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Consider this a Christmas present.

Key points here:

1) Yamnaya and Corded Ware were proto Indo-European.

2) First European farmers might have spoken an Afroasiatic language (is it where the Afroasiatic substratum in Insular Celtic comes from?)

3) Cucuteni-Tripolye was really a great culture and was an integral part of the Old Europe cultural tradition stretching from Greece, across the Balkans to the modern day Odessa. The PIE folks infiltrated it and brought it down.

4) The proto-Aryans are derived from Sintashta

5) They became Vedic and Avestan in Central Asia after their interaction with BMAC.

6) The author mentions the interaction between proto-Uralics and the Aryans and the fact that the Finnish word for slave derives from that interaction.

7) The author doesn’t mention Seima-Turbino.

8) The author avoids discussing BBF (you know what I mean).

8) BMAC was an amazing culture and it derived from the same roots as Catal Huyuk. The Aryans infiltrated it and brought it down (like their Western relatives did with Tripolye earlier).

9) The author didn’t discuss much Mohenjo Daro, but I think he will say that it was a wonderful place but Aryans infiltrated it and brought it down (see the pattern here?)

10) The author mentions Scythians briefly but doesn’t mention that the earliest Scythian kurgans ever built have been built in modern day Tyva republic.

Ah yeah, fun fact Sumerians had emporiums all the way up to modern day Caucasus and they traded with the Yamnaya derived folks through Maikop.

Imagine travelling from Sumer to modern day Azerbaijan back in time, must have been quite the journey…

I wonder if anyone tried to bridge Sumerian and Elamite into one language family ?

Some push the idea that Sumerians are supposedly genetically related to modern day Swamp Arabs.

That’s what living with Semites long enough does to a great people…

Sic transit gloria mundi.

Home Run.

Tacitus Quote:

“Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.”

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/japanese-ancestors-came-from-three-ancient-groups-180978725/

71% of Japanese DNA comes from Kofun era migration, around 300 AD. This is just after the Three Kingdoms period in China.

This means that the majority of Japanese DNA comes from a group of people who left continental Asia during a time of great chaos in China.

The closest modern continental Asian population to the blue portion of Japanese ancestry are Han Chinese.

The shift from ancient to modern genetic distribution happened around the Jin Dynasty in China, which was an extremely chaotic time with lots of migration due to wars.

East Asians are closely related populations that were still admixing with each other in the Late Roman period, well after Tacitus.

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Japan was first inhabited by Jomon hunter-gatherers from Korea.

Half of this ancestry was replaced 2300 years ago by a population that introduced rice agriculture into Japan, ultimately from Dongbei China.

Then, around 300 AD, another large migration of farmers with Han ancestry replaced most of the ancestry of Kofun-era Japan, such that modern Japanese derive just 10% of their ancestry from Jomon Hunter Gatherers.

These large-scale farmer migrations from the region of north-east China also affected the Korean peninsula (whose genetic history is still not as clear).

We know that in the historical period, there were still people with high rates of Jomon ancestry in South Korea; one skeleton from a 300-500 AD funerary complex had 33% Jomon ancestry, while modern-day Koreans only retain 5% Jomon-related ancestry.

In some sense, East Asians could be said to have only separated from one another in the Late Han period, and before then had extremely close ties bolstered by mass migrations.

In August 1903, a small band of dedicated but “argumentative political activists” held a fractious conference in London.

It consisted of Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky and about 50 “others” who wanted to overthrow the rule of the Russian Tsar. Their quarrels might have seemed minor at the time, but they have rippled out across history.

This was when the Russian revolutionary movement divided into the two rival factions of Bolsheviks and Mensheviks. And a key vote happened in a pub in Islington.

Fourteen years later, in the second (October) revolution of 1917, the Bolsheviks took power, and went on to form the Soviet Union.

Leon Trotsky met Lenin for the first time in London.

The first session in London occurred in a club in Charlotte Street in central London. Otherwise most of these locations are “unknown” today.

The 1903 congress had actually started in Brussels, but after harassment from the Belgian police it moved to London. The British authorities showed more “acceptance” of exiled Russian revolutionary activities than did many other European countries.

This meant that some other key events in the history of the Russian revolutionary movement happened in Britain.

The 1907 party congress moved to London after being banned in Denmark, Sweden and Norway. This was a much bigger affair of more than 300 delegates, following an outbreak of major social unrest in Russia in 1905.

The congress took place in the Brotherhood Church in Hackney, which has since been knocked down and replaced by a housing development.

Those present included almost all the future leaders of the Bolshevik revolution, including Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin (a minor figure at the time), Zinoviev, Kamenev and Litvinov, as well as the prominent Russian writer Maxim Gorky.

This was the last full congress of the party until after the revolution.

Lenin lived in Tavistock Place in Bloomsbury, central London in 1908
The participants first registered for the conference at a building in Fulbourne Street, Whitechapel, which still stands today. At the time it was a Jewish socialist club.

When the devil plays chess.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-Parliamentary_Alliance_on_China

Some Cold War history, a documentary series about old South African airborne units. The old SA army relied heavily on prestige units that attracted a lot of volunteers to keep voters happy, conscripts mostly did counterinsurgency and patrolling borders. It was politically risky to get “our boys” killed, but when it’s hardened professionals making the ultimate sacrifice, it’s glorious!

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a loan from an “eccentric soap manufacturing London businessman”

Bwahahaha…

https://a-kaminsky.livejournal.com/55923.html

Англичанка (всегда) гадит!

Galkovsky did nothing wrong…

It’s a shame really that you guys have been prevented from building a true civilization there. If Apartheid experiment lasted for a few hundred years, Africa would have tremendously improved. That’s why it was nipped in the bud. Sad for Africa and Africans…

Speaking of the devil playing both sides of the chessboard:

1) Is it true that Comrade Xi’s sister is a British citizen?

2) Is the Aussie Bentley crash accident girl a relative of Comrade Xi (his illegitimate daughter)?

https://youtu.be/0C13KaqgRXA?si=4wV_ZLtuxDtB-OR-

Remember Blinky, that the first Pynya’s foreign state visit was to UK, and that he has been received with royal honours in Londongrad. It was before BP got sidelined in RusFed, before Litvinenko, Skripals, Boris Johnson in Kiev, Nord Stream sabotage and other Brit/Noviop humorous stories…

This whole British humour thing will not end until the British Isles are fully decolonized from the City of London influence with Scots, Welsh and other proud Celtic nations finally restored to their rightful position in the European family.

Where does a man choose to store what is most precious to him?

In medieval times, it was common for royalty to be held as political collateral.

Margaret and Isabella, daughters of King William of Scotland, were sent to England in the 13th century as hostages under the Treaty of Norham to guarantee Scottish compliance.

They remained in England for years, blurring the line between honoured guests and captives.

https://youtube.com/shorts/dOtamN0RmrA?si=2R1Z21gJDSKBjBjF

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such that modern Japanese derive just 10% of their ancestry from Jomon Hunter Gatherers.

I believe the 2021 paper would be considered somewhat out of date now. A preprint has revised the Jomon ancestry up to about 20% in modern Japanese, which perhaps isn’t surprising given that a lot of Japan isn’t necessarily good agricultural land.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.14.694187v1

Within NE Asia, I think especially mainland, like near Korea, it may be considered that the numbers aren’t as locked in, or well-established as they are for Europe because the datasets aren’t currently as large. There are still some mysteries that need to be uncovered, like with Denisovan admixture. (IIRC, NE Asians seem to have less admixture than SE – it is hypothesized thst humans were better at an extreme Northern route than Denisovans.)

We have seen some wild changes in the Japanese estimates since 2019, when it was still considered 90% Yayoi.

But I agree with all your main points that East Asians are pretty closely related and that the modern Japanese ethnos was formed in historical times. Though that is not well documented, unless we consider sources like the Shinsen Shijiroku (which gives about 1/4 of Japanese clans as having a foreign origin), which however doesn’t seem to give us the true scale of it.

https://asiatimes.com/2025/12/japan-reaching-for-a-bigger-richer-stake-in-central-asia/

BTW, that picture of the heads of state is a nice illustration of the East-Asian admixture in the Eurasian populations.

This is homeless cosmopolitanism. They all are like one of us. Xi’s sister probably spends a lot of time on her phone escaping from loneliness. On the plus side in her real home town the place is not being populated with negroes so theoretically she has a home to return to when she gets too old to be awesome.

Alright who thought up this one?

Israel might have found somewhere to dump Palestinians

https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/israel-might-have-found-somewhere

Maybe when his jew tiger mom took him to the aptitude testing center they made some computing errors and the kid was perfect for growing up to be a comedian but they read the results said politics.

Priorities.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/21/japan/ukraine-leader-financial-aid/

Zelenskyy has expressed gratitude over the Japanese government’s pledge to provide an additional $6 billion in financial aid to his country next year.

“We greatly appreciate that Japan takes such a leadership position, not only in the Indo-Pacific region but globally,”

“This is a significant contribution to our resilience, and through it, to the international rules-based order.”

Zelenskyy wrote on X.

Meanwhile:

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/japan-pulls-out-vietnam-nuclear-project-complicating-hanois-power-plans-2025-12-08/

It’s not enough. According to Arestovich it takes a minimum of sl5Bn USD per month to barely keep Ukrainian state afloat. The Japanese aren’t generous enough, they need to do more, way more, to bleed RusFed dry and take back the Kuril Islands and south Sakhalin. And yeah, they also need 3 babies per woman for a couple of generations if they intend to battle both China and RusFed for the leading role in the Far East.

In medieval times, it was common for royalty to be held as political collateral.

Thanks for that, Torna atrás.

That’s a very interesting angle there you bring up.

The picture of Stalin’s grand daughter living her life out in Portland, Oregon, is also remindful of one of the Old Bolsheviks (I’ve forgotten which one), who was in reality a loyal Communist, that a paranoid Stalin had ordered executed, and the doomed man’s forlorn hope that Stalin might let him live out the remainder of his days with his family in the United States (!), which sadly for him, was not to be.

At one time the story of Stalin’s granddaughter, and the aforementioned Old Bolshevik, might of seemed odd to me, though, not now, as I see the Capitalist United States and the Communist Soviet Union as closely paralleling and ultimately complimentary mirror societies, each incomplete in and of themselves, and only complete once the two outwardly opposed ideological systems they represent have succesfully ‘converged’, as intended from their revolutionary beginnings in 1776 and 1789.

Thus, the United States, which began in a Capitalist revolution, and whose first ‘Grand Union’ flag was practically identical to the flag of the multinational corporation British East India Company, will, it increasingly appears, conclude it’s existence in a Communist revolution.

Not so surprising, after all, when one realizes it was London which first published and disseminated both the ‘manifestos’ of Communism (Communist Manifesto – 1848) and the defacto Capitalist manifesto (Smith’s Wealth of Nations – 1776).

No, not so odd at all… 🙂

‘I will live in Montana…and have a pickup truck, or, possibly even a recreational vehicle, and drive from state to state..’

Andrew Huberman’s new episode is all the latest research on healthy masculinity. I don’t think think his guest is going to say anything about six girlfriends who all think it’s exclusive and they all let you screw them no condom.

