Yep, social darwinism taking to extremes. Your average smarm-machine politician from any point in the US political spectrum is a pretty dim bulb compared to most of the Cardassians we meet in TNG/DS9.
Actually, tens of thousands of Americans left the United States to join their comrades in the early Soviet Union. Few lived long enough to return and tell us about it, which is probably why nobody hears about it. But it did make it easier for the soviets to sell it.
Jewish copilots? Yeah. But the real problem is the Muslim copilot will stab your real pilot and try to crash your plane killing everyone on board in an act of jihad.
Gul Newsom?
I can predict the future. Eventually, you’re going to need every round.
Don’t elect a communist from your sofa. Get out and vote.
Why should I saddle myself with a $100,000 student loan debt just to get a certificate in piracy? Be an autodidact pirate!
Those thousands are like the unburnt powder blown out of a gun barrel or the microbits leftover after a stick of dynamite explodes—helpless pawns obeying Arrhenius’ law or P. T. Barnum’s (more likely). The small fraction leftover does not deny the reaction wants to go to the right.
A federal judge on Oct. 1 threw out a case against a Jamaican woman who voted in a U.S. federal election, finding that the law that prohibits noncitizens from voting in federal elections is unconstitutional.
It does read as though his honor made up his mind, then went looking for precedent that fit his predecision. Or told Claude to do it for him. Betcha he didn’t use Grok.
When you are in the Arctic you can see Ursa Major and Ursa Minor – the big bear and the little bear. You can’t see them when you are in the Antarctic. No speculation involved.
There is a cemetery in Michigan. 3 of my relatives are buried there. They died in the Civil War. They were in the Union Army, fighting against slavery. They were killed by Southern Democrats. For any Democrat that wants me to pay ‘reparations’ — this is my Middle Finger. If that offe nds you, I’ve got another one. 😡
Woodward and Bernstein turn out to have been led by the nose by the IC leaked breadcrumb trail to implement the IC’s “Get Nixon” intervention, so the jskool kids probably decide based on Duranty at least being a true believer rather than an incompetent stenographer stooge.
For Sukkot, which ended Friday night, observant Jews build booths that are mostly open to the sky, and spend a few hours there each evening, enjoying life and discussing faith. It is to remember the time spent in the Wilderness of Sinai, and how G-d provided. It is the one time of the year big-city Jewish people build things with wood, nails, and so on, all at once. Thus the joking cartoon.
SIGH. Look, I can show them the GENEALOGY. Both sides of the family. Have cousins, still observant and faithful.
Do they let me have the space laser controls? nooooo. And it’s not even “Well your family line converted away” Noooo. It’s “Sarah, we can’t trust you with this, and you know it.” And they’re right. I know it. It still isn’t FAIR.
Vampires are impulsive because they can never take time to reflect.
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The teenagers may have deserved it, but the true joke in this pic is seen in the background, because the calls are coming from inside the house.
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You have to have been around in the 1960s to understand the one about the 1980 Tesla.
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The only times that anything from Canada got above 150,000 feet was when they were carried by Americans.
Ironic placement of the “Chinada” meme, considering the ChiCom spy who was a key figure in Canada’s space program for two and a half decades.
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In the Communist “mandatory” pic, note that the pistol is a Walther P-38. This identifies them as being in the German Democratic Republic.
They are demonstrating how democracy works — the guys with the hats outvoted the other man, and are enforcing their will through the power of government over an unarmed populace.
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I live not far from Reno, Nevada. We no longer notice rental trucks going east on I-80, but on the rare occasion when we see one going WEST, we assume it’s either a hostler or someone going back for a second load.
I have a friend who’s one of those hostlers — his job is to fly to places like Texas or Florida and drive those trucks back to California. In the first 6 months of this year, he stacked up enough frequent flyer miles, hotel stays and pay to take three weeks off in Hawai’i.
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Translated: “Oregon governor signs bill codifying contempt for non-Aryans” . . .
The only difference between National Socialism and Democrat Socialism is the spelling.
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Regarding UN troops, remember the phrase “Aim blue, but down two.”
This works whether you’re thinking centimeters or inches. IYKYK
It occurs to me that the “who will pick my crops?” meme and the H-1B indentured servitude issue are the same meme, so we need an image of a TechLord whenging “No H-1B visa indentured engineers? But who else will be chained to their cubicle doing the tech work I refuse to pay enough for all those qualified American engineers to do so I can buy my third private jet?”
