(1709) Evening all.
20. Machine Learning depends on inputs
19. First State
18. Happy 95th, Thomas Sowell
17. Amazing what diet and exercise can do
16. Kill off trees, leave the mess there
15. Another medical doctor reports
14. A medical doctor reports
13. Steve at 1092
Hearts of Oak: The Week According To . . . Anni Cyrus
Embarrassment of riches again, though more suited to the winter and/or a dark night. Three films to run … which? One of them, Murder My Sweet, 1944, had Dick Powell as Phillip Marlowe … I had a look through … it was ok but the plot had been altered in key ways.
Had a look at the 1975 version, with Robert Mitchum and in a reversal of the usual pattern, this one seemed better. You can argue but I felt The Manchurian Candidate of 2004 was better than the 1962 with Sinatra. Rarely is the remake like that imho.
(1353) Unherdable cats … too fragmented for mine. (1353)
(1222) This is from Toodles, concerning AOC (1230)
Can’t expect Toods to know the iffy players, e.g. Glenn Beck, Hannity, Alex Jones, David Martin and over here … Dan Wooton, Alex Phillips and so on … this one narrating is Benny Johnson, prone to Michael Heaver style sensationalist journalism imho.
Is he wrong? On this … I’d say no, he’s correct, having seen this from various sources. Well what’s my issue then? Issue is the overly persuasive manner, the professional journo thing, rather than “just the facts, ma’am”. Never mind.
(0955)(1052)
10. Moosh corner
… she’s in Amsterdam today, assures us not in the red light district 🙂
9. The sacred feminin?
8. IYE under “Sun till close of play”
… had an item on sophiology. For a Christian, it’s anathema, it’s the other side’s, the illumined’s “sacred feminin”, in the tradition of Lilit, different other beast to, say, Mary Magdalene.
7. Redacted
There are, in the sidebar, and esp. under last night’s last post, so many topics, so many memes as well I’ll keep dipping into. This was one:
6. More housekeeping
Systems issue … unlike our “beloved guests” pouring into the country, Redacted’s flooding of the comments thread poses a conundrum, in that they’re quality rantings, with useful links … I see this deep digging usefulness more in line with IYE’s style.
Issue is that, with “comments” not being set up in forum format, but as a nested-comments thread under each post … there’s no issue with that whatever in itself … just comment away.
The issue is in the sidebar widget, which displayed 12 comments till a few minutes ago, when I increased it to 15. I looked at changing site themes, e.g. to that of UHC-WP, which puts the comment count near the top of the post but some advantages of this current theme stayed my hand.
Hmmmmm. The dilemma is how to still get the Redacted input whilst not flooding the sidebar widget, driving everyone else’s comments into the ether?
There’s a way around it … by scrolling to the foot of the post and if you see a comments count there … click … plus that works for a fortnight, thank goodness, which means as long as anyone’s likely to be interested. Also, it’s a nicer, more contextual way to read and to add comments … it’s probably the least bad option just now.
The flooded sidebar is still useful … it just tells me to go to the other method of scrolling down the front page => older posts => scroll down again => rinse and repeat. None of it’s a core problem, plus we pick up great pointers along the way.
(0623) Morning all … a late (for me) start but that helps with the day’s doings, as it repairs and restores. There’ll be a “Housekeeping” post in Mon 2, between DAD and Steve. (0757)
5. Advance UK
4. Big beautiful bill*
It’s obviously of concern to many. I draw that conclusion through this number bothering to note my own comment (uncommon occurrence in more than two people on X) …
… which translates into huge numbers retweeting big accounts … Thune is obviously not the most popular man in the US just now.
3. Steve at 1091
2. Housekeeping
By using comments as jumping off points for further exploration, in a brainstorming rather than confrontational, adversarial, oratorical way, there’s always going to be a downside … by the very nature of our commenters being forthright, there are potential clashes as tavern patrons are dropping in from all different places and angles.
Our whole approach here is “just the facts, ma’am” … civilly.
