Egads! ‘Tis Monday again. Ah, weekend, we barely knew ye… I surely am not the only one that goes into blank verse when confronted with the horrors of Monday, but this one isn’t all bad. Earlier today, I retrieved my tabletop standing desk from storage, which was quite a feat – not least because the damn thing weighs a full TWENTY FIVE KILOS, AT LEAST, and was a BITCH to carry back home, even with a ride.
Nonetheless, I finally have my home office setup just the way I like it – with my work and home laptops setup side by side, and with the ability to stand and work on a stable surface PROPERLY, with good posture.
If you have never used a standing desk before, I HIGHLY recommend you get one. It is pricey up front, but I assure you, the long-term investment in your posture, alertness, and general productivity is completely worth it. Something like this is a very good option for anyone interested in taking an existing static surface and turning it into a proper standing desk.
Be all of that as it may – and as exhausting as it was getting the stupid giant lump of metal and plywood out of storage – that is not the purpose of the Great Mondaydact Browser Slayer. No, it is rather to entertain, amuse, and educate – more or less in that order, descending.
So let’s start with the second part of the film adaptation of the greatest sci-fi novel of all time:
I have to say, Dune is, by my personal reckoning, just about impossible to film – but Denis Villeneuve sure gives it a damn fine showing. I haven’t yet managed to get through the first instalment of the film, but from what I did see – right up to the point where the Atreides family left Caladan – it looked GOOD.
Furthermore, from what little I did see of that first movie, there was precious little THE MESSAGE nonsense – to quote our infamously drunken Scottish friend – in that film. All of the male characters – Leto, Paul, Gurney, Duncan – come across as manly men of manliness. They are courageous, stoic, tough, skilled, and measured, as they bloody well ought to be.
So, let’s see how things go with the conclusion to Dune. Heck, even the 1984 David Lynch take on the book wasn’t actually that bad (though Baron Harkonnen was a bit… weird).
(Credit for today’s epic headline image goes to our good friend, The Male Brain.)
#BasedTucker is Based
Our man in the field appeared on remarkably awakened former hellraiser Russell Brand‘s channel, for an in-depth interview, and it was a very good one:
Dawn of Battle
The Male Brain has been exceptionally busy supplying us with great material this week. We start with a Cracked vignette, explaining what perfume would be like if they actually told you the TROOF about how much you’re shelling out for their shit:
On that subject – have you ever read a book called Perfume, by Patrick Suskind? Basically, it is about a man who has no scent, himself, but has an extraordinary sense of smell. Well worth reading. The movie adaptation of it is also excellent. Highly recommended.
Alexander Grace crunches ALL THE DATAS!!! to show just how badly off-piste the Sexual Market Place has gone, at least in the West (and, actually, in most of the rest of the world, too), particularly with women:
The Babylon Bee explains what would actually happen if aliens did, in fact, invade – basically, we’d confuse the hell out of them with our insane gender ideology:
A species advanced enough to figure out faster-than-light travel, is not going to be stupid enough to argue there are 150 genders (or whatever bonkers number we are on now).
Equator AI tells you what ancient languages would have sounded like:
Ancient Aramaic apparently sounded a lot like Hebrew – which, actually, is not surprising, as they are cousin languages.
(Y’all know there are people who still speak Aramaic? They even sing the ancient Christian hymns in it, which is every bit as incredible as you might think.)
And more of the same:
SWNS points out a genius in the making:
Imagine This explains what a Biblically accurate Hell would actually look like:
In fact, even THAT is wrong.
The truth about Hell is FAR more horrifying than you can ever imagine. It is, indeed, a place of eternal suffering, burning, and torment…
… but it is also one of perpetual loneliness.
The reality of Hell, as the Bible points out repeatedly, is that it is a place of eternal torture and torment, of gloom and darkness, of pain and fire – and the “darkness” and “fire” are NOT mutually exclusive, as the video points out. But the absolute WORST part, the truly HORRIFYING part, is that you will suffer through ALL of it, COMPLETELY AND TOTALLY ALONE.
Imagine being put in solitary confinement, to thirst, starve, freeze, burn, and suffer.
