Fun!Random Factoids

Here's the wiki page on the Mann Act (which some of the pro-stitution types might find interesting, along with the wiki page on the first guy arrested under this act).

And speaking of people arrested under the Mann Act, here's Charlie Chaplin's FBI file.

And in less hilarious news, some of you may have heard of things like the Active Denial System (which is where troops and hopefully police will be given huge microwave guns that they can use to cause huge amounts of pain to people they don't like).

Well I'm not going ot talk about that, but a related project that also involve evil crowd control lasers, known as PEP.

Now I was under the misapprehension apparently that PEP was evil because it was designed, primarily, to be able to flay the skin of people/cause their eyeballs/lungs to explode/all of the above so as to "subdue" them in a "non-lethal" way.

However, recent tests indicate that it can also be used as a long range taser, if tazers could cause people's lungs to explode with the side effect(!) of causing mere pain and paralysis in people hit by it.

And speaking of paralysis, it seems that some folks have been trying their hand at Weather Control experiments (again) - but the kicker is that they've decided to use a poisonous element called Barium to seed the clouds, thus showering folks with an element that is quite quite poisonous should it become diluted in water and drank.

And on that note, I should just point out that the weather will be fine until 12:07 AM, when a shower will commence, lasting until 1:30 AM...

Have a pleasant evening.

The really shallow way to learn about great thinkers

So I'm flipping through the great LJ LOLtheorist macro thread, and I have jsut inexplicably discovered Gramsci.

This is the trouble with being self educated, learning ends up coming in the most utterly scattershot fashion.

And when I say utterly scattershot, I mean that I saw this and thought "Do you know what, He IS hawt, who is he?"

If she was still around, Hypatia would chew me out something wicked.

About those "bipolar" insults...

Could people please stop that?

It's just that bipolar disorder (also known as "Manic Depression") in no sense of the word justifies it being used as a descriptive term for this whole wave of moc tokenising weirdos.

Manic depression (also known as bipolar disorder) is a condition where the sufferers experience swings between clinically depressive and manic episodes - however, usually a bipolar person goes through these swings in time periods measured in months (the clinical diagnoses says that a person has bipolar disorder if they go through the swings over the period of a year, as well as presenting all the other symptoms of course, which i'd go into but I've forgotten them) not minutes or days.

So it is not just a clinical term for being a complete and utter emotionally unstable and unpredictable nut case in other words.

Please stop using the term as if it did.

What a bunch of cissies

This thread over at RenEEEEVIL's place is very cisgender centric.

Listen up: All those tests that pit MAN versus WOMAN in fiendish psychological battles to the finish evopsychic's psuedo-scientific interpretations are not relevent until...

A) They can be done on transpeople and the intersex (possibly that should be "people of intersex" or "the intersexed", my terminology ain't too good on them/you, sorry, will try to remedy that in future).

*AND*

B) We can figure out what the results of A-Type tests actually mean.

That's the really fucked up thing about all of those tests you see, we don't really understand the full biological basis of gender or sexuality yet, and even sex, which according to cisgender mythology should be really fucking easy if you'll excuse the pun, is confusing the scientists somewhat.

Because people don't categorise easily, not because we're all special cthulhu spawned Ubermonkees and shit, but because we relish being awkward, and it does make sex very interesting, which I'm sure is rather the point of humans being non-gendered, non-heteronormative and infinitely plethora-sexed.

Most probably, one future day when we're living in a truly "post-gender" world, possibly even a "post-sex" one too, we'll do such tests free of all the rather obvious cultural and social bullshit and discover, surprises of surprises, that variations Within sex/gender categories will be greater than those between sex/gender categories.

Just like we did when we parsed similar tests through a scientifically "post-racial" filter (well, the tests were "post-racial" filters themselves, that was rather the point of them) and found that variations within racial groups was greater than those between them.

One further note: Irregardless of whether what I say is proven true or not, if the ideas here are new to you, if these ideas seem remarkable to you, or if you disagree with this, you are not truly "post-gender", nor have you been in the past, by any sane conception of the term, in fact you are and always have been a big fat/skinny/republican (delete as suits your personal "wouldn't want to be" standards) cisgender biased type person.

Or as I like to call them (or even us, on occasions), a "cissie". I just lurve the irony you see.

You see, "post-gender" doesn't mean not believing in gender roles, rather, it puts everyone as equally trans, or more accurately we are all trannies as inturn none of us are.

You see, Some of us lucked out and fell into a body that cisgender society had a handy label for, and transpeople not only attack those bullshit categories through their behavior, dress, language (body and verbal) and reassignments, they attack the patriarchy that uses those cisgender labels to define who is master and who is slave in the first place. "When Adam delved and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman?" is all well and good, but anyone with eyes to see and wits to learn knows that adam and eve are metaphors, if they're at all relevent, for ends of a sex and gender spectrum that utilises people as markings within the infinitisimal gradients of color that comprises it.

This means, in short, that, for all those socalled "rad" (but deeeply and cissily femme) fems out there, a transperson is more feminist than your pantywasting little nihilistic brand of "feminism" could ever lead you to be.

And that you, who spends so much time agitating against your freaking downpressed betters instead of enemies who you seem very happy to crawl into bed with (literally of course, political lesbianism only goes so far doesn't it eh?), are not fit to lick the freaking boots of the people who you are so ready to deny personhood too.

In which R. Mildred give ups serious blogging and finally gives into the natural womanly urge to become a crackpot psuedo-physicist

...One of the big irreconcilable problems physicists are having with quantum gravity is that QCD (Quantum Chroma Dynamics) provides solutions that allow text message breakups, whereas Einsteinian relativitiy was totally, like, "nuh uh!"

To put it in layman's terms, the method used to break up is relative to either the emotional or the physical distance between the people breaking up, and according to relativist physics, text based breakups require such a gross emotional distance that the two people breaking up would have to have already broken up and ogtten completely over each other prior to the break up declaration, or the physical distance would have to be greater than the diameter of the universe itself, which is of course, impossible.

QCD on the other hand, posits the potential for "non-baryonic relationships", which end prior to their start and have been observed occurring inside Dawn Eden's underwear. However the notion of such events occuring at super-plank scales completely breaks the notion of causality, messes up certain aplication of Schroedinger's equation which describes how a quantum system develops over time, and just plain makes no sense whatsoever. This all eventually led to Schroedinger locking himself inside a lead box with a randomised suicide device at the craziness of Quantum physics, where he promptly may or may not have died and caused the total destruction of the cities of sodom and gamorra after an impromptu rain of several million time travelling lawyers buried the cities in a bid to escape the Schroedinger estate's unresolvable suit to get Schroedinger's worldly goods passed on to his relatives*.

Unfortunately the lawyers' ploy would have worked had not the potential prospect of the infamous People of Sodom Vs. THE LORD and His Host Rape Case warped the lawyer's wormhole and caused it to open up several miles above the cities, resulting in an intense amount of splash, the total destruction of the city and all those in it apart from Lot and his family, and the invention of the phenomenon known as "not quite getting it"...

* He had cleverly put a clause in his will that left all his worldly goods (which included a remarkably sizable amount of money and the cure for whatever the hell is wrong with Michael Jackson) to his family as long as it could be proven that he had in fact died without anyone first opening the box.

At some point I will either give up on this fucking bloaty evil transphobia post, or finish the post detailing why "pornstitution makes no sense and hurts feminist analysii of the patriarchal aspects to the sex industry", in which I won't try to slut shame prostitutes into no longer being prostitutes for reasons of the bad case of ironic brain thrush I got last time I tried that.

Note this space, watch it, be surprised if I post anything interesting on it, meh.