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Monday morning end of an era

by | Sep 16, 2024 | Mondays | 0 comments

The Great Mondaydact Browser Killer is BACK, and deadlier than ever! I am not joking about that last part, because we have very nearly a month’s worth of material that requires catching up. If this doesn’t make your browser choke and die, then we are plainly doing something very wrong.

This week’s Browser Smasher starts off on a very bittersweet note, because the past weekend saw the airing of the very last ever episode of The Grand Tour. And that means it is the end of the era of Clarkson, Hammond, and May – the Three Wazzateers, who built the greatest TV show of all time, in the form of the relaunched version of Top Gear. When Jezza got YEETED from the show after punching a producer nearly 10 years ago, they reinvented themselves as a new act on Amazog, and continued to entertain and amuse us for years.

But, all good things come to an end… and it really hurts to see.

Look, for me, Top Gear was a genuine part of my childhood and teenage years. I grew up quoting Clarkson’s heresies, chapter and verse. The show was originally about the cars, but those three turned it into a show about three blokes blokeing about doing the blokiest things imaginable, with the cars as the supporting props.

It was a show that celebrated masculinity, political incorrectness, speed, petrol, BEWBS, and just plain EPICNESS.

And now, it is over. For good.

So stand to attention, boys, and doff your caps, for we have seen the end of the age.

That one really hit the FEELZ. Not gonna lie. There were tears.


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, came up with perhaps the most hilarious line of his entire CAREER during the DURRbate with Cacklepants the other day:

This inevitably spawned a YUUUGE array of hilarious memes – here are just a few:

All I can say is, anything that pisses off the Wakandans that badly, has to be worth investigating – if only because it is HILARIOUS.


#BasedTucker is Based


Dawn of Battle

The Male Brain was busy sending me ALL THE LINKS while I was out on vacation, so it is only fair that we present them ALL here. We start with hoe_math, who is greatly amused at the attempts of women to do what he does, absent the logic and sensible data-driven explanations:

Black Pigeon Speaks explains why men simply no longer believe the old line, dulce et decorum est, pro patria mori:

Men need something worth fighting for – worth dying for. Social media, 300 “genders” (read: mental illnesses), fat tattooed ugly entitled women, and corporate servitude, are NOT that “something”.

Honest Ads explains my least favourite corporate function:

Another one about police training:

New channel RARI looks at an AirBnb that costs US$1, and somehow survives the experience:

For those of you interested in a good mystery, MystiQuest has you covered:

Dr. Orion Taraban from PyscHacks has been killing it of late with his takes. Here we have a video about how to lead your woman:

And one about how most dating advice really stinks:

Here is one about how you should never explicitly discuss the transactional nature of a relationship out in the open:

Moon has some very bad news for those of you looking forward to your golden years:

Speaking personally, I rather expect to be working well into my 70s and perhaps early 80s – assuming the good Lord lets me live that long…

Another one about the plague of terrible and useless content all over social media:

I do not like what the Yids are doing in the Gazacaust, at all, but it is impossible to argue, based on evidence, that the Pali-Walis are NOT some of the most heavily indoctrinated and brainwashed people on the planet:

Only the Norks have more heavy-handed propaganda than that, really.

For those of you who enjoyed Back to the Future, About Movies thinks you misunderstood it:

The Plain Bagel explains why passive income is not quite all it’s cracked up to be:

If you have ever wondered how to outsmart a genie into giving you exactly what you want, Chris and Jack show you what NOT to do:

For a comic turn, here is Solid jj with one about how Battyman losing his memory was perhaps the best thing that ever happened to him:

And then Stupidman, being an absolute DICK, undid all that good stuff…

Trish Regan has her mind blown by a new study into Abominable Intelligence that claims the technology can predict wealth based on looks:

It isn’t really that surprising. Physiognomy is real, after all.

Speaking of Abominable Intelligence – a TikTokist from ‘Straya (so you know what that means) asks ChatGPT whether the Universe was created, or simply “came into being”, and the answer might surprise you:

@real.lilyjay

Do you agree? 🤔 asking Chat GPT does it believe this universe has a Creator or is a coincidence… the Result will shock you! My mind is blown 😱😱 #purposeoflife #learnontiktok #spiritualjourney #interestingfacts

♬ original sound – Lily Jay – Lily Jay

To me, all this means is that the New Atheists lost the arguments around the “spontaneous Big Bang” a long time ago, and the overwhelming majority of the evidence and data upon which ChatGPT trains itself, support the argument of design.