It’s one reason I can’t go “over-denominational” in Christianity … but at the same time … can’t be “milquetoast” about the core principles … it’s just the trappings, pageantry, chanting and praying to any but the Triune God which I don’t run with … this is an internal matter within the faith.
Outside that, from the Great Science Godists, e.g. the Royal Society, Smithsonian, IPCC, to the straight out atheists … well, that’s your bed you choose to lie in.
MMutR points out a constant observation … the moment you go beyond core statements, e.g. freedom of thought, word and deed … the problems begin, as even if we’re agreed in general, in principle, the very next policy someone thinks that includes is very much NOT included by so many others.
Therefore any progress is stifled or stymied … unherdable cats simply cannot combine for long enough. So it’s far more a case of Alliances within this “parliament” rather than Party positions which need to prevail. It was always tricky in WW2 with the various national armies combining for the combined goal.
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In practical terms, on this blog, as long as there are provided sufficient outlets … HQ, NOWP, UHC, Jstack … then you can put your ideas fairly freely and civilly but with two caviats:
a. No Wokery whatever;
b. We’re going to be using the scrolling and click in and out a heck of a lot.
Redacted and Steve tend to expand and cover ground … that’s their way, I’m loathe to influence it. Equally, I’ll repost some, signpost others, comment on some, not on others, according to the material, nothing to do with any ranking order … keep it as freeflowing as poss, though always watching out for trollery, e.g. pushing MMCChange as a “thang” … go somewhere else for that guff.
There’s a principle here too … what you don’t like to see here, someone else does like … you have a clicking finger and scroll wheel, no? And finally … if I see the M or I word “in plain”, I’m going to redact, euphemise, codify … for security reasons. Regular tavern visitors know that full well.
1. DAD at 1091
All very quiet here in France, perhaps it was the hot week-end, so I have dug out some news from earlier in the month.
a) A culture-enriching “French” youngster has been arrested for plotting an attack on synagogues, sex shops, and other dens of infidel infamy….
b) French mayors have been stepping down at an unprecedented rate, with almost 2,200 resignations since 2020….
c) Ms. Bergeaud-Blackler interviews Dr. Herrera at length about jihad, Europe, and the submission of the West to….
d) The constitutional court of Berlin has approved a planned citizens’ petition to limit drastically the use of private cars in the German capital….
(1702) Evening all … another day done.
20. Women’s and girls’ safety, plus boys’
@WomenSafety_UK … @officialsammyuk … @SamanthaTaghoy … @RupertLowe10
What these and many others now are doing is great … ending rape gangs, women unsafe, justice … good but you also need to educate girls not to go near known bad demographics for girls. 👇🏻Plus for boys … I was abused multiple times as a boy.
19. Kate
18. Twats
17. Dearieme
It’s all very well saying “That judge must be moron” but the US has indeed made a moron into a SCOTUS Justice. When allied with the semi-moron and the Dem hack woman, they provide a steady three votes for any decision likely to harm the USA.
The “Dem hack woman” is the subject of this:
16. Steve at 1091
Hearts of Oak: Dr Andrew Wakefield – RFK Jr.’s Health Revolution, Autism Review and Transforming Vaccine Narratives
Plus: on 5. Andy at 1090:
Iraq (Blair), Libya (Cameron), Ukraine (Johnson). We’re up to our necks in it. The new head of our Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) is the granddaughter of Constantine Dobrowolski, a long deceased Ukrainian soldier who served with the SS during WW2. She goes by the name of Blaise Metreweli but that is the surname of her mother’s second husband David, a Georgian. Her father’s surname was Dobrowolski however he later changed it to that of his stepfather. She’s a strange choice indeed. Stranger still is UK foreign policy in Eurasia since the reign of Queen Victoria.
Plus: 9. Legalese:
A type of language lawyers use and Jackson has her very own version..
From the clarinetist in the first … to the mayhem in the second in which Shaye goes all clucky … to the unbridled energy in the last … this is early Tuba Skinny in a spirit of long-before-Covid fun … cunning plan is these now, two more next week, with a third from another band yet to be decided.