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Posted in History, Miscellaneous, Perception, Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged activism, animals, Arizona, artificial stupidity, Austria, blogging, cops, crypto-moralism, disease, ethics, Florida, holidays, left-right myth, Ohio, politicians, psychology, Twitter, vaccines on November 20, 2023| Leave a Comment »

It's funny how many Morally Correct People are willing to abandon their opposition to some injustice as soon as the target of that injustice is someone they dislike.

Wait, "funny" isn't the right word. What's the one I'm looking for? Oh yeah, "disgusting".

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 20, 2023

This is a cop's idea of a "joke". pic.twitter.com/UzMxkGNgmx

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 21, 2023

Police brutality deniers are like medieval people taking refuge in a church during the plague, praying that they'll be spared from a menace nurtured by their own lack of hygiene and refusal to remove garbage from their communities.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 22, 2023

If you define one individual, group, or type of people as always right regardless of their actions, and another as always wrong regardless of their actions, you are a moral imbecile and any moral arguments you make can be safely dismissed as moral imbecility.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 24, 2023

Pigs root for food. Even a child should be able to come up with a solution, unless of course that child's brain has been rotted by authoritarianism and depending on the government for all their thinking. https://t.co/YLJIcok3s1

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 25, 2023

…almost never appear in tweets containing items useful for my specific fields of interest. The idea is to remove a lot of the noise so I can more clearly hear what signal is left. This of course means some tweets from people I follow will be muted; regrettable, but unavoidable.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 26, 2023

Another reason to live in a rural area: it's impossible for cops to enforce a "lockdown" on innocent people as though they were in a prison (usually after belching the magic word "safety").

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 27, 2023

As a teen, I thought most folks were ignorant fools with atrocious beliefs.

Then I grew older & wiser, and realized their beliefs being different from mine didn't make them wrong or foolish.

Then I grew older & wiser still, and realized I'd been mostly correct in the 1st place.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 28, 2023

The baroque dance around execution methods that states with an active death penalty have been performing for decades now, even though hanging & shooting are both cheap and easy, is strong evidence that they are desperate to cloak an ugly reality under a "modern", clinical guise.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 29, 2023

An almost perfect match of soundtrack and visual image. https://t.co/AUuNyDqzkn

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 31, 2023

pic.twitter.com/dHAZrGLdc3

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 31, 2023

A little off-topic, but am I the only one who finds staged photos of politicians signing bills while one, several, or even a huge gang of uninvolved people lurk behind him, to be extremely creepy? https://t.co/5Wc4G17dih

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) November 1, 2023

We're still going to call our plentiful Steller's jays "Steller's jays" regardless, just as I still call Facebook "Facebook", Google "Google", and this site "Twitter". https://t.co/q9cQX6cSEw

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) November 2, 2023

Every cop involved in wrong-address raids should be immediately fired without recourse; basic literacy should be a MINIMUM requirement for any job in which people could be harmed or even killed because some cretin couldn't correctly read an address. https://t.co/GAySouguIK

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) November 3, 2023

Puritans never recognize how transparent they are to non-puritans. It's as though the guy running around with claws, sharp teeth and hair all over can't figure out how everyone guesses he's a werewolf.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) November 4, 2023

Anytime
Or anywhere
Just look over your shoulder
And they'll be standing there

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) November 5, 2023

"Artificial intelligence" is a fantasy of techies, reporters, and hack science fiction. "Intelligence" in machines is a long, long way off and will require a change in the WAY they function, not merely their speed or size. What we have now is Machine Learning (ML), not "AI".

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) November 7, 2023

The US system has thoroughly demonstrated to Europe that we can produce prominent families full of imbeciles WITHOUT relying on centuries of inbreeding. https://t.co/yOVIArYaoW

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) November 9, 2023

The creator of this propaganda image clearly grew up watching the Great Grape Ape. pic.twitter.com/5fpYfrvp98

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) November 10, 2023

Kurt Vonnegut on why you should still observe Armistice Day rather than Veterans Day: pic.twitter.com/7YVMO9E71m

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) November 11, 2023

Despite internet boasting, the fraction of people who will "be that guy" is well-illustrated by that picture.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) November 12, 2023

…no mortgage & good health. I worry about money every week & have minor panics about it 2 or 3 times a year, and could use a foundation/wealthy donor to give me a decent stipend. But at least I don't have to constantly issue statements that sound like DVD anti-piracy threats.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) November 12, 2023

