67 thoughts on “Meming in a Winter wonderland”

      1. Here we go – the ARK from Halo Wars 2 (not a gamer – saw it in a video somewhere. Also not exact.The turtle and the elephants are missing):

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  6. I like the flat world picture in the opinion meme. I feel it somewhat explains things if the hub iceberg is floating on where the water is added to the system.

    Catgirls/women. Akshully it is probably a cynical and inaccurate statement, but I don’t have an informed opinion on romance.

    Rushmore. I kinda want to see Rushmore as a character in something. You’d get a well spoken, literate being that also grapples and resists bullets. Like a superhero or a horror monster.

    re: dumb and ChatGPT: But what if I am the stupidest person I know?

    But what if Brandstatter represents Boskone? Would you then have to eat crow, Mr. Burge? (Our friend Helmy seems to perhaps be another one of those doctors of law that is so badly trained that he fails to realize that you can screw up the whole shebang by being too overbearing and wrecking the economy and then the regime.)

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    1. “Akshully it is probably a cynical and inaccurate statement…”

      Nope. Dead on. I have a large sample size. ~:D Much research was done.

      Also, the most stress a woman experiences IS when her husband sits on the sofa, doing nothing. For some reason this really winds them up. Can’t think why…

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      2. It’s because she has a list of things she wants him to do but never told him about because he should just know what she wants done.

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          2. Yes, when I visit we sit down and if there’s a pause in the conversation she’ll say “Oh, I know what you can do…”

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    2. clears throat

      Actually, that quite clearly shows the turtle as no larger than the elephants and on the same level, instead of being as large as the disc and with the smaller elephants on its back.

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      1. I understood it as a variation along similar lines.

        (The ‘turtle’ is a tortoise here, also. And the continent/ocean distribution is wrong for Discworld.)

        Which gave me an idea for the category of fountain worlds.

        Nested tiers of plates at different levels, like a wedding cake, with the water flow coming out at the top somehow being conserved all the way to the final set of waterfalls at the bottom and outermost tier.

        Counting from the bottom tier, the even tiers could rotate in the opposite direction. Has the potential to make things more fun, if I knew how to handle things.

        Of course, the atmospheric model would be a mess, and almost certainly running on wild caprice.

        Some times the math that I want to do is specified not because it makes any sense or has any real world application, but because I am a fool at setting goals. I have impulses to generalize by making everything worse to deal with in every possible way. Then I stall out while overpreparing.

        (Argh. Now I am getting a suggestion to cross wire more elaborate things in than I had energy or notes to contemplate yesterday. )

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        1. There’s a big whale at the bottom of the set of worlds. The spout blows the water back up through the hole in the centre (the one that some people say leads to the inside of the sphere, which is obviously wrong).
          Tah dah. Water loss problem solved.

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          1. Well he did used to say “I do these things so you don’t have to.”

            I imagine he has better things to do.

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  10. …

    The Warden was creating a window. Not an order to escape—he had no authority to give such orders, and doing so would implicate him immediately. But a window of opportunity that prisoners who were watching for patterns might recognize and exploit.

    He was not helping them escape. He was simply failing to prevent it with the usual efficiency.

    It was a distinction that would not survive legal scrutiny. But it allowed the Warden to maintain the internal fiction that he was not directly betraying his role.

    …

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  12. Always worth reminding the would-be Communist revolutionaries that some of the first mass graves are filled by those same revolutionaries.

    The Communist government fears that supporters of the previous regime might be the sort to organize a rebellion. But they KNOW that their fellow revolutionaries are that sort.

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    1. Ah, but this time it’s going to be different. This time human nature won’t get in the way. This time will be done right, so they don’t need to worry about all the precedents set by previous revolutions.

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      1. They are still playing the long game – see the latest “1984” adaptation by Andy Serkis, where it’s a lighthearted CG animated comedy with the bad guys being…wait for it…Capitalism!

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    2. Every. Time.

      Surviving VC were in the exact same reeducation camps as the captured and surviving South Vietnamese troops after the US abandoned the South.