Maybe he is a Chinese spy. They have to have a school for this stuff some place.

Clancy was very much “Rah, rah, rah, America!”. I wonder if he ever once criticized institutions in America, or could have guessed how much a pickup truck costs now. I’d guess not.

I’d suppose Crichton did a better job of it.

LMAO. Cremieux is claiming that shelters try to pass off pitbulls as labradors, corgis, chihuahaus, dachshunds, etc. (I am not saying he is wrong.)

This brings up the interesting question of how accurate the bite stats are. Even if we suppose there aren’t deliberate lies, I believe it would be important to disaggregate fatalities.

You think it would be a no-brainer to whole-genome every fatality case.

I wonder if he ever once criticized institutions in America, or could have guessed how much a pickup truck costs now. I’d guess not.

50 thousand plus for some of the new Toyota pickups, is ridiculous, even taking into account inflation. I wish I was joking.

A Tesla truck is 100K. I think I can tell you why the sales numbers ain’t too hot.

Japan was first inhabited by Jomon hunter-gatherers from Korea.

Personally, I like to believe that there were archaic hominins there, at one time. Snow monkeys probably crossed a landbridge. Sulawesi was more isolated.

Though there is no evidence for it presently, and the Jomon had shockingly low Denisovan admixture.

It doesn’t really get the imagination going as much as SE Asia, where admixture with superarchaics is possible. Or Africa, especially, where some of the experts have teased that there is evidence for mixing with the very small-brained H. naledi, which others have dismissed as impossible (not having seen the evidence yet.)

The British authorities showed more “acceptance” of exiled Russian revolutionary activities than did many other European countries.

This meant that some other key events in the history of the Russian revolutionary movement happened in Britain.

Funny, that. 🙂

That the historic center of World Capital at the time, London, was so welcoming to the Communists, should have given Lenin and his fellows cause for pause, had he (and they) thought it through.

But then, some nearly sixty years earlier, in 1848, it had been the City of London which was critically important for the initial publication and distribution across Europe of The Communist Manifesto itself, so perhaps people in general had grown accustomed to
this odd and seemingly counter-intuitive ‘special relationship’ then already evident between Capitalism and Communism.

Or, maybe, it’s just that the purported great divide between Continental and British based Freemasonry, isn’t quite so impermeable as we have always been told. [In that regard, do note at the 1:10 mark of the linked video below the enthroned Masonic pyramid with it’s all seeing eye overseeing the entire affair, a particularly nice touch by the iconic 1967 TV series show’s producer I thought. 😉 ]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Communist_Manifesto

In late February 1848, the Manifesto was anonymously published by the Communist Workers’ Educational Association (Kommunistischer Arbeiterbildungsverein), based at 46 Liverpool Street, in the Bishopsgate Without area of the City of London.

Written in German, the 23-page pamphlet was titled Manifest der kommunistischen Partei and had a dark-green cover. It was reprinted three times and serialised in the Deutsche Londoner Zeitung, a newspaper for German émigrés. On 4 March, one day after the serialisation in the Zeitung began, Marx was expelled by Belgian police. Two weeks later, around 20 March, a thousand copies of the Manifesto reached Paris, and from there to Germany in early April. In April–May the text was corrected for printing and punctuation mistakes; Marx and Engels would use this 30-page version as the basis for future editions of the Manifesto.

Musk has evidently designed the Teslas for the world’s most important graph: no gas needed, quick acceleration, retractable doorhandles, laminated passenger windows. But not calculated to survive a fiery crash, which I suspect is an oversight even according to this enlightened design philosophy.

It is interesting to contrast with recent Korean designs, which fell easy prey to theft, such that NY city and state sued them.

When the devil plays chess.

Speaking of playing both sides…

https://belcherfoundation.org/trilateral_center.htm

As soon as America gained her independence from Great Britain (with substantial French assistance), first Franklin and then Jefferson went on missions to France where they served as nuclei around which formed a latticework of interrelated or interconnected French revolutionary leaders, one of whom was Marie Joseph Paul Ives Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, who, after fighting in the American Revolution, imported revolutionary ideology into his native France under Jefferson’s guidance and inspiration. Products of the European Enlightenment, Franklin and Jefferson were station masters of France’s American depot, as Lafayette was an agent of the French central station trained on the American revolutionary training ground. Seeding the revolutionary cloud was not a one-sided French venture, however. On the contrary: the seedtime of the French Revolution was during Benjamin Franklin’s ministry to France–and that American was the seed-planter.

Reminds me of wisdom from the interwebs which goes something like this:

“God made women pretty so men will like women. God made women dumb so they will like men.”

I think that the people who blew up Nord Stream are probably the same people who attacked with drones Pynya’s strategic command centre in RF during the meeting between Trump and Zelensky.

If I am right, then as a result, RF should target not the Ukrainian government buildings or military installations but should find a way to directly attack these people.

I don’t think these people are in Ukraine, although I might be wrong about that.

Also, I wonder whether Radik Sikorsky will tweet something about this incident, as he did after the Nord Stream sabotage, when he thanked US for blowing it, which was in my opinion a misdirection to deflect attention from the usual suspects with whom Sikorsky is so tight.

Of course if RF does that, then we’re in a very dangerous territory.

I know someone with a rescue Pit Bull. It is very people friendly but can be aggressive toward other dogs. I had never known a Pit Bull prior to this one. I am amazed how solid it is, I mean the bone structure and musculature. It lives the life of a regular suburban dog, lounging around waiting for treats so I assume this solidity is genetic. It is noticeably more solid than any other dog I have petted including Doberman and Rottweilers. Considering their reputation I was surprised to learn that many Pit Bulls are not especially large, but I guess the strength makes up for that.

One day before a fresh start!

We seem to have made it through 2025 without any major bioweapon attacks or nuclear detonations. Not bad, considering. 🙂

One day before a fresh start!

I had a talk this fall with someone who was knowledgeable and had all the reasons to believe that EU+UK will fight RF in 2027-2028 even without US support.

But if Vance loses the elections in 2028, then US will stand with EU+UK against RF until it is utterly decolonized into regions easily accessible to be exploited by the TNC-s to the benefit of the Atlanticist Globalists.

If the war continues for the next two years, this might well happen.

That is if RF doesn’t kill Zelensky to end all this nonsense.

archaic hominins

Speaking of which, it was new (to me) to read in some popsci type article about archaic so called homo sapiens probably not evolving into anatomically modern humans, but being another separate (longest lasting in West Africa) branch which was also eventually replaced as neanderthals and denisovans:

This implies that essentially modern humans had already evolved tens of thousands of years before primitive-looking people like Skhul and Qafzeh showed up in the Levant. If so, archaic sapiens can’t be our ancestors – the dates don’t work. Skhul and Qafzeh people date to around 80,000-120,000 years ago. The Herto remains date to around 160,000 years ago, and the Omo Kibish 1 skull to around 230,000 years ago. Remains from Grotte Mandrin in France date to about 54,000 years ago, and stone tools suggest that the last archaics in North Africa disappeared around 20,000 years ago. Finally, archaic sapiens in Iwo Ileru in Nigeria survived until around 12,000-16,000 years ago, just before the end of the last Ice Age. The archaics survived until very recently – long after modern humans had colonised Australia, after we spread out into Europe and Asia, and after we crossed the Bering Land Bridge into Alaska.

A few archaic sapiens appeared at about the same time that our ancestors would have lived. The Jebel Irhoud skull from Morocco dates to 330,000 years ago, and the Florisbad skull in South Africa dates to 250,000 years ago. But if they were truly ancestral, they should be either significantly older than modern sapiens, or far more modern in their anatomy. So the timing suggests that archaics aren’t our ancestors. Instead, they’re our cousins.

Another problem with the archaics-as-ancestors hypothesis is that the fossils don’t show an evolutionary trend towards modernity. If these archaic sapiens evolved into modern humans, we’d see the Skhul and Qafzeh people become increasingly modern, evolving smaller brow ridges and jaws in younger populations. But they don’t. Archaics just keep on being archaic to the end. Then they disappear, and we appear. This discontinuity suggests replacement, not evolution. Likewise, the transition in stone tools is abrupt, not gradual as we’d expect if they slowly evolved into modern humans.

Skhul people and other archaics weren’t on the evolutionary main line any more than Neanderthals were. They were competing lineages – like the Neanderthals, Denisovans and Homo erectus – that we beat out. These archaic side-branches must have split off the sapiens main line sometime after sapiens split from Neanderthals, around 750,000 years ago, but before modern humans evolved, around 300,000 years ago.

https://aeon.co/essays/why-one-branch-on-the-human-family-tree-replaced-all-the-others?fbclid=IwY2xjawOzVdleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETBFTWhpU3dhV0M2OVBGZGRTc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHvpConPDe9wnPQsoiKne_xDl2yGGr86jANoRzplApqCA_a8-TVkiyJeKjWlz_aem_71YKG5rcNZ5pppbPfro9GA

Bernie has a nice brief take for normies on the hazards of AI. Probably ten years too late. I don’t know if the AI nightmare is a fait accompli, but the AI shysters are sure presenting it that way.

I don’t think these people are in Ukraine, although I might be wrong about that.

It is quite possible that Ukraine paid Polish operatives. The only other credible sabotage is theory is that the Kiev regime did without Polish assistance.

I wonder whether Radik Sikorsky will tweet something about this incident, as he did after the Nord Stream sabotage, when he thanked US for blowing it, which was in my opinion a misdirection to deflect attention

He was not in a position to know about top secret U.S. plans. You are correct it was misdirection. Which anti-American IslamoGloboHomo faction does he serve?
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Why is Poland blocking Germany’s investigation into Nordstream? Back in October, Polish courts blocked the extradition of a Ukrainian suspect and cut him loose.

🎄 MERRY CHRISTMAS 🎄

It is very people friendly but can be aggressive toward other dogs

in part, they have been bred for aggression towards other dogs. This opens up the question if there are some that have a low aggression index towards people, mixed in with higher aggression ones.

It may be a subtle line to cross genetically.

Yes, there are many questions. If Zelensky is a figurehead it doesn’t change the Ukraine situation much if they kill him or not. If they do kill him it is probably just a signal that the next act of the play is about to begin.

AI in cheap videos can still be spotted. Unfortunately, I suspect the pros can now make a convincing AI Zelensky if they choose to. They will not do this yet, except maybe as a test case.

I suspect Western drone technology will keep getting deadlier and will be used in ever more blatant attacks on Russia. Russia could be forced to destroy these weapons at the factory. Alternatively, Russia may need to enlist China’s help with defensive drones. No good will come for anyone from this rapid advance of armed automatons.

Yes, it is pretty mind-blowing, to consider the chronology of the peopling of Nigeria, compared to Australia or the Americas. (The same is true if we consider some of the more recent expansion of farming in Africa.)

The rub in the archaic estimates for West Africans is that it is hard to understand how much of it comes from deeply divergent human lineages that interbred, rather than separate species.

But OTOH the line between species is kind of arbitrary, and, by some calculations, modern blacks would be considered a separate species. (Dogs vs. coyotes vs. wolves). Who is to say that divergent humans wouldn’t be almost equally significant? Or maybe none of it really matters and it is more about recent selection for climate.