It was bad enough when they imagined wealth as big piles of paper in a Scrooge McDuck vault, but now they ALSO want you to imagine that the pile is actually a huge compost heap rotting from the bottom up.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) November 15, 2023

…would result in war, famine, and pestilence on an almost unimaginable scale, yet legions of marching morons support these ideologies.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) November 16, 2023

By this standard, I've won at life! https://t.co/4oCBD11W30

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) November 18, 2023

As a lifelong career sex worker, please allow me to invite you to fuck yoursef. https://t.co/7T4JrsVnGm

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) November 19, 2023

So, are you offering a choice between $10 million and the ability to transport oneself into a cartoon universe? Is this ability permanent, or one-time only? Does it allow transport into ANY cartoon universe, at will? Does it grant cartoon character invulnerability too? https://t.co/CjNNui3fx4

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) November 20, 2023

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Links #697

Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged animals, Arkansas, artificial stupidity, Believe Them, censorship, cops, Florida, Mississippi, Missouri, New York, Things We Choose To Do Together, video on November 13, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Who would leave minors in the car by themselves late at night?
– JaCee Robertson

Given that I really enjoy both classic electronica and instrumental guitar music, how could I not share this video with y’all? The links above it were provided by Phoenix Calida, Mike Siegel, The Onion, IncarcerNation (x3), and Mark Bennett, in that order.

From the Archives

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Links #696

Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged acting, Alabama, artificial stupidity, cops, holidays, Kentucky, Missouri, Never Call the Cops, New York, Not for Any Reason Whatsoever, recipes, teachers, video on November 6, 2023| Leave a Comment »

You are going to die! – “Officer” Matthew McCulloch

There was no way I was not going to memorialize Richard Roundtree with this song. The links above it were provided by Mark Bennett, Jesse Walker, Franklin Harris, Phoenix Calida, and IncarcerNation (x3), in that order.

From the Archives

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Tweetledum

Posted in Miscellaneous, Obituary, Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged abortion, advertising, apes & monkeys, artificial stupidity, blogging, California, consensual crime, cops, drugs, ethics, I can't breathe, language, Never Call the Cops, New York, politicians, psychology, teachers, Texas, Twitter, universal criminality on October 20, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Hint: they murdered him. https://t.co/lXHIBRjg1e

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) September 21, 2023

It's not like I don't know this, yet every damned day I'm shocked by people on here bellowing their stupidity to the fucking four winds while other stupid people give them eleventeen thousand "likes", basically nodding their stupid heads in a massive chorus of stupidity.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) September 23, 2023

This is *exactly* the reason I hate that "we" language so many use when talking about horrible, stupid, or oppressive things the US has done & continues to do. They want to rope me into their supple-spine club, so they can push some of their culpability onto me. No.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) September 24, 2023

Why I refer to these systems as "artificial stupidity". https://t.co/cBaDEVlMLN

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) September 26, 2023

Oh look, a fine example: https://t.co/v0iKZ1D9pt

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) September 27, 2023

Good riddance to toxic rubbish. https://t.co/cc6GiS6JXc

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) September 29, 2023

That's an insulting offer; I charge $200/hour for consultation, and I'm not a damned orthopedic surgeon. https://t.co/KaHMlQw0Ku

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) September 30, 2023

The entire POINT of the public education system is to turn inquisitive, individual kids into adults who are ignorant and easy for the government to control. Luckily, it's not very good at doing so because it's run by government bureucrats. https://t.co/cy0X8ac8WZ

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 2, 2023

…(even to the point of making shit up) in order to "get" their chosen targets. Avoiding cops is therefore an act of self-preservation, like avoiding robbers, rapists, and predatory beasts. One doesn't worry about *why* a tiger is hungry in order to know it's dangerous.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 2, 2023

If the government wants more people to have kids, it needs to stop working so hard at making them more expensive and more of a legal liability.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 3, 2023

It may seem a small thing, but word choices reveal a lot about the beliefs and attitudes of the person or group who composes a message.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 4, 2023

It's bad enough having to deal with marketing emails from companies I actually do business with; I just wish they weren't all laboring under the delusion that I'm a teenager with endless money to burn on their "new, hip" junk I wouldn't even accept as a free gift.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 5, 2023

I agree with you in principle, but I can't help giggling at the thought of people rolling up to their table and popping king cake babies into their mouths like jelly beans.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 7, 2023

"Democracy" is NOT the opposite of "authoritarianism", so perhaps the "vs" confused it. https://t.co/3v70B1FoCu

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 10, 2023

One of the reasons for my ever-growing cynicism is my ever-increasing realization of how few humans use anything remotely resembling reason as the basis of their positions, and how many of the irrational beliefs people DO hold are archaic, childish, and bat-shit insane.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 12, 2023

Some people are surprised that I oppose any and all organized violence by collectives (governments, gangs, mobs, parties, etc, regardless of pretended "legitimacy") against individuals, no matter what excuse is used for the violence.

