Stared too long at the vampire engine concept. One, no exhaust cycle and the ash/glitter/corpse dust has no way out, thus causing the piston to eventually seize, unless perfect reconstitution which just seems wrong. Two, the vampires regenerating from ash/glitter/corpse dust is a rather niche interpretation if I’m recalling the common lore right. And three, if we’re looking for “engine powered by magic” there are likely more efficient and powerful designs that take advantage of, y’know, breaking the laws of freaking physics and all.
In the first Incredibles movie, when Syndrome was venting about how Mr. Incredible let him down and left him disillusioned, I wanted to see something like:
Bob: “I admit, I was wrong to treat you that way.”
Syndrome: “Oh, so now I’m a real threat, now you take me seriously.”
Bob: “No, that’s not it—”
Syndrome: “Of course that’s it!”
Bob: “Bud— I mean, Syndrome. How old was I then?”
Syndrome: “Huh?”
Bob: “Think about it. I was younger than you are now. I was stupid and full of myself.”
Syndrome: [confused look]
Bob: “It’s been almost twenty years. I’ve done a lot of growing up since then. Have you?”
I like the parking space one. I’m not sure if it’s a legitimate math problem or not, but it’s definitely a clever riddle.
(And as I say that, I’m hearing the sarcastic math teacher I had in elementary school saying, “Of course it’s a legitimate math problem. Math is all about logical thinking and the ability to look at data in a new way to find patterns. It couldn’t be more mathy if you tried.”)
At least, that’s what I’d seriously consider putting down! (Just the name, though, the spot is a bit too small to contain all the digits.)
One of the reasons I dislike the “guess the logic behind the pattern questions” is that, as a mathematician, I know that it’s possible to come up with a logical justification for pretty much any possible answer!
Why think small? Rename the whole galaxy The American Way!
Snerk! ‘Angry Bluegrass music’ 😁
At my house, the ‘things that go bump in the night’ are cats.
Canuckistan is not just Chile, it’s lazy Chile. 😃
Knitting noodles. 🤣
Just because somebody doesn’t like your answer, doesn’t mean it’s wrong.
Once upon a time, ‘Science!’ thought radiation was good for you. This gave rise to the Revigator. It’s a ceramic water pot lined with carnotite uranium ore. Water left in it for a few hours becomes radioactive, because the ore constantly releases radon gas. Drinking the water was supposed to promote good health. 😮
American toast? What about French fries? 😛
Communism really is like that for the ones in charge.
It’s not a ‘glitch’ when those machines mis-count the votes. They’re doing exactly what they were designed to do.
No, all burkas will be black. Women wearing brightly colored burkas will be stoned to death.
So it’s way more bad for you than good for you, but there is some circumstantial statistically significant data that implies if you dodge the probabilities on the “bad for you” stuff, rads actually might have some good effects.
And on the trek burkas, the one on the left in command gold would have the ships morality police patrol beating her for showing her bangs, as seeing women’s hair is supposedly what drove the angels to rebel.
Ronald Reagan, in his 1964 campaign speech for Barry Goldwater, mentioned in passing that attending Harvard cost $2700 per year.
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The one sane juror was a BLACK MAN. “Progressives” are having to wrap their heads in duck tape while doing the math to calculate the value of a black man’s opinion compared to that of white women.
—
While the sentiment is valid, the AI meme regarding voting in the 1950s inserted a calculator from the 1980s.
Why would there be a calculator on the table at a polling place?
These are only used at the places where votes are COUNTED, to figure out how many more straight-ticket-Democrat ballots need to be made.
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And, ahead of next week’s memes: video shot on 9/11/01 shows firefighters, assembling and planning their sorties into the WTC towers, reacting as they hear the sounds of people striking the roof of their building after falling from the upper stories. People that they couldn’t save.
Yesterday, the 25th anniversary, the names of those people — and many of the firefighters in the video — were among the thousands read at the Ground Zero memorial service.
During this reading, Mandami and AOC were caught on camera chatting and laughing, showing utter contempt for the grieving survivors around them (on top of the contempt that Mandami showed by being there in the first place).
If you see the name of either one of these on a ballot, REMEMBER this.
So in the Formerly Golden State Kammie received 9,276,179 votes from registered “voters” (fraud warning but just roll with the official numbers for a sec). In 2024 there were 22,595,659 registered voters (again, fraud warning). Even with all the fraud turned up to eleven in a state with no functioning GOP, Kammy only landed 41% of the possible votes, which in the end is a more encouraging number than “nearly half”.
