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Monday morning Laffalympics

by | Aug 9, 2021 | Mondays | 13 comments

Balls. Monday again. And I had to start off this one making a presentation, and watching others present, and all that served to do was to remind me how much I HATE PowerPoint.

I may have said before that I think of PowerPoint as the bastard love-child of Bill Gates and Lucifer’s half-troll daughter. This is actually on the milder side of my views about PowerPoint and why I hate it so much. Now, presentation experts will tell you that PowerPoint is nothing more than a tool that most people simply have no idea how to use properly – kind of like how most people have no idea how to use a set of kitchen knives in the right way.

(Can I just point out that 90% of the time, HITTING YOUR FOOD WITH THE CLEAVER works just bloody fine, thank you very much.)

To those experts, I respond:

I have no doubt that a tactical nuclear weapon is also a highly effective tool when used correctly. But I still wouldn’t want to use one.

And a nuke, by the way, is actually useful for getting people to do what you want. (Or for a complete lunatic to use as a pretend-horse while jumping out the back end of a bomber.) PowerPoint, by contrast, is useful primarily for boring people to tears and serving as a very poor cover for one’s own lack of presentation skills.

But of course, we’re not here to talk about PowerPoint – that grotesque, abominable, disgusting, awful, terrible, dreadful, stinking, rotten, vile, horrific [20,000-word epithet-laden rant deleted for sake of reader sanity] EXCRESCENCE shat out by Microsoft and Billy G. We’re here for the Great Mondaydact Browser Melter, which is all about making this most dreary of days just that little bit less nasty.

Now, if you’re anything like me, you are vaguely aware that something called “The Olympics” took place over the past month or so. And, again, if you’re anything like me, you don’t give the furry crack of an airborne rodent’s posterior about any of it. The Olympics, from my perspective, are nothing more than a gigantic exercise in spending billions of dollars on a cringe-inducing snoozefest where athletes from countries that you’ve never heard of, compete in sports that you’ve never heard of (and in many cases aren’t even real sports) and shack up in a big-ass “Olympic Village” to engage in a massive bacchanalia of sex and drinking.

Oh, you didn’t know about that last part? ‘Tis true, Horatio, ’tis true.

Anyway, since I can’t be arsed to watch the Olympics, especially now that they’ve gone all woke, and are therefore incredibly stupid and even more annoying than usual, I figured i might as well dredge up a treasured childhood memory to compensate.

Does anyone here remember the old Scooby Doo’s All Star Laff-A-Lympics? Y’know, the really old-school Hanna-Barbera cartoons from the 1970s? Well, since nobody here is interested in Olympic events, let’s take a stroll down memory lane and remember what kiddie cartoons were like back when they were actually sort of good, and weren’t packed to the gills with idiotic over-the-top Left-wing platform messaging:


His Most Illustrious, Noble, August, Benevolent, and Legendary Celestial Majesty, the God-Emperor of Mankind, Donaldus Triumphus Magnus Astra, the First of His Name, the Lion of Midnight, may the Lord bless him and preserve him, pulls no punches in telling it like it is:

He is partly correct. The God-Emperor’s instincts are in the right place – children need to socialise with others in order to grow and develop and be healthy. But school, per se, is not a good option. If there is one good thing coming out of these insane Coof lockdowns, it is that homeschooling is on the rise throughout the USA. And that is wonderful.

I mean, what would you rather do? Send your kids off to a government indoctrination camp to be taught by ugly SJWs who hate your White Western civilisation? Or teach them at home where you can bond with them, have fun playing around in the garden with them and your dogs, and keep them happy and entertained with the legendary writings and stories of the Great Canon of Western civilisation?

It’s not a difficult choice, to be honest. If I ever have kids, I’ll be pushing my future wife to homeschool them.


#BasedTucker is based:

The Nuge. Just as controversial, ballsy, and awesome as ever. Heck, you should listen to the Motor City Madman talking about bear steaks. (Seriously. Dude hunts freakin’ GRIZZLIES with a bow and arrow. You just don’t get any more METAL than that. And he’s not even a metalhead.)

That interview with Viktor Orban is a tremendous thing to watch. It’s a litmus test, really. If you watch it and listen to it and end up smashing your fist into your own chest roaring at the screen in support of his full-throated defence of the Hungarian nation – you’re a man.

If, on the other hand, you are horrified by listening to him talk about the common bonds that tie his people together, and you think that he’s an authoritarian fascist who gerrymanders the electorate to exercise total control over the government…

Well, you might want to hasten to the nearest fertility clinic to check your testosterone levels, because you probably have lower free test levels than your obese purple-haired girlfriend.