This is called "having principles". Try it.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 13, 2023

The adjective I'd have used in the last sentence is "human". https://t.co/ZdRIEXFHzQ

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 15, 2023

I started using this last night. It also restores the old Twitter logo and hides that idiotic "for you" tab so you always see the people you follow in chronological order, with no chance of accidentally clicking "make my timeline a clusterfuck". https://t.co/DwwZNXvLFy

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 17, 2023

It's also fascinating to watch ignoramuses who've never done a particular job vomit nonsense about how it isn't a real job.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 19, 2023

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Links #685

Posted in Current Events, History, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged artificial stupidity, censorship, Colorado, cops, Delaware, Little Tin Gods, Never Call the Cops, New Zealand, Not for Any Reason Whatsoever, Oklahoma, racism, restaurants, video, Wisconsin on August 20, 2023| Leave a Comment »

We can lock him up, take his kid, put his dog in the impound.
– Raiford Box

As my memorial for Robbie Robertson, I chose this example of kind of antiwar song I think most effective: one about the human costs of war. The links above it were provided by Radley Balko; Scott Greenfield; Popehat; Jesse Walker and Radley Balko again; Phoenix Calida; and Elizabeth N. Brown, in that order.

From the Archives

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Bride of Throwback Thursday

Posted in Miscellaneous, Perception, Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged artificial stupidity, blogging, hysteria, internet, New Excuse, psychology, rescue industry, Throwback Thursday, universal criminality on August 17, 2023| Leave a Comment »

You say she “let you look for a few seconds into her soul”; I’m not sure what sort of mystical or pharmaceutical process was involved there, but I can assure you that unless you are The Shadow or Dr. Strange or something, I sincerely doubt it was her soul you saw. – “Body and Soul”

“Hi, you need to move because these two people like to shove their body parts into each other’s orifices.” – “The Cult of Coupling”

As long as…websites allow themselves to be governed by mindless machines, this will never stop, but cheer up: think of how exciting driving will be once this same kind of algorithm is actively operating a sizeable fraction of automobiles. – “Idiocracy”

People…are…willing to believe in grandiose fantasies utterly divorced from all known facts about statistics, economics, psychology, sexuality, anthropology and plain common sense rather than accept that some women can have pragmatic sex, that most men are willing to pay them for it, and that many people are happy to strive for truly Pinocchian levels of dishonesty in order to make a profit, seize power, get rid of people they’re bigoted against or even seek petty vengeance. – “Ulro“

There are police budgets to be justified, prisons to be filled, minorities to be suppressed, populations to be terrorized, surveillance powers to be expanded and rights to be eroded, and if the Drug War no longer serves to allow those things the rulers will have to replace it with something else. – “New Excuse“

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Lazy Tweets

Posted in Miscellaneous, Philosophy, tagged artificial stupidity, blogging, cops, dating, ethics, Facebook, Hollywood, imaginative fiction, language, left-right myth, politicians, restaurants, Swedish model, The Mob Rules, Twitter on July 17, 2023| Leave a Comment »

THIS RIGHT HERE. https://t.co/QjN2nP540L

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) June 21, 2023

Apparently, it isn't enough time to learn addition & subtraction. pic.twitter.com/8zAOz2WnZK

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) June 23, 2023

Governments use euphemisms to disguise their crimes.

Robbery is called "taxation" or "asset forfeiture". Kidnapping is called "arrest". Home invasion is called "executing a warrant". Sexual assault is a "search", murder "execution", and mass murder a "policy decision". https://t.co/St3lsNdAMQ

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) June 24, 2023

Boba Fett. But that book on the right is only the first of 18 volumes. https://t.co/R6gf4Seq1X

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) June 26, 2023

It's so cute to watch lamebrains bloviating about "billionaires" while exempting the astonishingly-wealthy who create their favored entertainment or parrot their preferred political propaganda.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) June 27, 2023

Koyaanisqatsi. https://t.co/NfuyMR3JKC

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) June 29, 2023

Actually, eating alone in a public restaurant is the same old level of business travel. https://t.co/r2Avf4xfMy

