The weekend went by way too damn fast, and now we are back to Monday – a most MISERABLE Monday where I am, unfortunately, given it has been bucketing down with rain all bloody day long. Nonetheless, the Great Mondaydact Browser Bowser (not a typo) is here to help.
This week, we take our title, but not theme, from the great RUSH song of the same name. (RIP Neil Peart…) Y’all know that famous song from one Jason Aldean that is all about what might happen if the Dindus and BLM Pantifags “try that in a small town”?
I mean, look, I don’t like country music, but I have to admit, it is quite funny – even if it is basically nothing much more than a fantasy. I have been hearing American “conservatives” say for YEARS that they will never tolerate Wakandan chimp-outs in their own small towns – I see this sentiment expressed by Kim du Toit at least once a week, for instance.
We shall see. All I can say is that conservatives tend to be very long on rhetoric and very short on action – because they still believe the old ways and institutions actually WORK in the FUSA. They still have not woken up to the fact that the USA they thought they knew, is long dead and gone, and has no hope of recovery. And they cannot wrap their heads around the fact that Americans today are not a nation, or that they have been invaded by an occupying army of foreigners.
Until and unless Americans wake up and accept these facts, such songs will be nothing more than chest-beating and posing.
Still and all, some enterprising wag decided to take Jason Aldean‘s voice and run it through an AI engine to come up with his own song, which is actually much better and MUCH funnier:
Now that is change we can believe in.
Also, for reference, and because I love RUSH:
Damn, I really miss that band…
#BasedTucker is Based
Dawn of Battle
The Male Brain has plenty of stuff for us this week. We start with a video from SciShow that discusses the weird but actually very commonplace phenomenon of “dark planets” – which do not orbit any known star, but whizz through the void like pebbles skipping across an unimaginably vast lake:
QuotesNow takes the villains’ side, and rightly so, in these cases:
Big Think talks spirituality, and points out the only way to avoid burning out in life is to find God (or some reasonable facsimile thereof):
Obviously, I have a strong bias here, but I would add that the prcise god you worship matters every bit as much as having some sort of spiritual centre in your life. Having a sense of spirituality, i.e. “the Universe is God”, is both highly illogical and thoroughly unfulfilling. That is why Hinduism and Buddhism always ultimately lead to very bad places.
Sabine Hossenfelder explains how to avoid the Idiocracy which seems to be creeping up on all of us every day:
Fanservice
LRFotS Randale6 is back with loads of great content. We start with Flashgitz, who have clearly decided to take a walk on the weird side. Everything that follows is with his captions.
First up…do not degenerate into this, if you must flee the west to avoid this fate do so:
Second, given what we know of Scandicucks, this may be more historically accurate then anyone realised:
Third, more proof that we must go back to the patriarchy…the Taliban’s position on women is looking better and better…:
Fourth, Tom and Don do something Hollywood can’t do, rewrite the Barbie movie into something men would watch voluntarily:
Moving on to Meatcanyon content…
First we have yet another reason to flee the west…and to ban Tiktok:
Secondly Meatcanyon has clearly been playing Blasphemous, the art style is uncannily similar:
Third, a Meatcanyon story with a happy ending…and poetic justice:
Let’s talk Total War: Warhammer III:
Have you ever wanted to play a bunch of demon-bull worshipping, Babylonian, human sacrificing, steampunk midgets? Look no further:
In this DLC pack, the fantasy Russians outgun their not with superior technology but with scarier supernatural entities, the fantasy Chinese meanwhile utilise magical robotic lions, a shapeshifting dragon-man on crack cocaine, and mutant crows to beat up Tzeentch; meanwhile Tzeentch deploys even stranger things to fuck the world up, I do not envy the poor programmers in charge of the changeling…:
Lots of great content from Black Pigeon Speaks aka Felix Rex:
Now we know why the good Roosevelts (all hail the only man fit to be king of America, Theodore Roosevelt) dissed on the bad Roosevelts (may Franklin burn in hell):
A further reminder to all of stuck in the West, why live in a place that hates you? Be like money, go where you are treated best, if western women don’t wish to maintain their own race then who are we to contradict them? They’ll even serve as great examples to my future children of what not to do (girls) or date (boys):
Tales from the East, specifically Thailand:
Why eyeglasses are important:
Best bug spray commercial goes to:
On to some theological matters:
We present Sheikh Imran Hosein, before you crucify me for presenting him…note that in the first video, your favourite apologist, Tha Dizzle, saw fit to feature him and agreed with the point he made, Hosein’s argument was even logical both externally (historically) and internally (the Koran and Bible). As seen in the other videos, the man is based…I wish the West had just one tenth’s of the man’s ball sack and brain.
