Ancient Athenians had an ox sacrifice where they choose the victim by putting grain on the altar and driving some oxen into the temple. Then they waited. When one ate the grain, it was the victim, and instantly killed by a priest with an ax.
Oh, no, you didn’t want to do that. The priest would then run away, the sacrificial feast went on as usual, and then they had a trial and accused everyone involved in turn of having killed the ox. Finally the axe was accused, convicted, and thrown into the sea.
We suspect that the grain bit was to make the ox guilt of sacrilege, thus forfeiting the usual protection of plow oxen against slaughter.
No, I got that reference. I just didn’t fully translate it into English and connect it to CCO’s comment, so I went punning instead. I would blame a lack of coffee, but since I don’t drink coffee, I guess it’s my fault.
Mossberg 590 is nice, but I’m a Remington man. And no rabid bigfeets around here.
Ah, that’s why The View is such a hassle!
Considering birds are the closest living relatives to dinosaurs, they probably all tasted like chicken. Except for the duckbilled dinosaurs. They tasted like ducks.
Obviously that was what happened when Chuck Norris possessed a demon.
And bureaucrats can’t be removed, and they multiply each round until it becomes impossible to continue playing.
Probably why early violins were strung with cat gut.
Newsom – Joker? It’s the nose and the hairstyle. But by all means, try photoshopping his face white and his hair green.
Bad idea. If illegal aliens were worth that much, people would be importing them and turning them in for profit.
It’s not like the Feds are planning on burning Chicago or Portland to the ground. Their city governments are doing a good enough job at that on their own.
There was a post some time back from a paleontologist about a letter he’d received asking what a T-Rex would taste like. The paleontologist conferred with his coworkers, and they determined that since the T-Rex was the top of the food chain, the meat would taste bad—and since there was a preponderance of certain radioactive elements and heavy metals around, it would be poisonous too. So he sent back the answer, and received a little cartoon of the letter-writer and his friends cooking T-Rex meat over an open fire, eating the meat, and then dying.
So, uh, stick to the lower end of the food chain, I guess, when eating extinct animals. (Though TBH, you could just eat an alligator if you’re curious, since they haven’t changed much since the time of the dinosaurs.)
I guess it doesn’t really matter whether T-Rex was an apex predator or if it was an opportunistic carrion eater. I’m pretty certain that neither raptors nor vultures taste very good. Dog tastes meh, and those were fed more rice than meat. Although the barbeque sauce kind of masks that. I suppose if you sliced the rex meat thin and deep fried it, it would be fine.
For what it’s worth, I don’t think you can find dog meat in Korea nowadays. The Seoul Olympics caused a lot of small cultural changes throughout the country.
Yep. Tastes like chicken. But you die from the atmosphere before you can fire up the grill – Earth before was very much not Earth Now With Dinos.
And there’s controversy around tuna because it’s an apex, so it concentrates the stuff little fishies get, and as such tunas has higher levels of things like mercury than something like salmon that eats a bit further down the food chain.
Nolan Bushnell took some of the $28 million in 1976 dollars from selling Atari to Time Warner and used it to found Chuck E. Cheese, thus populating the nightmares of countless children for decades.
Current value of that 1976 $28m sale price of Atari using the official .gov CPI inflation calculator: $159 million.
Current value of that 1976 $28m now if converted to ounces of gold at the then-current price, then converted back to todays devalued post-autopen dollars using todays gold price, which I contend is a more accurate actual inflation adjustment: $899 million.
Have you ever heard of Five Nights at Freddy’s? It is unusually popular with the current young-teen crowd, which seems odd given that it’s a horror franchise aimed at adults… based on the Chuck E. Cheese concepts.
Yes, I want nuclear power. Cheap power is the key to an economy taking off and making wealth for everyone. Everyone. Which is probably why the progressives want it stopped – if everyone’s got food, clothing, shelter, and hopes of a better life, the politics of envy don’t get traction.
A good friend of mine was working for General Atomic in that period. He went to see the movie (might have taken the afternoon off) and on his way home, news of the Three Mile Island meltdown broke. Timing didn’t get much worse than that.
(GA pretty much RIFed his IT section after the resulting slowdown/freeze, and he and his colleagues tried the consultancy route for a while. My friend eventually found other niches he could do well, most of which having nothing to do with corporate IT.)
The nuke plant that Carolina Power &. Light brought online south of Raleigh circa 1987 got stalled by Three Mile Island. I was told the paperwork requirements went up by a gigantic percentage. It was under construction during TMI. I wasn’t there but worked in one of the labs beneath the visitor center a few miles away for some months as a contract tech.