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) June 30, 2023

Same energy: pic.twitter.com/l6QsS2jozq

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) June 30, 2023

It's shocking how much pro-mob rule idiocy is emitted by people burbling about the rights of minorities…which essentially don't exist under the mob rule systems these dolts favor.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 1, 2023

A politician's "pledge" is worth a little less than what my dog barfed up on the rug this morning. https://t.co/hrNgrxivbj

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 2, 2023

Politicians & bureaucrats: There's a WORLD of difference between asking or suggesting, vs. ordering or demanding. Maybe if you learned it you might actually get something accomplished other than mindless violence and the waste of trillions.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 4, 2023

"America" is here used to mean "the US federal government". They are not the same thing, and conflating them has long been a contributing factor to this issue. https://t.co/vbHHyLLjsS

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 5, 2023

Every time I see "Threads" mentioned I at first think it's about the devouring menace from the Pern books. Which, to be fair, isn't THAT far off if one considers Meta's propensity for consuming everything it can infest. https://t.co/CL8aVV80z2

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 7, 2023

The belief and insistence that every organization, corporation, or institution must prioritize the same goals and principles demanded by some authority is an intrinsically totalitarian one, and therefore inimical to individual rights and human progress.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 8, 2023

And *off* the internet, too; this is called "politics". https://t.co/A3KUfNMNew

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 10, 2023

Oh no, people are being practical about a biological function!

THIS MUST BE STOPPED AT ANY COST!!!! https://t.co/sII02Hmgcu

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 12, 2023

Wisdom. https://t.co/CfbpBIoixJ

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 12, 2023

Anyone careless enough to make that "mistake" is far too careless to be entrusted with a gun, and even too careless to entrust with driving privileges (lest they "mistake" a red light for green). They could probably handle bussing tables, maybe. https://t.co/OPsOMNnexy

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 14, 2023

But sex work is SO EXPLOITATIVE. https://t.co/XH3z5X93va

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 15, 2023

No, they're still doing it by that much older form of artificial stupidity, the committee.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 16, 2023

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The First Tweets of Spring

Posted in Current Events, History, Miscellaneous, Music, Philosophy, tagged activism, agency denial, artificial stupidity, asset seizure, blogging, censorship, consensual crime, cops, crypto-moralism, drugs, Florida, hysteria, language, law, left-right myth, License To Rape, Minnesota, New York, politicians, propaganda, psychology, robots, Twitter, United Kingdom, universal criminality on April 24, 2023| 5 Comments »

"Smart" devices aren't, part Umpty-eleven. https://t.co/4vzXR30qIY

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 23, 2023

If you only watch one video this week, make it this one.

This woman is heroic, and y'all know I do *not* throw that term around lightly as so many do now. She could comfortably enjoy old age, but instead she's still fighting for what is RIGHT at 100 years old. https://t.co/KRQFXVa9JU

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 24, 2023

It's always interesting to see which stranger partisans now consider it fashionable to allow to live in their heads for free.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 26, 2023

Cops molesting kids is epidemic; just because some of them prefer to call the molestation a "search" doesn't make it a different issue. https://t.co/uKOtSJOQVl

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 27, 2023

If you really want a book for more than one-time light reading, you need to actually buy it. Kindle "buying" is really just a kind of renting from a lessor who can change the terms of the contract at any time, even to substituting a different text without your consent. https://t.co/IdG64L2nny

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 28, 2023

THIS. At one time, a prescription was simply a note from one professional to another, explaining exactly *which* drug the patient needed in clinical terms the patient could not be expected to understand or repeat accurately. Prohibition turned that into a legal document. https://t.co/mCc71HL81E

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 29, 2023

"Murdered".

The word for the willful killing of a human being who poses no threat to the killer is "murder". https://t.co/9U0nzMwTPK

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 30, 2023

Men being extremely silly with their mommies is quite possibly my favorite genre of short video. https://t.co/9UrNo8tVAx

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 31, 2023

For example: pic.twitter.com/bAE8ZZc5wl

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 31, 2023

These publishers are like fast-food chains who intentionally ruin menu items in order to please people who aren't their customers and never will be no matter HOW much they change. https://t.co/E3x7qiBPWs

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 2, 2023

Historically-ignorant pronouncements have got to be one of the most irritating things on Twitter.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 4, 2023

Whenever I see people surprised that "their" politicians behave exactly like everybody knows politicians behave, I'm reminded of a quote from Rita Mae Brown (not Einstein, sorry internet): "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results."