To put it another way, in her “home” state, with all the fraud on her side, and the full machine monoparty and the media (birm) behind her, six out of ten registered California voters did not vote for Kammy.
Terry Pratchett, Jingo, published in 1997. Kratman’s first novel was published in 2003. And whatever nonfiction Kratman may have published prior to that, I doubt that 1) it contained that specific phrase, given that he’s generally not that pithy; or that 2) Pterry would have read any such essays or books.
You are, of course, free to think whatever you please. But the timelines of publication indicate otherwise.
And, again, Butcher has Dresden literally call it “The Tao of Pratchett”, so it’s not like he was hiding where he got it.
Precocial species: a baby fluffball quail, only minutes out of the egg, looking up enviously at the other baby birds getting breakfast delivered in the nest, as it’s running for its life on the ground and its parents are calling to it “Move! Move! Pick up those little quail feet and MOVE!”
Surviving baby quail grown into adulthood: “Nah, it’s too much work to fly. I’ll just run instead.”
I have seen the “build a man a fire” quote attributed to Terry Pratchett. Then again, I’ve seen “in theory there is no difference between theory and practice, but in practice there is” attributed both to Yogi Berra and to Prof. Jan van de Snepscheut.
Pong goes back at least to 1973 — I saw Pong machines (arcade, not home use) for the first time that year, at a summer job between high school and college.
The build a man a fire quote IS from Pratchett, and Harry Dresden even said so in-story, calling the quoted part “The Tao of Pratchett”, as I commented upthread.
We’re arguing about documentable attribution. The meme attributes it to Harry Dresden, but Dresden (and Dresden’s author) himself attributes it to Pratchett, and Pratchett wrote it in a 1997 novel that can be purchased anywhere. Now, I don’t recall, but perhaps Pratchett mentioned Jerry in his acknowledgements. If he’d gotten it from him, he would have.
So, if Pratchett quoted Murphy’s Law, he would give attribution? How about if he used the phrase “It’s not brain surgery” . . ? “Hot and cold running water” . . ?
For that matter, you used the phrase “can be purchased anywhere” — did you just make that up, or are you using it without giving proper attribution?
The point is that just because the first time YOU read a phrase in a particular author’s book, that doesn’t mean that was the first time the AUTHOR had run across it.
For that matter, Jerry commented that it “hadn’t made the cut in the Notebooks,” thus potentially connecting it to the Admiral — but this could just have been a joke, because Jerry talked that way, the same way he referred to Harry Stine as “having missed the Moon by 249,000 miles,” tying a headline about Goddard to Stine’s being a driving force in model rocketry.
In the “hearing his master’s voice” department, I have a family I tutor regularly, and they have a small dog. Dog has decided I am a very welcome diversion to the regular week, and is always very happy to see me arrive. Yesterday I was online with the student, and Dog was very confused – he heard me quite clearly, but I had not come through the door, nor were my shoes in the entry. Student picked up Dog to see me on Zoom. Dog was thus satisfied.
The Lindsay Clancy trial seems to have been mediocrity of professionals, ghostdancing left, campaign season, and foreign influence.
Wider PR? We are seven weeks out from the election, and neither the foreign money nor the domestic money is entirely in hands that are both confident and informed.
Specifics? Psychiatry, Psychology, and Law have collaborated on the status quo.
Harder to do involuntary commitment to a care facility, and prisons and especially the street make a much much worse psychiatric hospital.
Clancy may no longer have gainful employment, Clancy has already been homicidal once, and Clancy is already injured from faking a suicide attempt.
It would be terrible to try to convict someone on the basis that their quality of life would be most likely better with a lengthy prison sentence.
Maybe some of them were trying to make the best of following the jury instructions, and processing what the prosecution was trying to say.
However, the people with the strong public reactions, what did they think that they would have otherwise accomplished?
Getting her a high profile, and then ensuring that she will not be under guard? The street has a lot of dirtbag male violent felons, sometimes they pretend to be vigilantes, and sometimes way too many people are all “violent rapist and murderer? Well, he killed a pedo so he must be a hero.”
Very very unthinking, or disordered thinking. IE, stressed left doing a ghost dance, and using Clancy for their performance without any serious thought about what might be best for Clancy.
Stared too long at the vampire engine concept. One, no exhaust cycle and the ash/glitter/corpse dust has no way out, thus causing the piston to eventually seize, unless perfect reconstitution which just seems wrong. Two, the vampires regenerating from ash/glitter/corpse dust is a rather niche interpretation if I’m recalling the common lore right. And three, if we’re looking for “engine powered by magic” there are likely more efficient and powerful designs that take advantage of, y’know, breaking the laws of freaking physics and all.
