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  • (Sep 2022) Why Are Leftists Obsessed With Destroying Hero Culture?

    It has long been my contention that the leftist ideology is rooted in appeals to narcissism. Everything about it is based in entitlement rather than sacrifice. It is based in demands for special treatment rather than respect for accomplishment and merit. It is based in equity of outcome while eliminating equality of opportunity. A person that has embraced the victim mentality can never be a hero or imagine how a hero would act. They have no relationship to the concept, because narcissists are usually villains in the real world and villains tend to see themselves as victims while they spend their time victimizing others. How else can they justify the evils they do?

  • Youth mental health in decline: Generations differ on causes of apparent crisis

  • Too many screens? Why car safety experts want to bring back buttons.

  • MH370: One of aviation's biggest mysteries remains unsolved 10 years on

  • Literally Violence - by Jeremiah Johnson

    Along side the COVID-sparked increase in actual violence, there’s also an epidemic of calling things violence. If you exist online and talk about politics, you’ve seen it. Capitalism is violence. Silence is violence. Speech can be violence, especially jokes. Evictions, borders, not wearing masks and the gender binary are all violence. Fossil fuels are violence. Naturally. But did you know nuclear power is also violence? Hydroelectric dams and infrastructure are violence too. Poverty is violence. Talking about obesity is violence, and dieting is a violent act. If a sports team’s coach yells at players, that’s obviously violence.

    This turns politics into a tribal game of who can denounce the most things and who can denounce them the hardest - rather than a debate of whose ideas help people and which actions can make the ideas happen. Arguments, like muscles, atrophy over time. If you continually resort to cheap shots of ‘this thing is violence’, if you never actually explain why your positions and beliefs are correct, you’ll lose the ability to do so.

Electric / Self Driving cars

celebrity gossip

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

  • World War II 'Rumor Clinics' Helped America Battle Wild Gossip | History | Smithsonian Magazine

    In an era before the internet, social media, artificial intelligence and ultra-partisan TV hosts, rumors could only spread the old-fashioned way, from neighbor to neighbor. Many were planted by Axis propagandists, but others appear to have originated with everyday citizens, frequently arising out of their anxieties, suspicions, prejudices or simple misunderstandings. Whatever was behind them, rumors were often detrimental to the Allies’ cause and, in the worst cases, actually deadly. While the government’s Office of War Information waged its own fight against rumors, a grassroots movement took hold across the country to stop gossip at its source. Over the course of World War II, more than 40 newspapers and magazines in the U.S. and Canada started “rumor clinics” to debunk the lies and fight back with facts

    Life noted a key difference between the current rumors and those that circulated during World War I: While the earlier rumors often focused on enemy atrocities, “the vast majority of hate-and-horror tales are [now] directed against the U.S. itself.” The reason, the magazine speculated, was that “the Axis [have] been clever enough, via shortwave broadcasts and moral saboteurs, to exploit existing lines of discontent. Thus the people of the U.S. are led to a sort of psychological suicide by serving to circulate dangerous lies about U.S. Jews, U.S. Negroes, U.S. allies, U.S. leaders. No better could they aid the Nazi tactics of divide and conquer.”

  • Ad Council - Wikipedia

    The organization was conceived in 1941, and it was incorporated as The Advertising Council, Inc., on February 26, 1942. On June 25, 1943, it was renamed The War Advertising Council, Inc. for the purpose of mobilizing the advertising industry in support of the war effort for the ongoing Second World War. Early campaigns encouraged enlistment to the military, the purchase of war bonds, and conservation of war materials.

    Before the conclusion of World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt requested that the Ad Council continue its work during peacetime. On February 5, 1946, The War Advertising Council officially changed its name back to The Advertising Council, Inc., and shifted its focus to issues such as atomic weapons, world trade and religious tolerance.

Musk

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

TechSuck / Geek Bait

  • The Future That Never Was

    Microsoft tried to be clever and used an invalid instruction as a fast path to access protected mode services. But there was a fatal problem: Microsoft used the 0F 7F opcode, which is not undefined on Pentium MMX and later — it is the MOVQ instruction. For that reason, launching DOS boxes in build 6.78 fails miserably on Pentium MMX and later Intel processors (except perhaps on the Pentium Pro). Rather interestingly, OS/2 2.0 pre-release build 6.123, which is only a few months newer, does not suffer from this problem. It uses the HLT instruction instead, which always causes a #GP fault in V86 mode, and works fine on modern CPUs. It is a bit of a mystery what motivated Microsoft to change the mechanism, since MMX processors were years away.

