I am late to the party here but new at being a Canadian Army mum, and so Andrew, you better quit making fun of the Minecraft blorp now proudly about to be worn by my dear Bertie.
And that’s as much mumly enthusiasm as I can show for that. Probably I should use an exclamation point or something.
Somehow the camouflage scientists insist that digital patterns created by computers are the most effective in hiding a soldier or blending in with the terrain. I have yet seen a digital owl, deer, snake or lizard yet they all have seem to have effective solutions to this problem.
"While Homer J. Simpson’s old man is perhaps best known for yelling at clouds,"
Once when I was visiting my parents, my dad was griping about the weather ruining his plans for the day. I immediately got my phone and showed mom the "old man yells at cloud" gif. She thought it was hilarious. When I showed it to Dad, he was... less than amused. 😁
You wanna know when this country started going downhill? I'LL tell you when this country started going downhill. It started going downhill when they stopped putting wing windows in cars!
You kids today wouldn't know a wing window if it bit you in the ass! Now get offa my driveway!
My car salesman, (nice guy!), told me my new 2018 Subaru had a wing window "just like the old days." It doesn't open. No, young man, NOT like the old days. Le sigh. I do love Subarus, though.
I like to have some fresh air in, only on modern cars the only way to do that is to roll the entire window down some, and in winter that can get pretty cold, especially on the legs of my passenger cause of how modern cars are shaped and stuff.
I accept the fact that anyone can get into my Miata with a box cutter. Although it just hit me that my OEM cassette radio has probably gone way up in value; the last time anything was stolen from it, they took the owners manual, which starts at $100 on eBay.
To prepare for my forum on Wednesday I have dug up previous debates with my opponent.
Not going to be over confident but she is pretty stupid. I can see the things she likes to focus on and it’s making me feel better to know what she’s likely going to say.
Also, what would be “justices of the peace “ are repeatedly called “justice of the pieces “ (spellcheck knows) and I need to practice not cracking up about that.
Morning all! I woke up to the news of Raisi’s death. Maybe Iran can elect a less terrible person now? I figured he was dead as soon as I heard the euphemism “hard landing.”
BBC's reporting that British water company investors have siphoned out billions of pounds, while doing nothing for infrastructure. Cryptosporidiosis has so far resulted, with parts of Devonshire having to boil their water, and raw sewage washing up on the beaches.
Energy, schools prisons, road building, healthcare, it's jerb creating! Sure, it might kill people here and there and make them bankrupt or unfit to get a job or shut off their heat during a blizzard, but come on, those shareholder bucks don't just make themselves.
My favorite actually came from a sports guy hubby would watch on ESPN back in the late 90s. Do not remember his or his cronie's name either, but the show was rather amusing even for me, a not sports person.
Anyway, dude said "cooler than the other side of the pillow" and it made me lol very hard
How do you expect them to kill the libaries dead if you do not let them broadcast everyone's reading habits to see who has committed the sin of wrong think?
I am now ready to join the American Library Association. So I can wave my white, flabby ass at the fascists from a place they actually need a library to confirm exists.
I'm an ex-librarian. Actually, I was kinda crap at it.
But I love one thing, free movement of information and ideas. At the lowest possible cost and the widest dispersion. And other librarians.... sexy mummas with glasses and wicked ways.
Ummmm.... free expression... I meant free expression.
Apparently he had flown to the border to speak with the Azerbaijani leader. From the description of the accident, it sounds like bad weather was the culprit.
As somebody on Twitter put it: how nefarious it was of Israel to force Iran's president to ride a 45-year-old helicopter through mountains shrouded in such thick fog they had to conduct the SAR operation on foot and lost three of the rescue personnel in the process.
Truly, there is no limit to Israel/The West's insidious schemes!
It was almost certainly just the weather, but that won't stop conspiracy theorists, because the idea that shit just sometimes happens is the one thing they really can't abide.