Mark Dice knows full well what it’s like to be a modern-day Cassandra:


Dave from Blue Collar Logic tells the Goombahnuh of Noo Yoark to GTFO, which is pretty much how I’ve felt about Il Capo di Tutti Capi Cuomo for years:

I lived in or around New York F***ing Shitty for 12 long years. During that time, I saw both the city and the state decline and wither as the citizens of Gomorrah-on-the-Hudson voted for every single idiotic policy imaginable, thereby outright annihilating any hope that the actually overwhelmingly CONSERVATIVE citizens of the rest of the state’s rural and suburban population had of changing anything for the better. (Seriously, if you drive outside of the big cities, like NYFC, or Albany, or Syracuse, and into the countryside, you’ll quickly realise that the people of New York State are actually quite right-wing. They are simply too few in number to offset the influence of the mass of idiots in the shit-strewn crime-ridden dystopia that is modern NYFC.)

Goombahnator Cuomo needs to go. Unfortunately, his replacement won’t be any better and, if he’s a Republicuck, will almost surely be much worse.

Why? Because Republicucks don’t fight for anything, of course. They are spineless, ball-less, and pathetic. We might as well just call them “steers”, really, except that isn’t insulting enough. After all, a de-balled bull can be turned into tasty steaks, whereas a Republicuck is good for nought other than turning good food into shit. Or legislation, which amounts to basically the same thing. (Loosely quoting da Vinci, there.)

Moving on – Jason notes that the Coof is not an effective bioweapon (which is true) but is an extremely potent political one:


Bill Whittle and his good friend Alfonzo Rachel ruminate on the question of what kinds of men seek political power, and why:


Plenty to keep us entertained this week from our good friend, The Male Brain. We start with a really interesting video from Veritasium about a “simple” problem in mathematics:

I have often said that the difference between philosophers and mathematicians is that philosophers create problems while mathematicians solve them. That might not be the case anymore…

The one thing that nobody can say with a straight face is that maths is boring. It’s just NOT, dude.

Moving on – here’s a hilarious ad from TheJuice about what hotel quarantine is really like in Australia:

This is not so surprising once you realise that this is AUSTRALIA we’re discussing. This, after all, is a place where EVERYTHING WANTS TO KILL YOU AND EAT YOUR EYEBALLS FOR JUJUBEES. What makes you think that the government is any different?!?

It appears that Cracked is finally becoming funny again, now that they’ve gotten rid of most of their cancerous filthy SJWs – here’s their take on the realities of recycling:

They’re right. Recycling is basically a giant scam – like the entire Green movement.

Everyone’s favourite bald YooToober, Simon Wheeler, is back with another video on Today I Found Out about the realities and complexities of EMP weapons:

Y’all remember that awesome sequence in the 1992 Bond film Goldeneye where the Russkies (played by Brits with some of the worst Russian accents imaginable) detonated one of their orbiting nuclear satellites in low-earth orbit? Yeah. Awesomesauce. (Then again, anything with 1990s Izabella Scorupco in it was going to be awesome, regardless. Heck, she’s still remarkably attractive even today.)

And also from Cracked – once you see this one, you can never unsee it:

Basically, Hollyweird’s understanding of sex and human anatomy is just as ridiculously stupid as everything else about that cesspit.


Paul Ramsey addresses rumours of his laptop’s untimely demise (which are true) and thanks his fans for their support, and then gets serious about the ways in which Hungary is fighting back against the tide of corruption and evil sweeping across Europe:


PJW points out that there is, indeed, a vast yawning chasm between us serfs and our supposedly “benevolent” tech and government overlords:

Give it another 10-20 years. You’re going to see a global reaction against these asshats that will be so violent and bloody, it will make the French Revolution look like a minor dinner-table misunderstanding.


The lovely and charming Dr. Sam Bailey pulls absolutely no punches in discussing the ways in which Big Pharma pushed a very dangerous drug called thalidomide – you may have heard of this one – in the past century, and notes that their tactics really haven’t changed at all since then:


Lord Razor of the Fist Clan has a rather thoughtful, if profane and hilarious, video about the coming crash of the big-budget comic-book film:


The Dizzle cannot help but be amused by the ways in which Izzlamic dawahgandists continue to destroy their own fake religion:


Dr. Jay Smith from PfanderFilms invites a friend on to explain and expand upon the “Jerusalem Thesis” regarding the origins of Islam’s traditions and histories:


Al-Fadi from CIRA International sits down with Dr. Jay Smith to discuss the ways in which Izzlamists have fabricated the history of both Islam and their “holy” city, Mecca:


Dr. Frank Turek from Cross Examined does not have kind words for Calvinism:

Neither do I, by the way. I consider Calvinism to be an amazingly stupid misunderstanding of the word, “SOVEREIGN”.