[Yes, and I’ve seen this video before – but the problem is, because Izzlam is a made-up religion with vast internal contradictions, if the Bible is true, Izzlam is false – and if the Bible is false, Izzlam is also false. No matter how one tries to square that circle, and no matter how long a Sheikh’s beard is, the problems with Izzlam simply cannot be reconciled against both what the Koran says, and what history tells us.]
The Sheikh calls out covid and vaccines for what they are, biological warfare. He also has a reminder, if you are serious about your religion you will put it above the secular:
Be warned this a long one…yet is is important, he points out a major problem currently experienced by much of Christianity. That problem is their unwillingness to keep to their own god’s law in the vain belief that it no longer applies to them:
[That is true in the West. It is not true in the East, where Christianity – real Christianity – is back on the rise.]
Poli-ticking Off
Mark Dice comments on the interview with the Capitol Police Chief, Steven Sund, that you see above:
The dynamic duo over at Redacted looks at the sheer inability of PFY-ZORRRR to explain the link between their not-vaxx and the incidence of myocarditis:
Jackson Hinkle investigates the recent decision by Bellendsky the Clown-Puppet Pecker Piano Player President of Banderastan to fire military “recruiters” across the “country”:
The explanation here is actually pretty simple. Bellendsky was ordered to fire these people by his CIA masters, who are growing concerned about the increasing backlash surrounding bribes and payouts to military “commissars” by draft-dodgers – who, let us be clear, are entirely justified to try to escape attempts by Ukrainian authorities to throw them into “meat assaults” against extremely heavily fortified Russian positions.
The military commissars get paid twice – once, for meeting their recruitment goals, and again, by those who can afford to bribe them to get away from being scooped off the streets and stuffed into black vans. (Literally, that’s actually what is happening. There is video of it all over Telegram.)
Some of those guys now have mansions in Italy worth US$4M and more, and their wives are driving around in brand-new Mercs worth US$200K or more. That gives you some idea of just how lucrative these meat-gathering operations are for them. And they are getting rich off the blood and deaths of their “country’s” young men – and, increasingly, not-so-young men.
This tells you everything you need to know about what a messed-up place Banderastan is.
Lord Razor of the Fist Clan calls out woketardery for exactly what it is – a religion, that has infiltrated the very halls of the Catholic Church itself:
PJW comments on the absolute state of PommieBastardLande, where an autistic teen just got arrested or calling a short-haired angry lesbian “police officer”… well, exactly what she is:
Rulings from the Bench
Judge Nap had lots of great talking heads on last week, as usual. We start with Col. Douglas Macgregor, who despite his deep knowledge of the Banderastan War is shocked at the sheer carnage unfolding there for the Ukies:
LTC Tony Shaffer offers up some useful commentary on that whole kerfuffle over the Russian and Chinese joint patrol that passed 11Km off the shore of Alaska recently:
Maj. Scott Ritter talks about the importance of information warfare:
Alistair Crooke notes the dangers for Ukraine of trying to escalate things in the Black Sea – which isn’t working for them:
Larry Johnson and Ray McGovern did a terrific joint panel discussing the colossal intelligence failures in Banderastan – which is somewhat ironic, since the CIA itself basically runs 404 now:
Дед Сварливый Говорит!
Grandpa Grumpuss grumps, grumpily, about the neoclowns, who are FINALLY beginning to realise the scale of the catastrophe confronting them:
Polonium
Ania Konieczek did a great live interview with Michael Hudson, one of the few economists alive today who actually “gets it”:
The irony here is that the few people with training in economics, who really understand what is happening today, are almost universally people of the Left – Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, Dr. Steve Keen, Michael Hudson, Dr. Phil Giraldi, etc. They used to be on the side that got everything wrong, while people like the late, great Prof. Milton Friedman got far more things right. (Though, to be clear, not everything – it is thanks to Dr. Friedman that the US has payroll tax deduction, for instance.)
