Well, that escalated quickly… This weekend sure as hell didn’t start out the way most of us expected, what with a new war kicking off right quick in the Middle East. Waking up on Saturday and seeing all the rockets and shells flying was a very serious wake-up call – especially for our friends in the Middle East.
On that subject of friends – our good friend The Male Brain is doing fine, I checked in with him over the weekend, all is well with him and his family, for the moment. I ask for your prayers for his safety and good health, and that of his people, in the comments, if you are so inclined.
I will also say that the rapid escalation between the Israelis and the Palestinians has SERIOUSLY amped up the divisions on both sides of that particularly thorny subject. If you look at Twatter, or X, or whatever the hell it’s called these days, you can see supporters of Israel and Palestine just TEEING OFF on each other right now.
Personally, I try to stay above the fray on such things. Unlike with the Russia-Ukraine issue, where my loyalties are very clear, and where the root causes of the conflict are quite transparent to anyone who looks at the data and the history, the Israel-Palestine issue has no such clean divisions.
That being said – it is difficult to escape the conclusion that, at least at some level, much of this is a deliberately controlled event, designed specifically to distract attention and money away from the Banderastan War, which is clearly going catastrpohically wrong for the entire collective West.
I rather doubt the Israelis feel that way, for obvious reasons. but, taking a broader view, the fact that this crisis popped up so conveniently, at precisely the point in time when the desire to help Ukraine is collapsing, is interesting, to say the least.
Anyway, we shall leave all of that until later. Right now, it is too early to draw any strong conclusions – other than that SOMEONE SET UP US THE BOMB in Israel, as far as the IDF is concerned, because they got caught napping, quite literally in far too many very tragic cases.
Seeing as it is Monday, and seeing as how the weekend ended with what felt like a nutshot – for those of you who have ever sparred in striking sports, you know what I mean – we might as well embrace the pain, as it were. So here is a collection of nutshots to make you feel better about your Monday.
Don’t worry, though, it gets better from here on out.
In muay thai, nut-teeps and nut-knees are actually fair game, as it happens. That is why you see The Buakawminator, for instance, using them in some of his fights, especially against kickboxers fighting in Thailand.
OK, let’s amp that up a bit:
These even work on those without nuts – which sounds weird, until you it in action:
If it makes you feel any better – and it shouldn’t, actually – you can do the same to people WITHOUT kicks to the groin. Ever taken a liver shot?
Yeah, body shots HURT when done right. It is actually quite fun to watch people react to them sometimes:
The absolute KIND of body-shot KOs, though, was, and remains, the one and only El Guapo, aka Bas Rutten:
Of course, Bas may be older, but he is still an absolute beast:
The way he sets up those liver shots is just amazing to watch, too:
Let us close with…:
You are welcome. Now go kick Monday in the balls!
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, is being accused now of leaking nuclear submarine secrets:
Boy, the Deep State is willing to throw ANYTHING at him to try to get him out of the race…
#BasedTucker is Based
Dawn of Battle
The Male Brain has the usual bevy of brilliance lined up for us this week. We start with a short video about a man who faked his own kidnapping โ to be with his mistress:
Yโall may remember that story from last week, which was both hilarious and stupid.
AGC Andy plays the part of a someone teaching you how not to be a bully โ by bullying you:
Moon gets a bit histrionic in calling the Metaverse TEH WURSTEST TING EVAR!!!!:
As our Israeli friend would say:
Let’s not hyperbole – It’s bad but not “the worst”.