One job pre-semiconductorland after college I worked with a building full of ex-GE Nuclear experts writing that mountain of paper for the TMI aftermath. One did the math for the in-house coders to write Finite Element Analysis simulations showing the melted fuel rods in a full meltdown did not in fact burn through to the center of the Earth as per Hollywood, but instead sort of puddled against the concrete curb at the bottom of the containment, sitting there being hot in multiple senses of the word, as long as the curb was a certain height and distance from the side (which it was in TMI) and there was any primary coolant left at all in the containment down at the bottom.
And actually even if the core ran completely dry because Gojira drank all the primary coolant, it still would not be able to burn through a PWR or even a BWR containment, though it would make more of a mess of the insides.
Note no warranty is available from GE Nuclear on Stoopid Rooski graphite moderated and moronically operated reactors.
Sounds about right. I lived with artificial deprivation; it has made me quite cross with anyone championing it “for your own good”. I have up-close and personal experience that no, it’s for THEIR own good because they enjoy watching people suffer.
It’s a way to show that they have more and are superior, in a world where it’s dang hard to have more in a way that the peasants will recognize. Most of us can’t spot a $50k watch or 25K tailored suit, and don’t really care. Being deprived of “small luxuries” by those who know best? That everyone sees and understands. (Or so the self-described “better sorts” believe.)
While it is mocked today, the historical prognostication that with nuclear power widely adopted electricity would be too cheap to even meter was well within the realm of possibility. And if that had occurred, with electricity so widely abundant that for power at least a post-scarcity economy would result, how would our ”betters” display their betterness through conspicuous consumption when everyone could consume just as much openly?
Only by enhancing scarcity can the betterness class retain their ability to so display.
This also explains the “betters” obsession with the watermelon cult of the dirt goddess, with it’s core of Marxian envy.
Do you want the post-scarcity united-earth world of Star Trek? It is based on ultra cheap power, fission, then fusion, then antimatter. Socialism can -only- work if scarcity is eliminated -first-.
Scarcity will never be eliminated. No matter how much material wealth is made available, some people will want more. Some will want it all.
Voyage From Yesteryear by James P. Hogan explored the concept in 1982. A world where robotic factories make everything without human labor. Trouble is, most people don’t want to just sit around doing nothing. Then there are the ones that want to run everybody else’s lives…
If post-scarcity were possible, the question would be when we achieved it.
You can’t run a homeless shelter without providing amenities that kings and queens and emperors did without three centuries ago. If your charity cases live better than kings, and you’re not post-scarcity, you aren’t basing it on economics.
I read that, and Real Life got in the way of my reply. One thing that is apparently driving up electricity rates (or it’s the excuse we’re given) is that
We want to build an AI data center for our glorious Future Growth.
That data center (and possibly several others) require building extra generating capacity, and the transmission infrastructure to move it.
The companies will look favorably on those states that build it for them.
Therefore, you should rejoice that your power bill has up to doubled to build our Glorious AI Future.
“Why don’t you tell those companies to use some of that trillion in startup money to build it themselves?”
Hush, kulak.
Note that this is here in TX. It’s even more blatant on the west coasts, except it has to be renewable too.
No effing way they can run a data center on dirt-goddess-compliant renewable power. They need baseline, preferably captive and local to reduce transmission losses, so next to a natgas plant with “renewables” in the press release only, a hydroelectric dam, or a nuke plant.
The Reader notes that in Virginia, a group of Karens is called the Democratic Party. Currently headed by the ultimate white liberal Karen, Abby Normal.
Yes to the “lukewarm inconvenience” and “I do my best.” And the becoming more fanatical about my religion.
I’m tired of all the “acceptance and toleration” garbage. I want to storm Canterbury Cathedral and make the people responsible for the graffiti “installation” scrub it off with toothbrushes, after having them led around the city while tied to the tail of a donkey.
I’d help bring the toothbrushes. What an insulting point of view the progressives have, to imply or even outright say that you can’t expect better art than that from those people.
Supposedly the “art” is on the equivalent of vinyl clings which will just peel off at the end of the “exhibition” without causing any damage to the building.
I do wonder if they tested the stuff in an out of the way corner to see if that was true.
Can we still make them scrub the cathedral with toothbrushes? For science. I’m also still all in on the tail of the donkey thing.