Of course, ChatGPT still cannot bring itself to admit that the Bible might be right, so we can see how limited its capabilities really are.

Legendary Lore points out how oligarchy works, and how we have forgotten a basic truth that much smarter men used to understand quite well:


Mind-Expanding Drugs

Your General Knowledge of the week is from Dawn Pine, and is from History Works, which explains how the Baby Boomers came to be – and it apparently is not what you might think:


Death Smiles At Us All…


Poli-Ticking Off

Mark Dice had to watch the DURRbate – it’s his JOB, after all – but that doesn’t mean he enjoyed it:


The very-thoroughly-married couple at Redacted delve DEEP into the holes and plot armour surrounding 9/11:

And they also take on the enduring mystery of MH370:


PJW tries, and rather fails, to wrap his head around the nonsense of the DURRbate:


Lord Razor of the Fist Clan dissects in his typical cool and dispassionate style the fact that RFK Jr. is now part of the Trump campaign:


Rulings from the Bench

Judge Nap was busy while I was vacationing. We won’t go into EVERY video from the past 3 weeks – even I am not that crazy – but there has been a lot of great stuff. We start with Col. Douglas Macgregor talking about just how far off the deep end US FURRIN POLISEE has gone:

Maj. Scott Ritter is spitting venom as the idea that Amerikhastan can and should support long-range strikes using ATACMS and JASSMs on pre-2014 Russian territory, because that literally means WWIII:

Capt. Matthew Hoh tries to unpack the reasons behind American animus against Iran:

Alistair Crooke offers his gentlemanly view on why the West is cracking down on speech now:

Pepe Escobar looks at how BRICS is coming together to circumvent the clearly out-of-control Western system:

Larry Johnson & Ray McGovern provide a comprehensive review of the past week’s insanity:

Prof. Jeffrey Sachs does his best to explain Neoclown World:

Prof. John Mearsheimer gives a realist(-ish) view of where the Israelis are going horribly wrong in the Gazacaust:

Dr. Gilbert Doctorow looks at the impact of the Khreat Khokholite Kursk Kock-Up on Russian domestic politics:

Ambassador Chas Freeman unpacks the reasons why the American Empire keeps trying to meddle in the South China Sea – which is something it cannot sustain:


Дед Сварливый Говорит!

Grandpa Grumpuss grumps, grumpily, in between home improvement projects, about the ACTUAL red lines Russia uses with respect to the use of Western projectiles for long-range strikes on native Russian territory:


Polonium

Ania Konieczek did some great livestreams while I was out. First up, Grandpa Grumpuss, who is fully capable of being incredibly disparaging of Poles in general – and rightly so – while also maintaining a very sweet and respectful friendship with one of the relatively few based Polacks:

And next, old buddies Maj. Scott Ritter and Larry Johnson:


Timeo Danaos Et Donna Ferentes…

The good gentlemen of The Duran were very busy too. We start with their analysis of the upcoming BRICS payment system, which rumour has it will be unveiled in Kazan’ in October:

Next, we see how the Russians are simply no longer interested in fruitless negotiations that will not actually give them what they want:

And we also see how Putin’s warnings to the West need to be understood and taken seriously:


Bad Medicine

Dr. John Campbell teams up with none other than Dr. Suneel Dhand to discuss ultra-processed food, which is absolutely horrible for you, and you need to cut that shit out of your diet ASAFP:


Warriors of Faith

Tha Dizzle and Brother Rachid sit down to look into the construction of the Koran:


Dr. Jay Smith from PfanderFilms presented an absolute masterclass in Christian polemics, smashing through all the nonsense surrounding the origins of Izzlam:


Al-Fadi from CIRA International and Dr. Jay Smith try to understand the historical origins of Mo’Lester the Paedophile Profit:


Christian Prince showed up on a livestream with Sam Shamoun, Jay Dyer, and GodLogic, and proceeded to utterly DESTROY Izzlam in the span of a few minutes, with his trademark style:


Sam Shamoun shows a Muzzie just how disgusting and evil his death-cult’s treatment of women really is:


Manly Men of Manliness

Terrence Popp isn’t sold on this whole “voting” thing, because it really isn’t going to change much:


Joker from Better Bachelor takes on everyone’s favourite ‘Strayan hot mess, now that she has hit 40 and her taco is officially WAY past its use-by date:


Burn Paedowood to the Ground

Midnight’s Edge takes a look at the new Red Sonja remake:

Did we REALLY need a remake of a movie no one watched when it first came out?!?!?!?!


