What a bothersome, blustery, horrid Monday. In my neck of the woods (so to speak), it is incredibly windy, to the point where you literally cannot walk properly outside – if you weigh less than 50Kg dripping wet, you might just end up doing the full Mary Poppins and flying away. But, it IS Monday, and that means everyone’s favourite coping mechanism, the Great Mondaydact Browser Melter, is back with a vengeance.
Since this is a blog by a nerd, mostly for nerds, let us get into some good old nerdy stuff with a discussion about fighter generations. Now, a lot of this nonsense about “4th-generation” and “5th-generation” jets is pure marketing baloney, but there ARE distinct differences between various fighter classes, and you can see the evolution of fighter designs through time:
Of the much-vaunted so-called “5th-generation” fighter jets, how many are there in existence today?
Rather inevitably, when we talk about fighter jets, we always get sucked into a question of “which is best”:
As far as I am concerned, the answer is very obvious:
The Russian Sukhoi Su-57.
Why? Because it is actually combat-tested, to a degree and across a range of missions that no other “5th-generation” aircraft can claim:
- Combat air patrol (CAP);
- Air-to-air combat;
- Beyond-visual-range (BVR) engagements to shoot down Ukrainian fighters and attack aircraft;
- Deep reconnaissance behind enemy lines;
- Net-centric warfare (NCW);
- Ground attack and bombing strikes;
- Suppression of enemy air defences (SEAD);
The F-22 is almost certainly TECHNICALLY superior to the Su-57 – but, it has serious problems with its weapons bays, which are too shallow to accommodate a wide range of weapons. Its systems are too old and difficult to upgrade to modern avionics standards. The F-22 is NOT capable of using the integrated datalinks that permit full NCW.
Simply put, the F-22 is an extraordinarily expensive flying white elephant. Its unit cost is staggering, its maintenance requirements are insane, and it all adds up to an aircraft that cannot be deployed for serious air-to-air combat of any kind (or anything else, for that matter).
The three superpowers are not the only ones looking to develop these jets. Turkiye is close to rolling out one as well – though I really think it is a lot of nonsense:
Keep in mind, this is Binkov’s Battlegrounds we’re looking at, and of all the “miltary PR0N” channels out there on TEH YOOTOOBZ, this is one of the wankiest and silliest. But, the Turks ARE developing their own attempt at a 5th-gen fighter, that much is true.
What about the NEXT generation of fighter jets – the so-called “6th-gen”? What are they going to look like?
Personally, I think this is all a lot of nonsense, except for the MiG-41, which we know for a fact the Russians have in serious development. The list of things that can do is immense, and it looks like the Russians aim to roll out a real 6th-gen jet to leapfrog their full adoption of 5th-gen Su-57 and Su-75 jets, due to their budget constraints, which prevented them from upgrading their entire fleet for a very long time.
I seriously doubt the FUSA will develop a real 6th-gen jet before its final collapse. It does not have the industrial base, and its history with highly advanced weapons programmes is – to put it VERY mildly – disastrous. Every single post-Cold War weapons programme has run into colossal delays and extreme cost overruns, only to produce weapons of utterly inferior quality that fail when actually combat-tested – as the Banderastan War has proven beyond any shadow of a doubt.
But it’s still fun to geek out about, I’ll grant that.
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, made an EPIC entrance at Madison Square Garden for UFC 295 – where he walked in next to #BasedTucker, Donald Trump Jr., Kid Rock, and Dana White:
#BasedTucker is Based
And speaking of #BasedTucker:
Dawn of Battle
The Male Brain is back with some thought-provoking content for this week. We start with a piece by Moon, explaining why housing in multiple Western countries is unaffordable:
It’s been a while since we have had JP Sears doing his thing:
Heresy Financial explains the CATACLYSMIC fiscal consequences awaiting Amerikhastan, thanks to its gargantuan overhang of debt which it can never, ever repay:
The Babylon Bee continues to report all the news that’s fake to print with an on-the-nose piece about the gerontocracy ruling the FUSA:
Honest Ads (aka Cracked) explains the realities of ride-sharing:
Mind-Expanding Drugs
What do you suppose would happen if you stopped being a fatty natty, and started juicing? Well, this is what happens:
All I can say is, stick with simple and straightforward lifting, and stay off the drugs.
