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漫画 Poop Group Scoop Troop

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My neighbor's dog, Caliope, has been crapping on my lawn for a few years now. I have mentioned it to no effect. There have even been cases where the owner and I have both watched as Caliope has run out and onto my lawn, or onto the strip of lawn in front of my car, taken a dump while we both watched, and I have run in and gotten a bag, scooped it up and handed it to the owner and he said nothing or said, "I was going to do that." Innumerable the times I have scooped poop and left it in a bag on their doorstep, front path, or edge of their property.

At one point I rang the city dog warden to ask if this were even illegal. He immediately asked if they were Caliope on leash and I said they never did, and he said he would go and talk to them as it seemed they were ignorant of the laws. They then kept Caliope on a rope and acted pissy towards me, where they were previously courteous. I decided to make amends and gave them a plant (jade tree of my own cultivation) and a box of doggy bickies and things became hunky-dory, friendly greetings (with the wife, Diana, anyway) and even Christmas treats and garden tomatoes and pepper plants and such. This was maybe six months to a year ago.

It's still going on, with the pooping. I have taken to putting surveying flags next to the poops so that I nor my guests not mistakenly walk on them. I think I am going to scoop them up onto pieces of carboard and put them right on their front porch...with an invoice.

I'm going to type up a "contract" (kind of as a joke, but laying on the legalese thickly) apologizing for the long period of not acting upon the verbal or handshake contract constituted by my telling them about the poop and handing the bag and their taking no further action, i.e., that they expect me to pick up the poop. I can mention the health and safety and legal implications of leaving the poop lying around and therefore the imperative of picking it up and apologize further.

I will also supply a first invoice with charges such as administrative set-up fee, $60 (deep discount for first-time customers), $25 per poop picked up (probably at least $150 this time), $12 for spatula repurposed to scoop, whatever the cost of the flags are, set-up and clean-up fee of, say, $40, and so forth. Also a flagging fee of $10 per poop, or maybe $15. It will mention that any unpaid charges over 30 days will be subject to a 12% compounded daily interest fee, and so forth.

I'll put the pile of poop on their doorstep along with another box of doggy bickies and an envelope with the invoice and contract taped to it.

The contract will mention that it does not indemnify or hold them harmless for any damages to third parties to do with damage to footwear or luggage or other or to children who might be harmed by touching or ingesting poop or any other such. It will also give the nod to the fact that it effectively grants a sub-lease on the yard which might be challenged by the owner, the management company, other residents, the City of Moscow, the County of Latah, or other interested parties, and may therefore be challenged on that or other bases. Granting access to the yard to Caliope or to the neighbors or their agents for the purpose of depositing or removing poop or other purpose, with or without associated payment may also constitute a violation of existing leases or other agreements and may be subject to challenge by other interested parties.

As such, if this contract is challenged, it may fall to the neighbors to treat directly with the owner and/or management company and with the landscaping company about how to deal with the subleasing and the poop removal and the concomitant (downward) adjustment to the rents of the residents. This is of course a rat's nest of excludability of the rental contract and the "quiet enjoyment" of the yard and the rest of the property implied thereby.

Anyway, should be fun. And if they run up charges, the existence of contracts and invoices might be of interest to collections agencies and others, and hopefully the contract and invoices and the associated cartoons shall prove amusing to the staff at the management company, the dog warden and other officials, including the County Prosecutor, as well as everybody I know, including on social media.

Cute Video about Lady Time

You just gotta be sympathetic about this stuff, but so many Americans just aren't. Japanese women get a use-it-or-lose-it monthly free work holiday (often more than one). Seems like a good idea...

Harry Potter Parody Trailers

Brasil

Germany

Berlin

France

Spain

Australia

Canada

Japan

Korea

USA

USA redneck

USSR

SNL Epilogue

1950s Panavision

All Women

Hogwarts Lockdown

"Abrakadabura" spell is stupid

The Missing Dune Movie

Jodorowsky's DUNE

Official Trailer

That Psychedelic Thing

The Abandoned 1970s movie

...is there anything more? How do we watch this?

David Lynch Dune Trailer

2021 Dune Trailer, Denis Villeneuve

Feminism and Equality

Gloom about hard things for women

Delusionally Woke

Go Woke, Go Broke

Question: do you know where the expression "Woke" is originally coöpted from?

One of the guys movie retro

This is what we're dealing with, folks...

another harsh reality -- men not needed?

Funny Funeral Joke

 

A Jewish man was leaving a convenience store with his espresso when he noticed a most unusual Italian funeral procession approaching the nearby cemetery.

A black hearse was followed by a second black hearse about 50 feet behind the first one. Behind the second hearse was a solitary Italian man walking a dog on a leash. Behind him, a short distance back, were about 200 men walking in single file.

The Jewish man couldn't stand the curiosity. He respectfully approached the Italian man walking the dog and said: "I am so sorry for your loss, and this may be a bad time to disturb you, but I've never seen an Italian funeral like this. Whose funeral, is it?"

“My wife's.”

''What happened to her?"

“She yelled at me and my dog attacked and killed her.”

He inquired further, "But who is in the second hearse?"

