The worst thing about coming back from a vacation on a Sunday night, is having to show up to work on a Monday morning. And when you have to travel all day from a foreign country to get back home, facing delays, endless stupidity, and the inevitable vagaries of public transport along the way… well, that just makes the process about 10x worse.
Fortunately, the Great Mondaydact Browser Mulcher is here to make it all better. So let’s start by destroying your beloved childhood memories of Super Mario Bros.
The upcoming Mario movie has teh innarwebz absolutely freaking out, because Chris Pratt – devout Christian, family man, apparently all-around great guy – does not adopt any kind of accent to imitate the Mario we all love and remember from the video games:
Personally, I really do not see what the fuss is all about. If it is a good movie, then all well and good. If it is not, I don’t care, since I almost never watch Hollyweird productions anymore. But, since we are on the subject, let us take a moment to remember the sheer epic greatness of various Mario games:
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, has been “allowed” back onto Facebuchenwald, subject of course to a whole battery of restrictions and “guardrails”:
Two years ago, we took action in what were extreme and highly unusual circumstances. We indefinitely suspended then-US President Donald Trumpโs Facebook and Instagram accounts following his praise for people engaged in violence at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. We then referred that decision to the Oversight Board โ an expert body established to be an independent check and balance on our decision-making. The Board upheld the decision but criticized the open-ended nature of the suspension and the lack of clear criteria for when and whether suspended accounts will be restored, directing us to review the matter to determine a more proportionate response.
In response to the Board, we imposed a time-bound suspension of two years from the date of the original suspension on January 7, 2021 โ an unprecedented length of time for such a suspension. We also clarified the circumstances in which accounts of public figures could be restricted during times of civil unrest and ongoing violence, and introduced a new Crisis Policy Protocol to guide our assessment of on and off-platform risks of imminent harm so we can respond with specific policy and product actions. In our response to the Oversight Board, we also said that before making any decision on whether or not to lift Mr. Trumpโs suspension, we would assess whether the risk to public safety has receded.
The suspension was an extraordinary decision taken in extraordinary circumstances. The normal state of affairs is that the public should be able to hear from a former President of the United States, and a declared candidate for that office again, on our platforms. Now that the time period of the suspension has elapsed, the question is not whether we choose to reinstate Mr. Trumpโs accounts, but whether there remain such extraordinary circumstances that extending the suspension beyond the original two-year period is justified.
To assess whether the serious risk to public safety that existed in January 2021 has sufficiently receded, we have evaluated the current environment according to our Crisis Policy Protocol, which included looking at the conduct of the US 2022 midterm elections, and expert assessments on the current security environment. Our determination is that the risk has sufficiently receded, and that we should therefore adhere to the two-year timeline we set out. As such, we will be reinstating Mr. Trumpโs Facebook and Instagram accounts in the coming weeks. However, we are doing so with new guardrails in place to deter repeat offenses.
Like any other Facebook or Instagram user, Mr. Trump is subject to our Community Standards. In light of his violations, he now also faces heightened penalties for repeat offenses โ penalties which will apply to other public figures whose accounts are reinstated from suspensions related to civil unrest under our updated protocol. In the event that Mr. Trump posts further violating content, the content will be removed and he will be suspended for between one month and two years, depending on the severity of the violation.
tl;dr version: we’re full of shit and we know it, and we know you know it, and we know you know we know it. But we’re still going to go ahead and do it anyway, because dumbocracy and freedumb and so on.
In reality, Faceborg’s decision will do nothing to change the political situation in America. Trump cannot win a second term. He will not be permitted to do so. The Deep State made a colossal, nearly existential, mistake back in 2016. They will not allow a repeat of that scenario.
Let us also be clear about one thing:
This situation is very much Trump’s fault.
I respect the God-Emperor immensely. But that does not stop me from criticising him for his real and substantial failures. And among his most egregious failures was his inability and unwillingness to rein in Big Tech and Big Media. He could have, and should have, used his executive authority to eliminate Big Tech protections, but he did not do so. Look at the results today.
