A simple newt—Mother Nature is amazing! Egotistical humans believe Mother Nature is weak, quite stupid, and in desperate need of help from egotistical humans.
This is the same Mother Nature that has created Ice Ages and then had them melt away. The same Mother Nature that wiped out the dinosaurs for p*ssing ‘Her’ off—yes yes I know, Mother Nature is just too weak to have done all that, so the Universe must’ve helped ‘Her’ by sending asteroids (or so some egotistical humans claim).
Humans can’t even stop a simple tsunami, but the egotistical ones believe they can control the climate better than Mother Nature!?!?! My money is on Mother Nature protecting ‘Her’ Earth – maybe like passing a little gas and wiping out the entire pesky human race…
The exit polls about Nikki Haley’s voters’ views on Biden and the economy are WILD.
These results, which are from Virginia, show that 92 PERCENT of Haley’s voters approve of Joe Biden’s performance as president, and 87 PERCENT of Haley’s voters say they’re satisfied with how things are going in America right now.
Haley’s voters aren’t just Democrats. They’re the most rabid, left-wing, delusional, anti-Trump members of the Democrat party’s already left-wing and delusional base.
But he got better
Nature is a marvel and it is high arrogance to think we are its master
We can hold the reigns for a little while we contemplate the blink of an eye of our existence
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1765221517393105385
Anyone who sees a hurricane a volcano should he humbled in the original version of the time machine the brief nuclear exchange touched off volcanos and earth equakes i suppose that could happen
Just another open-thread comment about something I read somewhere else.
That’s a link to a long report on the catastrophic launch of Gemini, Google’s AI image generator. Supporters of Google will find the article depressing. Critics of Google will find it depressing and hilarious.
Here’s a sample:
“In terms of Gemini, nobody I spoke with was able to finger a specific person responsible for the mortifying failure. But it does seem people on the team have fallen into agreement on precisely the wrong thing: Gemini’s problem was not its embarrassingly poor answer quality or disorienting omission of white people from human history, but the introduction of black and asian Nazis (again, because white people were erased from human history), which was considered offensive to people of color.”
Miguel cervantes,
“But he got better”
🙂
*om must still be asleep or he would have beat you to that line.
But it does seem people on the team have fallen into agreement on precisely the wrong thing
I suppose if Google is doubling down, willing to waste loads of money and time developing a product that virtually nobody wants or will find useful, all in the name of not offending an audience that is pathologically incapable of not finding something to be offended by due to their derangement, then that’s their business. It’s not as if there aren’t many other huge companies with massive resources who are working to create something that might actually be useful in the same space. It’s not as if Google has a monopoly on AI.
What is the expression? To a hammer, everything is a nail?…
it’s the digital version of new coke or the chevy chase show, and like the board of 20th century vole, no one wants to take credit, they are running for the hills, to use another text of this cracked world, ‘the Princess Bride’ which upon rewatching has a very Candide subtext,Inigo Montoya is full of rage and grief, Wesley is a practical man, whereas Vizzini is a learned fool,I’m guessing Heidelberg or somewhere similar,
Prince Rupert might as well been a Borgia
or a Tudor king
‘those words you are using don’t mean what you think they mean’ like that VA Memo which totally misread the room, about that iconic World War 2 scene, they are so far from reality that it is almost funny, except these people supposedly care for our veterans, we
discovered the truth of that in 2013 or 2014, was it, under the right honorable Shinseki,
a counterpart to the Colonel Blimps of the Great War, the last BlackAdder, made it somewhat bittersweet, in reality the Milleys the Austin of this world, are who ends up there,
Maybe it is newt to you, but not to me.
Regarding the Queers for Palestine article from yesterday and some of the comments.
I was still youngish when HIV first became known, but I seem to recall that the Aids Activist objected to dentist starting to wear face shields back then, also.
I am still not convinced that HIV ” cannot ” be transmitted by mosquitoes. If a needle passed from one person to the next can spread HIV, why can the ” needle” on the mosquitoes face not spread blood born pathogens if it quickly moves from one person to the next person after being waved off?
