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Monday morning Faceborg fails

by | Oct 11, 2021 | Mondays | 6 comments

Oh balls, not another Monday. The holidays are well and truly over for me, sadly – I landed back to Earth with a very solid bump the other day, and over the last few days I have spent rather more time than was strictly healthy in contemplating just how much shit I have to get done over the next 3 months before the sweet release of the year-end holidays. It’s a big old pile of crap, most of it involving teamwork – which means that yer very ‘eavy, very ‘umble servant will inevitably end up doing a lot of the work, because that’s how teamwork actually goes.

In case you’re new here, “teamwork” is well understood to mean that the one or two people involved who aren’t complete f**k-ups, are the ones who get saddled with all of the work, while everyone else is either too stupid or too incompetent to do anything useful.

It’s a dark point of view, I admit – but it’s also true.

Things could always be worse, of course. I got into the gym yesterday and was VERY pleased to discover that, even after more than 2 weeks out, I was still more than capable of squatting 308lbs, benching 220lbs, and deadlifting 418lbs. You don’t get to those kinds of numbers by accident – it takes YEARS to get to that level, especially if you start out with shitty genetics like I did.

From your point of view, the only way that this day could possibly be worse, is if the Great Mondaydact Browser Burner did not exist. Fear not, my friend, I’ve been very busy, but not that busy. So here it is.

The big news from the past week was, of course, the massive Facebook outage – actually, there were two of them – that took down not only Faceborg, but also Instaham and ThotsApp. Millions of people around the world had to look up from their phone screens and cried out in horror as the blinding sunlight flooded their eyes – and then marvelled at the sheer quality of the graphics of their environment, which their phones can never seem to match.

The best minds of teh innarwebz did not miss the opportunity to mock Zuckerborg and his abominable creation, of course:

Despite the comedy, though, there was something serious behind it all. Facebook essentially ceased to exist on the internet because some dumbass in the company literally deleted their DNS profile:

For those of you who don’t speak geek – and you’re a lot better off for that, trust me – this essentially amounts to failing Internet Security 101. Despite being something like a TRILLION-DOLLAR COMPANY in terms of market capitalisation and not far short of that in terms of actual enterprise value (long story), the company’s IT department doesn’t have the sense that God gave a honey badger and apparently doesn’t back up some of the most critical files that they use in order to register their presence on the web.

As a result, they lost the files that allow them to show up on teh innarwebz, and didn’t restore those files for hours. They simply nuked themselves off the planet, as far as the rest of us were concerned.

It was a pretty epic own-goal, to be honest, and I for one would NOT be unhappy if it happened again, this time permanently. WhatsApp is already a rather inferior messaging platform to Telegram in some ways. I only use Instaham to find thots for you lot. And I flatly refuse to use Facebook. From my perspective, if Facebook simply ceased to exist, we would all be happier, healthier, and more secure for it.

Let’s see if the Zuckerbot and Facebuchenwald learn anything from this. My bet is that they won’t – I’ve heard some interesting things about the way that they write their actual code in PHP, and apparently it’s absolutely appallingly terrible work, which tells me that they aren’t exactly hiring the best and most sensible IT engineers to work there. But time will tell.

Meanwhile – do yourself a favour and stop using their shit. It’s not good for you.


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, held an absolutely GIGANTIFEROUS rally in Iowa the other day, dropping his biggest hint yet that he will run in 2024:

Good for him. I genuinely wish him well and I hope that he DOES run in 2024, just to give the Establishment and the Deep State the biggest stomach upset it has ever experienced. But it is likely a lost cause. The Deep State knows full well exactly how to manipulate the voting process, so that the Republicans will never install another President in the White House again – or at least, so that no outsider Republican can do so.

The Daemoncrats and the Deep State are, at this point, one and the same. The very few honest Democrats who want a free and fair election process, no longer have a voice in the party – see e.g. Tulsi Gabbard and Andrew Yang. It is over. Democracy in the USA is dead.

And good bloody riddance to it.


#BasedTucker is based:

Watch the FOX promos about their 25th anniversary very carefully. You know whose name is missing from that list?

