Welp. Here we go again. Monday is back, and I’m already tired. Actually, this one was not so bad, as it was considerably less crazy than past weeks have been. Things have calmed the hell back down at work a bit, which is always nice. Nonetheless, Monday remains a great enemy of happiness and sanity.
Of course, that is why the Great Mondaydact Browser Slayer exists – to amuse, enlighten, and entertain, all while straining your computer’s resources to the max. (YOUR computer – not mine. This sweet rig of a Lenovo T14 has 32GB of memory and a 16-core processor. You may eat your own liver at your leisure.)
For this week, let’s get nerdy. (Well… y’know… nerdier.) The Mandelbrot Set is a fascinating example of something called fractals, which is part of a mathematical discipline known, rather grandiosely, as “Chaos Theory”. In reality, the “chaos” part is a lot less chaotic than you might think – essentially, the field is all about figuring out the mathematical order beneath seemingly random and bizarre events. The Mandelbrot Set, and the fractal equation that generates it, has some really rather elegant applications:
You can also get really lost in it, if you let it go for shits and giggles:
It even has a certain amount of theological relevance, too:
And that is not the only fractal in existence. Check out Sierpinski’s Gasket:
Incidentally, I have read Mandelbrot’s book – years ago. It is very good, and worth looking at from a non-mathematician’s perspective. However, while he correctly identifies the issue with using “too smooth” distributions to model financial markets – long story – he doesn’t actually propose a reasonable solution to the issue. Note, he wrote that book a couple of years before the Global Financial Crisis, and he turned out to be quite right.
Dawn of Battle
The Male Brain has lots to keep us amused on a Monday. We start with a good one from Felix Rex aka BPS, about how the American Empire actually works:
The apotheosis of empire is freedumb dropped from a $2B bomber 30,000 feet on the heads of unsuspecting villagers in shithole countries…
The Babylon Bee continues to report all the news that’s unfit to print:
thejuicemedia may be a bunch of leftist dipshits a lot of the time, but they do get it right in their latest entry of the “Australia is F***ED” series:
CrackerMilk explains the pros and cons of doing the bedroom tango with a DnD girl:
That would actually never happen. First, girls almost never play DnD, and second, the few that do, are almost universally ugly as sin.
And the VERY few exceptions that exist, are NOT attracted to neckbeard nerds. Jus’ sayin’.
Fanservice
LRFotS Randale6 is back with some great stuff as well. Let’s have some more of Felix Rex, starting with why the Japos, for all of their faults (which are many), understand very well why landwhales are a Badness Thing:
And another telling young men to Go East:
On to the madcap geniuses of Flashgitz, who take on the House of the Devil Mouse:
And an explanation of why inbreeding is Very Bad, using The Legend of Zelda (!!!) as a medium:
Somehow I never remember Zelda herself being quite so… stacked, but hey, clearly, certain artistic liberties are to be expected…
Poli-ticking Off
Mark Dice chronicles the ongoing collapse of FAUX Noose:
The dynamic duo over at Redacted talk to Tom Wheelwright of the Wealthability podcast (I think), about the severe depreciation and devaluation of the US Dollar:
Twofer from Jackson Hinkle this week. We start with a video of him dissecting that supposed reappearance of Valeriy Zaluzhnyi:
And here is another one of him having WAY too much fun dismantling the “arguments” of a pro-Queef fat guy:
PJW is not impressed by the latest round of Clown World propaganda:
Maybe it’s just me, and I’m probably wrong, but I think things have changed significantly in the past couple of years. While the Clown World elites have gotten ever more extreme in their embrace of all things Feikh & Ghey, the people seem to be getting ever more heartily sick of this shit. I could easily be misreading things, but I get the distinct feeling that people nowadays are just absolutely fed up and no longer paying attention to this garbage – because they are struggling to survive.
ะะตะด ะกะฒะฐัะปะธะฒัะน ะะพะฒะพัะธั!