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Dawn of Battle
The Male Brain has plenty of entertainment lined up for us this week. We start with a video from Enrico Tartarotti about the true beneficiaries of the new ChatGPT technology:
Our favourite bald YOOTOOBER talks about the utter weirdness to be found among the stars:
Another one about how archaeology proves the Bible:
Say it with us, everyone: “the Bible is an historically accurate document“.
In these troubled times, John Stossel tells you not to worry (quite so much):
Poli-ticking Off
Mark Dice cannot help but take a victory lap over his correct predictions about how Stephen Crowder beclowned himself:
The dynamic duo over at Redacted are not amused by Darth Schwab’s idea of using mind control over the world’s population:
Jackson Hinkle debated a “Ukrainian” “soldier” named Sarah Ashton-Cirillo, who is actually a mentally ill tranny freak who cut off his own pecker and is now LARPing as a combat medic in Banderastan – a country that HATES such lunatics with a vengeance – and, well, it didn’t go well for the ladyboy:
ะะตะด ะกะฒะฐัะปะธะฒัะน ะะพะฒะพัะธั!
Grandpa Grumpuss grumps, grumpily, about the realities of Western tank “donations” to the 404th UkReich:
Itโs All Greek To Us
The good gentlemen of The Duran analyse the government “shake-up” in Banderastan to figure out just what the hell is going on around Bellendsky:
China Syndrome
China Uncensored thinks the CPC is desperate for money (spoiler: they’re not):
Winston Sterzel aka serpentza notes that you can’t get away from Karens, even in China:
Digging to China tries to figure out (from a pro-Western perspective, so probably not very accurately) what is going on with the “demotion” of the CPC’s combative, and effective, “wolf-warrior spokesman”:
The Bald Truth
Brian Berletic of The New Atlas gives a clear-eyed overview of the true situation on the ground in Banderastan:
Semper Fi!
Maj. Scott Ritter appeared on Judge Andrew Napolitano‘s show to talk tanks and tactics:
Warrior’s Rage
Col. Douglas Macgregor also appeared on the Judge’s show, to break things down as only he can:
Righteous Rantery
PJW is amused by the fact that a hoholina – a type of person not really known for telling the truth in general – is completely #BASED about the realities of PommieBastardLande:
The inimitable, irrepressible Katie Hopkins is completely unimpressed by the twats of the Just Stop Oil movement:
Konstantin Kisin, being Russian by origin, has no patience for hypocrites in the West telling everyone that Russia is repressive and illiberal, when Western liberaltard dumbocracies are literally ten times worse:
Bad Medicine
Dr. John Campbell has gone full-on red-pill with the Limey not-vaxx:
Dr. Vinay Prasad wonders whether there is a link between pre-existing psychological and psychiatric conditions, and the phenomenon we call “Long COVID”:
Warriors of Faith
Tha Dizzle and his good buddy Apostate Prophet demolish the silly notion that the Koran is from Allah:
Dr. Jay Smith from PfanderFilms and his good friend Mel from Sneaker’s Corner note that the prohibition against alcohol in Izzlam was never quite watertight, so to speak:
Al-Fadi from CIRA International and Lloyd de Jongh look at the various schools of shariah interpretation:
Manly Men of Manliness
Terrence Popp sounds a very sensible and urgent note of caution about supposedly “reformed” feminists:
Joker from Better Bachelor has a raging schadenboner from watching the “Learn To Code” crowd losing their jobs:
Via LRFotS JohnC911, here is a great video that translates wamenz to English:
Burn Paedowood to the Ground
Midnight’s Edge takes a look at the unfolding war for the House of the Devil Mouse (which in reality is no war at all):
Overlord Dicktor Van Doomcock explains how and why Jon Favreau very nearly quit the STAR WARS franchise:
He should have gone through with it. STAR WARS is dead.