Fanservice
LRFotS Randale6 is back with a whole bunch of material for us this week. We start with a followup to what he told us about the Steamdeck console, which now has the ability to do a full-on 4K experience when docked:
The FSR 3 update has also provided a number of serious improvements:
Can it run virtual reality games? Let us find out:
When you actually use it to play some of the newest games, here is what happens:
Moving on – Flashgitz provides a historically accurate take on Mulan, which is as usual both hilarious and extremely disturbing:
And another one on the return of the PC Master Race:
Meatcanyon has one for all the bro lifters:
And offers up a take on pickleball:
I do not even know how to describe this next one:
We have not seen our good friend Aaron Clarey, aka Captain Capitalism, appear on this site in a VERY long time – so our boy will rectify this situation right-quick:
Cappy takes on BDSM chicks (pro-tip: NOT EVEN ONCE, BRO):
And one about how modren “managers” are finally figuring out that most of their worker drones are getting sick of their crap:
Poli-ticking Off
Mark Dice watched the Republicuck debate (so you didn’t have to), and was greatly amused by the spectacle of two Pajeets teeing off on each other:
Neoclown Nikki is a catastrophe, whereas Vapid Vivek is merely ridiculous – his proposal to give Taiwan the equivalent of the American Second Amendment shows a degree of tone-deafness to other cultural norms that is genuinely difficult to believe.
It goes without saying, though, that both will get absolutely crushed by the God-Emperor.
Still and all, the spectacle of watching Sir Tim the Dim, the GOP’s House Negro, waxing lyrical on the most idiotic tropes possible, was probably worth the price of admission.
The dynamic duo over at Redacted discuss the coming recession – and it looks really, REALLY grim:
Lord Razor of the Fist Clan celebrates the demise and collapse of Jizzabel, the feministical outlet of vapid nonsense that finally croaked:
The abortion joke he put in there is perhaps the best example of dark humour I have seen in years.
PJW talks about the deeply disturbing manifesto released by the trans shooter from Nashville:
Rulings from the Bench
Judge Nap has been extremely busy trying to keep up with everything going on this past week – which was NUTS, for sure. We start with Col. Douglas Macgregor discussing the epic failures of once-proud American diplomacy:
There WAS, in fact, a time when American diplomats actually did a good job. It was not all that long ago, actually – back when the Mean Orange Tweeter was in office, American diplomats engineered the Abraham Accords, which led to the reconciliation between Saudi Arabia and Israel (and which, coincidentally, put the question of Palestinian statehood out of sight pretty much forever). Those same diplomats helped prevent a conflict, potentially leading to a GIGANTIC spike in oil prices globally, between Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
But now, under the Fake President, Americakhastan has NO diplomatic skills whatsoever. It is amazing how fast things collapse when you have incompetents and morons with no legitimacy whatsoever, trying to run things.
LTC Tony Shaffer addresses the same topic:
Maj. Scott Ritter points out the harsh truth that Israelis just do not want to hear, but which I agree with – though I do not share Scott’s visceral loathing of Netanyahu, nor do I agree with his characterisation of the Pali-Walis:
Alistair Crooke is not optimistic about the prospects for hostage release negotiations in the Gaza conflict:
Larry Johnson and Ray McGovern discuss the disturbing possibility that Benjamin Netanyahu knew full well what was coming on Oct 07, and let it happen anyway:
Capt. Matthew Hoh, formerly of the USMC, has no patience for the Israeli “argument” that there are no non-combatants in the Gaza Strip:
Dr. Phil Giraldi, formerly of the CIA, talks about indiscriminate Israeli targeting of civilians in the current conflict, and condemns it in the strongest possible terms:
Prof. Jeffrey Sachs is deeply disturbed by the very real possibility that the crazies in the US State Department might let this current dust-up get way out of control:
Prof. John Mearsheimer talks about how China is the primary beneficiary from the total failure of American diplomacy and credibility in the Middle East:
I think he is right. China brokered the reconciliation between the Saudis and Iranians – peoples who normally would be at each other’s throats, because of the frankly rather silly division between the Sunni and the Shi’a branches of Izzlam. That is an amazing feat of diplomacy, based on deal-making and the hard recognition of mutual benefits from putting aside long-standing differences.
