buzzsawmonkey 5/23/2022 6:15:35 AM

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So...how DO I post a picture?  I have a jpg of the action figures I mentioned yesterday in an email, but when I tried  pasting it in the "picture" window above, nothing happened.  Let's see if pasting it directly will work:

buzzsawmonkey 5/23/2022 6:16:34 AM

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vxbush 5/23/2022 6:38:03 AM

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In #2 buzzsawmonkey said: Guess not.  Anyone want to volunteer either info on how to post this, or volunteer to post it if I send it to them?

You can send it to me. Are you not seeing the toolbar when editing? If so, you can link a photo or upload one. Look for the image icon shown on the right here. 

lucius septimius 5/23/2022 6:39:21 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 2:

On the top bar of the text box, there is a little picture icon (fourth from right). Click on that and past the jpeg link in there.  That should work.

vxbush 5/23/2022 6:40:13 AM

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In #4 lucius septimius said: there is a little picture icon (fourth from right).

Actually, depending on the width of the browser window, it may not be there. 

Occasional Reader 5/23/2022 6:40:19 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 2:

In the dialogue box for posting, there is one titled "picture" (icon looks like a little mountain with a sun or moon over it).  Click on that, it will offer you "choose files"; click on that, and you can browse through your device's files to select the image. 

buzzsawmonkey 5/23/2022 6:41:09 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 3:

I tried pasting the image into the pic-icon strip, and nothing happened.  Then tried pasting it in the dialog box directly, but all that came up was that jpg line. 

If you give me an email address in the Frontier I'll forward it.

Occasional Reader 5/23/2022 6:42:32 AM

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Will Joltin' Joe Biden actually blunder us into World War Three?

Biden apparently vows to defend Taiwan from PRC, in reversal of longstanding US "strategic ambiguity"; State Dept. quickly "walks back" the remark.  

vxbush 5/23/2022 6:44:33 AM

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In #8 Occasional Reader said: Biden apparently vows to defend Taiwan from PRC, in reversal of longstanding US "strategic ambiguity"; State Dept. quickly "walks back" the remark.  

There was a stunning example on Friday of how Biden said one thing related to oil leases in Alaska. Biden said they were going to re-open the leases, but the secretary of the interior had no clue about that; her office had said leases would not be possible until six months from now, which sounds like a huge dodge. 

Nobody knows what is going on, which means no one is in charge. 

Kosh's Shadow 5/23/2022 6:45:15 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 7:

You can't paste the picture itself, but in the dialog for a picture, you can click on Choose Files and then browse to the file on your computer. This is more difficult on a phone.

Kosh's Shadow 5/23/2022 6:47:13 AM

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In #9 vxbush said: Nobody knows what is going on, which means no one is in charge. 

Biden only thinks he is in charge; he doesn't realize he's just a figurehead. 

We don't know who is really running the country.

vxbush 5/23/2022 6:47:35 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 7:

Go take a gander.

buzzsawmonkey 5/23/2022 7:04:31 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 12:

Query to you in the Frontier.

buzzsawmonkey 5/23/2022 7:26:54 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 12:

Sent.  Let me know if received.

Occasional Reader 5/23/2022 7:39:44 AM

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In #9 vxbush said: Nobody knows what is going on, which means no one is in charge. 

TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE!

vxbush 5/23/2022 8:03:00 AM

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In #13 buzzsawmonkey said: Query to you in the Frontier.

Replied. Sorry, I'm in coding mode today, so I'm not checking things outside of the code that often. 

JCM 5/23/2022 8:14:27 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 9:

Sec. Int. is an English major, lawyer, environmental activist and politician. She won't open drilling, and Joe will forget by lunch what he said.

vxbush 5/23/2022 8:22:27 AM

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Buzz's amazing, inspired, outrageously fabulous action figures: 

Kosh's Shadow 5/23/2022 8:29:32 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 18:

The Biden one is as effective a president as the real thing!

Occasional Reader 5/23/2022 8:44:01 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 18:

"Not a cult... not a cult.... not a cult..."

JCM 5/23/2022 8:45:28 AM

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If you own a Tesla buy a window punch...

B.C. Tesla driver kicks out window to escape car fire

Jamil Jutha said he was driving towards Mountain Highway in North Vancouver at 10 a.m. Friday when the 2021 Model Y that he purchased just eight months ago suddenly shut down and lost power to all the electronic components.

"The doors wouldn't open. The windows wouldn't go down,” Jutha said.

With toxic smoke beginning to fill the cabin through the air vents, Jutha began to panic and quickly made the decision to break his way out of the car.

"Of course, there's always going to be panic in a moment when you feel trapped,” he said. "I kicked through the window, climbed out and called 911 right away."

