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Monday morning fighting Dark Forces

by | Mar 4, 2024 | Mondays | 4 comments

Well, it took quite a bit longer than usual, but today’s Great Mondaydact Browser Killer is finally up. The delay has to do with two simple facts. First, these things are a BITCH to put together, and second, things are getting awfully busy as we get closer to Easter. Nonetheless, it is, of course, Monday, and that means we all are in dire need of a distraction and some cheering up.

For those of you who are of a certain vintage, you will remember a SUPERB game called STAR WARS: Dark Forces. I remember playing that thing all the way back in the days of the PowerPC, and it was AWESOMESAUCE – even if it was kind of a DOOM knock-off, it was HUGE fun to play.

Well, it turns out the game was recently remastered:

I never played the sequel, but I DID play the sequel to the sequel (as it were) – STAR WARS Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast. And that, too, was superb:

It truly was a great game, for its time, and it still holds up even today. This was back when LucasArts was actually really good, cared about its fans, and had people in charge who genuinely wanted to put out great products.

That is why we got games like X-Wing, TIE Fighter, X-Wing vs TIE Fighter, X-Wing Alliance, and all of the FPS and TPS games.

Compared to those… today’s AAA-rated titles are just CRAP.


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, continues to storm ahead in the Republican primaries by smashifying Neoclown Nikki in her own home state:

We might as well call the race now, really, this spectacle is pointless. Trump will be the Republican nominee for POTUS – and he will still lose in the general race, because it does not matter who votes, it only matters who COUNTS the votes.

And in that respect, the Daemoncrats have this sewn up tight.

I could easily be wrong, of course. Trump may well go on to win the general election, and reclaim the office he never should have relinquished, because he was ALWAYS the legitimate President.

But even if he wins, NOTHING will change. The Deep State owns America to such a degree that it is IMPOSSIBLE to destroy them without destroying America as a united political entity.

And, honestly, at this stage, I think perhaps that destruction would be healthy.


#BasedTucker is Based


Dawn of Battle

The Male Brain has some great stuff for us this week. We start with everyone’s favourite crazy married couple – crazy, because the wife is a redhead – who explain how the “trampoline” came to be:

And speaking of crazy women, PsycHacks tells you how to keep your cool around them:

The world’s busiest bald YOOTOOBER goes through some controversial and very interesting theories about ancient civilisations:

Interestingly, while he dismisses out of hand the “ancient apocalypse” theories of men like Graham Hancock, it is worth pointing out that the latter’s explorations do, in fact, have substantial backing and roots in science and data, and coincide with Biblical descriptions of history.

Who is right? It is up to you to decide.

thejuicemedia is back to help us understand ‘Strayan protections for whistleblowers (read: YOUR ASS IS GOING TO JAIL!!!):


Mind-Expanding Drugs

Your General Knowledge of the week is from Veritasium, and concerns a topic near and dear to me – the Black-Scholes Partial Differential Equation (PDE):

To this day, nearly 17 years after I graduated with a degree in mathematical finance, I can still quote from memory the closed-form solution to the BSPDE, which we now know of as the price for a European call option on a stock. The formulation itself is really quite elegant, mathematically speaking, and the results are extraordinary.

It is not an exaggeration to say the modern world of finance would not exist without the work of Fischer Black and Myron Scholes – for better, and worse.

And here is a contribution from The Male Brain, via the world’s busiest bald YOOTOOBER, about unsolvable paradoxes:


Fanservice

Just one video this week from LRFotS Randale6 – this one concerns Flashgitz coming up with a special called Space King, which, as you can guess within about 10 seconds, is heavily based around WARHAMMER 40,000:


Death Smiles At Us All…


Poli-Ticking Off

Mark Dice discusses the hilarious, and also highly offensive, Google Gemini image-generation scandal:


The very-thoroughly-married couple at Redacted examine an audio leak from AstraZeneca executives that show the not-vaxxes in a VERY different light:


PJW reports on ever-increasing levels of noticing going around in PommieBastardLande:


Lord Razor of the Fist Clan wonders if Big Mike will run for POTUS:


Rulings from the Bench

Judge Nap has been busy hosting an all-star panel of talking heads all week. First up, Col. Douglas Macgregor looks at the possibility of WWIII breaking out, thanks to that egghead idiot Scholz over in Krautland, and Gay Napoleon in France:

Maj. Scott Ritter sounds off about Ukraine and Israel:

I get rather tired of Maj. Ritter’s ranting about the Israelis, admittedly. I find him quite histrionic about the Israelis and what they are doing – which IS ethnic cleansing, make no mistake, but it is not outright genocide.

