TRONG attacks an innocent nation, it's defined as "democracy". When the innocent country futilely tries to defend itself against our aggressive evil unprovoked attack, it's defined as "authoritarian" and "malign behavior". In every case the aggression or oppression is treated as an attribute of the victim, not an action by the aggressor.
BBC is mentioning one of those stupid game-theory studies exploring the natural tendency of short men to fight harder. Is the so-called Napoleon Complex real?
Of course it's real.
I hadn't thought about the term itself until now. Even the name given BY TALL PEOPLE to the phenomenon shows WHY short people have to fight harder.
When tall people stomp on short people, they're "defending society against commie oddballs". When short people try to survive, they have a COMPLEX.
Even the definition of normal survival is stacked against low-status people. You're not entitled to survive. If you try, you're crazy by definition.
How can you tell when an author knows nothing of history?
Article at Catholic World Report starts with this picture:
I suppose it's one of those Stock Images, but still(heh) you should know the difference if you're going to write about old movies.
Is the article better than the image? Nope, far worse. The author is recommending a return to the 1930 Roman code for movies, which idolized Genocidal Madman Lincoln and encouraged people to be perfect useful idiots. Serve Deepstate with all your heart. Never question the authority of Experts.
Precode movies were more realistic and offered better practical guidance about dealing with life.
Fastest storm ever
Convective for damn sure:
A sudden burst of heavy rain caught me by surprise. I hadn't been watching the radar and wasn't thinking about rain. The surprise was doubled because the ROAR of rain started at the same moment when I was peeing. Wasn't sure which water sound was which. After I zipped up and opened the front door to check, I saw the heavy rain for a moment, and then it stopped. That's all.
Two minutes from sun to sun.
If I'd been pooping instead of peeing, I would have missed the whole thing.
¶ 4:17 PM
Unnecessary cautionApparently Google has improved voice synthesis to the point where it's really hard to distinguish from an actual human. Google pretends to be worried about this, and "independent" "thinkers" are even more worried because RUSSIAN_BOTS caused OUR LORDESS AND SAVIOURESS HILLARY to lose the 2016 election which was HERS BY DIVINE RIGHT.
Google pretends that it will respond to their fake concerns by including a warning that the voice is electronic.
Unnecessary caution. You can already distinguish calls made by call centers. Whether the voice is software American or wetware Hindu, there's always a four-second 'hissy' pause before the voice starts, followed by an audible click. On the rare occasions when I have my phone bell turned on, this four-second pause gives me plenty of time to hang up before the spiel starts.
¶ 3:33 PM
Se-lu 24, tweaker edition
I'm always jabbering about how CIVILIZATION has channels for each non-criminal talent and skill, and provides a sense of USEFULNESS for useful skills. We no longer do it. We honor and pay for crime and murder and hyperlunatic delusions leading to genocide.
Here's a beautiful example of lost skills. This youtuber films the tweakers who inhabit his neighborhood and turns the clips into entertainment.
This clip has a nicely appropriate sound track, but if you LOOSEN YOUR TEMPLATE and decide to stop being entertained, you see something entirely different.
'Norma' is a natural organizer. She would be a good housewife or housekeeper or stock clerk. Even while organizing street litter with no purpose, every move is careful and constructive and efficient. She tries to make each item clean and neat and useful, and leaves the sidewalk clean.
CIVILIZATION would find a way to develop and pay and respect her talents. We no longer have CIVILIZATION, so her talent is only serving to entertain snotty dickheads like me.
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Note for clarity: I'm NOT criticizing or blaming 