Now imagine having to do that FOREVER.
THAT is Hell. It is a place of eternal torment, because it is a place of absolute and complete separation from God.
The worst part of it all, though, is that those who end up in Hell, CHOOSE to be there. And that makes it somehow even more horrible.
Moving on from such a cheerful subject – EC Henry does a legitimate scientific comparison of the various warp speeds of the ships in the Star Trek franchise:
Apparently some Very Strange Things happen when you go past Warp 10, and I seem to remember, from my thoroughly misspent YOOT (in the sense that, while other boys were running around having fun with girls, I wasted mine on nerd lore, because I was fat and geeky), that something happened in Star Trek: Voyager, wherein the ship went past Warp 10, and then Chakota and Janeway transformed into giant worms and did strange things…
… or whatever. I really can’t be bothered to go look it up, that’s what Goolag is for. Have at it.
Poli-ticking Off
Mark Dice asks a really rather good question about why wholesome White couples don’t feature in commercials anymore:
The situation is every bit as smelly in other Western nations. If you watch TV commercials from PommieBastardLande, for instance, you will come away convinced that every couple in the country is half-Black, half-Muslim, or entirely gay.
Anyone who thinks there is not an all-out war on White people, needs to wake the hell up.
Jackson Hinkle points out the rather smelly situation with the ongoing Ukrainian meat-scraping efforts:
PJW offers up a very simple and straightforward explanation for that “mysterious” bag of nose-powder found in the White House recently:
ะะตะด ะกะฒะฐัะปะธะฒัะน ะะพะฒะพัะธั!
Grandpa Grumpuss grumps, grumpily, about the sheer idiocy of the things coming out of the mouths of NATO military “leaders” these days:
Itโs All Greek To Us
The good gentlemen of The Duran explain the serious threat posed to USD hegemony by the Russian-initiated gold-backed BRICS wholesale currency for trade settlements:
This is, indeed, going to be a very serious threat to the USD’s hegemony, and by extension, American military and economic power. I will try to explain why later, but suffice to say, Amerikhastan, and the entire Anal Empire, is quietly terrified of this, and with very good reason.
The Bald Truth
Brian Berletic of The New Atlas and Mark Sleboda did an outstanding livestream explaining the total failure of the Khlearly Khatastrophic Khreat Khokholite Khumvee Khounteroffensive:
Rulings from the Bench
Judge Nap has his usual sterling collection of brilliant minds on to explain current events. We start, as always, with Col. Douglas Macgregor:
DA KERNEL’s buddy, LTC Tony Shaffer, explains the whole sturm und drang around the ZNPP:
Maj. Scott Ritter looks at the supply of cluster munitions to the Banderites, and what that means:
British former diplomat Alistair Crooke – who harks back to the days when the Brits actually did understand how to do diplomacy well – further expands on the ZNPP furore:
Ray McGovern brings an ex-spook’s insights to the ZNPP issue:
Pierogi Time
The lovely and charming Ania Konieczek is having a great time living in Moscow and travelling through Russia, but still finds the time to talk to friends with their heads screwed on right. We start with a great interview with Grandpa Grumpuss, about how many Russian soldiers are actually dying out there – and, unsurprisingly, it is a FRACTION of the number of Ukrainians dying out there, which is a hideous and horrible quantity:
Larry Johnson discusses the abortive Wagner “coup” with Ania:
Maj. Ritter weighs in on a number of interesting topics, starting with whether or not Polacks are racist, right at the beginning:
Bad Medicine
Dr. John Campbell wonders what is going on with the sharp increases in DAYABEETUS – whatever could have sparked off the issue, we wonder?!?!:
If you want to avoid diabetes, cut out processed and refined foods, sugars, carbs, and other junk, and stick to eating whole foods cooked in natural fats. Simple, really.
