That weekend really ZIPPED by way too damn fast. And then, just as I was sort of getting used to the idea of relaxing and taking things a little easier, I had to wake up bright and early to catch a train to go to a client meeting. Fortunately, it was productive and useful, but the travel took me out for most of the rest of the day.
And that was all I needed to remind me:
It’s Monday. AGAIN.
Fortunately, we have the Great Mondaydact Browser Bircher to get it all out of our system. This week, we look at all things Mexico, to try to figure out how a country with so much promise, went so completely wrong:
#BasedTucker is Based
That last interview is mind-boggling. The number of lies we were told and sold over the past 40 years, is simply not funny.
Dawn of Battle
The Male Brain has a whole bunch of great stuff for us today. We start with one from PsycHacks about the insanely unrealistic expectations of the modren dating market:
How Money Works talks online piracy – which has evolved rather a long way since that shady lawsuit REKTallica launched against Napster, back in the day:
Last Brain Cell indulges in a bit of “what-if analysis” about what might have happened if the plot of The Final Countdown actually happened:
Moon explains the, extremely ugly and quite terrifying, consequences of the coming debt-default in the FUSA:
Economics Explained, on the other hand, thinks China actually has an even bigger debt problem than the FUSA:
I am not convinced of this, simply because if you take the present value of the FUSA’s total unfunded liabilities, AND the government-sponsored entity (GSE) debt from the likes of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Sallie Mae, and so on… then the numbers go into brain-melting territory.
Screen Junkies does a Spaceballs trailer, now that we are definitely getting a sequel:
Honest Ads has a depressingly realistic take on retirement savings:
Solid jj shows how Wonder Woman cannot possibly be a part of the Justice League:
Mind-Expanding Drugs
Via The Male Brain, your General Knowledge corner of the week is from The Resurrectionists, who demolish what happy childhood memories you might have had about that old Rumpelstiltskin story:
Death Smiles At Us All…
Culture Club
Mark Dice is every bit as amused by the idea of “Alligator Alcatraz” as the rest of us are:
PJW is fed to the back teeth with crazy celebritards doing stupid things with their kids:
Sydney Watson speaks for all of us when she says she has had enough of Pedro Pascal – who gives off extremely weird vibes:
Carl Benjamin aka Sargon of Akkad explains what went wrong with Limey politics last week:
That public meltdown is much more consequential than most people realise. The Labour Party has essentially disintegrated, and at RECORD speed. Yet there is no real alternative available, at all.
If you talk to anyone who lives in PommieBastardLande, you get the sense of a country that is on the verge of a total breakdown. People there are quietly seething, and there is no outlet for their rage. It takes a lot to break a country like that, where everyone is cucked and overly polite and largely gay, but sooner or later, things will break, HARD.
Veterans’ Day
LTC Danny Davis talks to Grandpa Grumpuss about the substantial realignment in the Persian Gulf, as Iran moves closer to Russia and China:
Judge’s Ruling
Judge Nap talks to DA KERNEL HIZZSELF!!! about the catastrophic consequences of Israel’s genuinely stupid decision to attack Iran – and the even more stupid decision of the FUSA to join in the “fun”:
MUH RUSHIAN KAHLOOOOOOOZHUN!!!
Новый-Царь Приказывает
The Neo-Tsar appears to be under substantial pressure from both the hardliners in his government, and the vast majority of the Russian people, to just get it over with already in Banderastan:
Дед Сварливый Говорит!
Grandpa Grumpuss grumps, grumpily, about the dimming prospects for a new arms control treaty, now that the FUSA has conclusively lost the arms race – and by multiple generations and orders of magnitude:
Дядя Стась Объясняет
Stanislav Krapivnik unpacks the weirdness happening over in Azerbaijan:
Врач Находится
Dr. Vladimir Brovkin talks about the recent interactions between Drumpf, Macaroni, and the Neo-Tsar:
Timeo Danaos Et Donna Ferentes…
The good gentlemen of The Duran look at the latest economic data out of Russia – which, though not necessarily very rosy, is actually pretty decent:
Bad Medicine
Dr. John Campbell discusses the effects of the poison death shots on miscarriages and stillbirths:
Dr. Suneel Dhand is taking the Fat Head Challenge:
In case you did not get the reference – go watch the documentary, Fat Head, by Tom Naughton, which is a very useful counter to that silly Morgan Spurlock film, Super Size Me:
Warriors of Faith
Tha Dizzle and Brother Rachid look at what and who the “Holy Spirit” actually is in the Izzlamick texts:
Dr. Jay Smith from PfanderFilms and Al-Fadi from CIRA International utterly debunk some of the most common – and stupidest – talking points used by the dawahgandists:
Apostate Prophet and his buddies Tha Dizzle and Thaddeus look at the rapidly growing scandals surrounding multiple big-name British dawah crackpots, who simply cannot seem to keep it in their pants:
Chris at Speaker’s Corner shows how even the supposed “best” of the dawah clowns cannot agree on basic theology:
Avery from GodLogic Apologetics meets that rarest of creatures – an honest Moose Limb:
Of course, because the man is honest, he is not going to be a Muzzie for very much longer. An honest Moose Limb is ALWAYS an ex-Moose Limb. One simply cannot reconcile truth with lies, and the Izzlamick texts are nothing but lies.