Unfortunately, that “genocide” idea has taken thorough root. Capt. Matthew Hoh uses the G-word repeatedly in his discussion of Israeli war conduct in Gaza:

OK, as far as this use of “genocide” goes, let us be clear about a few things.

First, the Israelis are absolutely ENRAGED by what happened on Oct 07. They are in no mood to listen to reason, and will not tolerate the existence of the Palestinians next to them. This is not surprising. The Palestinians never keep their word and cannot be trusted.

Second, nobody is going to do one single damned thing to help the Pali-Walis. Arab leaders do not like the Pali-Walis, and Arab people look at them as basically useful idiots and pawns.

Third, none of what I wrote above should be construed to mean I approve of what the Israelis are doing. I categorically do not. I think it is morally reprehensible and totally out of proportion to what happened to Israel. The Gazans are being herded out into the desert en masse to starve or burn in the sun. This is not tolerable or acceptable by any standard.

Fourth, until and unless the Turks or Egyptians go to war against Israel and wipe it off the map – which is precisely where the Israelis are heading, if they do not stop themselves – nothing and no one will stop the Israelis from doing what they are now.

And, fifth, this is NOT genocide, under any reasonable definition. The Israelis are not attempting to exterminate the Palestinians, in whole or part, by mass slaughter.

They ARE, however, very clearly engaged in ethnic cleansing, and that is very nearly as bad. The Israelis lost any hope of holding the moral high ground, a long time ago.

Alastair Crooke wonders if the US has any hope of stopping the violence in the Middle East:

Larry Johnson & Ray McGovern offer an intelligence analyst lens on current events:

Prof. Jeffrey Sachs explains the total lack of understanding in the West about Russia:

Prof. John Mearsheimer predicts when and how the Middle East might melt down into open war:


Дед Сварливый Говорит!

Grandpa Grumpuss grumps, grumpily, about the Russian Way of War, alongside Col. Jacques Baud, a retired French military officer with the rare distinction of being a man of integrity and honesty in a military that is increasingly going to seed:


Polonium

Ania Konieczek talks to Maj. Scott Ritter on the topic of the Neo-Tsar’s State of the Nation address – from Moscow, no less:


Timeo Danaos Et Donna Ferentes…

The good gentlemen of The Duran analyse The Putin’s State of the Nation address in detail:


The Bald Truth

Brian Berletic of The New Atlas shows how Ukraine cannot win against Russia, even if it gets every last artillery shell it wants – which it will not:


Bad Medicine

Dr. John Campbell discusses the failures of the UK’s own vaccine regulators and safeguards:


Dr. Suneel Dhand tries very hard not to facepalm himself to death while discussing “Admiral” Rachael Levine’s latest round of blithering idiocy:

“Climate change”… ye cats.


Warriors of Faith

Tha Dizzle unpacks the hidden message of the Dome of the Rock:


Dr. Jay Smith from PfanderFilms and Brother Mel look at how the Abbasids – Persians, basically – corrupted the Gospels and the life of Jesus, to come up with their own fake Arabic Paedophile Profit for their own political ends:


Al-Fadi from CIRA International and Dr. Jay Smith continue to unravel the secrets of the Sana’a Manuscript:


Christian Prince does God’s work in undoing the brainwashing of Izzlamist dawahgandists:


Sam Shamoun simply takes apart an Izzlamist on the subject of the latter’s own book of lies and nonsense:


Manly Men of Manliness

Terrence Popp destroys pretty lies by the dozen:


Joker from Better Bachelor is tickled by the recent revelation that female psychopaths are much more common than any of us realised:


Burn Paedowood to the Ground

Midnight’s Edge talks Dune Part 2:

I haven’t watched it yet. All I can say is, Dune, the book, is almost certainly impossible to film properly, but Dune Part 1 was about as close as anyone has ever gotten.


