Mondays are pretty awful at the best of times. They are even worse when you have to deal with public transport. And they are just MISERABLE when said public transport is shut down because rail workers are pissed about getting paid quite a lot more than the national average, with vastly superior benefits to the very people they are trying to convince to pay them yet more.
Fortunately, that is where the Great Mondaydact Browser Killer comes in – partly to help us while away the hours until the day finally ends, and mostly to remind us that working from home is here to stay.
Ten years ago, rail strikes and ecomentalist protests were enough to bring a developed economy to a screeching halt. Today, however, that is no longer the case, and in fact working fro an office seems to be quaintly anachronistic for most white-collar jobs.
Here is our old friend, Aaron Clarey, to help remind us of these salient facts:
That is NOT to say there is no room for on-site work, of course. Despite what doctrinaire economic thinking tells us these days, from those very same “neoliberal economists” who got the entire developed world into such trouble of late, Western nations still need factories to produce things.
And those factories still need employees – quite badly, in fact:
The U.S. Navy is beginning to build 12 top-of-the-line nuclear submarines , with the first one scheduled to be completed by 2027. But it is missing a critical ingredient: many of an estimated 50,000 skilled workers to get the job done. It also lacks a reliable supply chain and the infrastructure to build the massive vessels.
Across America, industries are facing enormous supply chain delays, worker shortages and places to build due to several decades of offshoring and deemphasizing manufacturing research, education and training in the U.S.
For example, the textile industry is experiencing a 20% worker shortage, and the metal fabrication industry expects a 400,000-worker shortage by 2024. The first decade of the 21st century alone saw U.S. manufacturing jobs decline by one-third, falling from 17 million in 2000 to below 12 million in 2010.
I am a manufacturing researcher who works on ways to solve a key part of American manufacturing challenges: preparing workers to leverage todayโs technology while advancing tomorrowโs technology. A new workforce skilled in the design and operation of new and existing machine tools is needed to ensure America has enough workers to fill jobs.
But these are not your motherโs machines. They are networked for improved reliability and data collection, programmable for automation, and can shape metal alloys and composite materials into critical products such as medical implants, turbines for airplane engines and molds for plastic bottles.
It is not merely the Military-Industrial Complex that is struggling to find workers. The same issue crops up again and again in multiple industries – semiconductor manufacturing, cars, computers, robotics, and God only knows how many others.
Supposedly, manufacturing jobs are coming back to the FUSA – slowly:
But not nearly fast enough to make a serious difference to the long-term economic collapse of the West.
Ultimately, though, the debate over WFH is one the white-collar world seems to be losing. WFH is here to stay, and companies that continue to demand people back in the office are going to run into long-term problems with getting the right mix of workers at the right cost.
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, claims he will launch a full purge of all Marxist prosecutors throughout the country at the Federal level, once he retakes the Cherry-Blossom Throne:
I will believe that when I see it. The God-Emperor was and is long on words and short on action. And the scale and scope of the problem presenting him is too great even for one such as him to take on.
#BasedTucker is Based
Dawn of Battle
The Male Brain has lots of great thought-provoking stuff for us this week. We begin with a very intriguing question answered by DocuDubery:
All I can say is, if the Roman Empire had Excel, they would have been a damned sight more productive and mathematically capable than they were. The Romans were a weird paradox โ incredible engineers, SHITE mathematicians (because their number system was so silly).
thejuicemedia discusses how one might go about rigging elections:
Western governments are the absolute experts at this, of course. I call the Western political system, โdumbocracyโ, for a reason โ because you would have to be a LITERAL IDIOT to believe any Western nation these days actually has a government by, of, and for the people.
Sabine Hossenfelder asks an absolutely relevant and vitally important question:
PsycHacks explains a major conundrum of female psychology:
tl;dw: women shit-test your frame all the time.
