Welp, Monday is back again, and once again, I am on the road. I tell you, working from a client site is not much fun when you have to do it for most of the week. Nonetheless, that is how we pay the bills, which lets me do this as a side gig for shits and giggles, so let’s get on with it.
Regulars around here are aware that The Big Bang Theory – the TV show, which apparently was the longest-running sitcom in history – is essentially an extremely Gamma show, featuring uber-Gammas (and one COLOSSALLY unlikable Omega) simping their way through life. I have it on in the background when I cook, simply because it is white noise that lets me get on with whatever I want to do, but the fact is, it is an objectively terrible show.
Try watching it without that ridiculous laugh track:
And that leads us to the reasons why the show is so thoroughly hated:
However, I think all of this skips over the REAL reason it is show worthy of active dislike:
The show’s entire premise is that a colossal Gamma, like Leonard Hofstader, can somehow snag a pneumatic bottle-blonde like Penny, simply by being… well, a colossal Gamma. This is a particularly far-fetched idea, even by the standards of modern television, but it becomes outright idiotic when you actually watch how badly Leonard simps after Penny.
And it is even more so when you realise whom the actress behind the character actually ended up with in real life:
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Ayup. The supposed “queen of the nerds” ended up with THE EXACT OPPOSITE of the kind of guy the show was trying to convince us was her true type.
That show is essentially the Anti-Game Equation in TV form. The best lesson you can take from it is to do the precise opposite of everything its main characters do around girls.
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 gone all-in with his support for Israel – which, in my opinion, is not a wise move, given how badly Israel is losing the moral level of war right now:
#BasedTucker is Based
Dawn of Battle
The Male Brain is very busy right now, and for entirely understandable reasons, but has managed to find some time to send us some great stuff to keep us occupied this Monday. We start with one from Moon, about a company called Temu:
Here is what our friend has to say on the subject:
Solid jj riffs on The Daily Bugle’s coverage of the “news”:
The Film Theorists offer up some intriguing thoughts on the dangers of using the whiz-bang “Beam Me Up Scotty” thingy:
Vsauce2 explains the thin line between insanity and genius:
Speaking of which – see the headbanger’s section down below for a great take on that idea.
Honest Ads (aka Cracked) goes factual for a bit (sort of) about the worst secret agent ever – who was probably an inspiration for Sterling Archer hizzself:
Death Smiles At Us All…
DEUS VULT!!!
Mind-Expanding Drugs
Via Dawn Pine, our boy Simon Wheeler, the world’s busiest and baldest YooToober, is back with some interesting thoughts on the history of warfare:
Poli-ticking Off
Mark Dice is not at all impressed with the new Speaker of the House:
The dynamic duo over at Redacted are delighted to see the not-vaxxes getting crushed by severe reality checks:
Has anyone checked the Pfizer and Moderna stock prices of late? They are down like 50% and 85% (!!!!!!!!) from their all-time highs.
There are a whole bunch of very salty Big Pharma execs sitting on completely worthless stock options right about now…
PJW tackles the latest mass shooting in the FUSA:
It is worth pointing out that, yet again, gun control laws would have done DIDDLY SQUAT to prevent this problem.
Rulings from the Bench
Judge Nap has been extremely busy with interviews this week. We start with Col. Douglas Macgregor, who has likewise been ridiculously busy, offering some quite cogent analyses about the dangers of escalation in Israel:
LTC Tony Shaffer is not convinced that US SpecOps types got their butts stomped by the Pali-Walis in Gaza recently – contradicting what his friend, Col. Macgregor, had to say about it, above with #BasedTucker – but he still is not impressed by the path taken by the Fake President:
For the record, I think the lack of loud and strenuous denials from the FUSA’s clown-puppet spokespersons, like that assclown RAdm John Kirby, speaks volumes in and of itself, in support of the notion that American operatives went in with an Israeli strike force, and got clobbered, hard.
Maj. Scott Ritter is deeply worried about the march toward WWIII, as he should be:
Alistair Crooke brings an experienced diplomat’s view to the conflict in Gaza, and warns the current path is unsustainable and deeply dangerous:
Larry Johnson and Ray McGovern discuss the state of Western unintelligence with respect to the Gaza crisis:
Matthew Hoh explains why the (((whore-media)))))))))))) are so damn eager to embrace war and death:
Prof. Jeffrey Sachs offers a classical liberal’s take on how to save Israel from itself – like everyone else talking about a two-state solution, he is WRONG about the viability of a Palestinian state, but otherwise, he talks a lot of sense:
Prof. John Mearsheimer reckons Israel is hurting itself very badly with its proposed invasion of Gaza – and I think he is right:
Dr. Phil Giraldi is horrified by Israeli collective punishment of the Gazans:
Дед Сварливый Говорит!