Older son says I can’t call for taking out people’s entrails and burning them before their eyes while still living.
NO ONE lets me have any fun.
Imma gonna let you finish, but I just have to say that where Christianity is concerned, wars of religious conquest and forced conversion are actually a moderate position.
The closer to central teaching, hence more extreme position, is that it is proper to peacefully witness, even if it gets one killed.
Compromising the message for the sake of expedience and political power is still the compromise that the world is asking for.
The next time someone complains about Christian extremists, if it was an honest position a counter argument would be to ask whether we should reject traditional orthodox Christianity in favor of redoing the experiments the Teutonic Order tried.
According To Hoyt 
What a great way to start my weekend!
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Ancient Athenians had an ox sacrifice where they choose the victim by putting grain on the altar and driving some oxen into the temple. Then they waited. When one ate the grain, it was the victim, and instantly killed by a priest with an ax.
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Carefully laying aside his precious Axe of Office, the buff priest strangled the ox.
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Oh, no, you didn’t want to do that. The priest would then run away, the sacrificial feast went on as usual, and then they had a trial and accused everyone involved in turn of having killed the ox. Finally the axe was accused, convicted, and thrown into the sea.
We suspect that the grain bit was to make the ox guilt of sacrilege, thus forfeiting the usual protection of plow oxen against slaughter.
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George Will?
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No, he won’t.
I’m sorry, what was the question again?
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I fail on that one as well.
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It’s USAian crusaders. Fighting in the name of George (Washington.)
Sigh. No one reads my books!
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No, I got that reference. I just didn’t fully translate it into English and connect it to CCO’s comment, so I went punning instead. I would blame a lack of coffee, but since I don’t drink coffee, I guess it’s my fault.
Sorry.
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No, that’s fine. Go have some coffee. I’m very low too, and I’m going to mass now. With Father slow mo being low on coffee is not recommended.
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https://granitegrok.com/national/2025/10/friday-meme-thing-42
Midweek Memes – Granite Grok
Monday Memes – Granite Grok
Mossberg 590 is nice, but I’m a Remington man. And no rabid bigfeets around here.
Ah, that’s why The View is such a hassle!
Considering birds are the closest living relatives to dinosaurs, they probably all tasted like chicken. Except for the duckbilled dinosaurs. They tasted like ducks.
Obviously that was what happened when Chuck Norris possessed a demon.
And bureaucrats can’t be removed, and they multiply each round until it becomes impossible to continue playing.
Probably why early violins were strung with cat gut.
Newsom – Joker? It’s the nose and the hairstyle. But by all means, try photoshopping his face white and his hair green.
Bad idea. If illegal aliens were worth that much, people would be importing them and turning them in for profit.
It’s not like the Feds are planning on burning Chicago or Portland to the ground. Their city governments are doing a good enough job at that on their own.
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There was a post some time back from a paleontologist about a letter he’d received asking what a T-Rex would taste like. The paleontologist conferred with his coworkers, and they determined that since the T-Rex was the top of the food chain, the meat would taste bad—and since there was a preponderance of certain radioactive elements and heavy metals around, it would be poisonous too. So he sent back the answer, and received a little cartoon of the letter-writer and his friends cooking T-Rex meat over an open fire, eating the meat, and then dying.
So, uh, stick to the lower end of the food chain, I guess, when eating extinct animals. (Though TBH, you could just eat an alligator if you’re curious, since they haven’t changed much since the time of the dinosaurs.)
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I guess it doesn’t really matter whether T-Rex was an apex predator or if it was an opportunistic carrion eater. I’m pretty certain that neither raptors nor vultures taste very good. Dog tastes meh, and those were fed more rice than meat. Although the barbeque sauce kind of masks that. I suppose if you sliced the rex meat thin and deep fried it, it would be fine.
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For what it’s worth, I don’t think you can find dog meat in Korea nowadays. The Seoul Olympics caused a lot of small cultural changes throughout the country.
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And they taste kind of like chicken.
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Yep. Tastes like chicken. But you die from the atmosphere before you can fire up the grill – Earth before was very much not Earth Now With Dinos.
And there’s controversy around tuna because it’s an apex, so it concentrates the stuff little fishies get, and as such tunas has higher levels of things like mercury than something like salmon that eats a bit further down the food chain.
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C4C
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Ah, the famous Chuck E Cheese Casino… and glad the dog valiantly attacked the couch.
The duel looks like the true origin of Dog Wick.
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More of those sneaky Russians…..