Overlord Dicktor Van Doomcock reports on Disney’s desperate attempts to undo the damage it inflicted upon itself:


Gary from Nerdrotic piles onto Marvel’s miseries:


The Critical Drinker reviews Dune Part 2:


Reading Too Much Into Things

Your Science is F***ing Weird moment of the week is from Dawn Pine, and it is an interesting one, about how it is possible to use population data to estimate rates of not-vaxx adverse effects:

Abstract

Introduction

Understanding background incident rates of adverse events following immunisation (AEFI) is essential to rapidly detect, evaluate, respond to, and communicate about vaccine safety concerns, especially for new vaccines. Creating estimates based on geographic specific population level data is increasingly important, as new AEFI presentations will be subject to the same local influences of population demography, exposures, health system variations and level of health care sought.

Methods

We conducted a retrospective cohort analysis of hospital admissions, emergency department presentations and general practice consultations from 2015 to 2019—before introduction of COVID-19, Mpox or Shingrix vaccination—to estimate background incident rates for 37 conditions considered potential AEFI of special interest (AESI). Background incident rates per 100,000 population were calculated and presented as cases expected to occur coincidentally 1 day, 1 week and 6 weeks post-vaccination, by life-stage age-groups and presenting healthcare setting. We then assessed the proportional contribution of each data source to inform each AESI background rate estimate.

Results

16,437,156 episodes of the 37 AESI were identified. Hospital admissions predominantly informed 19 (51%) of AESI, including exclusively ADEM and CVST; 8 AESI (22%) by primary care, and 10 (27%) a mix. Four AESI (allergic urticaria, Bell’s palsy, erythema multiform and sudden death) were better informed by emergency presentations than admissions, but conversely 11 AESI (30%) were not captured in ICD-10 coded emergency presentations at all.

Conclusions

Emergent safety concerns are inevitable in population-wide implementation of new vaccines, therefore understanding local background rates aids both safety signal detection as well as maintaining public confidence in vaccination. Hospital and primary care data sources can be interrogated to inform expected background incident rates of adverse events that may occur following vaccination. However, it is necessary to understand which data-source provides best intelligence according to nature of condition and presenting healthcare setting.


Your long read of the week is by Gregory Hood, and looks at the scandal surrounding Goolag’s Gemini AI product, which is quite hilarious and very sinister at the same time, because so much of it is in direct collaboration with the US government:

Much of the post-2016 free speech crackdown came at the behest of the federal government. President Donald Trump cannot escape blame for this; his own Department of Homeland Security prodded Big Tech to ban specific figures to fight “white supremacy.” Of course, he was ultimately deplatformed himself — while still in office.

The process intensified when President Joe Biden took over, with Twitter and Facebook meeting with the DHS to discuss censoring Americans. According to Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), the Biden administration even gave Amazon specific book titles to ban, which the company did. The Supreme Court recently warned the federal government to back off censorship coordination with Big Tech, but true to form, its ruling had no teeth. As with affirmative action, the same policies will remain in place, only with a more convoluted and dishonest process.

The entire internet is essentially a top-down product. Every YouTube streamer, prominent website, social media account, best-selling Amazon author, or TikTok “influencer” has a podium only because he is allowed one. Every internet-driven cultural trend is therefore to some extent artificial. Social media is not a marketplace of ideas, but a command economy. White patriots, Christians, and many conservatives are banned, demonetized, or restricted, but it is almost unheard of for anti-white “Communists” or “anarchists” to face trouble unless they criticize Jews or Israel. This alone discredits progressive critiques of how power works in modern America.

