Sunday School

[Reg the Fronkey Farmer]

What happens when you check two major religion surveys against each other.

When a Bible-sized blind spot is present “Religious Nationalism” shouldn’t become shorthand exclusively for American Christian nationalism.

Right-wing groups are turning a straightforward patient-protection law into another manufactured religious persecution campaign.

Right-wing influencers invented a Girl Scouts “Islamization” scandal.

World of Woo: The BioCharger.

Environment:  Greening the land upwind of cities to manage urban heat.

The brain isn’t hardwired to read – here’s how we pull it off and why some are better at it than others.

RFK Jr. goes full anti-vaccine bananas over two measles deaths.

When pseudoscience is in power.

There can be many sources of hypotheses and observations, but that does not imply many equally valid methods for determining whether claims about external reality are true.

I am now “detoxing” myself from the MAHA epidemic. When distrust becomes an epistemology, contrary evidence strengthens the belief instead of weakening it. A contagious disease is singularly uninterested in someone’s philosophy of individual autonomy. This post says it all.

The law of the innocents: Ireland’s medieval precursor to the Geneva conventions.

Sunday Book Club: When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows by Steven Pinker.

Some photographs taken last week. Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026.

While you are waiting for the kettle to boil.

Coffee Break Videos:  The idea of progress is a dangerous lie. Interview with a vamp Christian Therapist. Has Science forgotten its limits? The Jussie Smollettification of Everything.

[Reg the Fronkey Farmer]

Have a great week!!

If your worldview can be predicted entirely from one label, you may have downloaded the bundle rather than examined the components.

RTFF.

[TheEncogitationer]

Reg;

World of Woo: The BioCharger.

The Biocharger looks like it would make a great improvement design on the roller grill at the Quik Trip gas stations. Just set it to heat and it could cook and warm egg rolls, flautas, burritos, and corn dogs set between the pillars of the wheel. Or set it to chill and Stuckey’s could chill their famous Nut Rolls as well as Snickers, Milky Ways, and Three Mucketeers candy bars. And if there was a mechanical device to retrieve the goodies, there would be no risk of un-hygenic hands hovering over food.😋

But of course, this is the only way The BioCharger would serve human health and flourishing. As a cure for humanity’s greatest killers, not so much.

[Strega]

Thanks Reg!  Just settling down with a smoke, to have a bit of a read 🙂

[TheEncogitationer]

Reg:

The biggest customers of the BioCharger are probably Putineers who are proclaining: “Great Czar Ivan the Terrible’s Ghost! The BioChargers must have survived The Great Mud Floods that destroyed Tartaria! Now we can have eternal life too like Comrade Putin and Emperor Xi!”

(Caution: If you decide to read more about Tarataria, do so slowly. Taking it in all at once is too much irrationality in a single sitting. It’s an intellectual equivalent of an ice cream migraine!)

[TheEncogitationer]

Reg:

The idea of progress is a dangerous lie.

Phew! Bet John Gray’s the life of the party!
😁

Sunday Book Club: When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows by Steven Pinker.

Cue the Leonard Cohen, who, according to Neal from The Young Ones, is both alive and yet dead:

[TheEncogitationer]

Fellow Unbelievers:

Unlike the oblivious writers at Commentary, this writer somewhat gets it:

Arthur Herman
Did America Win the War on Terror?
It depends on where you look.
https://www.city-journal.org/article/war-on-terror-911

He does overestimate our foreign prowess against Islamic terrorism, however he does at least acknowledge areas where Islamists have won on the home front.

[jakelafort]

Enco,

For the first time i asked AI the following question.

Is there intelligence that Muslim Brotherhood and its affiliates are trying to orchestrate major terrorist attacks in USA?

Answer from AI

United States intelligence assessments indicate that the main global core of the Muslim Brotherhood is not currently trying to orchestrate major mass-casualty terrorist attacks inside the U.S. homeland. Instead, the U.S. Intelligence Community and federal law enforcement view the organization primarily as a transnational political and ideological network.

I credit that statement BECAUSE IT IS WHAT I DEDUCED.

If they want to take over the world and they do pulling off Sep. 11 caliber attacks would seal their fate. The reaction in blue blooded Americans would be Pearl Harborish. Whether Islamic blah blah of Iran would nuk us into the stone age were they in possession of the goods? idk…probably…

So crediting our efforts is misguided. I don’t doubt our government agencies have stopped comparitively small lone wolfish attacks. However, the real war on terror ought to be perceived as one against Islam as presently constituted and all jihadis & and the lefty scum Jew haters. Oh wait that is harsh. They don’t hate Jews. Some of their best frienda are of the Jewish persuasion. They just loathe zionists. Can’t permit Jews to have their own state. It deprives Muslims of preserving Dhimmi status for Jews. Oh and Bibby. Gawd how they hate him. He is worse than Trump and Putin combined.

It is genocide! All Jews are guilty of genocide, not just Israelis. Jews are so good at so many things they just suck at Genocide. Piss poor genociders. And they cause their own to die fighting a war errr carrying out a genocide that could be carried out without risking IDF soldiers. They warn with leaflets and phone calls which in turns saves lives of noncombatants and enables Hamas to know and prepare thus saving lives of both Hamas and noncompbatants and risking IDF lives. They have lawyers to determine the calculus of cost benefit before bombing. They send in enough food to make a lot of fat Palestinians fatter. Maybe they intend to eat the dead Palestinians and a fatter Palestinian is a tastier Palestinian. No fat no taste. Humanitarian corridors. Israel is really bad at genocide. And considering it was one long generation since the holocaust you’d think they would know to emulate the Germans. It is a mystery.

