Well, yet again, that weekend zipped by WAY too damn fast, and yet again, we find ourselves confronted by the horrors of Monday. At least I was able to catch up on some much-needed R&R over the weekend, given Friday was literally back-to-back-to-back meetings for a solid 5 hours. This is NOT how a Friday should proceed, to say the least.
And now we are back to the front, as it were. Fortunately, that is why the Great Mondaydact Browser Mulcher is here – to crash your browser as fast as possible, with as much content as possible. (I note with considerable amusement that these things can take up as much as 2.5GB worth of browser memory at a time, which is hilarious if your computer has less than 16GB of memory. Mine has 32, and runs Linux, so I’m sitting pretty.)
This week, we’ll concentrate on a channel that I found called The People Profiles. They have a really quite excellent historical documentary of one Georgiy Zhukov, the legendary Marshall of the Soviet Union, who ultimately defeated the entire German army and liberated all of Europe (though most Europeans, especially those who lived under the consequences of Soviet rule, certainly do not feel that way).
They also happen to have a very lengthy and interesting series on one Napoleon Bonaparte, aka the tactical genius who conquered most of continental Europe – and then tried to invade Russia in winter. We all know how THAT turned out.
We must not, of course, forget his wife, the Empress Josephine:
And how better to remember Boney, than by using clips from the legendary Sharpe series, starring none other than Sean Bean?
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, does an EXCELLENT impersonation of the Fake President:
#BasedTucker is Based
Dawn of Battle
The Male Brain has a veritable cornucopia of content for you today. We start with Honest Ads helping you to understand the online therapy market better:
Solid jj tells you why super speed – aka what the Flash has – is the worst of all possible superpowers, and not quite the way you might think of it, either:
Academy of Ideas addresses a very fascinating, and very scary, debate – which one is more likely to be the future, 1984 or Brave New World?:
Sabine Hossenfelder wonders what might happen if SkyNet actually becomes sentient and starts moving weapons around on a board:
How It Should Have Ended inverts things to take on the start of things, with DUNE:
Moon is not at all pleased with the way the super-ultra-hyper-rich travel:
Matrix Explained goes ahead and, uh, explains the point of the machines keeping humans in those weird pods:
It is worth keeping in mind that the Wachowski brothers – well, things, now – created The Matrix by reading Derrida (a French deconstructionist, and you won’t thank me if you look that up), and think anime is profound. So, y’know, take everything there with a BIG heaping helping of sodium chloride.
Mind-Expanding Drugs
Dawn Pine has lots of stuff to make you think this week, too, via the world’s busiest bald YOOTOOBER:
Fanservice
LRFotS RobertW wrote in with some great content for this week, as well. We start with a close look at the global grocery store chain known as Aldi, via The Fat Files:
Aldi is pretty big around where I live. They definitely keep their prices low, though of course you sacrifice quality for it, which is unsurprising.
Sam Hughes Voiceover wonders whether Lord of the Rings was actually mis-cast all along:
Very few men understand your much more capable tools are today compared to previous generations. Torque Test Channel tracks lays down some data from the shop:
Figuring Things Out explains the power of learning how to be a circuit engineer:
Active Self Protection shows how an effective community is often every bit as useful as effective self-defence skills:
Dr. Michael S. Heiser is long gone, and very sadly so, but his family and followers lovingly maintain his channel:
Dude Dad explains what couple projects are really like:
Death Smiles At Us All…
Poli-Ticking Off
Mark Dice gets serious for a change, about a secretive group of science bros who think they rule the world:
The very-thoroughly-married couple at Redacted couplesplain how Alexei Naval’nyi probably died:
The thing is, they aren’t actually all that far off. The hysterical Western overreaction was completely off the charts, but even Kirill Budanov, the extremely unlikeable (and actually not particularly clever) head of the Ukrainian military intelligence unit, admitted the guy probably died from a blood clot:
And guess how that clot happened? Oh, wait, the Krauts won’t let anyone see Naval’nyi’s medical records from his time in their country… How convenient.
