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Daily Tech News May 11 2021
Top Story
- Congratulations on your purchase of a new iPhone, made using slave labour under a genocidal fascist regime! (The Information)
Original article requires registration but most of the details have been reposted elsewhere. (The Verge)
Apple gets the stick in the headline, but the investigation also implicates contract manufacturers used by Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, and Google.
Rumiko Takahashi has always been great at starting stories, but only once managed to finish one.
Tech News
- Amazon destroyed 2 million counterfeit products in 2020. (Ars Technica)
The comments note that (a) it's likely that a lot of these weren't counterfeit, but merely undocumented products from smaller sellers - Amazon is infamous for simply taking and destroying sellers' entire stock without explanation or recourse, and (b) the site is awash with obviously fake products.
Ars Technica is a left-leaning site that agrees with Amazon's politics (though it wasn't always thus) so this is not political animus speaking, but bitter experience.
- You're sciencing it wrong!
MIT researchers 'infiltrated' a Covid skeptics community a few months ago and found that skeptics place a high premium on data analysis and empiricism.
— commie lee jones (@commieleejones) May 10, 2021
"Most fundamentally, the groups we studied believe that science is a process, and not an institution."https://t.co/jsoAG8G2VT pic.twitter.com/CpEvCKz2HK
Researchers at MIT are horrified to find that mask mandate skeptics are doing rigorous research and not blaming everything on white supremacy.
I am not making this up.
"For these anti-mask users, their approach to the pandemic is grounded in more scientific rigor, not less."
— commie lee jones (@commieleejones) May 10, 2021
And yet in the conclusion they lament "the skeptical impulse that the 'science simply isn’t settled,' prompting people to simply 'think for themselves” to horrifying ends."
— commie lee jones (@commieleejones) May 10, 2021
They then compare it to the January 6 Capitol riot.
Bizarre and fascinating document.
This paper reads as an appeal to eradicate skepticism and affix in its place, a strict adherence to dogma, absent of critical thinking.
— Derrick S. (@DuLouef) May 10, 2021
Feels like they would just prefer people take it on faith that the church of science is infallible, and stop questioning it.
You can read the full paper for yourself. (Arxiv.org)
It reads like a bad parody of woke "science", but it's real.
- Supermicro put two of Intel's new Ice Lake Xeons on a standard ATX motherboard. (AnandTech)
Due to space constraints - these are huge chips, and there's two of them - it only supports four of the eight memory channels on each CPU, and only one module per channel, though that's still enough for 1TB of RAM, or even 2TB if you can find the high-capacity modules necessary.
I think the only reason this exists is that you need two Intel server CPUs to compete with one from AMD; it makes no sense otherwise.
- The DHS is spying on you for your own good. (NBC News)
You will learn to love Big Brother, you ungrateful little bastards.
- Petrol supplies - what you folks call "gas" even though it's a liquid - may resume in the eastern US states by the end of the week. (ZDNet)
The FBI and the perpetrators have both confirmed this was caused by a Russian hacking group, supposedly not at all under the thumb of the Russian government.
Pull the other one, it's got little Brooklyn Bridges on.
- It's not a labour shortage, it's just that the country is run by retards. (Washington Post)
When you subsidise bad behaviour, you get more of it.
Subsidising Bad Behaviour Video of the Day
The one factor working in our favour is that our self-appointed fascist overlords are really, really dumb.
Disclaimer: The question is whether they are dumb enough. And the answer is yes, they are all the dumb.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Widespread Pepe at May 11, 2021 02:33 AM (eQt4c)
Gotta get to work so I can be free by noon.
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at May 11, 2021 02:47 AM (eQt4c)
Posted by: m at May 11, 2021 02:54 AM (TZgEk)
Posted by: Skip at May 11, 2021 03:01 AM (Cxk7w)
Posted by: m at May 11, 2021 03:29 AM (TZgEk)
"Dozens of residents in two Ontario nursing homes hit hard by the coronavirus died not from COVID-19 but from dehydration and neglect, the Canadian military says in reports obtained by The Globe and Mail."
Posted by: m at May 11, 2021 03:34 AM (TZgEk)
Thumbing through the DailyMail and was reminded that Brody Jenner exists. Is he just normal (for a Hollywood kid) or has his attention whoring career just been unsuccessful so far?