It is also one the FUSA cannot manage any longer.
Дед Сварливый Говорит!
Grandpa Grumpuss grumps, grumpily, about the realities of strategic thinking, which the collective West is simply incapable of grasping these days:
Polonium
Ania Konieczek talks to Andrei Martyanov about the khoming khollapse khof Khokholistan:
It’s All Greek To Us
The good gentlemen of The Duran argue that if the West didn’t like the Neo-Tsar BEFORE the Special Military Operation, they are TRULY going to hate him when, not if, Russia presents its terms for Banderastan’s unconditional surrender:
The Bald Truth
Brian Berletic of The New Atlas analyses Beardy Nasrallah’s speech:
Bad Medicine
Dr. John Campbell is NOT impressed by the quality of NHS data and information released about the Coof, and other issues:
Warriors of Faith
Tha Dizzle and his good buddy The Apostate Prophet discuss the true craziness of Palestinian TV shows, which use Mickey Mouse analogues to teach children to kill Jews:
If nothing else, this should tell you there are no good guys in the Israel-Palestine ballyhoo. You will find PLENTY of Israeli Jews – especially after Oct 07 – saying all Palestinians in Gaza should be exterminated. And you will find PLENTY of Pali-Walis saying the exact same thing about the Jews.
Both will resort to their scriptures to justify their anger and hate – the Jews to the Talmud and parts of the Tanakh, and the Palis to the Koran and Sunnah.
Neither group understands that they have zero legitimacy on religious grounds.
The Jews rejected the Messiah, murdered Him, and took His blood upon themselves and their descendants – says so right there in black and white. Their rabbinical attempts to lawyer around the plain words of Scripture lead them into serious weirdness, such as Talmudic commands stating that goyim are no better than beasts and should be killed (and yes, I know, there is context around that which one must read – doesn’t change the basic import of the words when you do).
The Muzzies rejected Yeshua as the Messiah – they do not even get His name right – and insist He did not die for their sins, but instead someone else died in His place, and also insist that Jews and Christians are pigs, dogs, and apes, deserving only of slaughter.
Ironically, both groups have more in common with each other, than they do with Christians.
It would be nice and rather helpful to the whole debate if Evangelicals could finally figure that last bit out.
Dr. Jay Smith from PfanderFilms and Al-Fadi from CIRA International continue their discussion of the construction of the fake Koran:
Christian Prince has a lot of fun dismantling the arguments of Izzlamists on a nightly basis, and teaches his listeners quite a lot in the process:
Sam Shamoun explains patiently the divinity of Jesus to an Orthodox Jew:
Manly Men of Manliness
Terrence Popp puts forth some realtalk about the Welfare-Warfare state:
Joker from Better Bachelor has a stark warning for all of us about what happens when a man simply gives no effs anymore:
Burn Paedowood to the Ground
Midnight’s Edge explains the decline, fall, and shattering of the M-She-U:
Overlord Dicktor Van Doomcock thinks George Lucas might finally get a bit of his own back against Li’l Bobby Iger, who famously and royally screwed George over when he acquired Lucasfilm and destroyed the former’s vision of STAR WARS:
The Drinker watched The Marvels, so you and I do not have to – and based on what he is saying, he deserves a public service medal of some kind just for that:
Reading Too Much Into Things
Your “Science is F***ING WEIRD” moment of the week is about some rather fascinating progress in the field of semiconductors, wherein a new synthetic superconducting material now provides us with the fastest and most efficient semiconducting object in the world:
Writing in Science, a team of chemists at Columbia University have described a superatomic material – Re6Se8Cl2 – that is the fastest and most efficient semiconductor currently known. The key to its speed? The way in which information – and computation – can be carried through. So when researchers say they’ve found “the world’s best semiconductor material” – one to take silicon’s place as the Atlas of our virtualities – we must take notice.