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Well, you’re right, you did stare at it too long. 🤪
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It’s magic. Why wouldn’t it be perfect?
The real problem is that you desecrate the holy water by your profane intentions, and so it doesn’t work.
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Think Stirling cycle.
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I just want the vampire to suffer . . .
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Arwen the Kelpie-cow dog mix! Arwen the tree climber! Arwen the robot herder! Arwen the Uncontainable!
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About that “You are your parents’ age” —
In the first Incredibles movie, when Syndrome was venting about how Mr. Incredible let him down and left him disillusioned, I wanted to see something like:
Bob: “I admit, I was wrong to treat you that way.”
Syndrome: “Oh, so now I’m a real threat, now you take me seriously.”
Bob: “No, that’s not it—”
Syndrome: “Of course that’s it!”
Bob: “Bud— I mean, Syndrome. How old was I then?”
Syndrome: “Huh?”
Bob: “Think about it. I was younger than you are now. I was stupid and full of myself.”
Syndrome: [confused look]
Bob: “It’s been almost twenty years. I’ve done a lot of growing up since then. Have you?”
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I like H Beam Piper’s definition of English.
“English is the result of French men-of-arms wanting to get dates with Saxon bar-maids”.
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That definition requires the coda:
“…and is no more legitimate than any other result of such unions.”
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Yep!!!!
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I like the parking space one. I’m not sure if it’s a legitimate math problem or not, but it’s definitely a clever riddle.
(And as I say that, I’m hearing the sarcastic math teacher I had in elementary school saying, “Of course it’s a legitimate math problem. Math is all about logical thinking and the ability to look at data in a new way to find patterns. It couldn’t be more mathy if you tried.”)
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I’m pretty sure the answer is Graham’s Number.
At least, that’s what I’d seriously consider putting down! (Just the name, though, the spot is a bit too small to contain all the digits.)
One of the reasons I dislike the “guess the logic behind the pattern questions” is that, as a mathematician, I know that it’s possible to come up with a logical justification for pretty much any possible answer!
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If Zsuzsa’s missive is a satire response, then pass on by.
But for the rest of you trying to puzzle out the parking spot number problem (and I admit it took me a minute or two myself…)
Turn the picture upside down. Look at the numbers again. VOILA!
The picture doesn’t say what grade the child is in.
So one could say the teacher is a smarta** (young grade), or smart for trying to get the older students to “think outside the box”.
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“Waaaah! I wanna take a vacation from adulting!”
Why think small? Rename the whole galaxy The American Way!
Snerk! ‘Angry Bluegrass music’ 😁
At my house, the ‘things that go bump in the night’ are cats.
Canuckistan is not just Chile, it’s lazy Chile. 😃
Knitting noodles. 🤣
Just because somebody doesn’t like your answer, doesn’t mean it’s wrong.
Once upon a time, ‘Science!’ thought radiation was good for you. This gave rise to the Revigator. It’s a ceramic water pot lined with carnotite uranium ore. Water left in it for a few hours becomes radioactive, because the ore constantly releases radon gas. Drinking the water was supposed to promote good health. 😮
American toast? What about French fries? 😛
Communism really is like that for the ones in charge.
It’s not a ‘glitch’ when those machines mis-count the votes. They’re doing exactly what they were designed to do.
No, all burkas will be black. Women wearing brightly colored burkas will be stoned to death.
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Freedom fries. they still sell those at the fair.
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So it’s way more bad for you than good for you, but there is some circumstantial statistically significant data that implies if you dodge the probabilities on the “bad for you” stuff, rads actually might have some good effects.
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And on the trek burkas, the one on the left in command gold would have the ships morality police patrol beating her for showing her bangs, as seeing women’s hair is supposedly what drove the angels to rebel.
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I know, that totes hoses the timeline for the serpent being already fallen when he did his thing in Eden.
Not my monkeys…
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Oh, and that top picture shows a stupid non-cat-owner. A smart woman would already be reaching for her gun.
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yeah, we just scream “Indy, d*mn it, stop disassembling whatever it is.”
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With Indy, you may have a ringside seat for “Home Alone: Feline Frolic”.
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Hmmm… I wonder if Indy could disassemble an intruder? 😁
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“Government gets involved in education . . .”
Ronald Reagan, in his 1964 campaign speech for Barry Goldwater, mentioned in passing that attending Harvard cost $2700 per year.
—
The one sane juror was a BLACK MAN. “Progressives” are having to wrap their heads in duck tape while doing the math to calculate the value of a black man’s opinion compared to that of white women.