Manly Men of Manliness
Terrence Popp mocks the hell out of women who think “content creation” is a real job, and a real substitute for a husband and children:
Joker from Better Bachelor points out how far too many modren wammenzes work in “jobs” that are basically just giant adult daycare centres:
Time for everyone’s favourite “let’s mock STRAWNG INDEPENDENTISS WAMMENZES” round. First up, Manosphere – who explains why he keeps taking breaks of several weeks at a time from making videos:
One has to feel for him. Dealing with stupidity constantly, really does take a toll.
Next, Legion of Men:
I am NOT a fan of Myron Gaines, but he does make good points from time to time:
Plus the late, great Kevin Samuels:
The Whatever Podcast is always fertile ground for this sort of stuff:
Finally, let’s get the East Asian perspective from China Unvarnished:
Burn Paedowood to the Ground
Midnight’s Edge dig into the latest Pixar flop:
Gary from Nerdrotic watches all of Ironheart, to spare you the misery:
The Critical Drinker is not terribly impressed by the latest GIANT SCARY LIZARDS!!! film:
On the plus side, Scarlett Johansson’s rack is still quite impressive. On the minus side… the rest of her is NOT.
The Wall is inevitable. It comes for EVERY woman. And she hit it.
Reading Too Much Into Things
Your Science is F***ing Weird moment of the week is from The Male Brain, and looks at how cosmic rays are messing with quantum computing:
Quasiparticle bursts, or QP bursts, manifest as simultaneous disruptions in the charge parity of multiple qubits. These bursts are especially damaging because they produce correlated errors — multiple failures at once — which standard quantum error correction codes struggle to handle.
To measure these events, the researchers compared two detection methods: one based on charge-parity jumps (highly sensitive to quasiparticles), and one based on bit flips (which are more common during qubit relaxation). They showed that the charge-parity approach could detect disruptions at much lower energy thresholds, making it a more sensitive tool for identifying when and where cosmic particles strike.
Using this setup, the team observed QP bursts from muons occurring roughly once every 67 seconds and from gamma rays at a much higher rate. In total, 81.6% of the quasiparticle bursts were traced back to gamma rays, with the remaining 18.4% caused by muons.
Muons are tiny, fast-moving particles created when cosmic rays from deep space collide with atoms in Earth’s upper atmosphere, and they can pass through buildings and people unnoticed. Gamma rays are intense bursts of energy, often produced by radioactive decay on Earth or violent cosmic events like supernovas, and they can easily penetrate most materials.
Shielding the refrigerator with a layer of lead significantly reduced the gamma-ray-induced events but had little effect on muon-induced ones.
Your long read of the week is from Jung-Freud, and takes the Jews to task for their self-appointed status as “the chosen people”, by offering a much-needed dose of humility:
Even though Jewishness, Judaism, and Zionism aren’t the same thing, they’ve become too closely interwoven to the point where one cannot step on the toes of one without stepping on the toes of others as well. It’s true that the majority of Jews are secular, but their ethnic identity is inseparable from Jewish religious conceptions and tradition. While a good many Jews are opposed or indifferent to the idea of Zionism, the overwhelming majority since the end of World War II have supported the project. More importantly, the Jewish Power Elites(who get to call the shots) have overwhelmingly been pro-Zionist, reflected in their influence on both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party(and all across the vassal states of the EU).
Thus, there are times when a certain identity aligns with a certain ideology, when the two become so intertwined that it’s difficult to understand one without the other. This may not be a permanent condition but is nevertheless potent while it lasts. Think of National Socialist Germany in which Hitler’s regime was wildly popular and embodied the collective will of the nation. As long as Hitler was in power, it made little sense to speak of a Germany separate from National Socialism. Same goes for Russia under communism.