The Apostate Prophet‘s satirical take on your typical dawahgandist is so hysterically accurate that I seriously considered putting this in the comedy section – it’s just pure gold:


There is a certain delicious irony to be observed in the fact that the ChiComs, who unleashed the Coof upon the rest of us, are now struggling to deal with the so-called “Delta Variant”, as China Uncensored explains:

It’s extremely un-Christian of me to write this, but I have to say, I don’t have much sympathy for the Chinese. This is what happens when you have a culture that fears exposure and ridicule and brainwashes its people into believing that they must cover up inconvenient failures and lapses rather than owning up to them and taking responsibility.

China’s culture works for the Chinese. It should stay there. Exporting it to the rest of the world would be about as healthy for us all as the Coof.


America Uncovered takes a close look at the stench of corruption surrounding the Olympics:

I haven’t watched the Olympic Games in 20 years and have absolutely no plans to start doing so anytime soon. I just don’t care about them. They are a giant pointless waste of time and money that are held every 4 years in order to give the top one percent of athletes an excuse to have epic amounts of sex, free of consequences.

The fact that these games are incredibly corrupt is not surprising. That’s what happens when money and sex collide.


Jared Taylor from American Renaissance asks a sobering question about what the future holds for the White race:


Terrence Popp continues to shred the self-image of single mothers:


Midnight’s Edge has an intriguing hypothesis about why the characters in Netherflix’s Masters of the Universe: Revelation look so ridiculously unrealistic:


Overlord Dicktor Van Doomcock reckons that the renewal of Alex Kurtzman’s contract for another 5 years spells the death of Star Trek, and I think he’s right:


Gary from Nerdrotic notes that the House of the Devil Mouse is likely crapping its collective pants over Scarlett Johanson’s lawsuit:


The Drinker


Your “Science is F***ING WEIRD” moment of the week is about supermassive black holes and how they can bend light in very strange ways:

For the first time, the team directly saw light from the black hole at the center of galaxy I Zwicky 1. Not only will the light be observed, but the team will also understand its journey. Note how X-rays can change color as they move and bend around the back of a black hole.

Then investigate the origin of the flare, as the team saw a cluster of smaller flashes. X-rays are reflected from behind the disk, and the magnetic field is then bound. When you approach a black hole, it heats up everything around it.

The magnetic field also produces high electrons that can give rise to X-rays. Observations of Einstein’s theory will help research with the aid of the new X-ray telescope from the European Space Agency’s Anthens.

Observations with high resolution will record extraordinary phenomena. So that it can unravel more mysteries around black holes. This is possible thanks to larger X-ray telescopes with giant mirrors.

By observing the journey around the back of the black hole, the team hopes to find out what happens near the gravitational vortex. The team’s next step will be to create a 3D map of the environment around the black hole. So that we understand about the black hole’s corona which is capable of producing X-rays in galaxy I Zwicky 1.


Your long read of the week is from Dawn Pine, and consists of a careful examination of the USA’s policy of deliberate ambiguity over the “Taiwan Question”:

Some analysts think ambiguity, a hallmark of U.S. diplomacy for decades, still makes sense. It gives policymakers something they always crave, freedom of action and avoids shackling U.S. policy to the interests of foreign partners by issuing specific promises.

Yet, not everyone is satisfied with this approach. Some want a clearer declaration of American commitments to Taiwan. The old policy won’t cut it, now that Xi Jinping has consolidated control. China has traditionally offered its own brand of ambiguity, emphasizing cooperation with Taiwan but never renouncing the idea of using force. Some observers now believe that Xi has abandoned ambiguity, and they urge the United States to do the same. Failure to do so will invite Chinese adventurism, put Taiwan’s status at risk, and foreshadow a dismal future as China challenges the U.S.-led order. Influential members of Congress agree, and are pushing legislation to formally strengthen the U.S. commitment to Taiwan’s defense.

Scholars have suggested that the quality of deterrent signals depends on the character of the adversary and the nature of the threat. I have previously argued, for example, that specific threats are useful to stave off the use of nuclear weapons in war: Enemies must have no doubt their regimes will end if they cross that threshold. Similarly, ambiguity might work against regional states with gross economic and military disadvantages, but not against genuinely rising great powers. This suggests that what worked against a weaker China will not work today.

