Around 350 years before Christ, paganism had died among the intellectuals. Not long after, it died among the common people, for we read writers in the late Roman Republic ridiculing attempts to motivate the common soldiers by appeal to faith. They believed the ordinary soldier was even more cynical than themselves. So the philosophers set to work manufacturing a replacement. For Aristotle, “logos†(“wordâ€) was rational and responsive debate, and the meaning of that debate – the kind of debate …
Game
On Gab, I noticed a whole lot of wholly blue pilled people, not all of them shills. So, despite my frequent declaration that this is not a game blog and not going to turn into game blog, here comes another game post. It is kind of redundant, because everything that needs saying has been said in Setting the Record Straight, page 57, and Chateau Heartiste’s sixteen commandments of Poon. Ok. Very short post. Oh, OK, I will pad it out …
American logistic capability
American GDP is fake and gay. American GDP is for the most part not riggers in red states lifting steel, workers on the assembly line, cattle ranchers raising cattle, nor even truckers, warehouses, and shops moving goods from where they are made to where they are used, it is people in blue states doing business in permissions that allow riggers to lift steel and ranchers to raise cattle. American GDP is the HR department, not the trucker. America produces about …
Yandex
We have received two huge benefits from the Ukraine war. One is that when Putin intervened in the Ukraine conflict, the Global American Empire everywhere overnight stopped enforcing worship of the awesome and mighty covid demon. The public announcements that masking and jabs were compulsory continued for a while, but everyone ignored them, and gradually they are stopping. Kind of like everyone started ignoring female emancipation when they tossed it in the lead up to World War II, even though …
Still fighting 1913 war in the information epoch
Military summary channel gives daily reports on the war in the Ukraine. His account is one of continual struggles for high ground and observation points, with Russians advancing over low ground at high cost to grab a high point. Wagner’s movie of the war depicting one small but horrific battle for one small observation point. (hat tip Kunning Druegger) This account is fictionalized but was produced by people who waded through blood, and is consistent in detail with the real …
Covid 19 and the faith
It is obvious to me that a small but significant proportion of those that have had a single jab have significant brain damage that impairs their ability to do their job, and heart damage that impairs their ability to perform physical activity, and that most who are fully boosted have enough brain damage to render them incapable of properly performing their job, and are significantly impaired in capability to perform physical activity. I see a whole lot of engineers who …
AI progress
I have for some time been complaining that progress in many fields peaked around 1972 or so, that many important fields have gone backwards. Last man on the moon 1972, cars and clothes washing machines have been getting crappier. The skyline on big western cities is starting to look less and less like the future, as is the interior of your neighbourhood shopping mall. The highest flying and fastest flying warplane retired in the early eighties. But there has been …
Scale of deaths for flu and jab.
It is just the flu, bro. Flu is caused by a multitude of different viruses, the common cold is caused by a multitude of different viruses, and some of these overlap. Covid viruses have been around since forever, and some of them, most of them, most of the time, caused something more like a cold than flu One of these Covid viruses was weaponized with gain of function genetic engineering, and became quite deadly when initially released. But being quite …
Nazis are commies and commies are nazis
Near as makes no difference. Notice that Russia’s leaders say that Russia’s goals in the Ukraine include de-nazification and/or de-communization, without really making a distinction between de-nazification and de-communization. Nazism was radical leftism in its day, and was perceived as radical leftism in its day. And, predictably, Hitler found himself outflanked on the left within the Nazi party, as Stalin found himself outflanked by Trotsky. So he killed them. Whereupon Stalin created the third positionists, “fascists” who were even lefter …
War and Covid
Russian invasion of Ukraine caused an immediate relaxation of the enforcement of Covid worship. Russian annexation of portions of the Ukraine caused immediate abandonment of enforcement of the jab on international travellers. The signs were still up, the announcements were still coming over the loudspeakers, but no one checked my jab status. At one border I was theoretically tested for infection, but not in fact tested. This is prep for World War III, as the quiet disappearance of feminism in …