Well, there goes that weekend – in my case, it zipped by in a haze of espresso and red wine, plus the strobe-light-and-pop-music delirium induced from a shopping mall gaming arcade. (Long story. Don’t ask.) And now we’re back to Monday, which… SUCKS. There just ain’t no other way to describe the misery of this day.
Of course, that is why the Great Mondaydact Browser Beater exists – partly to offset the awfulness of Monday, and mostly to force your computer’s RAM usage to hit the redlines and start reaching for swap space. (I admit that this only amuses small minds and geeks – both of which could accurately describe yours truly.)
So let’s get this depressing day off to an appropriately depressing start, by talking about the absolute state of American adolt edjoomuhcayshun, thanks to the neo-Palestinians who run Prager U:
Well yes, they may well be neo-Palestinians, but they do have their heads screwed on right and tight when it comes to the evils plaguing the American “education” system.
One of the best and most effective ways to corrupt a nation, is of course to corrupt its yoot. And American yoofs have been thoroughly corrupted by an education system that doesn’t do much educating at all.
Hell, Yankee children (like, for that matter, children in the rest of the Western world) would be VASTLY better off under the old Greek system of dividing the waking day into thirds – one third for poetry and reading and rhetoric, one third for dancing and socialising, and one third for wrestling and sports. That, alone, would be a vastly better use of time and money.
Indeed, the argument for homeschooling one’s children has never, ever been stronger – in any Western nation. You’d be far better off teaching your kids at home, taking them to the local park for social activities and fun-time, and then bringing them back home again to eat proper whole-food home-cooked meals.
Granted, I know about as much about child-rearing as I do about wrangling water buffalo, but the point still stands. At this point, the American education system is a giant exercise in corruption, mismanagement, and outright evil. So stop feeding it.
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, has absolutely no love for those Republicucks who voted to impeach him:
#BasedTucker is based:
Mark Dice points out that the drive to put Cameltoad Harris the San FranciscHo in office as the first female POTUS has been underway for quite a while, and the (((media)))))))))) and Hollyweird have been using subtle propaganda to rewire our brains into thinking that such a thing would be Good For Us:
Bill Whittle and his friends wonder how law-abiding American citizens can get away with disobeying the ridiculous Not-Vaxx Mandate:
The hard fact is that a law is only a law if it is enforced AND IF IT IS CREDIBLE. The Not-Vaxx Mandate may well be enforced – though it appears that corporations are struggling to figure out how to do so. But there is no way that the Fake President’s idiotic “mandate” is credible.
The Male Brain sent over a classic John Stossel video for us this week, which outlines exactly why and how Big Money colludes with Big Gubmint to break the natural corrective mechanisms of the free market:
Paul Ramsey examines the outcomes of the failed recall of Gavin Nuisance, Governator of Clownipornia:
I do believe that this will rather set the tone for future elections in the USA. It is important, indeed vital, to understand that the basic mechanisms of representative government are in full-blown breakdown right now in most of the Western world. Those who continue to believe, against the VAST body of evidence to the contrary, that the ballot box is a solution, are deluding themselves to a degree rarely seen before in human history.
This is not going to end well. The Daemoncrats have unleashed forces that they cannot comprehend or control. We will see them reap the whirlwind before very long – and, unfortunately, many of us are trailer parks in the way of that storm.