Silicon (Si) is one of the most interesting elements listed in the periodic table. Silicon exists almost everywhere an Integrated Circuit (IC) exists; without it, we’d lose everything virtual about our world, alongside most of the tools we use to understand and operate on it. Silicon matters.
In contrast, Re6Se8Cl2 is a synthetic superatomic material: you can’t find it anywhere in the wild. Being superatomic simply means that the atomic elements within Re6Se8Cl2 behave like one big atom but actually manifest properties that are more than the sum of its elementary parts. Re6Se8Cl2 was manufactured in the lab of one of the paper’s collaborators, Xavier Roy.
Both silicon and us can rest easy for now, though, as we won’t have to refer to the chips inside our computers as being made of “Re6Se8Cl2” any time soon: Rhenium, the first element of the molecules that make up this new semiconductor material, is extremely rare on Earth (making it prohibitively expensive to manufacture at scale). Re6Se8Cl2 is more of a testbed for the electronics of the nebulous future and a Rosetta stone of sorts for behaviors, patterns, and physics that might be useful to get there (reaching a destination, in this case, implies having to run through the entire scientific process).
And Re6Se8Cl2 isn’t that different from other scientific breakthroughs in that the discovery of it being “the best semiconductor that we know of in terms of energy transport” came by… chance. It was meant to test the team’s super-resolution imaging tools due to expectations of slow electronic movement; however, when it showcased bullet-like speeds, the research priorities (appropriately) changed.
Your long read of the week is a piece from over 10 years ago, discussing the truth about how and why Japan surrendered at the end of WWII – it was NOT because of the A-bombs, but rather because the Red Army destroyed the Imperial Japanese Army in Manchuria and Sakhalin:
Viewed from the Japanese perspective, the most important day in that second week of August wasn’t Aug. 6 but Aug. 9. That was the day that the Supreme Council met—for the first time in the war—to discuss unconditional surrender. The Supreme Council was a group of six top members of the government—a sort of inner cabinet—that effectively ruled Japan in 1945. Japan’s leaders had not seriously considered surrendering prior to that day. Unconditional surrender (what the Allies were demanding) was a bitter pill to swallow. The United States and Great Britain were already convening war crimes trials in Europe. What if they decided to put the emperor—who was believed to be divine—on trial? What if they got rid of the emperor and changed the form of government entirely? Even though the situation was bad in the summer of 1945, the leaders of Japan were not willing to consider giving up their traditions, their beliefs, or their way of life. Until Aug. 9. What could have happened that caused them to so suddenly and decisively change their minds? What made them sit down to seriously discuss surrender for the first time after 14 years of war?
It could not have been Nagasaki. The bombing of Nagasaki occurred in the late morning of Aug. 9, after the Supreme Council had already begun meeting to discuss surrender, and word of the bombing only reached Japan’s leaders in the early afternoon—after the meeting of the Supreme Council had been adjourned in deadlock and the full cabinet had been called to take up the discussion. Based on timing alone, Nagasaki can’t have been what motivated them.
Hiroshima isn’t a very good candidate either. It came 74 hours—more than three days—earlier. What kind of crisis takes three days to unfold? The hallmark of a crisis is a sense of impending disaster and the overwhelming desire to take action now. How could Japan’s leaders have felt that Hiroshima touched off a crisis and yet not meet to talk about the problem for three days?