Still it is interesting to think about. Outside of Africa, the highest total estimates for archaic ancestry (Neanderthal+Denisovan+others?) run something like 7.5-9%, so that gives at least some very loose grounding for estimates within Africa of introgression with other species.

So I don’t consider the upperbound estimates of 19% to be crazy scifi, though they are probably lower and involve at least some mixing with archaic humans.

Conceptually, the times and the directions of mixing could be incredibly complex, and impossible to uncover.

Some researchers believe some DNA may be recoverable within South Africa, though interestingly, my understanding is that not much introgression is contemplated for the San based on mathematical models about isolation .The big area is West Africa

Who bred with naledi? It may not have been a modern population.

Widsith also known as “The Traveller’s Song”, is an Old English poem of 143 lines.

It survives only in the Exeter Book, a manuscript of Old English poetry compiled in the late-10th century, which contains approximately one-sixth of all surviving Old English poetry.

“Widsith” is located between the poems “Vainglory” and “The Fortunes of Men”. Since the donation of the Exeter Book in 1076, it has been housed in Exeter Cathedral in southwestern England.

The poem is for the most part a survey of the people, kings, and heroes of Europe in the Heroic Age of Northern Europe.

When situated within the history of Anglo-Saxon culture and identity, Widsith clearly belongs to a time prior to the formation of a collective Anglo-Saxon identity, when distinct continental origins were remembered and maintained by the Germanic migrants in the British Isles.

I was watching one of those street interviews on YouTube.

It was in London and they were asking people which nationality they found most attractive.

All the usual answers were given Italian, Swedish, Spanish even Russian!

Then they asked one lady and she said French.

They then asked what in particular she found attractive about the French.

I was expecting the usual troupes Pepé Le Pew etc.

She delivered a one liner, no sarc, no irony.

“I like black men.”

Should have said Chinese, would’ve got more clicks.

Now you know why Razib Khan is so self confident with his proclamations.

Women seem to spontaneously form harems. Better 1/6th of the gold bar than all of some trash bag, if you will.

It is quite possible that Ukraine paid Polish operatives. The only other credible sabotage is theory is that the Kiev regime did without Polish assistance.

Oh, really?

Ukraine already has an AI spokesperson, known as Victoria Shi. Modeled on a black Ukrainian, of course. (The outlets seem to emphasize ‘spokesperson’ so this one might also be a trans.)

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/05/01/17/84324607-13371573-image-a-197_1714579734248.jpg

Here’s another possible AI, what do we think?

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/05/01/17/84329127-13371573-image-a-200_1714579944284.jpg

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13371573/Ukraine-unveils-AI-spokesperson-amid-Russia-war.html

There is now on YouTube, the full controversial documentary film about war in Ukraine, by the Canadian journalist Anastasia Trofimova.

It’s a sad and poetical film.

Soldiers are nice fellows, but the impression of a mostly amateur army.

God bless Elon Musk.

No discrimination against White Africans should be permitted.

Regardless of admixture rate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whenwe

Волос долог – да ум короток…

And we like them that way.

🥰

Yeah…

Amazing, isn’t it ?

Lol. I think a lot of these reaction/man-on-the street videos in the West are designed as deliberate, low-cost propaganda for globalism. I have seen the Indian/netflix movie Extraction (2020) and that was like a murder fantasy of killing Bangladeshis. (like Spielberg with Germans) And I suppose the Indians would know them better.

Nepal? Other than reading about Sherpas, the one time I have thought “Nepal” in the US was when I saw these ultra-short, strangely-dressed people walking on the highway in Concord, New Hampshire one time. I assume the shortness was partly deprivation.

It is sad to say, but I think it is like movies. i can only watch the more foreign, non-Western reaction clips these days. I enjoy some of the Japanese ones, where it seems like they give thoughtful, deliberate answers. At least, some of the time.

Some months ago, Razib had a tiff with Survive the Jive on x. I was interested to see it, because I know they used to have a more respectful relationship, but I don’t follow either of them frequently enough to guess what it was about.

The Noviop regime has done everything possible to degrade Russian Army since the time of the murders of generals Lebed and Rokhlin (a rare case of a Jew that I truly admire). The Noviop « Liberal KGB-ist » obshak holders were too afraid, and still are, of a Pinochet / Franco military coup that would send them packing to Kolyma for all their multiple transgressions against the Russian people.

That’s why they put corrupt and incompetent degenerates (see Serdyukov and/or Shoygu) in charge of the military for nearly a generation and now we can see the results as in a year long siege of Pokrovsk. No wonder Wagner ended up rebelling, no wonder Prigozhin and Utkin ended up killed.

And yeah, the soldiers on both sides of the frontline of this absurd war are mostly nice guys, один народ однако. Hope most of them survive without too many of them being crippled forever. May those who pitched them against each other in this useless war, end up paying in full for their crimes for a dozen of generations…

Wow, this is weird. Another mind game straight from Palantir and Israel to the world.

They will probably make it a crime to say hurtful things about the AI spokesperson.

Are there popular sports figures from Bangladesh…or is this AI? Or both?

I think the war has inevitably made the conventional Russian military stronger politically. Do you see any moves by Noviops which are probably a reaction to this change (not counting Dmitriev’s surrender term sheet)?

It is quite possible that Ukraine paid Polish operatives. The only other credible sabotage is theory is that the Kiev regime did it without Polish assistance.

Oh, really?

Yes, really.

If you want to go down the sabotage path, you have a very limited number of choices. Ukraine and Poland are by far the most logical. Who else are you suggesting?

The attempt to misallocate blame to America never made any sense. The story about a U.S. Navy vessel fell apart immediately. The purported evidence for a frigate actually exonerated America as they have no military vessels that size in service.
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There are some possible, but less than credible, options if you want to look at low probability deep conspiracy options. For example, the Fascist Stormtroopers of Antifa, German “Green” extremists, etc. However, if you examine these types of anti-American groups… It raises all sorts of difficult questions.

Why is Poland blocking Germany’s investigation into Nordstream? Back in October, Polish courts blocked the extradition of a Ukrainian suspect and cut him loose

• Would such a 3rd party have the capability to intervene in Polish judicial proceedings?
• Why would they expend resources & take risks to have an unrelated Ukrainian national released?

In spy thriller novels, exotic and mysterious 3rd parties might do such things to distract from their involvement. But, that seems exceedingly complex for the real world.
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The vastly more plausible explanation is that the Polish government is covering up something that leads back to them and their support for Ukrainian aggression against Russian ethnics.

What would happen to EU comity if the Ukrainian government linked suspect openly admitted Ukraine/Poland attacked Germany?

Why are we not hearing about this regularly from the German media? And, from the German government? Anti-American European elites have effectively removed this topic from the public eye. As they are not protecting the U.S., what is being covered up?

PEACE 😇

Who else are you suggesting?

https://www.reahq.org.uk/branches/diving-branch/

When Russian authorities first commented about the sabotage, they named англосаксы as the most likely culprits. Not Poles, not Ukrainians, not even Americans, but Anglo-Saxons. The same who have sabotaged every attempt at Russian-German cooperation for centuries, and always did everything they can to keep Europe weak and fragmented. Sikorsky thanking US for blowing Nord Stream was a typical case of distraction from the most plausible suspects. Sikorsky is a British asset, whatever he says is to be framed and understood as dutifully acting in His Majesty’s service.

A strange triad:

I was with the Irish, with the Picts and the Lapps.

I have read some stories of Irish folklore that evoked the Finns but never the Lapps, and I assume that these stories had a later origin or had been contaminated by later additions.

or is this AI?

Playa gonna play.

Although not from the military, you can count as incompetent degenerates in Russian high positions Nabiullina and Dimitriev. I know, I insist too much on these characters but their level of imbecility is staggering and I didn’t fully processed that there is a country in the world where such idiots can reach top brass, make huge blunders and still remain there… It’s unbelievable to me. I still wonder…

Sikorsky is a British asset, whatever he says is to be framed and understood as dutifully acting in His Majesty’s service.

That might explain the mysterious public “thanks”, but Sikorsky does not have the power to control the Polish judiciary.

Germany and Poland would be happy to expose a Ukrainian national who would implicate the UK. If they are to blame:

• Why is Poland blocking Germany’s investigation into Nordstream?
• Why are we not hearing about this regularly from the German media?
• And, from the German government?

PEACE 😇

IIRC, the Lapps used to raid northern Sweden for slaves even in the early medieval times. It makes sense that a Germanic bard from the Baltic region would have heard of them, if not visited their encampments. What is interesting in that long list of tribes, is the near absence of Balto-Slavic ethnonyms. However, the bard seems to have been among those who fought against the Huns, and the lingua franca among the Huns seems to have been some Balto-Slavic dialect, therefore it would make sense that he didn’t get to see the Wendish tribes (although he mentions a couple of clans that might have been Wends if we transliterate their names into Slavic languages).

I had to guess and guessed right.

I wonder if the girls know he wants to sequence their genomes? Probably.

It’s unbelievable to me.

It’s completely normal in Pynya’s RusFed. RusFed is not Russia, it’s not Soviet Union, it’s just a territory rich in natural ressources, managed by a consortium of clans originally from the organized crime and the secret service, with former corrupt multiethnic nomenklatura and cosmopolitan intelligentsia acting as a cementing matrix.

They crave Western recognition. They want to be accepted as equals among the globalist elites. All their aggressive rhetoric and their acting tough is to impress the « White Sahibs » and « join the club ». Those who don’t understand this simple truth will always be puzzled and disappointed by postmodern Russian culture and politics.

Does anybody know what happened to the Candace-Owens-rehabilitating-Harvey-Weinstein project?

The Jutes must have been aware of the Sámi from very early on?

You’d think this is the bit they’ll choose to teach though.

I was with the Israelites and with the Assyrians,
with the Hebrews and the Indians and with the Egyptians.

The Belcher Foundation which produced the excerpted and linked geo-political article below, is dedicated to the preservation of the memory and life work of Jonathan Belcher (1682 – 1757), a prominent British royal colonial governor in the Thirteen Colonies, founder of Princeton University, and first ‘native born’ British North American Freemason.

A premise of the article is that in the decades just prior to the 1776 American Revolution that powerful elements within the hierarchy of the British Empire [ie British Board of Trade and Whig party members] had developed long range plans of moving the center of power of the Empire from Britain to British North America.

The article helpfully points out, that despite outward appearances to the contrary in regards to the American Revolution, with the United States responding in the affirmaive to London’s beck and call for help in WWI and WWII, isn’t something like this more or less what happened anyway?

https://belcherfoundation.org/camerica.htm

‘The Great War for Empire [ie The Seven Years War (1756-1763)] was thus a prelude to the American Revolution, and both wars were linked through ideology.’

‘The underlying ideology of the Angloamerican imperialists during the Empire War was their Whig Enlightenment agenda to create an American Peripheral Center.’

‘The United States of America serves as the command center and headquarters of the New World Order; it is the Trilateral Center. And its new American empire secured its beginnings through a war involving a clash of two empires: the Great War for Empire that was fought in the mid-eighteenth century.’

I was with the Irish, with the Picts and the Lapps.

