Happy New Year, all you magnificent glorious beacons of masculinity! Peace and blessings to you and your families, and let us all look forward to a year of achievements and victories in 2024. This day is somewhat unusual, in the sense that we have the beginning of the year falling on the beginning of the week, so this Great Mondaydact Browser Killer is a bit more upbeat than usual, since most of us are on holiday.
That being said, we also need to keep in mind a simple fact:
New Year’s Resolutions, as I have stated many times before, are completely useless. We should not waste our time on them.
So, here is some sound advice to help you get past that nonsense, and get on with actually doing stuff:
And here is what I had to say on the subject, some time ago:
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, reckons the FUSA is on the brink of a new Great Depression:
I think he is right – he is not actually exaggerating, for once. The combination of severe inflation, economic stagnation outside of the FIRE sectors of the economy, the growing stresses on bank balance sheets, and the continuing erosion of the productive and skilled workforce, all lead me to believe there is a very serious crisis brewing in the FUSA. We are already seeing signs of it – the crisis just hasn’t broken out in full yet.
#BasedTucker is Based
Dawn of Battle
The Male Brain has brought us a veritable feast of content to get us started in 2024. We start with Wisecrack offering up a philosopherโs take on TikTok, which appears to be a major source of (mis)information for the YOOT crowd:
As with any digital tool, TikTok has its positives (though personally I donโt see many) and negatives. The Chinese, who invented it, understand those negatives, which is why their version, Douyen, has VERY heavy content filters and strict limits on how much time children and teenagers can spend on the thing.
If you have ever wondered what โthirst tweetsโ are, and what they would be like if the people behind them were honest, well, Roger from Honest Ads (aka Cracked) has something to help you out:
Have you ever wondered what the Gospel accounts of the Saviourโs birth would be like if professors from UC Berkeley wrote it? In a not-at-all-unrelated question, have you ever wanted to chew your own leg off? Eretz Nehederet explains the answer to both:
Shane Hummus enumerates the most useless college degrees:
And also offers up opinions on the most useful ones:
Our man Dawn Pine absolutely agrees on #1 (Computer Science) and #2 (Engineering). I happen to agree (mostly), with the caveat that it really, really matters what KIND of CompSci or Engineering degree you take on.
If you take a Computer Science degree that does not have a serious, hardcore programming element to it, preferably in a compiled language like C++, which will teach you really GOOD programming technique, then honestly, you are wasting a lot of your time. Python is a great language, sure, but you have to learn the discipline that comes from trying to get your !@#$%^&* C++ programme to compile and run in the most efficient way possible.
And, if you study Civil Engineering, then you are probably wasting your time. Take Mechanical, Electrical, Aerospace, Chemical, Material, or Nuclear Engineering. (I am sure I missed a few sub-disciplines that are also highly worthwhile.) These are REALLY hard disciplines that will seriously test you and give you powerful problem-solving skills.
As for #9 (Economics) โ I personally would not recommend this. You will learn all the wrong stuff, and you will have to spend years undoing the damage, as I did. But, I can wholeheartedly recommend #7 (Mathematics) โ especially applied mathematics โ because maths is literally the foundation of everything else.
Moving on โ Moon discusses how All Quiet on the Western Front (the movie, not the book) tried to tell us how bad things are on the modern battlefield:
Art Chad explains why polygamy and polyamory are such insanely stupid ideas for anyone interested in making sure they have internal plumbing in their homes:
Mind-Expanding Drugs
Your General Knowledge of the week is from the worldโs busiest bald YOOTOOBER, who explains how wormholes actually work โ to the best of our current knowledge:
Death Smiles At Us All…
Your weekly dose of serious Stoicism:
Fanservice
LRFotS Randale6 has a whole bunch of material for us today as well. I provide these with his comments and statements directly here:
Flashgitz
Totally not Warhammer original flashgitz series, make sure to watch the entire thing:
What happens when Pikachu turns off the body cam:
The mutant reindeer trilogy:
Black Pigeon Speaks
GTA6 and the Ghetto:
Channel the Hate
Why I didn’t pick up mass effect LE despite it being 5.99 USD on steam: EA replaced Origin with something even shittierโฆ
Creative Assembly admits it messed up, even promising to make the Shadows of Change DLC worth the priceโฆ not holding my breath:
Skallagrim
Why chainswords aren’t swords:
[No, but they are SERIOUSLY epic โ Didact]
Seki Sensei
A Japanese sword master tries out a longsword:
Seki’s take on western vs eastern sword fighting:
What is FSR?