Once safely outside, he asked some construction workers from a nearby job site to help him direct traffic around the burning car because he feared the battery might explode.

The fire eventually made its way into the interior of the car with visible flames shooting up in the air as the fire department arrived to put it out.

Actually if you have power windows, have a window punch in an easily accessible place.

Occasional Reader 5/23/2022 8:47:52 AM

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In #21 JCM said: Actually if you have power windows, have a window punch in an easily accessible place.

I have one as my car key fob (seatbelt cutter, as well), and another reachable to back seat passengers in a pocket on the back of one of the front seats. 

buzzsawmonkey 5/23/2022 8:51:47 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 18:

++++++++ Thanks for putting it up.

The removable mask! on the Fauci figure is an interesting touch.  

Note, by the way, that the Biden figure (and for the RBG figure) is for "ages 3+," but the Fauci and AOC figures say "for 14+."  I find that bewildering; the figures seem a little "old" for a 3-year-old, and a bit too "young" for someone in their early teens.

Weird selection of figures, though, isn't it?  RBG---and the figure is now more movable than she is---Kamala Harris, AOC, Obama, Biden and Fauci?  

Occasional Reader 5/23/2022 8:52:38 AM

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So I just took a required (by my employer) online course in "mitigating unconscious bias in hiring decisions".  

What a load of Orwellian claptrap.

Basically, per the course, we're simply supposed to favor certain kinds of biases over others.  I think you can guess what are "good" biases.  

Absurdly, the course suggests that if you're a manager who has an idea of what sort of candidate you want for a certain position in the area you manage... you should recuse yourself from the hiring process.  Huh?!

The course also provided as a case-study example of "bad" bias, one in which a project manager is favoring a candidate who has highly relevant work experience, and so won't require a long learning curve, in the context of hiring for a time-sensitive, high-workload project.  Instead, the manager was (apparently) supposed to favor the candidate who... spoke more sweetly in the interview.  Utterly absurd.

/rant off 

Occasional Reader 5/23/2022 8:58:00 AM

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In #23 buzzsawmonkey said:   RBG---and the figure is now more movable than she is

And it's not really a "real-life action figure" in her case, is it.  

buzzsawmonkey 5/23/2022 8:58:32 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 24:

This sounds remarkably like the Re-Education Camp experience which caused me to leave the magic world of collegiate tutelage last year.

Occasional Reader 5/23/2022 8:59:01 AM

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In #23 buzzsawmonkey said: Weird selection of figures, though, isn't it? 

It's pointless trying to figure out the "rules" for any sort of kink/fetish community; this is no exception.

vxbush 5/23/2022 8:59:37 AM

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In #24 Occasional Reader said: /rant off 

Don't turn the rant off. The ranting is good.

vxbush 5/23/2022 9:09:15 AM

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In #20 Occasional Reader said: "Not a cult... not a cult.... not a cult..."

Does it meet the feature list of a cult? 

• The group is preoccupied with bringing in new members. --sort of.
• The group is preoccupied with making money. --Definitely. 
• Questioning, doubt, and dissent are discouraged or even punished. --absolutely. 
• Mind-numbing techniques (such as meditation, chanting, speaking in tongues, denunciation sessions, debilitating work routines) are used to suppress doubts about the group and its leader(s). --yes, and in spades.
• The leadership dictates sometimes in great detail how members should think, act, and feel (for example: members must get permission from leaders to date, change jobs, get married; leaders may prescribe what types of clothes to wear, where to live, how to discipline children, and so forth). --double-masked, triple-masked! 
• The group is elitist, claiming a special, exalted status for itself, its leader(s), and members (for example: the leader is considered the Messiah or an avatar; the group and/or the leader has a special mission to save humanity). --Do I need to even explain this? 
• The group has a polarized us- versus-them mentality, which causes conflict with the wider society. --ditto.
• The group's leader is not accountable to any authorities (as are, for example, military commanders and ministers, priests, monks, and rabbis of mainstream denominations). --This has been true for every Democrat president known in modern history. Any attempt to make him accountable has been shouted down by the cult.
• The group teaches or implies that its supposedly exalted ends justify means that members would have considered unethical before joining the group (for example: collecting money for bogus charities). --expanding the Supreme Court, setting up bogus investigations into Trump, etc. 
• The leadership induces guilt feelings in members in order to control them. --"Come on, man!"
• Members' subservience to the group causes them to cut ties with family and friends, and to give up personal goals and activities that were of interest before joining the group. --again, no need to prove this. We've seen this again and again. 
• Members are expected to devote inordinate amounts of time to the group. --or people will be hired to perform as members of the group, such as to protest. 
• Members are encouraged or required to live and/or socialize only with other group members. --again, no need to prove this. 