Also – cue Black Mirror episode “Be right back”
Also, I’ll quote Dickens in A Tale of Two Cities:
โIt was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.โ
Mind-Expanding Drugs
As part of our quest to increase the general knowledge base of our readership โ insofar as that is possible, since Didactic Mind readers tend to be pretty damn smart to begin with โ Dawn Pine and I have started posting up topics of useful knowledge and philosophical interest. This week, Jeffrey Kaplan explains Russellโs Paradox, which sounds ridiculous to non-mathematicians, but is actually quite a profound problem in the field of logic and foundational mathematics:
Poli-ticking Off
Mark Dice trolled FAUX Noose so hard, their anchors may well turn to stone in the sunlight now:
The dynamic duo over at Redacted talk to Larry Johnson about the sheer carnage taking place in the Banderastan War, where unwilling Ukie conscripts are being drugged up to the gills and then frogmarched into the path of Russian guns, drones, tanks, artillery, etc., to be chewed up and torn to pieces:
Jackson Hinkle is clearly having a LOT of fun in Russia โ he recently gave a speech at the Russian Diplomatic Academy of Ministry of Foreign Affairs (ะะธะฟะปะพะผะฐัะธัะตัะบะฐั ะะบะฐะดะตะผะธั ะะธะฝะธัััะตััะฒะฐ ะะฝะฝะพัััะฐะฝะฝัั ะะตะป ะ ะพััะธัะบะพะน ะคะตะดะตัะฐัะธะธ โ try pronouncing THAT five times fast without sounding like you are speaking through a mouthful of kasha) about the current, abysmal, state of American leadership:
PJW tells the sad story of Josh Kruger, who died in Phithydelphia after telling โright-wing nutjobsโ (like us) that his home city is NOT unsafe:
Rulings from the Bench
Judge Nap has assembled his usual superb panel of guests. We start, as always, with Col. Douglas Macgregor, who explains the fall of Bellendsky the Crackhead Beggar:
LTC Tony Shaffer points out the harsh reality of declining Western aid to Banderastan:
Alistair Crooke talks about the sheer stupidity of the neoclown worldview, and why they have so much power despite being consistently and completely wrong about literally everything:
Larry Johnson and Ray McGovern analyse the colossal, indeed catastrophic, failures of US unintelligence with respect to the Banderastan War:
ะะตะด ะกะฒะฐัะปะธะฒัะน ะะพะฒะพัะธั!
Grandpa Grumpuss grumps, grumpily, about the arrival of โSkyfallโ โ the NATO designation for the 9M3730 Burevestnik, or โStormy Petrelโ, subsonic nuclear-powered cruise missile with effectively limitless range โ and what that means for NATO posture and policy:
Itโs All Greek To Us
The good gentlemen of The Duran dissect the very interesting, and powerful, speech the Neo-Tsar gave at the Valdai Discussion Forum:
The Bald Truth
Brian Berletic of The New Atlas examines Western attempts to float a trial balloon over a โfrozen conflictโ or โarmisticeโ in Banderastan, given how badly their chosen war strategy has failed:
I will tell you right now that the Russians will accept absolutely no freeze of the conflict whatsoever. Their senior leadership at EVERY level has made this completely clear. There will be no โfreezeโ โ there will only be Ukraineโs total surrender, or total destruction. Those are the ONLY alternatives now.
Bad Medicine
Dr. John Campbell and Dr. Aseef Malhotra talk about how you can keep the doctor away, but it will take rather more than merely an apple a day:
Dr. Suneel Dhand has some very bad news indeed for Americans with respect to their drinking water:
Warriors of Faith
Tha Dizzle answers a very important key objection that Muzzies have to the death and resurrection of Christ:
Dr. Jay Smith from PfanderFilms reviews a very interesting book about the construction of the Koran alongside his good friend, Al-Fadi from CIRA International:
Iโm reading it right now (in parallel with about 5 other books, so it is slow going). Dr. Shoemaker makes a number of rather serious errors with respect to the history of Christianity โ he comes at it from a secular point of view, and he relies heavily on Dr. Bart Ehrmanโs research to a degree that even Dr. Ehrman himself might reject, particularly with respect to New Testament variants โ but overall, he makes some really excellent points.
The weight of historical evidence is absolutely clear at this point โ the Koran is a man-made book, compiled over nearly 150 years, by secular rulers who sought to put a religious stamp on their newfound Arab nationalism. It is really that simple.