Bill O’Reilly.

Now, personally, I found Mr. O’Reilly to be a loudmouthed blowhard whose commentary did little to enlighten or educate me. I hardly ever listened to him. (I gather that he was a very good writer, but I’ve never read his books either.) Even so, it is impossible to argue that FOX could have succeeded without him, and without Roger Ailes.

Of course, both men were rather conveniently implicated in serious ethics violations and sexual harassment scandals, which have utterly trashed their reputations and forced them both out of public life – and Mr. Ailes isn’t around anymore to defend himself. So who knows what really happened. All I can say is that FOX is being rather slippery in advertising its 25th birthday without giving credit where it’s bloody well due.


Mark Dice explains what that Faceborg “whistleblower” is really after – here’s a hint, it isn’t more transparency and accountability from the company, it’s more censorship from the GOVERNMENT:


Dave from Blue Collar Logic has a rather interesting interview with the intriguing and erudite Dr. Gad Saad:

I have a rather low opinion of professional psychologists in general – personal experience plays into that at some level, of course. But Dr. Saad is interesting because he has the courage to say things that others don’t, and he doesn’t have any problems with calling out hypocrisy when he sees it, whether in his profession or elsewhere.


Jason Siler notes that the Project Veritas videos leaked out of Pfizer’s rear end prove what most of us knew all along – that natural immunity is vastly more effective against the Coof than the disingenuously labelled “vaccines”:

The Pfizer (and Moderna) mRNA shots are not “vaccines” in any realistic sense. They do not prevent you from getting the dreaded Coof (which actually isn’t that scary). They simply stop you from getting too sick. They are actually gene therapies, not vaccines, and very dangerous ones at that.


Bill Whittle and his good buddy Alfonzo Rachel discuss the very masculine virtue of honour (yes, my American friends, THAT is how you spell it):


The Male Brain has plenty to share with us to distract from this most miserable of days. We start with a very important movie trailer. Before we all charge into movie theatres to watch DUNE 2021, to figure out whether they adapted Frank Herbert’s masterpiece faithfully or not (spoiler alert: Denis Villeneuve mostly did, but he sure screwed the pooch in a few places), let’s take a look back with the Screen Junkies guys at the last big DUNE film, directed by David Lynch all the way back in 1984:

I’ve seen that movie – about half a lifetime ago – on DVD. It was HUGELY ambitious, but hugely flawed as well. David Lynch did the best he could to adapt a probably unadaptable book into a movie, but he also peppered the adaptation with a lot of fairly signature “Lynchisms” that made it much more difficult to follow than it should have been.

And, when your production process starts two years before a shot is ever even filmed, then you’ve got a bit of a problem. That’s what happened with DUNE 1984 – the producers began working on the sets years before the first shoots took place.

It’s been a while since we had good ol’ Dave Cullen here, so let’s have him explain how superhero films squash free thinking:

Prager U explains how one of the greatest, and most controversial, Founding Fathers, Alexander Hamilton, laid the foundations for the capitalist system that drove America to greatness:

Hamilton is highly controversial because he embraced a big government philosophy that was directly at odds with the desires of more liberty-minded Founders, like Jefferson. And his mercantilist ideas and policies certainly did not sit well with the spirit of the times. Lots of libertarians really don’t like the guy. I didn’t, when I was a libertarian.

These days, as a Christian Nationalist, I tend to be a bit more forgiving of Hamilton’s views. It’s important to take the good with the bad – his ideas were brilliant, and he certainly was a great man, but his arrogance and pride were his undoing.

Dude got his ass shot by none other than the Vice President, which didn’t happen again until Dick Cheney accidentally shot his friend with buckshot.

Now here’s a fascinating video from an Odysee channel called Two Bit da Vinci about whether plasma engines are ready and viable:

There tend to be issues with Odysee embeds in WordPress, as far as I can tell, so if you have problems, here’s the link to the vid.

