“We are Forerunners. Guardians of all that exists. The roots of the Galaxy have grown deep under our careful tending. Where there is life, the wisdom of our countless generations has saturated the soil. Our strength is a luminous sun, towards which all intelligence blossoms… And the impervious shelter, beneath which it has prospered.”

“Harry and the Half-Blood Princess”, indeed

The title of this post is a direct reference to a classic missive by our beloved and dreaded Supreme Dark Lord (PBUH) Vox Day, who wrote back at the end of November 2017 – more than two years ago – that he expected that “young” (he’s my...

The Africa Conundrum

A very charming and earnest white chap has been worrying over that old bone of contention, namely, how to fix Africa’s incessant problems, and comes up with a novel solution – add MORE white people: Possibly the biggest misconception about Africans,...

Addendum: The Citizenship Amendment Bill

A few days ago I answered a question from reader JohnC about certain troubles brewing in India, related to the passage of what is known there as the “Citizenship Amendment Bill”. And make no mistake, there have been some serious troubles; massive...

Domain Query: Hinduism as power play

Reader JohnC had an interesting question for me from the Mondaydact Browser Crash for this week: Hey Didact, what are your thoughts on the Indian bill on citizenship? No Muslim can apply. The article that he references in his question can be found here, and I’m...

Domain Query: Search for the truth

Longtime reader Dire Badger tried out an interesting experiment with respect to search engines in response to my recent post about the follies of outsourcing work to India: You were right about Yandex. My Russian is not great (5 years of Russian in School taught me...

Indians understand what Americans don’t

I am on LinkedIn for professional purposes under my real name and as a result I get LinkedIn news alerts from time to time. One of these alerts caught my eye because it presents perhaps the best news for the American tech sector – or rather, for American tech...

The Incel Equation

The Male Brain sent over a link the other day that consists of an article that is about 20 years old by this point, and is apparently somewhat famous in innarwebz circles. This article here was written by a guy who wanted to rationalise away his inability to get...

Evil and cowardice

I realise that I am a few days late to this hilarious dogpile onto The Jeff Bezos Blog – er, I mean, The Washington Compost – because of the way that they completely screwed up the obituary for Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. But it’s never too late...

The Forever War

In most civilised nations, eighteen years is the span of time required for a child to go from a squalling wailing helpless little blob, through to the wobbly walking and falling over stage, up to actual controlled movement and motion, onward into having a real...

The cancer is terminal

The following documents were leaked out of a… well, let’s just call it a REALLY FREAKIN’ BIG banking and financial services institution, you can easily see which one. This company helps facilitate global payment processing and you almost...