Jul 152022
 

I’ll leave it to the student to assess which.

Here’s a hint: the moron in this little display is in a position of political power.

 Posted by at 11:10 am
Jul 142022
 

So Ulster County, new York decided to have a contest for kids to design a new “I Voted” sticker.

I Voted Sticker Contest

Some are fairly professional:

Some are what you might expect from a kid:

And then… there’s the one by 14-year-old Hudson Rowan. Guess which one currently has 93% of the vote. Go on, guess.

 

That’s the best thing I’ve seen all day.

 Posted by at 3:03 pm
Jul 142022
 

Sometimes trolls troll just for the lulz. And sometimes… their trolling brings out important truths. Such is the case here where a comedian name of Alex Stein trolled AOC a *tiny* amount, and in response she showed her full-on hypocrisy.

According to her, it’s fine to harass *other* politicians and even judges when they disagree with her… but if *she* gets even the slightest, tamest bit of harassment, she not only deserves police protection from it, she wants to carry out acts of physical violence in response.

If you advocate it, expect it.

 Posted by at 2:00 pm
Jul 142022
 

For a long time we’ve known that the supposedly “all about the science” political Left thinks that guns are evil. But they’ve expanded the field of non-sentient mechanisms that they think have unfortunate personality traits:

Homophobic Telescope Reveals First Hi-Res Images of Deep Space

Huh.

 Posted by at 12:21 pm
Jul 132022
 

I posted a link to this vid nearly two weeks ago, but this guy has a good time laughing at it. Some amusing and interesting discussion.

 

BTW, “the beautiful ones” is likely a reference to “Universe 25 ” or  an experiment with mice that showed that excess population density leads to disaster. A “rodent utopia” led to, among other horrors:

Consequently, the next generation of mice, having never experienced healthy mouse behaviour, had no concept of mating or parenting, or even territorialism. Some – dubbed the “beautiful ones” – spent their time eating, drinking, and grooming themselves in seclusion. Elsewhere, mice formed gangs of cannibalistic, raping plunderers.

Tell me that doesn’t sound a lot like modern cities. Go on. Tell me.

I wonder what would happen to the TikToker shown above if, on one of her drinking and partying binges after yet another empty, meaningless day of snacking, drinking and goofing off, she encountered some of the people that I’ve posted *other* kinds of videos about. Assuming she survived the experience with her brain still capable of rational thought, would she look at the world differently? Would she maybe reflect on her life spent accomplishing nothing and decide to maybe consider actually *doing* something?

I also wonder if she looks at young men whose greatest ambition is to spend all day playing online video games and thinks that *they* are losers.

 Posted by at 2:39 pm
Jul 122022
 

I think a decent case can be made that we might see the collapse of civilization within a generation or two… and possibly sooner. The end of the Soviet Union over thirty years ago seemed like the dawning of a glorious new age… but we’ve squandered that opportunity. We’ve ignored the barbarians gathering outside the gates… and gathering *within* the gates. You can see it in many of the videos and news stories I’ve posted. Not just a coarsening of discourse, but a collapse of the family and an increasing feralness among fatherless “children.”

The piece below is depressing, and very likely right. I don’t agree with all of it… but you don’t need 100% agreement to agree that things are in a bad way, that something must be done, and the general direction of what that something is.

How To Recognize Civilization When You See It

 Posted by at 6:53 pm
Jul 112022
 

Granted that day was several days ago, but it’s still good:

 

In short: Brittney Griner is some form of sportsball player who protested against the United States when she thought it was the politically popular thing to do. Now she has been arrested in Russian for having illegal drug substances, something she has apparently admitted to, and wants the US to ride to her rescue. Right now, though, Russia is (or at least should be) on America’s ᛋᚻᛁᛏ list. So leaving her there not only rids the US of someone who doesn’t like the US anyway, it leaves her care and feeding to the Russians who will have to spend fifty extra cents a day keeping her locked up. It’s  win-win.

She really does have the look of someone having a bit of an epiphany:

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 Posted by at 3:18 pm
Jul 092022
 

The sustainable cities made from mud

Where the BBC extols the virtue of buildings made from mud in a desert climate. “It is the architecture of the future.”

Every year the residents of Djenné gather together to repair and reclay the mosque, supervised by a guild of senior masons. … Everyone takes part. Boys and girls mix the mud, women bring the water and masons direct the activity. 

Because buildings that require the *entire* community, down to children, to labor to repair on an ongoing, annual and permanent basis… sure, that’s “sustainable.”

Much is made of the mud architecture of Yemen. Great. Ummm… what was the last great contribution to science or engineering or philosophy or medicine to come out of Yemen?

I imagine Britain will be seeing a lot of mud buildings soon enough. As modern Britain falls to the third world, the millions of invading colonizers will, after tearing down what the natives built over a course of centuries, construct their new mud-filled civilization using the wrack and ruin they stand upon. I’m not sure how great mud will be as a construction material on an island that gets fairly constant rainfall, but, hey, such questions are inappropriate in this new world of Other Ways Of Knowing.

 Posted by at 5:01 pm