Calls for clarity are not reserved for U.S. policy in the Taiwan Strait. Indeed, some have warned about the combination of “Chinese assertiveness and U.S. ambivalence” throughout the region. And critics have demanded explicit red lines on a host of other issues. A commitment to clearer commitments, they say, will strengthen deterrence across the board by reducing misperceptions about U.S. interests and its willingness to defend them.

America’s policy of “deliberate ambiguity” isn’t really fooling anyone anymore. The Chinese believe that the US military, especially the Pacific Fleet, is a colossally expensive paper tiger soaked in ethyl alcohol and terrified of a match. They have good reason to think so, given the appalling state of the USN’s F-35C fleet and the increasingly poor track record of the hidebound, inflexible, risk-averse Navy mindset. The USA knows that China wants to push its luck as hard as it can, and it knows full well that any CVBG that sails within 500 miles of China’s coastline will be bracketed and targeted by a system of ship-killing systems that includes hypersonic missiles.

The USA has no counter to Chinese and especially Russian hypersonic missiles. The last US hypersonic missile test failed miserably. The Chinese likely have the ability to sink one, if not two, US nuclear-powered carriers at will if they enter the Pacific sphere.

That means that if Taiwan becomes a flashpoint, the USA faces either catastrophic defeat, or catastrophic retreat.

This is not a policy of ambiguity. This is merely a recognition of the fact that the USA has singularly FAILED to contain China and has refused to attack the ChiComs where they are weakest – their social stability and their economy.

US policy toward China has FAILED. Completely and utterly. It is well past time to take a page out of the Reagan-Trump playbook and recall the wisdom of the ancient saying, si vis pacem, para bellum.


Linkage is good for you:

And some more from Dawn Pine:


The Neo-Tsar has a rather interesting style when answering critical questions from American presstitutes:

Watch how he deflects and evades the core question by resorting to “whataboutism”. He gets a lot of stick for this from Western whorenalists, and honestly, they are actually right to criticise him for it. He uses this tactic all the time to avoid answering direct criticisms and confrontational questions about his authoritarian style of leadership.

Yet there is no arguing with him, because his answers are actually rooted in fact and truth. He doesn’t launch into hysterical accusations like the Chinese would. Nor does he beat his own drum. He simply calmly and quietly calls out the facts on the ground and points out that Westerners really are projecting when they accuse him of being tyrannical and authoritarian.

In this respect, he is doing what is Scriptural and correct – see Matthew 7:1-6.


History lessons of the week:


Your Great Man of the Week is Robert Moses, the man who built New York in its golden age:

Unfortunately, it was also because of Robert Moses that today’s NYFC has such impossibly complicated and hard-to-change infrastructure.


The Act Man is very pleased with HALO Infinite:

And Mint Blitz has set about borking the HI physics engine with his usual panache and elan:


Wazzocks gonna wazzock:


Kitchen Nightmares with the Angry Scot:


Comedy hour:


Pics, guns, girls, starting with a great bunch of Christian memes from our good friend The Male Brain:

That’s not a very good choice for a meme – we all remember how that scene ended
It is a compliment if you’re a CHRISTIAN – Izzlamist extremists have a nasty habit of going all JIHAAAAAD!!! on us
Don’t you kids watch Jurassic Park anymore???
I’m pretty sure this is how Planet of the Apes started…

Onward:

Ayup.

And we dumbasses keep falling for it.

Say it with me, boys:

IT’S GOOD TO BE AN EXTREMIST.

This is absolutely true. In India you cannot vote without registering for an ID card. It’s one of several different types of ID that is officially accepted throughout the entire country.

If a shithole country like India can figure out the basics of voting, and you Americans can’t, then that tells me that y’all are a bunch of dumbasses with your thumbs stuck up your arses.

Funny thing is, I don’t actually like ANY of those cakes, personally.

That’s hilarious in a very dark way.

Da Goombahnator’s in da house!!!

Boy, that aged well…

ARGH MY EYES SWEET JESUS GOD ALMIGHTY MY EEEEEEYYYYEEEESSSS!!!

That… actually explains quite a lot.

Not one man to be found in any of those pictures.

Headlines of the week indicate that ecomentalists really ARE a bunch of fascist whackoes:

I warn you that this next headline is horribly depressing:

I can’t even caption that one, it’s so awful. Life without BACON is not worth living, and we all know it. (Even the Jews and Muzzies.)