Manly Men of Manliness
Terrence Popp does the Grunt MAFF on the sheer cost of being stupid โ and it is HIGH:
Joker from Better Bachelor is amused to note that men are just plain better at EVERYTHING โ including using womenโs rules against them:
Burn Paedowood to the Ground
The big entertainment news this week โ if you can call it that โ is all about the new Devil Mouse Wars show, Ahsoka. Apparently, it SUCKS. Midnight’s Edge explains why:
Overlord Dicktor Van Doomcock thinks it is such a bad show that Disney hired shills to promote it โ well, so he claims, but it wouldnโt surprise me:
Gary from Nerdrotic watched Ahsoka so you didnโt have to:
The Drinker simply could not find enough Scotch to get him through the show:
Reading Too Much Into Things
Your “Science is F***ING WEIRD” moment of the week comes from Dawn Pine, and concernsโฆ ummโฆ uhโฆ actually, Iโm not quite sure:
Organic matter (OM) formation and stabilization are critical processes in the eco-engineered pedogenesis of Fe ore tailings, but the underlying mechanisms are unclear. The present 12 month microcosm study has adopted nanoscale secondary ion mass spectrometry (NanoSIMS) and synchrotron-based scanning transmission X-ray microscopy (STXM) techniques to investigate OM formation, molecular signature, and stabilization in tailings at micro- and nanometer scales. In this system, microbial processing of exogenous isotopically labeled OM demonstrated that 13C labeled glucose and 13C/15N labeled plant biomass were decomposed, regenerated, and associated with Fe-rich minerals in a heterogeneous pattern in tailings. Particularly, when tailings were amended with plant biomass, the 15N-rich microbially derived OM was generated and bound to minerals to form an internal organo-mineral association, facilitating further OM stabilization. The organo-mineral associations were primarily underpinned by interactions of carboxyl, amide, aromatic, and/or aliphatic groups with weathered mineral products derived from biotite-like minerals in fresh tailings (i.e., with Fe2+ and Fe3+) or with Fe3+ oxyhydroxides in aged tailings. The study revealed microbial OM generation and subsequent organo-mineral association in Fe ore tailings at the submicrometer scale during early stages of eco-engineered pedogenesis, providing a basis for the development of microbial based technologies toward tailingsโ ecological rehabilitation.
That is rather a lot of gobbledegook. What does it actually mean? Our friend supplies us with a helpful laymanโs link:
Tailings, the waste left after extracting precious and critical minerals, often contain harmful chemicals and heavy metals that can pollute soil, water, and even crops. There are over 1800 tailings storage facilities around the world, and in 2019, a tailings dam in Brazil collapsed; close to 300 people drowned in the waste, which also polluted local land and waterways.
Now a team led by researchers at the University of Queensland has developed an innovative method to turn harmful tailings into healthy soil. The scientists used the Canadian Light Source (CLS) at the University of Saskatchewan to determine the underlying mechanism of their process.
Longbin Huang, a professor with the University of Queensland, said itโs costly and environmentally risky to store tailings over the long term and that other processes for remediating mine waste are slow and extremely expensive. โWe have basically taken engineering solutions into the context of natural soil formation from rocks, because tailings have some useful minerals common to natural rocks.โ Their solution, he said, could save billions of dollars around the world and carry a host of environmental benefits.
โTailings have no biologically friendly properties for growing plants. Roots and water cannot penetrate them, and soluble salts and metals in tailings can kill plants and soil microbes,โ said Huang. โIf you wait for nature to slowly weather the tailings and turn them into soil, it could take a couple thousand years.โ
So, tl;dr version โ you can turn mine runoff and waste into useful, fertile soil. Someone go run and tell all those Chinese lithium miners producing useless wasteful Teslas and NIOs.
Your long read of the week is an excellent piece of analysis from Simplicius the Thinker about a recent report from the US Army War College, among other things, which makes for extremely sobering reading for any of those yahoos who think the US military could actually take on the Russians in a straight fight and real war:
This leaves us to conclude that the real current course in Western military command centers and thinktank-land revolves around finding further pressure points and ways to make Russia want to escalate in a way that could turn global perception against it, and could justify further NATO intervention of some kind to save Ukraine. In a sense, as I implied before, this report appears more like a handbook or guidebook on how to make Russia give us the casus belli to increase our own provocations and escalations to save a floundering AFU.
What it ultimately highlights is the fact that the West appears greatly irked and peeved by Russiaโs stoic, mannered approach to this war. They are beside themselves, and canโt believe that Russia can fight such a devastatingly protracted conflict in so calm and measured a manner, without major political, societal, and economic upheaval to throw them off-kilter and create the ripe groundswell of turmoil which would necessitate an off-balancing โescalationโ that would prove a major blunder, and hand the salivating NATO thinktankers an enormous gift.