I asked a doctor this once and he quietly did the shoulder shrug thing with a look on his face that made me think he was not convinced it was impossible but best not to say it out loud.
they would have spread more in tropical climes rather then more northern ones, the main vectors were too behaviors we couldn’t address, and the third was genetic, of course if there had been adequate treatment, which fauci had denied because he was looking for a Vaccine, that has not arrived after too generations,
his callous indifference seems to have manifested itself in other parts of the world,
the lockdown protocol was always proffered but never adopted till this time,
Karmi — When I was in junior high, I was very into those dystopia sci-fi novels. And I remember one in which an ice age had taken over because SOMEONE DECIDED TO BLOCK OUT THE SUN. I forget why the sun was purposely blocked out. I do recall that it wasn’t the “nuclear winter” genre of dystopia sci-fi novels.
Blocking out the sun? What could go wrong there?
When I was in college, I had a rule for stupid stuff I thought I would try and that was that I had to be able to get out of it on my own. If this stupid things screws up, how do we get out of it?
are all the scientists mad, well I would amend it to most,
The government has capped credit card late fees to $8. But, “the rule does not change the credit card issuer’s ability to raise interest rates, reduce credit lines, and take other actions to deter consumers from paying late.” But, will a cap on the interest rates be next? That would put a big squeeze on those people living off their credit cards.
On another matter – USPS is planning to close mail processing centers in Tulsa and Fayetteville, Arkansas and have all the mail go to OKC to be postmarked and processed. It would be interesting to review the cost-benefit analysis for this option. When I took the newspaper, they moved the printing from OKC to Tulsa and the delivery of the paper suffered. I could actually read most of the news online before the paper arrived. I stopped the paper soon afterward.
I still get most of my bills via the mail since I don’t want to spend time printing the bill out and email delivery can be messed up. I use the bank to send the payment, though even that is not reliable.
Lee Also: Whilst some of our betters are Blocking out the Sun — Russia and China will be putting a Nuclear Power Plant on the Moon – IF – Mother Nature doesn’t just pass gas and end it all. 🙂
Liz, we live about 2 miles from a town PO. If we put a letter into our mail box for someone in the town, the letter is sent to Denver 60 miles away, sorted then sent back to our town for delivery. Makes sense, right?
Now, if I go into the PO, there is a slot for town mail. Then it goes to the person it is addressed too without going to Denver for sorting.
I mailed a birthday card addressed to suburban Birmingham, AL, from a post office in Raleigh. The card was delivered eleven days later.
an interesting detail about the raj quartet it seems to be set in a mythical place called Mayapore, in the district of Pankot, it was written about 15 years before Temple of Doom, so Speilberg might have gotten the name for the palace from there, others have noted that the references therein suggests it is much to the Eastern part of India, possibly even Bengal, its set nearly 30 years before the Civil War,
you would think there would be a premium on mail being delivered to remote rural locations, but seeing as they are the enemy, not the Chud, they don’t care,
Kate,
In 1988 or so I got my passport photo taken by the corporate passport photo taker @1pm and my passport was in my mailbox in rural KingCo by 11am the next day. I did not know anything in gov could move that fast.
Amazon delivers to my rural PO. If it is coming from the local distribution center in fife, I get things in my PO Box in one day. I commented last summer that one day I counted 43 Amazon Prime trucks between Silverdale and the Hood Canal floating bridge.
Haley’s voters aren’t just Democrats. They’re the most rabid, left-wing, delusional, anti-Trump members of the Democrat party’s already left-wing and delusional base.
==
Virginia lacks party registration and thus lacks closed primaries. I wouldn’t blame Haley for Democratic voters mucking about in the Republican Party’s intramural contests. The system allows it and should not.
NC also allows open primaries. Yesterday, several Unaffiliated voters told me they wanted Republican ballots to vote for Haley. (I don’t give election advice working as an election official. Several young women told me they wanted whichever ballot had Haley.) I think NC Dems pushed this in areas where their selected candidates looked like a lock for primary wins.
Re Kats and others:
In these starkly polarised times, how can anyone but a Rabid Left D reject closed, Party voters only primary voting?
Rufus T Firefly:
I was at work.
“But I’m happy! Happy!”