Your “NUKE THE EVERGLADES NOW!!!” moment of the week:

A buddy of mine lives near the Everglades. He agrees with this idea.

Your “Masked Stupidity” moment of the week:

I’d love to know what our good buddy Dawn Pine thinks of this headline:

The only thing I can think of in response to it is that I really hope that the guy didn’t have to extract that sperm personally.

Your “Talk To Me, Goose” moment of the week:

Your “All Cars Should Come with Ejector Seats” moment of the week:

Your “Friscan Fury” moment of the week:

I thought they’d basically outlawed guns in Clownipornia – let alone AK-47s, which are actually serious assault rifles.

I’m not even going to TRY to craption this next one:

This is why we can’t have nice things. Key word there – CHINA.

Your “Floriduh Man + Coldplay = Terrorism” moment of the week:

Just when you thought that Floriduh Man couldn’t get any crazier or more devious…

Hey, did you know that Rachel Maddow actually used to look kind of sort of attractive back in the day before she became a loony lesbian? (Yes, I know, that’s redundant.):

I mean, manjaw aside, she actually looked decent. But you can see in her eyes that she was NOT a happy woman.

That’s how we end up with heffalumps on the cover of Sports Illustrated.

Shittiest superhero ever, you mean.

Or, y’know, the backwoods of West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, the Appalachians, the Catskills, the… well, you get the idea.

Too right. The Rolling Stones are in their EIGHTIES and they’re still touring.

And here’s the best one of the lot:

If she looks kind of familiar, that’s because she is Ekaterina Enokaeva, who is STILL possibly THE most beautiful woman ever to grace the Friday T&A pages of this site. Every time I see her, I find myself knocked sideways by her looks.


Your Dog of the Week is the Fila Brasileiro:

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Your aminules are adorkable moment of the week:

And also your animals are F***ING SCARY moment of the week, to balance things out:


Gym beast props this week go to Larry Wheels:


Jesus loves knockouts:


Our boy from MixedMollyWhoppery is back with a rather poetic breakdown of “The Notorious” Conor Macgregor’s fall from grace:


BLTV breaks down a comprehensive list of Deontay Wilder’s excuses for being beaten from pillar to post by Tyson Fury in their rematch:


Shufflin’ keeps things groovin’


#SteelVersusSteel

This next one will get our resident Badger sitting straight up at attention:

That’s right. Patty Gurdy in a metal song. No need to thank me for my sheer awesomeness in finding this and bringing it to you, it’s all part of the service around here.

Actually, we DO owe thanks to Dire Badger for pointing her out in the first place, so, y’know, credit where it’s due, etc. But yeah, she’s great.

RIP Alexi Laiho. I really miss CoB’s glory days.

RIP Mike Howe, too. We’ve lost a lot of great musicians of late…


Right, lads, here’s where I reward your patience for putting up with an awful lot of cocking about with the Instathot of the day to make your Monday a lot less miserable. This week’s train wreck starting Instaho goes by the name of Lindsay Nicole, and honestly, you DON’T get much thottier than her without going down the OnlySimps route. I have no idea how old she is or where she is from, but she’s got a pretty significant following on Instaham, and she was some sort of Bikini Model of the Month for some site at one point.

If you’re going to take bets on whether she is plastic or not, you’ll find no takers. She is very OBVIOUSLY enhanced, and on a Monday, trust me, that’s a GOOD THING.

All right, ya scurvy rats, up off yer backsides and off to swabbin’ the decks with ye. Millions of illegal aliens on welfare depend on YOU to give them lots of free shit, so back to work.

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13 Comments

  1. MrUNIVAC

    Eh, blaming PowerPoint for a lousy presentation is the same as blaming a gun for killing someone. The tool itself is not the problem – the person using it is. Most people don’t have great presentation skills to begin with and are terrified of public speaking, so they just copy all of their content to a PPT and read it, like some kind of boring-ass town crier. I pretty much tune out immediately when I see a presenter do this because I can read the slides much faster on my own time. That is the wrong way to use PowerPoint, and is coincidentally the most common way I’ve seen everyone besides me use it.

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    • Didact

      The tool itself is not the problem – the person using it is.

      I agree. However, the problem with PowerPointless is that it is specifically designed in such a way as to encourage you to abuse it and turn it into a crutch.