Posted by: Downcast at May 11, 2021 03:36 AM (JjMWb)
Posted by: JT at May 11, 2021 03:39 AM (arJlL)
Posted by: Skip at May 11, 2021 03:47 AM (Cxk7w)
In all the talk about labor "shortage" is nothing about school closures forcing parents like Mrs. F to stay home when she wants to work instead.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 11, 2021 03:49 AM (EZebt)
Posted by: Skip at May 11, 2021 03:59 AM (Cxk7w)
Posted by: Qmark at May 11, 2021 04:01 AM (emnp2)
Posted by: a dude in MI at May 11, 2021 04:02 AM (+I6Y/)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 11, 2021 04:04 AM (EZebt)
Posted by: My life is insanity at May 11, 2021 04:09 AM (FsNRH)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 11, 2021 04:09 AM (EZebt)
Posted by: acethepug at May 11, 2021 04:13 AM (qPKAe)
Posted by: Skip at May 11, 2021 04:13 AM (Cxk7w)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 11, 2021 04:15 AM (EZebt)
Posted by: m at May 11, 2021 04:18 AM (TZgEk)
Posted by: Skip at May 11, 2021 04:20 AM (Cxk7w)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 11, 2021 04:20 AM (EZebt)
Posted by: Skip at May 11, 2021 04:21 AM (Cxk7w)
Posted by: m at May 11, 2021 04:25 AM (TZgEk)
Still, I did not close the door on the works of Rumiko Takahasi and have gone on to enjoy the rest of her creations like Maison Ikkoku, InuYasha, and currently enjoying Ranma 1/2.
Nevertheless, I never close door fully on Lum and her alien crew for my heart is always open to the wonder of the era, plus I like the concept of the alien girl chasing the jerk protagonist see my love for DearS.
Posted by: Lazzari Scooter at May 11, 2021 04:26 AM (YvEh8)
Posted by: Skip at May 11, 2021 04:27 AM (Cxk7w)
g'mornin', 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at May 11, 2021 04:32 AM (DUIap)
Posted by: Lazzari Scooter at May 11, 2021 04:38 AM (YvEh8)
Posted by: olddog in mo at May 11, 2021 05:01 AM (ju2Fy)
I notice that more and more of my cable channels now have a streaming channel also that has new shows that they don't show on the cable channels.
I guess the money I'm paying for their cable channel isn't enough for the new shows.
Posted by: Bruce at May 11, 2021 05:14 AM (vd8XM)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 11, 2021 05:18 AM (u82oZ)
It gives us such comfort while we spend our lives raising crops and animals for food, or building and repairing things you can actually touch.
Posted by: Side-Eye Miklos (thanks Misha) at May 11, 2021 05:19 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Miklos and Smokey Robinson Sescond that Emotion at May 11, 2021 05:22 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: DB- just DB at May 11, 2021 05:22 AM (iTXRQ)
Misha? Not your
Good to see you posting, Miklos.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 11, 2021 05:22 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Miklos, alumnus of Karl Marx U at May 11, 2021 05:25 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 11, 2021 05:26 AM (pNxlR)
With Village Idiot's Apprentice's help, I have only missed 6 days since 2013. But they are not all in the same morning thread. Strong storms hitting the line line of sight broadband tower hit me each time.
Village Idiot's Apprentice covered for me on our cruise from the UK to Iceland and Canada.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 11, 2021 05:26 AM (u82oZ)
I realized today that if I want a new game system, I will need a new TV. I am officially too old for games now.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at May 11, 2021 05:27 AM (/+bwe)
Good to see you posting, Miklos.
Posted by: NaCly Dog
There was a new one last night.
Oh yeah
OPSEC OPSEC OPSEC
Posted by: The commenter artist formerly known as Miklos at May 11, 2021 05:27 AM (QzkSJ)
I wish we could compare our Google Files with reality. Be interesting.
We are watched. As heretics, revolutionaries, and the great unwashed.