Complaining about unfairness or hypocrisy does nothing, and the stakes are high because LLMs are “trained” on social media sites. For example, Reddit just struck a reported $60-million-a-year licensing deal to “train” Google’s AI. Reddit banned “racist” groups in 2015 and in 2020 banned an influential pro-Trump group with almost 800,000 members. Thus, any AI it “trains” will get answers that tell only one side of the story. Needless to say, openly anti-white groups and utterly depraved sexual content are still on the site.

AI has the potential to end online debate in a way that no other technology can. Meddling with search engines or banning people is bad enough, but the information is still there and can be found by a determined user. However, AI could replace many content creators, and will spit out answers based on its training. When AI becomes indispensable in education, business, customer service, or dealing with government, we face the prospect of an information dictatorship. Reality will still conflict with what AI feeds us, but with Western governments increasingly criminalizing dissent, we won’t be able even to talk about it. America could be more totalitarian than the Soviet Union.

AI is being programmed to be anti-white. It is being done openly and on purpose. Censorship, deplatforming, and search engine manipulation may be nothing compared to what comes next. Our country has already been wounded by the government’s insistence that we subject our institutions to the fantastic, irrational, and utterly false faith of racial egalitarianism. What happens when we are all taught, entertained, and informed by a powerful system that has been told to deceive us?

Such a society could be not just tyrannical, but anti-human. If AI replaces communication, information, and creativity, we will lose the ability to think clearly about the world or even to know that any other kind of society ever existed.


Linkage is good for you:

And some more from Dawn Pine:


MUH RUSHIAN KAHLOOOOOOOZHUN!!!

The Neo-Tsar had a very great deal to say in his State of the Nation address last week:


HALO Nation

kammyshep tells you everything you never wanted to think about with respect to HALO:

And slayergod Remy aka MintBlitz does his thing:


BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!!!

Scholar’s Lore describes the Aeldari disciplines that define their attempts to stay away from the clutches of She Who Thirsts:


Oh No! Anyway…

Wazzocks gonna wazzock:


Comedy Hour


Meme Warfare

We begin with some epic memes from Dawn Pine, revolving around the subject of the Roman Emperor Nero – known mostly for (supposedly) fiddling while Rome burned (not really), and for being gay (possibly – he apparently did run around dressed in women’s clothing, and he did marry a eunuch). He was given the title, “Princeps Iuventutis” (“head of the youth”), which is actually very disturbing when you think about his reputation:

Especially if you burn it yourself. This is the original Joker – you burn it because it is beautiful.
I’m not sure the math is correct
Can relate, but don’t give GAMMA the power
I’m not sure the persecution included fire…
Rome was able to recover, I’m not sure the US will
Actually, Christians at the time were still Jews
We are still waiting for the report

And now, as LRFotS RobertW would say:

In fairness, Big Guy, voting for the Republicans hasn’t turned out very much better, to be honest…
HEY! I ACTUALLY HAD THE BOOK THAT PICTURE CAME FROM, WHEN I WAS A KID!!!!!!!!!
When you see it…
Yep

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 Matthew Ragg, a Kiwi strongman:


Spın̈al Tap

Free-hanging from a chin-up bar is a wonderful way to decompress your spine (trust me, I know), but sometimes it can end up causing pain for specific people:


Ass-Kicking of the Eight Limbs


They See Me Rollin’…


Palate Cleansers

Axe Me Anything

Drumlines

MOAR DAKKA!!!

Mighty Wings

Jump-Starts

Gingervitis Injections


Livin’ in the Land of the Metal Gods

Also Einstein: “I fear that someday people will post my pic on the Internet with bogus made-up quotations in Comic Sans font”

Rock Out With Your Glock Out


Thot Shots

Right, let’s wrap things up with your Instathot for the start of the working week. This here is Valerie Cody, age 24 (apparently), though damn if she doesn’t look quite a bit older, from Amerikhastan. She does… well, influenzaing, whatever that means, by way of writing stuff, being a yoga teacher, podcaster, a vegetablist (vegan, actually – which doesn’t improve things at all), and, perhaps inevitably, an OnlyFools “star”.

