Whoo boy, do Mondays ever suck. It really is no fun to have to get up early, hit the road, and spend nights away from home. But, if that is the job, then we might as well get on with it. Hopefully your weekends were restful and enjoyable, because this week looks like it is about to hit with a vengeance.
Fortunately, the Great Mondaydact Browser Killer is here to make it all better.
This week, we are going to go all mediaeval for a change, and look at the sheer badassitude that came with being a knight, back in the day.
Let us start with that age-old question – how the HELL do you move when carrying something like 20Kg of plate armour around on your body (and possibly quite a bit more)?
If you ever wondered what would happen if a fully armoured samurai took on a fully armoured knight, well wonder no longer!:
And if you ever wanted to know what a mediaeval joust was like – well, wonder no longer:
Thinges trulye were more epice in Ye Olde Mediaevale Timese, eh?
#BasedTucker is Based
Death Smiles at Us Allโฆ
So smile back with your dose of Daily Stoic:
Mind-Expanding Drugs
If you have ever wondered how militaries around the world got to be the way they are today โ our favourite bald YOOTOOBER explains them for you:
Dawn of Battle
The Male Brain has been busy this week, retrieving lots of great stuff to make our Monday a bit less miserable. We start with a video from Zach Star Himself, cracking jokes about the Israel-Palestine conflict:
CaspianReport explains how the latest flare-up with the Pali-Walis could result in a new regional war, which then might cascade into a full-blown global war:
Well thatโs a happy thought, isnโt itโฆ Of course, people like me have been saying this for quite a while.
Honest Ads (aka Cracked) explain how job-search ads are a complete lie:
Having been through that exact process several times in my life, I can personally confirm just how awful it really is. Shout-out to the use of a ThinkPad in that one!!!
Answers in Genesis Canada take a sledgehammer to Darwinian evolution using, of all things, bees:
And here is one from Joker of Better Bachelor, an excellent video that I watched earlier this week, talking about how women are now so narcissistic and crazy, they are basically creating their own movies with themselves in the leading roles โ which NO ONE wants to watch:
Poli-ticking Off
Mark Dice is greatly amused by the latest woke nonsense, which is literally for the birds:
The dynamic duo over at Redacted delve into the hidden hands behind the Oct 07 attack by Hummus on Israel:
PJW was, unsurprisingly, entirely correct about the likely outcome of a prolonged conflict in the Middle East โ i.e. YET MORE MASS IMMIGRATION to the West of millions of Shitholistanis:
Rulings from the Bench
Judge Nap has kept up his very busy schedule with a long list of distinguished talking heads. First up, Col. Douglas Macgregor details the extreme dangers awaiting the Israelis in Gaza:
From what I am seeing on Telegram, the IDF has no real idea how to fight a serious urban war. They are sending in tanks with little to no infantry or air support, and they are getting whacked, HARD. That is BEFORE we get to the issues involving underground tunnels.
Put simply, I am not at all convinced Israel has the first clue what the hell it is doing. They have failed to process the lessons that Russia, for instance, learned during the First Chechen War about fighting in an urban environment.
LTC Tony Shaffer further analyses Israelโs ability to win in a ground war:
Maj. Scott Ritter gets quite worked up (as usual) about what might happen to the American Empire as a result of the Israeli invasion of Gaza:
Alistair Crooke is greatly saddened to see the failure of diplomacy and deterrence between the various state actors in the region, as a result of Oct 07:
Larry Johnson and Ray McGovern provide calm and clear analysis of the current conflict in the Middle East:
Dr. Phil Giraldi points out just how badly Western propaganda and unintelligence are failing against real-world pressures:
Prof. Jeffrey Sachs is horrified by what Israel is doing to itself:
Matthew Hoh puts his training as a soldier and a diplomat to good use, discussing how Israelโs actions will harm itself:
ะะตะด ะกะฒะฐัะปะธะฒัะน ะะพะฒะพัะธั!
Grandpa Grumpuss grumps, grumpily, about the eschatological dimensions of the current conflict โ and also goes over some truly horrifying mathematics concerning the Banderastan War as well:
Polonium
Ania Konieczek talks to Maj. Scott Ritter about the military value of targets in Gaza โ you might want to turn down the volume on this one, Scott gets pretty animated (as usual):
Itโs All Greek To Us
The good gentlemen of The Duran analyse the very interesting set of articles released by SLIME Magazine and The Cuckonomist about the deteriorating outlook for Banderastan, and the responsibilities of Zelebobik and Zaluzhnyi:
The Bald Truth
Brian Berletic of The New Atlas analyses (rather drily, it must be said) Hummusโs capabilities in this war, relative to its past:
As I have stated several times now, Israel CANNOT win this war through military means alone. It is not possible. The only way to win, is through fighting on the moral level of war, winning over the Arab states in the region to sideline the Pali-Walis and remove all hope of any kind of statehood from them forever.