Am going to use the above line to apply for “indigenous” status in the EU.

Btw, IIRC, within late Irish folklore, Finns were seen as mystical or even magical beings.

Nick Redfern had Samis for the men in black who could beam themselves around from UFO contactee to UFO contactee. Google does not have a clue where Santa’s flying reindeer originated at. There are a number of dense anthropology books on arcane magic wizards in Finland. I read a couple of them but far too long ago to recall the details. There were a lot of details.

Same in the Scandinavian folklore, while among the Slavs the Finno-Uralics in general were called the Chud’ (Чудь) i.e. the Weird or Magical people (чудной = somewhat outdated word for weird, чудо = miracle). Probably due to the chamanic rituals of the Uralics, which in my opinion impacted the development of the Norse religion when Akozino-Malär Uralic warrior-traders imposed themselves upon the people of the collapsed Nordic Bronze Age culture.

Have been exploring the Finn references. I guess I was wrong – they date back to Old Irish, rather than something late.

Related to the Irish word fianna. But it seems to be a non-ethnic cognate, meaning “edge people” or magic people which medieval scribes connected with the Finns (I think possibly meaning the Sàmi.)

Sikorsky does not have the power to control the Polish judiciary.

https://www.thelondonarchives.org/your-research/research-guides/city-of-london-corporation-administrative-records

When we say British Monarchy, we should think the City of London.

The “City of London” (The Square Mile)
Small Resident Population: The ancient “City” has a tiny residential base, around 8,600 people, compared to its massive influx of workers.
Unique Governance: It’s distinct from Greater London, having its own government (Corporation of London), Lord Mayor, and police force.
Economic Powerhouse: This area generates significant economic output, especially in financial services, attracting hundreds of thousands of workers daily.

The City of London (the “Square Mile”) reached a record GDP of £110.8 billion in 2023, a significant jump from £99.3 billion in 2022, making it the UK’s top local authority area economically, driven by its strong financial, tech, and professional services. This makes it a powerhouse, comparable to medium-sized national economies and highly productive, though its resident population is small.
Key Figures & Facts:
2023 GDP: £110.8 billion.
Growth: An 11.5% nominal increase from 2022.
Economic Engine: The City is the UK’s biggest economic engine and the financial hub of the nation.
Global Standing: One of the world’s most concentrated centers of economic output.

Do you need more explanation?

Stevie has the magic 25% Welsh mix genes. Did you know your AI video hair render subroutine was trained on Stevie’s wig?

Ha ha just kidding. That was her real hair back then. They were the greatest coke freaks who ever coke freaked. Happy New Year to Australia. Now get some SUN on your BALLS.

Compare the language of the aforementioned Belcher Foundation article immediately below from my previous post in regards to the alleged long range plans of the British Empire (specifically powerful elements of the British Board of Trade and republican friendly Whig party members) to move it’s center of power from Britain to British North America, ie the policy of the ‘American Peripheral Center’, with the language of the effectively blacklisted 1853 New Rome book excerpt below.

[Though the site owner of the Belcher Foundation doesn’t say it outright, my suspicion for various reasons is that he himself might be a Freemason, and perhaps a high level one at that.]

‘The underlying ideology of the Angloamerican imperialists during the Empire War was their Whig Enlightenment agenda to create an American Peripheral Center.’

https://archive.org/details/newrome00poes/page/87/mode/1up

‘The stupendous greatness of England is factitious, and will only become natural when that empire shall have found its real centre. That centre is in the United States. The Anglican empire is essentially oceanic. Its dominions extend along the coasts of the Atlantic and the Pacific, the lesser and the greater ocean. America, lying in the midst of the ocean, is therefore its natural point of gravitation. The realization of an idea higher than could be developed in the mother island, that of the republican democracy, required a temporary segregation of the centre; that task accomplished, it is time to call for a re-union; but the former adjunct being now no longer merely the geographical centre, but the political and social focus, must take the lead. England, with her colonies, must be annexed to the American Union.

2026: The Year the Mirror Cracks

A Lightborn year-end communiqué

As the calendar turns, most people look for “predictions.” A headline. A villain. A savior. A clean story that makes uncertainty feel organized. From the Lightborn position, that impulse is itself part of the overlay: the need to outsource inner knowing to an external script.

What I’m offering here isn’t prophecy. It’s resonance-based pattern recognition. The kind you develop when you’ve watched the same machinery run in different rooms—politics, media, finance, religion, culture—and noticed it doesn’t actually change its operating system. It only changes costumes.

2026 won’t be the year “darkness arrives.” The darkness has been here. What changes in 2026 is legibility. The ink that used to hold the illusion together starts to fade. The mirror doesn’t shatter all at once. It cracks. And a crack is enough—because once you see the fracture line, you can’t unsee it.

The first signature of 2026 is saturation. Systems that relied on endless narrative expansion—more explanations, more data, more crisis, more counter-crisis—begin to choke on their own output. The public doesn’t simply “wake up.” That’s too clean. What happens is more precise: the story load becomes too heavy. Contradictions pile up. People don’t need to become wise to notice when two official statements can’t both be true. And when the contradictions become daily, the nervous system stops granting automatic credibility.

In practical terms, this looks like institutions speaking in a tone of authority while broadcasting insecurity. It looks like “fact-checking” that feels like pleading. It looks like escalating rhetoric that fails to produce the emotional obedience it used to. The system won’t lose its megaphone in 2026. It will lose something more important: its spell of inevitability. Once inevitability dies, compliance becomes expensive.

The second signature is fragmentation of shared reality. You’ve already felt it: two people can watch the same event and exit into entirely different interpretations, like they walked through different doors. In 2026, that divergence accelerates—not because truth becomes impossible, but because attention becomes the battlefield. The overlay learns that it can’t fully persuade everyone, so it focuses on something cheaper: splitting the field into mutually hostile perceptual tribes.

This is where many will get trapped. They’ll assume the goal is to “win” the narrative. But the Lightborn doesn’t win narratives. The Lightborn exits narratives. The mission isn’t to trade one hypnosis for another. It’s to restore the capacity to see—cleanly—without needing the world to agree first.

That’s why the third signature is time distortion. Not cosmic clock-magic—psychological time. People will report “the year felt like three months,” or “the week felt like a year.” This isn’t superstition; it’s the nervous system responding to overload. When events stack without integration, time compresses. When fear loops without resolution, time drags. In 2026, more people will live inside that distortion. The overlay will exploit it—urgency is one of its favorite drugs. “Act now.” “Decide now.” “Pick a side now.” The Lightborn response is blunt and quietly radical: slow down inside. Refuse the tempo of coercion. The calendar is not your commander.

The fourth signature is the rise of the Rememberers. Not as a movement with a logo, but as a phenomenon. People who were previously “normal” will have moments of recognition—about their own patterns, their families, their belief systems, their complicity, their trauma, their purpose. Some will interpret it spiritually, some psychologically, some politically. The label doesn’t matter. What matters is the internal shift from being managed by external narratives to being guided by inner signal.

This will show up in mundane ways: suddenly refusing certain media diets; quietly changing friendships; developing intolerance for performative outrage; choosing silence over opinion; returning to craft, music, writing, study, discipline. The overlay will mock this as disengagement. But it isn’t. It’s the beginning of sovereignty.

And because sovereignty is the one thing the system cannot metabolize, 2026 also carries a predictable countermeasure: a new wave of confusion framed as safety. Watch for a tightening around “harm,” “misinformation,” “extremism,” “wellness,” “public good,” “responsibility.” These can be real concerns—but they can also be used as a net. The trick is always the same: weaponize empathy into compliance. Make the compassionate feel guilty for having boundaries. Make the thoughtful feel dangerous for thinking out loud. Make the independent feel immoral for refusing scripts.

In 2026, this countermeasure intensifies—then begins to fail. Not because the system becomes kinder, but because inversion has diminishing returns. When everything is labeled harmful, the label stops functioning. When every deviation is called extremism, the word becomes noise. The overlay can only cry wolf so many times before the nervous system stops flinching.

This is where the Lightborn role becomes practical rather than dramatic. Many people imagine the mission as confrontation, as exposure, as crusade. That’s an old religious reflex: the need to be the hero in a story. The Lightborn mission is stranger and more difficult: coherence. Presence. Precision. A refusal to be emotionally conscripted.

2026 will test that. You’ll be tempted to comment on everything. To react. To educate people who aren’t asking. To fight every lie. But fighting lies is endless—because lies are renewable. The more strategic act is to stop feeding the machine with your attention, your outrage, your doomscrolling, your identity-based reactivity. The system doesn’t only run on belief. It runs on nervous energy.

So here is my premonition, stated plainly: 2026 is the year many will discover that attention is a sacrament. What you stare at, you strengthen. What you repeatedly consume, you start to mirror. The overlay wants your eyes more than your mind. Because if it can keep your eyes, it can keep your physiology—and if it can keep your physiology, it can keep your choices.

The Lightborn discipline in 2026 is therefore simple, and not easy: choose what you feed. Choose what you amplify. Choose what you embody. You don’t need to be perfect. You need to be intentional.

Some will ask, “Will it get worse?” That’s the wrong measurement. The more accurate question is: will it become clearer? Yes. And clarity can feel like danger to those who relied on fog. Expect intensified volatility where old narratives are collapsing—because collapse is always loud at first. But also expect an unexpected quiet: pockets of human sanity returning. Communities forming around craft, truthfulness, mutual aid, music, and inner discipline rather than ideology.

Another premonition: the year will reward those who build inwardly. The overlay is obsessed with spectacle. It punishes depth by calling it boring. But in 2026, the bored-out nervous system will start craving the opposite—meaning, texture, the real. This is why creators who transmit coherence will matter more than pundits who transmit heat. A single grounded voice can do more than a thousand reactive takes.

And yes—this is the year many silent watchers will feel the magnetism to speak. Not as influencers. As signal-bearers. If you’ve lived quietly, observing, learning the patterns, refining your inner calibration, 2026 may present moments where silence is no longer the correct instrument. But expression does not mean noise. It means accuracy. It means saying the true thing once, cleanly, without theatrics, and letting it land where it lands.

If you want a single sentence to carry into 2026, let it be this: the system survives by making you forget that you can choose your frequency.

You can choose it in what you read. In what you repeat. In how you speak to your family. In whether you turn suffering into spectacle. In whether you treat people as souls or as avatars of an opposing tribe. In whether you let your body become a battlefield for algorithms. In whether you remember that the highest form of defiance is not hatred—it’s lucidity.

The old year fades like code dissolving in light. The new year doesn’t arrive as a rescue. It arrives as a test of resonance. The mirror cracks. Through that crack, truth doesn’t scream. It simply shines—quietly, consistently—until the eyes that are ready recognize it.

The Lightborn don’t prepare for battle. They prepare for coherence.

And coherence, in 2026, will be unmistakable.