Grandpa Grumpuss grumps, grumpily, about the huge differences in education and competence of the official spokesmen of the FUSA and Russian militaries:
He also explains how the Russians managed to MASSACRE the Ukrainian Air Force over the past week – the toll is currently 31 aircraft and rising, and almost NONE of those pilots saw death coming at them over the horizon.
Andrei Martyanov has in fact been extremely busy this past week. He also did a fascinating interview – as the interviewer, for a change – with Dr. Fadi Lama, who uses common sense economic principles to explain why the West will lose the conflict over the drive to multipolarity:
And Robinson Farinazzo interviews Andrei about his views on naval power and other issues:
Polonium
Ania Konieczek and Garland Nixon have a proper chin-wag about current events:
It’s All Greek To Us
The good gentlemen of The Duran despair at the insanity of neoclowns trying to lead the FUSA down the road to yet another war:
The Bald Truth
Brian Berletic of The New Atlas does a cogent, if rather dry, breakdown of the limits to Israeli power based on past operations:
Bad Medicine
Dr. John Campbell has had about enough of this nonsense about “safe and effective” not-vaxxes:
Vinay Prasad MD MPH reports on the genuinely pathetic uptake of the latest clotshots:
Dr. Suneel Dhand explains the benefits of magnesium in your diet:
Warriors of Faith
Tha Dizzle tackles the one really big question in life:
Al-Fadi from CIRA International sits with Pastor Anthony Rogers to discuss the Psalms and how they predict the Christ:
Manly Men of Manliness
Terrence Popp tells fatties and uggos to put the Twinkie down and get on the Stairmaster:
Joker from Better Bachelor has an absolutely grand time demolishing the latest bit of blithering idiocy from one Jana Hocking:
Ms Hocking has some very nice cans. She is quite attractive for a woman her age. But she has been railed through by DOZENS of men in her life – and has bragged openly about her loose sexuality. This is not a woman to emulate, at all – and certainly not one to listen to about dating and love. She has no idea what a successful relationship actually looks like, because she has never been in one – if she had, she would not be writing dating columns for a newspaper, documenting her own sexual exploits and heartbreaks, while staying single until her late thirties.
Burn Paedowood to the Ground
Midnight’s Edge examines Disney’s severe identity crisis as it closes in on its 100th birthday:
Overlord Dicktor Van Doomcock reports gleefully on the mounting losses suffered by the House of the Devil Mouse:
Gary from Nerdrotic is delighted to see the impact of the writer and actor strikes on Hollyweird:
The Drinker dissects the latest Scorsese film:
Reading Too Much Into Things
Your “Science is F***ING WEIRD” moment of the week is about the remnants of a gigantic asteroid impact from aeons past, under the ground of Australia:
Last year, it was discovered that Australia could be harbouring a remarkable subterranean secret that could change planet Earth as we know it.
In a new essay published for The Conversation, geologist Andrew Glikson explained his latest research has much evidence that points to something huge.
It indicates that an asteroid crater could be buried underneath Australia, which is big enough news in itself.
Furthermore, all of Glikson’s evidence points to it being the largest known on the planet, and by a huge margin as well.
The full study, which was conducted by Glikson and his colleague Tony Yeates, was published in the journal Tectonophysics earlier this year.
Discussed in the journal is the Deniliquin structure, the rather large asteroid structure that is estimated to be over 320 miles in diameter.
If that diameter proves to be accurate, it would dwarf the largest confirmed impact structure in the world right now.
The Vredefort Crater in South Africa is approximately 100 miles wide, and on top of that you’ve got the Chicxulub crater of a similar size.
The Chicxulub crater is of great significance as it is believed to be from the asteroid that wiped out dinosaurs.
There is great evidence this structure is legit, with Glikson penning in The Conversation: “The Deniliquin structure has all the features that would be expected from a large-scale impact structure.
“For instance, magnetic readings of the area reveal a symmetrical rippling pattern in the crust around the structure’s core.
“This was likely produced during the impact as extremely high temperatures created intense magnetic forces.”
tl;dr version: EVERYTHING IN AUSTRALIA WANTS TO KILL YOU AND EAT YOUR EYEBALLS FOR JUJUBEES, EVEN IN THE DIM AND DISTANT PAST!!!
Your long read of the week is from Gregory Hood, and looks at the sheer ridiculousness of the modern Macarthur “Genius” Grants:
Carolyn Lazard is an artist who uses objects and machinery to draw “attention to the dependencies and infrastructures of care that sustain social life.” She’s black, so naturally her work “addresses complex histories of institutional harm and racialized violence.” “A Recipe for Disaster” puts text over a film of Julia Child cooking an omelet. Sample text: “This is a white woman cooking.” “Crip Time” may look like someone filling pill bottles, but it’s about rejecting “capitalist notions of worth and value.”
