Monday morning differential diagnostics

by Didact | May 27, 2024 | Mondays | 9 comments

Here we go again… Monday morning, but with a bit of a difference. (No, that’s not actually a wordplay on the title.) For our American friends, it is Memorial Day, perhaps the most solemn and powerful of all American public holidays. This is the day when Americans commemorate their war dead, especially across the last 25 years.

Over 7,000 American soldiers have died – by the official counts, the true numbers are certainly much higher – in the last 25 years, ever since Dubya launched the damned fool “Global War on Terror”. It is probably fair to say that war has FAILED, utterly and totally, with over US$8T spent to absolutely no good use.

Afghanistan is back under the control of the Taliban, who are now looking to get themselves removed from the terrorism watch list by the Russians, and who are going to be invited to the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in June. Iraq has adopted a highly Izzlamist constitution, and has firmly turned its back on Amerikhastani “values”, while increasing its cooperation and alignment with its vast neighbour, Iran.

American influence is being rolled back all around the world. American troops have been chased out of the Sahel and much of Africa. Middle Eastern countries are approaching the Russians for weapons and support. China is making serious inroads into both Africa and Latin America, while also indirectly funding the mass invasion of the southern border.

And all of this is happening while the political class in Washington, D.C., is obsessed with pursuing a futile and failing war in Banderastan, that is destroying the American colonies in Europe (which is a level of irony almost too great to be borne, if you think about it for five seconds). And America itself is falling apart at the seams.

Every last bit of this could have been avoided, nearly a quarter of a century ago. This litany of disasters is ENTIRELY due to the American leadership and elite class, which self-evidently lacks any ability to think critically, strategically, or purposefully.

Ordinary Americans pay the price – and so too do the rest of us.

It is a sad day indeed to think upon such things – worse, even, than your average Monday. So, to cheer things up a bit, let’s introduce the Great Mondaydact Browser Killer.

This week’s theme is all about the legendary medical detective TV series, House, M.D. Ever since it ended a few years back, Peacock has taken over its distribution rights, and has posted LOADS of the best clips from the various seasons up on TEH YOOTOOBZ. So here are a few to remind us what a great show it was:

However, it is worth remembering that the trope of the brilliant, cranky, misanthropic doctor who goes around solving cases no one else can, did not start with House. An earlier, and rather more funny, incarnation was the late-90s sitcom, Becker – wherein the titular doctor, played to perfection by Ted Danson, was a grumpy introverted physician with a heart of gold. (Whereas House is just an arrogant ass, plain and simple.)

So here is a GREAT compilation of all the best moments from the 6 series of Becker, that should keep you quite well occupied today:

#BasedTucker is Based

Dawn of Battle

The Male Brain has a huge amount of material for us this week. We begin with everyone’s favourite bald YOOTOOBER, on his Sideprojects channel, who talks about ancient aliens civilisations:

New channel BigBlueBackpack discusses a topic much-beloved of all those who grew up watching classic cartoons (like me):

The Space Race – also a new channel around here – explains why the Soviets were so keen on getting to Venus:

PsycHacks is back with an excellent video on the very different public and private personas of women – and how to screen them so you actually DO end up with “a lady in the streets and a freak between the sheets”, as it were:

TrekCulture talks about the woketardery in the pre-STD Trek series – and it was actually a lot worse than you might think:

Screen Junkies does an Honest Trailer for the Mad Max trilogy – which, I must admit, I’ve never actually watched:

Mind-Expanding Drugs

Via Dawn Pine, here is a new channel (for us) SpoonFedStudy, which tells you how to get ahead of the vast majority of people – and it really just comes down to discipline and commitment:

Death Smiles At Us All…

Poli-Ticking Off

Mark Dice is tickled pink watching the neoclown Pajeet bend the knee and kiss the God-Emperor’s ring:

If the Trumpasaurus has any sense of integrity and self-preservation whatsoever, he will do everything in his (considerable) power to stop Haley from getting within a hundred kilometres of his team. She WILL betray him at the first opportunity.