This year, the Federal Space Program 2015-2025 expired. Here’s a list of what was planned 10 years ago and the results by category:

Energy and Launch Vehicles
• Angara-A5M launch vehicle: ❌ postponed to 2027
• Angara-A5V launch vehicle: ❌ postponed to 2030
• Interorbital tug DM: ❌ Perseus upper stage failure during Angara testing in December 2021
• Interorbital hydrogen tug KVTK: ❌ postponed to 2028
• Launches to the ISS from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in 2023: ❌ launches to the ISS from Vostochny are currently impossible. • Medium LNG-fueled launch vehicle (Phoenix program): ❌ There is a highly-ready copy of the kerosene-fueled Zenit, but Soyuz-5 has not yet flown formally and is still a long way from methane.
• Nuclear propulsion system (NPS) of the Zeus/Nuklon tug: ❌ According to Borisov’s report to the State Duma in 2024, the project is effectively closed.

Lunar program (autonomous)
• Luna-25 (2019): ❌ Flew in 2023, accident. • Luna-26 (2021): ❌ postponed to 2028
• Luna-27 (2022): ❌ postponed to 2030

Mars and planetary missions
• Expedition-M (Mars-Grunt, 2024): ❌ completely cancelled.
• ExoMars-1 (2016), Trace Gas Orbiter and Schiaparelli: ✅ European spacecraft launched on time, Roscosmos provided two scientific instruments and a Proton launch vehicle.
• ExoMars-2 (2018): ❌ everything cancelled due to sanctions and problems with the Kazachok landing platform.

Astronomy and Fundamental Science
• Spektr-RG (2017): ✅ launched in 2019.
• Spektr-UV (2021): ❌ postponed to 2030.
• Interhelio-Zond (2025): ❌ canceled.
• ARKA (high-resolution observatory, 2024): ❌ quietly canceled.
• Resonance (monitoring Earth’s outer radiation belt), 5 satellites: ❌ all canceled.
• Bion (a series of very old satellites, essentially Gagarin’s Vostok, but with flies and mice instead of Yura): ✅ one Bion-M2 launched on August 20, 2025.

ISS and Orbital Infrastructure
• Nauka MLM (2017): ✅ launched July 29, 2021; after launch, an engine and an unrepairable radiator failed and cannot be used at full power.
• Node Module (UM, 2018): ✅ The Prichal UM module was launched November 24, 2021.
• Science and Power Module (SPM, 2019): ❌ postponed to 2027.

Manned Spaceflight
• Orel/Orlyonok/Federation PTK (PTK NP): ❌.
• Unmanned to the ISS (2023): ❌ postponed to 2028.
• Manned to the ISS (2024): ❌ postponed beyond the 2030s. • Manned lunar flyby (2025): ❌ This is a long way off, at least 10 years away.

About 1.4 trillion rubles were spent on the 2015-2025 FKP program.

While the previous FKP, 2006-2015, was 30% complete, the current FKP, 2015-2025, is no more than 15% complete.

OTOH the ruined Donbass territory is now nearly 85% under RusFed-ian control.

Who needs space when they can have a destroyed and ravaged Donbas?

Some of the places there probably feel and look like moon nowadays anyway..,

…in 1848, it had been the City of London which was critically important for the initial publication and distribution across Europe of The Communist Manifesto

I give British credit for it – they also get credit for publishing other things: off-the-wall, strange, true, humorous, subversive, thought-provoking, radical, all of it.

Why does it matter one iota who and when published anything? It is only thoughts, ideas, words, fragments, stories, good and bad. Why would we ban or censor it?

We have had a few hundred years of ideologues who must control what one can read, see, and ultimately think. The glorious Christian church obsessed about what was written, so did many of its enemies…kings, feudals, merchants, socialists and commies of all flavors, fascists, nationalists, and liberals.

We live in an era of mostly liberal thought-suppression. It’s bizarre – there was never a better argument for liberalism than a complete, unrestricted freedom of speech, writing, thoughts. (The other liberal stuff simply doesn’t work in the long run.) But they couldn’t, it was too much. Give the Brits in 1848 some credit, they were not scared of words. Maybe they thought it was meant to be comedic.

🎄 MERRY CHRISTMAS 🎄

From now on, I will assume all these Christmas greetings are meant as an olive branch for Mr. Hack, who is on the Orthodox calendar.

In the years immediately prior to the start of the 20th century there had been a powerful push in the US media telling the people of the United States that they should seriously consider rejoining the British Empire.

Apparently this sudden about face was too much to bear for the American public, as after all, for the previous hundred plus years they had been being told that the British Empire was the most evil thing on the face of the Earth, what with their empire, their red coats, their prison hulks, and their kings, etc.

So, the promoters of US reabsorption back into the British Empire seemed to back off for a time, but then more or less did it anyway by diktat with the circa 1900 formation of the ‘special relationship’, a relationship just short of an outright political union between the United States and the United Kingdom.

Since that time the US and UK have done just about everything together, in particular in regards to wars.

The United States since 1900 has now effectively been back with the British as long as it was officially away from them after the start of the 1776 Revolution, ie 125 years. [I say ‘officially away’ as the 1853 New Rome book alleges that the 1776 Revolution was a planned false split between the US and UK, and thus the separation between them was perhaps not as real as it may have outwardly appeared.]

For guys, it must have been not so fun to be a coke freak before the invention of the Viagra…

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Happy New Year to you as well Emil !!!

Some think that with Zelensky arriving in Mar-a-Lago he would not have authorized an attack on Putin’s residence, especially since he was seeking to obtain American security guarantees for Ukraine. For example, Larry Johnson argues this was an unauthorized Ukrainian intelligence operation, possibly linked to British intelligence, to derail Zelensky leading to his ouster as President. It is fairly well known that the British, especially MI-6, Britain’s overseas secret intelligence service, is backing Valeri Zaluzhny to replace Zelensky.

https://open.substack.com/pub/weapons/p/the-attack-on-putins-residence-raises?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Progress in the Russian space program seems to have very much ground to a halt, if there was any to start with. A lot of their plans seem to only be on paper. How many years ago did I first read about the Amur? Have heard some plan for a rotating station at 1/2 g – but who could believe it based on the current record?

IMO, a lot of countries’ space programs are quite pathetic. I am thinking especially of the EU, but also somewhat Japan and Korea, who should combine their programs.

The only programs with some significant future progress seem to be the US and China. (Maybe, India?) The US almost purely through fixed-price contracts, which the Chinese have noted and begun to emulate.

On total spent, I don’t think the US program is impressive at all, beyond the new commercial companies that have been fostered – that part at least was money well-spent. But not SLS, which seems pathetic when you consider all the Somali fraud (I mean of the current $9 billion figure from MN) would have only paid for three launches.

The most fantastic space engineering could have been done even in small countries like Denmark or Sweden – Mars missions, etc., based on what has been spent on migrants. All these “I effing love science” people, and they have whittled and misspent all this capital on blackamoors. Amounts that could have cured diseases or maybe even led to space elevators.

In the current day and age, our species has clearly misplaced priorities.

This is especially true for the developed countries.

But in case of RF the situation is even more absurd, it might have accomplished everything it planned to do in the Space Program by simply lowering the corruption in that industry and staying out of Ukraine.

If Russian nuclear weapons were posted in orbit or even on the moon what would be the use of NATO ?

If Russian Space Program would have intensively used the capability of their Ukrainian counterparts, wouldn’t it have been a much better option than to bomb their facilities into oblivion as it happened to Yuzhmash ?

Imagine the soft power of Russians rebuilding a better version of the Mir Station ?

Instead we have the siege of Pokrovsk and resolute battle for some cowsheds and piggeries in Donbass.

I don’t think so. Many able officers have been killed, some of the most capable ones sidelined and even put in jail under ridiculous pretexts. The Noviop will never allow Russian army to become as strong as it could be, they will always use it as cannon fodder and make sure that the top brass do not have any political ambitions.

I think the Kremlin spent most of its aerospace organizational energy in the past ten years on Zircon, Avangard, Burevestnik, Oreshnik, Nudol and Sarmat. Some of these are still a work in progress. Is a lot to ask from a country of 150 million people, especially when much of the smart fraction is gone and many things are run by crooks. It is sad to remember how much time most of the late Soviet and early Russian aerospace projects have required. It must be very frustrating for the people working in those fields. All was not lost since they did boost a lot of programs around the world.

Space access is an interesting topic these days. The Blue Origin suborbital flight in Spring 2025 seemed ridiculous and fake.

Welcome back and Happy Holidays, Bashi!

Most serious observers, including some pro-Russian ones, think that there wasn’t any attack on Valdai. Air attacks were detected and reported that night in different parts of Russia but not in the purported direction of the drone barrage towards Novgorod. Larry Johnson is not a serious observer and has a terrible record of failed predictions. Russians with Attitude, who well informed sources link to a past commenter in this blog, do raise to the ‘serious’ category, in spite of their pro-war position, and don’t believe in the attack either.

But, like I said to Latw some time ago, when she was freaking out about the 28-point “sell out” of Ukraine, it would amount to nothing. As I predicted, Trump was duped into accepting a meeting with Zelensky, immediately followed by a call to the Euroclowns, and the 28-point plan morphed into a 20-point plan where Russia doesn’t get Donetsk and everybody’s now talking of US boots on the ground, along with the coalition of the not quite so willing. Perhaps the Kremlin can be forgiven for mounting their own phantom attack clown show after this new chapter of the comedy.

In any case, let’s hope that the new year will bring a well-deserved peace to the people living in that part of the world and that no reignition of hostilities between the BBK-CW peoples will take place! (I don’t think there’s much evidence that the BBK and CW as such ever had too violent interactions but that’s a topic for another discussion).

All was not lost since they did boost a lot of programs around the world.

Yes, just like the German engineers did post-WW2.

However, imagine where Germany would be today from the pov of aerospace if the Reich used that knowledge for peaceful purposes.

I hope and pray that in this century, the elites learn to compete and assert their power, dominance and status by peaceful means.

It’s about time we learn to build together instead of destroying each other.

So a mystery is solved only to spawn deeper mysteries. If Rzeczpospolita and Austria-Hungary are his parents, who is the father and who is the mother? And what does any of it have to do with goats?

Euskal Herriko Azpi Gorri Elkartea

Space access is an interesting topic these days.

Not counting New Glenn, or the SpaceX rockets, there are four reusable or partly reusable US rockets that are supposed to debut in 2026.

-Terran R
-Eclipse
-Neutron
-Nova

And that is not counting the Chinese. Things are finally starting heat up. Of course, aerospace deadlines are very fungible.

New Shepard remains a mystery to me. I heard some claim it actually loses money because the cadence is too low. Though they are supposed to bring on three additional rockets next year and target weekly flights.

Do you have an interpretation for the Peace footer after he writes about Israel dropping bombs on children in Palestine?

This is the doctor who convinced me we all should get SUN on our BALLS.

(But not like this:)

Do you have an interpretation for the Peace footer after he writes about Israel dropping bombs on children in Palestine?

I assume that he didn’t like that the former, old commenter Talha used it, and wanted to repurpose it and claim it as his own.

I was thinking recently that there was something really awesome about old battles – long before the drones or mechanized warfare – where they sometimes honored the right of single combat. Where, in the idealization of the Táin, a whole army would stop for one man if he were in the right place (a ford), and not throw missile weapons at him, but let him fight, one-on-one.