Frame generation and FSR3 hands-on with AMD:
The Pacific
The other side of World War 2, the one that Europeans, Russians, and even Americans forget. Also the most heroic campaign America ever embarked on, for once we can claim to be the good guys. Europe was far from the only hellscape in WW2, in many ways the Pacific theater could be worse, particularly from the standpoint of all non-Japanese Asians and pacific islanders.
[Mostly correct, but keep in mind, the Soviets won substantial land victories against Imperial Japan โ see the Battles, plural, of Khalkhin Gol, in which the Red Army utterly defeated the Japanese Sixth Army, and the Soviet invasion of Manchuria, which led directly to Japanese attempts, SIX of them, to surrender to the Allies before the A-bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. – Didact]
The Liberation of Manilla:
A brief overview of the Philippines in World War 2 to it’s independence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C68eY1ovdEE
Let us not forget the guerilla forces who had to go it alone for a good FOUR years against the Japanese:
Japanese fear and hatred of the United States and their own propagandaโฆ which proved effectiveโฆ on only JAPAN:
How Americans (and Filipinos) came to hate Japan:
How the Chinese came hate to Japan:
Poli-Ticking Off
Mark Dice has the popcorn out, watching the fun going down between the America First types, represented by #BasedTucker, and the Khazarian neoclowns, represented by Liโl Benny Shapiru, the Littlest Chickenhawk:
The very-thoroughly-married couple at Redacted talk to Whitney Webb about the ways in which the Daemoncrats are looking to corrupt the 2024 elections:
PJW tells you to fire your hairstylist if this shit ever happens:
I really, REALLY miss the days when your barber would simply CUT YOUR DAMN HAIR, and would do it with an absolute minimum of conversation and jibba-jabba.
Rulings from the Bench
Judge Nap provides some warmed-up leftovers to keep us going until everyone gets back to work in 2024. We start with LTC Tony Shaffer, who discusses the failures of US policy with respect to Project Ukraine:
Capt. Matthew Hoh talks about the true controllers of US foreign policy:
Larry Johnson & Ray McGovern provide a fascinating rundown of the problems with the CIA:
Prof. Jeffrey Sachs explains the serious problems with US foreign policy:
ะะตะด ะกะฒะฐัะปะธะฒัะน ะะพะฒะพัะธั!
Grandpa Grumpuss grumps, grumpily, about the vastly increased arms production of the Russian military-industrial complex, which should make any Western general or military planner turn white as a sheet:
Polonium
Ania Konieczek interviews the great Dr. Michael Hudson, who gazes into his crystal ball to see what might happen in 2024:
Timeo Danaos Et Donna Ferentesโฆ
The good gentlemen of The Duran did a fascinating interview with Russian Deputy Ambassador to the UN Security Council, Dmitryi Polyanskiy, on the growing isolation of the FUSA in international politics, and the growing soft power of Russia:
The Bald Truth
Brian Berletic of The New Atlas has some very bad news for the โMURICA! F*** YEAH!!! crowd:
Bad Medicine
Dr. John Campbell tries, and somewhat fails, to avoid getting a bit worked up just before the New Year on the subject of heart-related issues on the rise in the West:
Dr. Suneel Dhand has some excellent advice for those of us with retirees in our lives:
Warriors of Faith
Tha Dizzle and his good friend The Apostate Prophet cannot help but say โI told you so!โ when listening to the tale of woe of a recent female convert to Izzlam, who now realises she might have made a TERRIBLE mistake:
Dr. Jay Smith from PfanderFilms goes into great detail about the utter bankruptcy of the Standard Izzlamic Narrative of their heresyโs own origins:
Al-Fadi from CIRA International sits down with Dr. Jay Smith to discuss the subject of the formerโs doctoral thesis, the Sanaโa Manuscript:
Christian Prince explains how Izzlam is actually the most divided religion in the world, while also getting an Indonesian Muslim to admit his faith makes absolutely no sense:
Sam Shamoun had a seriously good year in 2023 โ he seems to age like fine wine, getting better at his trade as he gets older:
Manly Men of Manliness
Hereโs a blast from the past with Terrence Popp, who explains how to recognise a proper garden tool in the wild:
Joker from Better Bachelor has little patience for women on either side of the political aisle who dump on men for having standards, and rightly so:
The Trap Lord, Infinite Elgintensity, provides a review of his efforts in 2023 to slay broscience, bullshido, and wokery wherever he saw it:
Burn Paedowood to the Ground
Midnightโs Edge is amused to see the Bullshit Broadcasting Company being accused of woke bias (as far as Iโm concerned, their bias is an axiomatic fact):
Overlord Dicktor Van Doomcock has some rather interesting news to share about Captain America 4, which I cannot imagine any of us will watch:
Gary from Nerdrotic counts down the worst box office failures of 2023:
The Critical Drinker watched Aquaman 2, and hit the snooze button repeatedly:
Reading Too Much Into Things
Your Science is F***ing Weird moment of the week explains what your brain does when you start daydreaming:
You are sitting quietly, and suddenly your brain tunes out the world and wanders to something else entirely — perhaps a recent experience, or an old memory. You just had a daydream.