Grandpa Grumpuss grumps, grumpily, about the ways in which the once-great nation of Britain has now become the lapdog of the American Empire:
Itโs All Greek To Us
The good gentlemen of The Duran talk through the subtle but very serious shift in tone coming from the Neo-Tsar:
The Bald Truth
Brian Berletic of The New Atlas discusses the results of Operation: MEATGRINDER:
Rulings from the Bench
Judge Andrew Napolitano has the usual roster of superb talking heads available to explain how badly things are going wrong, and why. We start, as always, with Col. Douglas Macgregor
Bad Medicine
Dr. John Campbell looks at the now-verified link between the not-vaxxes and MS:
Every single person who fully supported the not-vaxx regimes, boossssssster shots, and clot-shot mandates, bears some degree of responsibility for the greatest crime against humanity ever committed. The Holocaust PALES next to this.
Dr. Suneel Dhand points out the rather stunning rise in young people suffering very nasty problems caused by – dare we say it – clotting:
Warriors of Faith
Tha Dizzle and his good buddy The Apostate Prophet unpack the horrible realities of Izzlamist thinking:
Dr. Jay Smith from PfanderFilms provides a high-level overview of the reason why we cannot believe Izzlamist claims about the supposedly “unaltered” and “incorruptible” Koran:
Islam Critiqued looks at one of the weirder passages of the Koran, and how it seriously contradicts Izzlamist dogma:
Manly Men of Manliness
Terrence Popp tells the harsh truth about college:
Joker from Better Bachelor notes that even female dating coaches are getting fed up with the entitlement and demands of modren wammenz:
Burn Paedowood to the Ground
The big entertainment news this week is all about the woke remake of The Little Mermaid – never the best of the “Golden Age” Disney animated classics, to be sure, but not terrible or awful, either. Midnight’s Edge looks at just how badly the remake is performing, relative to expectations:
Overlord Dicktor Van Doomcock points out the disastrous consequences of woke for the House of the Devil Mouse:
Gary from Nerdrotic notes the growing evidence of audiences becoming absolutely fed up of the woke garbage:
Ryan Kinel breaks down the clear evidence that The Witcher showrunners committed malicious acts of destruction against their own product and employer, and are now terrified of being held accountable for them:
The Drinker watched the latest Disney garbage so you don’t have to:
Reading Too Much Into Things
Your “Science is F***ING WEIRD” moment of the week is from The Male Brain, and discusses, basically, why shouting into the wind is actually quite pointless:
It is a common thought that in windy conditions the voice of a shouter emanates towards the upwind with lower strength than towards the downwind. Contradicting with this, acoustics literature states that a source emanates with a higher amplitude against the upwind direction in comparison with the downwind direction, which is known as the convective amplification or attenuation effect. This article shows that the discrepancy arises because shouters receive their own voice at their ear canals worse when facing against the upwind direction than in the corresponding down-wind case. When shouting upwind, the ears are situated downwind from the mouth, and the strength of oneโs own voice decreases in the ears due to the convective attenuation effect depending on frequency, making the shouter believe that it is more difficult to shout against the wind. This is shown by computational simulations and real measurements using models of a human shouter with simplified geometries.
Comforting, is it not, to think that your tax dollars are being spent on research like this?
Your long read of the week is also from Dawn Pine, and looks into how and why The Guinness Book of World Records has somehow survived into the modern age:
As a child, I thought of Guinness as something like a mystical higher power, or some kind of government body. It seemed like it must have always existed. Not so. It began with an argument in 1951. The managing director of Guinness, Sir Hugh Beaver, was on a hunting trip in Wexford, and his party couldnโt agree which game bird was fastest. This dispute seems to have stuck with Beaver. Thinking back on the incident three years later, it occurred to him that these kinds of arguments must happen all the time and there would surely be an appetite for argument-settling answers in the form of a compendious book that catalogued world records, as well as the extremes of the natural world. This volume could be distributed to pubs that sold Guinness. It could also be sold in shops, and provide another revenue stream for the brewery.
