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Fellow Unbelievers:

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]

Reg:

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

Reg:

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.

Jake:

Those poor dissenters and that poor little girl!

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

Reg:

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.

Fellow Unbelievers:

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]

Fellow Unbelievers:

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!

Jake and PopeBeanie:

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]

Fellow Unbelievers:

…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]

Fellow Unbelievers:

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

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]

Reg:

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]

SimonPaynton:

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.

SimonPaynton:

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]

Jake:

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

Jake:

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]

Jake:

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]

Jake:

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]