Gary from Nerdrotic notes that the House of the Devil Mouse is mystified as to why no one likes its products:
Ryan Kinel can’t stop laughing at the failure of the new, woke, Velma series, starring a fat ugly Indian woman who has no respect whatsoever for the source material:
The Drinker has a new, must-watch, episode of Production Hell out there for us:
Reading Too Much Into Things
Your “Science is F***ING WEIRD” moment of the week is from The Male Brain, and essentially tells us that the attitude of “just do it” makes us all healthier and happier:
Importance: Procrastination is prevalent among university students and is hypothesized to lead to adverse health outcomes. Previous cross-sectional research suggests that procrastination is associated with mental and physical health outcomes, but longitudinal evidence is currently scarce.
Objective: To evaluate the association between procrastination and subsequent health outcomes among university students in Sweden.
Design, setting, and participants: This cohort study was based on the Sustainable University Life study, conducted between August 19, 2019, and December 15, 2021, in which university students recruited from 8 universities in the greater Stockholm area and รrebro were followed up at 5 time points over 1 year. The present study used data on 3525 students from 3 time points to assess whether procrastination was associated with worse health outcomes 9 months later.
Exposure: Self-reported procrastination, measured using 5 items from the Swedish version of the Pure Procrastination Scale rated on a Likert scale from 1 (“very rarely or does not represent me”) to 5 (“very often or always represents me”) and summed to give a total procrastination score ranging from 5 to 25.
Main outcomes and measures: Sixteen self-reported health outcomes were assessed at the 9-month follow-up. These included mental health problems (symptoms of depression, anxiety, and stress), disabling pain (neck and/or upper back, lower back, upper extremities, and lower extremities), unhealthy lifestyle behaviors (poor sleep quality, physical inactivity, tobacco use, cannabis use, alcohol use, and breakfast skipping), psychosocial health factors (loneliness and economic difficulties), and general health.
Results: The study included 3525 participants (2229 women [63%]; mean [SD] age, 24.8 [6.2] years), with a follow-up rate of 73% (n = 2587) 9 months later. The mean (SD) procrastination score at baseline was 12.9 (5.4). An increase of 1 SD in procrastination was associated with higher mean symptom levels of depression (ฮฒ, 0.13; 95% CI, 0.09-0.17), anxiety (ฮฒ, 0.08; 95% CI, 0.04-0.12), and stress (ฮฒ, 0.11; 95% CI, 0.08-0.15), and having disabling pain in the upper extremities (risk ratio [RR], 1.27; 95% CI, 1.14-1.42), poor sleep quality (RR, 1.09, 95% CI, 1.05-1.14), physical inactivity (RR, 1.07; 95% CI, 1.04-1.11), loneliness (RR, 1.07; 95% CI, 1.02-1.12), and economic difficulties (RR, 1.15, 95% CI, 1.02-1.30) at the 9-month follow-up, after controlling for a large set of potential confounders.
Conclusions and relevance: This cohort study of Swedish university students suggests that procrastination is associated with subsequent mental health problems, disabling pain, unhealthy lifestyle behaviors, and worse psychosocial health factors. Considering that procrastination is prevalent among university students, these findings may be of importance to enhance the understanding of students’ health.
Your long read of the week is by Aleks from Black Mountain Analysis about the coming Russian offensive in Banderastan and the futility of Western attempts to stop it using tank donations:
There are ever more reports of deliveries of tanks and infantry fighting vehicles, as well as artillery to Ukraine by NATO. Of course, there are.
Of course, we will go through all escalation steps in terms of arms deliveries, until this war concludes.
The West is following a strategy of scorched earth in Ukraine. It is absolutely clear to everyone, that it is only a question of time, when Ukraine will fall as a whole. All are aware that this will most likely happen this year. So, the task is, to inflict as much comprehensive and sustainable damage to Russia as possible during the process. With a huge success of course. See my article about that here.
Ukraine, or the biggest parts of it, will be part of Russia again. Some parts might go to Poland, Hungary and Romania by agreement with Russia. And some part will maybe be released into pseudo independence after being denazifyed and demilitarised. But in fact, Russia is killing currently โen massโ its future citizens and the base for further development. Of course, the Ukrainian soldiers of today will be Russian soldiers of tomorrow, as well. And as more infrastructure is damaged as more Russia will need to invest to rebuild. At least in parts, that will go to Russia.