The Gelatinous Cube in the “All creatures are huggable, some only once” meme is the only one there seeming like he’s not trying to be happy. He’s just sitting there like “I dunno why I’m here man, totally not eating the owlbear’s foot, and having someone paint the picture. I mean, he’s painting really fast, right? Daemons are supposed to have pretty good dexterity, right? He’s almost done with it? …Right?”
“My boss says I intimidate my coworkers. I stared at him until he apologized.”
That meme describes with 100% accuracy my youngest daughter. She can do the RBF like nobody I’ve ever seen.
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Not relevant to anything else, but in Manila at the moment with my wife, visiting her family. Our hotel adjoins a magnificent shopping mall, multi-level, and forever crowded and busy. A couple things I’ve noticed:
People like to bring their doggies, often dressed in cute little outfits, and very often wearing disposable diapers. I guess the mall is a reasonably safe, open space to walk one’s pets, although their paws get little traction on the marble floors. The diapers are a thoughtful courtesy.
Couples pushing strollers are just as likely to be transporting a doggy as an infant.
There are restaurants and food stands everywhere, all busy at all hours. Folks love to eat and socialize out here.
There’s also a chapel on one of the upper floors; we heard Mass there last week.
So… I once WROTE a test in the form of a short story with the Three Musketeers and Richelieu. It was an economics test and I was asked to explain mercantilism and give the pros and cons.
WHY did I do that? I don’t know. I hadn’t slept much in a week and it seemed logical.
The minute I turned it in, I was in fear of the teacher taking offense and giving me a 0.
I was fortunate. I did answer the question, and she was charmed. I had a hundred.
I’ve actually seen this in cars. An Uber (I don’t remember the make and model) I took the other day had a “rear view mirror” that was a rear view camera display. There was a small real mirror mounted above it in case the camera went out for some reason.
If you, as a vampire, used video to show you yourself, would you use a mirror inversion to show yourself as you used to appear in mirrors, R-> L, L->R, or not?
IIRC, in one of Saberhagen’s Dracula books, he had the Count posessing a mirror/screen with a camera in the frame sso he could maintain his own appearance. Apparently there’s still a servant problem at Castle Dracula….
Actually, mirrors don’t reverse the image. They reflect everything straight back. The image just seems reversed because in order to face back at yourself, you would have to turn around. Your brain can’t handle the contradiction, so you blame the mirror. 😁
I had fun with that in Through A Mirror, Darkly. It entered a deep philosophical discussion, one element of which was the number of lefties they met — but was even more important as an analogy.
If you hold printed material, as one example, up to a mirror, it appears reversed because you had to turn it away from yourself in order to see it in the mirror. If the print is on a substrate that lets enough light through for you to see it from the back while you are holding it up to the mirror, then it will still appear reversed, because you reversed it.
So yes, it looks backwards because it IS, not because the mirror did it.
The image you see in a mirror, assuming you are not a vampire, is enantiomorphic. Go to a mirror and hold up your right hand: look carefully at your image, and you will see that your image is holding up a left hand! There are certain chemical compounds that come in left and right hand versions. The fancy scientific prefix is levo- and dextro- forms. Essentially you can be “mirror- reversed” if you where rotated through the fourth dimension by some means: teleportation gone wrong, higher dimensional beings playing a joke, etc. It’s like a three dimensional being “flipping over” a Flatlander. But it would be deadly for you (and perhaps the Flatlander) your body is made of many levo-type molecules, which become dextro-types after your fourth dimensional “inversion.” You will begin to starve to death as you can not assimilate the “now” wrong handed molecules of normal food (levo-types) into your now reversed moleculular proteins, DNA, etc. The whole issue sprung into my mind because I use a video “mirroring” app on my iPad for various reasons. It shows me as I look, not as I see myself in a mirror. My hair is parted on the wrong side! Oftentimes you see video online that is mirror reversed: you can tell because writing on tee shirts is reversed, and on signs, driver side is on the “wrong” side but is posting from North America, and so forth. I think this is done so people can see themselves in their video selfies the way they see themselves in a mirror. So it naturally occurred to me that vampires would have to choose which way to see themselves in their self videos. To play around with the idea, maybe they become invisible in a video if the mirror reversing effect is turned on: maybe that could be tied in with fourth dimensional inversion. The most sensible reason vampires might hate mirrors is that they can see how they truly look, being undead and perhaps not as beautiful as they appear to their prey by means of the glamour. Just some thoughts.