Nikki Howard explains modern dating through a mockumentary:
Ryan George is back with some amusing stuff about apocalyptic things:
Another one from him about high-fiving, which I think has largely died out now in the post-Convid age:
Death Smiles At Us Allโฆ
Stoicism is good for you:
Mind-Expanding Drugs
Via The Male Brain, we have a video from Vox โ yes, I know, shitlib rag, etc., keep your shirts on โ which explains how matter transforms under extreme pressures:
Also, via LRFotS MrUNIVAC, the following video from What Iโve Learned explains why eating meat is GOOD for the planet:
I had a big-ass ribeye steak with sweet potato fries for dinner last night. It was DELICIOUS. Iโm doing my part!!!
Poli-ticking Off
Mark Dice explains the latest libtard own-goal with respect to Honest Injuns and all that sort of thing:
I could not care less about sportzball, of course, so I have no idea what this latest kerfuffle is all about, but it is always amusing to see idiots hoisted on their own petards.
The dynamic duo over at Redacted think the TROOF is out there:
I have no strong views on the whole UFO/aliens thing, and I am open to the possibility that highly advanced, extremely intelligent (from our perspective) extraterrestrial life exists. There is no contradiction between that notion, and anything the Bible says.
All I can say, though, is: the timing of all this stuff is very CONVENIENT. Right when the Globohomo Gimpire is finally collapsing in on itself, right when Clown World approaches Peak Assclownery, we see lots of material appearing all of a sudden about aliens?!?!?!
Sounds like a psy-op/distraction to me, personally.
PJW looks with much foreboding to what is happening with โThe Notoriousโ Conor Macgregor in the wake of the Irish riots against unlimited Wakandanism:
Rulings from the Bench
Judge Nap is back from the post-Thanksgiving food coma to resume his interviews of great talking heads. We start, as usual, with Col. Douglas Macgregor, who talks about the difficulties in taking morally absolute stands in modern warfare:
DA KERNEL makes some excellent points here. Unlike Maj. Scott Ritter, who is way over the top in his anger and condemnation of Israel โ despite never actually being in urban combat โ Col. Macgregor understands that, when you are taking fire from houses and apartment buildings, you arenโt going to hang around waiting for proof or confirmation, you will simply order them levelled, regardless of who is inside.
None of that is to justify what Israel is doing in Gaza โ it is outright EXTERMINATUS of the population. It is an attempt at ethnic cleansing โ nothing less, and nothing more. But it is important to put these things into perspective.
Speaking of Maj. Scott Ritter, he is back and at his ranty best about Israelโs strategic choices:
Capt. Matthew Hoh, formerly of the USMC, notes the importance of diplomacy when the bullets stop flying:
Alistair Crooke explains how and why Israel is losing the war against Hummus:
Larry Johnson and Ray McGovern provide their professional intelligence analyst views on current events:
Prof. John Mearsheimer talks about Chinaโs expanding influence in the Middle East, spurred in large part by the fact that, unlike the Americans, the Chinks arenโt CRAZY:
Prof. Jeffrey Sachs wonders if Israel can save itself from its own worst instincts:
ะะตะด ะกะฒะฐัะปะธะฒัะน ะะพะฒะพัะธั!
Grandpa Grumpuss grumps, grumpily, about Swiss watches and overpriced junk, in the process of explaining how and why the West has failed utterly to understand the Russian way of war:
Itโs All Greek To Us
The good gentlemen of The Duran talk about the likely endpoint of the Banderastan War, from the Neo-Tsarโs point of view:
The Bald Truth
Brian Berletic of The New Atlas points out some hard and very uncomfortable economic truths about Russia and its ability to outproduce the West:
I Canโt Get No Ploinkefactionโฆ
The Russian LostArmour project posted up their โLancet Greatest Hitsโ compilation of November 2023:
Bad Medicine
Dr. John Campbell wonders what the heck is going on with this latest โpneumoniaโ outbreak in China:
Dr. Suneel Dhand explains the hard truth behind the Latin saying, โMens sana in corpore sanoโ:
So get off your butts and go for a walk, at the very least!