The very-thoroughly-married couple at Redacted try to figure out what the hell is behind the really ridiculous name for the latest Convid scariant:

PJW sifts through the latest details of the kerfuffle between Candace Owens and the Littlest Chickenhawk’s Daily Wire media network:

I do not care in the slightest about either Owens or Shapiru. I find the former to be a likely grifter, and the latter to be utterly despicable. But it is amusing, is it not, to watch actual Jews tie themselves into rhetorical knots by claiming that saying, “Christ is King”, is anti-Semitic, while at the same time bleating at Evangelical Christians to support them in their incredibly self-destructive efforts in the Gazacaust.

Rulings from the Bench

Judge Nap is busy preparing for this trip to Mordor Russia in a couple of weeks, where he will attend the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, but he has plenty of interesting people on his channel to discuss the topics of the day in the meantime. We start, as usual, with Col. Douglas Macgregor, who discusses the (((whore-media))))))))) lies we have to deal with every day around the 404 War and the Gazacaust (on both sides):

Maj. Scott Ritter goes into full-on rant mode about the industrial-scale slaughter taking place in 404:

Capt. Matthew Hoh comments on the latest ruling in the Assange case:

Here is what is surely going to be a very unpopular opinion:

I strongly suspect this ray of hope is merely one more attempt to torture Assange’s soul to death.

Let me explain. The single best way to destroy a man’s soul, is to give him hope that the pain of his torture will end – and then to take it away, over and over and over again. And that is precisely what I see happening to Assange.

His legal team will appeal his extradition, again. I believe they will eventually lose – only for another loophole to appear, miraculously, that permits them to appeal again. The whole horrible spectacle will start up, yet again, and meanwhile, whatever is left of Assange’s mind and soul will slowly be eroded.

He will be ground down, broken, shattered, and consumed – one brutal hit at a time.

The goal is to kill Assange, one way or another – and destroy everyone who loves him and supports him. There is an evil at work here that is truly sadistic, on a level most humans cannot possibly comprehend.

Alistair Crooke discusses the ongoing Gazacaust and what it is doing to Israel’s international reputation:

Larry Johnson & Ray McGovern do an intelligent intelligence assessment of the week’s events:

Prof. Jeffrey Sachs explains how Israel has changed, both internally and externally, over the past few decades:

It is very important to understand that Israel’s current policies and politics, directly reflect its rapidly changing demographic composition. The Israeli Left once ruled its politics with an iron grip – but today, they are in disarray, and that is a direct consequence of both immigration and fertility rates among the much more conservative Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox Jews.

That is not a criticism of either group – in this context, at least. It is simply an acknowledgement of facts.

Prof. John Mearsheimer talks about how things might play out in Gaza:

My guess is, it will all end with a Pyrrhic victory for Israel – where the Israelis own Gaza, but it is a blasted hellscape, and where they have slaughtered much of whatever forces Hummous has available, but without actually defeating them properly or achieving their goals.

Дед Сварливый Говорит!

Grandpa Grumpuss grumps, grumpily, about his total lack of patience with the Gospel of Dumbocracy:

Timeo Danaos Et Donna Ferentes…

The good gentlemen of The Duran explain the real reasons why Gamma-Pajeet-in-Chief Sunak decided to call all of a sudden for elections in PommieBastardLande:

The Bald Truth

Brian Berletic of The New Atlas explains what Amerikhastan thinks the conditions of “victory” are in 404:

Bad Medicine

Dr. John Campbell discusses this rather weird “tainted blood” scandal in PommieBastardLande, the details of which are a little hard to figure out:

Dr. Suneel Dhand looks at the latest FOIA disclosures around Fraudci and Dasczak, and they are disgusting and ridiculous, as you would expect:

Warriors of Faith

Dr. Jay Smith from PfanderFilms and Al-Fadi from CIRA International explain how the Koran cannot possibly have been compiled in the Hejaz region of Saudi Arabia, as Izzlamists insist it was:

Christian Prince shreds through a particularly stupid set of Izzlamist arguments like a puma with an old scratching post:

Sam Shamoun forces a Muslim to confront a serious and severe contradiction in his own book:

Islam Critiqued points out what happens every time someone actually questions Mo’Lester the Paedophile Profit in the Sunnah:

Manly Men of Manliness

Terrence Popp tackles a Very Important Question:

Joker from Better Bachelor points out the epidemic of female teachers shacking up with their male students, and the sheer hypocrisy of it all therein:

Burn Paedowood to the Ground

Midnight’s Edge reports on the House of the Devil Mouse finally admitting defeat in its streaming failures:

Overlord Dicktor Van Doomcock looks at Disney’s collapsing share price as the ultimate judgement on Li’l Bobby Iger’s tenure as CEO:

Ryan Kinel points to the recent developments around Stellar Blade as a positive step forward in rebalancing the situation between game developers (who are by and large assholes) and the actual gamers:

Reading Too Much Into Things

Your Science is F***ing Weird moment of the week is from The Male Brain, and is all about a planet with the atmospheric density of… well, cotton balls:

Gas giants transiting bright nearby stars provide crucial insights into planetary system formation and evolution mechanisms. Most of these planets show certain average characteristics, serving as benchmarks for our understanding of planetary systems. However, outliers like the planet we present in this study, WASP-193 b, offer unique opportunities to explore unconventional formation and evolution processes. This planet completes an orbit around its V-band-magnitude 12.2 F9 main-sequence host star every 6.25 days. Our analyses found that WASP-193 b has a mass of 0.139 ± 0.029 MJ and a radius of 1.464 ± 0.058 RJ, translating into an extremely low density of 0.059 ± 0.014g cm−3, at least one order of magnitude less than standard gas giants like Jupiter. Typical gas giants such as Jupiter have densities that range between 0.2 g cm−3 and 2 g cm−3. The combination of its large transit depth (1.4%), extremely low density, high-equilibrium temperature (1,254 ± 31 K) and the infrared brightness of its host star (K-band magnitude 10.7) makes WASP-193 b an exquisite target for characterization by transmission spectroscopy (transmission spectroscopy metric ~600). One single JWST transit observation would yield detailed insights into its atmospheric properties and planetary mass, providing a unique window to explore the mechanisms behind its exceptionally low density and shed light on giant planets’ diverse nature.

Your long read of the week is a (really quite lengthy) piece from Big Serge, about the real reasons behind the Russian Army’s push into Kharkov region:

The shape of the Russian advance is already quite clear, and was facilitated by the temporary Ukrainian collapse which allowed Russia to capture Ocheretyne in only a few days. Konstyantinivka (prewar population of some 70,000) sits at the center of a concentric Russian advance out of Ocheretyne and the Bakhmut area, and the emerging Russian operation here promises several major benefits.

The Russian advance out of Ocheretyne will have as its objective the highway connecting Konstyantinivka and Pokrovsk. The latter is among the most important transit hubs in the Donbas (the map below shows the spiderweb of highways running through it, like spokes through the hub of a wheel. Pokrovsk’s nature as an operational hub means that Russia does not need to capture it to render it sterile; simply turning Pokrovsk into a frontline city, with Russian forces screening the eastward highways, will be sufficient to neuter it and handicap Ukrainian sustainment in the region. Ocheretyne also serves as a launching pad to partially (or perhaps fully) envelop the Toretsk-New York defenses.

Toretsk and New York are both strongly held and very well fortified settlements. They have been held continuously by the Ukrainian army since 2014, and accordingly are among the best fortified positions on the map. Russia will clearly aim to avoid a head on assault, and they are well positioned to do so. They can advance out of Ocheretyne and Klischiivka and approach the Toretsk agglomeration obliquely, taking them into a firebag and forcing a difficult Ukrainian decision as to whether to funnel resources into the defense there.