It’s All Greek To Us
The good gentlemen of The Duran analyse the results of that ridiculous peace pow-wow that took place in Jeddah last week, and resulted in absoutely nothing:
The Bald Truth
Brian Berletic of The New Atlas discusses the status of the Khlearly Khollapsing Khatastrophic Khreat Khokholite Khumvee Khounteroffensive:
The answer is still a lemon.
Bad Medicine
Dr. John Campbell points out the ongoing problems with adverse events reporting:
Keep in mind, if health authorities in the US and UK only capture 2% of adverse reactions to the not-vaxxes, then the true injury and death toll is 50 TIMES HIGHER than anyone realises. And that is TERRIFYING.
Warriors of Faith
Tha Dizzle spoke at the Strong Towers faith conference last week, and discused the question of how to confront Izzlam from a Biblical perspective, rooted in truth:
Dr. Jay Smith from PfanderFilms teams up with Al-Fadi from CIRA International to explain the inherent contradictions of the Izzlamist dogma:
Islam Critiqued continues his demolition of the Koran and its stories about Mo’Lester:
Manly Men of Manliness
Terrence Popp gets very serious about the 2020 Fake Election:
Look, I have been saying this for YEARS now, and if you still don’t get this, I really cannot do anything to help you:
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A FREE AND FAIR ELECTION ANYMORE IN THE FUSA.
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS “RULE OF LAW” IN THE FUSA, EITHER.
And if you cannot figure this out yet, you are literally dumber than a box of rocks.
Joker from Better Bachelor reviews a fascinating video by an academic statistician that looks at the serious problems with modren dating:
The professor there is absolutely correct about the problems with dating through apps – you lose SO MUCH through those apps, it is just not funny. If you want real dates with real women – go into REALITY, not your phone.
Burn Paedowood to the Ground
Midnight’s Edge takes a close look at the ticking time bomb in Disney’s balance sheet – the “Hulu put”, as it is known:
Overlord Dicktor Van Doomcock might actually be onto something for a change, because it looks like QUeen Karen Kennedy, who has done so much to destroy the STAR WARS brand, might be upping sticks and leaving Hollyweird:
Gary from Nerdrotic watches The Witcher Season 3, so you don’t have to – and it is truly awful:
The Drinker uses NUMBERS and MAFF to explain why Hollyweird is failing so badly right now:
He is entirely correct. Hollyweird is in the midst of a studio arms race right now. Each studio tries to outdo the other by offering a bigger bang, a crazier spectacle. But these cost immense amounts of money, so the studios all try to de-risk the films to the maximum extent possible. Which is why all creativity, risk-taking, and fun goes straight out the window. And that is why everything looks, sounds, and feels the same nowadays.
Reading Too Much Into Things
Your “Science is F***ING WEIRD” moment of the week is from The Male Brain, and looks at the relationship between step-count and all-cause and cardiovascular mortality:
Aims
There is good evidence showing that inactivity and walking minimal steps/day increase the risk of cardiovascular (CV) disease and general ill-health. The optimal number of steps and their role in health is, however, still unclear. Therefore, in this meta-analysis, we aimed to evaluate the relationship between step count and all-cause mortality and CV mortality.
Methods and results
We systematically searched relevant electronic databases from inception until 12 June 2022. The main endpoints were all-cause mortality and CV mortality. An inverse-variance weighted random-effects model was used to calculate the number of steps/day and mortality. Seventeen cohort studies with a total of 226 889 participants (generally healthy or patients at CV risk) with a median follow-up 7.1 years were included in the meta-analysis. A 1000-step increment was associated with a 15% decreased risk of all-cause mortality [hazard ratio (HR) 0.85; 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.81–0.91; P < 0.001], while a 500-step increment was associated with a 7% decrease in CV mortality (HR 0.93; 95% CI 0.91–0.95; P < 0.001). Compared with the reference quartile with median steps/day 3967 (2500–6675), the Quartile 1 (Q1, median steps: 5537), Quartile 2 (Q2, median steps 7370), and Quartile 3 (Q3, median steps 11 529) were associated with lower risk for all-cause mortality (48, 55, and 67%, respectively; P < 0.05, for all). Similarly, compared with the lowest quartile of steps/day used as reference [median steps 2337, interquartile range 1596–4000), higher quartiles of steps/day (Q1 = 3982, Q2 = 6661, and Q3 = 10 413) were linearly associated with a reduced risk of CV mortality (16, 49, and 77%; P < 0.05, for all). Using a restricted cubic splines model, we observed a nonlinear dose–response association between step count and all-cause and CV mortality (Pnonlineraly < 0.001, for both) with a progressively lower risk of mortality with an increased step count.