Yet despite the ubiquity of this experience, what is happening in the brain while daydreaming is a question that has largely eluded neuroscientists.
Now, a study in mice, published Dec. 13 in Nature, has brought a team led by researchers at Harvard Medical School one step closer to figuring it out.
The researchers tracked the activity of neurons in the visual cortex of the brains of mice while the animals remained in a quiet waking state. They found that occasionally these neurons fired in a pattern similar to one that occurred when a mouse looked at an actual image, suggesting that the mouse was thinking — or daydreaming — about the image. Moreover, the patterns of activity during a mouse’s first few daydreams of the day predicted how the brain’s response to the image would change over time.
The research provides tantalizing, if preliminary, evidence that daydreams can shape the brain’s future response to what it sees. This causal relationship needs to be confirmed in further research, the team cautioned, but the results offer an intriguing clue that daydreams during quiet waking may play a role in brain plasticity — the brain’s ability to remodel itself in response to new experiences.
“We wanted to know how this daydreaming process occurred on a neurobiological level, and whether these moments of quiet reflection could be important for learning and memory,” said lead author Nghia Nguyen, a PhD student in neurobiology in the Blavatnik Institute at HMS.
Personally, my daydreams tend to be about things decidedly more adult than what mice think about (or so I would imagine), but it is interesting to think about nonetheless.
Your long read of the week is from Robert Stark, who has very little time for AHHHHHNULDโs latest, rather misguided, and very odd, screed on โbigotryโ, by which he means โanti-Semitismโ:
Earlier this year, Arnold Schwarzenegger put out a video, calling out hate and antisemitism, which he denounced as a horrible loser ideology. This was probably in response to Kanye West and Nick Fuentas meeting with Trump, though it was reposted after the Hamas terror attack. Schwarzenegger made a similar video in response to Charlottesville, that called out Trumpโs โboth sidesโ comments, proclaiming that โthere are no two sides to hate, there are no two sides to bigotry.โ
Schwarzeneggerโs video is mostly about antisemitism, but address bigotry in general. He starts off speaking about visiting Auschwitz with the message of โnever again,โ and asks how do we stop this from ever happening again. However, he makes the point that he does not want to preach to the choir but rather wants to talk to those who hold bigoted views, as heโs seen enough people who have followed hatred, referencing a personal angle with his father, who was a Nazi.
Schwarzeneggerโs message is that the bigots themselves end up suffering rather than just their victims. He talks about the guilt and brokenness, but also that they end up feeling like losers, emphasizing the word loser. He says that some people feel like they deserve more in their lives, and that the only way they feel like they can make their lives better is to make othersโ worse. Basically everything that youโre unhappy about is other peopleโs fault. It is easier to blame others and say that youโre superior to someone else than it is to work to improve, he says. He says that is not the path to success, but is the path of the weak. He says he doesnโt want you to be a loser, so rather than fighting a war against yourself, pull yourself up from your bootstraps.
In a sense it is a self-help/self-improvement video that has a redemption arch, that says it is never too late to improve and evolve rather than tell people they are irredeemable, as antiracist usually do. Obviously Schwarzeneggerโs appeal is as a charismatic bodybuilder and action hero, not as an intellectual. However, there are partial truths to this message, as negative emotions can hold people back from accomplishing their goals and hatred often leads to conflict.