—
While the sentiment is valid, the AI meme regarding voting in the 1950s inserted a calculator from the 1980s.
Why would there be a calculator on the table at a polling place?
These are only used at the places where votes are COUNTED, to figure out how many more straight-ticket-Democrat ballots need to be made.
—
And, ahead of next week’s memes: video shot on 9/11/01 shows firefighters, assembling and planning their sorties into the WTC towers, reacting as they hear the sounds of people striking the roof of their building after falling from the upper stories. People that they couldn’t save.
Yesterday, the 25th anniversary, the names of those people — and many of the firefighters in the video — were among the thousands read at the Ground Zero memorial service.
During this reading, Mandami and AOC were caught on camera chatting and laughing, showing utter contempt for the grieving survivors around them (on top of the contempt that Mandami showed by being there in the first place).
If you see the name of either one of these on a ballot, REMEMBER this.
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The white democrats will lynch that black man for defying them.
Same as in 1926. Same as in 1826. ….
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Maybe….. maybe not.
https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/64b7a92c-b098-4f90-b737-8b5af9a5b905_854x686.png
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DeSantis offerd him Asylum in Florida!
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SFBS!
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Re the kneepads vote one:
So in the Formerly Golden State Kammie received 9,276,179 votes from registered “voters” (fraud warning but just roll with the official numbers for a sec). In 2024 there were 22,595,659 registered voters (again, fraud warning). Even with all the fraud turned up to eleven in a state with no functioning GOP, Kammy only landed 41% of the possible votes, which in the end is a more encouraging number than “nearly half”.
To put it another way, in her “home” state, with all the fraud on her side, and the full machine monoparty and the media (birm) behind her, six out of ten registered California voters did not vote for Kammy.
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https://ace.mu.nu/archives/828ade63-aed8-44ae-86b7-5594e0a8caa4_447x320.jpg
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…which explains why the dark side has cookies.
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https://youtu.be/aQTbRrdzsv4?is=PCkZ30iG27EtiH_L
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Walk without walking… you won’t … attract … the worm!
Walk without walking… you won’t … attract … the worm!
Walk without walking… you won’t … attract … the worm!
Walk without walking… you’ll never learn!
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Zen pedestrianism.
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It’s not a quote from Harry Dresden, it’s Dresden quoting from what he calls “The Tao of Pratchett”.
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Indeed
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I thought it was a Kratman quote.
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Terry Pratchett, Jingo, published in 1997. Kratman’s first novel was published in 2003. And whatever nonfiction Kratman may have published prior to that, I doubt that 1) it contained that specific phrase, given that he’s generally not that pithy; or that 2) Pterry would have read any such essays or books.
You are, of course, free to think whatever you please. But the timelines of publication indicate otherwise.
And, again, Butcher has Dresden literally call it “The Tao of Pratchett”, so it’s not like he was hiding where he got it.
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Thanks.
it is a -useful- thing.
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https://i.postimg.cc/ZRbY2Ytx/IMG-0757.jpg
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That’s working but oddly for me, so let’s do it this way:
https://i.ibb.co/N6sC7zkJ/IMG-0757.jpg
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Precocial species: a baby fluffball quail, only minutes out of the egg, looking up enviously at the other baby birds getting breakfast delivered in the nest, as it’s running for its life on the ground and its parents are calling to it “Move! Move! Pick up those little quail feet and MOVE!”
Surviving baby quail grown into adulthood: “Nah, it’s too much work to fly. I’ll just run instead.”
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Summon the dark elixir of sanity!
Current situation. Yeaaaaah.
No soul no service…. *Cackles*
“Remain calm.” Maaaaybe not….
Fighting demons. Hey, at least someone recognized he needed reminders!
Base slander!
I saw the homework problem, blinked, said “can’t be that easy…” But 87.
Dogs, and cats. Priorities indeed!
Why do you want this job? Indeed.
Yeah, the helpdesk is right!
Brains logicaling the English!
I’d bet on vets to survive the apocalypse for exactly those reasons.
Not wrong about the Khmer Rouge.
Chocolate chip cookies, not pie. I’ll have to switch off with someone for reloads/getting the next tray out.
On a side note: starting new job Monday, so a lot of these hit hard….
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The real rule is:
Anything that is not nailed down is mine.
Anything that I can pry loose is not nailed down.
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Don’t let Kevin and Greg get together.
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I have seen the “build a man a fire” quote attributed to Terry Pratchett. Then again, I’ve seen “in theory there is no difference between theory and practice, but in practice there is” attributed both to Yogi Berra and to Prof. Jan van de Snepscheut.