Conclusion
This meta-analysis demonstrates a significant inverse association between daily step count and all-cause mortality and CV mortality with more the better over the cut-off point of 3967 steps/day for all-cause mortality and only 2337 steps for CV mortality.
tl;dr version:
GET YOUR ARSE OFF THE COUCH AND GO FOR A DAMN WALK. At least an hour a day. You’ll live longer.
Your long read of the week is by Gaius Baltar, writing a guest post for Larry Johnson‘s SONAR 21 site, about the extreme deficiencies in human capital facing the West, which help explain why Western elites are so hapless and clueless when dealing with Russia:
The current ideologically-based power structure of the West outright requires that certain types of people be in positions of influence and certain types of people be sidelined. This applies to all steps of the social ladder; from kindergarten teachers to university teachers and corporate executives, and all the way up to the leaders of society itself. This has been progressing steadily for the last five decades or so, and has resulted in a major structural problem for the West. That problem is the obvious and massive degradation and misallocation of human capital in the West.
Human capital can be described as the quality of a company’s or nation’s workforce, or more specifically how competent the employee pool is – how well they are trained, how quickly they can be trained, how they are educated in general, and how they make decisions. In order to understand what competence really means, let’s define it further.
Competence can be described as specific or general. This distinction is extremely important and must be understood by anyone who attempts to manage human capital on a small or large scale.
Specific competence is the ability to do a certain type of work. This can be carpentry, coding, chemistry, medicine, piloting an airliner, and so on and so forth. Some of these types of jobs may require a lot of competence, training and intelligence, but what they have in common is that their scope is limited and clearly defined. They exist within clear boundaries, separate from the complexities and vagueness of the world in general. Each type of work requires certain abilities innate in the person, as well as varying degrees of training. People, of course, differ a lot in their level of specific competence within each field.
General or high-level competence is the ability to do work that is beyond clearly defined boundaries. The subject matter of those types of work exists in a complex “variable universe” and can be exceedingly vague and confusing. It requires the ability to be adaptive and be able to transfer skills between different types of work. This also applies to expertise in one field being applied to a completely different field – such as applying psychology to economics or astrophysics to climate science.
Examples of positions requiring general or high-level competence people are corporate executives, all kinds of planners and administrators, product developers, inventors, high-level consultants and analysts, military leaders and planners, diplomats, judges, political leaders, and high-level scientists and theoreticians, to name a few.
Specific and general competence types of work are not two separate things. Types of work or “jobs” can be said to range from almost completely specific up to almost completely general. Almost all types of work have elements of both but in varying proportions. To illustrate this I will take an example from a company I’m personally familiar with. This is a software company with several owners, most of whom work at the company. One of the owners is an exceptionally competent database specialist. However, when he contributes to decision making for the company as a whole, he becomes an outright problem. The management structure of the company had to be “modified” to neutralize him in that role, as well as a few others. This employee has exceptional specific competence but very poor general competence. He cannot “transfer” his specific database competence over to competence in moving the company into the future. He simply cannot operate objectively or sensibly outside his database job.
So what makes this employee have such poor general competence – or more specifically – what is general competence? General competence requires three necessary conditions: a) High general intelligence or IQ, b) the ability to be objective, even in situations where the result of your conclusions may not be to your liking, and c) the ability to reach conclusions without being influenced by others (i.e. independent thinking). The latter two conditions are a direct result of how the human brain interacts with the environment. The mechanism behind it is too complicated to describe here, but in simplistic terms it can be said that humans range in their relationship with reality from the emotional-outward/subjective to the introspective/objective. This variable, like all evolutionary traits, including IQ, is normally distributed. This has rather disturbing implications which may be difficult for some people to understand.