  • Reverse engineering my cable modem and turning it into an SDR | cm-sdr

  • Sometimes the dam breaks even after plenty of warnings

    The rest of the story has also been told, which is where it took me a couple of weeks to figure out why we kept losing machines this way, and when I did, I found the source had already been patched. Another engineer unrelated to the fbagent project had been hitting the same problem, decided to go digging, found the "-1" pid situation leaking through, and fixed it. Even though the fix was committed, it wasn't shipped, because this binary was big and scary and ran as root on (then) hundreds of thousands of machines, and the person who usually shipped it was on vacation getting married somewhere. As a result, the old version stayed in prod for much longer than it otherwise would have, complete with the hair-trigger bug that would nuke every process on the machine.

    All it needed was something that would screw up fork, and on that morning, it finally happened.

  • (2017) RevK's ramblings: It's official, ADSL works over wet string

    Not even that slow (3½Mb/s down) though slow uplink. Don't dare touch the string though... So, there you go, ADSL over 2m of literal "wet string". Well done all for testing this. It shows the importance of handling faults that seem to just be "low speed". As a bonus, fit tin cans to both ends and you get voice as well as broadband on the same wet string!

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

Crypto con games

Economicon / Business / Finance

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

World

Iran / Houthi / Red Sea / Mediterranean

  • Houthis blow open murky world of ship nationality

    The ship’s sinking makes it the first vessel to be entirely lost as a result of the Houthis’ campaign off Yemen’s coasts. As with other Houthi attacks on commercial ships, the Rubymar incident has highlighted the difficulty of determining a vessel’s nationality and ownership.

    The issue of a ship’s ownership and nationality is important because the Iranian-backed Houthis — who say they are acting in support of Gaza’s Palestinians — have vowed to attack ships linked to Israel, the UK and the US. The Houthis have said that the strike on the Rubymar was also in retaliation for recent US and British bombing of the Yemeni group’s military facilities, after the militants attacked more than 40 ships since November.

Israel

  • Journalist casualties in the Israel-Gaza war

  • Opinion | The New Rape Denialism - The New York Times

    Hamas denies that its men sexually assaulted Israelis, calling the charges “lies and slanders against the Palestinians and their resistance.” And Hamas’s fellow travelers and useful idiots in the West, most of them self-described progressives, parrot that denialism in the face of powerful and deeply investigated evidence of widespread rapes, documented most recently in a United Nations report released on Monday. The interesting question is, why? Why the refusal to believe that Hamas, which butchered children in their beds, took elderly women as hostages and incinerated families in their homes, would be capable of that?

    How quickly the far left pivots from “believe women” to “believe Hamas” when the identity of the victim changes. If, God forbid, a gang of Proud Boys were to descend on Los Angeles to carry out the kinds of atrocities Hamas carried out in Israeli communities, I’m pretty sure no one on the left would devote any energy trying to poke holes in who got raped, much less how or when.

  • At 'New York Times,' story on Hamas attacks divides newsroom : NPR

    The Times Guild, the newsroom union representing nearly 1,500 journalists at the paper, filed a formal grievance yesterday with the paper, saying The Times had violated the terms of its contract. The guild accused top news executives of "targeted interrogation" of journalists of Middle Eastern descent in an investigation of how word of such dissent leaked to The Intercept and other news outlets. The Guild's announcement said its members "faced extensive questions about the involvement in [Middle Eastern North African employee group] events and discussions and about their views of the Times' Middle East coverage." The New York Times has denied the union's claims. Many reporters have become more outspoken since the social protest movements of 2020 in ways that have altered newsrooms and discomfited some of their peers.

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

China

Health / Medicine

  • Benzene Found in Acne Creams Including Proactiv, Clearasil

  • FDA Clears First Over-the-Counter Continuous Glucose Monitor

  • One dose of antibiotic after sex halved STD rates, study shows.

  • Baring Teeth: The Long Battle Over Fluoride Comes to a Head

    Today, there is a modest body of evidence suggesting that fluoride, at doses considerably higher than what’s generally in the water, might be bad for human brains, in particular developing fetal brains. A few studies also suggest possible harms from the levels that many municipalities in the U.S. currently add to their drinking water. And most scientists involved agree that the uncertainty warrants more research.

    some current and former federal scientists, as well as academic researchers in toxicology and environmental health, say there’s reason for concern. Some also suggest that something else is going on: Faced with uncomfortable data, they say, water fluoridation proponents have attacked and obstructed fluoride research. And rather than allowing the scientific debate to flourish in the open, dental groups and some public health experts have targeted researchers who study fluoride and brain development, in a pattern that some characterized as suppressing important science.

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

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