As things turned out in the end, there could be Germany without National Socialism and Russia without communism, but while those ideologies lasted, they defined the character and the destiny of entire peoples. Same might be said of Iran as an Islamic Republic.
Likewise, the main thrust of the Jewish collective will and Jewish elite power from the end of World War II until now has been to defend Israel, discredit(and defame) its critics in the West, and to destroy its perceived enemies in any part of the world(not only Iran but countries like Venezuela and North Korea that has working relations with Iran).
Unless Tucker Carlson is willing to address this problem of the Zionist grip on America(and by extension the entirety of the West), he isn’t really being candid on the issue. In the long run, it may well be that the Zionist project will fail and Jews around the world withdraw their support and forge a revised sense of Jewishness untainted by an association with genocidal-supremacist Zion, but that day, if possible, isn’t here yet.
Tucker Carlson isn’t fully convincing in his game of semantics over what constitutes ‘Israel’. True, the meaning of the term in the modern era is different from its meanings in the past. In the strictest sense in our time, it means the nation-state of Israel that was founded in 1948. However, one could construe its existence as the fulfillment of the long-dreamt hope of the Jewish Diaspora to reclaim the lost homeland. In this sense, there is an eternal or ur-Israel even without the nation of Israel as long as the Jewish people exist and keep their heritage and hopes alive. It’s like Poland was wiped off the map by various empires, but the dream of the Polish nation was never extinguished and realized once again following World War I. And even though there is no Kurdish nation-state, one could still speak of Kurdistan of the heart-and-mind. So, one could argue that Israel the nation-state is merely the political manifestation of the long-held Jewish dream of the restored homeland.
Some more theologically inclined types argue that God made the promise to Abraham, not to ‘Israel’, but given that the Jewish Tribe began with Abraham, it doesn’t matter whether it’s called Abrahamic tribe, Jews, Israel, Zion, or whatever. Surely, any people/culture evolves and changes over time — Greece today isn’t exactly the Hellas of long ago — , but there are certain constants that distinguish them from others, and in this sense, one can speak of a continuity from Abraham to Moses to the Jewish Diaspora to the European Jewry(and its rise) to Jewish Americans & Zionism.
So, even if today’s nation-state of Israel would have been inconceivable to Jews of the past, it could be seen as the latest embodiment of the ever-evolving history of the Jewish people. Likewise, would the Chinese of the past have imagined the rise of Modern China(or even have approved of it)? But modern China is a continuation of the Chinese civilization and represents the will or at least approval of the vast majority of the Chinese people.
Linkage is good for you:
- Timofey Bordachyev points out the fact that Russia’s sheer size, strength, and power, mean her neighbours will ALWAYS be afraid of her;
- Valentin Loginov shows how the God-Emperor has a serious problem in trying to balance Ukraine’s needs with Israel’s – and is choosing the latter;
- Andrei Kortunov reckons the slight thawing of US-Russia relations is only temporary, and is but a blip in a long-term rollercoaster;
- Outstanding piece here about Igor Sikorskyi, the Russian exile and emigre who never lost his love for his home country, and ended up designing some of the greatest American aircraft in history;
- The tragic legacy of Hetman Mazepa continues to make itself felt in Banderastan, where he is not reviled as a traitor (as he should be), but worshipped as a hero – which he never was;
- Farhad Ibragimov analyses the current trajectory Iran faces, and concludes that the next ayatollah will inevitably lead a nuclear-armed nation;
- Prof. Kai-Alexander Schlevogt explains the critical fault lines under Drumpf’s feet – none of which he can escape;
- The Limeys are going all-in on the Joint Strike Flying Piano Turducken Morris Marina, which is certain to be a disastrous decision;
- There is a mysterious radio station sending out signals in Russia – and if it ever stops, all life on Earth might just end;
- If you ever want to see the defining image of a Beta orbiter, check out Mel B’s latest husband;
- The people who developed the ultimate edition of the first “hack-and-slash” Space Marine game, have taken the rare step of offering full refunds, which is unusually decent for a game studio;
- Microsoft’s lay-offs of 5% of their global staff have broken open the wall of silence around the serious issues within Halo Studios;
- Sticking with Mr. Softy, one of their engineers decided to make a Linux distro that looks almost exactly like Win11 – which begs the question, WHY?!?!?!?;
- Abominable Intelligence is getting rid of useless jobs in numpty departments – but is increasing demand for workers in other areas;
And some more from Dawn Pine:
- A coder who built a free e-signature site for legal documents, got served by the biggest name in the business for doing what they do at a fraction of the cost;
- IQ scores have been in decline across the West for a long time, but this article completely fails to mention the obvious reason as to why – immigration, of course;
- The legendary composer of the Mission: Impossible soundtrack has finally gone to the Great Concert Hall in the Sky;
- AI music is rocketing up the charts, because it is often better than music produced by real people;
- However, AI does have its limitations – it cannot yet run a vending machine properly;
- The fallout between the First Bro and The Donald continues to escalate – and it is getting both funnier and weirder by the day;
- Mossad revealed the name of the new Iranian Grand Chief Beardy Todger via X, in a rather interesting operation;
- Brolon reckons we are getting very close to true robotaxis and robo-delivery couriers;
- Green Day prove, yet again, to be some of the biggest assholes in rock – as well as some of the most annoying;
- Photographing your food in China and posting it all over Weibo can result in some very nasty unintended consequences;
HALO Nation
Slayergod Remy aka MintBlitz does his thing while trying to understand what Microsoft’s strategy is – or if they even have one:
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!!!