Let’s first look at IQ, or general intelligence. In order to be able to deal with seriously complicated work or get through a real university program, an IQ of about 125 is necessary. Only about 5% of the population in the West has this IQ or higher. This means that the pool of potentially high-level competence people is very small to begin with. Even if we use a cut-off of an IQ of 115, which is sufficient for most semi-complicated work, the potential pool only goes up to 16% of the population.
Now let’s take a look at the other variables, i.e. objectivity and independent thinking. Those two are correlated and we will, for the sale of convenience, handle them as the same variable or trait, even though they aren’t. They are normally distributed, much like IQ, with most in the middle and fewer toward the extremes in both directions. On one side of the distribution are people who, to state it bluntly, are incapable of thinking objectively about any issues that may interact with their personal views about anything at all. They can be competent in a limited field which is “neutral” to them (such as databases), but not involving anything else. They can’t run a company in a competitive environment, except into the ground. They can’t run a city, a country, a military campaign, an economy, or anything requiring general competence, except into the ground, regardless of their intelligence. These people are clearly not suitable for general/high-level competence jobs.
So, what is the proportion of the population that is objective enough and independent thinkers enough to be suitable for those jobs? That’s difficult to determine but it’s clear that it is maximum 50% of the population. In reality it’s far less but let’s be generous and say it’s 30%. What does that mean?
IQ and objectivity/independent thinking are somewhat correlated but let’s assume they are not. Let’s say that we have a pool of potentially objective and rational people that is 30% and a pool of people with IQ of 125 that is 5%. That means that the pool of high-level general competence people is 5% of 30%, or 1.5% of the population.
If we are really generous and assume that 50% of the population is objective and rational and an IQ of 115 is sufficient for those jobs, then we have 16% of 50%, which is a pool of 8% of the population.
The importance of this cannot be overstated. This group, whether we define it as 1.5% of the population or 8% of the population, is extremely valuable. This is essentially the only group in society that can reliably evaluate complex situations and make subsequent rational decisions. Without it, modern technological society simply cannot be built or maintained – let alone advanced. Let me rephrase this – if we do not identify and utilize this group, we cannot run our complicated societies except into the ground.
The whole thing is well worth reading in full, repeatedly.
Linkage is good for you:
- Andrey Sushentsov explains that Western “elites” keep expecting Russia to collapse any day now, as an article of faith, which is why they are so consistently wrong;
- Fyodor Lyukanov offers a reasonably cogent explanation as to why the Dirt Worlders and Wakandans generally stay out of the current conflict between NATO and Russia – they see it as a “White people problem”;
- The khokhols prove, yet again, they are the worst possible friends and allies after stabbing their Polish “brothers” in the face;
- Ilana Mercer explains the terrible choices facing Ukraine, which will ALL result in its destruction as a nation;
- Though the Russian economy is growing very strongly, it does face a major shortage of truck drivers, like many developed economies;
- Robert Stark pours cold water on anyone thinking the recent bull market indicates a “soft landing” is imminent for the US economy – no such thing will happen;
- The Krauts supposedly do not have a sense of humour, and their government seems determined to prove it, after seeking to ban a parody Twatter account of their amazingly stupid Foreign Minister, Annalena Dumbock;
- Fat-pig yenta Victoria “Cookies & F the EU” Nuland, best known for orchestrating the 2014 coup in Ukraine, is now up to her usual tricks in Niger – but the Wakandans want nothing to do with her;
- Speaking of coups d’etat orchestrated by the FUSA, they were behind the removal of popular Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan;
- Lawrence G. Proulx points out the obvious truth that if Dindus in the FUSA truly suffer from racism, they would flee it for Africa – but they don’t;
- The Saudis have started the absolute mother of all vanity projects in the desert – a US$1 TRILLION “sidescraper” that will stretch for 120Km and could house up to 9M people, which all sounds quite absurd, to say the least;