Therefore, it needs to be ensured, by NATO, that the whole male able-bodied potential will be used, to fight Russia. In the best case everyone dies. Remember, these are future Russian citizens and soldiers. Thatโs why the West will never ever negotiate an end. Russia by the way wonโt do it as well, since all of Ukraine will be captured, denazifyed and demilitarised. Except maybe the parts, that will go to other states under a mutual agreement.
Well, as far as I am aware off, Ukraine ran out of heavy weapons. And it wonโt be able to further keep up the fight, without heavy weapons. First, physically, second morally. If the Ukrainians could only throw their bodies against Russian tanks, then there would be a mass surrender.
One would think, these western supplied tanks will be needed for offensive operations. But no-one thinks about offensives anymore. It is more, to preposition these tanks etc. on positions, where Russian offensives will be expected. To prepare ambushes and fire traps for the incoming Russian troops. Similar to what happened in phase 1. The West will supply in any phase, as long as human potential exists, to react to the challenges of the given time/phase/theater.
Linkage is good for you:
- The delivery of Western tanks to Banderastan brings up the nasty spectre of a repeat of the Aleppo Nightmare, when the Turks lost tanks to lightly armed infantry;
- Brian Berletic explains clearly and in detail why US Abrams tanks will not make a bucket of spit’s worth of difference to the outcome of the war;
- Indian diplomat M. K. Bhadrakumar has a very good thought-provoking piece up about the coming 1-year anniversary of the SMO, what it means, and what could happen next;
- Helmholtz Smith wonders what is coming next as well in the Banderastan War;
- Mark Sleboda explains how Ukraine has lost two full armies, and is in the process of losing a third right now;
- Our Beloved and Dreaded Supreme Dark Lord (PBUH) Voxemort the Most Malevolent and Terrible reckons the “classified documents” are indeed a form of leverage and pressure on the Fake President;
- Alastair Crooke notes the NATO-Russia conflict is setting the stage for a broader global insurrection against the West in 2023;
- Yevgeniy Prigozhin, the founder and head of the Wagner PMC, has a very trenchant reply to his critics in the USSA;
- A large number of Western companies left Russia at the start of the SANKSHUNS war, but it turns out to be less than 10% of those that had local subsidiaries and entities in the country;
- Interesting piece from Mikhail Novikov about a Russian Imperial Army officer, originally a Cossack, who tried to play multiple sides against each other and rule over Ukraine back in the 1920s;
- The Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) actually admitted, tacitly, that Russia owns the UK completely with respect to cyberwarfare – but nobody in PommieBastardLande media wants to publicise that fact;
- Rachael Marsden notes the Germans have only themselves to blame for the catastrophe that has befallen their economy;
- The myths of the inferiority of Soviet weapons and designs are precisely that, as the radical design for the potential successor to the MiG-31 proved;
- NBC has a lot of stupid people in its employ, but even they can figure out that America has squandered 20 years and US$8T on Syracuse Expeditions in the Middle East, while China quietly surpassed the US;
- It’s not your imagination – job interviews are getting more ridiculous and annoying, and deliberately so, on the part of employers;
- A woman who cannot move on from her ex-boyfriend is now preggers with his baby, but he denies it – one wonders why she expected anything different;
- An OnlySimps and Instathot model wonders why her kids are ashamed of her for stripping naked on camera all the time;
- Surfshark has passed a full no-log audit, joining NordVPN and just one or two others as one of a handful of VPN companies that genuinely don’t track you;
- For those of you using Netherflix, there are a bunch of suffix codes you can attach to a URL to access the company’s (quite huge) library of genres and films;
And some more from Dawn Pine:
- Various people are figuring out how to use AI to manufacture entire articles for them – maybe I should give that a shot;
- Lolo Jones, the Olympian who cannot find a man to wife her up, reckons three different dudes are stalking her – I mean, she’s 40 and keeps complaining about how no man will bang her, so it’s hard to be too sympathetic;
- Brolon may hold a record for losing vast amounts of wealth quickly, but the chairman of Evergrande could give him a run for his money;
- A woman laments the demise of her sex life with her boyfriend after their first child – guess what, that is PRECISELY WHAT HAPPENS;
- Local councils in PommieBastardLande apparently have better things to do than caring for their own citizens – like handing out citations for shit like “mansplaining”;
- A Good Samaritan returned US$5K to a McDonald’s, which proves that evil does not completely rule the world yet;
- If you are a single woman, DON’T Live in India, because you will have to comply with a lot of restrictive rules;
- And speaking of idiotic rules that make no sense, there are plenty to be found in India’s former coloniser;
- The Europeans are very much complete hypocrites when it comes to corruption, as the World Cup farce in Qatar proved;
- Pamela Anderson appears desperate for relevance these days, because she is now accusing Tim Allen of flashing her when she was 23 – which was over 30 years ago;
- See if you can spot a certain pattern with mass shootings in the USSA since the start of 2023;
- The insanity of Western leaders has brought the Doomsday Clock closer than ever to midnight;
MUH RUSHIAN KAHLOOOOOZHUN!!!
