Open thread 11/27/2024
Last night I was about to go to the supermarket, but when I went to my car I saw that the windshield was covered by the thinnest ice layer I’ve ever seen, in a beautiful swirling design. I took this photo, which doesn’t begin to do it justice:
Drove 20 miles to Walmart in Chiefland—barely any traffic. Normal grocery day is Thursday, but combined it with trash dump day today. Also went to bank in Fanning Springs and exchanged $600 in twenties for six $100 bills – in America, even those who live below the Poverty Guidelines can save money. Busy day for this humble hermit! Wednesday is also laundry day, but moved it back to yesterday afternoon. Don’t do holidays but do prepare for them. Guess that gives me a 6-day weekend 🙂
Let’s Talk Turkey: The Truth About Thanksgiving Traditions
Had to do a little shopping yesterday, and the supermarket was packed. In Denver, a little snow. Not going out, can be slick. Already have Thanksgiving dinner ready to heat up. Prepped before coming down for Wife’s cancer treatment. In a Residence Hotel for 3 weeks, comfortable. Miss our Cats.
If anyone knows about CAR-T, that is what she is getting.
RE: What did the ancient Egyptians know?
Looking over the vocabulary of images used in Egyptian hieroglyphs, each one of these these images is relatively simple in appearance.
Then, we have things like these hieroglyphs/images* which have been noticed, carved into the walls of the Hathor Temple at Dendera, which was constructed around 50 B.C., with indications that earlier buildings on this site were built as far back as 2,200 B.C.
Is it a mere coincidence that these several complex, sophisticated images look like a helicopter, or other advanced aircraft?
* See https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/hi%C3%A9roglyphe-d-h%C3%A9licopt%C3%A8re-d-abydos-27119851.jpg
It was interesting to see it come out that both the Biden and Harris campaigns had internal polling showing they would not defeat Trump.
What this tells us is that a) it is possible to poll accurately, and b) the polls published and commented on by the legacy media do not bother to poll accurately.
And why were the legacy media talking heads, who surely had contacts within the campaigns who knew this, taking the worthless public polls seriously?
Either a) this is all a performance on their part–they are not trying at all to report facts, just trying to shape public opinion by playing the roles of journalists, or b) they are so high on their own supply that they don’t really know what the facts even are.
It seems that for future elections, there is no point whatever in paying any attention to any legacy media “news” about polls or public opinion. They have the power to collect the real facts, and they are simply not interested in doing that.
@Snow on Pine: Is it a mere coincidence that these several complex, sophisticated images look like a helicopter, and other advanced aircraft?
Yes. The way we know that is, that no advanced technology was developed by looking at ancient hieroglyphics; they are easy to interpret after the fact to kind-of sort-of look like technology you’ve heard of, but they carry no actual useable information about that technology.
For some mysterious reason, these ancient depictions of advanced technology show nothing more advanced than technology we know of today. But if your hypothesis about aliens is valid they should have been exposed to much more advanced technology than helicopters, so where are those hieroglyphics?
Your great-great-grandson will be posting here about how Egyptian hieroglyphics obviously look like flux capacitors and space elevators and fusion-powered hovertrucks, but because you don’t know what those things look like, you can’t show us any hieroglyphics that look like them.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/university-of-north-texas-teachers-college-hides-dei-language-from-courses-following-public-scrutiny/
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The simplest way to address this problem is for the state legislature to strip UNT of the franchise to erect and maintain a teacher training program and debar from UNT employment any quondam faculty there.
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Republican legislators complain, pass ineffectual legislation that faculty and administrators circumvent, and nothing changes.
Knew that they would lose. Trashed Trump supporters. Wasted huge amount of money. Just think how irresponsibly evil they were/are.