PJW grabs a shovel and pours dirt on the grave of VICE, which is well into its full-on death spiral:
Rulings from the Bench
Judge Nap has lots lined up for us this week as well. Col. Lawrence Wilkerson is unimpressed by the American support of the ongoing Gazacaust:
Neither is Maj. Scott Ritter, though he is rather more of a loudmouth about it:
Capt. Matthew Hoh calls on the UK government to do the right thing – which, of course, they WON’T:
Alistair Crooke explains, gently and in a gentlemanly way, what Israel and the US are doing wrong in the Middle East (basically EVERYTHING):
Larry Johnson & Ray McGovern provide an analytical lens on all the crazy stuff happening in the 404 War and Gaza:
Prof. Jeffrey Sachs points out the severe problem with the American elite’s understanding of Russia:
Prof. John Mearsheimer explains the collapse of the unipolar world order:
Дед Сварливый Говорит!
Grandpa Grumpuss grumps, grumpily, about DA KERNEL’s misunderstandings of Soviet history:
I don’t fully agree with Grumpuss here. While he is correct to get annoyed with people who exaggerate – usually due to a lack of knowledge – the actual death toll under Stalin’s USSR (60 million people DID NOT go through the gulags), I think he downplays the terror and brutality of Stalin’s reign far too much.
There is simply no arguing with these facts – they are a matter of public record, even the Russians will admit to these things:
- Soviet agricultural policy failed repeatedly under Stalin, thanks in no small part to the next point;
- Utter intellectual frauds and charlatans like Trofim Lysenko were given power completely out of proportion to their actual capabilities – and, worse, some of his really stupid ideas are coming back into fashion in certain Russian circles;
- The USSR was almost never self-sufficient in food, and consistently imported huge quantities of grain from the West, particularly from the USA;
- Millions of Ukrainians, Russians, and Kazakhs starved to death during the Golodomor – including a full third of the entire population of Kazakhstan at the time (though the death toll almost certainly was not 10 million Ukrainians);
- Excess mortality was far higher than anyone expected, resulting in a deficit of some 20 million people between censuses – and when Stalin got the news, he ordered the census-takers arrested;
- Over a million people went through the gulag system, and many of them never survived the ordeal;
- Tens of thousands of Red Army officers were purged, leading to a woefully underprepared and very poorly led military that had to relearn basic doctrines while losing MILLIONS of soldiers for a full year, before they finally rediscovered the doctrines of Deep Operations and Attrition Warfare;
- Stalin’s death, when it finally happened, nearly paralysed the entire USSR, because of the power struggle that ensued;
- Stalin himself tolerated and even encouraged tremendous abuses by the NKVD, and particularly the monstrous evil of one Lavrentyi Beria – who was such a nasty character that none other than Georgiy Zhukov, the man who defeated Nazi Germany on the battlefield, regarded his role in Beria’s arrest and execution as the single most important thing he ever did;
Furthermore, unlike a lot of people who criticise Soviet Russia, I have actually been to Russia (repeatedly), and speak and read Russian (albeit not particularly well). Moreover, unlike DA KERNEL and others, I actually do have a background in serious mathematics.
So I am largely immune to many of the criticisms that Grumpuss makes so trenchantly about these people. And when I write that Russia, even today, has not fully come to terms with the horrible legacy of the Soviet system, I DO, in fact, know what I’m talking about, because I have actually seen the monuments to the Soviet-era leaders all over western and southern Russia.
Last September, I was in a tiny little impoverished Dagestani village, high up in the Caucasus mountains, called Chokh, where there is a monument to the founder of the Red Partisan Brigade, named Magomed Omarov-Chokhskiy, who died at the front during the Russian Civil War in 1921.
Down by the highways alongside the lakes and rivers, it is not at all uncommon to find posters of Stalin, feted and celebrated as a great leader. You will also find monuments to Lenin – and, keep in mind, these are all in a part of the world where the Soviets deported and forcibly relocated hundreds of thousands of Chechens, Avars, Dagestanis, and other Muslims to other parts of Russia.
Yet they still celebrate these people as heroes. The hysterically funny, and actually very accurate (though time-compressed), British black comedy film, The Death of Stalin, was straight-up BizANNED in Russia (link in Russian).
And why? Because the government people who watched it, thought it might hurt the feelings of people who grew of age during the Great Patriotic War, and even those who were affected by Stalin’s brutal repressions.
THAT is what I mean when I say that Col. Macgregor is right, in that Russia still has never quite come to terms with what the USSR did to it.
Margin of Victory
And speaking of Col. Douglas Macgregor, he sat down to speak with one rather toothsome Natalie Brunell, who seems to be a charming, graceful, and intelligent young lady with her head screwed on straight, about a range of topics, including Bitcoin:
I disagree with DA KERNEL and the young lady on one important point. Bitcoin is not, and will almost certainly never be, money. It is too volatile and too difficult to use as a medium of exchange, a store of value, or a unit of account – which means it meets precisely NONE of the definitions of money. It also has no intrinsic value, unlike gold – which Col. Macgregor writes off in that interview as a medium of exchange, because it is too difficult to carry around.
