Once more, it has been one HELL of a long week. I’ve been staring at SQL code until my eyeballs ache, and I have to say, it’s not actually that much fun. SQL can do a LOT, but when you’re used to using more flexible languages like R or C++, where you can easily declare variables and run through loops and perform all sorts of cool things on arrays, SQL tends to seem a bit… ESN by comparison.
Nonetheless, I would much rather be busy than not. I prefer to be working hard with barely any time to think of anything else, than sitting around and twiddling my thumbs while running out of tabloid articles to read and laugh at spelling mistakes on The Daily Mail or The Sun. (Nobody, but NOBODY, does tabloid garbage better than the Brits – which says quite a lot about them, and most of it is not good.)
Not everyone is built that way, of course. All of us can think of at least one person whom we have encountered in our lives who is, basically, a giant freeloader. I know someone like that in my own circles – though fortunately I’ve never had to deal with her personally in any project or other capacity. Such people are very often quite dense – they are narcissists of the worst kind. They believe that they cannot possibly fail and have outsized egos that cannot handle any kind of criticism. Every time you try to tell them to change, they somehow twist your words and misinterpret them to mean that they are doing the right thing, when in reality they are absolutely and completely WRONG.
You will also very often find that such people get ahead in ways that seem quite bizarre – they always seem to “fail upwards”. They do incredibly dumb, stupid, and annoying things, and piss off everyone around them, and nobody wants to work with such people. Yet, somehow, these are the people who end up with the best jobs, the best salaries, the best positions.
Americans should be quite familiar with the concept – someone like that became President back in 2008. I’ve been calling Odumbass the Lightworker the first affirmative action President in American history, precisely because HE WAS. He got to that position through a combination of smooth talking, highly effective narcissism, a criminally negligent and indeed corrupt media, and an establishment Swamp that recognised him as one of its own creatures that could easily be controlled.
When you see such people reaching positions of elevated rank and power, always remember to look at that situation with spiritual eyes, not merely Earthly ones. You can be ABSOLUTELY SURE that there is something genuinely daemonic going on behind the scenes.
This isn’t something that you necessarily need to be frightened of, per se. We humans are extremely weak in the daemonic realm – but we have a Power on our side that can overwhelm and destroy that realm at will. So we need not be afraid of it, beyond a point. All we have to do is to be willing to speak the truth to those effective narcissists who get ahead.
This is where most of us fail, though. We want to ride the wave of another’s success to gain more for ourselves – this is the love of the world at work. And it is dangerous and foolish. Inevitably, when you compromise in one area of your life, you will begin to compromise in other areas too.
You must therefore seek to call out such people wherever and whenever you can. You must tell other people the truth about those whose incompetence and stupidity and venality and narcissism is a danger to others. To do otherwise is to act out of hate and cowardice – but to speak the truth about those people to their faces is an act of love.
And that’s about enough philosophising for one day, because I’m honestly too dead tired for any more. You’re all really here for the hot girl of the week, after all.
Her name is Alina Ignatova (Алина Игнатова), who looks to be in her early 20s, from Rostov-on-Don, Russia. Rostov is of course famous for being home to the most beautiful women in the country, and given that the Russians produce hands down the most beautiful women in the world – if you’re new here, you’ll learn pretty fast that we REALLY like Russians around here, and I will brook no debate on this particular subject – that’s really saying something.
I debated adding her to the honourable roster of legendary ladies in the Friday T&A section for a long time, because she looks like jailbait. But she is apparently past her teens and already engaged to be married, and has her own cosmetology business to boot. So she can handle herself just fine. (Her blonde hair is, however, quite fake. And, given that she spends a lot of time flashing her BMW on her Instaham page, it’s a pretty sure bet that she isn’t getting such things because she’s a fantastic cosmetologist. You draw your own conclusions.)
Happy Friday, everyone. Get some much-deserved rest, and ready up for the fight to come. It’s not going to get any easier or simpler anytime soon. The world is going to Hell in a handbasket and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future, so stand strong and prepare for the tests that await us.
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It boggles the mind that the Russian population is falling so much that they’ll barely be a country in a few decades. The feminism must go to 11 there. Confirm?
Deny, actually. I have to disagree here. Outside of Moscow and maybe St. Petersburg, you won’t find much by way of feminist idiocy in Russia. Women there value themselves and believe themselves to be capable of doing anything – but they want and look for strong stable providers to look after them.
In 4 years of travelling to Russia and working with and hanging around Russians, I have never once met a Russian woman who was a real feminist, UNLESS she happened to be working for a Western company. It’s genuinely hard to explain how Russian women think of feminism, except to say that they generally reject the notion that women are equal to men.
The Russians have a saying: “a Russian woman is strong enough to ride a horse into a burning building”. Yet they still want strong, masculine, yet – and here’s the kicker which is totally counter-intuitive to red-pilled Westerners – romantic men.