“Thwack!”
“Bring out yet dead!”
Later ‘It was a good cop,’ said the witch ….
Nicki’s campaign isn’t feeling better …..
miguel at 12:19 pm:
Well, I must be mad, because I am very much in favor of bringing back the woolly mammoth and, further, I am excited by the prospects of the de-extinction of species that have been lost to us.
Yes, I remember it well, like it was the first time I remembered anything.
First, I was one, then two, four, eight and so on. Then it became even more complicated.
I liked being a tadpole best.
Well, technically it’ll be some sort of Mammoth/Indian Elephant hybrid (since the Indian Elephant is the closest extant relative).
I wonder where such a hybrid could live? The Mammoth’s native habitat was the steppes that used to dominate Eurasia and North America during the Pleistocene age. The only remnent of that ecosystem is the Ukok Plateau in southern Siberia. I wonder how a population of “resurrected” Mammoth/Elephant hybrids introduced to such an environment would fare?
I don’t think well
if it’s been done in a sub Corman film, that has gone straight to video, and often dubbed in Spanish, its probably not a good idea,
that was actually Vermont where the maple has curdled, where she had her great victory, but like the Malabar front it doesn’t matter,
prince rupert, was cruel, but he be as capricious as say alvin bragg, who admits a
known perjurer and tax cheat as a state witness
If it’s possible to bring woolly mammoths, it should be possible to engineer them to live in different environments.
I’m thinking the wastes of northern Canada or, possibly, with some genetic jiggering, the Great Plains of the United States. Or Wyoming and Montana, and etc.
average temperature was probably warmer then that now, those mammoth driven SUV’s (sarc)
I guess it’s technically feasible, a little less dangerous then hatching dinosaurs,
Improvise, overcome, adapt.
maybe we could engineer sandworms they could be off use on the border, for one, where Herbert hallucinated that particular vision from, somewhat like the whales and the ambergris,
the offending administrator let 1800 vets die of HIV contamination, they are loathsome in the extreme, they despise the best of this country, and yet in this regime, they rise to the top, like some toxic spill https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/jon-stewart-dr-phil-border-gay/
likewise,
Nuthin’ new under the sun….
(Herbert well knew his Hebrew midrash….perhaps… Though it’s always possible that he was, in fact, a Talmudic scholar in a previous life…or on another planet…) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon%27s_shamir
Opening description:
“In the Gemara, the shamir…is a worm or a substance that had the power to cut through or disintegrate stone, iron and diamond. King Solomon is said to have used it in the building of the Solomon’s Temple in place of cutting tools. For the building of the Temple in Jerusalem, which promoted peace, it was inappropriate to use tools that could also cause war and bloodshed.[2]…”
I did know that, (best carson impression) is that why yitzak chose that name, nee yezemitsky,
Not sure.
(Shamir also means parsley…though the three-letter root has to do with keeping, preserving or protecting; but also, for some reason, the adjective bitter or acerbic…
Go figure…)
If it’s possible to bring woolly mammoths, it should be possible to engineer them to live in different environments.
IrishOtter49:
______________________________
Now, bring us some woolly mammoths,
Now, bring us some woolly mammoths,
Now, bring us some woolly mammoths,
And bring them out here!
And we won’t go until we got some,
and we won’t go until we got some,
and we won’t go until we got some
So bring some out here!
Good tidings we bring to you and your kin.
We Wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
______________________________
I’m just back from the dentist. What are they putting in the anesthetic these days? I didn’t feel anything.
they have run this reminder of what films used to be like
I don’t think yitzak parsley, is the image we’re looking for, but he was ‘compact like an attack hamster’ a line pj o’rourke had about anti guerilla leader in the phillipines,
A simple newt—Mother Nature is amazing! Egotistical humans believe Mother Nature is weak, quite stupid, and in desperate need of help from egotistical humans.
This is the same Mother Nature that has created Ice Ages and then had them melt away. The same Mother Nature that wiped out the dinosaurs for p*ssing ‘Her’ off—yes yes I know, Mother Nature is just too weak to have done all that, so the Universe must’ve helped ‘Her’ by sending asteroids (or so some egotistical humans claim).