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    3. One of the factors communists use when picking party members (outer party anyway) is a refusal to notice past events and draw conclusions about the future.

      Rather like Jim Jones – he pushed anyone who noticed or complained out, so in the end he had only the true believers, who were gullible enough to follow him.

      If the communist members noticed, they would quit, or never have become communists in the first place.

      So, no they won’t notice this time either.

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      1. Many excellent anti-Communists were ex-Communists. Perhaps Whittacker Chambers got the furthest in.

        Also note that Jones’s followers were in fact compelled to take the poison. As soon as it was clear it was poison — the first volunteers died — he had to make it a choice between poison and shooting.

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        1. The youth sportsball team (I don’t remember what it was) was in the local city and they got the call to come back to the compound. They refused absolutely and are thus one of the few groups to survive that slaughter.

          Also note that the compound was starving, so include “diminished reasoning capacity” in there as well. So you had true believers administering poison to the young and the disaffected, and a whole lot of people who probably went along because they were so muddled and depressed that they were pliable.

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    4. Well, yes. That is known well amongst a certain class of Commiescum. Also why they are so eager to use the crazies: said persons are disposable, inevitably. Or at least, they think so.

      My bet is that they plan on using mercenaries during the earliest days of the Gnu Regime. they’ll not be dirtying their own jackboots.

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    2. My cat likes firearms. If I put a pistol on the bed, she sometimes will sit on it like a brood hen on an egg. Or just sprawl on it.

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  15. There has been a shooting at Brown U in Rhode Island.

    Wish I was at that big press event they just had. “Isn’t Brown U a ‘Gun Free Zone’? How did somebody shoot a bunch of people in a ‘Gun Free Zone’? Why, it’s almost like ‘Gun Free Zones’ have no effect on wackos that want to shoot a bunch of people, and only serve to guarantee that nobody will be able to stop them.”

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    1. Update: They’ve announced that they caught the shooter.

      Absolutely no information about the wacko has been released, which tells us all we need to know about ethnicity and political alignment. They’re not even trying to say ‘MAGA Supporter!’

      Yesterday two Moslem terrorists shot up a Jewish celebration in Australia. Wait a minute, didn’t Australia pass a whole raft of ‘Reasonable Gun Control Laws’ to prevent that sort of thing? It’s almost like laws don’t matter to terrorists and criminals. Naaaw, who’d believe that?

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  16. Yup, I’ve come back weirder and weirder at least twice. My coworkers occasionally catch a glimpse behind the mask, and are either scared, or profoundly confused. Latest example, my being into metal and explaining why kids seem more into “old” bands than new stuff.

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  17. For the one with the raccoon leaning out the car window, I would have gone with a Terminator-based caption:

    Either “Come with me if you want to live” or, given the Virginia incident a few days ago, “Come with me if you want to drink.”

    In D&D, is a warehouse anything like a gazebo?

    It amuses me to have to explain my jokes. It generally doesn’t amuse my audience, but that which amuses me is, in the long run, what’s important.

    The after photo in the before-and-after Gonzo meme must have been taken after he discovered gonzo journalism.

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  18. The politicians should note that the armed Wisconsin citizens shall feast upon their prey. Ideally, they shall also have taxidermists make trophies.

    For the camping raccoon, I’m pretty certain that, under Robert’s Rules of Order (vacation appendix), a motion to adjourn for a nap is always in order, although the campfire must be extinguished first.

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  19. Jeff Cooper is right.

    I bought my niece a dumpster fire nightlight – she asked for it, really!

    I’m trying to figure out the magical specialty of the Amanita Wizard. ‘Poison’ is too easy. Must be something more insidious to use.

    Today is clearly Trash Panda Day – go, you little procyon lotor!

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    1. Illusion magic I would think. The more powerful spells in most rule systems have the illusions take on a component of reality…

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  23. Re: catgirls: don’t forget the 2am deer on the doorstep, which you must now clean while she goes and gets a shower.

    She’s a cat in the same weight class as a cougar. What do you think she’s going to be getting up to when she wakes up bored at 2am?

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