Miss Lazard wrote a guide for nonprofits about physical disabilities, claiming they are “unevenly distributed, primarily affecting black and indigenous communities, queer and trans communities, and low income communities.” They are also “structurally reinforced by ableism.”
She signed a letter calling for the Whitney Museum of American Art to refuse to display and even destroy Open Casket, a painting by a white woman, Dana Schutz, of Emmitt Till in his coffin. It said Miss Schutz must “stop treating Black pain as raw material. . . . The painting must go.”
I think the Whitney should have destroyed it because it’s ugly.
Manuel Muñoz is a college professor author who “render[s] with empathy and vivid detail the multifaceted lives of Mexican American communities in California’s Central Valley.” You can read one of his stories here. The Consequences, his most recent book, “offers powerful meditations on racial, gender, and class tensions.”
What are these meditations? “With an unflinching hand, Muñoz depicts the Mexican and Mexican American farmworkers who put food on our tables but are regularly and ruthlessly rounded up by the migra,” says Gray Wolf Press. (When was the last time you heard of the migra rounding up farmworkers?) Texas Public Radio also says that his characters are “persecuted by the migra.” Datebook says the stories “[give] voice to a segment of the population too often stereotyped, taken advantage of or made invisible by our larger society.”
The whole thing makes for profoundly depressing reading, it must be said.
Linkageis good for you:
- Ivan Timofeev speculates on what might happen the day 404 wants a peace settlement – but Russia then turns around and says, “Nyet”;
- Bernhard from Moon of Alabama analyses how and why the Russian Aerospace Forces have managed to dramatically increase their shootdown rate of Ukrainian planes;
- The very fake news coming out of Russia gets more ridiculous by the day, with regular reports that the Neo-Tsar has died (for about the thirtieth time, by now);
- The usual sources are hyping up the usual claim that the God-Emperor will leave NATO if he gets back into office – seeing is believing, on this and all other similar subjects;
- A lost tribe of supposed Jews, apparently descended from Manasseh, are on their way back to Israel to fight for their putative homeland;
- Despite its reputation as a happy country of laid-back people, Australia is increasingly persecuting Christians in its own territory – as several of my readers can attest;
- The NHS is observably failing in PommieBastardLande, and the goobermint is trying to take steps to deal with the issue – too little, too late, really;
- Italian Prime Minister DD Melons and her longtime boyfriend have split, because he was stupid enough to request group sex live on national TV;
- VISA and MasterCard acknowledge they are in a race to tap Africa’s rapidly growing and potentially immense payments market – but they are lagging (subs);
- The route to digital currencies for cross-border payments is becoming more clear and concrete by the day;
- A “research” group has finally figured out what the rest of us realised years ago – that the FUSA cannot grow out of its enormous debt overhang;
- On a similar note, a group of European executives is belatedly realising that the EU is in serious danger of permanent and terminal deindustrialisation;
- An intriguing piece here from an employee motivation expert about why, and when, recognising star performers doesn’t really work;
- If you have a relative in college looking to start an internship, steer him or her away from banking, because it does not pay as well as you might think;
- The world’s greatest spreadsheet software just got even better, with predictive analytics for small business;
- Sadly, the oldest doggo in the world has passed away – at the enormously old age of 31, and that was verified;
And some more from Dawn Pine:
- Anti-Israeli activists appear to be using open-source platforms to try to wipe Israel, somewhat literally, off the map;
- If you have a spare wine cellar and you don’t know what to do with it, why not convert it into a luxury hotel with a built-in swimming pool?;
- Google has to pay a female exec for gender discrimination, which is leading to some EPIC schadenboners;
- Brolon MuZk is not everyone’s cup of tea – he certainly is not mine – but his troll game is INCREDIBLY strong, especially when it comes to Wikipedia;
- Your latest “mainstream media = fake news” release of the day – in other news, water is wet and eggplant is gross;
- A chemistry geek might be tempted to frame this particular story in terms of “what came first – the chicken or the hydrogen fuel cell?”;
- Ladies, here is a tip – if you are going to buy toys for naughty purposes, invest in some quality, don’t buy cheap crap from China, or you might burn your lady-parts;
- The Brits continue to have baffling traditions, such as having Chinese servants on their warships, and are only NOW realising this might not be such a great idea;
- In your latest “searching for racism” story of the week, apparently very few transplant surgeons are Black – which probably has a lot more to do with IQ than racism;
- Speaking of Dindus and Wakandans, some of them are holding others hostage in literal gold mines – one of those stories you have to read to believe;
MUH RUSHIAN KAHLOOOOOZHUN!!!