Should We Change the Climate … On Purpose? – “A climate change solution that involves … blocking out the Sun?”
Humans can’t even stop a simple tsunami, but the egotistical ones believe they can control the climate better than Mother Nature!?!?! My money is on Mother Nature protecting ‘Her’ Earth – maybe like passing a little gas and wiping out the entire pesky human race…
Nikki Haley is finally bowing out.
Sean Davis Tweeted
But he got better
Nature is a marvel and it is high arrogance to think we are its master
We can hold the reigns for a little while we contemplate the blink of an eye of our existence
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1765221517393105385
Anyone who sees a hurricane a volcano should he humbled in the original version of the time machine the brief nuclear exchange touched off volcanos and earth equakes i suppose that could happen
Just another open-thread comment about something I read somewhere else.
https://www.piratewires.com/p/google-culture-of-fear
That’s a link to a long report on the catastrophic launch of Gemini, Google’s AI image generator. Supporters of Google will find the article depressing. Critics of Google will find it depressing and hilarious.
Here’s a sample:
“In terms of Gemini, nobody I spoke with was able to finger a specific person responsible for the mortifying failure. But it does seem people on the team have fallen into agreement on precisely the wrong thing: Gemini’s problem was not its embarrassingly poor answer quality or disorienting omission of white people from human history, but the introduction of black and asian Nazis (again, because white people were erased from human history), which was considered offensive to people of color.”
Miguel cervantes,
“But he got better”
🙂
*om must still be asleep or he would have beat you to that line.
But it does seem people on the team have fallen into agreement on precisely the wrong thing
I suppose if Google is doubling down, willing to waste loads of money and time developing a product that virtually nobody wants or will find useful, all in the name of not offending an audience that is pathologically incapable of not finding something to be offended by due to their derangement, then that’s their business. It’s not as if there aren’t many other huge companies with massive resources who are working to create something that might actually be useful in the same space. It’s not as if Google has a monopoly on AI.
What is the expression? To a hammer, everything is a nail?…
it’s the digital version of new coke or the chevy chase show, and like the board of 20th century vole, no one wants to take credit, they are running for the hills, to use another text of this cracked world, ‘the Princess Bride’ which upon rewatching has a very Candide subtext,Inigo Montoya is full of rage and grief, Wesley is a practical man, whereas Vizzini is a learned fool,I’m guessing Heidelberg or somewhere similar,
Prince Rupert might as well been a Borgia
or a Tudor king
‘those words you are using don’t mean what you think they mean’ like that VA Memo which totally misread the room, about that iconic World War 2 scene, they are so far from reality that it is almost funny, except these people supposedly care for our veterans, we
discovered the truth of that in 2013 or 2014, was it, under the right honorable Shinseki,
a counterpart to the Colonel Blimps of the Great War, the last BlackAdder, made it somewhat bittersweet, in reality the Milleys the Austin of this world, are who ends up there,
Maybe it is newt to you, but not to me.
Regarding the Queers for Palestine article from yesterday and some of the comments.
I was still youngish when HIV first became known, but I seem to recall that the Aids Activist objected to dentist starting to wear face shields back then, also.
I am still not convinced that HIV ” cannot ” be transmitted by mosquitoes. If a needle passed from one person to the next can spread HIV, why can the ” needle” on the mosquitoes face not spread blood born pathogens if it quickly moves from one person to the next person after being waved off?
I asked a doctor this once and he quietly did the shoulder shrug thing with a look on his face that made me think he was not convinced it was impossible but best not to say it out loud.
they would have spread more in tropical climes rather then more northern ones, the main vectors were too behaviors we couldn’t address, and the third was genetic, of course if there had been adequate treatment, which fauci had denied because he was looking for a Vaccine, that has not arrived after too generations,
his callous indifference seems to have manifested itself in other parts of the world,
the lockdown protocol was always proffered but never adopted till this time,
Karmi — When I was in junior high, I was very into those dystopia sci-fi novels. And I remember one in which an ice age had taken over because SOMEONE DECIDED TO BLOCK OUT THE SUN. I forget why the sun was purposely blocked out. I do recall that it wasn’t the “nuclear winter” genre of dystopia sci-fi novels.