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 5, 2023

In which "progressive" NPR calls for more of the police interactions that result in the deaths or incarceration of many thousands of Americans a year. https://t.co/tEcVJ4BMOT

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 7, 2023

I hope amateur women never change, so that future generations of whores will always have plenty of work. Is that wrong of me?

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 8, 2023

I once wrote a story based on this concept; it's a sort of theological horror romance spiced with VERY black humor. https://t.co/jJBXD1Qzue

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 9, 2023

That's probably the most incompetent. But the most pretentious rhymes definitely come from Sting; I mean, rhyming "apprentice" with "Charybdis" and "shake and cough" with "Nabokov" is pretty impressively pompous.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 10, 2023

Outrage based on conscious ignorance is driven by the need or desire to be outraged; it's that need which motivates the intentional ignorance. Therefore such outrage MUST be stronger than mere organic outrage, in the same way refined products are more potent than raw ones.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 11, 2023

"Cops admit they paid for their expensive new toys with stolen money" is not the reassurance they seem to imagine it is. https://t.co/iZJNFaoQZO

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 12, 2023

Ray Harryhausen was an irreplaceable blessing to humanity. https://t.co/5qGQ6ULdCT

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 13, 2023

"Speaker Paul Renner had to close the public viewing galleries…"

He "had to"? Was he forced to do so by an evil spell or Platonian psychokinesis? Were terrorists holding a gun to his head? Would someone have inevitably died had he not acted?

Stop making excuses for tyranny. https://t.co/2GqUSCF59O

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 14, 2023

The state thinks that legal minors are children; that children are property; and that it's the government's "right" to steal the property of any citizen as it pleases.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 15, 2023

This article may help y'all to understand what I've said since the 1980s: "nutritionism" is, to a large extent, simply puritanism disguised by a pseudoscientific veneer. https://t.co/wK3jnviqMP

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 16, 2023

Recognizing that most people who identify as "left-wing" are useful idiots.

Not coincidentally, my "most left-wing coded attribute" is recognizing that most people who identify as "right-wing" are useful idiots. https://t.co/KUIUBwvi25

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 17, 2023

Damn, and here I was planning to get a grant for my zombie-staffed lawn service company. https://t.co/NZ7Q5AXRdh

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 18, 2023

From a sociological perspective, it's interesting to watch the last adherents of a moral panic clinging desperately to whatever feeling (safety? importance? validation?) the panic gave them after everyone else has lost interest.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 19, 2023

Phrasing this as "Americans buy more of one processed plant product with mood-altering effects that's disliked by some puritans than another processed plant product with mood-altering effects that's disliked by other puritans" really puts the absurdity of prohibition on display. https://t.co/R6x7LfOchO

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 21, 2023

My two lowest subscription rates are lower than Twitter wants for its blue check. Just sayin'. pic.twitter.com/EvGzl41ik0

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 21, 2023

Your regular reminder that trying to define other people's experiences for them, or claiming they're "wrong" because they're fine with experiences (*especially* sexual experiences) that YOU think would harm YOU, is the behavior of a creepy control freak.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 22, 2023

This is good, but let me also point out that even *less* that 1% of modern literature will survive the next 5000 years.

You're welcome. https://t.co/e6GSHxEdVd

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) April 23, 2023

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Links #660

Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged artificial stupidity, Australia, Believe Them, cops, Florida, I can't breathe, Illinois, imaginative fiction, Iowa, Massachusetts, Never Call the Cops, robots, Under Duress, video on February 26, 2023| Leave a Comment »

I can’t switch off a feeling that I was stupid in the first place … I trusted [a cop]. – “Sonia”

The work of a prolific TV composer may be much better known than its composer; that’s certainly the case with Gerald Fried, who compositions included the theme to Gilligan’s Island, most of the score for Roots, and a number of scores for Star Trek, including this one you’ll probably recognize. The links above the video were provided by Franklin Harris, Mike Siegel, Cop Crisis (x4), and Lenore Skenazy, in that order.