Regardless, Schwarzeneggerโs commentary is hyper-moralistic and gaslighting, as well as a pseudo religious morality, that success is a reward for good moral behavior. Though it is convoluted in that it treats the loser in a Social Darwinist sense, while also worshiping the meek or victims. It assumes that there is a โright side of history,โ with a Universal cosmic force that automatically punishes all actions and movements based upon hate. For instance, Schwarzenegger gives the examples of the Nazis, Confederates, and Apartheid South Africa, as failed movements based upon hate. Schwarzenegger called out the protesters at Charlottesville for idolizing losers as heroes, much like how CNNโs Jake Tapper called out Trump for defending the legacy of โloser Confederate generals.โ
Linkage is good for you:
- RBK conducted a fascinating interview with the head of the Bank of Russia, Elvira Nabiullina, which should be read in its entirety to see how a real central banker thinks;
- The FUSA is desperate to seize and distribute frozen Russian assets to the Khokhols โ and the Euzis are equally desperate to try to avoid such a bullet to the head;
- Yevgenyi Balitskiy, the Russian-appointed head of Zaporozhโye region, reckons the Khokhols will essentially face complete collapse by spring next year;
- Meanwhile, Russiaโs Ambassador to the FUSA points to the continuing, yet diminishing, American support for the Khokhols, as proof of Americaโs wish to fight to the last Ukie;
- Russian weapons really work, and are really lethal, as this list of the top 5 such systems shows in considerable detail, using insights from both Russian and Western analysts;
- Military Watch Magazine takes a look back at the top 10 most significant military events of 2023, starting with the Khatastrophic Khreat Khokholite Khumvee Khounteroffensive;
- The Ukies admit they cannot shoot down Russian supersonic Kh-22 and Kh-32 carrier-killer missiles โ so why the hell do we believe they can shoot down hypersonic Kinzhals?;
- Nebojsa Malic explains why the FUSA is trying so hard to overthrow the legitimately re-elected Serbian government coalition;
- Russian Market explains the serious problem facing the House of the Devil Mouse, thanks to its wokery and stupidity;
- The American-backed destruction of Libya has indeed completely destroyed what was once a proud and sovereign nation, led by an independent if erratic and nasty character;
- Larry Johnson explains in some detail why he considers the average Israeli conscript to be actually very poorly trained, and I think he has a powerful point;
- Americans really need to wake the hell up and realise that sanctioning people simply forces them to become independent and innovative, as the Chinese are now doing;
- Microsoft is putting some serious money behind its AI research efforts, but it remains to be seen whether those investments will pay off;
- Supposedly, the UK economy will continue to build out a lead over France over the coming years, though it is difficult to reconcile that story with the next one;
- As noted previously, the British people are actually 25% poorer on a per capita basis than their peers in Germany and France, which makes the previous story very odd;
- The James Webb Space Telescope has just set a record for observing stars at the furthest reaches of another galaxy;
And some more from Dawn Pine:
- Woke stupidity has come to the American Ornithological Society, because apparently bird names are racist too;
- The Tolkien estate continues to fiercely guard The Masterโs legacy, having sued to secure the destruction of a high-quality fanfiction sequel;
- Why bother going to school, when you could spend the same money on buying up crypto-mining rigs and building out your own cryptocurrency farming operation?;
- Murderous incel Omegas are not merely a Western phenomenon โ they pop up in Russia too, with horrific and tragic consequences for any women that cross their paths;
- The San Jose, which the British Navy sank off the coast of Cartagena in 1708, may contain up to US$20B in treasure โ and now will be raised back to the surface;
- The family of that 6yo kid who managed to find himself on the wrong Spirit Airlines flight, still want answers โ and the airline still cannot figure out how to give them any;
- Lying media whores are really upset they cannot compete with AI bots, so they are resorting to lawfare against Microsoft and OpenAI to avoid losing their livelihoods;
- If you have ever wondered what turns a swan gay, it turns out to be the same factor that turns humans gay โ and that factor is TRAUMA;
And a few more from Randale6:
- A small town in the Japanese Okayama prefecture has managed to double its birth rate in a generation, by providing incentives and making childrearing easier;
- Looking more closely at the details of the Nagi Miracle, the government has made childbearing and childrearing much more affordable through targeted support schemes;
- If you think you want to teach in the FUSA public school system, think again โ because you will have to deal with Blacks, and that is enough to turn anyone into a race realist;
- Another race realist reports on the differences in culture and race awareness between the FUSA and Europe, noting along the way how homogeneous societies are also harmonious;
MUH RUSHIAN KAHLOOOOOOOZHUN!!!