The lovely and charming Dr. Sam Bailey explains, over on Rumble (where I finally figured out how to properly embed their videos – not for lack of trying, mind you), how the reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test actually works with respect to the Coof:
Lord Razor of the Fist Clan thinks that Joe Biden is a tool – for the Beijing Politburo:
The Dizzle has been rather quiet this week, so let’s turn his slot over to our good friend, The Apostate Prophet, who turned an Izzlamic couple’s “arguments” in favour of their fake religion and their ridiculous moon-god into so much kitty-litter:
Dr. Jay Smith from PfanderFilms and his very cool pipe-smoking Gallic friend, Odon LaFontaine, put together a big jigsaw puzzle concerning the origins of the Fake Religion:
Al-Fadi from CIRA International and his old friend, Dr. Jay Smith, look very closely at the “trade route theory” of Montgomery Watt and its subsequent debunking, to show how the basic Standard Izzlamic Narrative cannot possibly hold water about the origins of the Fake Religion:
Dr. Frank Turek from Cross Examined confronts the question of “do you trust the science” by asking the rather common-sense question in return – “what do you mean by ‘science’?”:
China Uncensored breaks down some fascinating news coming out of the Middle Kingdom, particularly with respect to the rapid collapse of one of China’s biggest real estate companies:
I’ve been saying for some time now that China’s property bubble makes America’s crisis in 2008 look minor by comparison. The major difference is that the contagion will likely be limited to east and southeast Asia, since the yuan is not a reserve currency. But the rapid freeze in credit that will likely result from the collapse of the Chinese housing market will be far more lethal for their economy, because in order to prop it up, their central bank will have to break the exchange rate controls that they have over the yuan. And that will greatly damage both their current and future economic prospects.
America Uncovered looks deeper at the ways in which the Red State governors are pushing back against the Fake President’s Not-Vaxx mandate:
Jared Taylor from American Renaissance asks a question with a fairly obvious answer:
Terrence Popp is among those who is quite pleased by China’s crackdown on “girly-men” and soyboys:
Andre from Midnight’s Edge is pretty pleased at the way that DUNE 2021 shaped up:
I haven’t seen it yet. I will probably “sail the high seas” ifyaknowhatimeanrite to get it, since I have absolutely ZERO respect for Hollyweird these days. But if it is indeed a proper imagining of the greatest sci-fi novel ever written, then Denis Villeneueve has done us all a great service.
Overlord Dicktor Van Doomcock called it, yet again – the Pharisatanists in charge of the Indiana Jones 5 film do, indeed, plan to replace Harrison Ford’s character with a woman:
The Drinker looks at Free Guy and marvels at what he saw:
Your “Science is F***ING WEIRD” moment of the week is from Dawn Pine, and talks about how you could potentially detect a Dyson Sphere megastructure if it encompasses a black hole:
The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has been conducted for nearly 60 years. A Dyson Sphere, a spherical structure that surrounds a star and transports its radiative energy outward as an energy source for an advanced civilisation, is one of the main targets of SETI. In this study, we discuss whether building a Dyson Sphere around a black hole is effective. We consider six energy sources: (i) the cosmic microwave background, (ii) the Hawking radiation, (iii) an accretion disk, (iv) Bondi accretion, (v) a corona, and (vi) relativistic jets. To develop future civilisations (for example, a Type II civilisation), 4×1026W(1L⊙) is expected to be needed. Among (iii) to (vi), the largest luminosity can be collected from an accretion disk, reaching 105L⊙, enough to maintain a Type II civilisation. Moreover, if a Dyson Sphere collects not only the electromagnetic radiation but also other types of energy (e.g., kinetic energy) from the jets, the total collected energy would be approximately 5 times larger. Considering the emission from a Dyson Sphere, our results show that the Dyson Sphere around a stellar-mass black hole in the Milky Way (10kpc away from us) is detectable in the ultraviolet(10−400nm), optical(400−760nm), near-infrared(760nm−5μm), and mid-infrared(5−40μm) wavelengths via the waste heat radiation using current telescopes such as Galaxy Evolution Explorer Ultraviolet Sky Surveys. Performing model fitting to observed spectral energy distributions and measuring the variability of radial velocity may help us to identify these possible artificial structures.
If you find a Dyson Sphere, though, you probably won’t want to contact the civilisation that created it – because it could ONLY be built by an actual intelligent species with engineering capabilities far, FAR beyond any human capability. Dyson Spheres are the size of SOLAR SYSTEMS and take up roughly the same amount of material to construct.