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Nolan Bushnell took some of the $28 million in 1976 dollars from selling Atari to Time Warner and used it to found Chuck E. Cheese, thus populating the nightmares of countless children for decades.
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Nota bene:
Current value of that 1976 $28m sale price of Atari using the official .gov CPI inflation calculator: $159 million.
Current value of that 1976 $28m now if converted to ounces of gold at the then-current price, then converted back to todays devalued post-autopen dollars using todays gold price, which I contend is a more accurate actual inflation adjustment: $899 million.
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Have you ever heard of Five Nights at Freddy’s? It is unusually popular with the current young-teen crowd, which seems odd given that it’s a horror franchise aimed at adults… based on the Chuck E. Cheese concepts.
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SFBS is back baby!
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“We can fix that.” – Oh yes, we can….
Yes, I want nuclear power. Cheap power is the key to an economy taking off and making wealth for everyone. Everyone. Which is probably why the progressives want it stopped – if everyone’s got food, clothing, shelter, and hopes of a better life, the politics of envy don’t get traction.
Bring on the nukes!
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”The China Syndrome” did more damage to the U.S. than Hollywood could have ever dreamed it would.
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A good friend of mine was working for General Atomic in that period. He went to see the movie (might have taken the afternoon off) and on his way home, news of the Three Mile Island meltdown broke. Timing didn’t get much worse than that.
(GA pretty much RIFed his IT section after the resulting slowdown/freeze, and he and his colleagues tried the consultancy route for a while. My friend eventually found other niches he could do well, most of which having nothing to do with corporate IT.)
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I’ve been playing too much Fallout 4 since I wondered if your friend had a Mr Handy helping him.
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The nuke plant that Carolina Power &. Light brought online south of Raleigh circa 1987 got stalled by Three Mile Island. I was told the paperwork requirements went up by a gigantic percentage. It was under construction during TMI. I wasn’t there but worked in one of the labs beneath the visitor center a few miles away for some months as a contract tech.
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One job pre-semiconductorland after college I worked with a building full of ex-GE Nuclear experts writing that mountain of paper for the TMI aftermath. One did the math for the in-house coders to write Finite Element Analysis simulations showing the melted fuel rods in a full meltdown did not in fact burn through to the center of the Earth as per Hollywood, but instead sort of puddled against the concrete curb at the bottom of the containment, sitting there being hot in multiple senses of the word, as long as the curb was a certain height and distance from the side (which it was in TMI) and there was any primary coolant left at all in the containment down at the bottom.
But real physics are too boring for the movies.
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And actually even if the core ran completely dry because Gojira drank all the primary coolant, it still would not be able to burn through a PWR or even a BWR containment, though it would make more of a mess of the insides.
Note no warranty is available from GE Nuclear on Stoopid Rooski graphite moderated and moronically operated reactors.
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Tank Knighton pointed out this week that that’s WHY we must have Impossibly high energy costs and shoddy service in the name of Saving The Planet.
It’s not to save the globe from pollution, but their own envy from irrelevancy.
https://substack.com/@tomknighton/note/p-175426658?r=3mayhu
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Sounds about right. I lived with artificial deprivation; it has made me quite cross with anyone championing it “for your own good”. I have up-close and personal experience that no, it’s for THEIR own good because they enjoy watching people suffer.
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It’s a way to show that they have more and are superior, in a world where it’s dang hard to have more in a way that the peasants will recognize. Most of us can’t spot a $50k watch or 25K tailored suit, and don’t really care. Being deprived of “small luxuries” by those who know best? That everyone sees and understands. (Or so the self-described “better sorts” believe.)
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While it is mocked today, the historical prognostication that with nuclear power widely adopted electricity would be too cheap to even meter was well within the realm of possibility. And if that had occurred, with electricity so widely abundant that for power at least a post-scarcity economy would result, how would our ”betters” display their betterness through conspicuous consumption when everyone could consume just as much openly?
Only by enhancing scarcity can the betterness class retain their ability to so display.
This also explains the “betters” obsession with the watermelon cult of the dirt goddess, with it’s core of Marxian envy.
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THIS
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Do you want the post-scarcity united-earth world of Star Trek? It is based on ultra cheap power, fission, then fusion, then antimatter. Socialism can -only- work if scarcity is eliminated -first-.
(grin)
Bait. Hunting over bait. Yup.
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Now I’m imagining the looks on people’s faces. Well played….
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Scarcity will never be eliminated. No matter how much material wealth is made available, some people will want more. Some will want it all.