From the Archives

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Midwinter Tweets

Posted in Miscellaneous, Philosophy, tagged artificial stupidity, Believe Them, blogging, Canada, consensual crime, cops, dating, ethics, Florida, imaginative fiction, language, politicians, robots, STEM, Tennessee, Texas, Twitter on February 23, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Like something Bill Theiss would design while very drunk. https://t.co/KzYdGrNeut

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 24, 2023

Clearly a very important discovery for building solid machines with no electronic parts which can escape from cages as long as there's a mold handy. 🙄

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 26, 2023

For "deleted", instead use "memory-holed" for greater precision. Things can be "deleted" for many reasons, but when it's due to political embarrassment "memory-holed" is more specific. https://t.co/rpYkpTDiyB

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 27, 2023

Ray Bradbury was one of the great souls of modern times. He will be remembered when every contemporary power-hungry politician has been reduced to a footnote in history texts or a name in a list of fallen, buried, forgotten "rulers". https://t.co/pFIQDdzYv3

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 27, 2023

Your regular reminder that "proactive policing" actually means "terrorizing people who haven't committed any crimes, under the pretext that they *might*". https://t.co/wx4Z4lEyil

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 28, 2023

Also, about #5: "Not allowed to listen" is a very different thing from "are unable to listen". https://t.co/0ZurrNGJEc

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 29, 2023

Amateurs are so cute. https://t.co/DHsG6jTkvi

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 30, 2023

Cops acting as though they're in the entertainment business should be a summary firing offense. https://t.co/FVsep5DmoL

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 31, 2023

I'm sure she believes that the sailors on the Flying Dutchman are happy because they have job security. And like the Wandering Jew, they get to travel to many lands on a sort of eternal vacation!

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 1, 2023

“I think that people see police as a part of the government”

Yes, that's because they ARE part of the government. The most visible and violent part, the hand of the state that holds the gun, whip, or club. https://t.co/PkPkr3iATP

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 3, 2023

We *do* understand discretion, honey. After all, it's part of why you pay us, remember? https://t.co/oAVtft9K8q

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 4, 2023

The rise of trucks as passenger vehicles in urban areas is largely the result of government fuel efficiency "regulations" which made station wagons and other large (but low) cars illegal.

This is a striking example of the Law of Unintended Consequences at work. https://t.co/uMH85IhtVk

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 5, 2023

…elaborate protections. Near the end of the cycle, even opening a tap results in a flood of disgusting filth spewing out in every direction, coating walls, floor, and ceiling of the bathroom or kitchen and suffusing everyone's house & clothes with an unbearable reek.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 5, 2023

"Vascular neck restraint" is a scientific-sounding euphemism for "choking somebody to cut off blood flow to the brain so they pass out".

"Pass out" is itself euphemized as "slip into unconsciousness". Choking a victim to within minutes of death depicted as a lullaby. https://t.co/CsKD5MJrR3

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 7, 2023

An orbit is a path described by mathematics; it is not a physical object that can be "crashed into".

Please can we at least have SOME science "reporters" who aren't less scientifically literate than the average @BillNye viewer? https://t.co/3N05AUiYbk

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 9, 2023

Many criminals are entrepreneurs; it's just that their business happens to be illegal. https://t.co/nMqBcW3CmK

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 10, 2023

I don't think it would be bragging to say that I probably have more cerebral capacity than most. And yet, I *still* don't have enough space there to allow various public figures to live rent-free in my head as so many otherwise-intelligent people seem wont to do.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 11, 2023

Cops constantly demonstrate *exactly* what they are; why don't you believe them? https://t.co/Ipnk6dS3Rr

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 12, 2023

Isaac Asimov once described computers as "high-speed morons". He was correct, ad anyone who blathers about artificial "intelligence" is wrong. https://t.co/EzyEU9CdsX

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 14, 2023

And as for "dating apps", I think the less said the better; they concentrate the toxic aspects of both "dating" culture and "looking for relationships" and add a heavy component of superficiality.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 14, 2023

"From behind" doesn't sound nearly as bad as "in the back".

Journalists need to start using those words, rather than mealy-mouthed softeners. https://t.co/DugFSaRgx6

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 15, 2023

This phrasing sounds so much nicer than "cops abduct drunk woman, rip off her clothes, then take nude pictures without her consent." https://t.co/8knRR6TU2z

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 17, 2023

How much longer will Americans allow cops to use robot guns and cars that go berserk and attack people on their own? https://t.co/pW3gzG4ADO

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 18, 2023

Experts: The Drug War increases deaths by overdose and has been catastrophic to civil liberties.
Economists: The Drug War has cost trillions and had absolutely no positive effects.
Civil libertarians: End the damned drug war already!
Your "leaders": https://t.co/OuV6nM5dfJ

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 19, 2023

Many scientists used to claim that the sci-fi concept of a murderous Frankensteinian computer was impossible. https://t.co/cRidQsQwMu

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 21, 2023

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