Warriors of Faith
Tha Dizzle and his buddy Apostate Prophet have rather a lot of fun unpacking Izzlamโs violence and lies in an epic livestream:
Dr. Jay Smith from PfanderFilms and his good friend Al-Fadi shred the nonsensical claim Muzzies make about the Koran being the perfect copy of the perfect book:
In fact, as Sheikh Dr. Yasir Qadhi inadvertently revealed all the way back in June 2020 (or thereabouts), โthe Standard Narrative [of Izzlam] has holes in itโ. We might as well stop allowing the Muzzies to call their book, โthe Noble/Holy Koranโ, and start referring to it as โThe HOLEY Koranโ โ because it is literally full of holes.
Sam Shamoun has rather a lot of fun shredding through Izzlamist lies:
Christian Prince is unusually nice to a particularly persistent Muzzlimah who tries to say he is lying about her fake religion and MoโLester the Fake Profit:
Manly Men of Manliness
Terrence Popp talks trans trouble:
All I can say is, the tranny movement is an utter disaster for actual homeless seckshuals. If they had a shred of sense โ which they donโt, otherwise they wouldnโt be gay, lesbian, or bi in the first place โ they would YEET the mentally ill men (and a few women) from their midst as soon as possible.
Joker from Better Bachelor is finally back with new material, and is amused by the meltdowns of ordinary WAMMENZ now they are caught in their own hypergamous bear-traps:
Man Talk shreds through Sharon Stoneโs self-delusions:
Burn Paedowood to the Ground
Midnight’s Edge looks at the collapse of Disneyโs revenues and loss of movie-making magic โ which, inevitably, the Devil Mouse blames on its audiences:
Overlord Dicktor Van Doomcock REALLY liked the new Godzilla movie, which evidently goes back to the โrampaging terrible monstrous force of destructionโ origins of the beast:
Gary from Nerdrotic watched the latest Doctor Who Cares special so the rest of us didnโt have to โ and based on what he saw, it was AWFUL:
The Drinker also watched Doctor Who Cares, and has a typically drunken and morose take on it:
Reading Too Much Into Things
Your “Science is F***ING WEIRD” moment of the week is from Kurzgesagt โ In a Nutshell about the end of all things:
Your long read of the week is an update from Simplicius the Thinker, in which he discusses the political machinations surrounding Bellendsky the Pecker-Piano-Player President of the Banderite Shitholistan:
So where does that leave things?
Letโs summarize:
Zelensky needs to get rid of rising competitor Zaluzhny, but has decided itโs too risky to do it now, instead resolving on a long-term campaign to slowly discredit him so that once a few more โlossesโ accumulateโlike Avdeevkaโthey can be blamed on Zaluzhny to throw him under the bus.
In the meantime, Zelensky has switched to full conservation mode to preserve his forces, going onto the defensive to buy himself time. He has defiantly signaled to the Westโthus far at leastโthat he wonโt roll over, actualizing a Rada vote to fully legitimize the total annulment of elections. This is a form of brinksmanship, where Zelensky is challenging the West in order to basically say: โSee, I wonโt give this up. We have to take this to the end. So either fully fund me and get this show back on the road, or I will run this train off the tracks to such an extent that it will destroy you as well.โ
Recall that losing this war in a โdecisiveโ manner would be disastrous for Washington and the sitting administration. So Zelensky is calling Washingtonโs bluff to force them to re-engage. This is supported by the fact that in the interim, Zelensky has been hard at work trying to reach out to the Republican party in order to dissolve the blockade on his cash flow. You see, Zelensky still believes thereโs a good chance to get that massive windfall awaiting himโand he may be right. Thatโs why going on defense is a smart move to buy him time, as he can work on getting that money unlocked, which could be big enough ($60B+) to fund major military operations through the ensuing year.
At the same time, heโs gotten cagey and highly paranoid. Rumors claim that even on his recent trips abroad, he refused to eat any food given to him without testing it for various toxins and chemicals as he appears aware heโs on the chopping block.