Let the Egyptians have the Gazans. Let the Jordanians keep the people of the West Bank. That is where they belong, after all. The Arabs should look after their own (not, of course, that they ever will โ they talk a lot but do very little). There is no need for this wanton killing and wholesale slaughter of civilians โ nor, by definition, is there any need for a Palestinian state.
Bad Medicine
Dr. John Campbell is getting angrier by the day about the lies that Bozo BoJo told his country during the worst of the Coof times:
Dr. Suneel Dhand has gone through a re-education process himself over the past few years:
I know the feel, bro. I had to unlearn literally everything my teachers told me about economics in school, and it took years to realise just how bad the lies were.
Warriors of Faith
Tha Dizzle and Mike Jones from Inspiring Philosophy are utterly unimpressed by the stupidity of TikTok dawahgandists:
Dr. Jay Smith from PfanderFilms and his good friend Mel from Sneakerโs Corner talk about the origins of the name, Muhammad:
Every time you try to unpack Izzlamโs origins, you quickly realise that everything about their religion is fake, borrowed, copied, or stolen. It is truly sad to think that over a BILLION souls who follow this nonsense, will burn in Hell โ because so many of them are such profoundly good and decent people.
Al-Fadi from CIRA International and Dr. Jay Smith discuss how the early Moose-Limbs assembled the Koran as, essentially, a way of cementing Arab nationalism under a religious banner:
Bas Rutten explains how spiritual attacks brought him back to his Christian faith:
Grace for Purpose discusses the reign of King Ahab and his wife, Jezebel โ and the extraordinary evil the latter brought to the world:
Manly Men of Manliness
Terrence Popp points out the harsh realities of being a man โ it IS work, and it REQUIRES you to grow the hell up:
Joker from Better Bachelor dissects the latest utterly idiotic blitherings from everyoneโs favourite hot mess, Jana Hocking:
Burn Paedowood to the Ground
The big entertainment news of the past week was the South Park special, โJoining the Panderverseโ. I watched it, and it was pretty funny overall. Midnight’s Edge analyses the impact of that special on the House of the Devil Mouse in general, and on Queen Karen Kennedy in particular:
Overlord Dicktor Van Doomcock does his usual QAnon shtick about a possible MCU hard reboot:
Gary from Nerdrotic watched the South Park episode, and quite enjoyed it:
I did too. It took lots of good shots at extremists on both sides of the current culture war โ and also got in some great digs at Gen-Z, college graduates, and woketards everywhere. Overall, that episode reinforced the view that we are, indeed, WINNING, and the big corporations are actually very worried about just how badly they have effed up.
The Drinker analyses the same Variety article that O-DVD did, and thinks it probably does indicate a coming reset:
Reading Too Much Into Things
Your “Science is F***ING WEIRD” moment of the week is from The Male Brain, and is all about how one can magnetise non-magnetic materials:
Researchers at the Universitat Autรฒnoma de Barcelona (UAB) and ICMAB have succeeded in bringing wireless technology to the fundamental level of magnetic devices. The emergence and control of magnetic properties in cobalt nitride layers (initially non-magnetic) by voltage, without connecting the sample to electrical wiring, published in Nature Communications, represents a paradigm shift that can facilitate the creation of magnetic nanorobots for biomedicine and computing systems where basic information management processes do not require wiring.
Electronic devices rely on manipulating the electrical and magnetic properties of components, whether for computing or storing information, among other processes. Controlling magnetism using voltage instead of electric currents has become a very important control method to improve energy efficiency in many devices, since currents heat up circuits. In recent years, much research has been carried out to implement protocols for applying voltages to carry out this control, but always through electrical connections directly on the materials.
A research team formed by members of the UAB Department of Physics and ICMAB, with the collaboration of the Institute of Microelectronics of Barcelona CNM-CSIC and the ALBA synchrotron, has managed for the first time to modify the magnetic properties of a thin layer of cobalt nitride (CoN) by applying electrical voltage without the use of wires. To do this, researchers placed the sample of magnetic material in a liquid with ionic conductivity and applied the voltage to the liquid via two platinum plates, without connecting any wires directly to the sample. This generated an induced electric field that caused the nitrogen ions to leave the CoN and caused magnetism to appear in the sample, which changed from non-magnetic to magnetic. The induced magnetic properties can be modulated as a function of the applied voltage and actuation time, as well as the arrangement of the sample, and temporary or permanent changes in magnetism can also be conducted, depending on the orientation of the sample with respect to the imposed electric field.