In short, I would expect Russia to begin a dedicated summer operation with Konstyantinivka as its center of gravity, aiming to capture Chasiv Yar for use as a launchpad against Konstyantinivka’s northern flank, while severing the line to Pokrovsk through advances out of Ocheretyne. Moving concentrically on Konstyantinivka in this manner will naturally bypass the Toretsk position.

Eyes on the prize, as they say. The locus of Russian operations continues to be their grind towards Kramatorsk and Slovyansk, notwithstanding the new extensions of the front in Kharkov (and potentially Sumy). By stretching the front, however, Russia is powerfully synergizing two of the critical asymmetries in this war – namely, that Ukraine has to defend on every front (Russia does not) while the Russian army has substantial reserves on hand (while Ukraine does not). The AFU simply does not have the luxury that Russia enjoyed in 2022 of being able to withdraw from large sectors of the front. They are obliged to respond to everything, at the cost of denuding their strength and hollowing out their positions elsewhere.

Linkage is good for you:

Sergei Poletayev analyses the possible escalation options for the West, which range from bad to horrible, in light of the collapse of the Banderastan Project;
Tarik Cyril Amar looks at the collapse in Bellendsky’s legitimacy, now that his Presidential term has expired, and what that means for the future of the SMO;
Mike Whitney points out the obvious truth that giving Banderastan the ability, and the right, to strike deep into Russian territory with Western missiles, is an extreme escalation into war;
Pepe Escobar eulogises Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi, who did so much to build out the coming Eurasian-focused multipolar order;
Andrey Sushentsov explains how Europe has made itself Amerikhastan’s bitch, and how badly that has destroyed the continent’s prospects for economic and political relevance;
A joint Sino-Russian study has found that the countries most vulnerable to SANKSHUNS!!!, are the very ones trying to impose them on Russia right now;
And speaking of which, Amerikhastan is reconsidering its idiotic ban on Russian diamonds, because all that has done, is to jack up prices for the material globally;
A quite famous member of the British elite finally admits that feminism is evil and stupid, and that it has led her down entirely the wrong path;
Paul Craig Roberts points to the elite organisations that are doing so much to undermine and destroy Western civilisation, both in the US and Europe;
Observer R has an excellent piece about how Boeing’s catastrophic problems today, reflect the extreme failures of the American Deep State, and its impending collapse;
The Brits are, quite belatedly, finally beginning to build out their small modular reactor (SMR) fleet, realising they need the energy as soon as possible;
The extremely irritating head of the World Economic Forum, Darth Schwab himself, is stepping down – no doubt to permit someone even more odious to take his place;
We all like to bag on Zoomers who refuse to leave home, and with good reason – but their inability to do so, has a real human cost for them, and for their parents;
Speaking of Zoomers, they have a bit of a rep for not being terribly hard workers, or particularly sensible with their communication styles; and probably with good reason;
Supposedly, some companies are “unbossing” the workplace, whatever that means, by eliminating layers of Millennialtard middle management;
If for any reason you are actually crazy enough to want a career in banking, then you need to know what the hours are like – and they are horrendous, as well as extremely unhealthy;
A Shittygroup trader made a US$44B “fat finger” error – which, believe it or not, is small potatoes compared to one that I know of, which very nearly got verified and sent through;
Large Language Models are transforming multiple professions, making them obsolete, and the next one coming up is likely to be valuation analysts;
Indian postgraduate students are abandoning British universities, which is bad for those unis, but VERY GOOD for Britain as a whole;

And some more from Dawn Pine:

For anyone looking to attend Euro 2024 – and why on Earth would you want to do that – just be aware that some of the hottest venues are likely to be full of Chinese spies;
Indeed, apparently the Chinks have spies everywhere, including in Swiss hotels near F-35 Turducken bases, which just tells you how ridiculous things have become;
Just when you thought Thailand couldn’t get any weirder, there is a nightclub where you can get in the ring and beat up other people for free drinks;
It has been a while since we saw Floriduh Man, so here is a hilarious and weird story about him grabbing a clothes dryer and running for it;
Don’t be Captain Save-a-Hoe, it is just a miserable place to be, and always ends in heartbreak, as well as financial collapse;
Things are not always what they appear on the surface – like with this story from, of course, China, where a supposedly wonderful father of eight turns out to be quite evil;
Rich people have very different problems from the rest of us – to them, ramming a Rolex thief with a Lamborghini, thereby seriously damaging a hypercar, is normal;
Bill Maher, who is (or was) a crazy liberal, thinks that other liberals are REALLY crazy, which just tells you how far up its own arse Clown World has gone;
This piece about the International Criminal Court’s issuing of warrants for Netanyahu (and Hummous leaders) rather misses the point about the moral losses Israel is taking right now;
We all thought Google’s AI experiments were a bit stupid, but they are much dumber than any of us realise, to the point of telling us to put glue on pizza;

MUH RUSHIAN KAHLOOOOOOOZHUN!!!

The Neo-Tsar met with Дядя Саша – that is to say, Belorussian dictator Aleksandr Lukashenko – for a good solid chin-wag late last week, and the press conference with the two of them together was certainly an impressive one:

HALO Nation

Slayergod Remy aka MintBlitz does his thing while explaining why modern skills-based matchmaking is such a disaster:

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!!!

PancreasNoWork has no mercy for the Inquisition, just as they have none for anyone else:

You Call THAT a Glowstick?!?

Here is an interesting short that explains a rather weird plot gap in STAR WARS Episode I – The Phantom Headcase:

Also, The Stupendous Wave attempts to explain how Luke Skywalker created three entirely new lightsaber fighting styles:

Oh No! Anyway…

Wazzocks gonna wazzock:

Comedy Hour

Meme Warfare

We begin, as always, with some epic memes from The Male Brain:

Dude needs some parenting lessons. Will be glad to assist

He speaks about 30 minutes a day. That will be ~30 lies. You are welcome

[Pro-tip: to get the most bang for your buck, as it were, eat rare steak and broccoli the night before. – Didact]

[I believe they actually did this in an episode of House, M.D., with pizza boxes providing the screening mechanism. – Didact]

And now, as LRFotS RobertW would say:

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Yeah… Season 3, in particular, was tediously woke

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Everyone knows at least one “Gary”

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 Jawon Garrison:

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JUST BLEED!

Mixed Martial Academic has an excellent long-form documentary about the rise, fall, and collapse of one Ronda Rousey:

And MixedMollyWhoppery has a good one about everyone’s favourite MMA punching bag:

Ass-Kicking of the Eight Limbs

They See Me Rollin’…

Monkeyfists

Propa Boxing breaks down the Usyk-Fury fight, really rather well, and with an excellent Cockney accent:

Palate Cleansers

Knives Out

Guitar Heroics

Drumlines

MOAR DAKKA!!!

Mighty Wings

Jump-Starts

Land Down Under

Supercar Blondie

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”

New albums this year from POWERWOLF, UNLEASH THE ARCHERS, TYR, SELLSWORD, HAMMERFALL, KREATOR…

2024 is turning into an absolute banner year for metal.

Rock Out With Your Glock Out

Thot Shots

Right, here is your Instathot to get the week started in the right way. This here is Bernadett Vigmann, age 30 (or thereabouts) from Budapest, Hungary. She is a legitimate model, and also has her own nail salon. Apparently she started out as a pageant model, winning Miss Princess Hungary in 2009, and then a series of other such contests over the next several years. She is apparently the longtime partner of a bass player for a band called “Down for Whatever” – I have no idea what that means, though.

All told, she is quite fetching – except for the tattoos, and all the plastic.

OK, that’s all, back to work now.

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