The Neo-Tsar has a truly outstanding team working with him, and his Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, is perhaps the greatest diplomat alive today:
Those Who Fail To Learn From History…
History lessons of the week:
HALO Nation
Via LRFotS MrUNIVAC – here is a two-part, two-hour-long (!!!) video rant from Andy – Insp. Magnum about why HALO 4 “objectively” sucks ass:
Obviously, I thoroughly disagree with his arguments and conclusions. There is very little that can be classified as “objective” about his analysis. I personally love HALO 4 – but I will readily concede it has plenty of flaws, not least being the storyline and the Promethean fighting units, which really are just bullet-sponges with little point other than to annoy the hell out of the player.
Even so, H4 has a very great deal going for it. The return to classic gameplay mechanics, the addition of new armour abilities, the exploration of the relationship between Cortana and the Chief, and the much bigger and better open-world mechanics – plus, let’s not forget the epic Scorpion battles – all make for a great game, if not one as good as HALO 3.
That being said, I also agree with MrUNIVAC about the fact – and it is a FACT – that Microsoft/343i retconned the Forerunners into a separate alien race from humanity, thereby breaking canon and destroying the HALOverse.
And now let’s watch slayergod Remy aka Mint Blitz do his thing, while talking about the departure of longtime 343i studio head Kiki Wolfkill (yes, that’s her real name):
That is probably a very good thing. The HALO TV show was an utter bloody disaster, and Infinite, while clearly a very good attempt to get back to the basics of HALO, has not truly succeeded in restoring the lustre of the series. The people at the top are responsible for this, and they need to pay for what they have done – or failed to do.
Learning at the Master’s Feet
Nerd of the Rings explains how and when Gandalf figured out the truth of Bilbo’s special ring:
Bring on the Grimdark
The Remembrancer, uh, remembrances the White Scars legion:
That’s Not Gone Well…
Wazzocks gonna wazzock:
Kitchen Nightmares with the Angry Scot:
Yeah… that’s disgusting.
Comedy hour:
Meme Warfare
We start with a pack of memes from The Male Brain, related to that ChatGPT clip above:
Onward:
Animal Planet
Your aminules are adorkable moment of the week:
I’ve seen a real Ovcharka in person. They are huge animals, and extremely intimidating. You do not dick with one of them. The one that I saw lives in a dacha in southern Moscow – behind half-inch-thick, three-inch-wide steel bars, and whose growls and barks I felt in my bones.
And also your animals are absolute DICKS moment of the week, to balance things out:
And finally, your “Meanwhile, in Russia” moment of the week:
The Lords of Steel
Gym beast props this week go to the living legend, John Haack:
Ass-Kicking of the Eight Limbs
They See Me Rollin’…
Palate Cleansers
Shuffle Off
Jump-Starts
Soul Food
Livin’ in the Land of the Metal Gods
Rock Out With Your Glock Out
Hot Totty
And now, at long last, after a winding and weary road, we come to our Instathot of the early week. This week’s feature is Valentina Gutierrez – age and nationality unknown, and I can’t be arsed to find out.
OK, gents, that’s it, back to work.
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