The whole piece is quite interesting, and puts to the lie the notion that the US could not have won the war against Japan by conventional means – especially when you realise that Japan attempted to negotiate surrender terms with the Allies several months before the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
This is a contentious issue – you will find cogent and solid arguments rejecting the notion that Japan wanted to surrender as well, and noting the national will of the Japanese people to keep fighting, for every bit as long as their god-man Emperor was willing to carry on.
Yet, I think the weight of the evidence now clearly shows the atomic bombings of Japan were unnecessary acts of extreme violence, designed to deter the Soviet Union, not to force a Japanese surrender.
You are, of course, free to agree or disagree as you see fit. All I will say is, the evidence points me to a conclusion diametrically opposed to what I once believe on the subject.
Linkage is good for you:
- Former (and almost certainly future) Russian President and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev announced truly astounding growth in Russian military recruitment over 2023;
- A big part of the reason why Russia shot something like 35 Ukrainian aircraft clean out of the sky in the past month, is the introduction of new ultra-long-range S-400 missiles;
- A quite glamorous and beautiful Dagestani policewoman has some very good advice for her Russian sisters to stop sending nudes to their boyfriends – amen, lady;
- Russian Market – a Swiss blogger, of all things – reckons Bitcoin’s time has come at last, though of course we’ve heard that one before;
- Eric Striker looks at the collapse of the American Empire on all fronts, as it struggles to deal with and contain multiple crises;
- Jung-Freud – who is not everyone’s cup of tea – looks at the ways in which Zionists have manipulated morality in the West to serve their own ends;
- A “top Hummus commander” apparently believes the original Oct 07 attacks on Israel were never meant to target civilians – exercise caution, Palis lie like rugs;
- Despite literally MILLIONS of dollars spent trying to teach Pajeets how not to crap in the streets, the efforts have been, basically, useless;
- As I have long argued, working in the banking industry is deeply unhealthy – it turns good people very, very bad;
- For those of you who think AI is a very dangerous idea – this example of a malfunctioning killer robot in South Korea is going to make your SkyNet nightmares much worse;
- Dr. Mathew Maavak is not amused by the ways in which businesses use planned obsolescence as a business strategy;
- I am NOT a fan of John Lennon, AT ALL, but I have to admit, if I had to deal with a crazy chick like Yoko Oh-no!!!, I’d probably run off with my Chinese assistant too;
- Tattoo artist and former hellraiser Kat Von D is now a Christian – and good for her – but what she has to say about her former circles is quite chilling;
And some more from Dawn Pine:
- Why does Egypt refuse to take in the Pali-Walis, even though they once administered Gaza before 1967? The answer is long, complex, and full of political intrigue;
- The coolest-looking sci-fi museum ever made is now up and running in Chengdu, China, and it is genuinely a sight to behold;
- Your “Ancient Aliens” moment of the week – apparently, gravitational lensing might allow advanced alien races to transmit power over interstellar and even intergalactic distances;
- You’ve heard of Long Johns, and you’ve heard of John Deere, but you’ve probably never heard of a deer crashing into a long-johns store for women;
- Tourists in Clownipornia hit the brakes to avoid running over a tarantula, which caused a road crash – personally, I’d have floored it, because I FREAKIN’ HATE SPIDERS;
- Bellendsky the Coke-Fiend wants everyone to unite behind him, even though he is clearly failing and is now in full-on Hitler-in-the-bunker mode;
- If you happen to be living near a certain coal mine in Wyoming, you could be staring down the barrel of a BUTTLOAD of money – just make sure you read the fine print;
- A Doctor Karen (yes, really) is such a wine-mom that she attacked nurses and police officers in A&E – key word: SCOTLAND;
And finally some linkage from LRFotS Randale6:
- Tom’s Hardware takes an in-depth look at the new Steamdeck in its full-on OLED 4K incarnation;
- Some excellent financial wisdom from JL Collins at his website, to help you achieve financial freedom and proper wealth-building;
- And another site which will help you retire early, if you are currently in a 9-to-5 job at the moment;
- Classic piece from the sorely missed Dalrock about the dangers of chivalry in the modern day and age;
MUH RUSHIAN KAHLOOOOOZHUN!!!