The Neo-Tsar talks about how the Vostochnyi (Eastern) Cosmodrome was his idea, and how everyone laughed at him when he suggested it – but now, it turns out, as usual, he was right:
He was indeed correct. Baikonur, the old Soviet cosmodrome, is under Kazakhstan’s control today, and the Kazakhs are, to put it VERY mildly, not exactly the most trustworthy bunch. Russia wants, indeed NEEDS, to return to its top position as a space power, and it is getting there, slowly but surely. The Eastern Cosmodrome is but another example of his long-term thinking.
HALO Nation
PancreasNoWork does a great job of mashing HALO and WH40K into a single super awesomesauce amazeballs idea:
In the Grim Darkness of the Far Future…
Scholar’s Lore – the channel that used to be Attenborough Lore before some !@#$%^&* did a copyright-strike Exterminatus on it – explains those weird blue characters in mech-suits known as the Tau:
That’s Not Gone Well…
Wazzocks gonna wazzock:
Watching Richard Hammond take his daughter out in his GIGANTINORMOUS truck is the most wholesome thing you will see all week:
Comedy Hour
That last video is absolutely hysterical – though I strongly disagree with the idea of putting one’s toddlers on video for YOOTOOBZ and TikTok likes.
Meme Warfare
We start with some dank memes from Dawn Pine:
Onward:
… or so Roosh told us, back in the day
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 Ventsislav Dimitrov from Bulgaria – though I have to say, his squat depth is a bit iffy, and he does sumo deadlifts with lifting straps:
Also, it’s been ages since we put Dom Mazzetti forward for an episode of BroScienceLife:
Ass-Kicking of the Eight Limbs
Ouchie.
Also, your Buakaw Beatdown of the Week:
They See Me Rollin’…
And also a bit of a comedy moment:
Palate Cleansers
Axe Me Anything
Drumlines
Jump-Starts
Her taste in music STINKS – but there is no denying she is VERY talented, and awfully cute.
Gingervitis Injections
La Guitarra
Headbanger’s Ballroom
Rock Out With Your Glock Out
Guns Girls Bikinis VK https://vk.com/album-170918047_00
Hot Totty
And at long last, here comes your Instathot to get the week off to a suitably silly start. This here is Kristina Rubka, an artist from Ukraine. As she is a khokholina, always keep in mind – look, DON’T touch. There are better and easier ways to drive yourself insane than dealing with that lot – speaking from long and often bitter experience here, trust me on that.
OK, lads, back to work now.
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Scholar’s Lore ought to find the voice actor who did the pre-stronghold mission talks for Dawn of War: Dark Crusade and Soulstorm, and have him do the narration. That would be killer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2sxWMeqRT4&list=PLJtB2YN6AT_KMYdN7DIHxV7caQeOWvo6W
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nN7rx0C_KAQ&list=PLJtB2YN6AT_IF1mVVnbJRlbJxFDs73r9z
I still haven’t fired Infinite MP up yet. I’m afraid of getting sucked back in, and am also having entirely too much fun with New Game+ in Armored Core VI.
In re: “In Iceland, the local women have sex with you on the first date as a way of saying hello…”
I used to play Eve Online, which is from an Icelandic company that holds an annual gamer convention in Reykjavik. From what the convention goers said in forums, the Icelandic girls won’t have sex with foreigners at all, as they don’t want to pollute their gene pool.
Granted the players of “spreadsheets in space” probably don’t have a whole lot of game and thus couldn’t close the deal often, so that might factor into it….
Sure, that could be true also. I have absolutely no way of knowing, since I have never been to Iceland – I am basing this only on what Roosh told us in his books, long since yanked from stores.
I enjoyed the vidya of Richard Hammond and his daughter having fun. Brought back memories of teaching my kids to drive, and crazy to say I loved it! Loved taking the kids out and teaching how to drive in the snow, and then dad showed how to do donuts, and let them try. Good clean fun! I can tell Richard trained his daughters well on how to drive and handle all kinds of vehicles. I do miss Top Gear, it was the only teevee show that I watched with any regularity for many years. But it is nice to see “Hamster” moving on with his business and other ventures, I wish him the best!
Oh, and never skip LEG DAY! I love SQUATS!
I would hate to be a black man in America. Can you imagine waking up every single day being deluged by the constant screams of black beggars and white liberals insisting thatyou are too stupid, violent, and traumatized to ever succeed without constant affirmative action, ‘reparations’, handouts from white people, and sleeping with white women?
It’s gotta be so humiliating, to be told ‘black pride’ means ‘no pride or shame’.
You make a very good point. Those who have broken out of the ghetto mindset and have made something of themselves, often have nothing but utter contempt for the “help” provided by White liberals and others.