Thus, in light of this, the West plans to use all possible means to coax Russia into shooting itself in the foot by disproportionately responding to one of the planned provocations they have in store, in order to give raison dโetre for some intervention to save Ukraine. This doesnโt have to be something of maximal proportions yet, like full-on NATO invasion or something like that. No, even the justification of further increased support, or the activation of more lethal strategic weaponry supplied to Ukraine would suffice.
Remember, a major portionโperhaps the biggest oneโof the Westโs support is convincing their own publics and lawmakers in justifying increasingly more provocative weapons pledges. Even provoking a relatively minor Russian rash response could be used to convince wearying Western populaces in warming to the hand over of things like ATACMS or other items.
Of course, I find all this to be a relatively pointless exercise and strategic dead-end because I donโt think they have much left to hand over that could do anything in changing the now-crystallized trajectory of this conflict. The only other potential pivot I could glean from the Rand document which could conceivably form the axis of a strategy is in the final item on their escalations options list: Option G.
It reads: Ukraine expands its strikes inside Russia. Motivation: Increase domestic political costs for Russian leadership.
That encapsulates just about the only realistic option they have left, and given recent trends it appears to be one of the main thrusts theyโre going with. Iโm referring to the other big recent provocation, German Bundestag member Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermannโs statement that Ukraine has the right to strike Russian territory with German Taurus missiles. Putting the two together, we can only come to the conclusion that the progressive push for Ukraine to strike deeper and deeper into Russian territory has nothing whatever to do with any strategic or military considerations, but rather revolves entirely around Randโs assessment of โputting political pressure on Russian leadership.โ
To wit, they believe that by striking deep into Russia they can cause enough fear, panic, and public distress as to force Russian citizens to begin pressuring the government to end the war, or simply create enough unpopularity as to give Western intel services opportunities to oust key leadership, whether that might be election, overthrow, etc. Unfortunately, this has virtually no chance of having any effect as the Russian public either doesnโt care nor notice any strikes, including the ones to the heart of Moscow, or is simply unified into greater solidarity by them.
Linkage is good for you:
- In an ominous sign for the West, the Russian Duma is willing to debate the idea of resuming nuclear tests;
- The Fake President and Administration appear to be on board with the idea of โgo big or go homeโ with respect to aid for Banderastan โ though it is unlikely to pass;
- The BRICS+ consortium does have a plan for long-term de-dollarisation, and it is a comprehensive one, though difficult to implement;
- There have been a number of very interesting breakthroughs in quantum computing of late, which make large-scale QCs a lot more likely;
- Global Cooling Climate Warming Change continues to be a nonsensical idea, not least because the actual HOHLEE SAYENCE!!! shows the oceans are not warming;
- Oleg Barbanov asks, in the wake of the failed Luna-25 launch, why Russia needs the Moon โ and provides a very good set of answers;
- Eric Striker notes that even the most stupidly progressive Leftists are being forced to admit we were right about race, crime, and other touchy subjects;
- James Durso points out the very severe problems facing the US military in trying to create the โforce of the futureโ with the fatsos of the present;
- What we know about the Pythagorean Theorem could easily be wrong โ the Babylonians may have figured it out a thousand years earlier;
- While we are on the subject of challenging history โ a key part of Stonehenge may have come from much farther away than originally thought;
- And a bit more of the same โ it looks as though the โAncient Apocalypseโ theory might have some more backing, as people landed in America over 7,000 years earlier than thought;
- If you think Millennials are hard to deal with at work, it turns out Gen-Z is even worse, due to the WFH trend โ though I have to agree with the youngins about how useless the office is;
- The Portuguese entrant to the Miss Universe contest this year is a dude, which really says a lot about where we are as a society;
- Attention whores love to complain about how it is so unfair for them to be punished for getting their tits out for fame, and the rest of us love looking at them;
And some more from Dawn Pine:
- A new cuneiform language has been discovered at an archaeological dig site in Turkey, which may revolutionise our understanding of the ancient world;
- For those of us (like me) who think pandas are a gigantic waste of space and resources, there is finally some good news;
- Ever wanted to own and drive your own life-sized Transformer robot? (Yes, said LITERALLY EVERY MAN EVER!!!);
- MUH SANKSHUNS WERKINโ REEL GUDDER!!! against Russia โ so GUDDER, in fact, that Russia is flooded with Chinese containers and needs to ship them back;
- If you ever want to know how to survive getting trapped under a train โ NOT an experience I recommend โ read this article;
MUH RUSHIAN KAHLOOOOOZHUN!!!