‘Doorways In The Sand’ by Roger Zelazny. Fred Cassidy goes through the alien Rhennius Machine (for Reasons) and gets mirrored just that way. His vision is reversed, and everything tastes strange. He does get straightened out before malnutrition sets in.
In the Star Trek novel, “Spock Must Die!”, Spock was duplicated by a transport beam being reflected off a force field, and was mirrored down to his molecules (leading to bizarre dietary problems for the duplicate). He was also evil (of course, or plot purposes).
Gul Dukat should feel insulted, but it’s funny nonetheless :)
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Yep.
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Indeed. Cardasians may have almost universally been a-holes, but they were competent ones.
(Presumably because the incompetents led rather abbreviated lives.)
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Yep, social darwinism taking to extremes. Your average smarm-machine politician from any point in the US political spectrum is a pretty dim bulb compared to most of the Cardassians we meet in TNG/DS9.
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Actually, tens of thousands of Americans left the United States to join their comrades in the early Soviet Union. Few lived long enough to return and tell us about it, which is probably why nobody hears about it. But it did make it easier for the soviets to sell it.
Jewish copilots? Yeah. But the real problem is the Muslim copilot will stab your real pilot and try to crash your plane killing everyone on board in an act of jihad.
Gul Newsom?
I can predict the future. Eventually, you’re going to need every round.
Don’t elect a communist from your sofa. Get out and vote.
Why should I saddle myself with a $100,000 student loan debt just to get a certificate in piracy? Be an autodidact pirate!
https://twitter.com/NeuralDerp/status/2105523558055285066/video/1
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Those thousands are like the unburnt powder blown out of a gun barrel or the microbits leftover after a stick of dynamite explodes—helpless pawns obeying Arrhenius’ law or P. T. Barnum’s (more likely). The small fraction leftover does not deny the reaction wants to go to the right.
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More to the point, American leftists never again went in such numbers to Socialist Paradise. They had learned the lesson when it came to bear on them.
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And back in the seventies, students highjacked planes to go to Cuba. I hope they were among the ones killed.
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Gunter glieben will probably summon two generations, since the 1983 Def Leppard song was sampled by The Offspring(1) in 1998.
(1) The band, not their kids. Presumably they are someone’s offspring, but that’s not relevant right now.
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SFBS!
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I can’t comment on every one of these I liked …
… but I stole a bunch of them.
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Speaking of voting your way out, this article is interesting. You have to search to learn he’s am AutoPen judge.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/judge-tosses-charge-against-noncitizen-accused-of-voting-in-federal-election-6098351?utm_source=ref_share&utm_campaign=copy
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I thought only the Supreme Court can declare a law unconstitutional, not just any random activist judge that doesn’t like it. ☹️
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I think a judge could declare a law unconstitutional, but he could be over-ruled by other judges.
Mind you, this judge is an idiot.
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It does read as though his honor made up his mind, then went looking for precedent that fit his predecision. Or told Claude to do it for him. Betcha he didn’t use Grok.
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He’s competing with Posner.
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I have on my when-I-get-a-moment list to try running his ruling through one of the AI-detector tools just for giggles.
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When you are in the Arctic you can see Ursa Major and Ursa Minor – the big bear and the little bear. You can’t see them when you are in the Antarctic.
No speculation involved.
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Hey, that’s neat and it fits!
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There is a cemetery in Michigan. 3 of my relatives are buried there. They died in the Civil War. They were in the Union Army, fighting against slavery. They were killed by Southern Democrats. For any Democrat that wants me to pay ‘reparations’ — this is my Middle Finger. If that offe nds you, I’ve got another one. 😡
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Woodward and Bernstein turn out to have been led by the nose by the IC leaked breadcrumb trail to implement the IC’s “Get Nixon” intervention, so the jskool kids probably decide based on Duranty at least being a true believer rather than an incompetent stenographer stooge.
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To heck with the certificate of Piracy – I want a letter of Marque!
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Aye.
How does “Letters of Marque against subscription-use software companies” sound?
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They were bringing back Prize Courts (see article), so:
Make Boarding Actions Great Again!
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It ate the link. WPDE. https://maritime-executive.com/article/trump-administration-moves-to-revive-prize-courts-for-vessel-seizures
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That “Closer” one was dark. Darker than my coffee, if that is possible. Speaking of which, it’s time for another cup.
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Yes. I actually pondered weather to include it. But it made me shiver and laugh at the same time, so in it went.
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I don’t get the ‘Jews in Home Depot’ one.
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I think it is referencing Sukkot/the Festival of Booths, which just ended.