Blocking out the sun? What could go wrong there?
When I was in college, I had a rule for stupid stuff I thought I would try and that was that I had to be able to get out of it on my own. If this stupid things screws up, how do we get out of it?
are all the scientists mad, well I would amend it to most,
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13163981/Extinction-woolly-mammoth-elephant-stem-cells.html
like drinking H2S04, not a good idea
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13161023/Granddaughter-nurse-kissed-Time-Square-iconic-V-J-Day-photo-proud.html
what I was referring to
The government has capped credit card late fees to $8. But, “the rule does not change the credit card issuer’s ability to raise interest rates, reduce credit lines, and take other actions to deter consumers from paying late.” But, will a cap on the interest rates be next? That would put a big squeeze on those people living off their credit cards.
https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-bans-excessive-credit-card-late-fees-lowers-typical-fee-from-32-to-8/
On another matter – USPS is planning to close mail processing centers in Tulsa and Fayetteville, Arkansas and have all the mail go to OKC to be postmarked and processed. It would be interesting to review the cost-benefit analysis for this option. When I took the newspaper, they moved the printing from OKC to Tulsa and the delivery of the paper suffered. I could actually read most of the news online before the paper arrived. I stopped the paper soon afterward.
I still get most of my bills via the mail since I don’t want to spend time printing the bill out and email delivery can be messed up. I use the bank to send the payment, though even that is not reliable.
https://kfor.com/news/local/its-going-to-delay-their-mail-usps-plan-would-force-mail-from-tulsa-nw-arkansas-regions-to-go-through-okc-first/
Lee Also: Whilst some of our betters are Blocking out the Sun — Russia and China will be putting a Nuclear Power Plant on the Moon – IF – Mother Nature doesn’t just pass gas and end it all. 🙂
Liz, we live about 2 miles from a town PO. If we put a letter into our mail box for someone in the town, the letter is sent to Denver 60 miles away, sorted then sent back to our town for delivery. Makes sense, right?
Now, if I go into the PO, there is a slot for town mail. Then it goes to the person it is addressed too without going to Denver for sorting.
I mailed a birthday card addressed to suburban Birmingham, AL, from a post office in Raleigh. The card was delivered eleven days later.
an interesting detail about the raj quartet it seems to be set in a mythical place called Mayapore, in the district of Pankot, it was written about 15 years before Temple of Doom, so Speilberg might have gotten the name for the palace from there, others have noted that the references therein suggests it is much to the Eastern part of India, possibly even Bengal, its set nearly 30 years before the Civil War,
you would think there would be a premium on mail being delivered to remote rural locations, but seeing as they are the enemy, not the Chud, they don’t care,
Kate,
In 1988 or so I got my passport photo taken by the corporate passport photo taker @1pm and my passport was in my mailbox in rural KingCo by 11am the next day. I did not know anything in gov could move that fast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7xzOJtLyRI
==
Neo has yet to critique the life and work of Marlo Thomas.
Amazon delivers to my rural PO. If it is coming from the local distribution center in fife, I get things in my PO Box in one day. I commented last summer that one day I counted 43 Amazon Prime trucks between Silverdale and the Hood Canal floating bridge.
Haley’s voters aren’t just Democrats. They’re the most rabid, left-wing, delusional, anti-Trump members of the Democrat party’s already left-wing and delusional base.
==
Virginia lacks party registration and thus lacks closed primaries. I wouldn’t blame Haley for Democratic voters mucking about in the Republican Party’s intramural contests. The system allows it and should not.
NC also allows open primaries. Yesterday, several Unaffiliated voters told me they wanted Republican ballots to vote for Haley. (I don’t give election advice working as an election official. Several young women told me they wanted whichever ballot had Haley.) I think NC Dems pushed this in areas where their selected candidates looked like a lock for primary wins.
Re Kats and others:
In these starkly polarised times, how can anyone but a Rabid Left D reject closed, Party voters only primary voting?
Rufus T Firefly:
I was at work.
“But I’m happy! Happy!”
“Thwack!”
“Bring out yet dead!”
Later ‘It was a good cop,’ said the witch ….