Overlord Dicktor Van Doomcock reckons the colossal failure of The Acolyte will finally result in some serious changes at the House of the Devil Mouse:

Yeah, I wouldn’t bet on it. One sure fact about Hollyweird is that failure is always rewarded.


Gary from Nerdrotic tortures himself by watching DEM RANGZ O’ POWAH!!!, which is now well into its awful second season:


The Critical Drinker is not impressed by GUYladriel’s girl-bossing:


Reading Too Much Into Things

Your Science is F***ing Weird moment of the week candidates come from The Male Brain. We start with one about how your poop explains your probability of developing all kinds of horrible diseases:

Bowel movement frequency (BMF) directly impacts the gut microbiota and is linked to diseases like chronic kidney disease or dementia. In particular, prior work has shown that constipation is associated with an ecosystem-wide switch from fiber fermentation and short-chain fatty acid production to more detrimental protein fermentation and toxin production. Here, we analyze multi-omic data from generally healthy adults to see how BMF affects their molecular phenotypes, in a pre-disease context. Results show differential abundances of gut microbial genera, blood metabolites, and variation in lifestyle factors across BMF categories. These differences relate to inflammation, heart health, liver function, and kidney function. Causal mediation analysis indicates that the association between lower BMF and reduced kidney function is partially mediated by the microbially derived toxin 3-indoxyl sulfate (3-IS). This result, in a generally healthy context, suggests that the accumulation of microbiota-derived toxins associated with abnormal BMF precede organ damage and may be drivers of chronic, aging-related diseases.

Next up is a piece about how different cultures perceive wisdom:

Wisdom is the hallmark of social judgment, but how people across cultures recognize wisdom remains unclear—distinct philosophical traditions suggest different views of wisdom’s cardinal features. We explore perception of wise minds across 16 socio-economically and culturally diverse convenience samples from 12 countries. Participants assessed wisdom exemplars, non-exemplars, and themselves on 19 socio-cognitive characteristics, subsequently rating targets’ wisdom, knowledge, and understanding. Analyses reveal two positively related dimensions—Reflective Orientation and Socio-Emotional Awareness. These dimensions are consistent across the studied cultural regions and interact when informing wisdom ratings: wisest targets—as perceived by participants—score high on both dimensions, whereas the least wise are not reflective but moderately socio-emotional. Additionally, individuals view themselves as less reflective but more socio-emotionally aware than most wisdom exemplars. Our findings expand folk psychology and social judgment research beyond the Global North, showing how individuals perceive desirable cognitive and socio-emotional qualities, and contribute to an understanding of mind perception.

Finally, if you enjoyed Armageddon – y’know, that Michael Bay film starring Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck, along with that horrid song by AEROSMITH – then you will like this story about how NASA’s experiment involving crashing into an asteroid seriously effed up the target:

Rogue asteroids, to put it simply, pose a threat to Earth. Though there hasn’t been a cataclysmic event in about 65 million years, that’s not to say there haven’t been nail-biting moments during space rock flybys — in 2013, for instance, the Chelyabinsk asteroid slammed into Earth’s atmosphere “blazing like a second sun” and sending shockwaves through the surrounding area.

Space agencies around the world understandably want to be prepared. To this end, NASA launched the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft in 2022, its first mission dedicated to demonstrating asteroid deflection through kinetic impact. DART successfully collided with a near-Earth asteroid called Dimorphos, which is part of a binary system as it orbits a larger asteroid named Didymos. Lots of incredible information has been gleaned from this impact already, and we just got a little more. According to a paper published this year about the event, DART created a large crater in Dimorphos, in fact reshaping the rock so dramatically it derailed from its original progression.

“For the most part, our original pre-impact predictions about how DART would change the way Didymos and its moon move in space were correct,” Derek Richardson, a professor of astronomy at the University of Maryland and a DART investigation working group lead, said in a statement. “But there are some unexpected findings that help provide a better picture of how asteroids and other small bodies form and evolve over time.”

One surprise was just how much DART was able to alter Dimorphos. Prior to the collision, the asteroid was oblate, meaning it was somewhat flattened or squished along one axis, likely due to its own rotation or gravitational effects.

