Will someone who ISN'T insane please explain what the FUCK is was thinking?
Technical trainer and occasional historian. Erstwhile medievalist. Now practicing the Wudang 108 form of Taijiquan and delivering sizzling takes. Walking the elements and holding the gates in North Carolina.
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Will someone who ISN'T insane please explain what the FUCK is was thinking?
"Maximum turdigity--not involuntary virginity!"
THANK YOU! Some AI pimp on LinkedIn (I know, I know) made an argument about "resistance never improving education," to which I countered with desegregation. When he said he was talking about technology, I told him I was, too, that desegregation WAS an educational technology (among other things).
Is it ok or accurate to describe segregation and desegregatuon as technologies? Of oppression and liberation, certainly, but also, inter alia, as EDUCATIONAL technology technologies?
I mean. When I drank, a little Jack or Bacardi in a Coke Slushee...
Passion of the Christ 2: The Quickeningl Passion of the Christ 2: Judgment Day
Either they don't believe Trump will he on the list or they'll make sure Trump isn't on thenlist. Fearing suit, what would the survivors do if he was omitted in the airing?
Passion of the Christ 2: Secret of the Ooze Passion of the Christ 2: Electric Boogaloo Passion of the Christ 2: The Search for More Money
So Sonic Hedgehog came from fruit flies?
Meh. I was 47 when my kid started kindergarten.
Baseball is the perfect game to watch live, because it allows you to be social. Television is the worst thing that ever happened to the game.
Jodie Foster, best known as Alethea from Kung-fu
Samuel L. Jackson, best known as Leroy Clancy from Spenser: For Hire
Well, good. We don't need another fucking Texas or Florida.
Alberta probably WANTS to join the US.
How long do you think Tedly had to practice that line?
...the Pope's words into the mouth of a character named Simplicio, which means, charitable, "Simpleton," but likely carries the valence of "Dumbass." He was an asshole to everyone, but being an asshole to the Pope in 17th-century Italy carries its own special risks. 3/3
While heliocentrism (not as Copernicus presented it, but as Kepler did) represents the reality we understand it, Galileo had no evidence to claim it as fact, which he seems to have done. The asshole part is writing the "Dialogue Concerning the Two World Systems" and putting... 2/3
Yeah. Some people like to think of the Church (which was heavily involved in the universities) as heavy-handed. It occasionally WAS, but on a local basis. For the most part, though, you were free to speculate as long as you didn't claim your speculations were true without evidence. 1/
Just an absolute dick.
Galileo didn't go on trial for teaching heliocentrism. He went on trial for teaching heliocentrism as FACT (which he could NOT bloody well prove). Also, for being an asshole.
I took a fun graduate class on Arthurian Literature 30 years ago. Most of the class was middle-aged women who were NOT there for my opinions on Lancelot.
Such a great bit.
Let's be honest...the economic gains to be made through hard work have always been marginal, and even then limited to a few (mostly white and male) people.
Most days I'm Bluegnostic, leaning to Bluetheist.
I'm clapping. But I'm NOT happy about it.
Looks like my prediction that Carolina is going to spend millions on continued mediocrity is coming to pass.
DEflections up in post 2. Not REflections.
Anyway, that's where I'M focusing. On the transitions. Because that's where the story is. 5/5
As my late, revered laoshi LaoMa said, once you learn the sequence of posture, you begin studying taijiquan. I'm increasingly convinced that taijiquan is NOT in the postures, but in the transitions. The postures ISSUE FROM the transitions. They are merely what happens between them. 4/
...between the postures, which you can think of as the moment something "big" happens. We call this in-between movement "transitions," but really it's narrative. Beginning students focus on postures and choreography. But all of that follows the transitions, the narrative. 3/
...push hands, as the martial art is sometimes called. In between the postures are various martial exercises. Think of the form as an extended (in the case of Wudang 108 as I study it (45-60 minutes) combat. Before you can land a blow, there are feints, dodges, reflections, etc. These happen... 2/
Ok. You haven't asked for it, but here comes more taijiquan. Because I'm going to think about it with y'all. This will come as it comes. In the quoted post, I mentioned postures. A posture represents the martial application of a technique (even if, like me, you aren't studying... 1/
Sad. That car was only two days from retirement.
Can Tim Meadows sing? I'm listening to Bill Withers' Carnegie Hall record (got through sidea A and B earlier before life came knocking) and when he speaks, I could see Meadows speaking the part. Why, yes, I did just watch the new Peacemaker episode, why do you ask?
I'm gonna go ahead and call bullshit on this Socrates attribution, too. I mean, I get that we don't have anything direct from Socrates, so I'm gonna extend this to Plato, too.
I get it. But how do you hear from new people if they can't interact with you, right? And if that's what you're here for, fine, but I don't see a need for that on my TL.
