Individual basis we see the time honored Lord Acton playing out. And…[Read more]

What is Peter Theil Trying To Tell Us

The makers of AI, in particular, Palantir and Meta, don’t have their shit together either mentally or on the ends to which they would apply AI.

So an AI free of illogic or ideological capture is fantasy and making AI the final word on Constitutional Law would be the end of the American Experiment and indeed the Enlightenment Experiment…[Read more]

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/06/260619020508.htm

Problem with democracy and SCOTUS is obviously a critical element is people. We fuck up everything. Increasing numbers is not a solution.

How about waiting for AI to be sophisticated enough that it can be divorced from ideological capture? We have a referendum on the objectives when interpreting the constitution including precedent. Then…[Read more]

I got through the wall and got to behold the sadly slain “dragonfly”, Masha and her trouper of a partner, Yehor.

Despite the NYT’s spotty journalism record, Siobhán O’Grady and Liubov Sholudko wrote a powerful, engaging story and deserve all the respect for highlighting the senseless tragedy of Putin’s war against Ukraine. Russia’s fi…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
Never mind Pope. After reading your line again i think you are indicating that the meaning has been watered down so that ambiguity is read into it rather than questioning its plain meaning and efficacy.

I wasn’t implying that, although that may not be inaccurate. SCOTUS itself has been watering down and resetting precedents on…[Read more]

Agreement isn’t my issue with the NYT. My issue is that when it goes wrong on facts, it goes wrong big.

Where I’m at, it’s 97°F and feels like 102°F. With temperatures like this, some cooling thoughts are welcome.

The Genius Design of the Ancient Persian Yakhchal | 2500 Year Old Freezers in the Deserts of Iran

The Yakhchal! A giant ice machine that ran without electricity or pumps fed by u…[Read more]

I’m sure the Ukraine story is touching, but what a source!

Here is the link again. My sub (for the NYT) allows me to share so hopefully this attempt with punch a hole in that wall.

No hole yet.

Sorry, the record of “The Newspaper of Record” is “All the News That’s Made to Fit.”. So, it makes it hard to for me to want to break the wall myself.

Will other European nations do it as rationally and without personal blame?

AI quote: Russian Forces: UK intelligence agencies estimate that Russian deaths are approaching nearly 500,000. Independent tallies have verified the names of over 223,000 individual Russian soldiers killed, though the actual toll is significantly higher. Additionally, a report from…[Read more]

You flip flopped duration. Current war longer. Former war more gruesome. Neither one peaches and cream.

Those poor dissenters and that poor little girl!

“Regime change” is far too mild a word for what the Mullahs and IRGC needs!

I wish I could read that, but the dragonfly flew into a wall.

I sense though that Putin may have something to do with crushing his prom dreams.

So this is fine, right? 2 years old. Evil little bitch! Hopefully she gets fucked by prison guards so she is warmed up for her 60…[Read more]

And Trump’s desire to be the “Greatest Communist ever”–as well as his total pig-ignorance of economics–is reflected in his desire to crack down on oil Companies and gas retailers.

But the oil companies and gas retailers are only responding to problems in the supply…[Read more]

Evidently, the Democratic Socialists of America and Rev. Victor Marx aren’t the only Marxists. The calls are coming from inside The White House itself!

The Courts have held that to Establish an institution is to support and subsidize it. So the First Amendment ban on Establishment of Religion would clearly forbid the Federal Government from support and subsidy of religious bodies.

And the Fourteenth Amendment’s first clause makes the restrictions on the Federal…[Read more]

…And Rev. Victor Marx(ist) to the Right:

Republican’s quotes compared to mass-murdering supervillain in ‘The Boys’ by local paper
https://www.rawstory.com/victor-marx/?cx_testId=4&cx_testVariant=cx_undefined&cx_artPos=5&cx_experienceId=EXC93HV4HK4I&cx_experienceActionId=showRecommendationsJ2A0SJUMQX4T24#cxrecs_s
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And…[Read more]

Marxist Clowns to the Left of me…

Deleted tweets on Darializa Avila Chevalier’s account had favorable references to communist leaders and Marxism
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/29/politics/darializa-avila-chevalier-communism-tweets

Maybe i am not fully appreciating what you are attempting to convey. I disagree with the characterization of separation of church and state as meaning-distilled colloquialism not explicitly mentioned in the…[Read more]

Environment: New AI agent tallies a gadget’s emissions in the time it takes to brew tea.

Great idea, as long AI is not the one in control of the gadgets or the decision to use them. Human control freaks are bad enough without being given SkyNet Terminator capabilities:

Air Conditioning? It’s I…[Read more]

The Trad part will disappear when they discover that the urine in wool and cotton diapers consists of more than “salt and water,” is more odiferous, and doesn’t just drip-dry away. And Trad Life is more than Laura Ingalls gambolling down the prairie hill with her doggie Bandit with a happy ending. As the diaper prices in the story show, it…[Read more]

And they’re going to all this expense and trouble over a single study of 66 infants from China (home of the human pin cushion and accupuncture disinformation) alleging a connection between plasticizers in disposable diapers and DNA damage.

Obviously, Trads also have a contempt for scientific method and causal connections.

I couldn’t respond on your message, so I’ll have to do it here:

TradWives/TradMoms and TradHusbands/TradDads hold their children and other parents in contempt if they support this:

MAHA (and Marxist) moms are outfitting their babies in ‘healthier’ wool diapers — that don’t need to be washed for a month
By Karen Fischer…[Read more]

You were right about the Renaissance coming before the Reformation. They did kind of run parallel on the historic timeline, though.

We essentially agree regarding the uncertainty in Islam and its future.

The path leading to destruction or diminution in power and influence of Islam does not necessarily have to take same as Christianity.

The future of lefty, progressive woke bs and its political power are a big factor. Obviously that disgusting red/green alliance is…[Read more]

Thou shalt think once, twice and thrice when a popular movement becomes an ideology and towing the party line is derigeur and questioning its assumptions is…[Read more]

Enco,

I assume you are referring to the vid in which the author(s) prognosticate the demise or reformation of Islam.

Some interesting ideas are adduced there but i am not sure anyone can with confidence know how the story will play out.

That’s about how I see it. Never say ‘trend’ or ‘predict.’

Also, it would be a mistake to extrapolate…[Read more]

I assume you are referring to the vid in which the author(s) prognosticate the demise or reformation of Islam.

Some interesting ideas are adduced there but i am not sure anyone can with confidence know how the story will play out.

The Internet can be either a Web connecting a mind to new knowledge and new ideas or it can be spun into a bubble to isolate a mind from anything else.

To borrow from the story line of Mystery Science Theater 3000the Internet definitely foils the Pearl Foresters who seek to rule the World one person at a time, but it doesn’t stop her…[Read more]

Jigger the brain and poof addiction ended, anxiety eliminated, depression, chronic pain or….

The promise of science and all that it may become and provide against the…[Read more]

Now this is what I’ve been wanting to see for the longest time: a technology that could be used to kill pain without killing people, in addition to it’s use on pre-existing addiction. I thought it might take the form of genetic modification of opiates, cocoa, and other drug plants, but this technology is even faster!

My only complaint…[Read more]