So there I was, thinking my reaction of “if someone claims to know something, no they don’t” was a misremembered Heinlein quote, and it may be, but it’s also biblical. https://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/8-2.htm And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
The problem here is that any scientist asserting 100% certainty about anything would be deeply unprofessional, but mass media treats a healthy scientific skepticism as equivalent to post-truth bullshit.
I am late to the party here but new at being a Canadian Army mum, and so Andrew, you better quit making fun of the Minecraft blorp now proudly about to be worn by my dear Bertie.
And that’s as much mumly enthusiasm as I can show for that. Probably I should use an exclamation point or something.
Somehow the camouflage scientists insist that digital patterns created by computers are the most effective in hiding a soldier or blending in with the terrain. I have yet seen a digital owl, deer, snake or lizard yet they all have seem to have effective solutions to this problem.
They might be all over the place, and so cleverly digitally disguised that you don’t see them. Hnnnnn?
"While Homer J. Simpson’s old man is perhaps best known for yelling at clouds,"
Once when I was visiting my parents, my dad was griping about the weather ruining his plans for the day. I immediately got my phone and showed mom the "old man yells at cloud" gif. She thought it was hilarious. When I showed it to Dad, he was... less than amused. 😁
You wanna know when this country started going downhill? I'LL tell you when this country started going downhill. It started going downhill when they stopped putting wing windows in cars!
You kids today wouldn't know a wing window if it bit you in the ass! Now get offa my driveway!
Fuck yeah! You go fast enough and it'll suck the air out yer damn lungs.
My car salesman, (nice guy!), told me my new 2018 Subaru had a wing window "just like the old days." It doesn't open. No, young man, NOT like the old days. Le sigh. I do love Subarus, though.
My dad always flicked his (unfiltered) Pall Mall ash out the wing window. (amazingly he quit smoking years ago - and is 84 and still with us)
I’m pretty certain it was curb feelers. Nowadays all the alloy wheels are scraped up because Big Wheel killed curb feelers!
Yep. As the owner of many curb-rashed rims I can confirm.
I do miss fly windows.
I like to have some fresh air in, only on modern cars the only way to do that is to roll the entire window down some, and in winter that can get pretty cold, especially on the legs of my passenger cause of how modern cars are shaped and stuff.
Back off!
It was FM radio.
I accept the fact that anyone can get into my Miata with a box cutter. Although it just hit me that my OEM cassette radio has probably gone way up in value; the last time anything was stolen from it, they took the owners manual, which starts at $100 on eBay.
A friend of mine (in 1988) made a fake, ripped out stereo, with yanked off wires.
A cover.
That she put onto her car stereo console.
.
"You kids these days", indeed.
To prepare for my forum on Wednesday I have dug up previous debates with my opponent.
Not going to be over confident but she is pretty stupid. I can see the things she likes to focus on and it’s making me feel better to know what she’s likely going to say.
Also, what would be “justices of the peace “ are repeatedly called “justice of the pieces “ (spellcheck knows) and I need to practice not cracking up about that.
I don't see the point in debating stupid people.
Not really a debate—it’s a forum where the public can ask questions.
I'd go with something like "All a y'all can kiss my chrome plated, three on the tree, limited slip skeeter butt."
Potato, potahto
Sounds like you could win the debate with the old "I know you are, but what am I"? riposte.
Her opponent might even be fooled by, "Your shoe's untied."
"Know your enemy," or in this case, opponent. It seems that you do know her and what she will concentrate on.
You should 100% crack up at that and then go "like Reece's Pieces?"
Morning all! I woke up to the news of Raisi’s death. Maybe Iran can elect a less terrible person now? I figured he was dead as soon as I heard the euphemism “hard landing.”
I hope that they can elect a less terrible person, but I'm not holding my breath.
"'This is so smooth...', Ford, what's the smoothest thing that you can think of, right now?"
"Right now? This ice."
