73 thoughts on “Plus Ça Change, Plus C’est La Meme Chose”

    1. I found a setting on WP “My Profile”.
      Menu item “Notification Settings”.

      Comments tab titled “Comments on other sites”. Turned on everything. (Think this is the default state. IDK. I didn’t have a WP account until the recent changes.)

      Updates tab, turned on “Digests: Popular content from blogs you follow.”

      That with first post on new article email icon and turning on email me new comments, seems to have worked (took a couple of days). Wasn’t sure if that was what actually worked or WP started behaving. But if you still aren’t getting comments other than comments replied to your comments, maybe?

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      1. I’m getting them now.

        At the bottom left on the “comment field”, there’s an icon and if you click on it, you’re shown three options for email from WP.

        The third option is for emails of “all posts/comments”.

        That one wasn’t “clicked on” but I clicked it on so I’m getting them now.

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        1. Too funny.

          It just mails me everything. “Switches? We don’t need no stinking switces!”

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      1. That thing is entirely too coherent to be one of mine. I mean, it has the proper number of eyes and everything, no extra limbs, dangling plot threads drooling out its mouth, no sudden but inevitable cliffhangers every other chapter, and even looks (if you squint a lot) like its in the same family as the other two!

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      2. I’ve been having to go back and see what I’ve written so I can sort out where I’m going. This past week has been so chaotic that the plot … Yeah. The “Actual Manuscript” is pretty accurate. Alas.

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      4. King Ghidorah the author? LOL

        Maybe on a con panel with

        Godzilla?

        LOL

        Caffeine and laundry breakfast time…..

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  8. The Admiral Ackbar meme needs an anime “trap” (i.e. a male anime character who’s cross-dressing, and looks like an attractive anime female) in it somewhere.

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  9. As someone who has actually been flint knapping and knows what a pain in the everything it is (flint chip scars, ‘cuz those things are mighty sharp when they are fresh and unused), but too useful when you have nothing to discard the skill…

    Bleh. I hope to never need it. But considering Biden….

    Ah, I kid. Socialist commie ratbags suck, but they can’t kill the American spirit. Drive it underground for a time, sure. But kill it?

    That would mean killing Americans. A LOT of Americans. And I just don’t see that happening to the degree it must for stone tools to make a sudden comeback.

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      1. One made of glass-reinforced polymer won’t do either, AFAIK. Just provided for informational value, of course…

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    3. “Knives, anything sharp, is forbidden here.”

      (Provided dull kiddiegarten scissors and a chore, Scrounges scrap glass bottle. Breaks it and knapps tools)

      (Grin)

      “How the (bleep) did you cut all that up? Your teeth?”

      (Toothy Grin)

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  11. I must report an error found on this page. A most egregious error indeed. A math error!

    That graph is wrong. Trust in government does not drop in a stately, slow slide as knowledge of history increases.

    It’s more of a precipitous drop into the negative, followed by an even steeper plunge to the limits of the Y axis. You don’t really need to know much history to realize that our government is corrupt.

    Just a little bit of true history. That’s it. Pick an era. Pick a year. I guar-un-effing-TEE there was corruption happening somewhere. And that’s just what we know they’ve been up to because they got caught.

    I’m not willing to bet they got caught every time.

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      1. Regretfully, it does not pass the X-axis resulting in some positive trust of government remaining, rather than at the very least a healthy mix if trust-but-verify and outright distrust.

        Mature minds of even small distinction must, of course, be conversant in history. Knowledge of history yields many common patterns, not least of which is power unchecked will corrupt, and rapidly, too. I much prefer a citizenry that keeps a gimlet eye upon its representatives, and tugs sharply upon their leashes when they inevitably wander into troublesome territory.

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  12. There’s a Yoo Toob video “Ted Cruz Accuses Karine Jean-Pierre Of Peddling Bulls— For Biden”

    Doesn’t Ted get it — that was literally the job description? “Stand there and repeat these obvious lies while the left-wing press pretends to believe them. Evade inconvenient questions. Directly contradict what you said two days ago without rolling your eyes.”

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    1. Lying has been the job of every press secretary since the position was invented. The frequency and amplitude of the lies will vary depending on how much polishing the turd in the Oval Office requires.

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      2. There’s spinning.. and then there’s what KJP does. ^^;;

        The worst thing is that she’s fairly blatant and bald-faced about it. She doesn’t even try.

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        1. KJP spins so hard you could hook her up to a dynamo and power DC in its entirety. At least that way we’d get some use out of her.

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        2. Yeah, when they promised ‘The Most Transparent Administration In History’ we didn’t realize they meant the most transparently obvious lies. Mop Head just tosses out one whopper after another without the slightest change in expression.

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          1. Ever conside rthat maybe she’s so stupid that she doesn’t actually know that they’re lies. The perfect press secretary; dumb as a bag of rocks.

            “Duh, OK, boss.”

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      3. With apologies to The Trashmen…..

        A-well-a everybody’s heard about the turd
        T-t-t-turd, t-turdd’s the word
        A-well, a turd, turd, turd, turd is the word

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      1. I’m picturing a Fair Witness as WHPS. I’m trying to decide if they’d never say anything or if every bit of embarrassing data would flow out at the appropriate question.

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  13. I’m laughing too hard to comment.

    I’m on lunch break from the sales floor. My boss just ridiculed me for mapping the sales floor so I could learn where all the shoes are.

    Yes. Great lead. And I have zero F**** to give. Life is too short and the memes too good.

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    1. Let me make sure I’ve got this straight. Your job is to help customers get shoes. To do your job as well as possible, you need to know where the shoes are. You came up with, and executed, a plan to help you learn where the shoes are so that you can do your job better. And your boss just made fun of you for that? Any way you can return him for store credit, and trade him in for a better model? :-)

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      1. Why yes. You understand the situation completely. And don’t let the customers know where the shoes are either! So, screw her. I’m becoming the expert, because it’s fun and footwear is fun.

        But yeah, the dregs float to the top.

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        1. As my grandad used to say the crap floats to the top of the septic tank. Except he usually didn’t say crap…

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        2. I am so sorry. If someone in my store showed that initiative I would be working to give them a raise. Not a good leader that one.

          Retail can sure be alot of fun sometimes.

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      2. Thanks, Sarah. Big hugs back, and great hope for the new kittens.

        This job is specifically to teach me some things, so it’s G-d inspired for sure. And yet…. :)

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  14. Sorry. My mind is little blown by something I was just told: 235–240 bushels an acre corn. The guy cheated; not only did he irrigate it, it was irrigated with hog waste every time!

    I’m sure what 1600 Pennsylvania is putting out smells that bad or worse but it probably should not be used on anything intended for human consumption.

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    1. I remember 50 years ago 100 bushels/acre was the Holy Grail of agriculture. Now we get over 200.

      But it couldn’t have anything to do with more carbon dioxide in the air, naw, no way.

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    2. If the hog waste has been properly treated, then it’s not unsafe for human use. Ditto cow manure. Raw is a different story, or can be, depending on how the waste is stored and what the animals were fed. Yes, I lived and worked where this was a big issue, and people who did not spike in their manure properly and promptly were the bane of those downwind. Or downstream, if the ground was still frozen.

      Unfortunately, anyone who claims that “organic fertilizer” is just as good as modern chemical fertilizers used correctly is spraying that “organic fertilizer” all over. At least for cotton, yields drop by a third or more, depending on conditions.

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  16. What’s going on with the heresy memes?
    I’m not saying there’s a shortage of it floating around, but what specifically happened above and beyond the normal theological illiteracy?

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