“Being able wirelessly to control the magnetism of a sample by modifying the voltage represents a paradigm shift in this area of research,” explains Jordi Sort, ICREA researcher at the UAB Department of Physics. “This is a finding that could have applications in a wide range of fields such as biomedicine, to control the magnetic properties of nanorobots without wires, or in wireless computing, to write and erase information in magnetic memories with voltage but without wiring.”
The methodology presented by the researchers to achieve wireless magnetic control is not exclusive to the material used in the experiments, cobalt nitride. For ICMAB researcher Nieves Casaรฑ-Pastor, “these protocols can be extrapolated to other materials to control other physical properties wirelessly, such as superconductivity, memristor control, catalysis or transitions between insulator and metal, as well as wireless electrodes for neuronal electrostimulation, to cite a few examples that can expand the scope of application and technological impact of this research.”
Did anyone call up Magneto?
Your long read of the week is from Garrison Lovely, who wrote a very detailed article about The McKinsey Way โ which actually is not at all humane, decent, or good for society:
At the end of the standard 10-week internship, McKinsey wasnโt sure about me. I was given the unusual choice to extend my internship for two weeks or return to college without a full-time offer. I bailed on a planned family vacation and took the extension, joining a different team at Rikers. Each day, we met at 5:30 am and ordered takeout breakfast at Nickโs Gourmet Deli in Queens, a few blocks from the three-lane bridge to Rikers. We were trying to develop plans for a โmodel facilityโ at the George R. Vierno Center, one of the 10 jails on the island.
I had spent most of the previous 10 weeks working with members of Rikersโs administrative staff at the Department of Corrections headquarters. Now I worked โbehind the gate.โ Each morning, I removed my belt and sent my laptop bag and breakfast through an X-ray machine before proceeding to our team room, a dim, cramped office. The two associates on my team were both ex-Marines. (One went on to work in a senior role for Arkansas Republican Senator Tom Cotton.)
My memory of the content of my work during this period is a bit hazy because of the sleep deprivation and stress, but my willingness to show up before dawn was likely the decisive factor in securing my offer of a full-time job. For all the effort McKinsey seems to put into finding the โsmartestโ people, oneโs capacity to suffer and to sustain inhuman hours is probably a better predictor of success than oneโs intelligence.
I thought it was ironic that I came into the internship as a borderline prison abolitionist and ended it by receiving a job offer in a wardenโs conference room. But by the end of that summer, I had grown to like many of the people running Rikers, bonding with the jailโs most senior uniformed officer over our mutual love of Led Zeppelin. It was an early lesson that interpersonal kindness is not the same as actual goodness.
I also liked and respected my McKinsey colleagues and felt I had learned a lot. Whatโs more, I sensed an opportunity around the corner. McKinsey has extremely high expectations for its consultants: that they should work 60-plus hours every week, make zero mistakes, and always remain poised in front of clients. But if you stick it out for two years, youโll be ushered into a world with even more money, prestige, and powerโeither through the lucrative โexit opportunitiesโ that McKinsey provides or through the equally plush jobs within the company itself.
I finished my senior year, and in September 2016, I started full-time at McKinsey. With a year of distance from the pressures of the internship, returning felt good.
There was a strong drinking culture at the Philly office. Friday eveningโs โwine timeโ bled into happy hours at nearby bars, dinners out, and late-night dancing. One colleague quipped that at McKinsey, โalcoholism was overrepresented and under-discussed.โ
There is a lot more to the article, ALL of it written from a very Leftist perspective โ plenty of hate for the God-Emperor, lots of nonsense about โundocumented immigrantsโ, which anyone with sense will call an illegal alien and a criminal, etc. But it is still worth a read through.