Basically, imagine converting all of the mass of the entire Solar System that we live in, and turning it into a mind-bogglingly huge megastructure, and you’re about 1% of the way there.
This is a very rough approximation of what such a thing might look like:
Your long read of the week consists of Peter Boghossian‘s resignation letter to his university, wherein the good professor was just sick and tired of combating the stupidity and mendacity of his (former) employers when dealing with cancel culture and the militant Left:
Students at Portland State are not being taught to think. Rather, they are being trained to mimic the moral certainty of ideologues. Faculty and administrators have abdicated the university’s truth-seeking mission and instead drive intolerance of divergent beliefs and opinions. This has created a culture of offense where students are now afraid to speak openly and honestly.
I noticed signs of the illiberalism that has now fully swallowed the academy quite early during my time at Portland State. I witnessed students refusing to engage with different points of view. Questions from faculty at diversity trainings that challenged approved narratives were instantly dismissed. Those who asked for evidence to justify new institutional policies were accused of microaggressions. And professors were accused of bigotry for assigning canonical texts written by philosophers who happened to have been European and male.
At first, I didn’t realize how systemic this was and I believed I could question this new culture. So I began asking questions. What is the evidence that trigger warnings and safe spaces contribute to student learning? Why should racial consciousness be the lens through which we view our role as educators? How did we decide that “cultural appropriation” is immoral?
Unlike most of his contemporaries complaining about the relentless stupidity and dangers of cancel culture, Mr. Boghossian actually took a stand and tried to do something about it. He couldn’t continue the fight. But at least he fought. And for that, he absolutely deserves great respect.
Linkage is good for you:
- The Frogs, of all people, are now leading the way in holding the criminally incompetent evil Scamdemic bureaucrats to account – but they’re doing it for all the wrong reasons, i.e. the idiots in charge supposedly underreacted;
- That’s not the end of the drama from the Frogs, though – they’re seriously PISSED about the fact that the Aussie gubmint, which runs the world’s largest open-air prison, bought submarines from the Brits and cancelled their deal with the French;
- Sticking with that story for a moment, the Frogs are beginning to realise that, for all that they complained about his “unilateralism”, Trump wasn’t nearly so bad as the current crop of idiots they are now dealing with in the Fake Administration;
- Everyone hypes up China’s economy to the nth degree, but the reality is that they have a real-estate bubble brewing over there that makes the 2008 Crisis look like a minor hiccup by comparison;
- Comedy truly is dead – the last of the old SNL greats, Norm Macdonald, is gone, and we’re stuck with really awkward, terrible, and downright shitty late-night “comedians” now as Ye Olde Guarde shuffles off this mortal coil;
- Paleolibertarian Ilana Mercer takes Lara Logan to task for thinking that the solutions in Goathumpistan are “simple” – they aren’t simple, and none of them are good either, but getting out and staying out is the least worst;
- Pat “Mr. Paleoconservative” Buchanan asks, and answers, the questions motivating the destruction of American politics and culture;
- You think you’ve seen real sacrifice in your life? Wait until you read this story about a mother who didn’t hesitate to have her leg amputated to save her child – and who is now in the terminal stages of severe cancer;
- New breakthroughs in the rapid production of abundant, clean-burning hydrogen make the real-world possibility of fusion reactors and fuel-cell cars ever more realistic – which means that idiotic and expensive “green” solutions are doomed;
- The F-22 Raptor genuinely is an amazing aircraft, because it was designed well for a specific purpose – and the US military is still sensible enough to recognise that, while knowing better than to sell it to the Small-Hat Tribe in case of security leaks;