Well, OK. I just want to be left alone, to live my life as I, and occasionally my wife, want to.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 11, 2021 05:30 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 11, 2021 05:31 AM (yK9py)
Posted by: NaCly Dog
"It is like dog that can stand on two legs-not that he does it well, but that he can do it at all"
Posted by: Miklos, the Pepys of Dr Jonson at May 11, 2021 05:31 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: m at May 11, 2021 05:32 AM (TZgEk)
Posted by: Miklos, not sayin' nothing at May 11, 2021 05:33 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 11, 2021 05:34 AM (E0ukh)
Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at May 11, 2021 05:34 AM (6Pqz7)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at May 11, 2021 05:34 AM (S7VTO)
I aver that this is the greatest spot on the Internet. Ace and all of you kept my sanity during the 8 years of error, and now in the falling of a great nation.
We are like a Paris Salon in ideas and interests. Without the hairy armpits ... on the 'ettes.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 11, 2021 05:35 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Oldowan at May 11, 2021 05:35 AM (Ipi+y)
Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.
I was just talking about your help, twice, to keep my saying going in the morning. You were such a great help. Thank you.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 11, 2021 05:36 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: a dude in MI at May 11, 2021 04:02 AM (+I6Y/)
*
It's bizarre to read Twitter now. There is essentially no dissent. I'm assuming bans and removal of posts.
An example is the all-gay Navy helicopter crew thread:
https://tinyurl.com/3ykurrvt
You will find a couple of "so what?" in the mix here and there, but there is an almost complete lack of debate and an overwhelming "yay, that's awesome!" feel to the extremely flaming homosexual photograph at the top.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 11, 2021 05:36 AM (yK9py)
I'm not much of a fight fan but this was some battle, between two of the best fighters in the world at any weight and for a unified world title. It was a helluva fight. Here is the highlight video.
https://tinyurl.com/3p6mhr6d
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 11, 2021 05:38 AM (dDc9Z)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 11, 2021 05:39 AM (dDc9Z)
"In fact, the explicit motivation for many of these followers is to find information so that they can make the best decisions for their families- and by extension, for the communities around them."
It's shocking that this is America now. I have apparently vastly misunderstood the lives and education and morals of so many of my countrymen.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 11, 2021 05:40 AM (yK9py)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 11, 2021 05:40 AM (dDc9Z)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at May 11, 2021 05:40 AM (S7VTO)
Calculating a course for the ship to be inside the FOX CORPEN for a given helicopter is vector math.
Flying a helicopter. with 30,000 parts in close formation, requires math, skill, and training.
Which cares not a bit about your gender, race, nationality, creed, or philosophical leanings.
REality and the Ocean do. not. care.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 11, 2021 05:41 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: DB- just DB at May 11, 2021 05:41 AM (iTXRQ)
We are like a Paris Salon in ideas and interests. Without the hairy armpits ... on the 'ettes.
Posted by: NaCly Dog
OK, pics
Or maybe not
Posted by: Miklos is willing to approve an exemption to the Rules at May 11, 2021 05:42 AM (QzkSJ)
Steve Bennett was an animator for Urusei Yatsura and one of his stories scared me at how frightening otakus could be. This series started before anime was anything but a niche fandom cloistered on US colleges where fan-sub tapes or just straight Japanese versions were passed around. To say you were a fan of Japanimation at cons got you weird looks from the other fan groups.
But back to the story, he was telling us the studio got a fan letter from someone in California. Since Steve is half-American guess they figured he could give them a bit of an American perspective. Turns out this American fan of UY wanted to marry Lum...
Swear I heard that bird sound effect at that point to note how totally awkward that fan letter was. Stay grounded folks. Nyah.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 11, 2021 05:43 AM (w7gCM)
Have a. blessed day, everyone.
May every traffic light turn green as you approach.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 11, 2021 05:44 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: sven at May 11, 2021 05:44 AM (Lzpvj)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 11, 2021 05:45 AM (6qVSR)
Posted by: Corner Stone at May 11, 2021 05:45 AM (Kq2SQ)
Posted by: sven at May 11, 2021 05:45 AM (Lzpvj)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at May 11, 2021 05:45 AM (S7VTO)
Posted by: sven
And being lazy Americans, it's short for "gasoline"
Posted by: Bruce at May 11, 2021 05:46 AM (vd8XM)
Remember the geeks and nerds want to outlaw your ability to feed them, as they want to outlaw the energy sectors' ability to fuel them.
