his career overseas before landing at the Army War College in Carlisle, PA.
I’ll note that there was a time when lots of immigrants went to Pennsylvania for jobs. Maybe this is actually is a return-to-roots time?
Though I’ll add Mastriano is from central Jersey. If I remember correctly, parts not all that far from the PA line, so he’s probably got more in common with folks in Eastern PA than the writer would think.
Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, a 6’ 9” tattooed, shorts-wearing dude who has a Harvard degree but looks like he would be most at home at a Star Wars convention. While deftly toning down the left-leaning views he espoused as the socialist-adjacent mayor of a small industrial town near Pittsburgh,
Fetterman vs. Gillespie.
To what you quoted: What this guys says about Trump’s kingmaking applies to more than just PA. Vance in Ohio. Trump has Lewandowsky in NH looking for a Senate candidate and Gubernatorial candidate to back (Trump wants Sununu primaried). Given how popular Trump is in some parts of PA, I think maybe his people are representing what a lot of Pennsylvanians (oops, I did it again) are thinking.
And that’s my pre-breakfast/caffeine thoughts. Maybe after I get some food, some caffeine, and mow the lawn before the rain comes, I’ll have more thoughts.
Just yesterday I was musing about how the consolidation of my city in 1898 used to be frequently referred to as “The Great Mistake”. I think I’d rather have the “complex mesh of jurisdictions”.
These same folks didn’t seem to mind Hillary Clinton of Illinois, Arkansas and DC to carpetbag into becoming the Senator from New York.
And they’re super mad about Sinema and Manchin representing their states instead of doing what the other Democrats tell them.
” out-of-state, would-be franchisees bidding for a license to represent ”
Now do RFK and HRC in NY state. Probably lots of carpetbaggers on both sides of the aisle.
FINALLY under the Tundra line!!
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The USDA recommends at least one dose of Sanford and son each day.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vRNcnL95QpE
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The decision to subpoena House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy and other sitting GOP lawmakers by the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack marked a sharp escalation in the panel’s inquiry – and the potential setting of a new modern precedent in the House.
While congressional ethics committee empowered to investigate misconduct have subpoenaed sitting lawmakers, there are few modern instances of other committees issuing subpoenas to members of the body, Irv Nathan, the former House counsel during Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s first two terms leading the chamber, told ABC News.
“It’s unprecedented, but it’s certainly within their authority,” Nathan said of the Jan. 6 committee.
“The crucial matter is what the subpoenas are for,” Charles Tiefer, another former House counsel and law professor at the University of Baltimore School of Law, told ABC News. “I don’t really see why the Justice Department can accumulate evidence about Jan. 6 but the House cannot.”
It reminds me of that time Wylie Coyote set a trap for the Roadrunner and it backfired, and the giant rock landed on him, instead.
That I read this not at Urban Dictionary, but rather Meriam-Webster, made me smile a bit.
XKCD did it ages ago.
The 30s film version is very pretty.
That’s the version I was looking for, but it didn’t come up.
“It’s not a game, this is not parcheesi, this is not checkers,” Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Maryland, a member of the committee and a constitutional scholar, said Thursday. “This is a serious investigation into an attack on the government of the United States and we’re going to proceed the way we have been proceeding.”
Okay.
“Boy I’ll kick you so hard you’ll be wearing your ass for a hat”.
#greatestmovieevermade
“do you have someplace you need to be? I need to know in which direction to kick your ass!”
#greatestshowevermade
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“What do we do differently, now?”
“Nothing. Just keep doing what you already are doing.”
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“Keep smiling with your eyes or we’re dead.”
Will this improve sales?
Why do you think sales are important, again?
I will quit trying to html links
https://neonnettle.com/news/19023-taco-bell-launches-drag-brunch-events-at-locations-across-america
The anthill we choose to die on
A federal judge on Friday blocked part of an Alabama law that made it a felony to prescribe gender-affirming puberty blockers and hormones to transgender minors.
U.S. District Judge Liles Burke issued a preliminary injunction to stop the state from enforcing the medication ban, which took effect May 8, while a lawsuit goes forward. The ruling was a victory for families and advocacy groups who challenged the first-of-its-kind law as an illegal intrusion into family and medical decisions. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey referred to the ruling as a “temporary legal roadblock.” Alabama’s state attorney general indicated he will appeal.
“This ruling means that parents of transgender children in Alabama will continue to be able to make the healthcare decisions that are best for their families. It is an extraordinary relief. Parents should not be punished for wanting to do what’s best for their kids,” said Jennifer Levi, director of the transgender rights project for GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders
Millions and millions of children. We must act.
People are going to be so ashamed of themselves, someday. That day will probably be when these children slaughter them for having them (the children) castrated and hormoned.
You give these people too much credit for having the ability to feel shame, or even to consider that they were wrong.
I am too optimistic, I admit.
Maybe “utterly shocked”, rather than ashamed, is the best I can hope for.
I’ll believe it when a bunch of “parents” give themselves lead poisoning.
Rationalization is a hell of a drug.