After the collision, Dimorphos’ shape became prolate, meaning the asteroid was stretched along its axis, making it longer in one direction. The impact likely caused this elongation by redistributing the asteroid’s mass and altering its rotational dynamics.

“We were expecting Dimorphos to be prolate pre-impact simply because that’s generally how we believed the central body of a moon would gradually accumulate material that’s been shed off a primary body like Didymos. It would naturally tend to form an elongated body that would always point its long axis toward the main body,” Richardson explained. “But this result contradicts that idea and indicates that something more complex is at work here. Furthermore, the impact-induced change in Dimorphos’ shape likely changed how it interacts with Didymos.”


Your long read of the week is from Matt Taibi, in which he discusses what he saw during the collapse of the USSR, and the terrible economic winter that followed in Russia – which he now reckons was planned by American elites all along:

The more time I spent looking at U.S. economic policy toward Russia, the more I was convinced something was terribly wrong. I corresponded regularly with Janine Wedel, then a professor at George Washington and Pitt Universities who wrote an influential article in The Nation called “The Harvard Boys Do Russia.” Janine’s thesis was the rapid liberalization of Russia’s economy was “more shock… than therapy” and that one of the biggest by-products had been episodes like the mass inflation of 1992 and Black Saturday: “The evaporation of much potential investment capital: the substantial savings of Russians.” Her article was not kind to Jeffrey Sachs, and described him as part of the corruption scandal at the Harvard Institute of International Development (HIID) that I also wrote about.

Who’s right? By the time I started digging into HIID, Sachs was gone. He said on Breaking Points today that privatization, certainly the nuclear core of Yeltsin-era corruption, “wasn’t my bailiwick” and that he never worked on those issues with colleagues who “didn’t do the right thing.” All I can say is, as someone who covered prikhvatizatsia fiascoes like the infamous loans-for-shares auctions as much as any American, Sachs never crossed my radar. I assumed that as a Harvard heavy with ties to Lawrence Summers and the “energetic young reformers,” he was at least a co-architect of Russia’s downfall.

Now, I’m not so sure.

Several weeks ago I heard from fellow Substacker and former Intercept writer Ryan Grim, to whom Sachs had sent a note and an essay. With the professor’s permission he was kind enough to let me read it. I was shocked. The gist of the Sachs essay was not that U.S. economic policies toward Russia were misguided or poorly executed, or even that he’s been misunderstood. Rather he described an American strategy in which economics were subservient at all times — and crucially, from the start — to a security mission. Led by military and security agencies that believed “the cold war never ended,” the U.S. viewed subjugation of Russia and NATO expansion as primary goals from the very beginning. In hindsight, this makes a lot more sense than the conventional wisdom, which is that Bill Clinton, Strobe Talbott and Dick Cheney tried to be friends with Russia, and just made a dog’s breakfast of it.

In the essay, printed in Ryan’s Drop Site and also here on Racket, Sachs describes repeated attempts to convince U.S. policymakers to make a sincere effort to bring Russia into the fold as a democratic partner. His idea, both before and after the collapse of the Soviet Union, was a Marshall Plan-style stabilization effort that would have included temporary debt freezes and targeted investment to keep the country afloat during its transition. Why not? They’d supported them in Poland, after all, and they’d worked there. “I thought, ‘It’s the same,’” he recalled today on Breaking Points, laughing. “Just multiply it by four.’”

It is worth reading the article by Prof. Jeffrey Sachs that kind of inspired that piece, alongside the original. It explains the latter’s point of view, and why his reputation as “Doctor Shockter” is rather unfair and probably undeserved.


Linkage is good for you:

And some more from Dawn Pine:


MUH RUSHIAN KAHLOOOOOOOZHUN!!!

The Neo-Tsar gave an EXTREMELY blunt warning to the West about possible plans to use Western weapons to strike on the territory of pre-2014 Russia:

The despicable Western lugenpresse of course refused to mention WHY The Putin might escalate – they left out the bit about him saying that Russia will escalate IN RESPONSE TO the use of Western weapons. These people are disgusting in every way, they do not want to give us the truth, they only drive us closer to war.

And yet, when I tell people that we should simply hang all Western presstitutes and have done with them, they look at me like I’m the crazy one.