- Meanwhile, the Russkies are looking to get production of their Su-75 “Checkmate” 5th-Gen single-engine stealth jet started by 2025 – which is a damned sight faster than anything the US has managed recently with its own jets;
And some more from Dawn Pine:
- If you’re interested in buying your very own village (in Maine, which may or may not be a good thing), and you’ve got $6M worth of scratch to do it, then mosey on over here to see if Kenneth Tuttle’s compound is for you;
- Salesforce will pay for its employees to GTFO of Texas after they passed the most pro-life laws in the country – and I’m pretty sure most Texans would happily ban those idiots from ever coming back, too;
- Here’s your “Zoomers are Doomed” moment of the week – some folks watched a YooToobz channel’s videos, and got the same Tourette’s Syndroem symptoms that the host of the channel had;
- Shit’s gettin’ Biblical over by the Dead Sea – right by the ancient site of Sodom and Gomorrah, by the way, where a pool of water turned blood-red, and scientists are struggling to figure out why;
- Dawn Pine is a big fan of horror movies (I am most assuredly not) – if you also like jump-scares and frights, you could get paid up to $1,300 to watch horror flicks;
- Pop-singer-turned-actress Zendaya was serious jailbait as a teenager, but she’s gone a long way downhill now – and she also suffers from money anxiety despite having made more than she’ll ever realistically need in life;
- You’ll notice that Rose McGowan features heavily up top in the #BasedTucker section, but it’s important to be careful with such broads – “don’t mess with crazy” is a major rule of life, and with very, very good reason;
- Another major rule of life is, “don’t do things when shit-faced” – and this cautionary tale about a boozer who proposed to his girlfriend with a plastic ring is proof positive of the validity of that rule;
- Keanu “NEO” Reeves may well have triumphed over evil in The Matrix (I refuse to discuss the 2nd and 3rd films), but if he followed you on social media, that’s likely fake – as Dawn Pine likes to say, “evil will always triumph because good is dumb”;
- Good post here from Ed Latimore about the major red flags in men that women (and male friends) need to watch out for – BTW, Dawn Pine has met the man, and says he’s a righteous dude;
- Just when you thought that Singapore couldn’t get any more authoritarian without going full CCP on everyone, they just introduced robots called “Xavier” to keep the entire population under surveillance;
The Neo-Tsar recently opened up a mighty monument to his great predecessor as ruler of Russia, Alexander Nevsky:
You don’t have to like the Neo-Tsar to understand how wonderful it is to live in a country ruled by a man who loves and respects the history and culture of his people.
That is what Russia is like – which is why the smart money is on Russia and China over the next 20-50 years.
History lessons of the week:
Your Great Man of the Week is the Italian General Luigi Cadorna:
The Act Man is severely cheesed off about the fact that HALO Infinite will ship WITHOUT campaign co-op and Forge mode, and I think he is right to be:
I get that the devs really need time to get everything right. But they are shipping THE most important game in a DECADE in basically a half-finished state, and they are ditching the single most important attribute of the game in order to do it. This isn’t likely to end well.
And now let’s watch a genuinely ridiculous clip of Mint Blitz doing genuinely ridiculous things within the HALO engine:
Wazzocks gonna wazzock:
Kitchen Nightmares with the Angry Scot:
We dedicate Comedy Hour this week to the one, the only, the great, and now very sadly the LATE, Norm Macdonald:
We lost a true legend last week. Rest in peace, Mr. Macdonald – you earned it, and then some.
Pics, guns, girls, starting with some rather savage takes on Alexandria Occasional-Cortex’s weird political statement of a dress at something called “The Met Awards”:
Let’s have some timeless strategic wisdom from Mark Tzu:
Truly, the ways of the 4-star Army General are inscrutable indeed.
Headlines of the week indicate that Floriduh Man has taken up Olympic sprint-running, and is very good at it:
Your “Swedish Pagans” moment of the week:
Your “The Hero That We Need” moment of the week:
Your “I Pity the Dog” moment of the week:
Your “Cow Farts” moment of the week:
Your “Main Monkey Business” moment of the week:
Your “Space Oddity” moment of the week:
Actually, I saw a scene very similar to that at a KFC in southern Moscow last summer.
