OTOH, hit 59, retired. Hit 60 and decided, “Second Childhood!!!!!! You can’t make me.” OTOH not stupid enough to actually go to jail. Please note, my mother is still alive, so have to behave somewhat … But only somewhat.
She tries, bless her heart. Some of the pre-18-me arguments? Still happen. Difference? I win. (It is hilarious.) I get to say “because I said so!” Which interestingly enough, we, hubby and I, never ever used with our son.
I no longer if it was astronomer Patrick Moore or simply him relating someone else’s claim that the correct (or least harder to be made fun of) pronunciation is YOU-RAN-US.
The guy who started it and headed it, Morris Dees, certainly was a white dude, and eventually got old. The SPLC followed the course of many NGOs: Noble initial purpose, and turned into a continuing grift when the problem was solved.
Trying something new today – ground cacao; treat it like coffee. Interesting on its own, but a bit thin. Better with a shot of half and half. No caffeine, which is where I have been moored/marooned for years.
My favorite this morning is the cats in the truck, wearing cummerbunds and shorts.
Reminds me of a short story by Dean Ing, his contribution to the Kzin Wars lore of Larry Niven. (“Tiger, Tiger” I think it was called.) It involves a Kzin crashing in 19th century India and finding himself at the receiving end of a tiger hunt by the local Brits.
My favorite was le boop followed by Cuba Libre. Heh. Didn’t understand the garden gnome in the vents one. Pretty the hell portal has been open alot longer than that. ;)
Hypothetically, what if in 2024 we had at least 50% excess gun homicides because of Biden and because of BLM.
I forget what the numbers were in 2020.
But, you can either believe that lockdowns could prevent 200k excess deaths from the common cold, or that it was more important to prevent a year of gun related deaths by clapping our hands for tinkerbell.
Alternatively, you can be like me and understand that BLM made everything worse, and also that epidemiologists run amok made ‘public health’ actively worse.
Dan McLaughlin had a infographic whose data I cannot verify.
320 occupations by percent donating to Democrats versus Republicans. Most democratic ten were above ninety percent for Democrats, and the least were still like 30%.
If true, unlike what he said, the issue is not how echo-chambered certain occupations are. The issue is that the subsetting by occupation may have counted a lot of tiny occupations that can be coopted by activists, and basically become owned subsidiaries of the Democrats.
Do try not to mispronounce certain phrases in Japanese: 🤣
“May I sit on your chair?”
“You should donate your chair to Goodwill.”
“Can’t quite reach it. Let me stand on your chair.”
“All you do is sit on your chair all day!”
Except the most common words for chair and testicles are “isu” and “kintama”, respectively.
Then again, my sister once spent several hours in a meeting in Japan, referring to one of her co-workers as Yukata-san (“Mr. Bathrobe”). When they took a break, he quietly said to her, “it’s Yutaka”.
OT: My oldest nephew and his wife welcomed twins this morning via C-section. One boy, one girl, and all are well. They’re now up to 4. The oldest is 5.
Oh so very much the “drowning in information.” One of the tasks for next academic year is teaching data evaluation along with subject matter. This will be … interesting
Pretty much need to include the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect (sometimes just Gell-Mann Amnesia) near the beginning.
What it is:You read a news article on a topic you know well (your field of expertise), and you immediately see it’s full of errors, simplifications, distortions, or outright fabrications (“wet streets cause rain” stories, as Michael Crichton put it). Then you turn the page and read stories on topics you’re not familiar with as if the newspaper is suddenly reliable and accurate.
(Text swiped from Grok – remembered the definition/description but not the name)
Mine is a most peaceable disposition. My wishes are: a humble cottage with a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food, the freshest milk and butter, flowers before my window, and a few fine trees before my door; and if God wants to make my happiness complete, he will grant me the joy of seeing some six or seven of my enemies hanging from those trees. Before death I shall, moved in my heart, forgive them all the wrong they did me in their lifetime. One must, it is true, forgive one’s enemies– but not before they have been hanged.
Heinrich Heine
I thought about that for a minute, and liked it, but then I realized – if that refers to personal enemies, there is no evidence I have any! I’ve been victimized, mildly, by general human cussedness and incompetence, and more profoundly by Leftoid politicians and policies, but nobody specifically has it out for me.
I’m not recruiting for any!
Makes me wonder if I an just fortunate in that way, or if I have made so little difference in the world I am not any kind of adversary.