Warriors of Faith
Tha Dizzle and The Apostate Prophet cannot stop laughing at the ongoing implosion of the Izzlamist narrative about “MUH SAYENTIPHIC MUHRACULLS IN DA KORAN!!!” nonsense:
Dr. Jay Smith from PfanderFilms and Al-Fadi from CIRA International discuss the tremendous impact that Dr. Dan Brubaker‘s work has had on the debate over Koranic “perfect preservation” – which is every bit as full of holes as the rest of the Izzlamist narrative:
Manly Men of Manliness
Terrence Popp has absolutely no patience for attention-whores who try to whine on TikTok about how bad their lives are:
Joker from Better Bachelor points out to women that they must now reap what they have sown:
Burn Paedowood to the Ground
Midnight’s Edge unpacks the severe crisis gripping the Disney Media & Entertainment Division in the wake of repeated and catastrophic flops at the box office:
Overlord Dicktor van Doomcock does his QAnon thing about Queen Karen Kennedy being summoned to El Jefe Bob Iger‘s office in the wake of the implosion of Indy 5:
Gary from Nerdrotic watched Indy 5, so you don’t have to:
Reading Too Much Into Things
Your “Science is F***ING WEIRD” moment of the week is from Dawn Pine, and states the (blindingly obvious) fact that, if you get your kids started on reading from an early age, they turn out SMARTER:
Background
Childhood is a crucial neurodevelopmental period. We investigated whether childhood reading for pleasure (RfP) was related to young adolescent assessments of cognition, mental health, and brain structure.
Methods
We conducted a cross-sectional and longitudinal study in a large-scale US national cohort (10 000 + young adolescents), using the well-established linear mixed model and structural equation methods for twin study, longitudinal and mediation analyses. A 2-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis for potential causal inference was also performed. Important factors including socio-economic status were controlled.
Results
Early-initiated long-standing childhood RfP (early RfP) was highly positively correlated with performance on cognitive tests and significantly negatively correlated with mental health problem scores of young adolescents. These participants with higher early RfP scores exhibited moderately larger total brain cortical areas and volumes, with increased regions including the temporal, frontal, insula, supramarginal; left angular, para-hippocampal; right middle-occipital, anterior-cingulate, orbital areas; and subcortical ventral-diencephalon and thalamus. These brain structures were significantly related to their cognitive and mental health scores, and displayed significant mediation effects. Early RfP was longitudinally associated with higher crystallized cognition and lower attention symptoms at follow-up. Approximately 12 h/week of youth regular RfP was cognitively optimal. We further observed a moderately significant heritability of early RfP, with considerable contribution from environments. MR analysis revealed beneficial causal associations of early RfP with adult cognitive performance and left superior temporal structure.
Conclusions
These findings, for the first time, revealed the important relationships of early RfP with subsequent brain and cognitive development and mental well-being.
Yourย long read of the week is from Hans Vogel, and looks at the coming civilisation collapse looming in Western Europe:
Wherever one looks in Europe, collapse is just around the corner. Today, driving on Germanyโs once famous Autobahns is sort of an ordeal. Once upon a time, one could enjoy the view of splendid and sometimes spectacular landscapes while driving relaxedly on the smooth surface of impeccably maintained superhighways. With a total length of more than 13,000 kilometers, Germany has the fourth network in the world, only preceded by Spain, the US and China. There are 50 million cars in Germany, but the network is also intensively used by foreign truck drivers delivering and picking up merchandise and in summer and winter by millions of foreigners on their way to holiday destinations. The Autobahn network is used very intensively, but maintenance has long been neglected and as a result, extensive stretches of highway need to be narrowed in order to enable road and bridge repairs. This causes long and time-consuming traffic jams all over the country from early morning to late at night. Add to that the fact that many drivers hail from non-Western lands, where the proverbial German discipline and respect for rules and regulations are not taught from an early age, and it is clear that driving on the Autobahn consumes inordinate amounts of time and energy. As a matter of fact, the German highway system seems very near the breaking point.
Upon drawing this conclusion it occurred to me that the German federal highways are a symbol for what is happening all over Europe: the very pillars that sustain state and society are breaking down. Of course, for those with eyes to see, the collapse has already set some time ago, perhaps two decades, if not earlier. Just like those three WTC towers that collapsed on 9/11, the collapse begins hesitantly and then accelerates. Like in the case of the WTC towers, the widespread destruction that takes place in the โWestโ today is planned. However, in a number of fields the collapse had already begun long before in the form of corruption. With corrupt people moving from one field of endeavor to another, corruption spreads even faster and eventually becomes systemic.
