Here we are again at a Monday, that dreaded enemy of peace of mind, relaxation, and general human harmony, where we must all drag ourselves wearily back into work (or onto our sofas, if you are blessed and/or annoying enough to be one of those “remote worker” types), and login for a day of drudgery and misery.
However, let us run a thought experiment for a moment, and imagine that you are a musician, rather than just a boring ordinary person. Now imagine that you play in a band with a man named Frank Zappa, whose musical genius was almost surely on par with that of Beethoven or Mozart. (That is not a joke – take a look at the sheer range and versatility of his compositions and you’ll immediately see what i mean. He is what Mozart might have been, had he lived past 35 and had electronic amplification.)
And now, imagine that Zappa walks into the room and hands you a piece of sheet music that he calls “The Black Page”. It is literally a sheet of music that is so densely packed with notes that it might as well be a fully black page. And he tells you to play it – according to his notoriously high standards of perfection.
What, then, are you going to do?
This, by the way, is what it sounds like, played live, with not one, but TWO of the greatest drummers of all time on the skins:
By the way, Vinnie Colaiuta‘s skills as a drummer are totally underappreciated by the general public. The guy is a MONSTER on the drums, to a degree that is actually hard for most people to comprehend. There is an incredible story about his sight-reading skills, told over the years by Steve Vai, which has to been seen and heard to be believed:
I should note that I am not, personally, a big fan of Zappa – I just find the music way too discordant and weird. But I’ve seen Zappa Plays Zappa live twice, and I will readily admit that the music is, if anything, amazing from a purely technical perspective. It takes genuine virtuoso skill to play what Zappa created. So anyone who can play those songs, is a special talent to begin with – but the way that Vinnie and Terry Bozzio and others like them play, is something that simply cannot be taught.
The Mighty God-Emperor
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, has been hard on the fundraising trail of late, trying to get “America First” candidates into office – and with considerable success, I might add:
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Dawn of Battle
The Male Brain is back with some great vids to keep us entertained on a dismal day. We start with a video from Solid jj, who continues to kill it with his hilarious impressions:
Here’s a new channel called Pezzza’s Work, which provides a simulation of predators and prey using AI to figure out who or what might win:
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell provides some inspiration for us in these dark times:
ReasonTV wonders whether overly sensitive twats on Twatter are ruining literature [answer: YES, and the best way to deal with them is to read OBADSDL(PBUH)‘s seminal work on the subject, SJWs Always Lie]:
Poli-ticking Off
Mark Dice gets serious for a bit and talks about one of the strangest, yet truest, conspiracy theories out there, about the infamous Bohemian Grove:
Up until the Coof Scamdemic of 2020 and the madness that it inspired, it was easy to dismiss suggestions of some sort of weird sinister cabal of elites controlling the world and meeting in strange places to perform strange rituals.
I rather doubt that any one of us is laughing or sceptical now.
The Fallen and broken nature of this world is much easier to understand and analyse, once you adopt a mental model of it that centres around an immortal, prideful, deceitful, psychopathic intelligence that is quite literally Evil Incarnate. We Christians call it, “Satan”, the Prince of this world. Once you realise that he exists, is real, and is extraordinarily dangerous and deceitful, then almost everything you see around you begins to make far more sense.
Keep in mind, though, that this way of looking at the world is COMPLETELY different from any other. No other worldview adopts this message – not even modern Talmudic Judaism or Islam, and certainly not Hinduism, Buddhism, Gnosticism, or any of the other errant worldviews.
China Uncensored points out that the world’s most paranoid government just got hacked, badly:
Lord Razor of the Fist Clan rips the Fake President a new one over his inability to deal with state-level proof-of-eligibility voting laws:
Clayton Morris at Redacted explains that the USSA and its EUSSR lapdogs are doing their absolute best to start up WWIII in Ukraine, for real:
Дед Сварилвый Говорит!