Part of this is due to Russia’s history. The catastrophic losses that the Russians suffered in what they call the Great Patriotic War resulted in a nation with a completely screwy sex ratio. Lots of women ended up chasing very few men. This naturally ensured that the most beautiful women would reproduce – which is partly why Slavic women today are so lovely. But today, after the fall of the Soviet Union, those same Russian women now face a population of alcoholic, work-shy, hopeless men who have a strong fatalistic streak in their blood.
This is why Russian women today have such a reputation for being stone-hearted gold-diggers. This stereotype is inaccurate. But it has roots in truth. Russian women do have horrid tempers, and they shit-test like you wouldn’t believe.
Despite all of that, they are still, in my personal opinion, the best women on Earth. They don’t have the family baggage that Asian women do, especially Chinese and Vietnamese ones. They are tough, capable, smart, and independent. Yet they still basically just want a man to make them feel loved and cared for, rail their brains out in the bedroom, and fill them full of babies.
That said – there are several reasons behind Russia’s flatlining demographics. Some have to do with relative female empowerment. Others have to do with the sky-high divorce rate in the country. But the primary reasons have much more to do with the fact that the men die young and badly. A Russian man’s life expectancy is 66 – a Russian woman’s is more like 77. Alcoholism and extended economic hardship have a lot to do with this as well.
Russia is an amazing country, but it is one filled with hardship. The economy isn’t doing well, in large measure because of international sanctions. They have divested away from energy rapidly in the last 10 years, and they have done exceedingly well. But their ability to export their products is limited, and their domestic economy is still pretty small due to their relatively small population.
They aren’t headed for a demographic cliff, unlike China or especially Japan. But they are in trouble, and they know it. This is why Putin signed new laws that make it significantly easier for citizens of FSU republics to get Russian citizenship. I don’t agree with that idea, but the Russkies have to solve their demographic issues somehow. They plan to add roughly 10 million citizens to their rolls this way – let’s just hope that most of them are actually Christian Slavs, not Muslims.
Tver makes the same claim.
Actually, I’d personally give pride of place to Colombian women for sheer looks. Admittedly, however, de gustibus non disputandum.
They do have a pretty spectacular admixture of Mesoamerican and White European genetics down there, for sure. And they have the fiery tempers to match their looks, too, from what I can see.
Tempers? Yes, they do, but on the whole they’re rather sweet.
You must have nerves of still to have learnt C++. The only thing I ever tried to learn in terms of programming language was Pascal and I was very lazy at it. I pretty much forgot everything except the fact that the less the writing, the more efficient the programmer. And I could be completely wrong on that, but that’s what it seemed to me at that time. If you can write a function in one paragraph as opposed to three and still make the command button do what it’s supposed to do, you save more time….to finish off the other gazillion lines on other buttons and then go back to read every line because there was a mistake somewhere in that pile of ‘if thens’.
Still, I have to admit that it looked kind of like magic. I could type in words and the programs ‘understood’ them. Even with all the rules about when and where to use certain words, there were still many ways to skin a cat so to speak. I’m still glad I did not become a programmer though. I don’t have an eye for details, but I respect programmers who try to be as creative as possible.
Welllllll… there’s a world of difference between knowing the basic syntax and programming style of C++, and actually being able to do anything, y’know, USEFUL with it. I can write very basic C++ programs, functions, and maybe even classes if required to do so. But I am assuredly not fluent in it. My programming languages of choice are VBA, R, SQL, a proprietary language called DBScript, and Python, in decreasing order of familiarity. I can also mess about a bit in JAVA and Javascript if required.
The thing about programming is that once you understand the basic principles and logic of computer code, the rest is really just a matter of grasping syntax. It’s the same with any human language – once you know the grammatical rules and understand them well, the rest is a matter of vocabulary and idiosyncrasies. People say that Russian is a beastly hard language to learn and speak, and it is – but that’s primarily because the rules seem so intimidating to learn. Once you understand and memorise them, however, you quickly realise that Russian is in fact a vastly more logical language than English, and makes much more sense. It’s the vocabulary that is challenging after that.
That is entirely correct. This “small is beautiful” philosophy drives the entire Linux/UNIX operating system and mindset, which is why Linux actually WORKS, unlike the crufty, bug-ridden disaster that is WinDOZE. The programmer that succeeds in writing the most compact code that does the job quickly, is assuredly extremely skilled.
The challenge for most programmers is not in writing compact code, though – it is in writing understandable and clean code. A good example can be found in an archaic and extremely powerful mathematical multidimensional matrix language called APL. You can do a lot with very little in APL – but the resulting code is almost illegible and incomprehensible to most other people.
That is why Python is such an interesting language. It was written by a mathematician, and like most mathematicians, he believes in doing things in an efficient, compact, yet repeatable way. So Python imposes strict rules on syntax and operations and emphasises the use of whitespace to keep code “clean”.
I’m not a hardcore programmer either, but I do enjoy the creativity and flexibility that comes with writing code. It’s actually quite a lot of fun to figure out how to solve a problem and systematise it using loops, structures, functions, datatypes, and classes.