Making a difference doesn’t always announce itself with grand pronouncements. One never knows what offhand comment or moment where you were not thinking of becoming a spectacle can stick in others’ minds.
I thought the “Lady of the Lake” one was a reference to the oft-repeated joke of “Guns? Sorry Mr. Government Man, I lost all my guns in a tragic boating accident.”
Of course there’s also this one: “Q: Why do Australians pour oil in their back yard? A: to keep their guns from rusting.”
Dennis: Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
Arthur: Be quiet! Dennis: You can’t expect to wield supreme power just ’cause some watery tart threw a sword at you! Arthur: Shut up! Dennis: I mean, if I went ’round saying I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they’d put me away! Arthur: Shut up! Will you shut up?! [Grabs Dennis and shakes him] Dennis: Ah, now we see the violence inherent in the system! Arthur: Shut up! Dennis: Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help! Help! I’m being repressed!
According To Hoyt 
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SHARK DOOT DOO DOODOODOO
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Just two rows back from Bubba Yaga’s Dancing Single-Wide. 🤣
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Naaaaaarf.
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Er, MOO!
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I’m 67. Ain’t happened yet. 🤣
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I’m 69.
Nope.
Not limited to male or female either.
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OTOH, hit 59, retired. Hit 60 and decided, “Second Childhood!!!!!! You can’t make me.” OTOH not stupid enough to actually go to jail. Please note, my mother is still alive, so have to behave somewhat … But only somewhat.
She tries, bless her heart. Some of the pre-18-me arguments? Still happen. Difference? I win. (It is hilarious.) I get to say “because I said so!” Which interestingly enough, we, hubby and I, never ever used with our son.
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I no longer if it was astronomer Patrick Moore or simply him relating someone else’s claim that the correct (or least harder to be made fun of) pronunciation is YOU-RAN-US.
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…no longer sure if it was…
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In Interplanetary Janet, they pronounced it “Your On Us”
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Yep.
I’m 73 and can’t help noticing that the other pronunciation reminds me of pee.
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Every time I played Mass Effect 2, this was one of my first stops once I got onboard the Normandy 2:
https://youtu.be/l6rtQ0-ez4g?si=Cx6CW35sruZ2s78t
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Re: Potato
That’s all it took to be the Good House? A potato?
And here I made all this three bean salad for nothing! (I asked AI to come up with an appropriate illustration, but it really didn’t add anything)
Re the snake one: I sent that one to middle daughter, who so far has not reacted. I suppose she’s a little too rational.
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The onion house wasn’t quite as popular.
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That’s because a 3.14 meter long snake is not exactly a pithon, it’s only approximately a pithon.
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Looks like the boat yard hired Forklift driver Klaus.
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SFBS!
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Time out! European summers are more deadly than American firearms?
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European governments. FIFY! 😄
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European governments. FIFY! 😄
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If you have a pi-thon you have an irrational snake
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But it’s transcendental as well.
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Magic VS software, was a bit close to home.
Good batch!
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I prefer my settings with magic to be fantasy.
It Just Works – now there’s a powerful magical concept.
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Is the head of the SPLC a rich old white dude? 😃
‘Cause that would be just too perfect.
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The guy who started it and headed it, Morris Dees, certainly was a white dude, and eventually got old. The SPLC followed the course of many NGOs: Noble initial purpose, and turned into a continuing grift when the problem was solved.
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Did he get rich from his work? Or was he too honest for that, unlike, say, Al Sharpton?
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Not awake enough to enjoy these memes. Need coffee. ☕☕☕☕☕☕☕☕☕☕☕☕☕☕☕☕
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Trying something new today – ground cacao; treat it like coffee. Interesting on its own, but a bit thin. Better with a shot of half and half. No caffeine, which is where I have been moored/marooned for years.
My favorite this morning is the cats in the truck, wearing cummerbunds and shorts.
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I really do want to read that trilogy about how the stranded wookie became Bigfoot before he joined MHI.
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You may have to pull it loose and write your own.
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Reminds me of a short story by Dean Ing, his contribution to the Kzin Wars lore of Larry Niven. (“Tiger, Tiger” I think it was called.) It involves a Kzin crashing in 19th century India and finding himself at the receiving end of a tiger hunt by the local Brits.
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My favorite was le boop followed by Cuba Libre. Heh. Didn’t understand the garden gnome in the vents one. Pretty the hell portal has been open alot longer than that. ;)
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Pretty sure, sorry.