It's clinically true. 

Occasional Reader 5/23/2022 9:09:51 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 26:

And in that cited example; is that even "unconscious" bias?  Isn't favoring a candidate who can start work on day one not a perfectly conscious - and perfectly rational - "bias"? 

Me, I've developed a strongly conscious bias against HR departments. 

vxbush 5/23/2022 9:11:04 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 29:

Ah, I messed up the first one, but considering how no disparagement of Biden is allowed, proven. 

buzzsawmonkey 5/23/2022 9:18:52 AM

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In #30 Occasional Reader said: Me, I've developed a strongly conscious bias against HR departments. 

HR departments, like the "minority set-aside" pot distributorships, are merely a form of affirmative action.  Likewise the plethora of out-patient "services" designed to "aid the homeless."  

All these things are designed merely to give money and something resembling employment either to some form of "minority" or to the holders of otherwise-useless social-justice college degrees.

vxbush 5/23/2022 9:21:12 AM

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In #30 Occasional Reader said: Isn't favoring a candidate who can start work on day one not a perfectly conscious - and perfectly rational - "bias"? 

Perhaps the better term is "discernment", which we aren't supposed to have. 

buzzsawmonkey 5/23/2022 9:22:46 AM

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vxbush 5/23/2022 9:36:41 AM

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In #34 buzzsawmonkey said: Just by the way, women's clothing made from fabric cut "on the bias" is more form-fitting, sexy, and more expensive and difficult to make.

Considering I can barely stitch a straight line with a sewing machine, I'm pretty sure that is way beyond my ability. 

JCM 5/23/2022 9:57:01 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 24:

I have a bias when interviewing.

Does the candidate know their shit?

buzzsawmonkey 5/23/2022 10:20:03 AM

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In #35 vxbush said: Considering I can barely stitch a straight line with a sewing machine, I'm pretty sure that is way beyond my ability. 

Cutting cloth on the bias is tricky indeed---but, because the weave of the cloth is on the diagonal, it causes the cloth to wrap much more closely around the body.  Most of the slinky gowns actresses wore in 1930s films were bias-cut, which is why they are so conforming to body line and movement.

JCM 5/23/2022 11:03:40 AM

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Voter ID laws suppress the vote.... like those in Georgia.

Georgia sees record early voting turnout during primary elections

vxbush 5/23/2022 12:01:54 PM

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In #38 JCM said: Voter ID laws suppress the vote.... like those in Georgia.

Ssssssh! We don't let facts get in the way of a preferred storyline!

doppelganglander 5/23/2022 2:48:56 PM

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Reply to JCM in 38:

I just discovered I've been moved into the 5th congressional district. I had been in the 6th since I moved here, as well as at my previous residence. 67% Biden voters - kill me now. I am seriously considering moving.

JCM 5/23/2022 2:55:41 PM

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Fauci is an expert with this....

Monkeypox outbreak is primarily spreading through sex, WHO officials say

And not just any sex....

Down in paragraph 6....

While the virus itself is not a sexually transmitted infection, which are generally spread through semen and vaginal fluids, the most recent surge in cases appears to have been spread among men who have sex with other men, WHO officials said, emphasizing that anyone can contract monkeypox.

Fauci got his creds screwing up the AIDS "epidemic".

lucius septimius 5/23/2022 2:59:28 PM

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Reply to doppelganglander in 40:

Lucky you. I'm in the 4th now, Hank "Guam will capsize!" Johnson's district.

doppelganglander 5/23/2022 3:04:43 PM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 42:

The 4th? How the hell did they figure that out? What district will you be in if/when you move?

JCM 5/23/2022 3:11:51 PM

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Reply to doppelganglander in 40:

I'm in Parmilla Paypal's district.

Trade ya!

doppelganglander 5/23/2022 3:15:30 PM

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Reply to JCM in 44:

OMG it's morons all the way down. At least my new moron is low profile. This used to be Cynthia McKinney's district. The current incumbent is a former Planned Parenthood executive.I am not kidding - if I lived a quarter of a mile further north, I'd still be in the 6th.

lucius septimius 5/23/2022 3:18:27 PM

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Reply to doppelganglander in 43:

Depends on where I land.

They basically put all of Dekalb county in the 4th. 

doppelganglander 5/23/2022 3:33:41 PM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 46:

An excellent reason to get out of DeKalb, if you didn't already have enough. 

Kosh's Shadow 5/23/2022 3:35:46 PM

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buzzsawmonkey 5/23/2022 4:37:10 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 48:

Fascinating to hear all the voices from Rocky & Bullwinkle coming out of other characters.