Nicki’s campaign isn’t feeling better …..
miguel at 12:19 pm:
Well, I must be mad, because I am very much in favor of bringing back the woolly mammoth and, further, I am excited by the prospects of the de-extinction of species that have been lost to us.
Yes, I remember it well, like it was the first time I remembered anything.
First, I was one, then two, four, eight and so on. Then it became even more complicated.
I liked being a tadpole best.
Well, technically it’ll be some sort of Mammoth/Indian Elephant hybrid (since the Indian Elephant is the closest extant relative).
I wonder where such a hybrid could live? The Mammoth’s native habitat was the steppes that used to dominate Eurasia and North America during the Pleistocene age. The only remnent of that ecosystem is the Ukok Plateau in southern Siberia. I wonder how a population of “resurrected” Mammoth/Elephant hybrids introduced to such an environment would fare?
I don’t think well
if it’s been done in a sub Corman film, that has gone straight to video, and often dubbed in Spanish, its probably not a good idea,
that was actually Vermont where the maple has curdled, where she had her great victory, but like the Malabar front it doesn’t matter,
prince rupert, was cruel, but he be as capricious as say alvin bragg, who admits a
known perjurer and tax cheat as a state witness
If it’s possible to bring woolly mammoths, it should be possible to engineer them to live in different environments.
I’m thinking the wastes of northern Canada or, possibly, with some genetic jiggering, the Great Plains of the United States. Or Wyoming and Montana, and etc.
average temperature was probably warmer then that now, those mammoth driven SUV’s (sarc)
I guess it’s technically feasible, a little less dangerous then hatching dinosaurs,
Improvise, overcome, adapt.
maybe we could engineer sandworms they could be off use on the border, for one, where Herbert hallucinated that particular vision from, somewhat like the whales and the ambergris,
Sandworms? Bring it on!
huxley:
Langdon Smith remembered being a tadpole too.
VA reverses course, will not ban iconic WWII kiss photo from facilities
Maybe WOKE is starting to lose…
the offending administrator let 1800 vets die of HIV contamination, they are loathsome in the extreme, they despise the best of this country, and yet in this regime, they rise to the top, like some toxic spill
https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/jon-stewart-dr-phil-border-gay/
likewise,
Nuthin’ new under the sun….
(Herbert well knew his Hebrew midrash….perhaps… Though it’s always possible that he was, in fact, a Talmudic scholar in a previous life…or on another planet…)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon%27s_shamir
Opening description:
“In the Gemara, the shamir…is a worm or a substance that had the power to cut through or disintegrate stone, iron and diamond. King Solomon is said to have used it in the building of the Solomon’s Temple in place of cutting tools. For the building of the Temple in Jerusalem, which promoted peace, it was inappropriate to use tools that could also cause war and bloodshed.[2]…”
I did know that, (best carson impression) is that why yitzak chose that name, nee yezemitsky,
Not sure.
(Shamir also means parsley…though the three-letter root has to do with keeping, preserving or protecting; but also, for some reason, the adjective bitter or acerbic…
Go figure…)
If it’s possible to bring woolly mammoths, it should be possible to engineer them to live in different environments.
IrishOtter49:
______________________________
Now, bring us some woolly mammoths,
Now, bring us some woolly mammoths,
Now, bring us some woolly mammoths,
And bring them out here!
And we won’t go until we got some,
and we won’t go until we got some,
and we won’t go until we got some
So bring some out here!
Good tidings we bring to you and your kin.
We Wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
______________________________
I’m just back from the dentist. What are they putting in the anesthetic these days? I didn’t feel anything.
they have run this reminder of what films used to be like
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdWM_UBx07Q
with that rousing score,
huxley, thanks for making me laugh.
I don’t think yitzak parsley, is the image we’re looking for, but he was ‘compact like an attack hamster’ a line pj o’rourke had about anti guerilla leader in the phillipines,
one of those taranto questions no one asked
https://twitter.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1765481383504265674
well he’s stuck inside a rock
https://twitter.com/gladysk06040782/status/1765538660886237418
bottom of the book segment
https://twitter.com/chiiium/status/1765515842328887777