lucius septimius 2/6/2021 5:13:57 AM

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Fish 2/6/2021 5:17:49 AM

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PaladinPhil 2/6/2021 5:20:52 AM

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lucius septimius 2/6/2021 6:04:25 AM

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Reply to Fish in 2:

Reply to PaladinPhil in 3:

Howdy, ya'll!

lucius septimius 2/6/2021 6:06:37 AM

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Excellent dissection of the vicious hit piece the Times published on Jordan Peterson.  The end neatly encapsulates the psychopathy of the left:

Is Aitkenhead so defined by the most fatuous and ethically perverse kind of leftist ideology that she’s capable of finding an appealing rebelliousness in a savage monster like Tony but can only be outraged by an extraordinarily sensitive and gentle soul who speaks eloquently about personal responsibility and who openly strives to practice it, even when times are toughest? Does Peterson’s day-to-day struggle to be a better husband, father, friend, teacher, neighbor, and fellow citizen strike too close to home for this woman who wrote a book about her struggle to find the best tab of Ecstasy? Does she experience his very life, which has been focused for decades on helping other people to be better human beings, as a personal rebuke to her own life, which for a long time, anyway, was by her own account focused on the most puerile kind of self-indulgence? Has his determination to dig deeper and deeper into himself, in a preternatural attempt to comprehend, to correct, and to cultivate, shamed her own chronic superficiality?

How else to explain someone who, having lived for ten years with an odious thug like Tony, manages to see Jordan Peterson, of all people, as an embodiment of toxic masculinity?

Or is Aitkenhead, when you come right down to it, just one more supremely callous – indeed, sociopathic – left-wing hack who will destroy anyone to get a juicy story? Maybe it’s really just that. Let’s face it: when you look at what the New York Times and The Washington Post have been doing every day for the last few years, why should any of us be surprised that the Times of London is capable of running a surpassingly disingenuous profile of someone whose greatest offense is being a good man?

PaladinPhil 2/6/2021 6:18:50 AM

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Occasional Reader 2/6/2021 6:38:07 AM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 5:

Since I’m too lazy to click the link at the moment, who is “Tony“? But yes, that Author has very concisely summarized the rot at the soul of the leftist cultural “elite“.

lucius septimius 2/6/2021 7:01:01 AM

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In #7 Occasional Reader said: who is “Tony“?

Tony was a coke dealer and gangster that the author of the original Times piece left her husband for.  A thoroughly despicable human being.  Aitkenhead also wrote a book chronicling her world-wide search for the perfect tab of ecstacy.  

doppelganglander 2/6/2021 7:01:57 AM

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Reply to Fish in 2:
Good to see you! Hope all is well with you.

Occasional Reader 2/6/2021 7:26:00 AM

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Reply to Fish in 2:

Howdy, Fish!

Occasional Reader 2/6/2021 7:27:27 AM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 8:

But of course.

seriously, what the hell is wrong with these people? I am far from perfect, but at least I don’t exalt that kind of monstrous dysfunction as being some sort of life goal.

Kosh's Shadow 2/6/2021 7:38:20 AM

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If you are using Chrome, no picture. On Firefox, there is a nice breakfast spread.

Chrome won't show http (not secure) content on a page that uses https (secure) for security reasons, as this is often used to do cross-site scripting, where code from one site gets connected to another (say a hacker and a banking page)

For this site, no problem, but it is a browser setting (person viewing), not a server setting.

I use Chrome for this site, so if I try to post an image that doesn't have an https version, it won't show up and I'll use a different image.

Kosh's Shadow 2/6/2021 8:15:00 AM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 5:

That's the left. They can't argue on facts, or discuss opinions. Anyone not on their side is evil.

JCM 2/6/2021 9:00:54 AM

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Officials pushing for 'no bail, no jail' for non-violent offenders in King County

It is effectively the policy already.

Kosh's Shadow 2/6/2021 9:38:43 AM

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Reply to JCM in 14:

They're going to have to tax drug dealers and burglars once their tax base moves out.

Occasional Reader 2/6/2021 9:49:40 AM

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Reply to JCM in 14:

They’ll have to pinky-swear not to reoffend.

PaladinPhil 2/6/2021 11:47:38 AM

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@PBJ3 2/6/2021 12:43:48 PM

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Reply to PaladinPhil in 17:

I am so sorry, I'll keep you both in my thoughts and prayers.  Maybe you could get her an inexpensive cell phone so you could at least communicate that way.  I haven't been able to visit my husband since March of last year.  He is in assisted living and they don't want visitors unless it's an end of life type visit and it's not covid.  I drop treats and supplies off for him and we talk on the phone every day or more.  It hasn't been easy for either of us.  He's had one shot and I've also had my first shot.  I so hope the vaccine works.

Kosh's Shadow 2/6/2021 1:58:28 PM

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Reply to @PBJ3 in 18:

I think the leaders of the Chinese Communist Party have a lot to answer for. Their ancestors must be very upset at them.

Unfortunately, we aren't going to see the pushback on China they deserve. The Big Guy can't be expected to break Hunter's rice bowl.

So far, the Israeli experience with the vaccine is that it is quite effective; I've seen results of 0.04% to 0.6% get COVID. Compare that to the flu vaccine where if 30% get the flu, they're doing well.

@PBJ3 2/6/2021 3:13:29 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 19:

Thanks for the vaccine information.

In other news, I hear Hunter Biden is coming out with a book in early April.  Folks are buying it in advance.

Kosh's Shadow 2/6/2021 3:16:50 PM

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In #20 @PBJ3 said: In other news, I hear Hunter Biden is coming out with a book in early April.  Folks are buying it in advance.

So when will buying it and carrying it around like Mao's little red book become mandatory?

(BTW, I do have a copy of Mao's book, but for educational purposes, not because I think he was right. And I got it back when I was a lot younger. Used to be a commie bookstore near Hahvahd Squah. Now they all are commie bookstores.

Kosh's Shadow 2/6/2021 3:36:25 PM

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I finally got a complicated Rust (the language Firefox is written in) example working - the online book gives an example of a struct that caches a value, and has you extend it.

Extending it to handle different values was easy. But when I got to extending it to take generics - that is, the value could be of different types - it got very difficult, with error messages that suggested a fix that gave you a different error message suggesting removing that change.

But it works now! So my computer language skills aren't rusty.

@PBJ3 2/6/2021 3:48:44 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 21:

I agreet about the bookstores.

In other news, I just saw a tweet that said at gateway pundit was kicked off of Twitter.  I clicked on it and it looks like they have.

Kosh's Shadow 2/6/2021 3:49:49 PM

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Reply to @PBJ3 in 23:

Big tech delinda est

Kosh's Shadow 2/6/2021 3:53:54 PM

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I've been having bad dreams about the woke inquisition and the idiots running things.

Bad when one dream had me back in time with people Hitler was trying to kill (and then we were saved by people from the future)

Then last night two dreams that you'd physically disappear for questioning what was going on, or being smart enough to realize it.

And the people running it? The people who would disappear anyone who figured out what was going on or smart enough to do so? You could tell them by their Hitler mustaches.

No wonder I wake up tired

@PBJ3 2/6/2021 4:09:04 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 25:

"No wonder I wake up tired"  No kidding.  I've had some silly dreams but nothing scary like you've had.