Link round-up for 5 November 2023

Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week.

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Launch successful, target hit.

Launch successful, target hit.

An encounter with a philosopher brought this man true enlightenment.

This frog is an asshole.

I'll go in..... no, I'll come out.

Here's how you could set your lights to turn off after a specific period of time -- in 1840.

This person has a small library.

More Halloween pics from Dark Thoughts blog here.

This painting looks a bit dangerous.

Splendid marksmanship here.

She fainted -- and scored a direct hit on the school principal.

See how fast fire can spread.

Creationists are using Amazon to post scurrilous reviews of books that refute their fantasies.

In these times of nastiness and polarization, perhaps America's most beloved celebrity is the inspiration we need.

These people exist.

Here's an idea for a statehood solution for the scattering of small US territories around the world.

Any brand of feminism that makes excuses for gang rape is not real feminism.

Bud Light sales still haven't recovered, half a year after marketing VP Alissa Heinerscheid's epic woke blunder.

If you still have a Twitter account, read this.

Even without a Twitter account, you can now view replies on a tweet by replacing the "twitter.com" part of the URL with "nitter.net"  Here's an example:  original tweet, version with replies.

The cold, cruel "prosperity gospel" is helping to drive people away from Christianity.

Etsy allows the sale of T-shirts with threats of violence.

Scientific American magazine has been destroyed.

Boys are graduating from high school at much lower rates than girls, with potential life-long consequences.

The endless contriving of new victim groups in the quest for more-oppressed-than-thou status is getting completely ridiculous.

There's no substitute for having ownership and control of your media, as opposed to it being stored somewhere else only accessible on the net.

Political groups need to stop pestering people who donate money with endless pleas to donate more.  I've experienced this myself and it's a real deterrent to donating.

Elon Musk posts more silly nonsense.  Does anyone really believe the US still has bases in Afghanistan?

This man has the ultimate chip-on-the-shoulder approach to life (discussion here).

The new House speaker is a bog-standard crazed theocrat who opposes most aspects of modernity.

Blogger Annie is feeling swamped, but somewhat optimistic, at the plethora of crises now facing the country.

Students in Loudoun county VA held a walkout demanding that school authorities restore separate male and female bathrooms and locker rooms.

Anti-vaxers resort to threats and stalking against doctors and scientists who debunk their nonsense.

The October 7 attack in Israel unmasked the abject evil of woke-ism to normal people all over the West.  Even before that, "queer" ideology's embrace of anti-Semitism revealed it as a cesspit reality-denial and moral rot.  It's now more obvious than ever why Israel's existence is essential.

Jewish leaders have met with Biden administration officials about the explosion of campus anti-Semitism.

Mike Johnson once headed a "Biblical law school" which swallowed up millions of dollars over several years without ever really existing.

The UAW strike has ended in a massive victory for workers, with all the three major car companies now on board.  Again and again we see that unions get the job done.

"We may not feel that we live in an era of peace and tranquility but compared to virtually any period between the fall of Rome and the end of WW II, this is heaven on earth" -- so let's keep it that way (found via Annie).

An Alabama mayor who published fantasies about murdering a local woman, and posted photos of minors on porn websites, committed suicide after being exposed.  Much of the internet is treating him as some kind of martyr.  More on his writings and victims here (rather stomach-turning).

Supporters of Israel outside the country can help simply by spreading the truth and evidence.

Which US states have the highest proportion of non-religious people?  In four states, we're now in the majority.

Even after the exposure and conviction of Sam Bankman-Fried, there are still people putting money into the cryptocurrency scam.  The well of suckers never runs dry.

"The father's eyes were gouged out, the mother's breasts sliced off, the eight-year-old girl's foot cut off, the six-year-old boy's fingers cut off.  They were all then executed....."

The US economy is doing amazingly well, in contrast to most other countries.

Abortions have increased in the US since the overthrow of Roe.

Trapped in a nightmare she can never escape, Briana is now trying to save others.

The latest sick tactic of Western Jew-haters is tearing down posters of hostages seized by Hamas.

Democrats need to embrace economic populism.

McConnell is ready to fight for aid to Ukraine.

Two more women who were damaged by "gender-affirming care" have filed lawsuits.  Much of the pediatric establishment is complicit.

Biden furiously condemned the New York Times for blaming the al-Ahli hospital explosion on Israel based on nothing but an accusation from Hamas.

Josh Hawley wants to reverse Citizens United.

Here's an overview of this month's more important elections, most of them this week.  In particular, the Ohio referendum and the Virginia election will show how much the abortion issue still sways voters.

There's no need to worry about the feelings of the new emerging global Nazi movement.

The British court system has gone utterly insane.

British police test women for abortion drugs after miscarriages, even though abortion is mostly legal in the UK.

".....and above all that a socio-medical scandal is being played out on the bodies of children."

The new Nazis are starting out like the old ones did.

Wales wants more women in government, but only women who don't speak up for themselves.

A girl in the UK was suspended from school for refusing to use a unisex toilet and contacting her family for help.

Elon Musk is going to war with Scandinavian unions.  It probably won't end well for him.

A commission in Spain has concluded that over two hundred thousand children were sexually abused by Catholic clergy in that country over the last few decades.  The figure doubles if one includes abuse by lay people employed in Church institutions.

Much has been made of the rise of an anti-Ukraine faction in Slovakia, but the recent election in Poland, a far larger and more important country, is good news for Ukraine.

Some Ukrainian high-precision drone piloting here, with spectacular results.

In Dagestan (a Muslim region of Russia), a mob stormed an airport hunting for Jews on a flight arriving from Israel.  More video here.

It's not getting much attention in the West any more, but Russia's economy and society are crumbling under the strain of sanctions.

This Russian propagandist is at least open about his imperialist mentality (found via Hackwhackers).

Many Iranians support Israel.  They have their own experience of the horrors of Islamist rule.

"We were fighting to save life.  They were fighting to take life."

Debunking of common lies about Israel here.

80% of Lebanese civilians cannot be called "innocent".

Several Islamic scholars have issued a fatwa condemning Hamas and holding it responsible for the oppression in Gaza.  Here's what some Gazans think.

No matter what Israel does to protect enemy civilians, it will never be enough for the anti-Semites.

Hamas didn't expect the US to support Israel so strongly.

"We will slaughter you..... we will drink your blood and eat your skull."

Aid sent to the Gaza Strip is being stolen and sold by Hamas.

Those who are calling for a ceasefire don't understand Hamas.  Any ceasefire would just mean more and more mass murder.

This is the reality of "Palestine".

More links at WAHF and Elder of Ziyon.

My own posts this week:  Halloween, and some of my basic principles and beliefs.

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A cultural thought experiment:

Imagine a society divided into two major subcultures.  In subculture A, monogamous sexual relationships with two, three, or four children per couple are strongly normative.  In subculture B, many people have no children or only one; two or more is a rarity.  People often substitute dogs or cats for children, referring to them as "fur babies" and the like.

Now flash forward fifty years into the future.  Which one of the two subcultures will be thriving numerically and dominating the society?  Which one will be heading toward extinction?

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Hamas and its Western apologists are actual, literal Nazis.  I'm not sure even the original German Nazis were as gleefully sadistic as this.