Posted by: sven at May 11, 2021 05:46 AM (Lzpvj)
Posted by: DB- just DB at May 11, 2021 05:47 AM (iTXRQ)
Any east coast morons need to be sure their tanks and cans are topped off. Gas stations are already running out and shutting off pumps around here. When you can find a station the line is 7-10 cars deep.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 11, 2021 05:47 AM (yK9py)
Which is somehow more intellectually apathetic than the mainbody of Pan-Anglia turning "petroleum" into "petrol."
It all gets so confusing.
Posted by: sven at May 11, 2021 05:47 AM (Lzpvj)
Posted by: DB- just DB at May 11, 2021 05:48 AM (iTXRQ)
Posted by: sven
All electric John Deere combine coming to a field near you.
Posted by: Bruce at May 11, 2021 05:48 AM (vd8XM)
Posted by: DB- just DB at May 11, 2021 05:48 AM (iTXRQ)
Israel should turn off the lights, water, and sewage in Gaza. Let them rot
Posted by: Nevergiveup
Like San Fran ?
Posted by: JT at May 11, 2021 05:48 AM (arJlL)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 11, 2021 05:48 AM (w7gCM)
Posted by: Bruce at May 11, 2021 05:49 AM (vd8XM)
"Why won't these f*ckers listen to me!?!"
//$cience
Which tells you a lot actually, the cult of credential is what happens when b rate intellects go into a level fields.
Posted by: sven at May 11, 2021 05:49 AM (Lzpvj)
Posted by: sven at May 11, 2021 05:49 AM (Lzpvj)
Posted by: Bruce
I read that as an electric John Denver.....
Posted by: JT at May 11, 2021 05:49 AM (arJlL)
Obama says they can fly anytime.
Just not to Chicago's Man's Country since they are permanently shuttered.
Something to do with Rev. Wright's dead choir men and cock fighting perhaps?
Posted by: Corner Stone at May 11, 2021 05:49 AM (Kq2SQ)
Posted by: JT at May 11, 2021 05:50 AM (arJlL)
Posted by: Bruce at May 11, 2021 05:50 AM (vd8XM)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 11, 2021 05:50 AM (w7gCM)
"You can do 1/2 of one row per day!"
//$cience!
Posted by: sven at May 11, 2021 05:50 AM (Lzpvj)
***
I think this is a big part of it, honestly. The credentialed class is pissed that Mom and Dad are just as smart as they are.
Wash your hands, stop picking your nose, don't bite your fingernails, don't get right up on people, and cover your mouth when you sneeze or cough.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 11, 2021 05:51 AM (yK9py)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 11, 2021 05:51 AM (w7gCM)
It's shocking that this is America now. I have apparently vastly misunderstood the lives and education and morals of so many of my countrymen.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming
They worship at the altar of The Interpreters, who are chosen and serve at the pleasure of The Anointed.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 11, 2021 05:52 AM (pNxlR)
Posted by: JT at May 11, 2021 05:52 AM (arJlL)
Posted by: Moron Robbie
Don't put your you know what into the you know where.
Posted by: Bruce at May 11, 2021 05:52 AM (vd8XM)
DOUGLAS MURRAY
The Price Of Thinking Out Loud
https://www.youtube.com
/watch?v=1DLrRDSGi6E
Posted by: Corner Stone at May 11, 2021 05:53 AM (Kq2SQ)
There are very few actual scientists coming out of the universities and more and more activists and grifters.
One of the first tells that this entire thing was bullshit was the absurd model that predicted 81pct of the US would be infected and that 2.5 million Americans would die in a year.
This isn't 1918 and unless they somehow knew the virus was a bioweapon, which it wasn't and which they didn't know, the numbers are patently absurd, ahistorical with respect to other novel virus outbreaks and obviously intended to cause panic and achieve a result.
Which sadly it did even though it has been completly discredited.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 11, 2021 05:53 AM (E0ukh)
Posted by: Puddleglum at May 11, 2021 05:54 AM (tIeQ9)
Posted by: Moron Robbie
Don't put your you know what into the you know where.
Posted by: Bruce at May 11, 2021 05:52 AM (vd8XM)
You're gonna have to be more specific!