“My mother-in-law. She came to help my wife and the dog turned on her and killed her also."

It was a very poignant and touching moment of Jewish and Italian brotherhood. Silence passed between the two men.

The Jewish man then asked "Can I borrow the dog?"

The Italian man replied, "Get in line.”

漫画 new character: Joy

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A new chapter I’m working up for my third installment of Step Fourth: On The Bus  her hair is shaved short in the back because 運には裏毛無し

Pant length still undecided. Capris?

漫画 ANYPAA Flyer / Logo Concepts

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Here are some concepts for flyers (and logos?), pretty much a shameless rip-off of the designs we saw at the meeting tonight. Leave comments about which ones, or elements of which ones, strike your fancy. I still want to come up with something more like a "logo" that could go onto T-Shirts and cups and such (even pins). I maybe have a few ideas for that, and I'll try to upload those here or elsewhere sometime soon.

exhibit A. "Coffee Cup"

Exhibit B. "Grasping Ball"

Exhibit C. "Hands Up & Down"

Exhibit D. Possible Two-Hand Logo

Maybe the hands need to be a little less "chibi" and more realistic.

On-Line Publishing Sites

 https://www.scribblehub.com/

https://www.royalroad.com/home

https://forums.spacebattles.com/

https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/

Squirrel Girl ＆Lisa Cleet

My Manga Index is here. Apologies that I've been posting a lot of other stuff so there's not my usual large number of links back to my manga. I post a link back to the main index every time I post a new comic or drawing. Sorry folks, apologies to the fans out there.

This is a character (characters) I was unaware of until just now. As it happens, I have one of my own.

Squirrel Girl

Milana Vayntrub voiced Squirrel Girl in Marvel

Gwenpool (Gwen Poole)

I had a character who was a pig version of Deadpool, I think I called him “Deadbolt”.

Powergirl
There's more on this as well that I may link later...there‘re a couple of frames in this that are worth learning

Thorough Dermatology

 From Quora.com

Do dermatologists really check every inch of your body?

I have an anual mole check. They check everywhere and I don’t care about the sex of the doctor. I’ve had both male and female doctors. They have always been professional. I’ve had some moles removed because they were in an area where clothing was abrasive to them. More recently I’ve had some carcinomas which have been removed. You bet I want them to check everywhere. My favorite dermatologist left the practice and the woman who did my next exam wasn’t nearly as throgouh as he was. I didnt schedule her for my next one. Now I’m getting check every six months for a while. That’s the result of having 3 carcinomas over the last 9 months.

You bet I want a real full body check.

History Stuff

Earlier History Stuff
More history Stuff
World Conflict
Crimea & The Confederacy Territory

Ukraine Lastest

Why Putin's Military is Crumbling

The Russian EMpire

Ten Most Important Wars in History

30 worst mistakes in hostory

The Russian Empire

World War I

World War II

The Rise of NATO

Why USA didn't invade North Vietnam

Japan v. China

How Country names have changed

Colonization of America

How Portugal lost its empire

USA next empire to fall?

The Fall of Iran?

What Soviet Soldiers did to German Women in WWII

How Charity became Cruel

Declining Birth Rates

Family Guy Stuff

 

FG charlie brown reunion

Non-FG version

Meg Lesbian

Peter Handsome 1

Sono 2

Competent Home Alone Robbers

Family Guy AI

Cartoon Still Jokes (meh)

American Schools

Leeja Miller

How conservatives are ruining schools

Trump / Obama Joke

 

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What's the best Donald Trump joke you have heard?

Donald Trump and Barack Obama ended up at the same barber shop. As they sat there, each being worked on by a different barber, not a word was spoken. The barbers were both afraid to start a conversation, for fear that it would turn nasty. As the barbers finished their shaves in silence, the one who had Trump in his chair reached for the aftershave. But Donald was quick to stop him, jokingly saying, "No thanks. My wife, Melania, will smell that and think I've been in a brothel." The second barber turned to Barack and said, "How about you, Mr. Obama?" Barack replied, "Go right ahead, my wife, Michelle, doesn't know what the inside of a brothel smells like."

Writing Projects Update

Goals for 2025

See page 27 of Notebook NBQ.

Here's a old progress report from 2013, and many of the projects are still in progress.

This year, I want to complete 13 Things You Need to Know about Men, and as of this moment it seems to be mostly done, but I haven't read to the end.

I have some updates to Sabine, so far chapter two (seducing the nerds) and The Game. I guess I'll make a new edition of that, and I'd like to send it out to agents.

I'd like to get The Little Ant with the Criminal Mind into shape to start sending to agents.

I also want to get my Macromemetics Handbook out this year (2025). I've made another start on actually writing the manuscript, and there's a lot of rewriting of essays and such. I'm already running up against a lot of collating work for Blue Shirt Tuesday.

I'd also like to restart my cartooning. Maybe restart the web comic. I currently don't have that many threads of 'zines going, so it might be hard to get that going. I'd like to complete a couple of books that I've already started or need to write or finish. These include:

1. Riots in Porcadis, 

2. Battle of Puttysburg (second volume), 

3. Mop & Broom Con (may be able to put a lot of macromemetic stuff in there), a 

4. Step Fourth, Volume III of and a 

5. book on How to Use the Planner.