The Neo-Tsar gave a short address to his nation and people as the New Year started rolling across the worldโs largest country โ note his words at the end, emphasising the need for Russians to start and build families, which has become a topic of great importance and concern to the government these days:
HALO Nation
Laper Larden talks about HALO Legends, the anime collection you may or may not know about, but which I assure you is AWESOME โ particularly โThe Packageโ:
And slayergod Remy aka MintBlitz did his thing as 2023 died out:
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!!!
Scholarโs Lore explains the life of Mortarion, the Daemon Prince of Nurgle:
Oh No! Anywayโฆ
Wazzocks gonna wazzock:
Comedy Hour
Hot lady with a sense of humourโฆ Lads, if you find one of those, MARRY HER FAST, PUMP HER FULL OF KIDS, AND TREAT HER RIGHT.
Meme Warfare
We begin with a whole bunch of dank memes from The Male Brain:
[NEVER TELL ME THE ODDS!!! – Didact]
[And now people finally begin to understand why legalising the shooting of Commies on sight is an extremely sensible form of national defence – Didact]
And now, as LRFotS RobertW would say:
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:
REPS FOR JESUS!!!
Gym beast props this week go to Will Tennyson:
Ass-Kicking of the Eight Limbs
They See Me Rollinโ…
Palate Cleansers
Axe Me Anything
Tricksy Dixie
Drumlines
MOAR DAKKA!!!
Mighty Wings
Jump-Starts
Gingervitis Injections
Livinโ in the Land of the Metal Gods
Rock Out With Your Glock Out
Hot Totty
Right, here is your very first Instathot of 2024. This is Andreea Dragoi, age 21, originally from Bucuresti, Roumania, now living in the US. She is a collegiate swimmer at San Jose State University in Clownipornia, and is also a model.
Seeing as she is a swimmer, it is a very good thing she comes equipped with such ample personal flotation devices.
Right, enjoy your day off today, because tomorrow itโs right back to the grind.
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2 things about the best college degrees:
Engineering is one of the best majors there is. There are very few unemployed engineering graduates, and if you focus on Mechanical Engineering it is fairly easy to transition to Electrical or other fields by taking a few more courses after graduation. The firm you work for will probably pay for it as well.
Under no circumstances should anyone major in Economics. Ever. They will learn nothing about how the world actually works, and if you want to work in statistics you’re much better off with a degree in Mathematics. Also, the terminal degree in Economics is the PhD, not the Bachelor’s degree. The U.S. already has too damn many Econ PhDs already and 99% of them are Communists or Neo Keynesians.
Signed, an idiot who changed majors from Electrical Engineering to Economics.
When did R2D2 ever toasted someone?
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R2 is all the time shocking things. you remember, like what happened that time you jammed a fork into the toaster?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLmOteqmDYc
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They probably need more execs
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this is literally Iger’s excuse for why ‘The Marvels’ sucked so hard. insufficient management oversight.
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Chronic Wasting has been known since the 60s and got famous when everyone was losing their minds about Mad Cow disease in the 80s and 90s. if this ever turns into a real problem you’ll know because half the adult male population of Yuipers, Cheeseheads and Minnesnowtans will go down with CJD.
See, here’s the thing. Everyone keeps warning us that ‘We are on our way to a future of idiocracy’
In. The. Future.
Like it’s not already here.
The reason Civil Engineers get a bad rap is because of environmentalism. They all take one look at structural mechanics and declare a concentration in muh environment to avoid the hard maffs. If you want to do civil engineering, do the hard maffs, and you’ll have a six figure salary before age 30 no problem.
Signed, an aerospace engineer who would be making way more money if he had paid attention in finite element analysis.
The African incel armies video essay. The guy looks like an Antifa clown but puts a lot of wisdom on the table. You cannot have a stable society without expectations of monogamy.
It colors the world of the biblical patriarchs and the violence of the Nephilim around them. Abraham and Sons simply existing for hundreds of years in a violent polygamous world is a good filtering mechanism.
Economics has worked for me as a +flex business degree. I’m in the chemistry world now and the ‘Oh wow ur smart’ from chemists about the economics major is surprising.
Signed, a sales guy who was glad he stopped at a BS in econ.