Voyage From Yesteryear by James P. Hogan explored the concept in 1982. A world where robotic factories make everything without human labor. Trouble is, most people don’t want to just sit around doing nothing. Then there are the ones that want to run everybody else’s lives…
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Human wants are infinite.
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If post-scarcity were possible, the question would be when we achieved it.
You can’t run a homeless shelter without providing amenities that kings and queens and emperors did without three centuries ago. If your charity cases live better than kings, and you’re not post-scarcity, you aren’t basing it on economics.
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Yes, but that’s not what the commies mean by it.
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Read it. Liked it.
Then realized a flock of kids, raised by bots, does not result in kumbaya or LibertarianWorld. No matter who programs/reprograms the bots.
lovely utopian fantasy.
Kids raised by nonhumans would not become what is best in humans. Because you removed everything best when you removed the parents.
You most certainly don’t get “Chironians”.
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Except for dilithium (the element not the molecule, atomic number 87, chemical symbol Dt). And Gold-pressed Latinum.
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YES.
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Yep.
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I read that, and Real Life got in the way of my reply. One thing that is apparently driving up electricity rates (or it’s the excuse we’re given) is that
Therefore, you should rejoice that your power bill has up to doubled to build our Glorious AI Future.
“Why don’t you tell those companies to use some of that trillion in startup money to build it themselves?”
Hush, kulak.
Note that this is here in TX. It’s even more blatant on the west coasts, except it has to be renewable too.
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No effing way they can run a data center on dirt-goddess-compliant renewable power. They need baseline, preferably captive and local to reduce transmission losses, so next to a natgas plant with “renewables” in the press release only, a hydroelectric dam, or a nuke plant.
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When the bubble bursts….
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c4c
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That meme is wrong. A group of Karens is a “homeowners’ association.”
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The Reader notes that in Virginia, a group of Karens is called the Democratic Party. Currently headed by the ultimate white liberal Karen, Abby Normal.
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Ah. The Great Debateress.
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Cats can be both a cluster and a clutter.
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-One- cat can be a clutter.
(Looks at Miz Kitty)
(Miz Kitty smugs)
Yup. Clutter of kitty.
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Yes to the “lukewarm inconvenience” and “I do my best.” And the becoming more fanatical about my religion.
I’m tired of all the “acceptance and toleration” garbage. I want to storm Canterbury Cathedral and make the people responsible for the graffiti “installation” scrub it off with toothbrushes, after having them led around the city while tied to the tail of a donkey.
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I’d help bring the toothbrushes. What an insulting point of view the progressives have, to imply or even outright say that you can’t expect better art than that from those people.
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Supposedly the “art” is on the equivalent of vinyl clings which will just peel off at the end of the “exhibition” without causing any damage to the building.
I do wonder if they tested the stuff in an out of the way corner to see if that was true.
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But, but, but the sales rep said it would come off perfectly from stone. (Type of stone, and surface smoothness carefully undefined…)
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Can we still make them scrub the cathedral with toothbrushes? For science. I’m also still all in on the tail of the donkey thing.
Older son says I can’t call for taking out people’s entrails and burning them before their eyes while still living.
NO ONE lets me have any fun.
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Aww… you could write it? Halo
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AFAIK thanks to Henry VIII the head of the CoE is still the Brit monarch.
I am pretty sure mailing King Chuck toothbrushes would get his subjects arrested, but the rest of us…
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Um… With a note of “Clean your Cathedral” Or even better “Clean your church.”
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Imma gonna let you finish, but I just have to say that where Christianity is concerned, wars of religious conquest and forced conversion are actually a moderate position.
The closer to central teaching, hence more extreme position, is that it is proper to peacefully witness, even if it gets one killed.
Compromising the message for the sake of expedience and political power is still the compromise that the world is asking for.
The next time someone complains about Christian extremists, if it was an honest position a counter argument would be to ask whether we should reject traditional orthodox Christianity in favor of redoing the experiments the Teutonic Order tried.
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While being whipped. Don’t forget that part. It’s traditional. Even if some will enjoy it.
But yes, same. I’ll be right there by your side, sister.
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And barefoot. Very traditional.
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It never ceases to amaze me how allegedly fatithful believers can wind up firmly standing on a square marked “that was despicable”.
Been there myself.
Some folks I care about, very much, just did something that shocked me. And I don’t not shock much at all anymore.
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Book collectors… Ouch. Straight to the heart, there…
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So, so true….
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