[TheEncogitationer]

Jake:

Recall though, that U.S. Intelligence Community, didn’t foresee either the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993 or 9/11/2001, (not to mention Tiananmen Square, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the fall of The Berlin Wall, the end of Communism in the Eastern Bloc, the end of Apartheid in South Africa, etc. ad nauseum). So again, AI is only as good as it’s source and can’t distinguish between Alexandria and flaming Dumpster.

An attack be hijacking planes an using them as missiles would indeed fail, since terrorists would be on the wrong end of an Air Marshall’s gun or even an armed civilian’s gun and also would get the Flight 93 Skidoo from other passengers. This much we know now from hindsight knowledge and subsequent training of air personnel and passengers.

However, Islamist terorists could still do Cyberattacks such as was recently done against water supplies in 7 States, possibly by Iran. Islamist terrorists could also commit Nuclear Biological & Chemical (NBC) attacks through containerized Nukes as small as steamer trunks, a Jihadi guinea pig infected with a fatal communicable disease, a sabotaged tanker train or chemical plant, or all these and other means at once.

If they chose a small town or rural area as a target, as well as big cities, it might result in maximum psychological terror, since it would convince everyone that it could happen anywhere!

And even without any terror attacks, Islamism is still following Woke Marxism in “the long march through the institutions.”. This is where most of us are likely to encounter Islamism, as students, as workers in any place with HR departments, as users of the Internet, or as voters deciding on candidates.

Here’s another article on Islamism Post-9/11. Ignore most of the trolling comments. Geez, some idiots even blame “da Joooz” for Islamist immigration into the West! And others want Crusades as an alternative to Jihad!🙄

Bruce Hoffaman
The Shifting Landscape of Islamist Terror Since 2001
Protecting the United States has been a success, but defeating the movement that made 9/11 possible has not.
https://www.city-journal.org/article/war-on-terror-taliban-al-qaeda-islam

[jakelafort]

Enco,

I was asking AI whether there was any intelligence. Not restricted to US intelligence. It seems AI interpreted my question that way or CHOSE to limit its answer that way. It would be nails in the coffin if we had knowledge of the documents/conversations among the high mucky much of terrorists. (Recently read about library of Alexandria…what a wild ride it enjoyed.) It is possible that there is some islamic terrorist group that would love to 9/11 us. As for the rank and file of MB and kin i say no way Jose. Again the various possibilities are in the hundreds. The USA is simply too damn big and there are undoubtedly cells laying in wait and Muslims already in USA who can be indoctrinated. Think about the second intifada. I don’t know the numbers off top of head but in a period of i think 4 or 5 yrs a shit load of suicide bombers terrorist attacks in Israel. There is no comparison between Israel and USA in terms of defense against terrorism notwithstanding not believing the women who watched Hamas prepare for an attack. Tiny tiny Israel and its innovative adaptive approach surrounded by Arab Muslims who want to end them. Whatever our defensive capability it is not gonna protect us if the will to inflict is strong enough.

The lefty’s are the ones being played fools. The islamists are playing them. Lefty equal useful idiot. They have shown they have no affinity for those notions both in terms of the societies where they have power and in the 1979 Rev. in Iran. Slaughtered the lefty’s.

[jakelafort]

BTW Enco i was ridiculing my own confirmation bias. It is nearly impossible to kill all of the time. We are human.

[TheEncogitationer]

Jake:

BTW Enco i was ridiculing my own confirmation bias. It is nearly impossible to kill all of the time. We are human.

Nothing per se wrong with confirmation bias as long as you acknowledge it and keeping it in perspective.

My confirmation bias is assuring that I have coordinates on Earth as a living, rational, free, flourishing human being.

I also have the ancient Hominin confirmation bias of listening for the rustling in the veldt and saying: “Homin-a! Homin-a! Homin-a!” until I can confirm what’s doing the rustling…especially when the lion ain’t dead yet and doesn’t always sleep tonight.

Also, out of a confirmation bias of respect for other Hominins, I do support holding off on shooting into the veldt until I see what’s coming out.

Potentially conflicting confirmation biases is also part of what it is to be human.

[Reg the Fronkey Farmer]

I always found it idiotic that so many Western ‘activists’ continue treating Hamas as an emblem of liberation. They bite down on the bait every time in order to confirm their biases. I am yet to meet one of them that has any real understanding of the history of the area. As “Bibi” said after October 7th, “Hamas will pay with its very existence”.  It is the only way that Gaza will recover. The historical achievement of Hamas after 20 years in power is to arrive back at the conclusion Palestinian leader had already reached; armed struggle was not going to produce Palestinian freedom. Maybe change does come from within…..

“Some people want to make a point; others want to make a difference.”

[TheEncogitationer]

Reg:

Hamas has “achieved” nothing but repression and destruction and the only way to “Free Palestine” is to free it from Hamas as well as their Palestinian Authority rival Fatah.

One can rightly criticize Bibi’s Intel for their failure of imagination, as well as Trump for his “Board of Peace” which is just his attempt to make the Israel-Hamas War into a grift. But the ultimate cause of all the death and suffering of everyone in the war has been Hamas; they need to go first of all!

[jakelafort]

Iran’s respite from attacking Israel may not simply be or be at all about not wanting their tops to die. I just wonder if it is true whether they plan to invade again.

https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-907636

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