- Scientists may well have discovered a fifth fundamental force, which raise serious questions about the Standard Model of Physics and its ability to explain the Universe;
- Turns out, the late Joan Rivers was actually right about Barack Hussein Odumbass being at least possibly gay – though he probably wasn’t actually America’s first gay POTUS;
- A woman figured out how to use AI to play a prank on her boyfriend by cloning his voice to bust him for cheating – but it turned out to be all a big prank on the audience;
- A lot of people think travelling back to Rome, at the height of its power as the Imperial capitol, would be pretty fun – but Tom Holland points out it would actually be a pretty harrowing experience, and quite smelly, too;
- Your “SH*T Happens” moment of the day – a woman in China had to go to the operating theatre to get a three-foot-long turd removed from her stomach;
- As bad as your Monday might be, spare a thought for the people who had to deal with these workday disasters;
And some more from Dawn Pine:
- In a story RICH with irony, Zoom, the web meeting company that made a BUTTLOAD of money during the Scamdemic with its working-from-home solutions, is now telling its employees to get back to the office;
- In another moment loaded with irony, a spyware company got PUNK’D by a hacker who deleted all of the data on their servers and had to shut down;
- AI can do a lot of things – but apparently it still cannot do a management consultant’s job and write a workable business plan, or perhaps it just hasn’t figured out the right fee model yet;
- We really should not be surprised anymore to read stories of Dindus straight-up JAP-SLAPPING Asians on subways anymore – but presstitutes sure do go to a lot of trouble to hide the racial identities of those involved;
- Your good news of the day – reconstruction of Notre Dame’s spire, exactly like it was before, continues apace, and no modern monstrosities will replace it;
- Your “LET AFRICA SINK” moment of the week – France left Africa, and now ISIS rules where they left, which is by NO MEANS an excuse to have the Frogs come back;
- Apparently, if humanity manages to survive for a million years, we will all be cyborgs, plus some holdouts who insist on keeping our humanity;
- There have been some very strange flavours of ice cream in the world – though the Japanese keep coming up with newer and weirder ones;
- The Ukies are bitterly claiming that NATO training and tactics were worse than useless, and totally unfit for purpose, not least because the NATO planners totally underestimated the Russians;
- A liberaltard whorenalist working for CNBC wants to make excuses for Dindus robbing stores blind in liberal cities with extremely lax law enforcement;
MUH RUSHIAN KAHLOOOOOZHUN!!!
The Neo-Tsar has done a tremendous job in restoring Russia’s national pride, and now his country is sending probes back to the Moon:
This is literally the most Russian thing you will see all day:
HALO Nation
Slayergod Remy aka Mint Blitz thinks the original HALO is still the BEST one:
That’s Not Gone Well…
Wazzocks gonna wazzock:
Comedy Hour
Meme Warfare
We begin with a series of excellent pics from Dawn Pine:
[DITTO – Ye Verye Olde Didacte]
“Some of them want to use you. Some of the want to get used by you”
[She is less popular than COMMUNISTS. That should tell you something. – Didact]
[Don’t you just hate Objectivists? – Didact]
Onward:
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 go to South Korean Olympic weightlifter Lee Sang, who handles the weights with an ASTOUNDING level of casual skill:
Ass-Kicking of the Eight Limbs
They See Me Rollin’…
Palate Cleansers
Axe Me Anything
Got Me a Woody
Jump-Starts
Gingervitis Injections
Livin’ in the Land of the Metal Gods
Rock Out With Your Glock Out
Hot Totty
And finally, after a very great deal of messing about, we get to the Instathot to get the week off to the right start. This is Ekaterina Zueva (Екатерина Зуева), age 31, from Moscow, Russia. She is a fashion model and yoga enthusiast, and featured in MAXIM and Playboy Russia.
OK, that’s all, back to work now.
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One of the funnier memes about Conservatives shows an outrageous looking tranny leaning on a counter in a ladies restroom with the caption, “Conservatives couldn’t even conserve the ladies room.”
Have a nice rainy Monday.
This Saudi 75m long sky scraper.
Its like every dystopian urban sci-fi ever made.
This is the problem with Kings. They all get into dumb measuring contests with each other and can’t just keep a yacht.
So what Baltar is saying is that Atlas Shrugged is a documentary, except that the competent aren’t hiding in their own secret society waiting for the right time to reveal themselves.