Posted by: m at May 11, 2021 05:54 AM (TZgEk)
Posted by: sven
My Grandaddy had one (1) tractor his whole life, and got that that late in life (WWI Vet).
I have my great-graddaddy's letters home to his wife, when he was in the CSA, about how to run a farm c. 1863.
I suspect I'll be just fine.
Posted by: Do not taunt Happy Fun Post-Apocolyptic farmer Miklos at May 11, 2021 05:54 AM (QzkSJ)
87 Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 11, 2021 05:51 AM (yK9py)
Morning Puma, a wave- https://youtu.be/iVM2dQ_7DyY
Robbie they want to control policy and outcomes with no thought to efficiency or 2d 3d and 4th tier order of effects.
If you want an asshole to come up with huge changes that leave the whole system weaker for the "improvement" go to an alarmist $cience! type.
Posted by: sven at May 11, 2021 05:54 AM (Lzpvj)
Posted by: Stuff Mom always said at May 11, 2021 05:54 AM (Tnijr)
We've lost a lot tremendous amount of what we were internally just since 1980 or so.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 11, 2021 05:55 AM (yK9py)
Posted by: Alternative Oddball Miklos at May 11, 2021 05:55 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Corner Stone at May 11, 2021 05:55 AM (Kq2SQ)
It would have been that bad, except for the mask that you are required to wear!!
Prove me wrong!!!!
Doctor (yeah right) Fauxy
Posted by: Bruce at May 11, 2021 05:56 AM (vd8XM)
Posted by: DB- just DB at May 11, 2021 05:56 AM (iTXRQ)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 11, 2021 05:56 AM (6qVSR)
https://twitter.com/ProfFeynman/status/1380722165033562113
Posted by: m at May 11, 2021 05:56 AM (TZgEk)
**
That's what is so mind blowing to me. It NEVER becomes more complicated than what everyone learned in 7th grade.
Hypothesis, scrutinize, accept or reject.
The subject matter can become more complex, but if it involves anything other than 7th grade basics it is no longer science.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 11, 2021 05:57 AM (yK9py)
Posted by: Puddleglum at May 11, 2021 05:57 AM (tIeQ9)
Posted by: Moron Robbie
well, I believe it's a case of the last generation that knew what it was doing is passing away, replaced by a generation of idiots and retards
Posted by: DB- just DB at May 11, 2021 05:58 AM (iTXRQ)
***
Ha. Hordemind.
I like that very much, thanks.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 11, 2021 05:58 AM (yK9py)
Any east coast morons need to be sure their tanks and cans are topped off. Gas stations are already running out and shutting off pumps around here. When you can find a station the line is 7-10 cars deep.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming
And with that, the return of Excuses Why Jobs Numbers Failed to Meet Experts' Expectations reasserted and solidified its hold on reporting employment numbers during the Obama III Administration.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 11, 2021 05:58 AM (pNxlR)
Yeah it's like they just pulled it out of their ass.
Oh wait.
It's because they did pull the fake studies out of their ass.
Posted by: Corner Stone at May 11, 2021 06:00 AM (Kq2SQ)
=================
We went from "10 days to flatten the curve" to "Produce your papers" in one year.
I did Nazi that coming.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 11, 2021 06:00 AM (dDc9Z)
Don't even get me started on that evil goblin as far as I'm concerned, he may be villain number one in this whole scam and Op.
He's defiantly top 2 or 3.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 11, 2021 06:01 AM (E0ukh)
Why? We'll have this fixed is less than two weeks.
Posted by: Colonial IT at May 11, 2021 06:01 AM (Tnijr)
Posted by: Corner Stone
It's because they did pull the fake studies out of their you know where.
FIFY
Posted by: Bruce at May 11, 2021 06:01 AM (vd8XM)
Has any one of the think tank pinheads spleefed about the SPR yet?
As if adding more oil will help a situation where the problem is the pipeline delivering it.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 11, 2021 06:01 AM (w7gCM)
***
Ha. Hordemind.