However, I happen to have a fair amount of expertise in the area of stablecoins and cryptocurrencies (long story), and as such, I know that it is possible to create an asset-backed stablecoin that uses proven gold reserves to function as an instantaneous method of transaction.
To make this work, you need to move beyond the very slow and extremely computationally expensive Proof-of-Work system used by Bitcoin, which cannot possibly provide the scale and speed required to provide a real settlements infrastructure. But, if you can make a Proof-of-Stake or pre-mined algorithm work properly with an asset-backed stablecoin, there is nothing theoretically stopping such a digital currency from working well as a medium of exchange.
Polonium
Ania Konieczek had a very happy meeting with her old friend, Larry Johnson, in Moscow, of all places:
I am positively green with envy. Moscow is an incredible city with lots to offer, especially by way of classy restaurants and cafes.
Timeo Danaos Et Donna Ferentes…
The good gentlemen of The Duran discuss the failure of the Munich Security Conference, and Bellendsky’s utter despondency after it:
The Bald Truth
Brian Berletic of The New Atlas patiently explains why the US defence industry cannot possibly ramp up production to anything like the scale required to take on the Russians:
I do hope that whatever work he’s having done on his house over there in Thailand finishes up soon. Listening to his videos is profoundly irritating with all the background noise nowadays.
Bad Medicine
Dr. John Campbell is NOT happy about the recent changes in excess death calculations in the UK:
Again, I know something about this. The Excess Mortality data from the UK have been revised sharply to reduce the “unexpected” deaths in 2023 down from over 30K, to around 10K. That is the big headline running around in the British whore-media right now.
What they are missing, because they haven’t bothered to look deeper into the numbers, is that over 340 boys and young men died of Suddenly in 2023 in PommieBastardLande – FAR above historical norms. And no one can figure out how more deaths than the combined disasters that took down the Boeing 737 MAX, happened in the UK, without anyone so much as noticing.
I will have a piece out on this in the near future. The evidence isn’t just alarming, it is damning. And ALL of the data are publicly available – anyone can do what I did to come up with the figures.
Dr. Suneel Dhand has some sensible advice for you and your loved ones:
Dr. Shim explains how a herniated disc can improve all by itself, provided you don’t do anything stupid:
Warriors of Faith
Tha Dizzle has an important message for all y’all, coming straight outta Da Holey Land:
He’s lost a tremendous amount of weight, which is impressive, it must be said.
Dr. Jay Smith from PfanderFilms and Brother Mel take a closer look at the shahada, and come to some interesting conclusions:
Al-Fadi from CIRA International and Dr. Jay Smith look at the issues with carbon-dating around the early Koranic manuscripts:
Christian Prince takes on Izzlamists as only he can – I swear, his live shows are both a comedy stand-up club and a learning opportunity:
Sam Shamoun wipes his butt with the Koran and its myths of “perfect preservation” and “miraculous revelation”:
Manly Men of Manliness
Man Talk has some tremendous compilations of women posting their own Ls online:
Joker from Better Bachelor has little patience for purple-pilled cuckservatives, and with good reason:
Burn Paedowood to the Ground
Midnight’s Edge unpacks the disaster that was Madame Web:
I didn’t watch it – I harldy watch Hollyweird movies anymore – so I shan’t comment. But all I can say is, everything I have heard tells me it was a terrible film.
Overlord Dicktor Van Doomcock reckons things have gotten to bad for the House of the Devil Mouse that they are now using bots to manipulate the ratings on their awful movies:
The Critical Drinker reckons the Mighty GIRRRRRRRLBAWSE!!! is finally dead, and he might just be on to something:
Reading Too Much Into Things
Your Science is F***ing Weird moment of the week is actually not funny, at all, because it concerns the largest study ever done to-date on adverse events related to the not-vaxxes. The reading is sobering, to say the least:
Background: The Global COVID Vaccine Safety (GCoVS) Project, established in 2021 under the multinational Global Vaccine Data Network™ (GVDN®), facilitates comprehensive assessment of vaccine safety. This study aimed to evaluate the risk of adverse events of special interest (AESI) following COVID-19 vaccination from 10 sites across eight countries.