Imperial Iterator discusses the enigmatic and probably rather naive Tau Empire:
Big Boyz Toyz
Dark Skies talks about the BUFF:
Oh No! Anyway…
Wazzocks gonna wazzock:
Comedy Hour
Meme Warfare
We begin with some dank memes from The Male Brain:
[Groot’s retarded cousin – Didact]
Also – lock your computer
[I am in the middle of re-watching the entire series right now. That pic looks like it came straight out of the episode with the girl who cannot feel pain, and has a 20-foot tapeworm inside her gut. – Didact]
[Yep. Usually right around when people get to casts and data structures. – Didact]
[Also known as “The Pinochet Curve” – Didact]
You are welcome
[See also: LAST MAN STANDING, starring Tim Allen and Nancy Travis – Didact]
[They already made it. See: OLD GUARD 2. – Didact]
And now, as LRFotS RobertW likes to say:
Animal Planet
Your aminules are adorkable moment of the week:
Real Men Watch REAL Sports
REPS FOR JESUS!!!
Gym beast props this week go to Kyle Kirvay:
Ass-Kicking of the Eight Limbs
They See Me Rollin’…
JUST BLEED!!!
Federer Express
Clean Bowled
Palate Cleansers
Axe Me Anything
Knives Out
Drumlines
Guitar Heroics
MOAR DAKKA!!!
Mighty Wings
Jump-Starts
Gingervitis Injections
Livin’ in the Land of the Metal Gods
Just the classics today, boys.
Rock Out With Your Glock Out
Thot Shots
OK, finally, here are your Instathots to get the week off to a suitably pneumatic start. First up – proving that Dawn Pine and I have similarly low tastes in women, because we both spotted her in news articles about tennis – is Carsten Branstine, age 24 from Canuckistan, and considered “the most beautiful woman in tennis”. Of course, people used to say the same about Eugenie Bouchard, another Canuckistani, who turned out to be totally useless on the court, so that might not be a very good reputation to have.
Before she dedicated herself fully to tennis – because, believe me, it is an EXTREMELY difficult sport to make money in, even for professionals – she was (and remains) a model, and you can see why.
And now, to class things down a bit, here is some unknown plastic chick from Mordor.
Happy Monday, boys.
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takes the Jews to task for their self-appointed status as “the chosen people”
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even better, the principle of Tikkun Olam usurps the role of Yahweh / Jesus in the salvation of the world. “For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.”
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this is made quite explicit if you watch a Chabad exegesis on the Genesis creation story. according to the Chabad rabbi i saw on youtube ( instructing a class of young women ), both Adam and Eve were souls who pre-existed their incarnation into the material world. and it was their decision to incarnate physically. why did they choose to incarnate? because they had observed that Yahweh had already fvcked up his creation and “needed their help” to repair it.
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you will note that every aspect of this is in direct opposition to what the text plainly states, which is that all of creation was “good” and without sin until after the creation of Adam. and that Adam was created AFTER most of the work of creation had already been completed and that Adam was created in Yahweh’s image, not someone who was in some measure the equal or superior of Yahweh, such that Adam could “fix” Yahweh’s flaws.