Grandpa Grumpuss grumps, grumpily, and at length, about the sheer stupidity of believing that wunderwaffen will, by themselves, change the outcome of a war:
It’s All Greek To Us
The dynamic duo of The Duran have had their work cut out for them this past week, despite the slowdown in news coming from the Banderastan front. First up, Alexander Mercouris analyses the Neo-Tsar’s comments at that recent big meeting at the Kremlin, among other things:
His good friend and colleauge Alex Christoforou looks at the death of Shinzo Abe and the downfall of Bozo BoJo:
And in their joint programme, the Greeks interview the most excellent Larry Johnson – better by far than listening to Gonzalo Lira, that’s for damned sure:
Righteous Rantery
Paul Ramsey learns a surprising truth about himself:
PJW reminds us all that Bozo BoJo fell because he was utterly useless and incompetent, not because of a sex scandal:
Just when PommieBastardLande needed him the most, Jonathan Pie returns to explain why Bozo BoJo is gone:
Seriously, the only person that I’ve ever seen spit venom at the screen so fluently and fluidly, is His Razorness. This guy is like the Limey version of Lord Razor, with a cooler accent.
I mean, yeah, he’s a liberal twat – or rather, he IS PLAYED as a liberal twat.
Related – Led By Donkeys unpacks the full set of lies uttered by Bozo BoJo, and it’s quite a lengthy and dramatic one:
The lovely and charming Dr. Sam Bailey features an interview with investigator Eric Coppolino about how the prevalence of modern technology allowed COVID-19 to spread and take over our lives so fast:
Warriors of Faith
The Dizzle explains, very patiently, for the dim-witted, exactly how and why he is leaving TEH YOOTOOBZ:
Dr. Jay Smith from PfanderFilms and his good friend Al-Fadi announce a new series that will look into the Syro-Aramaic origins of the Koran:
Manly Men of Manliness
Terrence Popp points out a basic and absolute truth about female biology:
Joker from Better Bachelor notes that a woman reaps what she sows, just like the rest of us – but many such women are deeply unhappy about it:
Burn Paedowood to the Ground
Midnight’s Edge looks at Bore: Stuff and Blunder and concludes that it really isn’t very good:
Overlord Dicktor Van Doomcock notes that the House of the Devil Mouse’s current problems are ENTIRELY self-inflicted:
Gary from Nerdrotic is not in the least bit amused or interested by Amazog’s blasphemous take on The Master’s greatest work:
Ryan Kinel has a lot of good things to say about Chris Pratt‘s latest outing on the small screen:
The Drinker summarises, as only he can, the true awfulness of Bore: Stuff and Blunder:
Reading Too Much Into Things
Your “Science is F***ING WEIRD” moment of the week is from The Male Brain, and it’s all about how eating your broccoli and brussel sprouts is in fact good for you:
Antimicrobial resistance is among the top global health problems with antibacterial resistance currently representing the major threat both in terms of occurrence and complexity. One reason current treatments of bacterial diseases are ineffective is the occurrence of protective and resistant biofilm structures. Phytochemicals are currently being reviewed for newer anti-virulence agents. In the present study, we aimed to investigate the anti-virulence activity of 3,3′-diindolylmethane (DIM), a bioactive cruciferous phytochemical. Using a series of in vitro assays on major Gram-negative pathogens, including transcriptomic analysis, and in vivo porcine wound studies as well as in silico experiments, we show that DIM has anti-biofilm activity. Following DIM treatment, our findings show that biofilm formation of two of the most prioritized bacterial pathogens Acinetobacter baumannii and Pseudomonas aeruginosa was inhibited respectively by 65% and 70%. Combining the antibiotic tobramycin with DIM enabled a high inhibition (94%) of P. aeruginosa biofilm. A DIM-based formulation, evaluated for its wound-healing efficacy on P. aeruginosa-infected wounds, showed a reduction in its bacterial bioburden, and wound size. RNA-seq was used to evaluate the molecular mechanism underlying the bacterial response to DIM. The gene expression profile encompassed shifts in virulence and biofilm-associated genes. A network regulation analysis showed the downregulation of 14 virulence-associated super-regulators. Quantitative real-time PCR verified and supported the transcriptomic results. Molecular docking and interaction profiling indicate that DIM can be accommodated in the autoinducer- or DNA-binding pockets of the virulence regulators making multiple non-covalent interactions with the key residues that are involved in ligand binding. DIM treatment prevented biofilm formation and destroyed existing biofilm without affecting microbial death rates. This study provides evidence for bacterial virulence attenuation by DIM.