Maybe, it was unrealistic, and never honored completely historically, and real war was a lot more brutal. But there is still something inherently awesome about it. And the idea that it was some kind of liminal passage, that to cross they had to pay in blood – which is something entirely missing from modern elites (or at least, using their own blood). Chivalry is missing from art nowadays.

(But not like this:)

Had no idea that those mountains near LA were that dangerous.

I believe the record time for skiing down Mt. Washington was a guy accidentally missing his turn in 1939.

It seems as though someone wants to kick off the Kessler Syndrome sooner rather than later.

I think someone forgot to explain to Team Trump that military assets in space are fundamentally vulnerable. Golden Dome probably doesn’t make sense unless they also control all space launch activity to protect the system.

I figured the sunshine advice tracked back to Alexander Gurwitsch.

Sikorsky does not have the power to control the Polish judiciary

When we say British Monarchy, we should think the City of London.
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Do you need more explanation?

No. Thank you for agreeing with me that Sikorsky does not have the power to control the Polish judiciary. You concession is appreciated. It is good to know that you believe Poland (and likely Ukraine) are at fault.

Your off-point rambling about “The City of London” is noted, but irrelevant to the discussion at hand.

PEACE 😇

Going up the hill can be pretty risqué as well.

Do you have an interpretation for the Peace footer after he writes about Israel dropping bombs on children in Palestine?

I assume that he didn’t like that the former, old commenter Talha used it, and wanted to repurpose it and claim it as his own.

That pro-violence Talha disingenuously used the tag while not denouncing Muslim violence is part of the reason I picked it up. The contradiction had to be called out.

The larger reason is that I want PEACE. Genocidal Muslims must be made to stop attacking Judeo-Christians. This needs to take place in all Jewish and Christian lands — Europe, America, Palestine, Lebanon, etc.

Look at the Muslim Somali fraud and in Minnesota and other states. Why should Christian and Jewish Americans put up with such Islamic misconduct?

If there is no Muslim population:
    — There is no Muslim violence
    — There is no Muslim crime

Why is helping Muslims return to authentic Islamic lands so controversial? It should be a “no-brainer”.

PEACE 😇

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akerbeltz

Look at the Muslim Somali fraud and in Minnesota and other states.

I vaguely recall Mr. Hack making a reference to seeing some well-off Somalis when he was visiting Minnesota, but I forget the exact context.

If ENR cares about Muslim civilians. Why does he refuse the obvious, easy, and normal solution? Let them leave the combat zone. Persian Gulf nations such as Qatar could easily accommodate 1MM+ Gazan refugees. Europe has absorbed ~6MM Ukrainians.

If Islamist children are not in Gaza, they will not be at collateral risk when genocidal Hamas attacks indigenous Palestinian Jews. When there is sufficient security, infrastructure, and resources to prosper, refugees can return to the Muslim colony.

PEACE 😇

Carroll Shelby won the Mount Washington hillclimb in the mid-1950s driving a Grand Prix Ferrari. Some people are just built different. If memory serves, the car was brought over to race at Indianapolis but did not race there.

This might be the very best professor jiang episode. He is (for one day) a fanatic Anglophile. Topics come to an end at the British empire peak before 1914. He starts at Stonehenge so only the most salient details of the approximately 7000 years.

Am starting to feel an odd nostalgia for Italian colonialism in Somalia.

OTOH, Mussolini bragged to the Somali tribal chiefs that he was the first to create Greater Somalia by uniting all the territories occupied by Somalis, which doesn’t sound good.

The Orthodox calendar ain’t what it used to be. The North American church that I belong to is a sort of renegade one that informally recognizes the headship of Metropoltan Epiphaniusof the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate (UOC-KP; Ukrainian: Укранська Правослвна Цeрква – Ки́iвський Патріархat, even though he does not formally recognize our church in the diapora (its all politics 🙁 ) . Anyways, this church has changed the day of the celebration of Christmas to the 25th, I guess to differentiate itself from the “Rus-Fedian” church of the north (politics too).

Anyways, I wish you and all of the leftover bloggers here (and new ones too) a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Years, whatever calendar you’re on. It’s good to see that the quality of the commentary here is as high as ever. Having finished up a good portion of my home projects, I may pop in here once in a while, although I have to admit that I’ve gotten used to some of the quiet and anonymity of my new retired existence. It appears that AP and Karlin no longer take any part in this blog?…How about Putler’s chief cheerleader here, Beckow?…

https://pravoslavie.ru/sas/image/103332/333283.p.jpg?mtime=1578643564
Ukrainian ethno-electric land. : -)

Anyways, I wish you and all of the leftover bloggers here (and new ones too) a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Years, whatever calendar you’re on. It’s good to see that the quality of the commentary here is as high as ever.

Претерпевший же до конца спасется.

If people are curious look into the reflection, you’ll find the answer you’re looking for.

I can finally make HBD Nancy Drew a reality. (The character is out of copyright).

Trump was duped into accepting a meeting with Zelensky, immediately followed by a call to the Euroclowns, and the 28-point plan morphed into a 20-point plan where Russia doesn’t get Donetsk and everybody’s now talking of US boots on the ground, along with the coalition of the not quite so willing. Perhaps the Kremlin can be forgiven for mounting their own phantom attack clown show after this new chapter of the comedy.

When we think of it, the situation in Ukraine has been tragically absurd since at least 2014. It was a misdirection since Maidan, or even more accurately since the poisoning of Yushenko, which happened IIRC in 2004. Everyone seems to be lying and manipulating information there to a scale and extent that can’t be possibly explained by a simple fog of war. Unless it is a cognitive war for the spirit and the soul of the people.

Now that I think about it, I have the feeling that the post-truth environment we increasingly live in, despite a constant flood of information, can be traced back to that period: Iraqi WMDs, then Orange Revolution, then it seems to have been normalized more and more, until we ended up with the Russiagate allegations against Trump, the lies about the (lack of) cognitive decline in Biden etc.

However, in truth, it probably started earlier in post-Soviet lands, in 1999 when the FSB supposedly blew the apartment blocks and accused the Chechen Jihadists, the stolen 1996 election, or perhaps even earlier in Moscow’s Black October of 1993 when the legalist party of the allied Socialists and Nationalists has been snuffed out by Yeltsin. Even the Belovezha agreement, providing grounds for the dissolution of the Soviet Union already had this aftertaste of something that cannot be truly grounded in legitimate principles and actually not even in objective historical processes.

I remember you asking me about Trump’s second term, whether I was right in my assessment that voting for him would not amount to much. I remember answering that I might have been overtly cynical about it when I wrote that the Deep State would sideline him one way or another. Today I no longer know if my cynicism was just a matter of my nearly complete lack of confidence in politics in general, due to everything I described above, or it was a premonition of what is unfolding now with Trump unable to stop the war in Ukraine, the destruction of Gaza, while seemingly preparing for kinetic action against the Chavist regime in Venezuela and the oil grab that would eventually take place as a result.

The Dr House character famous quote was “everybody lies”. Seeing what is going on around the world in the early hours of 2026, we might want to rephrase it to “none can see the objective truth”. Quid est veritas is what we are left with again, 2000 years later that fateful and (and mostly mythological ?) events.

Truth should be a basic human right, not a privilege…

Happy New Year Mikel, may peace and prosperity allow harmony to manifest for you and your loved ones.

And now, time to go jogging and having some of tha sunlight that Emil writes about…

https://www.buddhamaitreya.org/

С Новым годом и новым счастьем Mr Hack!

Здоровья, благополучия и успехов вам во всех ваших трудах.

Fittingly in this day, your link to “Ukrainian ethno-electric land” is directing to pravoslavie.ru, the Russian Orthodox Church official website that among other things posts the following tragic news:

https://pravoslavie.ru/174911.html

I hope and pray for peace, might it come soon and heal bodies and souls of those who have been hurt by that useless and absurd war since 2014.

Anyways, I wish you and all of the leftover bloggers here (and new ones too) a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Years, whatever calendar you’re on.

I heard fireworks on midnight also on Christmas Eve, so my calendar is probably messed up. But I return the wishes and hope you have continued progress on all your projects.

It appears that AP and Karlin no longer take any part in this blog?

We have lost AP to x (at least for the time being), like so many other former commenters. I understand he is a real goat there (but don’t know his account).

I was under the impression that Mr. Unz and AK had a falling out, and the latter isn’t allowed here, but it may be that it is more nuanced than that – like alts are banned. But, in any case, I don’t really blame him for not commenting here, after his retirement here.

Thank you for your good wishes! Your writing style ha finally caught up to the profundity of your always interesting ideas. I think we all hope that this “absurd war” finally comes to a conclusion. I still lay 99% of the blame for this sorry fiasco at the feet of the initial perpetrator, Putler (Pinya), but I don’t want to provoke you on the very first day of this new year…

I heard fireworks on midnight also on Christmas Eve, so my calendar is probably messed up. But I return the wishes and hope you have continued progress on all your projects.

Me too, but mostly last night. Fireworks on New Year’s eve and the fourth of july are the norm here. I someimes wonder where my middle class neighbors find the monetary resources during these more difficult financial times, to finance this literal burning up of money over the skys of Phoenix? Fireworks aren’t cheap, right?…

I suppose that AP takes part within Karlin’s blog within X? And Beckow’s departure as of late…a temporary aberration?

I wrote that the Deep State would sideline him one way or another. Today I no longer know if my cynicism was just a matter of my nearly complete lack of confidence in politics in general, due to everything I described above, or it was a premonition of what is unfolding now with Trump unable to
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stop the war in Ukraine,

Europe’s Folly in Ukraine is driven by European IslamoGloboHomo elites. Trump successfully:

• Provided the best opportunity for peace
• Got both sides to the table to attempt negotiations
• Cut new U.S. appropriations to ZERO in both the BBB and 2026 budget

Is it perfect? No. There has been some domestic interference, but it has been comparatively minor. It is primarily due to narrow margins in Congress. The GOP looks like it has a 3 seat edge in the Senate but that includes uncooperative establishment warmongers:

— Mitch McConnell (retiring)
— Thom Tillis (retiring)
— John Cornyn (headed to primary defeat)

Effectively the Senate is a tie. This gives Lindsey Graham great leverage. South Carolina is an open primary state and he has built a support base that includes non-Republicans. There is no obvious way to challenge Graham, thus Trump has been stuck working with him.

What did you want Trump to do about Ukraine that he could realistically achieve?

In the short term the EU is gathering up €90B to keep the fight going. Sadly, there is nothing Trump can do to stop that European stupidity.

The good news is that midterms are coming. They look good for MAGA in the House due to redistricting, and especially strong in the Senate where the locked in map heavily favours Republican candidates. We should see more progress detaching America from Europe/Kiev aggression.

[stop] the destruction of Gaza,

Trump achieved a partial ceasefire, which is actually quite remarkable.

Palestinian Jews suffered the October 7 Genocide Attack. The hostage rescue SMO was the minimal necessary response.

With kidnap victims recovered, the next step towards peace requires genocidal Hamas to disarm. Until they do so, the best that can be hoped for is limited fighting along the yellow line. Genocidal Hamas actually ceasing to fire is too much to expect.