For help, Beaver turned to identical twins named Ross and Norris McWhirter who ran a fact and figure-provision service for the newspapers of Fleet Street. The first edition, published in 1955, was shaped by the brothersโ eclectic personal taste and sense of propriety. Norris hated popular music because he thought it was โephemeralโ, and so limited the number of records in this field. No records to do with sex were included, because the twins thought, as Norris put it in 1954, โYou can get those records out of medical literature, but ours is the kind of book maiden aunts give to their nieces.โ Instead, readers could discover the highest lifetime milk yield of a cow (325,130lb, held by a British friesian called Manningford Faith Jan Graceful). The foreword to the first edition read: โGuinness, in producing this book, hopes that it may assist in resolving many such disputes, and may, we hope, turn heat into light.โ
The book became wildly popular, and the annual Guinness Book of Records was born, with the McWhirter twins remaining at the helm for the next two decades. In 1975, however, Ross was shot dead by the IRA for publicly offering a ยฃ50,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of terrorist bombers in Britain. Norris continued alone, only stepping down as editor in 1985, and remaining in an advisory role until 1996, when he stopped working for GWR. โThe book was Norris and Norris was the book,โ was how Anna Nicholas put it to me. Under his editorship, GWR headquarters became a homing beacon for the UKโs biggest oddballs, who showed up claiming everything from the heaviest sausage dog to the worldโs largest toothbrush. (Norris was also fervently rightwing โ an enemy of trade unions, the European Union and sanctions against apartheid South Africa โ though these beliefs were not evident in the book he edited.)
Today, anyone arguing with their friends about the fastest game bird (the red-breasted merganser, at 130 km/h) would, of course, consult the internet, not the latest edition of Guinness World Records. There is a decidedly analogue feel to the company โ the objects on display at the office, the physicality of the book itself. But when I sat down to chat with Glenday in the GWR headquarters, in a meeting room named after Elaine Davidson, the worldโs most-pierced woman, he made the bold claim that the age of information on demand has not killed the need for the book. In fact, he continued still more boldly, it may have actually helped them.
He positioned GWR as a kind of factchecker of the absurd. GWR liaises closely with experts in fields as diverse as surfing, architecture, extreme weather, robotics and jigsaw puzzles. Glenday argues that the book serves as an authority in a way that the great wash of information on the internet canโt: they know what the records are because theyโve measured them, taken video evidence and can point to the guidelines they checked the record against. โYou might as well just shout a question into the street and see what answer you get back: thatโs what the internet is like,โ Glenday said, sounding a little like someone who had time-travelled from 1995 to speak to me about a thing called the internet.
Linkage is good for you:
- Scott Ritter came back from his month-long journey across Russia profoundly affected by the experience, and points out the reality that the West is losing the economic and political war against it;
- The Queef Thief, Bellendsky the Pecker Piano Playing Clown-in-Chief, has now demanded, effectively, US$55 BILLION worth of air defence weaponry from the US – he really is a short smelly green-shirted crack-addicted beggar;
- #BasedOrban, the leader of #BasedHungary, has bluntly stated that his country will never take up arms against Russia, and rightly so – the Russians have no desire whatsoever for war with Hungary, either;
- Jonathan Cook sounds the alarm at the way the elite class in PommieBastardLande is leading the people into disaster in Banderastan – just like they did over a century ago in another insane European war;
- The results of that idiotic intervention are really making themselves felt on the shelves of PommieBastardLande grocery stores, too;
- Boyd D. Cathey explains the true meaning of Memorial Day in America, and why it matters;
- Jane Weir tells the true story behind that Black guy who confronted the “Central Park Karen” – it turns out he is not at all the good guy in a story that, honestly, doesn’t actually have one;