Methods: Using a common protocol, this observational cohort study compared observed with expected rates of 13 selected AESI across neurological, haematological, and cardiac outcomes. Expected rates were obtained by participating sites using pre-COVID-19 vaccination healthcare data stratified by age and sex. Observed rates were reported from the same healthcare datasets since COVID-19 vaccination program rollout. AESI occurring up to 42 days following vaccination with mRNA (BNT162b2 and mRNA-1273) and adenovirus-vector (ChAdOx1) vaccines were included in the primary analysis. Risks were assessed using observed versus expected (OE) ratios with 95 % confidence intervals. Prioritised potential safety signals were those with lower bound of the 95 % confidence interval (LBCI) greater than 1.5.
Results: Participants included 99,068,901 vaccinated individuals. In total, 183,559,462 doses of BNT162b2, 36,178,442 doses of mRNA-1273, and 23,093,399 doses of ChAdOx1 were administered across participating sites in the study period. Risk periods following homologous vaccination schedules contributed 23,168,335 person-years of follow-up. OE ratios with LBCI > 1.5 were observed for Guillain-Barré syndrome (2.49, 95 % CI: 2.15, 2.87) and cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (3.23, 95 % CI: 2.51, 4.09) following the first dose of ChAdOx1 vaccine. Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis showed an OE ratio of 3.78 (95 % CI: 1.52, 7.78) following the first dose of mRNA-1273 vaccine. The OE ratios for myocarditis and pericarditis following BNT162b2, mRNA-1273, and ChAdOx1 were significantly increased with LBCIs > 1.5.
Conclusion: This multi-country analysis confirmed pre-established safety signals for myocarditis, pericarditis, Guillain-Barré syndrome, and cerebral venous sinus thrombosis. Other potential safety signals that require further investigation were identified.
The real problem lies with what they are NOT telling you. This was an observational study – i.e. the weakest kind – and only tracked adverse effects of special interest (AESI) from the major clot-shots for 42 days after each dose. We now know that the clot-shots can take months or even years to harm people. And even that relatively anodyne language about the abstract hides the reality, contained in this graphic:
It is even worse than that. At least one of the scientists who participated in this study had the chutzpah to claim that, on the basis of this research, the not-vaxxes are safe. But this is pure Grade-A horseshit, as you can see from the pictures above. How the hell can a not-vaxx be safe, when the likelihood of getting a serious heart condition goes up 6-7x after the second and third doses?!?!?!
Your long read of the week is by Matija Seric, and looks at CIA and Al-Qaeda involvement in the Chechen Wars:
The US-Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce was founded in 1995 to lobby the Clinton administration for US engagement in the Caspian region, including the Caucasus. That chamber included powerful people like the executive director of the Halliburton company, Dick Cheney, who, as vice president in George W. Bush’s administration, will direct the US towards interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq. The chamber was headed by former Secretary of State and Texas political broker James Baker III. And there were also Zbigniew Brzezinski, Henry Kissinger and Brent Scowcroft. What was that all about?
The only pipeline that transported oil from Baku to the west passed through the capital of Chechnya, Grozny. It had a capacity of 100,000 barrels per day, was 146 km long and dates back to the Soviet era. It transported Azeri oil through Dagestan and Chechnya to the Russian port of Novorossiysk on the Black Sea. That oil pipeline was the main obstacle to the alternative route of the American and British oil companies, which, of course, wanted to avoid transport through Russia.
Therefore, it is not surprising that the Caucasus and the Chechen war there intrigued American leaders. In 1998, President Bill Clinton tasked Richard Morningstar and Matt Bryza with developing a US energy strategy in the Caucasus and the Caspian Sea. The US government’s idea was to build pipelines independent of Russia from the Caspian Lake through the southern part of the Caucasus region to Europe. Bryza and Morningstar played a crucial role in the construction of the Baku – Tbilisi – Ceyhan pipeline (a project of the American-Azerbaijan Chamber) that will transport oil from Baku, Azerbaijan through Georgia to Turkey and the Mediterranean. Both were closely associated with Dick Cheney and Richard Perle (a former government official and supporter of the use of Mujahideen in the fight against the Soviets in Afghanistan).
The American government has a great deal to answer for, as far as the Russians are concerned. They have a special hatred for people like Shamil Basayev – go look him up, he was a Radical Izzlamist F***head unlike almost any other before or since – and what they did. The Beslan Massacre and Moscow Metro bombings are still pretty fresh in Russian hearts and minds. Make no mistake, they are STILL angry about what the Chechens did – though they know and understand that the Chechens themselves were deceived, and as such, have very largely forgiven them.