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Yes. It was. It just amused me, but I didn’t think people would not have context.
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Em and I were laughing that I instantly got the reference after 25 years married to the rabbi’s daughter.
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For Sukkot, which ended Friday night, observant Jews build booths that are mostly open to the sky, and spend a few hours there each evening, enjoying life and discussing faith. It is to remember the time spent in the Wilderness of Sinai, and how G-d provided. It is the one time of the year big-city Jewish people build things with wood, nails, and so on, all at once. Thus the joking cartoon.
https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/4784/jewish/What-Is-Sukkot.htm
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the festival of tents has just passed. :D
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Discovered when we went to the next town to a favorite deli run by a communal sect and discovered they’d closed for the holidays.
I knew they did Passover/Easter, but….
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I was briefly excited that Home Depot might have started carrying space laser parts before I remembered.
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SIGH. Look, I can show them the GENEALOGY. Both sides of the family. Have cousins, still observant and faithful.
Do they let me have the space laser controls? nooooo. And it’s not even “Well your family line converted away” Noooo. It’s “Sarah, we can’t trust you with this, and you know it.” And they’re right. I know it. It still isn’t FAIR.
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I can be trusted with them.
*hides Master of Orion Stellar Converter and Stellaris Collossus*
Probably.
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I guess it depends on how you’re gonna build your space laser…
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My reading comprehension is bad.
For moment I was thinking it was talking about JD Vance and Garak.
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Methyl sodium dioxide, maybe.
Oh! I get it. Feast of Booths or Sukkot!
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Vampires are impulsive because they can never take time to reflect.
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The teenagers may have deserved it, but the true joke in this pic is seen in the background, because the calls are coming from inside the house.
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You have to have been around in the 1960s to understand the one about the 1980 Tesla.
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The only times that anything from Canada got above 150,000 feet was when they were carried by Americans.
Ironic placement of the “Chinada” meme, considering the ChiCom spy who was a key figure in Canada’s space program for two and a half decades.
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In the Communist “mandatory” pic, note that the pistol is a Walther P-38. This identifies them as being in the German Democratic Republic.
They are demonstrating how democracy works — the guys with the hats outvoted the other man, and are enforcing their will through the power of government over an unarmed populace.
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I live not far from Reno, Nevada. We no longer notice rental trucks going east on I-80, but on the rare occasion when we see one going WEST, we assume it’s either a hostler or someone going back for a second load.
I have a friend who’s one of those hostlers — his job is to fly to places like Texas or Florida and drive those trucks back to California. In the first 6 months of this year, he stacked up enough frequent flyer miles, hotel stays and pay to take three weeks off in Hawai’i.
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Translated: “Oregon governor signs bill codifying contempt for non-Aryans” . . .
The only difference between National Socialism and Democrat Socialism is the spelling.
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Regarding UN troops, remember the phrase “Aim blue, but down two.”
This works whether you’re thinking centimeters or inches. IYKYK
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It occurs to me that the “who will pick my crops?” meme and the H-1B indentured servitude issue are the same meme, so we need an image of a TechLord whenging “No H-1B visa indentured engineers? But who else will be chained to their cubicle doing the tech work I refuse to pay enough for all those qualified American engineers to do so I can buy my third private jet?”
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Will someone please close the quotes on that billboard. It kinda bugs me.
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The Gelatinous Cube in the “All creatures are huggable, some only once” meme is the only one there seeming like he’s not trying to be happy. He’s just sitting there like “I dunno why I’m here man, totally not eating the owlbear’s foot, and having someone paint the picture. I mean, he’s painting really fast, right? Daemons are supposed to have pretty good dexterity, right? He’s almost done with it? …Right?”
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“My boss says I intimidate my coworkers. I stared at him until he apologized.”
That meme describes with 100% accuracy my youngest daughter. She can do the RBF like nobody I’ve ever seen.
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Not relevant to anything else, but in Manila at the moment with my wife, visiting her family. Our hotel adjoins a magnificent shopping mall, multi-level, and forever crowded and busy. A couple things I’ve noticed:
Well, I had to tell somebody…
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That was nifty to know about!
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Re: “When you accept your fate during the chemistry exam.”
I once answered a midterm question with “If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with BS.”
The professor wrote back: “READ your book first. Then maybe you get your BS.”
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So… I once WROTE a test in the form of a short story with the Three Musketeers and Richelieu. It was an economics test and I was asked to explain mercantilism and give the pros and cons.
WHY did I do that? I don’t know. I hadn’t slept much in a week and it seemed logical.