“If your kids ever find out how lame you are, they’ll murder you in your sleep”
– Frank Zappa
Doubtful. People are so doped up on Xanax these days it’s impossible to get them riled up for anything, even if they’re affected.
People who aggressively pushed lobotomy as the panacea for mental illness were never ashamed. Society did wise up though; I fear that’s the best we can hope for.
Yes, and those who should feel endless shame will likely blame others.
Shame, come back!
I’ve been thinking how similar this is to the lobotomy era, you’re absolutely right. Early in my career I saw two post-lobotomy patients who had been living quietly in a nursing home for many years. Their absence of anything resembling a personality was incredibly depressing. It was so clear that this was something that could never be allowed again. But no doubt the advocates of that time felt as morally correct as the trans surgery and hormone blockers do now. We’ll see how history views them.
Pay no attention to that divorced father behind the curtain who lost custody of the son that his mom is trying turn into a daughter.
I thought parents making healthcare decisions for their families was right-wing nazi white supremacist domestic terrorism or something.
Does anyone know if putting an AC window unit in a spot that gets a lot of sun versus a window that is shaded significantly affects how hard it has to work to cool a room? The wife and I were discussing this earlier. Our AC unit is kind of an eye sore; the spacers are gone, so I use half of a styrofoam lid cut to fit the gap. The option is to put it in a front facing window that is shaded by a covered porch all day, or in a window on the side of the house that gets direct sunlight for most of the day.
Can you put a shade over the sunny window?
No. At least not big enough that it would get significantly more shade than the shady window gets.
Upgrade your thermostat.
It’ll definitely affect it. Whether that is affect is significant or not…not sure.
Shade, always shade,
/Your local AC guy
Was hoping to get a response from you. Thanks, Yusef!
On the plus side, you wouldn’t have to worry about the condenser coils icing…
1 upvote for shade. Your instruction manual probably agrees.
When sizing for AC, you never take into account any trees or shade. Because those things might not be there next week.
So, it is kind of a moot point.
I used to view the aggressively, flamboyantly queer (they have embraced that term as their preferred mantle, I believe) and their theatrics with a sort of bemused detachment. Not my circus, not my fleas.
But lately…
I’ve pointed this out before but “queer” is essentially “political gay” and you can guess which politics.
And-
If “gender” isn’t about sex, then just what in the everloving fuck is it about?
Other than performative mental illness, of course.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AltbF1hzGs
I remember when “gender” was just a euphemism for “sex” on application forms and such because “sex” became a dirty word.
Your wife hasn’t fucked you in 3 years and you’re primarily worried about the fact that you watch porn?
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/18550235/wife-anxiety-left-me-porn-addict/
The Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act made it a felony, punishable by up to 10 years in prison, to prescribe or administer gender-affirming medication to transgender minors to help affirm their new gender identity.
Nice work, AP.
“Just the facts, Ma’am.”
They’re just affirming their affirmations.
I’m a T-Rex, affirm me by giving me tiny arms
It strikes me that the opposing team could craft a “free hormone blockers and chest loppings for all” bill and give it the exact same name.
No framing there.
Good morning, Brett!
And good morning to all of you lovely weirdos!
It sounds like a perfect trip and a good reason to stay GlibFit. It never ceases to amaze me to reach the top of a climb only to find 70 or 80-somethings sitting there looking like they did nothing more strenuous than walking out to the patio.
Great song from a great album.
Have a wonderful Sunday, peeps! I’ve got some filets brining, the sun is shining and everything is ok for the moment.
Dr. Morissa Ladinsky, a pediatrician who founded a Birmingham medical team that treats children with gender dysphoria, said the decision was a, “huge relief for transgender children and their families.”
“The court’s decision recognizes that this is well established care that has been endorsed by 22 major medical associations. This decision will ensure transgender children in Alabama, and beyond, can continue to receive this evidence-based well-known life-saving care,” she said.
A medical practice based on seeking out individuals suffering from a vanishingly rare “illness” in order to “treat” them. That sounds totally legit.
No conflict of interest at all.
It’s not clear to me that yet another law is necessary. What is to stop DAs in Alabama from arresting people like Ladinsky and criminally charging them with child endangerment (or whatever the right charges are)? Every doctor, social worker, psychologist, etc that is involved. Hundreds of criminal cases.
Maybe I’m misunderstanding, but it seems like they could already act under the current law if truly serious about this.
That’s why.
To broaden your point out a bit, it’s because we’re losing the “culture war”. For every person waking up, there are 5 pronoun wearing goodthinkers out there inching this train further and further towards crazytown. Those 5 people are often in positions of authority, feel completely free to be outspoken, and see corrupting your children as a moral imperative.
If the state has no say in the welfare of children, and ought to be prohibited from interfering in parental decisions, can I sell my daughter to an Arab sheikh?
As long as 10% goes to the big guy.
That would be fine. Just don’t teach your kids to be white supremacists. That would be bad.
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Meh. 22. Right on the Tundra Line.
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This is why public schools are overloaded with the blue-hairs; all the hot teachers are leaving to start OnlyFans channels.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/love-sex/onlyfans-content-creator-used-english-26830185
Another grocery store is raising their bag tax fee. Payoff to the chains for bending to the idiots.