Linkage is good for you:
- Vladislav Ugolny maps out the significance of Avdeevka, now that it has fallen to the Russians;
- John Helmer, a genuine investigator living in Moscow, explains the Polish-German foolishness involved in trying to expropriate the Rosneft refinery in Germany;
- Jung-Freud talks about the way the collapse and loss of empire exposes the core of the nation that created it – and how that core can itself collapse;
- Prof. Jeffrey Sachs looks at the toxic effect of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s influence on the Fake President, and on the American Empire in general;
- The new CEO of Uber finally realises what the rest of us figured out a long time ago about Pajeets – they are extremely demanding and don’t actually want to pay for anything, which makes them incredibly bad customers;
- Apparently, the latest Millennialtard/Gen-Zyklon trend in job interviews is something called “Big Talk” – see if you can figure this out, I sure as hell can’t;
- This “influenza” thing doesn’t actually pay very well, it seems, because many of the people doing it in the Gen-Z/Millennial cohort are giving it up;
- The typical “overemployed” guy is usually a Millennial working multiple remote tech jobs for the money, trading his time for a high payout;
- Airbus’s CEO looks at the COMAC C919 and argues against complacency, and he is right to do so – but he completely misses what the Russians are doing with their own jets;
- A woman got a freebie upgrade to business class, and then got really huffy when the guy in the seat next to her flatly refused to give up his own seat, for which he had paid, so her husband could sit there;
- And while we’re talking about spoiled women, here is a great piece on what living the high life in Hong Kong as an expat wife does to the women involved;
- Pancreatic cancer rates are spiking in young women and girls in the UK, and medical authorities are (of course) at a complete loss to explain why…;
- The CEO of a new startup thinks he can take on VISA and MasterCard as payment processors – all I can say is, good luck to him, I know something about their economics and they are VERY difficult to beat;
And some more from Dawn Pine:
- The employee of a fancy cafe received a gigantinormous tip, and then the cafe itself fired her, for some reason;
- If you have ever wondered whether the peer review system is a good idea, it turns out you can find ways to get an AI-drawn big-balled rat into a journal pretty easily;
- Your MAFF HURTS!!! moment of the week is all about the decimal system in 15th-century Italy;
- There are some stories that you just don’t want to describe in a craption, and this is definitely one of them – I warn you, this one is HORRIBLE;
- While the Neo-Tsar has no trouble whatsoever climbing a steep ladder into the cockpit of a Tu-160M heavy bomber, Brandon can’t even get up the stairs of Air Force One properly;
- Apple says that old “trick” of sticking a waterlogged iPhone into a bag of dry white rice does not actually do anything – I can well believe it, as you’d have to be a bit of a dumbass to buy one to begin with;
- If you’ve ever wanted to get free McDonald’s junk food, then ChatGPT might just be able to help you do precisely that;
- The makers of Tinder and Hinge are being sued, because apparently their apps are highly addictive and dangerous to mental health – well duh, that’s kind of the point, y’all;
- Although the Big Tech giants are laying people off in many departments – notably the DIE sections – they are also paying huge amounts of money for data scientists and AI engineers, and the war for talent is heating up;
- A proper garden tool cannot for the life of her figure out why every man she bangs, then immediately loses interest in her – it’s a mystery, I tell you;
- Google’s Gemini AI has serious problems trying to draw White people, which tells you everything you need to know about how “intelligent” the AI things actually are;
MUH RUSHIAN KAHLOOOOOOOZHUN!!!
The Neo-Tsar explains what he actually thinks of chocolatiers, and you will not be surprised to learn that he simply wants homos to stop fiddling with kids:
Personally, I would go a lot farther than insist that homos (and all others) who abuse and molest children, should be designated MAPs – Millstone-Attached Persons. A nice big millstone tied around the neck, plus an introduction to a suitably deep body of water, is not only sensible, it is Biblical.
Of course, I also tend to be in favour of impalement for repeat-offender paedophiles convicted beyond any reasonable doubt, but that’s me.
The Putin also says he welcomes furriners who share Russian social and religious values:
I’d sign on like a shot, if they ever do open up a proper immigration route to foreigners who speak Russian and believe in strong Christian values. However, I also happen to know how hard it actually is to live in Russia, so trust me when I say, you’d better know damned well what you’re signing up for before you go.