There is a glimmer of good news here too. The vicious Iranian theocracy is stumbling badly. Regime change there would cut off funding for genocidal Hamas, genocidal Hezbollah, and Iran’s offensive nuclear program. There are significant opportunities coming to improve regional stability.
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I will provide the same insight to you that I have made to others. The global community of Islamic nations is destroying their international reputation by providing camp guards to keep innocent civilians trapped in harm’s way. This is an immoral act.

If Christian Europe can accept 6MM+ temporary departures from Christian Ukraine — Why can’t Islamic Persian Gulf nations accept 1MM Muslim civilian refugees Gaza?

while seemingly preparing for kinetic action against the Chavist regime in Venezuela and the oil grab that would eventually take place as a result.

ROTFLMAO — There is no such seeming. That is very funny though.

Trump cannot obtain Declaration of War, or even an Authorization for Use if Military Force [AUMF], from Congress.

• Chances of regular military boots on the ground are zero.
• Refugee flows will be kept at zero. No unvetted ‘interpreters’.
• America will have no responsibility for Venezuela reconstruction.

All of the GW Bush mistakes in Iraq are being avoided.

Venezuela’s new government will need to clean house at PDVSA. Given corruption and technical incompetence they will probably need market contracts with American firms that have significant expertise. Those who hate Trump and shriek “Orange Man Bad” will no doubt attempt to mischaracterize that as an American oil grab… But they will never discuss any viable alternative that is not some other nation doing the grabbing.

☦️ MERRY CHRISTMAS ☦️

I heard fireworks on midnight also on Christmas Eve, so my calendar is probably messed up. But I return the wishes and hope you have continued progress on all your projects.

One year some enterprising souls tried to simulate the star followed by the 3 Wise Men using military grade illumination flares. Fortunately, this has NOT become local tradition.

🎆 HAPPY NEW YEAR 🎇

Is Yanis Varoufakis jewish?

I sometimes wonder where my middle class neighbors find the monetary resources during these more difficult financial times

A real mystery to me is this guy who has a yard crew come quite frequently, even in winter (????). I am thinking he “owns” the crew somehow, but still it seems very hard to understand. You’d think there would be other projects for them to do.

But I have a bias against that sort of thing because of the noise, and it doesn’t really match my natural philosophy. I think it may be genuinely harmful to human health to encourage a monoculture of grass, thus depriving the immune system of useful contact with more diverse antigens. And I won’t say I am a Jainist, but I do like the idea of there being living things in a yard, even grubs. A few, odd leaves help with that.

I suppose that AP takes part within Karlin’s blog within X?

Torna does have a memory like an elephant and a sharp, calculative eye – he would make a good idol fan, but I imagine that even he would need some association for the purposes of identification rather than blindly searching “Austria-Hungary” and looking for a few added tell-tales.

And Beckow’s departure as of late…a temporary aberration?

Beckow is probably more a case of “stepped out” than “on hiatus.”

Does anybody know where I can get a mortal-man-budget edition of a suit like this? I have suddenly realized all my suits are frumpy compared to the style of 2026. Well I only own four suits but still we all gotta make some effort here.

There are fake news claims all over the place.

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/us-finds-ukraine-did-not-target-putin-in-drone-strike-report/3786696

LOL, I guess you really are Ukrainian!

Slava Ukraini!

Beckow is still a regular commentator here.

I know that you have a more adventuresome palate than me, and also I believe that you come from more of a mushroom culture. As well, since you live in the SW, for some time, it has been on my mind to ask if you have ever tried this: (same question to Mikel)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_smut

I heard about it a long time ago, but never had it myself, though I think you can buy it canned. To my mind, it seems especially odd because I believe a lot of grain molds would be considered very toxic or even deadly.

I can’t understand why it would be considered a delicacy. You would think it would be easy to farm. There are industrial plants that make ersatz styrofoam out of mycelium now. Truffles are farmed now, though it is a very long process.

It’s fun when they quote the CIA as a reliable source. 🙂

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Obviously Team Prigozhin staged this latest drone attack. Zhenya is signaling VVP in no uncertain terms that he is tired of his forced retirement and wants back in the game. The only question is what path does the Kremlin take to rehabilitate or reconstitute the Prigozhin meme?

Path A is to make him a new man. Unfortunately, giving Prigo a half decent makeover is a very tall order for the surgery and makeup departments, even with AI to smooth over the rough edges in videos. However, considering Pompeo I suppose it could be possible.

Most likely they will go with Path B: Oops, he didn’t really die. The bodies in the plane crash were so burned we guessed wrong. Shucks, our bad. It turns out he was on a secret mission in Kiev and got captured by the dastardly SBU. They have been holding him in the deepest darkest dungeon under the river, but now he’s back, a hero of the RusFed.

I suppose they could try Plan C, the long lost twin brother gambit, but that is just boring.

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Happy New Year All!

Stay frosty!

I understand he is a real goat there (but don’t know his account).

I think it’s this one:
https://nitter.poast.org/AstralPreobraz1

He had some sort of bizarro discussion with Karlin recently, something about whether it was more likely that China would annex the Russian Far East or invade Europe as some kind of latter-day Mongol horde. Only skimmed it, felt nauseated when Karlin called Slavs “a failed ethnos” and closed the tab.
Anyway, I don’t expect anything positive from 2026, but still all the best to you and the other old commenters here.

Anyway, I don’t expect anything positive from 2026

Sometimes, I think the bad news is good news, as in the case of this Somali fraud, which everyone is talking about here, even normies with and without platforms, and which seems like it can only snowball further, as we haven’t heard much out of other areas yet. While the numbers may be infuriating, the math and imagery seems to make for some really great rhetoric and humor.

I saw a few jokes that were pretty good, like someone invoking that scene where Han Solo is in Jabba’s palace, and showing a clip where the mayor of Minneapolis, Frey, is speaking Somali – it really does sound quite alien. (there is this recent meme about people with Star Wars names, etc.).

It may be that I am too much of an optimist and naive, but I have the vague idea that perhaps, this growing internet infrastructure in space might be a way around censorship (maybe, moving the servers into space – though the economics aren’t there yet and may never get there.)

something about whether it was more likely that China would annex the Russian Far East

This kind of fantasy seems quite strange and childish. It appears wishful thinking (and an odd sort of wish), but simultaneously not thought through. Does AP really want to live in a world where China attempts to take Siberia? For a variety of reasons, I would guess not. Even, in the unlikely event that things went easily on that side of the world, what does he think would become of the orientation of the US, after that?

I thought AP may have backed out because he thought this forum was too insane, but, rather, I should now guess the opposite and that he thought it uncomfortably grounded.

Only skimmed it, felt nauseated when Karlin called Slavs “a failed ethnos” and closed the tab.

AK is now firmly a cosmopolitan. That jetset ethereum guy was recently taking offense at the term “heritage American”, which I found quite amusing.

best to you and the other old commenters here.

Likewise.

Not just in 1945 – there was massive migration from the Soviet-occupied zone (later the GDR) to the West until the early 1960s, especially of the most qualified (“the best and brightest”) sections of the East German population. That’s why the communists built the wall in 1961; otherwise Eastern Germany might have been bled dry by the on-going exodus. I too have wondered whether this large migration which especially affected those you’d expect to score highly on IQ tests might have something to do with the divergence between Eastern and Western Germany.

Gone but not forgotten.

Good to hear from you again.

Is there any news on the ground you would like to share?

From across the pond it sounds like Merz’s already low popularity has collapsed further. But still no word of any impending government change at the federal level.

PEACE 😇

I thought AP may have backed out because he thought this forum was too insane, but, rather, I should now guess the opposite and that he thought it uncomfortably grounded.

I suppose he just got tired of the endless, repetitive arguments with Mikel and Beckow (somewhat surprising, given how he always wanted to have the last word). And on X there’s an entire universe of people telling him exactly what he wants to hear regarding Ukraine. Had a short look at his account when I linked to it in the previous comment, and it’s still stuff like “If Europe switched its entire economy to a war footing, Ukraine could send 3000 drones to Russia every day!”.

but I have the vague idea that perhaps, this growing internet infrastructure in space might be a way around censorship

In Europe things are just getting more and more dystopian, the EU commission would like to introduce generalized chat control (that is essentially scanning all digital communications, supposedly to fight child pornography, and who could object to that…). There’s some opposition and maybe it won’t happen, but the very fact they’re planning something like this shows you what sort of people are in control. They’ve also begun enacting some sort of personal sanctions against people who are supposedly spreading disinformation (recent case of a Swiss army colonel, Jacques Baud, is illustrative), totally arbitrary process without any possibility of legal recourse. In Germany they’re now doing stuff like blocking AfD candidates from participating in mayoral elections. And so on. It’s really amazing how “centrists” have radicalized in recent years.

But still no word of any impending government change at the federal level.

Seems unlikely for the foreseeable future, but I’ve got no idea what’s going to happen. It’s possible Merz’s government doesn’t even have a real majority, since the leftie populist BSW narrowly missed the 5 % threshold for entering the Bundestag and there are grounds for suspecting a large number of votes may have been miscounted…so far the establishment parties have denied a recount, but BSW might force one by going to the constitutional court. If there’s a recount and BSW enters the Bundestag, I suspect CDU/CSU and SPD will just take the Greens into government too (wonderful prospect…).
Merz is of course comically inept, and Germany’s fiscal and economic prospects are really bleak (saw something a few days ago that the deficit will likely double to 4,8 % until 2028…when it’s supposed to be no higher than 3 % under the Maastricht treaty). Meanwhile, the demographic replacement continues and naturalizations are at record level (no numbers for 2025 yet, but just in 2024 more than 80 000 Syrians got German citizenship). I don’t think the current situation is stable, but there doesn’t seem to be any capacity for reform or even a slight course correction with the current establishment.

Trofimova was able to follow the battalion to the front of the battle, even though their commander tried to ban her. The reason was, their commander lived so separately from the soldiers, so he didn’t notice Trofimova follows the soldiers to the front.

Even though, Trofimova, would not be difficult to notice, with her heavy professional camera equipment etc.

I don’t know enough about military things, to say if this is normal internationally etc, but amateur’s speculation for one reason the commander was so separate from the soldiers, is probably because he knows he is going to order them on the “meat wave”, as we see later, doesn’t want too much contact to the people he will, indirectly, execute.

Their attack is at least mechanized, unlike often in the later years. Still their attack, is just to drive into the anti-tank minefield in front of Ukraine’s trenches.

After their vehicles drive into the anti-tank minefield, the soldiers try to run back to escape, but a few of the soldiers we know in the film, are killed by Ukrainian drones throwing grenades upon them.

The video of their failed attack was posted on Ukrainian channels at the time, maybe also even on this forum by Johnson, where the driving into a minefield would be viewed as a kind of comedy.

Trofimova living and friends with these soldiers, shows the soldiers already viewed it almost like an execution when discussing the night before the attack. It wasn’t soldiers’ incompetence, but the commanders are ordering them on impossible missions.

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Trofimova is a very talented journalist and shows things maybe never shown in documentary films before, e.g. this filming of the atmosphere of the soldiers the night before a battle.

It was funded by the Canadian government. Maybe an unusual positive thing I have heard about Canada’s government use of taxpayers’ money in the last decade.