I like the cut of this guy’s receipts:
https://www.facebook.com/basintacklecharleston/photos/a.764081120299762/3342932719081243/?type=3
Haha!
Login-walled.
Continuing the Schoolhouse Rock dive: No More Kings
Have a listen to this one and tell me how it would be received if played as an ad during children’s programming these days.
Yeah… the history episodes bring a tear to my eye contemplating how far from the founding ideals we’ve strayed – <a href="https://youtu.be/IQ28jC6zG9k" title="The Great American Melting Pot” target=”_blank” >The Great American Melting Pot
Substitute Trump for the King and it would be fully endorsed.
From the lyrics:
We’re gonna elect a president (no more kings)
He’s gonna do what the people want (no more kings)
We’re gonna run things out way (no more kings)
Nobody’s gonna tell us what to do
This notion that democracy means you get to do what you want was so thoroughly beaten into us as children, it’s one thing I hope I can de-program from my son’s schooling when he’s old enough. It’s such an insidious lie that lends legitimacy to the actions of the very worst people in America
Here are some of my thoughts on the gender thing. They are not complete, nor fixed in stone at this point, but more thinking-out-loud:
1. There are two sexes, biologically defined as individuals possessing either the XX or XY chromosome pairs. There may be other possible combinations of the “sex chromosomes”, vanishingly rare, and often lethal to the zygote/embryo.
2. Gender is a social construct, largely developed historically by people’s observation of inherent physical differences and behavioral patterns that, to a variable degree, correspond somewhat to the biological sexes. But because society is shit, people often expect and attempt to force individuals to conform to these patterns, and tend to react badly when individuals do not do so to the “society’s” satisfaction.
3. Individuals are, and should be, free, to behave as they wish, independent of social norms and expectations, to the extent that they do not infringe upon any other individual’s freedom to do the same. At the same time, they must understand that they have no right nor legitimate power to impose their world views on others; therefore, they have no real expectation that others should conform to their demands, any more than they have an obligation to conform to others’ demands, in this case particularly with regard to gendered behavioral expectations.
4. In summary: You are free to behave as you wish, but you must be prepared to accept that others will react to your behavior with varying levels of acceptance, just as you are free to choose to accept, or not accept, their behavior.
5. In summary summary: Suck it up, Buttercup. Live your life the way you choose, but don’t expect others to conform to your expectations.
From a Stoic point of view, it’s pointless to get worked up about whether someone calls you by the wrong pronouns, or to be upset when someone insists that you use nonstandard pronouns for themselves. If you want to get along with other people in society, be prepared to be flexible, and this goes equally for all. If you believe something is right and true, by all means behave in the way your beliefs require you to, but don’t be surprised or offended if others don’t meet your expectations. You have a right to autonomy and self-direction, but not to impose your world view on others.
Additionally, it seems dangerously unwise to perform surgeries and drug therapies on young individuals who are questioning their gender. They have time to figure things out, and forcing them down a pathway too early is likely to cause psychological issues on par with, or worse than, the issues they may experience during the normal process of maturation.
Good thoughts.
RC Dean pointed out the XYY (IIRC), which some high-testosterone athletes have and he would bet many criminals, too. He noted that this is not rare.
not rare
Not rare meaning on the order of 1:1,000 rather than 1:1,000,000
99.X% of people walking around have either XX or XY chromosomes.
Its also worth noting that of the 0.Y% walking around with some other chromosomal configuration, the vast majority are not intersex configurations.
No, but it did pull me up with my sweeping generalizations.
Me too. I don’t want to undermine your point, because it’s a good one. However, I wanted to provide some more detail because my first reaction was “wow there are a lot of people walking around with 2 sets of genitals”, but further digging showed that to be an overreaction on my part.
So, I applied for two jobs yesterday (same work, two different companies). One of them had a rundown of disabilities and “Do you have any of these? Because we are determined to make 7% of our workforce people with disabilities” (not verbatim, but very clear about intent). Anyway, one of the listed disabilities was “anxiety and depression,” which I have had most of my life and struggled through because I had to support my electricity habit. So I thought, “Why not? If anxiety and depresssion is a disability, and they’re actively looking for disabled, I’ll go ahead and throw my hat in that ring.” Of course, that also goes with a resume of being a business owner for 20 years, but who’s to say whether it’s a pro or a con. I know some people have crippling anxiety and depression and CANNOT work, but there were years I felt like I was slogging through chin-high molasses. There was just no alternative if I wanted to keep the lights on.
You are playing by their rules and their definition.
For anyone who is into D&D or fantasy/sci-fi literature, here is the Appendix N podcast:
https://open.spotify.com/show/1k0WPiJ7GYmTSvqu2jrlvs?si=qclZ33uDSECWPYJdX7hHuQ
I know the Lily Pics post is up, but for scorekeeping:
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Very nice.
And yeah, the IFLA post is up, but it’s not seeing a lot of activity. Hopefully it’s ’cause everyone’s out having fun in the sun.