HALO Nation
The Synthetic Soundsmith gives you a tremendous dose of motivation on a Monday morning:
Steve Downes – yes, THAT one, the guy who actually voices the Master Chief – has a LOT of seriously cool swag to go with his acting chops:
Slayergod Remy aka MintBlitz does his thing while talking about Microsoft’s TERRIBLE mismanagement of the HALO IP:
I can well believe it. Since Bungie left the scene, the lore has become almost completely broken and nearly impossible to follow, and the continuity no longer makes any damn sense. Despite what looks like a brilliant return to form with HALO Infinite, it seems to be too late, because the technical debt involved with HI was so severe that it wrecked an otherwise great game.
Also, on the subject of this Helldivers thing… well, take a look at it:
It’s literally STARSHIP TROOPERS (the movie, not the book) mixed in with HALO 3: ODST, into a game that looks and sounds BETTER than anything 343i has managed since HALO 4.
And, yeah, that kind of pisses me off a bit.
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!!!
Scholar’s Lore dives deep into the Cult Mechanicus, and their genuinely weird ideas about the Omnissiah:
Oh No! Anyway…
Wazzocks gonna wazzock:
Watching Hammster and his daughter driving and having a lark, is the most wholesome and fun thing you will watch all week.
Comedy Hour
Remember back when British comedy was really funny? I do. Boy do I miss it.
Meme Warfare
We start with a whole heaping of meme-y goodness from Dawn Pine, who has evidently gotten up to the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode (“Chain of Command“, parts 1 and 2, for the pedantic) where Capt. Picard is tortured by the Cardassians and is forced to say there are 5 lights, when there are actually only 4:
[Happy to oblige – Didact]
[And now back to TMB – Didact]
And now some regular Star Trek memes from TMB:
Also – Star Trek Voyager: Let’s get a female captain. Whoops, we are lost in the universe.
[On the other hand, Gates McFadden looked HOT back then. Kind of like Marg Heglenberger did in the original CSI, once upon a time. – Didact]
Plus some more regular memes from Dawn Pine:
[I can just about tolerate the first two – but Taylor Swift‘s music is a crime against humanity. – Didact]
Plus, a whole heaping helping of great memes from LRFotS RobertW too:
And now, as that same worthy 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 the living legend, John Haack:
Dude picks up and lifts nearly FOUR HUNDRED KILOS like it’s nothing… That’s TWICE my current 95% 1RM!
Ass-Kicking of the Eight Limbs
They See Me Rollin’…
Dafuq did he do?!?!?!
Palate Cleansers
Axe Me Anything
Drumlines
MOAR DAKKA!!!
Mighty Wings
Jump-Starts
That smile of hers could heal the world – and believe me, it NEEDS healing from her APPALLING taste in music!
Gingervitis Injections
Livin’ in the Land of the Metal Gods
Rock Out With Your Glock Out
Thot Shots
And finally, here is your Instathot to get the week off to a good start. This here is Andrea Botez, age 21 from Vancouver, Canuckistan, and supposedly the world’s hottest chess player – you may remember her from last week, she featured in one of the links our good friend Dawn Pine sent over – but managed to get her butt handed to her by an 11yo boy.
This may have something to do with her ALSO being a Twitch e-thot, but hey, everyone needs a hobby, I guess.
OK, boys, drag your tails back to work now.
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“supposedly the world’s hottest chess player”
That can’t be a very high bar to clear.
“That can’t be a very high bar to clear.
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you might think so reflexively. but by definition, chess requires a superlative intellectual capacity and there is clearly a biological component to both brain function and, usually, physiognomy. this is not to say that there are no dogs on the distaff side of the chess world, there certainly are. but if you peruse photos from the women’s tournaments, it’s not unusual to be struck by how attractive many of the players are. there also tends to be over representation of slavics, so , you know.
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Anna Cramling is another who is tending toward the instathot angle. but most female chess players are ignoring the online world ( at least the English one ).
As far as epic power lifter instagram handles go, BibloSwaggins is near the top
I warn you, this one is HORRIBLE;
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yeah? apart from much of Kinsey’s data only being possible to acquire via molesting children ( apart from the validity of the “data” in the first place ), there’s the question of his own personal sexual practices.
https://www.reddit.com/r/wikipedia/comments/5b9tqy/sexologist_alfred_kinsey_made_a_habit_of/?rdt=37767
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you really have to ask what kind of Satan worship was going on at IU-Bloomington.