- Remember that Air Farce bird colonel who said a drone killed its operator in a theoretical exercise? He’s been frantically walking – or flapping – back that one as fast as his arms can windmill;
- Eric Striker points out the inevitable consequences of woketardery for corporate America, which is still apparently too stupid to understand that, if you reward crime, you get more of it;
- Israel Shamir delves deeper into the ongoing and unfolding Colour Revolution happening in Israel, which is an irony if there ever was one, given the Israeli penchant for sponsoring the exact same thing elsewhere;
- Steven Tucker unpacks the colossal failure of yet another woketard project, the Blackface Netherflix adaptation of Cleopatra;
- Not to alarm anyone, but when Deutsche Bank, one of the world’s worst-run big investment banks, tells you shit’s really seriously freakin’ bad, then it really is time to sit up and pay attention;
And some more from Dawn Pine:
- An OnlyFools influenza and Instathot from Australia – where EVERYTHING WANTS TO KILL YOU AND EAT YOUR EYEBALLS FOR JUJUBEES!!! – got deported from the USSA, because reasons, but it sure makes for funny reading;
- And speaking of crazy Sheilas from ‘Straya, here is a case of a wife and mother who tried to run over her husband and his mistress, and then managed to get off largely scott-free;
- The two of us can’t be the only ones in the world who think the Kiwi idea to weigh fatties and landwhales before they board an airline, is a Really Good Idea;
- It doesn’t take a psychic to figure out that out-of-control AI is actually very dangerous, precisely because of those problems of the reward functions that I mentioned earlier;
- However, the danger is not merely limited to out-of-control AI – there is also a real danger of crazy people using robots to fulfil really messed-up fantasies, like dating Idris Elba;
- For some bizarre reason, lots of people are bitching that “idealised” human beings generated by AI image software is “unrealistic” – what part of idealised do these numpties not understand?!?!;
- Also, if you end up using ChatGPT for any serious work, be very careful about the citations it generates, because they are, for the most part, garbage, as a lawyer recently found out while slacking off;
- You have to give this guy props for BIG Brass Balls – he sued IBM for not increasing his salary, even though he’s been out sick for FOURTEEN YEARS;
- The Russians have congratulated the Bangladeshis for deploying peacekeepers, which is all well and good from a diplomatic standpoint, but actually a quite pointless gesture, given what a shithole Bangladesh is;
- Mo’ money, mo’ problems, indeed – as the holder of a US$2B jackpot lottery ticket just discovered, because someone is suing him, claiming the first dude stole the ticket;
- So here’s one for the ages – a woman who boinked a dude in a car, contracted an STD from doing it, and then sued the car insurer AND WON DAMAGES from his insurance company…;
- Your “Miss Congeniality” moment of the week – a man smashed up a beauty pageant crown after his wife lost;
- This one is really sickening, don’t read this story if you are of a sensitive disposition – it’s about a mother who turned cannibal with her OWN SON, and as far as I am concerned, she should be burned alive;
MUH RUSHIAN KAHLOOOOOZHUN!!!
The Neo-Tsar commented, in his usual forthright yet precise manner, on the recent UAV attacks against Moscow:
Those Who Fail To Learn From History…
History lessons of the week:
HALO Nation
Let’s watch slayergod Remy aka Mint Blitz do his thing – while playing a mash-up of HALO and STAR WARS:
That’s Not Gone Well…
Wazzocks gonna wazzock:
Comedy hour:
Meme Warfare
We start with some great dad memes from The Male Brain, who knows a thing or two (quite literally) about being a father:
Onward:
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:
The Lords of Steel
Gym beast props this week go to powerlifting and strongman legend Rauno Heinla:
Ass-Kicking of the Eight Limbs
They See Me Rollin’…
Palate Cleansers
Jump-Starts
Gingervitis Injections
Livin’ in the Land of the Metal Gods
Rock Out With Your Glock Out
Hot Totty
Let’s close out proceedings with the Instathot for the start of the week. This is Franceksa Fournier, age 23 from Canuckistan. She does… well, I have no idea what, exactly, but you can make educated guesses.
All right, lads, shop’s closing up, last orders, then get back to work.
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