I like that very much, thanks.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 11, 2021 05:58 AM (yK9py)
That's pretty fine, man.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 11, 2021 06:03 AM (6FeV1)
Posted by: Corner Stone at May 11, 2021 06:04 AM (Kq2SQ)
Sciencing - fantasy posing as science.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 11, 2021 06:05 AM (w7gCM)
Posted by: f'd at May 11, 2021 06:05 AM (Tnijr)
If it [your guess] disagrees with experiment, it's wrong. In that simple statement is the key to science.
It doesn't make a difference how beautiful your guess is, it doesn't make a difference how smart you are or who made the guess or what his name is. If it disagrees with experiment, it's wrong. That's all there is to it.
Posted by: m at May 11, 2021 06:06 AM (TZgEk)
Posted by: Huck Follywood
Your nomination has been received and accepted.
-Nobel Prize Committee of Silly Things-
Posted by: Miklos, Recording Secretary at May 11, 2021 06:07 AM (QzkSJ)
at some point the B rate intellects figured out that they got activist lap kitty by bending their observations and tailoring their analyses to what the kitten carriers wanted....
I'd say it was actually around 1994-1996 or so.
Posted by: sven at May 11, 2021 06:07 AM (Lzpvj)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 11, 2021 06:07 AM (w7gCM)
Posted by: Corner Stone at May 11, 2021 06:09 AM (Kq2SQ)
Posted by: Miklos, Recording over here, Boss at May 11, 2021 06:09 AM (QzkSJ)
Science.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 11, 2021 06:09 AM (yK9py)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 11, 2021 06:09 AM (uBAt0)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 11, 2021 06:10 AM (w7gCM)
Make that: ". . . believe that science is a process, and not a
Posted by: Lizzy at May 11, 2021 06:11 AM (bDqIh)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 11, 2021 06:11 AM (sFPHo)
One rocket landed inside the city and some slight injuries were reported
TURN OF THE POWER IN GAZA NOW!!!!!
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 11, 2021 06:12 AM (6qVSR)
-Nobel Prize Committee of Silly Things-
=================
Yes, but - fairness - the week In Pictures is a great collection of silly things.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 11, 2021 06:12 AM (dDc9Z)
That's pretty fine, man.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 11, 2021 06:03 AM (6FeV1)
Ha! Ironically, "it doesn't matter what his name is."
Posted by: m at May 11, 2021 06:12 AM (TZgEk)
Not a deterrent. Call up more
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 11, 2021 06:13 AM (6qVSR)
Posted by: Anna Puma
I remember from the 70s or 80s the Texas bumper stickers-
"Freeze in the dark, Yankees"
Posted by: Miklos does in fact recall that at May 11, 2021 06:13 AM (QzkSJ)
If only an intelligent, selfless leader who had melded together the various aspects of American civil order and seen the dark side of every phase of that society left unchecked had warned us of the danger of a politicized education/science/political matrix....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4R6dSteyCXQ
Around 16 minutes....
for a "dumb guy" Ike sure knew what the fuck he was talking about.
Posted by: sven at May 11, 2021 06:13 AM (Lzpvj)
Posted by: dantesed at May 11, 2021 06:14 AM (88xKn)
Putting the "cult" in "cult of credentialism."
Posted by: sven at May 11, 2021 06:14 AM (Lzpvj)
True science is literally Thunderdome, two suppositions enter, one rigerously and thourouhly beaten the shit out of conclusion leaves.
But nope science is now gayballs, glitter and weaponized.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 11, 2021 06:15 AM (E0ukh)
Posted by: Your Friendly terrorist Palestinian at May 11, 2021 06:15 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 11, 2021 06:15 AM (6FeV1)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 11, 2021 06:16 AM (dDc9Z)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 11, 2021 06:17 AM (6FeV1)
We have a new cataloguing system....it uses unicorn stickers, the Babylonian alphabet, and good intentions...
"have fun seeking knowledge!"