The minute I turned it in, I was in fear of the teacher taking offense and giving me a 0.
I was fortunate. I did answer the question, and she was charmed. I had a hundred.
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Did you keep a copy? I’d throw money…..
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I think mice ate it in mom’s garage…
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Do vampires show up in back up video screens?
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WHY do you think vampires invented back up cameras?
<now you know.
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Most digital cameras used charged coupled devices (CCDs), which (AFAIK) are built on silicon. Silicon isn’t silver, so works.
Nowadays, most (many?) mirrors use aluminum as the reflective layer. Do they reflect vampires?
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?
People used mirrors to back up?
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Fred Saberhagen’s Dracula used a video camera and screen as a bathroom mirror.
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See? SEE?
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Didn’t get to your e-mail before I replied….
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I’ve actually seen this in cars. An Uber (I don’t remember the make and model) I took the other day had a “rear view mirror” that was a rear view camera display. There was a small real mirror mounted above it in case the camera went out for some reason.
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I’ve done that with my cellphone camera in selfie mode. To check my hair, doncha know.
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If you, as a vampire, used video to show you yourself, would you use a mirror inversion to show yourself as you used to appear in mirrors, R-> L, L->R, or not?
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IIRC, in one of Saberhagen’s Dracula books, he had the Count posessing a mirror/screen with a camera in the frame sso he could maintain his own appearance. Apparently there’s still a servant problem at Castle Dracula….
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Actually, mirrors don’t reverse the image. They reflect everything straight back. The image just seems reversed because in order to face back at yourself, you would have to turn around. Your brain can’t handle the contradiction, so you blame the mirror. 😁
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They reflect things back to front.
I had fun with that in Through A Mirror, Darkly. It entered a deep philosophical discussion, one element of which was the number of lefties they met — but was even more important as an analogy.
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Or, to say it another way:
If you hold printed material, as one example, up to a mirror, it appears reversed because you had to turn it away from yourself in order to see it in the mirror. If the print is on a substrate that lets enough light through for you to see it from the back while you are holding it up to the mirror, then it will still appear reversed, because you reversed it.
So yes, it looks backwards because it IS, not because the mirror did it.
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The image you see in a mirror, assuming you are not a vampire, is enantiomorphic. Go to a mirror and hold up your right hand: look carefully at your image, and you will see that your image is holding up a left hand! There are certain chemical compounds that come in left and right hand versions. The fancy scientific prefix is levo- and dextro- forms. Essentially you can be “mirror- reversed” if you where rotated through the fourth dimension by some means: teleportation gone wrong, higher dimensional beings playing a joke, etc. It’s like a three dimensional being “flipping over” a Flatlander. But it would be deadly for you (and perhaps the Flatlander) your body is made of many levo-type molecules, which become dextro-types after your fourth dimensional “inversion.” You will begin to starve to death as you can not assimilate the “now” wrong handed molecules of normal food (levo-types) into your now reversed moleculular proteins, DNA, etc. The whole issue sprung into my mind because I use a video “mirroring” app on my iPad for various reasons. It shows me as I look, not as I see myself in a mirror. My hair is parted on the wrong side! Oftentimes you see video online that is mirror reversed: you can tell because writing on tee shirts is reversed, and on signs, driver side is on the “wrong” side but is posting from North America, and so forth. I think this is done so people can see themselves in their video selfies the way they see themselves in a mirror. So it naturally occurred to me that vampires would have to choose which way to see themselves in their self videos. To play around with the idea, maybe they become invisible in a video if the mirror reversing effect is turned on: maybe that could be tied in with fourth dimensional inversion. The most sensible reason vampires might hate mirrors is that they can see how they truly look, being undead and perhaps not as beautiful as they appear to their prey by means of the glamour. Just some thoughts.
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‘Doorways In The Sand’ by Roger Zelazny. Fred Cassidy goes through the alien Rhennius Machine (for Reasons) and gets mirrored just that way. His vision is reversed, and everything tastes strange. He does get straightened out before malnutrition sets in.
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He also starts to see everything reversed. Most annoying with mirror writing.
It’s that kind of book. Two cops go undercover as a kangaroo and a wombat.
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In the Star Trek novel, “Spock Must Die!”, Spock was duplicated by a transport beam being reflected off a force field, and was mirrored down to his molecules (leading to bizarre dietary problems for the duplicate). He was also evil (of course, or plot purposes).
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Re: How many rounds I need.
As if I could find wadcutters!
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