Linkage is good for you:
- Remarkably, SLIME Magazine actually did a good job for once in producing their in-depth article about the failures of Banderastan;
- Russia is making real progress in working with other BRICS nations to establish a true alternative global payments system with an actual currency;
- Larry Johnson does an excellent in-depth analysis of the Hummus Charter, showing just how impossible it is for them to accept Israelโs existence;
- Robert Bridge notes that Civil War 2.0 is growing more likely by the day, as more Americans on every side believe dialogue no longer works as a way to sort out differences;
- The PommieBastardLande goobermint wants its people to believe the country is NOT in a severe recession โ but the collapse in mortgage approvals says otherwise;
- If you have ever wondered how big a nuclear bomb humanity could make โ as I have, on occasion โ then wonder no longer;
- Corporate coaches keep telling us to be โleadersโ, not โbossesโ โ but that dichotomy may well be doing far more harm than good;
- A Russian cosmonaut on a spacewalk to repair a leaking radiator on the International Space Station found a โblobโ of some kind โ but itโs not nearly as big a deal as you might think;
- The rapid development of stablecoins into a real, and realistic, global payments method continues apace on the Ethereum blockchain;
- OpenAI is not open, at all, especially nowadays, and just proved it by adding a new feature to its ChatGPT interface that ruined a bunch of startups;
- The James Webb Space Telescope continues to astonish and amaze with its incredibly detailed shots of developing stars and galaxies;
- MUH SANKSHUNS!!! have done absolutely nothing to hurt the Russians โ but some wags sculpting snow-penises (yes, really) in Yekaterinburg mightโฆ;
And some more from Dawn Pine:
- The history of Izzlamist terrorism and warmongering over the last 40 years is really quite something to behold:
- Stephen Moore has little patience for the electric vehicle bubble โ which shows very serious signs of deflating right now;
- One can justifiably criticise Israelโs overreaction to Hummusโs attacks, but one should not turn away from the fact that Hummus itself is an incredibly thieving organisation;
- The academic world is as divided as anything else with respect to Hummus and Israel, with some campuses cancelling pro-Israeli academics;
- We all need some good news from time to time, and this story about how deaf kids can hear again with the help of gene therapy, is one of them;
- Interesting article here about how to make roads on the Moon โ spoiler alert, you use BIG-ASS LASERS!!!;
- According to the latest and greatest supercomputer models, humanity will be extinct due to Global Climate Cooling Change Warming in 250 million years or so;
- Pro-tip for businesses everywhere โ if someone sues you and you settle out of court, paying a $23.5K fine in COINS is an absolute power move;
- Rather inevitably, some foul-mouthed asshole who screamed about how White children are easy to rape on a public flight, is himself not White, and was allowed into the UK;
- We all love those movies about space, especially the ones where the protagonists get nekkid โ but could we actually conceive in space? Inquiring minds want to knowโฆ;
- Apparently, guys and gals cannot keep it in their pants even in Antarctica, where allegations of sexual abuse are now running rampant at McMurdo Base;
- Putting guns in the hands of mentally ill people is a bad idea to begin with โ it is a REALLY bad idea at 35,000 feet in the air;
MUH RUSHIAN KAHLOOOOOZHUN!!!
The Neo-Tsar made an appearance in Red Square on Nov 04 to celebrate National Unity Day, and met with a young boy whose father died in the SMO โ what followed was a beautiful moment showing the deft common touch of the President of Russia:
HALO Nation
Have you ever wondered what might happen if a SPARTAN ever got corrupted by the Flood?
Also, Remy aka Mint Blitz is deeply unimpressed by the way Bungie has treated some of its best and longest-tenured employees after their acquisition by Sony:
Finally, let us cast our minds back to perhaps the best ever HALO live-action trailer:
Bring on the Grimdark
Every Space Marine legion deserves its own theme song โ so here you go:
The very last one is just awesomesauce.
Also โ I am quite surprised the Ultrasmurfs got off so easily.
And what do you suppose would happen if a Warlord-class Titan took on the Tau?
BIGG STOMPA!!!
That’s Not Gone Well…
Wazzocks gonna wazzock:
Comedy Hour
Meme Warfare
We start with some dank memes from Dawn Pine:
[The Russians already took the “Orcs” label – and they carry it off in style, too. – Didact]
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 Derek Thistlethwaite:
Ass-Kicking of the Eight Limbs
The BKFC match-up between Buakaw Banchamek and Saenchai was a hugely anticipated one, and for the most part, it lived up to the hype:
You can tell they are both actually holding back significantly โ neither wants to do the other substantial damage. They are certainly fighting for real, but it is more like hard sparring than true all-out muay thai war. And that is for very good reason โ the two of them are very good friends in real life, and neither has the desire to cripple or hurt the other.
You can also see that Saenchai, for all of his amazing skill and talent, has a very hard time dealing with the sheer power and physicality of Buakawโs tank-like physique โ who, at the age of 41, still looks like God carved him out of a block of solid black marble.
They See Me Rollin’โฆ
Palate Cleansers
Axe Me Anything
Gunning with God
Tanks for the Memories
Drums of Doom
Jump-Starts
Gingervitis Injections
House Blend
Livin’ in the Land of the Metal Gods
Rock Out With Your Glock Out
Hot Totty
Finally, here is your Instathot to get the week started the right way. This here is Carolina Samani, age 23 from Charlotte, NC, FUSA, and she doesโฆ well, I have no idea what, but Iโm pretty sure OnlyFools is involved somewhere in there.
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I hate to do this, but you have provided endless humor over the last many years.
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as a Scot, i approve of this alternative to kilts.