The Neo-Tsar took time out of his EXTREMELY busy schedule to visit very young cancer patients in the hospital, to their immense delight:
HALO Nation
Slayergod Remy aka Mint Blitz is absolutely chuffed to bits that you can now grind your way toward earning the Chief’s armour in HALO Infinite:
Bring on the Grimdark
Scholar’s Lore explains how DA ORKY BOYZ GADDA DEM PROPAH GITZ ‘N’ NOBZ FER A RIGHT WAAGH!!!:
As I have seen it written before – and it is absolutely true – Orks are what you would get if English football hooligans somehow managed to become a spacefaring civilisation. They are also literally the ONLY race in WH40K that are genuinely having fun.
That’s Not Gone Well…
Wazzocks gonna wazzock:
Comedy Hour
Meme Warfare
we start with some dope memes from The Male Brain:
Also – why is Hermione the Jew? and Ron the Christian?
Here are a couple dealing with Belendsky the Coke-Fiend:
Ad some more:
[See also: Communim — Didact]
Onward:
Remember, we are equal opportunity racists around here.
Animal Planet
Your aminules are adorkable moment of the week:
Easily the cutest thing you will see all day up there.
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 Mitchell Hooper, who proves not all Canuckistanis are polite wusses:
Dude clearly has a wicked-funny sense of humour, too:
Ass-Kicking of the Eight Limbs
They See Me Rollin’…
Palate Cleansers
Axe Me Anything
Cleaning Your Glock
Yes, I know, lots of you hate plastic guns – IT’S A JOKE, OK?
And yes, there IS a Glock here too:
Culture Beats
Drumlines
Somewhere in the world, LARZZZZZ Ulrich, the COLOSSALLY overrated drummer of REKTALLICA, just exploded with envy. (He has literally admitted he does not practice, which is why he sounds like shit live.)
Jump-Starts
Livin’ in the Land of the Metal Gods
Rock Out With Your Glock Out
Hot Totty
Right, here is your Instathot to wrap things up and get the week off to the correct start. This here is Tina Nora, in her twenties from Krautland – who has multiple OnlyFools-type pages. Therefore, her Thot Quotient is a HARD 10 – no ifs, ands, or, in her case, butts.
Her freckles sure are cute, though.
OK, boys, that’s it, back to work.
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End perfectly … lulz.
“the true craziness of Palestinian TV shows, which use Mickey Mouse analogues to teach children to kill Jews:”
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still less offensive than “modern” actual Disney.
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“ I think the weight of the evidence now clearly shows the atomic bombings of Japan were unnecessary acts of extreme violence, designed to deter the Soviet Union, not to force a Japanese surrender.”
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don’t forget that Nagasaki was the center of what little progress Christianity had made in Japan. it’s not likely that the Soviet agents in FDR’s administration chose Nagasaki on accident.
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so far as Tatsuya Ishida / Sinfest is concerned, the last time i looked he was starting to make a turn …. but he was still HARD core Feminist TERF. back in the day, Sinfest was great fun. then Tatsuya got infected with feminism and went to shit. he’s been making moves about walking back a few things here and there ( his “Woman Man” strip is hilarious ) i still wouldn’t consider him even remotely trustworthy.
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i nominate Leonard Cohen’s “Everybody Knows” for Brandon’s theme song.
My gym nemesis lately, aside from all the people using the Smith machine who should know better, is the leg press machine. There will inevitably be some tubby dude in a wifebeater who’ll pile six plates on each side (leaving like half a dozen for the whole rest of the gym) and then make a big show of pressing them like he’s doing something difficult. Do squats, you cowards.
Also, I’ve been getting caught up on past Domain Queries, and I’ll excuse your vicious slander against redheads in one of them (paraphrasing, “Russian girls are just as crazy as redheads, but more intelligent”) due to the countless hours of free entertainment you’ve provided on this platform. 😛