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Open thread 5/21/24 — 16 Comments

  1. Karmi:

    I wouldn’t trust David Ignatus on anything. I’d wait till someone trustworthy said it.

  2. Which will it be: Operation Scalpel or Operation Sledge Hammer?
    Hoping for the latter.

    Meanwhile, he wished he had better news, but…
    Biden to Black Graduates: America Hates You
    But not Joe. No sir.
    He indulged in his familiar gilded personal history as a civil-rights crusader. He gave the impression that the Delaware Democratic Party was a racist operation until Sen. Joe Biden came along.
    Sheets, cone hoods, burning crosses. Then came Joe. Got it.

  3. The reason we find dogs so cute is THEY’RE ALL SUCH GOOD BOYS YES THEY ARE

  4. Well they own the house we just live there.

    Re ignatius when he first started out had better sourcing but he became a hack his last phantom orbit proves it

    He was a venue for james comey subrosa

  5. I swear my dog has the following looks in his repertoire:
    “Do you love me?”
    “I love you!”
    “She loves me!”
    “I love you but I’m not sure about whatever it is you want me to do…”
    “Is that food?”
    “What’s that smell?”

  6. I’ve been fascinated by that Russian domestication of foxes for a long time and have been wondering when people were finally going to get pet foxes to go along with their canine and feline companions.

    The dog with two colored eyes was off-putting though.

  7. Abraxas — I read an article about that experiment and some people who bought some of the foxes to keep as pets. The unfortunate thing was that while the foxes were selected for tameness, no one ever bought them inside and really treated them like a domestic pet. The poeple whio adopted them were kind of frustrated by that. So there is a nature and nurture component to the domestication.

    I saw a video about baboons in Saudi Arabia who were living around a garbage dump. The dump also attracted feral dogs. The baboons would kidnap the puppies and more or less integrate them into their baboon family. They would groom them and share food and cuddle with them. They wanted them because the dogs would warn them about interlopers by barking, and possibly attack the interlopers if they got too close. (It was kind of painful to watch them kidnap the puppies — they would just drag them across the ground and the rocks, and the poor puppies would cry and howl.) Anyhow, I have wondered if that might be similar to how humans and dogs started their relationship. (Which was the point of the video.)

  8. This morning, when I got home from work, I was sitting at the kitchen table, talking to Brenda. I was listening to YouTube, and feeding Lily, our Great Pyrenees the grilled cheese sandwich I made her.

    Chad and Jeremy came in, singing A Summer Song, which like Elvis’s Can’t Help Falling In Love, is a song one is required to sing along with. So I sang A Summer Song to Lily, Lilly pressed her head harder and harder against me, as I sang. Brenda observed, ” She knows you are singing a love song to her “!

    So, as an experiment, I sang Unchained Melody, which was also well received.

    I guess the lesson to be learned, is make your dog happy, feed her grilled cheese sandwiches, while you sing love songs to her!

  9. Baboons kidnapping puppies reminds me of my wife’s and my courtship. (I was the puppy.)
    More to the point: yes, some dogs are cute, others are beautiful, ugly, irritating (looking at you yappers!) But they are all, every one of them, heart breakers. Just had to put our oldest to sleep today. Never gets easier; always breaks your heart. But they bring so much joy with them when they become part of your family, the heartbreak is bearable.

  10. RE: UFOs

    Here is extremely well qualified, experienced, and plugged in Col. Karl E. Nell saying that he is 100 percent certain that NHIs have been and are visiting the Earth and, during his brief appearance at this year’s SALT conference, also alluding to agreements which might have been made between our government and these NHIs.*

    * See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfA1cZ_U0KY

  11. My current AI guru, David Shapiro, has introduced me to lovely new word:
    ___________________

    vesperance:

    * That bittersweet agony of knowing that the sun is setting on an era in your life.
    * Nostalgia for the present.

    ___________________

    Shapiro, as an AI guy, hits hard on the first definition, i.e., that we are the final human generation present as AI equals, then exceeds human intelligence.

    Soon it’s going to be an entirely different world (assuming one assumes the AI narrative). And here we are.

    How do we think/feel about that world and our existence in that world. In a way it is a privilege.

    https://medium.com/@dave-shap/vesperance-the-bittersweet-dusk-of-an-era-cdbcec5b3c51

    I prefer “nostalgia for the present.” I love loving the moment.

    These are the good ol’ days.

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