He's a
slow learner.
There is
dumbth all around.
It's
a dog's life.
This person exists.
This person exists.
This person exists (NSFW).
This cloud exists.
Tremble before the menace of
barfing dinosaurs.
Every dog has its day.
All hail the power of
corgis. This one
rides a carousel.
Time to
go bowling.
Oops.
Atheist kids
try church.
Catch!
It's
face time.
Schools
go nuts.
He
built his own alarm clock.
Cats put
their abilities to good use.
Armor is hot.
Choose
the better place.
I don't think this is how
telephones work.
Why can't I
reach my dinner?
Build it your own way.
Happiness is bad for the economy.
God
doesn't interfere in humans' free will.
Sometimes
justice prevails.
Amazon manages to
grab a little more money.
Keep your
steel wool away from batteries (found via
Hackwhackers).
Beware this
art commission scam on Tumblr.
Learn the right way to pick up a chameleon (this is important, if you have one).
Death from the skies!
America is haunted.
If you want to write well,
you need to read a variety of types of writing.
The World War II
Navajo code was more complex than just speaking in Navajo.
This animal exists. (Now try to imagine how weird actual aliens would probably be.)
Child mortality
has dropped enormously. The change since 1950 is mostly due to vaccines.
The past was very different.
Remember
Lili Elbe.
Cas d'intérêt has more resources for
practicing a foreign language.
See an
odd cloud formation from Michigan.
Scandinavia
remembers the past.
Check out the fantasy art of
Vsevolod Ivanov, inspired by ancient pagan Russia.
Knowing a second language
helps to stave off Alzheimer's. It also
has other benefits.
Remember
Karl Marx.
Only his feelings matter, not anybody else's.
"
Let her speak, please."
Big Business Brain runs the show.
Modern schooling
violates the nature of children.
Different people become atheists
for different reasons.
I'm so glad that I got out of academia before
this totalitarian lunacy descended on it.
There are
good reasons why you shouldn't shoplift.
AI is being used to shittyize journalism.
Forced-birthers
celebrate their triumphs.
Tucker Carlson wants to
invade Canada (found via
Hackwhackers).
Gender is a linguistic (and recently ideological) term, not a biological one.
This is disgusting.
Amazon is laying people off
by e-mail.
"
[Florida] is getting more ethnically diverse and younger each cycle, yet the Republicans are doing better every election."
Some employers
don't understand why people look for jobs.
Connect All the Dots blog
debunks Owen Jones, point by point.
Last year Union Pacific railway
spent more money on stock buybacks than on workers' pay and benefits. They can afford that paid sick leave.
The case of the six-year-old who shot his teacher happened because
officials ignored repeated warning signs. Too often violent behavior in young people is ignored until something truly disastrous happens.
Stupid insurrectionist is stupid.
Dave Chappelle
speaks out against the thugs who violently attacked the audience at one of his shows.
The
National Prayer Breakfast has been removed from the control of the creepy cult that founded it -- but more needs to be done.
It's
too early to make predictions about the 2024 election.
Trans people in the West suffer murder
at a lower per-capita rate than the general population.
The world's elites flew to Davos on over 150
carbon-belching private jets to nag the rest of us about using the wrong straws and light bulbs. Why can't they do this shit on video-chat or something?
Salman Rushdie's new novel is a triumph over the religious thuggery that tried to destroy him.
You can
make an assault rifle at home using an affordable 3D printer and blueprints available on the internet.
The guy in the video has spent a lot of time refining his techniques, and offers the info for free.
If you have WiFi,
it can be used to spy on you.
Thousands of prison inmates in Louisiana have been
kept in prison long past their release dates.
Examine
the contradictions of gender ideology.
As religion declines in the US, there are more
churches for sale than ever before.
A Republican candidate
made a vulgar and embarrassing speech, so the party expelled -- the two women who blew the whistle on him.
New York's attorney general
speaks out against use of facial recognition to blacklist people from public accommodations.
The opposition to letting men compete in women's sports
is becoming more outspoken.
Mike Pompeo
lionizes a murderous theocratic tyrant.
Congress is
much more religious than the country as a whole.
Older voters are leaning more Democratic.
It gets dangerous when language doesn't reflect reality.
Kansas forced-birthers
are still trying.
SickoRicko blog looks at
the Holocaust and its implications.
A new Democratic Congresswoman who won in a red district
has some advice for the party.
In Canada,
male sex criminals are routinely put in women's prisons.
Kill people who disagree with us!
Kill, kill, kill! And wear
the T-shirt.
After a huge public outcry, the Scottish government
has backed down on putting a male rapist in a women's prison. The case
highlights the absurdity of Scotland's new "trans law".
Poland
puts Germany in its place, while the Putin regime spews the usual bullshit.
We must
give Ukraine whatever it needs; Russia
must be humiliated. Any concessions or face-saving will increase the risk of further war.
Putin
has destroyed Russia's economic leverage.
The "cutting-edge" T-14 tank
is just another dud. Even Russia's
fake inflatable tanks don't work properly. On the other hand, working tanks
can be a problem too.
We need to be prepared for the possible
disintegration of Russia.
Erdoğan doesn't believe that a country which allows free expression should be let into NATO.
Pakistan
descends further into barbarism.
Don't forget
the women of Afghanistan.
The world is beginning to see that
China is a declining power and that its rise was always hugely overhyped (I've been saying this for
years).
More links at
Fair and Unbalanced,
WAHF, and
Miss Cellania.
My posts this week: a video on
smartphonized society, some
truths and inspirations, and an obvious
solution to the deficit.
I never knew dragons were so keen on lollipops
Hammer-headed shark sculpture made of hammer heads
1983 office technology
Tampa airport
Silver bowl, first Persian Empire, 6th-4th century BCE
The southern Baltic Sea
New York Navy Yard, 1915
Egyptian bracelet, 14th century BCE