Your long read of the week is from Lance Welton, and discusses how the Left has gone completely berserk over the possibility that r/K selection theory might explain why certain races prefer breasts over butts in women:
A male primate who is not put off by, or even attracted to, breasts will stay with a female protecting her when she is in her most vulnerable state—during pregnancy and just after childbirth. For a female to select for such males improves her chances of successful reproduction. Moreover, in an environment where it is an advantage for males to stay with and support a female, a taste for breasts can keep the male investing in his own interest at the most critical time for support. In essence, permanent breasts had a pre-historic purpose of separating the men from the ‘f–kboys.’
This fits with the so-called r-K model of “Life History Strategy” popularized by J. Philippe Rushton. In a plentiful and unstable ecology, you need to pass on your genes quickly and abundantly, so you invest in promiscuous sex. In a harsh yet predictable ecology (a K-ecology), you need to invest in nurture or your offspring could all die. So you have fewer offspring with fewer women and you transfer energy away from “sex” and towards “nurture.”
Breasts are also indicator of how quickly a woman is aging, due to the way in which they droop. They indicate genetic quality. Is she worth investing in?
Francis tested this by using national IQ as a proxy for K—intelligence is selected for in harsher and more predictable environments and is associated with altruistic behaviour—and comparing it to Google Trends in relation to searches for “big ass,” “big boobs” and translations on these terms.
National IQ explained 64% of the variation is searches for “big boobs” and “big ass.”
He then repeated it using the whiteness percentage of American nations, including Brazil and Mexico, and various U.S. states. The correlation was 0.77.
If nothing else, this is a theory that is worth pursuing in rigourous detail. Certainly, if you were to judge by this site’s readership – not exactly a representative sample, admittedly, since our people are substantially smarter than the average, and of rather more discerning taste – then it’s not difficult to conclude that the theory has considerable merit to it, both for the author, and the audience.
Linkage is good for you:
- Maj. Scott Ritter points out the radical differences in the ways that Russia and the USA remember the darkest moments in their histories, and explains what this means for the ways in which the two countries fight;
- The great Dr. Ron Paul cannot help but note that the sanctions regime has benefited Russia and hurt America – which is the exact opposite of what was supposed to happen;
- Bernhard from Moon of Alabama has no patience whatsoever for whorenalists, dot-mil types, or politicians who “drink the Kool-Aid” with respect to 404 and how it’s “winning”, and I cannot help but agree with him;
- Helmholtz Smith did a guest post for Larry Johnson‘s site in which he absolutely destroyed this fantastical idea that NATO will somehow be able to stand up 300K soldiers to take on the ROOSKIES;
- Grandpa Grumpuss explains what the recent refitting of the Belgorod submarine with the new Poseidon drone-torpedoes really means in terms of the rapidly widening technological gap between the USSA and Russia;
- The Banderite ambassador to Germany finally got booted out of his job – though probably to fail upward – and RT did a great retrospective on the asshat’s career thus far;
- A dumbass Brazilian woman (and former model) went over to 404 to fight for Bandera, and the Russians sent her on her way to meet the man himself, in Hell;
- Quite hilariously, the coke-fiend and possible closet homo in charge of 404 will now “consider” a petition from “his people” asking to legitimise gay “marriage” – in a country that overwhelmingly hates homosexuals;
- In the wake of US Independence Day, Boyd D. Cathey asks whether Americans still understand what the Declaration of Independence was all about;
- If you’ve ever wondered why so many young White men are becoming radicalised, a young White man explains it in very simple, and very stark, terms, so that even an idiot liberaltard can understand it;
- Jacob Dreizen has decided to move away from purely military analysis of the 404 War to make broader comments about the globalist agenda, and ALL of it is very, very bad;
- Peter Hitchens points out that the British political system is in severe crisis, and cannot continue the way it is now;
- Things aren’t very much better in the USSA, and indeed are substantially worse in many ways, as Pat “Mr. Paleoconservative” Buchanan informs us;