Linkage is good for you:
- Sergei Poletayev wonders why Banderastanโs leaders constantly make such spectacularly bad decisions, and never seem to do what is in their peopleโs actual interest;
- Tony Cox wonders if anything at all would change if Brandon wasnโt POTUS โ and comes to the depressing conclusion that it would not;
- Maj. Scott Ritter writes about the end of American nuclear superiority, which is already upon us โ the FUSA is in fact GENERATIONS behind Russia and now China;
- Paul Craig Roberts takes a rather contrarian view about the late Henry Kissinger, calling him a realist who wanted peace โ well, maybe he did, but I remain mildly sceptical;
- Proving there is a sucker born every minute, a Paraguayan official signed a โmemorandum of understandingโ with a fake nation created by a Pajeet;
- For those of us who remember what it was like to fly on an A380 in cattle class, business and first class certainly look pretty damn good by comparison;
- Speaking of that flying white elephant, Emirates wants more such gigantiferous wastes of money, but they seem to be about the only ones;
- The Russian Su-57 continues to evolve and become ever more advanced โ it will soon be able to unleash a swarm of drones to attack targets in the air and on the ground;
- The Chinks are deploying on their fighters and interceptors the longest-ranged air-to-air missile in the world, which could potentially engage targets at up to 500Km away;
- The Chairman of UBS thinks the worst actors from Credit Suisse have all been YEETED after their shotgun wedding โ I think he is rather overoptimistic, personally;
- Believe it or not, the SWIFT network actually does understand threats to its business model, and is innovating in the realm of instantly settled real-time payments;
- Kim du Toit writes eloquently about the quiet desperation afflicting tens, perhaps hundreds, of millions of โmiddle classโ people in the West as the cost of living spirals out of control;
- Gregory Hood wonders how the Oirish can live with themselves and their history of nationalism, now that they have been invaded and largely conquered by Wakandans;
- Tobias Langdon waxes lyrical about the extreme dangerous of noxious Jewish ethnonationalism, which is very much in the ascendancy in Israel right now;
- Kevin Barrett reads between the lines of the words of that most odious of neoclowns, Robert Kagan, who clearly hates the God-Emperor with pure Gamma rage;
- OBADSDL(PBUH) publishes a very interesting set of thoughts from a reader about how Bran Stark is an inverted Sauron;
- Peter Hitchens understands, as very few do these days, the true meaning of the Advent Season, and why it matters more than ever;
And some more from Dawn Pine:
- Anyone who thinks animals in the wild are all orderly and nice, needs to read the stories from โthe worldโs hottest scientistโ, who says she has witnessed actual animal orgies;
- The Israel-Gaza War continues to polarise classrooms in the FUSA, as a pro-Israel teacher hides from her students in her own school;
- Is a coin toss really fair? Most of our thinking on chance and probability is based on the assumption that a real-life coin toss is, in fact, fair, but it might not be;
- Your โNews of the Weirdโ for the week is another story about those crazy gay furries who attacked Idaho National Laboratory to demand, basically, real-life Thundercats;
- If you ever wanted to teach a course on Taylor Swift and Shakespeare, apparently, you can do this at UT Austin โ and people PAY FOR THIS SHIT;
- For the atheists among us, there will soon be a new version of the Church of Artificial Intelligence, which worships the Eschaton, or some such nonsense;
- Worried about Global Cooling Man-Made Warming Change Climate stuff? Put the Federal Reserve in charge of it โ because they did SUCH a great job with the money supply;
- The NHS continues to show off its great service forโฆ NECROPHILES?!?!?! One of whom was able to get away with banging over 100 corpses for FIFTEEN YEARS???;
- Your โGen-Z are STOOPIDโ moment of the week โ a teenage girl is pissed at her parents for refusing to let her meet some rando from TEH INNARWEBZ;
- Some asshole wants to rob children of the joy of Christmas by telling kids Santa is fake โ IN TEXAS, where parents could probably legally shoot him;
- Just when you think the world could not become more degenerate, a TikTokist comes along to prove us all wrong with some truly nasty details about her husband and mother;
- A stegosaurus fossil found in China with mineralised skin is an amazing thing, which might pose some rather interesting questions about the paleological timeline;
MUH RUSHIAN KAHLOOOOOZHUN!!!