For instance, academic corruption may lead to plagiarism and the manipulation of research data. Mrs. Ursula von der Leyen, MD, the unelected president of the EuSSR, has never been able to shake off the odor of academic fraud (committed when writing her dissertation) that surrounds her. It came as no surprise to learn that she has been making secret deals with the Pfizer company for the supply of untested vaccines and to force these on an unsuspecting public during the Great Covid Show. Once corrupt, always corrupt, as one might say.
While fraud increasingly destroys the value of academic research, academic education itself is also under attack. The Dutch education minister intends to reduce the credit requirements for freshmen by half. This means that more students will be allowed to stay on to become sophomores, with the predictable final result that university degrees will devaluate even further.
Corruption in the field of medicine has become apparent during the Great Covid Show, to the point where today no physician can be trusted. To put it simply, family doctors and specialists alike are essentially drug pushers in the service of Big Pharma. There are still some honest and decent doctors out there, but these are hard to find.
Like academic research, education, politics and medicine, the judicial system is riddled with corruption and in free fall. Just take the recent case against Professor Sucharit Bhakdi, who was accused of being an antisemite, on the basis of the flimsiest evidence imaginable. Although this eloquent and influential critic of the covid policies decreed by the German government was acquitted, the public prosecutor nonetheless has decided to appeal and to press ahead trying to put Doctor Bhakdi behind bars at any cost. For a public prosecutor to proceed in such a manner, in complete denial of the fact there is no evidence that supports the case, is more than a travesty of justice: it s turning justice into a silly joke. It is indeed concerning that no one raises an eyebrow, which is a telling illustration on how far the judicial system in Germany (and for that matter in the rest of Europe) has been corrupted.
Yet in the eyes of the state, to express doubts or concern about such matters is a sin. Just recently, the Dutch state spy service AIVD has issued a report stating that about 100,000 Dutch citizens distrust the state and the government, which allegedly makes them โconspiracy theorists.โ Increasingly and almost openly, it is being suggested that such people need to be subjected to psychiatric treatment. Any sane person would not trust the government more than the government trusts him, and no doubt many people are faithful to that principle, but apparently the government of the Netherlands which is, of course, a โdemocraticโ country, begs to differ.
It is telling to note that many of the same people who once called Our Beloved and Dreaded Supreme Dark Lord (PBUH) Voxemort the Most Malevolent and Terrible an unhinged lunatic for saying that we will be extremely lucky to preserve indoor plumbing, at the rate the West is collapsing, are now saying that he was too optimistic.
Linkage is good for you:
- Pepe Escobar tries to unpack the weird set of Russian nesting dolls surrounding the whole Wagner “coup”, to figure out just what the hell happened;
- Mercenaries who fought in Banderastan, and were lucky enough to get out alive without meeting Mr. Kalibr and Uncle Kindzhal, talk about the sheer Hell that Russians have turned Banderastan into through the SMO;
- Larry Johnson points out that CIA Director William Burns clearly has a few screws loose, and the problem is getting worse by the day;
- Eric Margolis analyses the collapse of France into an eerie illustration of Raspail’s Camp of the Saints;
- Ilana Mercer looks at the ways in which wokeness contributed to the sinking of the Titan submersible;
- The South Koreans are not having enough sex or kids, so now they are getting robots to conduct their orchestras – say it with me, boys, WE’RE DOOMED;
- In case you’ve ever wondered how Sylvester Stallone managed to achieve two completely different looks for Rocky and Rambo, here you go – just don’t mention all the Vitamin S;
- Roger Federer isn’t just the greatest tennis player of all time – he also knows how to rock the castanets, though unfortunately, he did it with the gayest band alive, COLDPLAY;
- The children of very rich and highly driven people turn out to be just as messed-up and mentally unhinged as the rest of us – but with a shit-ton more money, which makes it a lot worse;