- Brolon might be trolling, playing 4D chess, or just be looking out for his investments, but he has now cancelled his planned buyout of Twatter – so anyone counting on him to “save free speech” might want to find a new hero;
- Our Beloved and Dreaded Supreme Dark Lord (PBUH) Voxemort the Most Malevolent and Terrible explains the true nature of the challenge before us, in pithy and straightforward fashion;
- The Roeverturn has some quite amusing ramifications, such as this situation in which a pregnant woman claims that she should be able to use the HOV lane because she is carrying another person – and I can’t argue at all with her logic;
- On the lighter and nicer side of things, let’s all go “oooh!” and “aaaah!” over these amazing pictures of the Milky Way and other celestial objects;
And some more from Dawn Pine:
- The Chinks may be busy taking over everything here on Earth, but they also seem to have their sights set on the Moon – it’s an intriguing story, to be sure;
- Here’s a great way to make US$10K easily – buy a ticket on an overbooked flight, and then stick Delta Airlines with the bill;
- An excellent new book on the realities of statesmanship makes the very clear case that the idiotic Western obsession with equalitarianism needs to end, fast, in order to retrieve the art of statecraft;
- We’ve now moved from fake meat-world sexual assault, to fake virtual-world sexual assault – which just tells all of us that the Mike Pence Rule applies to ALL WORLDS;
- Everyone’s favourite agony aunt gives terrible advice to a guy who can’t get it up for his wife, but can for his lovers – he’s a cheating dipshit, but the adviser really needs to tell his wife to lose weight and get sexier;
- Yet another Russian tycoon dies in “mysterious circumstances”, which makes us wonder just how far the Neo-Tsar is willing to go in his war against Russia’s oligarch classes;
- Thanks to the Fake President and his Fake Administration, American pride in their country is hitting record lows (and the USSA isn’t really a country anymore);
- Just when you thought Floriduh couldn’t get any crazier, one county has now gone under quarantine because of an invasion of giant African snails – Lord, have mercy, Floriduh really is America’s version of Australia;
- A maths geek has come up with a model that he says can detect liars and push back against fake news – that’s all very well, but we must always remember that every mathematical model is only ever as good as its assumptions;
- Your “Crypto Winter is Coming” moment of the week – even some of the biggest Bitcoin evangelist companies are selling off their holdings to combat inflation and a worsening economic situation;
- An OnlySimps thot who used to be a teacher, went out and banged a random guy, who turned out to be a former student, then got knocked up with his baby – file under “civilisation collapse”, but at least her boobs are gigantic;
- For those of you who managed to struggle through The Night Land, you might remember some interesting future technologies, like powdered supplements made from “air” – well, that might not be sci-fi anymore;
- The Neo-Tsar himself has pointed out that, even as Western Europe reverts to coal and oil for power, the future is actually nuclear, and he is absolutely right;
- Northrop Grumman appears to be catching up with Russia on the subject of detecting and defeating stealth technology – which is ironic, given that this is the very same Northrop that manufactures the US$2B-a-pop Spirit bomber;
MUH RUSHIAN KAHLOOOOOZHUN!!!
The Neo-Tsar made the collective West crap its pants with just one simple sentence:
Those Who Fail To Learn From History…
History lessons of the week:
Your Great Man of the Week is the man who conquered the tallest mountain on Earth:
HALO Nation
Slayergod Remy aka Mint Blitz has huge news about 343i’s proposed content release for HMCC:
Yeah, that really does sound absolutely full-on amazeballs.
Now let’s watch him doing his thing:
That’s Not Gone Well…
Wazzocks gonna wazzock:
Kitchen Nightmares with the Angry Scot:
Comedy hour:
Pictionary, Pulchritude, Pew-Pews
We start with an excellent, and entirely true, meme from our good friend Dawn Pine:
Another one from Dawn Pine:
More:
Onward:
I have no sympathy for Griner. NONE. The Russian Federation has VERY CLEAR LAWS about bringing marijuana products into their country, and they enforce them rigourously. That is part of the reason why, when you walk the streets of Moscow, you aren’t constantly subjected to the awful stink of weed – unlike, say, London or New York.