Also, tangentially, after the FUSA decided to sanction RT even further, the good people at the channel dug up a great video from about 10 years back, in which they trolled the shit out of the Western media idiots:


HALO Nation

Slayergod Remy aka MintBlitz does his thing while explaining why HALO 3 is just BETTER to play than HALO Infinite:


BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!!!

Wahapendium explains the Grey Knights, who are even bigger Boy Scouts than Guilliman’s Ultrasmurfs:


Comedy Hour

CAN. CONFIRM.


Meme Warfare

We begin with a bunch of dank memes from Dawn Pine – a whole BUTTLOAD’s worth, literally 3 weeks’ worth:

It’s not a “CON”. She “means it this time”
Synchronized swimming and gymnastic are the only sports in which females are better
This is not the time. Maybe in 50-100 years
Can confirm brushing. Can’t confirm neglect
No caption needed
Replace “American” with any country on the planet. Still true
I’ll go with “Told you”
Should be “Millennial”
Way more than that
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again:
“Evil will always triumph because good is dumb” (from Spaceballs)
It wasn’t bought, it was given
And she’ll lose this debate as well
“SAY WHAT NOW????”
Also – interesting to see the new stats
“The camel does not see her own hump” (Greek proverb and pun not intended)
Don’t tempt us
Because “Feelings”
2 people go into a cemetery and copy the names from the graves in order to add them to the ballots. They go deep and find the older parts. They come across a tombstone so old that the engraving is almost non-visible.
One says to the other: “Let’s go”. The other says: “No! they have a right to vote just like anybody else”.
Forgot the “WHO”
Can confirm, but every 2.1 minutes
Girl of our dreams
Pali-leaders concepts
Dude will be demoted to “Persona Non-Grata”
<Side eye>
Hands down the funniest one this week
Prenup anybody?
Bro is BAD
You go Bert
Always check the movie you are going to. Or stay home and watch for free.
Kids shows these days are dark
Can relate
Dude has a bright future
Can’t relate, but our host might

[Oh yes, I KNOW the pain… – Didact]

False – It’s about the same
“let’s nationalize crime – so it won’t pay” (Benny Hill)
Cats were nightmare since forever
Sounds about right
NO WE ARE NOT
Ah, nostalgia!
Also – In Porn, On OnlyFans, in divorce
That lesson won’t be forgotten
Good call on both
Good luck with that
“Most girls I dated be like”
Can we add an additional category of ultra-RED? That should do it\
That is one giant isle. Also – It’s number 11, after the chapter the the US is going to need
Oh that road was long. SO LONG!
But with I-Frame to suppress the MAGA logo
That was a good show. Also – I played ball and watched over 5 hours of TV a day.
“3 people are scheduled for the guillotine one day at the French revolution.
  The first comes up, but the guillotine is stuck. So they free him.
The next one comes up, but they still can’t operate it. So he goes free as well.
 The last person, an engineer, is also mounted. The device still doesn’t work. He tells them: “Wait. I see what the problem is”.
“Ten measures of speaking were given to the world; the woman took eleven” (A jewish saying)
Can confirm, but more politely 
AR-15 also applies
So no change in policy?
A good actor always has several under their belt
Are there still cats and ducks there?
That show used to be good (not great – good!)
Do the right thing
I don’t hate them, but i’ll go along
Only if the media is also there
That was the short version
Can’t argue with that (if you do you might get punched in the face)

And now, as LRFotS RobertW likes to 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 Georgian Giant, Temur Samkharadze:


Ass-Kicking of the Eight Limbs


They See Me Rollin’…


Palate Cleansers

Axe Me Anything

Knives Out

Drumlines

I am not a fan of RHCP, but DAAAAAAAMN that guy can drum!!!

MOAR DAKKA!!!

Mighty Wings

Hot Wheels

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”

Also – WINTERSUN released their long-awaited follow-up to the legendary Time I album:


Rock Out With Your Glock Out


Thot Shots

Finally, we have quite a few thots to get through this week, as we did let things lapse quite a bit. So – first up, Alexa Adams, age 29 from Tell City, Indiana, Amerikhastan, who is some sort of influenza on TikTok and Instaham:

Next, Anastasiya Minayeva (Анастасия Минаева), age 20 from Moscow, Mordor, and a Miss Russia 2023 contestant:

And finally, Briana Armbruster, age 28 from Ann Arbor, Michigan, who does… well, nobody really knows what, but apparently she became famous for wearing a ski mask in all her videos:

OK, lads, that’s all for today. Back to work now.

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