This is rather odd, given she also claims to be married (to another vegetablist – go figure). Quite how one can be married AND an OnlyFools “creator”, is beyond my limited intelligence. Perhaps some of you shitlords can figure it out.

OK, that’s it, enough strain on your tired brains for one day. Y’all sleepwalk back off to work now.

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4 Comments

  1. furor kek tonicus ( dicks out for Harambe )

    And, fifth, this is NOT genocide, under any reasonable definition.
    .
    well, you’re saying that the definition of genocide is “unreasonable” because that’s how it’s been defined since the word was created in the early 20th century.
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    by a Jew.
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    and this definition continues on even today, in International Law and dictionary definition:
    https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=5e1cf30a8e60a482&rlz=1C1CHZN_enUS1009US1009&sxsrf=ACQVn0_WIrcSUbWwvmtq6rRoJ60bOADR4w:1709878927093&q=genocide&si=AKbGX_q870E3DK3nJ7cu3BOD7pxC5aZOKqd0FRHulbXFPFtZm2ETxK_qWtiNWeQVI7E72_BlB4OlVYEtKtOZ6-YlQY3JaoJZ4m1K8sS0ojtCKCRSqTk1IiY%3D&expnd=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjGt7uwg-SEAxWjk4kEHTo6BKgQ2v4IegQIERBA&biw=1366&bih=633&dpr=1
    “the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group.”
    .
    https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual-19-genocide-18-usc-1091#:~:text=Genocide%20is%20defined%20in%20%C2%A7,committed%20within%20the%20United%20States.
    “Genocide is defined in § 1091 and includes violent attacks with the specific intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group.”
    .
    https://www.ushmm.org/genocide-prevention/learn-about-genocide-and-other-mass-atrocities/what-is-genocide
    “Genocide is an internationally recognized crime where acts are committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. ”
    .
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide
    “killing members of the group, causing them serious bodily or mental harm, imposing living conditions intended to destroy the group, preventing births, and forcibly transferring children out of the group. Victims are targeted because of their real or perceived membership of a group, not randomly.
    .
    While mass killing is not necessary for genocide to have been committed”
    .
    i would also note that by the definition under which the term was created, as posted on the Holocaust Museum web site, what is being done to the United States and western Europe also meets the criteria for a genocide.
    .
    Barbara Specter and Bill Kristol know exactly what they’re doing, and they intend for it to happen.

    Reply
    • Didact

      Are the Palestinians a nation?

      No.

      Are the Israelis attacking the Palestinians who make up at least a third of the population of Jordan?

      No.

      Are the Israelis attempting to exterminate or eliminate from the land the two million Arabs who are citizens of Israel itself?

      No.

      Are they, however, attempting specifically to drive off the land the two million Palestinians who live in the enclave of Gaza?

      Yes.

      That is ethnic cleansing, not genocide. And it is very nearly as bad, but it does not amount to a deliberate and calculated extermination of the whole, or the part, of the Palestinian “race”, “nation”, “ethnic or religious group”. Palestinians are not a race, they are not a nation, and they are only part of a broader ethnic or religious group called “Arabs” in the first instance, and “Muslims” in the second.

      Finally, should the Israelis stop this and work like mad to rebuild their shattered relations with the rest of the region, for the sake of their own survival?

      Yes.

      Reply
  2. MrUNIVAC

    I’ll pick up Dark Forces eventually (might be the best pre-Build engine DOOM clone) but right now I’m getting X-Wing Alliance Upgrade and TIE Fighter Total Conversion all updated to the latest goodies in 6.0 and 1.3.4 and taking a run through it again. The remastered campaign isn’t quite done yet (it ends after Battle 9 with Thrawn giving a speech to a massive fleet about how Zaarin is going down), but what’s there is freaking fantastic and highly, HIGHLY recommended if you’re a big fan of the original game (which I am, it’s my #2 favorite video game ever).

    All you need is a copy of X-Wing Alliance, which goes on sale for like 3 bucks all the time and is worth playing all by itself with the upgrade mods.

    https://xwaupgrade.com/
    https://sites.google.com/view/tie-fighter-total-conversion

    Reply

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