Diary (January 7, 2021)
Online diary of Karl Jones for Thursday January 7, 2021.
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CNN: [ Congress affirms Biden win after insurrection].
Parthenogenesis is to Lysistrata as x is to sociobiology. Solve for x.
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Snitches
James, I admire your staunch resolve, and cannot defy you on the matter of snitches.
But I will press for definitions.
If I surf the web, and identify one or more of these as-yet anonymous perpetrators from public sources, and publicize my findings: am I snitch? (I think not, I think it's the work of a good citizen.)
If I out a perp and also take the money, does it then make me a snitch (or a worse snitch, if I'm already a snitch without the money)? (Here, maybe. But I would probably take the money.)
To my thinking a snitch is someone who has betrayed a trust— say, one of these perps who rats out the other perps. Especially for thirty pieces of silver. Money always compounds betrayal with interest.
- Comment @ Facebook
Darth Vader, Apex Predator
American Violence
"Trump's rioters openly planned attack on Capitol for weeks, but FBI and other federal agencies did little" @ Boing Boing
Buzzfeed News has a good article about federal law enforcement's astonishing lack of preparation for the violent Capitol insurrection yesterday that resulted in an evacuation of the building and a halt to the election certification. The rioters have been planning the attack for weeks on public websites:
On forums like TheDonald, a niche website formed after Reddit banned the subreddit of the same name, they promised violence against lawmakers, police, and journalists if Congress did not reject the results of the 2020 election.
In one interaction four days ago, a person on TheDonald asked, "What if Congress ignores the evidence?""Storm the Capitol," one replied, which received more than 500 upvotes."You're fucking right we do," another said.
Why was D.C. teeming with National Guard troops in advance of relatively peaceful Black Lives Matter protests, but nowhere to been seen when white nationalist violence broke out yesterday?
"Extremists have for weeks repeatedly expressed their intentions to attend the January 6 protests, and unabashedly voiced their desire for chaos and violence online," said Jared Holt, a visiting research fellow with DFRLab. "What we've witnessed is the manifestation of that violent online rhetoric into real-life danger."
"The earliest call we got on our radar for today specifically was a militia movement chatroom talking about being 'ready for blood' if things didn't start changing for Trump," Holt said.
Law enforcement, however, appeared unprepared for the scale of the violence on Wednesday. Capitol police were quickly overwhelmed, dramatically outnumbered by Trump supporters.
While thousands of National Guard troops were posted throughout Washington, DC, during Black Lives Matter protests, the DC National Guard was not deployed Wednesday until well after the Capitol's perimeters had been breached.
Boing Boing:
BuzzFeed:
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/janelytvynenko/trump-rioters-planned-online
- AmericanViolence
Boxing Pajamas
No Farm simile
Lecherostomy
Like a fish
—Egon Rhodomunde (attributed, TO_DO ; investigate)
Paleomax
Paleomax transdimensional news service
Luminous Urine Wayfinder
Rugged Mutton
Apex parasite
Crabs on the Kraken
Oh,
The crabs on the Kraken and the iron harpoon
Captain Ahab to the Devil will schoon ... [TO_DO - translation?]
"Crabs on the Kraken, shrimp on the barbie — whatever it takes." —Fell Swoop
Cheese Too Flat for Me Polka
Oh,
Idempotent ewe cadaver
Cheese too flat for me
Cheese too flat for me
Cheese too flat for me
Oh, idempotent ewe cadaver
Cheese too flat for me
Cheese — too flat — for —me.
Delusional elite
Trump is hugely delusional, from his rich narcissist boyhood through, his narcissist career (during which he posed as wealthy while accruing global debts, presumably organized crime money both foreign and domestic), until he his the Presidency.
Then the Presidency — notoriously a job which wears down the strongest of men — broke his physical and mental health.
It matter what Trump is because he is President.
What Rudy is, is chump change lost and promptly forgotten.
Hashtag: #DonaldTrumpIsASickOldMan
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Aberrant this and that
- Treatment of escape-maintained aberrant behavior with escape extinction and predictable routines - Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis
Parthenogenesis is to Lysistrata
Parthenogenesis is to Lysistrata
as
x is to sociobiology.
Solve for x.
Source: Journal of Aberrant Sociobiology
Parthenogenesis is to Lysistrata