      I personally prefer to embrace simplicity and brevity with PowerPoint – simple slides, no fancy graphics, one key item per slide, minimal text. For whatever reason, I do not have a fear of public speaking – no idea why, it just doesn’t bother me the way it does most people. And I am told that I have a very “smooth” and “polished” delivery, so there’s that.

      But these are unusual attributes and I get that most people don’t share them. The fastest way to get good at PowerPoint is to practice, practice, practice at speaking from a clear and logical script that uses slides as visual aids and not crutches.

      Of course, most people will not bother with this, because, of course, MPAI.

      Reply
  2. Kapios

    The Alabama shark meme really made my day. However, the instathot not so much. She was a poor choice in my opinion.

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    • MrUNIVAC

      She’s got the look of a Playboy Playmate, and I’d be shocked if she wasn’t one at some point. Hef definitely had a type (busty bleach-blonde Marilyn Monroe look-alikes with an excessive amount of injection-moulding) and she fits it pretty closely.

      I’m generally against excessive plastic, but it looks all right on her.

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      • Didact

        It’s funny, looking at her, you’d think that Chevy could make an entire Corvette out of the amount of plastic she’s had pumped into her. But it works out OK overall. Yeah, she’s ridiculously overinflated, but that’s the point of the Monday Instathots – warning signs on Monday, classy ladies on Friday.

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  3. Robert W

    Agreement with Univac on the problem of PowerPoint: It’s the users, not the software. MPAI applies to presentations as well as the rest of life.

    Turek approaches the predestination/Calvinism/reformed problem of salvation from a logical/apologetic bent and has a good perspective. Dr. Michael Heiser comes at the same challenge from a biblical exegesis informed by the context of the writing…and of course, blows away the vapors of confusion and points out everyone is asking the wrong question:
    https://youtu.be/CfZdGgsbcoo

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    • Didact

      Dr. Michael Heiser comes at the same challenge from a biblical exegesis informed by the context of the writing…

      That video will duly be featured in next week’s Browser Melter, thank you for finding it. Yes I am also a big fan of Dr. Heiser – I really like his precise delivery and the way that he unpacks the Bible, particularly the Old Testament, by looking at the original Hebrew text and putting it all into context. He’s a true genius, that man.

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  4. Robert W

    Univac is right, powerpoint’s failures are because of the users. MPAI still holds true for presentations.

    Turek has a good angle on the predestined concept that infects western evangelical faith. Dr. Michael Heiser has a different approach but blows away a lot of the smoke with some simple biblical exegesis: https://youtu.be/CfZdGgsbcoo

    What’s nuts is that for most Christian teachers, what he does there in 10 minutes would be magnificent life work, to carve through the silliness of 10,000 arguments over generations. For Heiser, it’s just a sideshow to the real work he’s doing with his books like Unseen Realm and the Naked Bible podcast.

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  5. Jim S

    The best strategy I’ve read about powerpoint presentations came from one of Guy Kawasaki’s books. He had a 10-20-30 rule for powerpoint. Ten (10) slides, 20 minute presentation (which includes Q/A), and 30 pt font (which means 3 bullet points per slide). I’ve used this strategy numerous times, and has worked well. It means, know your material, because any drone can read from a slide.

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    • Didact

      Similar to my approach as well, if it were up to me I’d just have 10 slides and a simple presentation. Unfortunately, most people have a “more is more” approach to PowerPointless, and cram everything possible into one set of slides, which is idiotic. It doesn’t work and it just overtaxes the mind to the point where most people simply check out of a presentation, rather than listen to what you’re saying. I’ve done it more times than I can possibly count in just the last year alone.

      Whoever thought that adding animations and videos and all the rest to PowerPoint was a Good Idea, needs to have his head examined. It was a dumb idea and a terrible mistake.

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  6. JohnC911

    Hey Didactic,

    I try to open Voxday website Just a few hour ago. It is under review by Blogger.
    I try using a VPN of USA and Italy at this time and still not working.

    Just wondering if you can access it? or if you hear anything on this?

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    • Didact

      Confirmed. I see the same issue. Don’t worry too much about it. Google’s SJWs have been trying to take Vox’s site down for YEARS, but they’ve never been quite stupid enough to attack him directly.

      Even if they take the main site down, there are at least 4 different backups and mirrors of it – and those are just the ones I know about. I am pretty sure that the Supreme Dark Lord has quite a few more than that.

      His Voxness is well aware of the fear and loathing that his name inspires among the Googlers – he actually revels in it. This should be a lot of fun to watch – I recommend sitting back and grabbing some popcorn to enjoy the fireworks.

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