"Yeah, this ice is as smooth as this ice...
For a quick laugh, here are Jen Psaki and Daily Show's Jordan Klepper talking about MAGAts who love Putin and Russia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnuqWn4ZR6Q
lol lol there was an act blue ad before that and I let it run cause Obama and at the end Biden goes "Thanks, Obama"
I lold
Jordan! What are you doing with your hair????
He's doing the imbedded journalist hasn't had a chance to shave or haircut look XD
TBF he is kind of in a war zone :)
Turns out that Ayatollah Khamenei's leadership style is helicopter parent.
DAAAAAAAAAD!!
"YOU'RE GROUNDED, MISTER."
At a high velocity.
(giggles)
BBC's reporting that British water company investors have siphoned out billions of pounds, while doing nothing for infrastructure. Cryptosporidiosis has so far resulted, with parts of Devonshire having to boil their water, and raw sewage washing up on the beaches.
Capitalism. Have a nice tall glassful.
I thought Cryptosporidium was the thirst mutilator?
Brawndo is the Thirst Mutilator! After all, who would drink water, that stuff in the toilet?
The private sicktor
Gee.
Let us let private companies be in charge of our drinking water. What could possibly go wrong.
*headdesk AND facepalm*
Add in the Post Office and contaminated blood scandals.
Energy, schools prisons, road building, healthcare, it's jerb creating! Sure, it might kill people here and there and make them bankrupt or unfit to get a job or shut off their heat during a blizzard, but come on, those shareholder bucks don't just make themselves.
Think of the progress!
Government should operate like a shady business!
Goddammit!
I got to be present at work tomor - , I mean TODAY.
Okay.
I'm going to be cool.
.
You all be cool, okay?
Be cool like Fonzie.
And talk about macular degeneration on the TV?
I<heh heh>SWYDT
Like the internal flow of a glacier, man
Xaphod.
My favorite actually came from a sports guy hubby would watch on ESPN back in the late 90s. Do not remember his or his cronie's name either, but the show was rather amusing even for me, a not sports person.
Anyway, dude said "cooler than the other side of the pillow" and it made me lol very hard
That was Stuart Scott.
Danke!
I am so bad with names.
Zaphod Beeblebrox approves this message.
So hip...
He has trouble seeing over his own pelvis.
𝘔𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺, 𝘭𝘪𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘤𝘺 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘕𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘩 𝘊𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘢 𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘉𝘪𝘭𝘭 49, 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴’ 𝘉𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘙𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴. 𝘈𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘢𝘯 𝘰𝘯 𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘭 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘺, 𝘴𝘦𝘹𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘺, 𝘰𝘳 𝘴𝘦𝘹𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘧𝘪𝘧𝘵𝘩 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘦, 𝘪𝘵 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥'𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘴.
𝗔𝗻 𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘆 𝘀𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝘀𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝘄 𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗹𝗶𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗵𝗮𝗯𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗳𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝗱𝘀. 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁'𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗻
Follow us down this deep rabbit hole of privacy policy after privacy policy
https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/18/mystery_of_the_targeted_mobile_ads/
After reading that, no mysteries were solved.
The comments were the best part of the article.
Thank the gawds we're banning TikTok.
How do you expect them to kill the libaries dead if you do not let them broadcast everyone's reading habits to see who has committed the sin of wrong think?
I ask you
I am now ready to join the American Library Association. So I can wave my white, flabby ass at the fascists from a place they actually need a library to confirm exists.
I'll be honest, I did not have "attacking libraries" on my bingo card. But I should have.
It is fascism 101. The rounding up of teachers and scientists oft begins by banning books
I'm an ex-librarian. Actually, I was kinda crap at it.
But I love one thing, free movement of information and ideas. At the lowest possible cost and the widest dispersion. And other librarians.... sexy mummas with glasses and wicked ways.
Ummmm.... free expression... I meant free expression.
Quiet!
That's not how any of this happens.
