From Pine View Farm

November, 2018 archive

Noses and Grindstones 0

Frame One:  Manager yelling at employee making burgers:  This is drive-through.  You have to work faster!  Faster!  Frame Two:  Manager to employee holding a reddened arm:  It's only a grease burn.  No need for the E. R.  Just put these condiment packs on it.  (Note:  True story.)  Frame Three:  Customer:  Are you stupid!  I said NO PICKLES!  Employee:  But you didn't say . . . Customer:  Get the manager!  Frame Four:  Employee tugging garbage bag to dumpster thinks,

Via Job’s Anger.

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Decoding De Code Meets Twits on Twitter 0

El Reg reports:

In a paper distributed through ArXiv earlier this month, researchers Sophie van der Zee, Ronald Poppe, Alice Havrileck, and Aurelien Baillon – from Erasmus University, Utrecht University, and École Normale Supérieure de Cachan – describe how they found significant linguistic differences between factually accurate and inaccurate Trump tweets, and used this finding to construct a language-based lie detection model.

The accuracy of their model was about 73 per cent, making it better than a coin-toss, but far from foolproof in its evaluation.

More at the link.

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Ahistorical Monuments 0

Excerpt:

The argument is always made that removing these monuments is erasing history. The monuments themselves were put up to erase history.

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QOTD 0

Quintus Ennius:

They hate whom they fear.

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“Suffer the Children” 0

It’s not scripture. It’s Republican policy.

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Those Who Deny Science Are Condemned To Repeat It 0

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Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0

Trumpling in the air.

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Homecoming 0

Image:  Patch showing Republican Elephant wearing a helmet and holding a Corona beer labeled,

Via Juanita Jean.

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The Rule of Lawless 0

Frame One:  Picture of office building labeled

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But the Emails! 0

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QOTD 0

Kerry Thornley:

Organized religion preaches Order and Love but spawns Chaos and Fury. Why?

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“If It’s Not One Thing, It’s Another” 0

Field is suffering from scandal overload.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

Thom traces the Republican Party’s path to becoming the party of the New Secesh.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

The hunt for politeness goes on.

Robert Potter, 54, was hunting deer late Tuesday afternoon on private property in Chatham when he was accidentally* shot by Ernest Sutliff, 38, of Albuquerque, N.M. Potter and Sutliff are related and were hunting together with two other family members.

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*Once again, an editor fails to catch a misspelling of “negligently.”

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Truth in Labeling 0

Greg Sargent reminds us that Donald Trump

. . . is not putting America first. He’s putting his own naked self-interest over what’s good for America, . . . .

Follow the link for his reasoning.

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Pets 0

Vladimir Putin with a purring cat on each knee.  Putin says,

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And the Moral of the Story Is . . . . 0

The author of a Letter to the Editor in my local rag draws some conclusions.

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The Lane Truth 0

Frame One:  Heavily-armed NRA guy says,

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QOTD 0

Sue Grafton:

Sometimes the hardest part of my job is the incessant reminder of the fact we’re all trying so assiduously to ignore: we are here temporarily … life is only ours on loan.

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All the News that Flits 0

Goat:  This city's newspaper laid off a bunch of reporters.  How are we supposed to stay informed?  Rat:  The people on Twiter keep me informed.  Goat:  But these (newspaper) people give us local news.  Rat:  The people on Twitter give me local news.  Goat:  But these (newspaper) people do research and report facts.  Rat:  The people on Twitter . . . Did I mention my people are fast.  Goat:  Oh, good.  Pig:  The speedier the truthier!

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