//Emo Librarians
Posted by: sven at May 11, 2021 06:18 AM (Lzpvj)
Posted by: sven
Because I studied at Karl Marx U, the standing joke in the Obama years was that in Amerika, I would be a cabinet Minister, at least
Posted by: Your Friendly Miklosian Miklos at May 11, 2021 06:19 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 11, 2021 06:16 AM (dDc9Z)
"... so our library system will be transitioning to the Nehisi-Coates Pile System over the coming months"
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 11, 2021 06:19 AM (6FeV1)
That MIT paper is the most terrifying thing I have read in a very long time.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 11, 2021 06:20 AM (Jsjd7)
"You're standing in it. "
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 11, 2021 06:21 AM (6FeV1)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 11, 2021 06:16 AM (dDc9Z)
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With what do they propose replacing it? I am going to go out a limb and say that the answer is "nothing." This is because classification, categorization and hierarchy are non-woke. We can't replace one categorization system with another and must do away with it altogether.
On the other hand, they might realize that's a little bit extreme for mainstream agitation (although it is a cornerstone of their belief) and propose pivoting to categorization by social groupings reflecting the heat of the moment.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 11, 2021 06:22 AM (Jsjd7)
Which isekai world would you want to live in?
1. Konosuba, Overlord, Wise Man's Grandchild, Log Horizon, Isekai Cheat Magician, Tanya the Evil. Or something else?
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 11, 2021 06:22 AM (w7gCM)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 11, 2021 06:16 AM (dDc9Z)
What do you usually call a Cornell student?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 11, 2021 06:23 AM (6qVSR)
Posted by: Thomas Bender
I forgot to ask for glitter on my Ph.D.
But they didn't offer that option then, and not now neither.
Posted by: Miklos, thinking a Hungarian Doctorate might be worth something after all at May 11, 2021 06:23 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 11, 2021 06:22 AM (Jsjd7)
Probably Library of Congress.
Posted by: m at May 11, 2021 06:23 AM (TZgEk)
But nope science is now gayballs, glitter and weaponized.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 11, 2021 06:15 AM (E0ukh)
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Oh, science is even fiercer than that. That process ensures that another outcome is possible - even likely. Two suppositions enter and opposing parties tear both of them to shreds so completely that *neither* one leaves and we're left back at square one.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 11, 2021 06:24 AM (Jsjd7)
Posted by: Miklos, thinking logically at May 11, 2021 06:24 AM (QzkSJ)
"It's over there in the pile of books that are burning."
Posted by: dantesed at May 11, 2021 06:24 AM (88xKn)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 11, 2021 06:25 AM (w7gCM)
Posted by: Miklos, thinking logically at May 11, 2021 06:24 AM (QzkSJ)
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For a husband. There are two colleges in that town - Ithaca College and Cornell University. As the slogan there goes, "Ithaca to bed, Cornell to wed."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 11, 2021 06:25 AM (Jsjd7)
It's the maximization of available freezer space I'm having an issue with. Luckily, I still have my freeze dried food supplies in the basement.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 11, 2021 06:25 AM (dDc9Z)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 11, 2021 06:23 AM (6qVSR)
I think it involves the word "cow."
Posted by: m at May 11, 2021 06:25 AM (TZgEk)
Posted by: Nevergiveup
Why would you?
Posted by: Miklos, thinking logically at May 11, 2021 06:24 AM (QzkSJ)
Someone who did not get into a real Ivy League School
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 11, 2021 06:26 AM (6qVSR)
Posted by: Fred at May 11, 2021 06:28 AM (VEOOY)
Those working in the science fields are no different than cops, soldiers, and all the rest. Some still like to think they are independent thinkers loyal to some higher creed and noble calling. That is bullshit. They are mostly self interested careerists working to climb a rung in a vast bureaucracy, nothing more. And one does not advance in any bureaucracy by asking uncomfortable questions or rocking the boat.
Posted by: Like A Rock at May 11, 2021 06:28 AM (9ls8w)
Posted by: m at May 11, 2021 06:28 AM (TZgEk)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 11, 2021 06:26 AM (6qVSR)
================
and then there's Keith Olbermann, who went to SUNY-Ithaca.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 11, 2021 06:28 AM (dDc9Z)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 11, 2021 06:28 AM (48Giz)
Posted by: Joe Mannix
*tries to remember how all that worked*
Posted by: Miklos remembers that Tulane was next door to Loyola (Katlik Chix) at May 11, 2021 06:29 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 11, 2021 06:28 AM (48Giz)
Why the fuck does the world even let the PLA exsit?