The snarky folks over at thejuicemedia break down the AUKUS treaty agreement, which has managed to simultaneously piss off the Frogs and the Chinks – that’s quite an achievement:


Paul Ramsey makes a rather good case (in a disrupted stream, unfortunately) for a national divorce between the Red and Blue states:


The lovely and charming Dr. Sam Bailey discusses the finer details of RT-PCR tests, as applied to the Coof, with a real expert in the field:

Again, if you have issues viewing that, use this link instead.


The Dizzle did a very good, and very funny, livestream with his good buddy, The Apostate Prophet, about whether or not the Izzlamist Dance appeals to him (hint: NO):

You know what’s funny?

Dr. Wood is a hardcore Christian apologist and polemicist. Ridvan is a hardcore atheist and former Muslim. Yet both of them get along very well with each other and have a great dynamic together. Why? Because Ridvan isn’t a militant atheist. He’s just a good guy who isn’t at all convinced by various religions.

Those are the kinds of atheists that eventually make for some of the best Christians, by the way. I’m not saying that because I used to be one – I’m a VERY bad Christian, and no one with an iota of sense should follow my example in anything. But Ridvan is just a genuinely good guy. He’ll do very well when he finally sees the light of Jesus and comes over to the Righteous Path.


While we’re talking about Ridvan – here is the full debate that The Apostate Prophet did with Izzlamic apologist, Dr. Abdul Majid, on the subject of whether or not Islam is true:

Personally, I would not have taken the tack that Ridvan did with this subject. Islam cannot withstand historical, textual, source, or literary criticism of any kind – the moment you actually examine any of its claims against the evidence that we have from real history, you will find that NOT ONE SINGLE ASSERTION OR CLAIM made by Islamic sources is even remotely supportable. You can destroy Islam simply by looking at the historical evidence and comparing it with what is in the Koran, the hadith, the Sirah (there are several of those biographies, in fact), and the tafsir and tahriq.

Ridvan instead chose to look at Islam on its own claims within the context of an Islamic worldview, rather than forcing the Izzlamist to face up to what the objective evidence says. I think he did an excellent job overall, but it simply isn’t what I would have done in a similar situation.


Dr. Jay Smith from PfanderFilms and his pipe-smoking friend from France, Odon Lafontaine, continue to unpack the numismatic evidence against Islam:


Al-Fadi from CIRA International talks Trinity with two of his good friends:


Dr. Frank Turek from Cross Examined asks Dr. Michael Heiser a very pertinent question:

Dr. Heiser is a remarkable scholar, but he has been struck down with pancreatic cancer, apparently. Pray for him – he is a truth-seeker of the first order, whose pellucid examinations of the ancient Hebrew texts of the Old Testament make Bible study very rewarding indeed.


China Uncensored notes that the PRC can’t invade the DRC yet – but will definitely be able to do so by 2025:

This is where it gets interesting. Suppose that the God-Emperor runs for office. We know that he will look like he will win for quite some time. But the Deep State won’t let him – we know that too. So what does this mean for China?

The Chinese know that if the God-Emperor wins, they will have to defer their reunification plans for Taiwan for another 4 years, at least, because the God-Emperor will make them suffer terribly. But this all hinges on the assumption that the Chinese know, or at least believe, that he will win.

If the Chinese think the same way that we do, and reckon that the Deep State won’t permit the God-Emperor’s return, then they will likely invade Taiwan at their leisure, because they know that America cannot or will not intervene.

But, if the Chinese believe that Trump will win somehow in 2024, then they are much more likely to invade now.

It’s a very puzzling game of chess with a lot of possible moves available to all players.


America Uncovered exposes the reality of supposedly “clean” solar energy:


Jared Taylor from American Renaissance asks a rather pertinent question:


Terrence Popp breaks down the realities of civil war:


Midnight’s Edge looks closely at the upcoming Hellraiser reboot:


Overlord Dicktor Van Doomcock plays a dirge for James Bond in the wake of No Time to Die:


Gary from Nerdrotic didn’t much care for the film either:


The Drinker FINALLY managed to put down the Scotch long enough to pick up his game controller and play the Final Fantasy 7 Remake game, and he really enjoyed it, despite being drunk as a skunk:


Your “Science is F***ING WEIRD” moment of the week is from Dawn Pine, and examines how a Tunguska-level asteroid impact likely wiped out Sodom and Gomorrah:

We present evidence that in ~ 1650 BCE (~ 3600 years ago), a cosmic airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam, a Middle-Bronze-Age city in the southern Jordan Valley northeast of the Dead Sea. The proposed airburst was larger than the 1908 explosion over Tunguska, Russia, where a ~ 50-m-wide bolide detonated with ~ 1000× more energy than the Hiroshima atomic bomb. A city-wide ~ 1.5-m-thick carbon-and-ash-rich destruction layer contains peak concentrations of shocked quartz (~ 5–10 GPa); melted pottery and mudbricks; diamond-like carbon; soot; Fe- and Si-rich spherules; CaCO3 spherules from melted plaster; and melted platinum, iridium, nickel, gold, silver, zircon, chromite, and quartz. Heating experiments indicate temperatures exceeded 2000 °C. Amid city-side devastation, the airburst demolished 12+ m of the 4-to-5-story palace complex and the massive 4-m-thick mudbrick rampart, while causing extreme disarticulation and skeletal fragmentation in nearby humans. An airburst-related influx of salt (~ 4 wt.%) produced hypersalinity, inhibited agriculture, and caused a ~ 300–600-year-long abandonment of ~ 120 regional settlements within a > 25-km radius. Tall el-Hammam may be the second oldest city/town destroyed by a cosmic airburst/impact, after Abu Hureyra, Syria, and possibly the earliest site with an oral tradition that was written down (Genesis). Tunguska-scale airbursts can devastate entire cities/regions and thus, pose a severe modern-day hazard.

The Wrath of God, made real – and, yet again, THE BIBLE IS TRUE. So THERE.


Your long read of the week is also from The Male Brain, and concerns how Germany will carry on after Kampfuhrer Frau Merkel finally leaves office after 16 years of general failure:

Merkel’s adventures in Germany’s “near abroad” (to borrow a not entirely inappropriate Russian phrase), the EU, have also been marked by the lack of any strategic vision. She is not to blame for the euro or its innate structural flaws. However, all too typically, she dodged making the difficult decision she should have taken when the inevitable crisis struck. The best methods of reconciling her twin objectives of saving the euro while preventing the euro zone’s transformation into a “transfer union” (in which its more frugal north subsidized the euro zone’s laggards) would have been either to cut the euro zone’s weakest members loose or to have split the euro into “northern” and “southern” units. These options would have been risky and in all probability expensive, but they would have been preferable to the course she eventually set for the euro zone: bailouts and the accompanying austerity that preserved a procrustean currency but ruined the lives of millions. And even this victory — if that’s the word — will, in the end, prove to be Pyrrhic. The Brussels ratchet is what it is.

Merkel’s commitment to a more closely integrated EU is one limited by her insistence that it should be run on German lines, especially when it comes to the question of living within its means. Nevertheless, in 2009 she was sufficiently communautaire to force through the Lisbon Treaty as a device to enact the proposed EU constitution that had previously been felled by two key referenda. That Merkel would set out to bypass voters in this way was evidence of an authoritarian strain (the social-media law was another) that has revealed itself rather too often.

Opinions differ over whether Britain’s quitting was a good thing for the EU, but there can be no doubt that the Lisbon Treaty played an important part in setting the U.K. on the path to Brexit — a path made even easier by the euro zone’s prolonged agony and then by Merkel’s unilateral decision to suspend the EU’s Dublin procedure on asylum seekers and open Germany’s doors during the migrant crisis, less than a year before the Brexit vote. Even after all that, Brexit was approved only by a narrow margin: If Merkel had indulged British prime minister David Cameron with a spot of even mildly convincing pre-referendum kabuki, Brexit would, quite possibly, have been voted down. Indeed, if any one EU politician was responsible for Brexit, it was Merkel. In 2015, The Economist described her as the “indispensable European,” in no small part because of her behavior during the migrant crisis. That may or may not have been true (spoiler: it was not), but she was certainly the indispensable, if accidental, Brexiteer.