If you want Alan Moore in a lighter vein, seek out "Top 10." It's about science-hero (superhero in the world of AM's America's Best Comics) cops in a city where everyone is a science hero. Only 12 issues and a standalone hardcover ("The Forty-Niners"). Ignore follow-ups.
Just jumping in to say, I read Watchmen when it was coming out (almost) monthly for the first time, and have re-read many times. The HBO series was fucking brilliant.
I feel like that if you routinely disable responses and quote posts, you're only here to be heard and I should mute you?
The Onion
I'm more worried about Florida Child.
"We will be making bleach injections free at all state clinics." Ron Desantis, probably.
Need to take a peek at those. I was thinking of specific claims about the relationship between the first and second persons of the trinity, but this could be expansive (and expensive, if I go on a book-buying binge 😆).
I guess by "legit" I mean one with...I dunno...intellectual heft that has drawn adherents?
For sure. Christianity has always been what Christians do.
Has there been a legit new Christology since Spanish Adoptionism (assuming you accept that Felix wasn't preaching Nestorianism in new drag)?
It's fascinating, though.
The real revelation here is that Snoop is a... *squints hard* ...ninja?
Now spinning... (No record cover because original vinyl with a decent cover is pricey af. So I bought really good vinyl with a crappy cover.)
Is "quiet quitting" anything other than "doing the exact job you're being paid for and no more?"
I enjoyed the world enough to power through.
No. They're a parody of the Monkees.
Right. She's a FINE writer. But reading the Poppy War books was enough for me, thanks.
Pretty sure it was his. I can't see him using someone else's quote as the title of a book. Molly WOULD have said something like that, though.
Dude needs to give credit, because it's a hell of a line:
That's a bit extreme, man. I used to draw the line at Captain.
Tom Garner: World History in 9th grade Bruce Field: US History (11) US Government, International Relations, US/Soviet Relations (12)
Yup. Remember that book cover well.
Who cares how rich you are, love When you look like Boris Karloff?
New mission for the Anla'Shok just dropped.
Blargh...JBS Haldane. Niche joke ruined.
Exactly the vibe I had in mind.
Ode to JDS Haldane and Dead Egyptian Blues
Ok, hear me out—a Lord of the Rings remake, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor:
Here's hoping they lose many more!
I love LEGO, but building stuff with faulty color vision (thanks, Mom! Love you!) isn't always fun. Is that dark stone gray? Or green? Or really dark pink? Are you telling me that those purplish-bluish bricks AREN'T the same color as these bluish-purplish ones? GTFOH! WHO MADE ALL THESE COLORS?!?
You intentionally used a flag with 48 stars, right?
Fapping, not flapping?
Seriously. They had at best about a 20% hit rate.
Ditto on Bojack. I'll add... - Tracey Jordan - Cliff Clavin - Half of the cast of "Soap"
I dunno, Matt...
Or was it Ann Coulter? I get them confused. It's the evil.
Chris Rock had Ingraham's number 30 years ago when, on Politically Incorrect (still on Comedy Central...before we fully knew what a tool Bill Maher is) he called her an "mean bitch." Bill, of course, leapt to her defense.
Goddammit. I KNEW i should just buy my shopping cart rather than try to get more pieces I "need" before purchasing. Secondary markets aren't MUCH more expensive, on average, but lists are harder to fill at one stop. I have a sickness, Greg. I know.
I was able to put a lot together on familysearch.org It's related to ancestry.com, though, so there may be some skeeviness with information, but it's essentially a genealogy wiki.
How is this possible when we're still in the long eleventh century?
I really wanted to dunk on him, David. It just seemed too easy and I have too much better shit to do. #Growth
Saw this on LinkedIn. Once more, for everyone in the back, students are NOT the customer. They are the PRODUCT.
I went to see Children of Men in the theater when it came out, and what I remember most was the feeling of finally being able to exhlae when the screen faded to black and the laughter of children started. Then the tears. Absolutely amazing movie.
Tom Clancy's The Stand
We're led by half-smart kids who have been told all their lives that they're geniuses.
HOW DOES THIS SHIT MAKE AMERICA GREAT? I FEEL LIKE I'M TAKING CRAZY PILLS!
Yes. Lather, rinse, and repeat for a whole host of issues that we concede ground for, in the name of compromise, only to be pulled further to the right for later compromises.
"Those kids were no angels. But they are now," can't be far behind.
These are not contradictory. American freedom, as the 2A types (like many of the Framers), understand it is not for everyone. To them the real tyranny is having to treat Black people, Brown people, women, LGBTQIA+ people, etc., as full citizens. Their freedom REQUIRES others' oppression.
How many boxes of wine do you think Jeanine has had today?
How many to get him to leave the planet?
I want to hit people. Repeatedly.
DNA
Appears it followed a sting operation.
It was Earth the whole time.
This is what it sounds like: 🎶🎤
I did a whole-ass series of threads on the Other Place about why that meme is bullshit. Enrages me every damn time.