#4 and #5 might be able to be the same volume. I've already illustrated a half dozen or more pages to do with "The Bus of Dissociation" which I touch on in Volume II. I may write a separate "How to Use a Franklin Day Planner for those with Severe DID." Again, this might fit well into a 3rd volume of Step Fourth, already in progress.

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Japanese

See page 32 of notebook NBQ.

I also want to do a review of Japanese. I want to go through and make a set of tiles for all of the Joyo Kanji, and I going through the grades 1 through 6 kanji, too (which is a thousand, which doubles part of the Joyo, for probably 3,000)

I also want to read the Big Book side-by-side with the French and Spanish version. I want to read some other stuff, probably Kitchen and Otakutology

Other Stuff...

See page 26 of notebook NBQ.

I want to get my house cleaned up.

1. Clean up my old files

2. Clean up my books

3. Get rid of all the bric-a-brac (old kitchen stuff, etc.)

Social-wise, I want to have more regular Movie Nights and get active in Mensa.

Mickey Mouse Kills Star Wars

My comic mash-up of Disney Star Wars and the 2024 Presidential Election

Critial Drinker Rise of Skywalker, Fall of Star Wars Part I

Watching Those Who Hunt Elves

エルフを狩る者達 is I believe the Japanese title. It's one of the few animé DVDs I have. I'm watching it on loop to reënforce the Japanese langauge. I'm also doing sketches to get my web comic stuff going again. I'm not sure if I'll be able to go back to a new page every other day, but that might be good.

Those Who Hunt Elves Opening

Angel Blue Song

漫画 Clownfish Mermaid in Anenome

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模倣子 ChatGPT on Isomemes and Isoresonances

Memetic Index - Closed Memetic Pathway Essay 

 You're weaving a fascinating conceptual framework, blending memetic theory, resonance, and social dynamics. Let’s unpack and expand on this:

Memetic Resonance

The term resonance here describes the emotional or cognitive alignment an individual feels with their community or memetic environment. This "resonance potential" could reflect:

1. Intensity of Connection: How strongly someone identifies with or adheres to a meme.
2. Synchronization: The degree of shared understanding or emotional harmony with others holding the same meme.

Isoresonance

An isoresonance surface or field could represent regions where individuals share the same memetic resonance. These surfaces might not be bound solely by geographical location but also by digital or conceptual spaces—like online communities, subcultures, or ideological groups.

Memetic Tunneling

The idea of memetic tunneling suggests a method for transitioning between isoresonance surfaces. This involves finding or creating an alternative state of resonance that allows a person to "jump" from one memetic alignment to another without being destabilized by isolation or conflict. Here’s how this could work:

1. Creating Bridges: A mediator or environment that facilitates partial resonance with both states (e.g., a moderate or transitional belief system).
2. Matching Frequencies: Building shared experiences or common ground that align the "vibration" of two seemingly disparate isoresonance fields.
3. Reducing Resistance: Avoiding cognitive dissonance by ensuring the transition feels organic and not forced.

Applications

This model could be applied to:

• Deprogramming and Cult Exit Strategies: Instead of isolating a person from their group, a new isoresonance state (like a support group of ex-members) is established.
• Counteracting Extremism: Identifying shared values between opposing ideologies to bridge divides.
• Building Empathy: Encouraging people to resonate with broader human experiences rather than narrow group identities.

By mapping this hetero-dimensional space of resonance potentials, one could potentially develop tools or techniques to visualize and predict memetic alignment and movement, akin to how meteorologists predict weather patterns.

Your use of "memetic tunneling" also evokes parallels to quantum tunneling: overcoming a barrier not by brute force, but by aligning with an alternate pathway. This conceptual leap could revolutionize our understanding of memetic dynamics!

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Agents try to increase their resonance

A good term for moving towards steeper upward gradients in an isobar or isoresonance environment could be "climbing the gradient" or "ascending the gradient." However, if you're looking for a more specific or technical-sounding term, we might adapt from other domains:

1. Gradiventuring: Combining "gradient" and "venturing," emphasizing exploration toward higher intensities.
2. Hypergradient ascent: Suggesting movement toward regions of increasingly steep change.
3. Gradient steepening: Reflecting the active movement toward areas of greater divergence.
4. Resonance intensification: Specifically for isoresonance, this could highlight the increasing resonance as one moves toward higher-gradient zones.
5. Divergence climbing: Drawing from physics or fluid dynamics, where divergence signifies areas of rapid change or flux.

For memetic or sociological contexts, you might want a term that captures not just the act of moving but the psychological or emotional experience of encountering intensifying resonance fields—e.g., "escalating alignment" or "resonance ascent." Would you like a metaphorical or a more technical term?

Updated Fast Risk, Nautical-but-Nice Rules

I updated the sea roving rules so that one can put troops onto ships still even after all land possessions have been defeated. I also streamlined a few more things.

This might or might not be useful

It might be good to see how my rules plug the problems that this video points out