The conclusion (so far) of the migrant crisis was that 890,000 refugees and other migrants arrived in Germany in 2015, followed by a much smaller number the next year (after an about-turn by Berlin), furnishing final confirmation of what had long been obvious. Whatever its people may have wanted, and however much its governments had, against all the evidence, denied it, Germany had become a Migrationsland. And for what? In the mean­time, this influx completed the transformation of AfD from a Euro­skeptic Professorenpartei into post-war Germany’s most successful party of the nationalist-populist Right, a Merkel legacy that must disappoint her bien-pensant fans.


Linkage is good for you:

And some more from Dawn Pine:


The Neo-Tsar shows just how smart he is by predicting the Europe-wide natural gas shortage – years ago:

That was 11 years ago. And he was absolutely right.

The Europeans are running around screaming because they can’t get enough natural gas to heat their homes for winter. They blame the Russians for it. This is PROFOUNDLY IDIOTIC. The reality is that the Euzis can’t figure out arse from elbow and get their own gas supplies up and running. They don’t want fracking, they don’t want coal, they don’t want oil, they don’t want nuclear.

They just want hippy-dippy eco-friendly “solar” and “wind” power. But, being European, therefore functionally retarded when it comes to the basics of energy policy, they don’t seem to quite get that these methods of power generation are very “dirty” and quite unreliable.

It’s their own bloody fault that they can’t heat their homes in winter now. The Russians are doing just fine, and making a killing off of Europe’s stupidity, as they rightly can and should.


And while we’re on the subject of Russia, here are your history lessons of the week from The Male Brain:


Your Great Man of the Week is the legendary Native American warrior, Big Chief Sitting Bull:


HALO: MCC has a big update in the works:

And now over to Mint Blitz for some more redonkulasness:


Wazzocks gonna wazzock:


Kitchen Nightmares with the Angry Scot:


Comedy hour from The Male Brain, consisting of perhaps the second-funniest comedian (and also second-funniest Jeff) alive today:

The funniest is, of course, the LEGENDARY Jeff Foxworthy:


Pics, guns, girls, starting with a great meme from the legendary Bob Hope:

He also sent me some hilarious memes via another social media platform that we both use:

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Can relate

As far as I’m concerned, if a boss does that, it should be legitimate grounds for a “workplace accident”.

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Onward:

It’s very simple – all those muscles don’t leave enough blood floating around for making smart political decisions

Headlines of the week indicate that wild boars have better taste in music than might be apparent at first:

This one doesn’t require a craption:

And… uh… well, neither does this one:

Your “OMFG NUKE IT FROM ORBIT!” moment of the week:

Your “Spelling Matters” moment of the week:

Your “Media InConsistency” moment of the week:

See Jeff Dunham – he must be absolutely KILLING IT right now
I mean… it’s a very good point…
Protestant Reformation 2.0 in 3… 2… 1…
The people behind New Coke do New Math too…
Oh shit…
SO THERE!
THANK YOU, GOD!

Your aminules are adorkable moment of the week:

And also your animals are absolute DICKS moment of the week, to balance things out:

OK, technically, that was a “HUMANS are absolute DICKS” moment. But, to be honest, I HATE ticks.


Gym beast props this week go to Russell Orhi:


Wise Uncle Chael the American Gangster breaks down Fury vs Wilder 3:

I watched the full fight replay on teh YOOTOOBZ the day after. It was a classic fight with awesome back-and-forth moments, but there is no doubt in my mind that Fury won that fight outright on all of the rounds except the 1st, 4th, and 5th, before the TKO came.

Tyson Fury is GOOD for boxing, no question or doubt about that.


Jesus loves knockouts:


Shufflin’ keeps things groovin’:


#ByTheHonourOfTheBlade


All right, gents, those were the shots, here’s the chaser, by way of your Instathot to get the week started. This week’s specimen goes by the name of Ally Rose, from Marina Del Ray, Clownipornia, USA, evidently in her early 20s. She’s pretty business-savvy, judging by how thoroughly she has her media accounts specced out to get endorsements and collaborations. As thots go, she’s one of the more street-smart ones, I suppose.