Darth Vader definitely hit some hard times after some knucklehead farmbody in an X-wing blew up that big shiny new Death Star:
Your aminules are adorkable moment of the week:
And also your animals are absolute DICKS moment of the week, to balance things out:
Gym beast props this week go to the legendary powerlifter and strength coach Ray Williams:
He also shared some of his best advice for real lifters to maximise their GAINZ:
What is the most common mistake you see trainees making in gyms?
When it comes to people who have been training for a little while, I would say the most dangerous mistakes relate to the deadlift. The squat, yeah, you see problems, but you can get those fixed quick, and people who don’t understand the squat usually just don’t do it. But with the deadlift—man, like these kids in Mississippi, they’re all trained to do sumo deadlifts and they’re wearing so much equipment.
They only pull sumo style, not conventional. Their backs round in a real unsafe way. And if you say anything to them, they think you’re hating on them. Well, okay, sure, but you can ruin yourself with one bad pull. So make sure you understand how to do the deadlift properly before you start messing around with it and develop bad habits.
What would you say to older trainees—people 40 years old and up—who want to start strength training?
You still see people forty years and older doing great things in powerlifting. That’s an entire division, masters-level powerlifting. And some of these older folks started powerlifting late in life. But one thing those late-life lifters have in common is a good coach, because as you get older, you need to make sure your form is excellent. If you haven’t learned those movement patterns early in life, you need to pay special attention to make sure they’re right when you’re older. Otherwise, the risk of catastrophic injury is a lot higher.
Wise Uncle Chael the American Gangster weighs in on the whole Machine Gun Kelly (whoever he is) versus Conor Macgregor beef at the MTV VMAs (whatever that is):
Lawrence Kenshin breaks down one of the greatest combat sports fights that you will EVER see, a legendary clash of eras and styles that left those watching absolutely stunned by the sheer power, volume, and artistry on display:
The modern style of muay thai does indeed emphasise clinching and trips and throws much more than the crazy spinning kicks and flying knee techniques of the past era. And I think that is a tragedy. The old techniques required real skill and balance and finesse. The modern techniques require much more by way of sheer brute force.
I am personally of the view that technique trumps power almost every time. But you’d have to be a fool to discount the effect of size and mass in combat.
Jesus loves knockouts:
Shufflin’ keeps things groovin’
#MetalTrilogy
I do love those buttheads. SABATON truly are the Pacifim Rim of heavy metal – either the dumbest awesome band ever, or the most awesome dumb band ever.
Let’s wrap things up with the Instathot of the week. Today’s specimen goes by the name of Katryne Beauvais from the Great Frozen North of Canuckistan – specifically, Montreal, which I’m told is basically an outpost of Old France that never quite modernised, where they speak a dialect of Froggish that even the Frogs themselves cannot understand.
Right, that’s it, show’s over, now get your butts back to work swabbing the decks, and make sure it’s nice and clean.
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Can confirm the Texas meme. I used to go to a Hooters in Pasadena Texas and there were 2 dudes who rode their horses there every Thursday.
The instathot is almost better equipped than the Taliban. That heavy artillery really pops out.
I had never heard of Norm McDonald until the Dark Lord posted his note this past week.
Judging from these compilation videos, I have been missing out. What a barn burner in live interviews.
The portion with him in the 90s running the full alpha over the herd of harpies on The View is dynamite.
That home depot ‘looking at things I can’t afford’ meme is 10/10.
The Lawrence Kenshin fight breakdown video is very good as well, thank you for sharing these breakdown-type videos. For a complete novice to martial arts like me they help peel back the onion to show the brains behind the brawn. The Larry Holmes video last week was excellent as well.
The Dyson sphere concept is wonderful. Given the problems with heat exchange for electronic circuitry, I can’t see putting the rings around mercury as having a positive payoff versus, say… an orbit closer to earth. Scorching your satellites is a waste of time, no matter how easy launching off Mercury could be. (Opinions are free, and you get what you pay for 😉 )