The Neo-Tsar celebrated his 71st birthday last week โ on the 7th, to be precise, right on the same day as this awful new war in Gaza cranked up:
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The text from the post โ written by the Speaker of the Duma, Vyacheslav Volodin โ reads as follows:
Today is the birthday of our President, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin.
It is correct to remember what Russia was like before he became head of state.
Devastation, economic decline, people were abandoned, social obligations to citizens were not fulfilled, the country was on the verge of another collapse.
Vladimir Vladimirovich saved Russia and made it strong.
It is no coincidence that Washington and Brussels, wanting to destroy the Russian Federation and stop its development, are first of all trying to strike at our President.
We all need to understand this:
our answer is the consolidation of society around Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin.
Happy Birthday, Vladimir Vladimirovich!
Happiness and health to you!
And of course, he is entirely correct. If you know anything about what Russia was like in 1999, when Putin came to power as Prime Minister, it was a broken wreck of a nation, falling apart at almost every level.
Nearly a quarter-century later, Russia is strong, proud, free, independent, and extraordinarily strong โ it is a true civilisation-state, seeking its own independent identity and path in the world.
That is the legacy of the Neo-Tsar.
HALO Nation
What was the Battle of Installation 04 like from the perspective of the ordinary grunts and ODSTs who fought on the ground, while Master Chief did his thing? (Answer: IT SUCKED):
Bring on the Grimdarkโฆ
PancreasNoWork is finally back with a hilarious new video on the regression of the Imperium under Big Daddy Emprah since the Horus Heresy:
And Attenborough Lore โ thank you, MrUNIVAC โ explains the creepy mechanical weirdos who worship their โOmnissiahโ:
That’s Not Gone Well…
Wazzocks gonna wazzock:
Comedy Hour
Meme Warfare
We start with some great October memes from The Male Brain, which are rather apropos, seeing as it is the start of HELLOWEEN season:
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:
Finally, your meanwhile, in Russia moment of the week:
The Lords of Steel
Gym beast props this week go to, believe it or not, John Cena, who is actually an extremely impressive powerlifter:
Ass-Kicking of the Eight Limbs
They See Me Rollin’โฆ
Palate Cleansers
Axe Me Anything
Drumline
Saendwich
Jump-Starts
Gingervitis Injections
Shreddinโ
Livin’ in the Land of the Metal Gods
Rock Out With Your Glock Out
Guns Girls Bikinis VK https://vk.com/album-170918047_00
Hot Totty
Right, finally, here is your Instathot to get the week off to a suitable start. This is Sofia Valleri, age 32 from Venice, Italy. As I often say, we rather like and approve of the Eyeties around here, and she is a VERY good example of the reasons why. She is an actual professional model โ a really-for-real one, with a portfolio and an agency and everything.
OK, thatโs all, boys, back to work now.
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ah, you’ve found El Estepario Siberiano. Tool’s “The Pot” is the best thing i’ve seen from him so far.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8S6qet59vA
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too bad about Sofia’s lips.
He’s an incredible drummer, no question about it – in technical terms, certainly. However, I do think he is a bit full of himself. Sure, he does insanely complicated things with the drums – but so too do Bobby Jarzombek, Aquiles Priester, Mike Mangini, Mike Portnoy, and of course Danny Carey. The difference is, they make original music that is also highly technical.
being a “bit full of yourself” is part of the gimmick. you pretty much need to project being overly full of yourself on a social media site.
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Davie504 is a very good bass player … but him shitting on guitarists and pianists and violinists and whatnot is just him stunting on other people / groups. Charles Berthoud is better, and that’s just on Youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7UFWriNFaY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK_3Cb_mEh4