OK, chaps, that’s it, sorry for the delays, but it’s time to get back to work, which means YOU TOO need to get off your butt and back to the grind.

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6 Comments

  1. Bardelys the Magnificent

    I’m almost willing to overlook the shitty tattoo. Almost.

    Reply
    • Didact

      I actually didn’t notice it until you pointed it out – admittedly I was in a bit of a hurry putting it all together, but now that I see it, you’re right. She’s HOT, but the tattoo ruins her in a lot of ways.

      Such a small thing ruins so much… it’s like that old saying about how a drop of wine in mud does nothing to the mud, but a drop of mud in wine ruins the wine.

      Reply
  2. MrUNIVAC

    I quit Facebook cold turkey in 2016, after a coworker called me a misogynist for correctly pointing out that Trump said “they let you do it” in that infamous video, and women were losing their minds over it they knew damn well that they’d let any billionaire or celebrity, Trump included, “do it” due to their inbuilt hypergamy. I haven’t really missed it at all. If you don’t meet up with someone in real life, or at a minimum call them up and talk to them with your voice, they aren’t your “friend.” They’re a pen pal.

    Also, most people either don’t realize, or intentionally fail to understand, that whatever you’re seeing on Facebook is carefully curated to generate the reaction that the user wants out of people, and is in no way representative of what their actual day-to-day life is really life. MrsUNIVAC in particular had a really hard time with that.

    Reply
    • Robert W

      Getting off Facebook is a bigger step towards healthy living than losing weight, lifting weights, or ceasing smoking. The number of brain cycles squandered on this repeat high school sandbox is appalling.

      Like Mr. Univac, I am glad I got out years ago and my wife suspended her account last week.

      The carefully curated content trap is real, even before progressive tumblrinats inside Facebook get started on it.
      The reliably funny Ryan George nails the algorithm problem in this sketch:
      https://youtu.be/x1aZEz8BQiU

      I expect the negative impacts are even worse for the female mind that is more attuned to other people’s opinions than the male mind.

      Reply
      • Didact

        I expect the negative impacts are even worse for the female mind that is more attuned to other people’s opinions than the male mind.

        Most assuredly. Women seek validation for their life choices through Facebook, Instagram, and their equivalents in other areas. Far too many of them try to validate their AWFUL life choices through attention from thirsty men. Without it, they wither and die. I’ve seen it happen all too often, and it’s terrible to watch.

        A man can go into the woods and be alone for days and weeks without too many problems – though it takes a special type of man, and probably not a very healthy one, to shun all company for such long periods. A woman, on the other hand, would be driven nearly insane by such an effort.

        Reply
    • Didact

      If you don’t meet up with someone in real life, or at a minimum call them up and talk to them with your voice, they aren’t your “friend.” They’re a pen pal.

      Correct. I never did quite understand the point of making all of those “friends” through Facebook. It’s the same with LinkedIn, as well – the actual utility of that tool is quite small, it just provides a platform for people to signal their virtue and make random connections that don’t mean a damned thing in real life.

      Also, most people either don’t realize, or intentionally fail to understand, that whatever you’re seeing on Facebook is carefully curated to generate the reaction that the user wants out of people, and is in no way representative of what their actual day-to-day life is really life.

      Well exactly. Instagram is even worse in this regard. Case in point: not too long ago I was in the company of a lovely lady, and we happened to come across a beautiful gold Lamborghini Huracan Spyder parked by a fancy hotel. The owner had imprinted his Instaham handle on the window. My fair companion naturally insisted on taking lots of pictures with it, which was fine and dandy. But we then went and looked up that chap’s Instaham handle, and of course, we discovered that the guy in question lives a picture-perfect life at one of the fanciest addresses in the city, and owns several serious performance cars.

      Is he actually successful? Does he actually have any real skills in life? Or is he merely a crypto-millionaire, or a trust-fund baby? We don’t know. And both of us agreed that he certainly didn’t look mature enough to be someone capable of creating that kind of wealth through hard work and real effort.

      You’d never know that by his Instaham page, of course. And that’s the point.

      Reply

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