Pong goes back at least to 1973 — I saw Pong machines (arcade, not home use) for the first time that year, at a summer job between high school and college.
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The build a man a fire quote IS from Pratchett, and Harry Dresden even said so in-story, calling the quoted part “The Tao of Pratchett”, as I commented upthread.
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First time I ever heard the “Build a man a fire” quote was at Equicon ’74, in Los Angeles, from Jerry Pournelle.
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That’s nice.
We’re arguing about documentable attribution. The meme attributes it to Harry Dresden, but Dresden (and Dresden’s author) himself attributes it to Pratchett, and Pratchett wrote it in a 1997 novel that can be purchased anywhere. Now, I don’t recall, but perhaps Pratchett mentioned Jerry in his acknowledgements. If he’d gotten it from him, he would have.
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So, if Pratchett quoted Murphy’s Law, he would give attribution? How about if he used the phrase “It’s not brain surgery” . . ? “Hot and cold running water” . . ?
For that matter, you used the phrase “can be purchased anywhere” — did you just make that up, or are you using it without giving proper attribution?
The point is that just because the first time YOU read a phrase in a particular author’s book, that doesn’t mean that was the first time the AUTHOR had run across it.
For that matter, Jerry commented that it “hadn’t made the cut in the Notebooks,” thus potentially connecting it to the Admiral — but this could just have been a joke, because Jerry talked that way, the same way he referred to Harry Stine as “having missed the Moon by 249,000 miles,” tying a headline about Goddard to Stine’s being a driving force in model rocketry.
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I think it may me my original contribution to the American English language, although it may be, technically, a Manglish/Spanglish
Pendant-jo
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Aw, look, his fweelings are hurted because he wasn’t patted on the head and told he was speshul.
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That was stupid.
Even for a fanboy.
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In the “hearing his master’s voice” department, I have a family I tutor regularly, and they have a small dog. Dog has decided I am a very welcome diversion to the regular week, and is always very happy to see me arrive. Yesterday I was online with the student, and Dog was very confused – he heard me quite clearly, but I had not come through the door, nor were my shoes in the entry. Student picked up Dog to see me on Zoom. Dog was thus satisfied.
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Cat owners: Hear crash. “D@mnit, cat, what now? That better not have been Grandpa’s urn.”
Hear intruder fleeing house.
“Oh thank goodness. Just a burglar.” Go back to sleep.
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What we hear 3-4 times per night at War Emergency Cat Volume:
https://www.richardcmoeur.com/pixetc/moonpiemeow.mov
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Cats. Burglar.
Laser pointer.
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The Lindsay Clancy trial seems to have been mediocrity of professionals, ghostdancing left, campaign season, and foreign influence.
Wider PR? We are seven weeks out from the election, and neither the foreign money nor the domestic money is entirely in hands that are both confident and informed.
Specifics? Psychiatry, Psychology, and Law have collaborated on the status quo.
Harder to do involuntary commitment to a care facility, and prisons and especially the street make a much much worse psychiatric hospital.
Clancy may no longer have gainful employment, Clancy has already been homicidal once, and Clancy is already injured from faking a suicide attempt.
It would be terrible to try to convict someone on the basis that their quality of life would be most likely better with a lengthy prison sentence.
Maybe some of them were trying to make the best of following the jury instructions, and processing what the prosecution was trying to say.
However, the people with the strong public reactions, what did they think that they would have otherwise accomplished?
Getting her a high profile, and then ensuring that she will not be under guard? The street has a lot of dirtbag male violent felons, sometimes they pretend to be vigilantes, and sometimes way too many people are all “violent rapist and murderer? Well, he killed a pedo so he must be a hero.”
Very very unthinking, or disordered thinking. IE, stressed left doing a ghost dance, and using Clancy for their performance without any serious thought about what might be best for Clancy.
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You’re making entirely too much sense.
One story (rumor) had her planning to become a “mental heath advocate,” after her acquittal.
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It’s Men of Harlech, not Cornwall. If I was Welsh I’d be very upset. Great movie, though (Zulu).
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Yeah, I do know that, but it’s a meme. It must contain an error. It’s the law.
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Hmmm… If a meme does not contain an error, is that considered an error? Making the meme compliant after all? 😛
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It’s too early for that.
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Dover, probably. Unless there is some of the blocking protesting going on in Cornwall.
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Thumper trools the lefties, they scream on cue, he laughs, they double down, he trolls them again by doing what he trolled them about.
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