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Could be an Aliens reference. Only instead of chest bursters it’s garden gnomes with suspiciously surprised looks on their faces.
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That would explain it!
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Hypothetically, what if in 2024 we had at least 50% excess gun homicides because of Biden and because of BLM.
I forget what the numbers were in 2020.
But, you can either believe that lockdowns could prevent 200k excess deaths from the common cold, or that it was more important to prevent a year of gun related deaths by clapping our hands for tinkerbell.
Alternatively, you can be like me and understand that BLM made everything worse, and also that epidemiologists run amok made ‘public health’ actively worse.
Dan McLaughlin had a infographic whose data I cannot verify.
320 occupations by percent donating to Democrats versus Republicans. Most democratic ten were above ninety percent for Democrats, and the least were still like 30%.
If true, unlike what he said, the issue is not how echo-chambered certain occupations are. The issue is that the subsetting by occupation may have counted a lot of tiny occupations that can be coopted by activists, and basically become owned subsidiaries of the Democrats.
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I have literally seen claims that the excessive mortality from 2020 was all COVID and that proves that the numbers are honest.
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Do try not to mispronounce certain phrases in Japanese: 🤣
“May I sit on your chair?”
“You should donate your chair to Goodwill.”
“Can’t quite reach it. Let me stand on your chair.”
“All you do is sit on your chair all day!”
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Except the most common words for chair and testicles are “isu” and “kintama”, respectively.
Then again, my sister once spent several hours in a meeting in Japan, referring to one of her co-workers as Yukata-san (“Mr. Bathrobe”). When they took a break, he quietly said to her, “it’s Yutaka”.
-j
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Me: I feel weird today. Tired, brain all fuzzy, no motivation. What gives?
My stomach: The last thing I had to eat was well over twenty hours ago and I’m about to cut a b!tch if I don’t get some food soon.
Me: Oh. That’d do it.
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Uh oh. Larry Correia‘s garden gnomes are loose again. Hide the beer.
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OT: My oldest nephew and his wife welcomed twins this morning via C-section. One boy, one girl, and all are well. They’re now up to 4. The oldest is 5.
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Congratulations to them!
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Congratulations!
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That’s enough for a basketball team! Congrats!
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Misread that; well, with the parents that’s six.
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Congratulations to them, grandparents, and great-uncle.
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Oh so very much the “drowning in information.” One of the tasks for next academic year is teaching data evaluation along with subject matter. This will be … interesting
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Pretty much need to include the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect (sometimes just Gell-Mann Amnesia) near the beginning.
What it is:You read a news article on a topic you know well (your field of expertise), and you immediately see it’s full of errors, simplifications, distortions, or outright fabrications (“wet streets cause rain” stories, as Michael Crichton put it). Then you turn the page and read stories on topics you’re not familiar with as if the newspaper is suddenly reliable and accurate.
(Text swiped from Grok – remembered the definition/description but not the name)
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John Carte posted on Substack a bit ago
Heinrich Heine
I thought about that for a minute, and liked it, but then I realized – if that refers to personal enemies, there is no evidence I have any! I’ve been victimized, mildly, by general human cussedness and incompetence, and more profoundly by Leftoid politicians and policies, but nobody specifically has it out for me.
I’m not recruiting for any!
Makes me wonder if I an just fortunate in that way, or if I have made so little difference in the world I am not any kind of adversary.
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Making a difference doesn’t always announce itself with grand pronouncements. One never knows what offhand comment or moment where you were not thinking of becoming a spectacle can stick in others’ minds.
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I thought the “Lady of the Lake” one was a reference to the oft-repeated joke of “Guns? Sorry Mr. Government Man, I lost all my guns in a tragic boating accident.”
Of course there’s also this one: “Q: Why do Australians pour oil in their back yard? A: to keep their guns from rusting.”
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I associated that “Lady of the Lake” one with the joke about “choosing kings by lake tarts giving them swords”.
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sorry, truncated the best part:
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Nope, nobody appreciates it at all, sigh….
Evil plans don’t come up with themselves? Hmm….
Damaged Federation starship, indeed.
Font praise. *Cackles*
Who made that forklift sign? It’s awesome!
Zeus no….
Sea is for cookie = win.
Lady of the Lake has upgraded!
Definitely not acting.
Broken chair. *G*
…Welcome to America. : )
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