- Not that you should actually want to use WinDOZE 11, but apparently it has a bunch of useful features – many of which were available on Linux literally YEARS ago;
- Dietary “scientists” have figured out that a bunch of foods that were once bad for you, are actually good for you – until they change their minds again;
- A UBS bankster – female, natch – has an obsession with eating organic and drinking bottled water (try to reconcile those two things mentally, it’s a fun exercise in driving yourself mad), and it’s now recognised as a disability;
And some more from Dawn Pine:
- The US SCOTUS continues its (flawed) march back to originalism by telling the LGBTQWTFISTHISSHIT crowd to stick it with their recent ruling about that web designer whom faggots wanted to force to design a website;
- The Great Dindu Muzzah Chimp-Out in France has at least one simple root cause – Izzlam, the Fake Religion of Peace;
- A man in Iowa got engaged and won the lottery in the same weekend – which, depending on your perspective, makes him either the luckiest or craziest man alive;
- Japanese people are very, very bad at handling conflict and confrontation, thanks to some very messed-up features of their culture – and that is especially true with respect to quitting their jobs;
- A self-professed “hot mum” who wants all the boys to stare at her when she walks into her son’s school, is actually basically just an attention whore, let’s call a hoe a hoe;
- A town council in PommieBastardLande lifted up a chap’s car, then painted double yellow lines under it – and then had the chutzpah to fine the guy, so he is suing them;
- Your “blindingly obvious” moment of the day – CVs that include “preferred pronouns” get chucked in the bin, which is certainly true when I look at job applicants, that’s for damn sure;
- Not that Americans aren’t already in trouble on numerous fronts, but it turns out, maternal deaths have more than doubled in the past 20 years, and the impact is unevenly distributed across races;
- Saudi women are enjoying the same fruits of feminist liberation as their Western sisters – with the same catastrophic impacts on marriage, fertility, child-bearing, and so on;
- The dumbshit tourist who defaced the Coliseum in Rome by carving some romantic nonsense into the walls, apologised because he didn’t realise how old the place was – which is stupid even by American standards;
MUH RUSHIAN KAHLOOOOOZHUN!!!
The Neo-Tsar made a little girl’s dream come true after she missed a chance to meet him in Dagestan, and broke down crying, in a video that went viral all over Russia – he then invited her, and her parents, to visit him in the Kremlin:
Take a look at the emotion in that video. It is absolutely genuine both from the girl and the Neo-Tsar himself. Never forget that Putin is, himself, the father of two daughters – one, a mathematics lecturer in university, and the other, a lawyer. Far from being a cold-blooded tyrant and ruthless dictator, he is in fact a highly legalistic, moderate, and extremely cautious man who NEVER does anything without a plan and two to back it up.
But he is also still very human.
In Mother Russia… you break physics!!!:
Keep in mind, that’s a Su-35SM, and its DNA runs through the Su-57, which is, if anything, even more capable.
HALO Nation
Slayergod Remy aka Mint Blitz is pleased as punch about the coming update to HALO MCC:
Let’s hope they FINALLY fix the damn memory leak issue in HALO: CE A, because right now, that game is freakin’ UNPLAYABLE on PC.
That’s Not Gone Well…
Wazzocks gonna wazzock:
Comedy Hour
Meme Warfare
We begin with some great memes from our good friend The Male Brain:
[Didact: CAN. CONFIRM.]
[Didact: Well… actually… yeah, pretty much]
[Didact: TRUTH!]
[Didact: DON’T GET ME STARTED ON !@#$%^&* POWERPOINT.]
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:
The Lords of Steel
Gym beast props this week go to a guy named Tyler, who plays League of Legends but can out-lift just about everyone:
Ass-Kicking of the Eight Limbs
They See Me Rollin’…
Boot-Cuts
Jump-Starts
Gingervitis Injections
Livin’ in the Land of the Metal Gods
Rock Out With Your Glock Out
Hot Totty
And finally, here’s your Instathot to start off the week. Here is some random woman named Lili who likes to spend a lot of time in Dubai, and a lot of money on plastic. You’re welcome.
That’s all, boys, back to work now.
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