Headlines of the week indicate that people in Floriduh have lost their damn minds:
That may or may not have actually happened in Floriduh, but I’m sticking to my theory.
Your “Old-Ass Shit” moment of the week:
Your “Fat Chance” moment of the week:
Your “Murder Hornets” moment of the week:
Your “Why I Stopped Reading” moment of the week:
Your “Karma Chameleon” moment of the week:
Your “Snail’s Pace” moment of the week:
Alligators aren’t quite as absurd and terrifying as we might think, though:
Animal Planet
Your aminules are adorkable moment of the week:
And also your animals are absolute DICKS moment of the week, to balance things out:
And finally, your “Meanwhile, in Russia” moment of the week:
That is one of the most intelligent wild cats in the world, and, amazingly, it actually behaves a lot like a big dog.
The Lords of Steel
Gym beast props this week go to Jamal Browner:
Curing the Monday Blues
Before we get to the really heavy stuff, here is a good one from LRFotS Robert W of a great song from the true legend, B.B. King, which is rather apropos given what we are all going through right now:
Livin’ in the Land of the Metal Gods
Hot Totty
Let’s finish up with your Instathot to get the work off to an appropriately tawdry start. This here is Darina Litvinova (Дарына Литвинова), age 30, from Kiev in Banderastan. She is, and I quote, “a Ukrainian fashion and adult model who has worked for FEMJOY Met-Art, Errotica Archives and Zemani. She studied architecture and landscape design in the National Academy of Managerial Staff of Culture and Arts of Kiev.”
So, y’know, SAYOR (search at your own risk). Regular readers will recognise her from my follow-up to that story about the English dude who let a Ukrainian move in with him and his baby-mama, and then it all went kind of pear-shaped from there.
And speaking of risk, you’ll be at risk of a hidin’ if you don’t get back to work, so get lost already.
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EvolvingAI predator simulation: This is a remarkable video. I was surprised how the prey population resembled schools of fish being harassed by ocean predators in those nature documentaries, teeming together just by reproduction. Nice to note that the productive, not the predatory, are the survivors in the end. Man does not live by conquest alone.
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ReasonTV on the novel: A sensitivity reader to edit and modify a fictional story to protect the author from the Twitterati is a terrible trend. May the independent publishers rise to the top.
Authors: As always, don’t apologize. The enemy is not sincere.
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Ryan Kinel has a good point about Amazon’s Terminal List.
Rotten Tomatoes gives it an average of 43% from critics but 91% from the people. I didn’t care much for the book, the characters are flat and the story is poorly paced…but it has captured the attention of three men in my circle who don’t read books and have read all four of the books so far. The same crap we give Amazon for Woke-ing LOTR, they deserve some head nods for tackling this very masculine (toxic!!) series with Pratt, who is rapidly becoming a deplorable.
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“National IQ explained 64% of the variation is searches for “big boobs” and “big ass.”
He then repeated it using the whiteness percentage of American nations, including Brazil and Mexico, and various U.S. states. The correlation was 0.77.”
These are non-trivial correlations! A rigorous investigation is indeed encouraged.
I expect that the very high ratio of [Breast Enhancement] : [Butt Enhancement] fits this theory as well. (Per Statista, 2020: 2.5mil breast procedures to .4mil butt = 6:1) The lady knows to play to the upper male bracket of IQ for resources. She will have a higher ROI for airbags in the front than a bumper in the back.
As always….just doing squats and deadlifts and you don’t need augmentation there.
A fine Monday mind expander as always, Godspeed Didact.
I binged Terminal List this weekend on a free trial of Prime. I agree that it was excellent. The most ridiculous claims are that it’s “anti-woke.” It’s just not, it has nothing in it about wokeness, or Reece smoking a trannie or a disabled black person or anything like that. The anti-woke story line seems to be completely made up, but I can’t tell which side’s PR firm thought of it.