I had to address my friends: don’t pity me for my bad design. I’ll get better.
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
I had to address my friends: don’t pity me for my bad design. I’ll get better.
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From his opium den PZ issues a laudanum fueled communiqué to his arachnid friends, pleading with them not to euthanize humans because our poorly constructed legs. Ok.
Speaking of venomous critters, I found this interesting:
I knew about ringnecks, but garters too? I had a ribbon, which is a skinny garter, for a pet. Scary!
Actually being envenomated by any of these, if it ever got that far, would probably not be fatal or even noticeable. Does kinda expand the category of venomous snakes into colubrids though.
The startlingly awful design of knees is pretty good evidence there is no creator.
I like the pillowcase.
@numerobis, I can personally attest that human knees do have major design flaws, but they usually work well enough to get us to child-rearing age, which is pretty much all that evolution asks for.
imback @4. “they usually work well enough to get us to child-rearing age, which is pretty much all that evolution asks for”… I know it’s just telly, but Alice Robert in BBC’s The Incredible Human Journey appears (IMO) to make a strong case that before we left Africa, grandparents were already an essential component to assist with child rearing (elder-baby sitting, gathering and other apsects of helping out). Hence human longevity after fertility. And (my extrapolation) knees are therefore actually essential for a decade or so after child rearing age.
Here is a relaxing video that hopefully will help you ignore the pain.
I could not find any Shoggoth video so I picked the second best: Relaxing Cat Kayaking.
.https://youtube.com/watch?v=DQ6K8xehjgk
You need comfrey compresses for a couple days. See the discussion of comfrey in Charly’s 18th post on gardening and the discussion of comfrey in the comments.
Pleasant dreams, PZ
birgerjohansson
That video was lovely. Thank you.
phony phossils for pharyngula:
http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/back-3
imback@4: sure I got to breeding age with functional knees but only barely; I was moaning about them already by my early 20s. They’ve actually gotten better with age because I picked up cycling, which in evolutionarily-significant times wasn’t really a thing.
Take it real easy, PZ, and don’t rush back to normal routines or work. That will only make things worse, and too much stress (or a fall) might mean the surgery has to be redone.
This should cheer PZ up, a rare case of good news. OT.
There was a protest against ICE at the Broadview ICE lair, in a suburb of Chicago.
Among those arrested was a leading candidate for Democratic party nomination for House District 10, Kat Abughazaleh.
They were charged with Federal conspiracy charges, a felony.
Which were dismissed yesterday.
.1. The US Department of Justice attorneys lied to the Grand Jury to get an indictment, about everything.
.2. They then tried to cover it up by handing the Judge a transcript of the Grand Jury proceedings missing several pages.
.3. This is major attorney misconduct and the Judge was pretty angry.
It was a bogus charge anyway. These were peaceful protesters engaging in a legal protest.
This is the usual pattern at anti-ICE and other protests lately.
The police and Feds arrest people. They then either aren’t charged, or charged and then the charges are dismissed. In the rare cases where they go to trial, the government usually loses.
Something to watch in bed.
I am putting this up here because it confirms so much of what we have discussed about bad management.
House of El:
“Companies Put AI In Charge. Now They’re Paying For It”
.https://youtube.com/watch?v=Jbh8QteVM5g
How are you today?
PZ, proof of life, please. We do worry, you know. I know you probably feel like crap, Just wave, or something, OK?
PZ is on drugs, not on Death Row. Relax.
I’ve got a favorite movie clip I’d like to share.
It’s warm and endearing.
raven : the DOJ has basically started doing Strategic Prosecution Against Public Participation. Which is not too surprising since the government is run by people who are used to launching SLAPP suits.
The Broadview Six are in debt up to their eyeballs now because they needed to pay lawyers to uncover the misconduct, force the government to drop felony charges, and now to drop even the misdemeanour charges.
@16. psanity : Give him time. Like a day or two even three. He’s had major surgery full anaesthesia and drugs and is probly sleeping and recovering. We’re pretty lucky to get the last two posts form him here really. I expect he’lll be fine and may well post again later but just, yeah, give him time.
Hope and expect all is well and, again, best wishes from me if you’re reading this PZ.
A fun episode from two months ago. As PZ is not suffering from broken ribs laughing should not hurt.
“Scathing Atheist 677: AI Slopaganda Edition”
.https://youtube.com/watch?v=YUQEZCKbI0s
What is slopaganda? And why is it AI? Should I care?
(I hate being scathed, but. Who likes pain?)
@ ^ John Morales :
Source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slopaganda
(sigh) Yes, but the video isn’t about that.
Also, you know, ‘slope’ is quite the racist derogatory term for asian people in Oz and elsewhere.
Do the phonetics.
You get it? I insinuate. allude.
A video with no editorial, no provenance.
Clickbait.
A panel, not one scather who is atheist, or is it an atheist who scathes.
Remember how Hemydactylus spoke for you? You now speak for Birger.
Remember what I said then? Same thing here.
I know.
@22. John Morales : “Who likes pain?”
Masochists.
Well, them and sadists in opposite directions of who gets & delivers it.
@John Morales : You asked “What is slopaganda?”
I answered.
Thought you wanted to know. haven’t yet seen the video linked @#21 myself to judge for myself. (Shrug.)
No. Too simplistic.
Masochism itself isn’t about pain, rather about the meaning attached to pain: surrender, intensity, dissolution of agency, ritualised transgression.
The pain itself is just the signal that marks the boundary being crossed, but the boundary‑crossing is the very point.
Just as sadism isn’t about inflicting pain per se, it’s about meaning attached to domination: control, authorship of another’s state, asymmetry of will.
Thank you. But I already knew. Rhetorical questions, you know?
Put it this way: the video is not what the title leads you so expect. Not about AI at all.