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 11, 2021 06:29 AM (yrol0)
Posted by: m at May 11, 2021 06:28 AM (TZgEk)
****
Or as my very liberal cousin called it "Berzerkley"
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at May 11, 2021 06:30 AM (flINI)
True, what I was getting at is that things are farted out, like the model that claimed 2.5 million Americans would die and uncritically accepted, which resulted in very damaging real world effects.
Which to borrow a phrase, we're still soaking in.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 11, 2021 06:30 AM (E0ukh)
Posted by: m at May 11, 2021 06:30 AM (TZgEk)
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 11, 2021 06:29 AM (yrol0)
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Because the forces of evil want chaos to constantly assault bulwarks of civilization so they can increase their own power.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 11, 2021 06:31 AM (Jsjd7)
"What we realized as we shared our personal truths during the unity drum circle, was that it isn't just Dewey that was inbued with historical white hatred, it's the books themselves.
After centering on the ancestral wisdom of BIPOC and AAPI, it was agreed that we would burn down the library, and replace it with a BIPOC/AAPI Peer to Peer Ancestral Truth Transfer program (BIPOCAAPIATTP)! Stop by the new BIPOCAAPIATTP center, and we will set you up with a peers through which you can learn all you need to know!!"
-- Jazmina Sunflower Juarez-Abud
Posted by: Lizzy at May 11, 2021 06:31 AM (bDqIh)
Posted by: Nevergiveup
Careful-that's a Badge of Honor, and a hiring/firing criterion in the First Miklos Administration
Posted by: Miklos2034! at May 11, 2021 06:31 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 11, 2021 06:31 AM (Jsjd7)
you mean Progressives??
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 11, 2021 06:32 AM (yrol0)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 11, 2021 06:32 AM (dDc9Z)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 11, 2021 06:32 AM (Jsjd7)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at May 11, 2021 06:32 AM (AL0d+)
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 11, 2021 06:32 AM (yrol0)
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In this era, yes. It has taken other forms throughout history.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 11, 2021 06:32 AM (Jsjd7)
-- Jazmina Sunflower Juarez-Abud
Posted by: Lizzy at May 11, 2021 06:31 AM (bDqIh)
and period huts
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 11, 2021 06:32 AM (yrol0)
Posted by: Miklos-Malcolm Muggeridge at May 11, 2021 06:33 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 11, 2021 06:35 AM (EjmvJ)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, not a DHS informant at May 11, 2021 06:35 AM (uBAt0)
Posted by: Miklos, funneling more than channeling at May 11, 2021 06:36 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 11, 2021 06:38 AM (EZebt)
I am done trying to make shit up
Posted by: Miklos-Malcolm Muggeridge at May 11, 2021 06:33 AM (QzkSJ)
heh
Posted by: m at May 11, 2021 06:40 AM (TZgEk)
Don't feed the BEAST that eats you.
Posted by: kurtz at May 11, 2021 06:40 AM (JFw52)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 11, 2021 06:42 AM (ErSvT)
Posted by: m at May 11, 2021 06:42 AM (TZgEk)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 11, 2021 06:46 AM (ErSvT)
You're fired. American Sundown indeed.
Posted by: Iggycaster at May 11, 2021 07:06 AM (b5atx)
I am not making this up.
Just the other day, I had to make the same disclaimer.
It's the infamous Dave Barry quote. Now, I haven't read DB's Year In Review for 3-4 years, due to his TDS affliction, but still
It is worth remarking on. We have entered the Twilight Zone -- Don't attempt to adjust the horizontal and vertical, though this admonishment will resemble gibberish to the last 3-4 decades of cohorts.
Posted by: GnuBreed at May 11, 2021 07:06 AM (F0YaR)
Which isekai world would you want to live in?
1. Konosuba, Overlord, Wise Man's Grandchild, Log Horizon, Isekai Cheat Magician, Tanya the Evil. Or something else?
Posted by: Anna Puma
Of those, probably Log Horizon.
But I'd prefer Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear or 300 Years a Slime.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 11, 2021 07:42 AM (MqQvv)
You're fired. American Sundown indeed.
Posted by: Iggycaster at May 11, 2021 07:06 AM (b5atx)
AoSHq contains multitudes.
Posted by: m at May 11, 2021 07:59 AM (TZgEk)
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