So...how the Iranians are reporting they believe their president died in yesterday's helicopter crash.
Now what?
The Supreme dude appoints another one I'd imagine.
What? There is a 'grassy knoll' and a 'second gunman'?
Eesh. Sounds like CFIT, a most unpleasant surprise.
Next comes replacing the preznit and a few days of mourning.
A long mourning period and the world's whacko conspiracy nutz blame Biden, of course.
Trump: 'My Prezidnenshul Immoonity would mean that I could have killed him'
Needs moar Jewish space lasers.
Interim appointments by the Guardianship Council and Majlis, followed by elections.
BBC's reported that Israel's already told Tehran on the down-low, "Wasn't us."
Apparently he had flown to the border to speak with the Azerbaijani leader. From the description of the accident, it sounds like bad weather was the culprit.
Yeah. Mountainous area, heavy fog.
As somebody on Twitter put it: how nefarious it was of Israel to force Iran's president to ride a 45-year-old helicopter through mountains shrouded in such thick fog they had to conduct the SAR operation on foot and lost three of the rescue personnel in the process.
Truly, there is no limit to Israel/The West's insidious schemes!
Better to blame it on Western sanctions.
inb4 Enlo Mush blames DEI
Iran is so well known for its inclusiveness.
I know, right? But conspiracy theorists gotta theorize.
It was almost certainly just the weather, but that won't stop conspiracy theorists, because the idea that shit just sometimes happens is the one thing they really can't abide.
'Those lasers? Who can tell what they do?'
"'Vhen ze rockets go up
Who cares vhere zey come down?
Dot's not mein department,' sez Wernher von Braun."
‘You don’t need to be a big hero
Counting backwards to zero
‘In Englisch and Cherman I know how to count down
Unt I’m learning Chinese’ sez Wernher von Braun
Not ready to tackle guessing all of the neighbors for this country yet.
#Worldle #850 (20.05.2024) 1/6 (100%)
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I’m always good when it has anything to do with who invaded who in WWII
#Worldle #850 (20.05.2024) 1/6 (100%)
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I did learn *something* in grade school.
It's AOT,K!
Good morning! "Rock Around the Clock" was released on this date in 1954. And it's been all downhill for the country since then, according to the olds.
https://youtu.be/ZgdufzXvjqw?si=N4JWYD06aKafc_6Q
and then came ... THE HIPPIES!
Following the beatniks.
It was the beret. So very few people can actually pull one of those off.
"𝘔𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘶𝘮𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘸𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮, 𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘧𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥," 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘦. "𝘔𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳, 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘢𝘺 𝘣𝘦 𝘢𝘴 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘵𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧." 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺'𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘰𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘮 "𝘦𝘱𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘤 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘣𝘴," 𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘺 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯. 𝘛𝘰 𝘱𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘴, “'𝘒𝘯𝘰𝘸' 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 [𝘢 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵] 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘵 𝘣𝘺 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘦, '𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘷𝘦' 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵," 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘶𝘦.
𝗨𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘃𝗮𝗴𝘂𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀
Using subjective phrasing like "scientists believe" makes facts seem like opinions.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/using-vague-language-about-scientific-facts-misleads-readers/
So there I was, thinking my reaction of “if someone claims to know something, no they don’t” was a misremembered Heinlein quote, and it may be, but it’s also biblical. https://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/8-2.htm And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
Scientists are the only people in media land who do not "say" anything. Everyone else "Says" something.
The Mayor says
The Police chief says
These diner patrons say
But scientists believe.
'Fact is that which enough people believe. Truth is determined by how fervently they believe it'.
--Charlie Pierce's Third Great Premise of Idiot America
Don't wanna be an American idiot
One nation controlled by the media
Information age of hysteria
It's calling out to idiot America
-G. Day, American Idiot
The problem here is that any scientist asserting 100% certainty about anything would be deeply unprofessional, but mass media treats a healthy scientific skepticism as equivalent to post-truth bullshit.