The Neo-Tsar waxes philosophical about Russiaโs goals in standing up against the neo-liberal Clown World hegemony:
HALO Nation
Wondering what to get your friend, kid, or significant other for Christmas? Wonder no longer!:
THE ANSWER IS ALWAYS A NEEDLER!!!!!!!!
And now letโs watch Slayergod Remy aka Mint Blitz do his thing:
Bring on the Grimdark
Scholarโs Lore discusses the epic Fall of Damnos:
And some Dutch dude talks about the Astral Knights chapter and their valiant sacrifice in the war against the Necrons:
That’s Not Gone Well…
Wazzocks gonna wazzock:
Kitchen Nightmares
Via LRFotS MrUNIVAC, we have a video from Gordon Ramsay about how to cook scrambled eggs properly:
Comedy Hour
Meme Warfare
Your “Fake Religion of Pieces” segment:
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 Jesus Olivares:
That all gives new meaning to the phrase, “JESUS, that’s a lot of weight!!!”
… I’ll show myself out.
Ass-Kicking of the Eight Limbs
They See Me Rollin’โฆ
Palate Cleansers
Axe Me Anything
Drumlines
Mighty Wings
MOAR DAKKA!!!
Jump-Starts
Gingervitis Injections
Livin’ in the Land of the Metal Gods
Finally, seeing as how Kissinger finally died this past week:
Rock Out With Your Glock Out
Hot Totty
Right, hereโs your Instathot to get the week off to a proper start. This here is Hayley Cherepak, probably in her early-to-mid twenties, from somewhere in Canuckistan. By Instathot standards, she isnโt too bad, actually โ no links to any OnlyFools nonsense that I can see, for instance.
OK, enough messing around, get back to work already. Millions of illegal aliens depend on YOUR tax dollars to get free shit, after all!
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I saw Godzilla twice in IMAX, once at an “early access fan event” on Wednesday, and then again on Friday because I felt bad that my little brother (who’s also a big fan) couldn’t come. It is VERY good. This not the campy Godzilla of the Showa era. This movie is much closer to the 1954 original, in that it’s more of a drama that is about how Godzilla affects everyone’s lives than a silly romp. It walks right up to the grimdark line without actually crossing it, but also remembers to be funny every now and then. They also did a great job with the human stories, which are almost always ancillary to the monster action. This plays a big part in making Godzilla scarier than he’s ever been, since you like these characters and are rooting for them.
He’s also scary because this is the most vicious and evil Godzilla ever put on screen. Only the dead-eyed golem animated by the souls of dead WWII vets from GMK even comes close. Most of the time, Godzilla is just drawn to radioactivity to feed on it, or to another monster to defend his territory, and smashes some cities in the process. This Godzilla just wants to kill people and break things. His facial design is also terrifying, a rictus of pure hatred – he LOOKS like he wants to kill you for just looking at him wrong.
I’d also imagine that, if you are Japanese, it’ll have you “swelling with patriotic mucus,” to quote one of sci-fi’s greatest doctors, similar to how Independence Day (which is my all-time favorite movie) affects Americans. Like in Shin Godzilla, there is a strong sentiment of “our government sucks and is not going to help us with this problem, so us humble citizens need to take matters into our own hands.” There are rousing speeches and the ending is about as crowd-pleasing as it gets, but the important thing is that the characters EARN it. There is also a surprisingly honest assessment of Japan’s involvement in WWII and willingness to throw the lives of its people and soldiers away for no good reason. The main character is a Kamikaze pilot and that is not in ANY way glorified.
In short, go see it. Don’t sail the high seas because it’s a well-made film that is worth your time.
Excellent thot on a Monday, for a change.