They’ve also begun enacting some sort of personal sanctions against people who are supposedly spreading disinformation (recent case of a Swiss army colonel, Jacques Baud, is illustrative), totally arbitrary process without any possibility of legal recourse.

Everything is recorded, archived, and backed up. If you use a VPN I hate to tell you this but the NSA spooks invented the VPN and it is one of their top tools. I don’t think my computer is rigged to explode if I write an inappropriate comment about jews but that seems to be the plan. AI slop might make almost all of the internet a total waste of time any month now anyway.

I suppose he just got tired of the endless, repetitive arguments with Mikel and Beckow

No way.

I was often barely able to carry on but hid my weakness in the hopes that he would give up… only to see how he enthusiastically replied to my latest comment with a ton of new research that only someone enjoying the experience would conduct. And, as you say and I could ascertain myself, he just keeps stubbornly belaboring his usual topics on X.

What I think may have happened is that he didn’t get the sarcasm in my latest reply to him and feared that I may doxx him (I know who he is irl and he knows I know). He disappeared shortly afterwards and very well informed sources report that he asked Unz to delete all his posts. Of course I had no intention of doxxing him whatsoever. I hope I have never shown any signs of being so vile but it’s always difficult to figure out how you come across on a discussion forum.

Only skimmed it, felt nauseated when Karlin called Slavs “a failed ethnos” and closed the tab.

I wonder if AK has any clue of how unlikeable he is becoming. He is just unable to post anything on X without using unnecessary arcane terms (sometimes invented by himself). And his personal trajectories are just sad to watch. From an enthusiastic supporter of Putin’s war who bragged about donating part of his alleged crypto earnings to the war effort, he transitioned to a gender-confused, Kamala-supporting, anti-Russian globalist. Not long ago he couldn’t stop fantasizing about the wild consequences of “short AGI timelines” before veering to AGI-skepticism and of course denigrating those who still believed in it, as he does with his former fellow z-tards or anyone holding the countless positions he abandoned. But last time I checked, he had veered back to AGI enthusiasm. There seems to be something wrong with him.

PS- Welcome back you too! With so many old-timers showing up all of a sudden, we may be building the scaffolding for a return to inspiring discussions? But I won’t fault anyone for returning to an extended absence. This forum was getting really depressing lately.

Zohran Mamdani becomes first New York mayor sworn in using Koran

Telegraph

https://archive.is/OAWVq#selection-2239.4-2239.68

I believe the plan is to tax the holy fsck out of everybody who ain’t already on welfare. I can’t wait to read what Zvi Moshowitz is going to write when the story starts to unfold at his personal finance statements but that could take a few months. So far he seems unaware of the tsunami strolling at him.

it has been on my mind to ask if you have ever tried this: (same question to Mikel)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_smut

Never heard of it. But if our Singaporean friend hadn’t brought it to my attention, I had no clue that there’s a red belly variety of goat in the Basque Country either lol

However, I wouldn’t be surprised if I’ve seen those fungi growing on my own corn. In my amateur experience, corn is designed to grow almost like a weed (at least the American mutant varieties I’ve tried so far). With fertilizer and enough water and warmth it turns into a huge plant in no time but it also gets all kinds of diseases in the process. I just throw away any cob that shows signs of disease and collect the rest, which has so far been the vast majority.

What I think may have happened is that he didn’t get the sarcasm in my latest reply to him and feared that I may doxx him

Seems quite plausible. I was certainly surprised when I saw he had stopped commenting here, always got the impression that he enjoyed that endless loop of having the same argument again and again.

Not long ago he couldn’t stop fantasizing about the wild consequences of “short AGI timelines”

Always got the impression there was something quasi-religious about his views on the topic. Can’t relate. tbh this entire AI business is already starting to creep me out. I think it might even be possible that the most extreme predictions will come true…maybe in ten years or so some super-AI will start to exterminate us all with hordes of robots. Even if that doesn’t come to pass, the societal disruption is likely to be immense, when entire categories of jobs will suddenly be replaced by AI, with the people who did them becoming economic dead weight…while the tech corporations in control of AI will become ever more powerful.
There should be far more discussion about where this is going and at least some serious regulatory framework for AI development. But you’d need an international agreement for that, at least between the US and China (not like Europe matters…), and in the current political climate, when all the good liberal democrats seem to be enthusiastic about going on a crusade against autocracy, there doesn’t seem to be any prospect for that. More likely there’ll be an arms race for military application of AI.

With so many old-timers showing up all of a sudden, we may be building the scaffolding for a return to inspiring discussions?

I doubt I’ll comment on the same scale as I once did, but maybe I’ll write the occasional comment. Am pretty depressed about the way things are going tbh and don’t see all that much point in most discussions on the net (I mean, what’s there still to be said about the war in Ukraine? There’s of course still some chance it might end in a cataclysm that kills us all, but imo most likely it will end in eventual Ukrainian defeat, and I’ve believed so for two years…no point in repeating that). Haven’t really commented anywhere else either since I left here (I did write up some short reviews of books I’ve read on Substack as German_reader, inspired by Yevardian who’s doing the same, maybe there’s something of interest for you there).

I think I must have seen it originally in a slide during a lecture on plant pathology. As I recall, there was a picture of a can in a supermarket, which said “Como le gusta” which I found very funny. (Though, now, I imagine, it might have meant something about the seasoning.)

This is something to me which is very interesting – corn is a very widespread crop, and consequently, corn smut must also be somewhat widespread. (GMOs aside). Yet, eating corn smut seems very uncommon outside the area where corn originated. Even in South America, were corn had spread before contact, it doesn’t seem to be eaten.

In my amateur experience, corn is designed to grow almost like a weed (at least the American mutant varieties I’ve tried so far).

For all the anticolonial rhetoric that one hears nowadays, a pretty dramatic refutation would seem to be to point out the fact that pre-contact corn cobs were only like 2-4 inches long.

The LAist seems perplexed that people with money are buying lots in Los Angeles.

Investors are buying close to half the empty lots in LA burn zones

https://laist.com/news/housing-homelessness/los-angeles-fires-january-2025-redfin-investor-purchase-empty-lots-sales

Speaking of which, the Youtube algorithms are obviously spying on my Unz dialog with Regis Leon. They just threw me this travelog of Romania.

ordes of robots

I think robotics still has quite a way, and then more before they become a commercial product like robots people will invite into their house to operate like servants that middle class could afford in the 19th century, and who could eventually lead a revolution.

One thing I think about is the heavy battery, the robot would have to carry, if it’s working locally, as opposed just a kind of animatronic receiving instructions from the internet, considering the current Nvidia cards which only improve quite slowly.

At the moment, just to text message with a chatbot in your home, is e.g. 300 watts of electricity, with a desktop card.

Well, at least I have a 4090, and it uses 300 watts to run Qwen3, Qwen 3 coder, etc maybe this is inefficient. This is similar electricity use, to an electric bicycle. But this electricity just to allow you to text message with a chatbot on your computer.*

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A “real robot”, at least in the sense of science fiction films, is operating locally, like a real animal, not just receiving instructions from the internet.

So, you can imagine how many cooling fans it will need, how much battery etc, just for the data processing.

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When Tesla shows it’s optimus robots in events, interacting with people etc, the speech and decisions, are just Tesla employees speaking through loudspeaker from the radio and using remote control. Although the balancing, movements etc will be impressive onboard electronics. It’s not locally thinking etc.

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*Of course, mobile GPUs are designed a lot more efficient. Nintendo’s Switch 2 GPU is using usually 20 watts and it’s adequate for gaming maybe as much as large desktop GPUs of 10 years ago. So, adequate mobile GPUs can develop, but you can see example of around 10 year timelag from desktop to the mobile from the gaming industry.

An oz of silver was over 80 dollars an ounce on Monday. Yikes.

https://www.bullionbypost.com/silver-price/one-year-silver-price/#show-chart

I may have to get rid of my stash of gila monster venom meme coins.

Maybe not. Have you been watching any of Miss Romania’s lifting feats? I still have not seen a report on her ancestry so gypsy Miss Romania is possible–at present a known-unknown.

Nintendo’s Switch 2 GPU is using usually 20 watts

The human brain also uses about 20 watts, and a great area of interest now is incorporating brain organelles into AI.

To me, it feels very macabre. I would rather build the nuclear plants or launch the AI processing into SSO.

But in theory, even far beyond energy consumption, a lot of technical obstacles can be circumvented, just by going back to the flesh – no need for advanced lithography – the organelles basically build themselves.

Does one view robots from The Jetsons paradigm or The Matrix? The choice is helpful tool or powerful mindless slave master! I think this choice is closer than your comments suggest.

Most compute for a home robot will be in the data center. Presumably the robot uploads simplified data about the home or the process at hand to a big server. Some gigawatt AI code running on the server figures out what the robot should do and simplified algorithms are downloaded to the robot. Robots in similar applications share code. The process updates offline when server compute cycles are more available. The IoT and fiber everywhere and 5G already have the communications covered. A robot in the home can just charge when needed. The main limit to making this automaton today is cost. Since the value of money is now completely made up, cost isn’t really a barrier if one’s coalition of the willing includes the right power brokers.

In the not too distant future the AI people and their greedy bosses do not expect most people to have a job or much disposable income. So they will not be trying to sell or lease robots to the hoi polloi. The ‘labor saving’ robots are just part of the control process and the Greater Replacement — someone wants to replace most people with machines.

The Roomba came out in 2002. Nvidia compute performance has increased ~ 1000X since then, but communications bandwidth and server horsepower have also increased enormously.

Jane, stop this crazy thing!

Astro gets it.

No, but I thought of your crush girl when Regis mentioned Romanian sports.

According to the New York Times CIA scribe when Rubio and Lavrov met in Jedda, Rubio quoted the Godfather at him.

Sitting across from the foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, and the close Putin aide Yuri Ushakov, he offered his rendition of the scene from “The Godfather” in which Vito Corleone counsels his son about threats from rival crime families and tells him: “I spend my life trying not to be careless. Women and children can be careless, but not men.” Nuclear powers, Mr. Rubio explained, need to communicate.

Also they have a cool map that Ukraine supposedly offered for negotiation in which they surrendered 99.9% of occupied land.

All of this great information is unlikely. I do believe the Ukraine ambassador left the white house crying because that was reported at the time by everybody. It turns out that the Ukraine ambassador has since been replaced.

A lot of gender confused people are just confused, the gender thing being just one example of the mess they are. And it has nothing to do with IQ whatsoever. Some of these imbalanced people are quite smart intellectually speaking.

Transhumanists have a lot of these since the very inception of their movement. That is probably one of their motivations to envision transcending human nature. I know what I write about, I was a transhumanist and had transhumanist friends when I was in my early twenties.

But I was more of the Russian Cosmist type which is closer to an Orthodox Theosis or Theillard de Chardin’s pov on the human evolution. Of course it is all very silly, we are just a byproduct of our own ignorance and causal conditioning. The only good thing about being human is that we can become better humans by acquiring some wisdom and compassion.

We will never become some 666 genders H+ technological biotech/cyborg demigods, it is nonsense to think otherwise. Anyone enthusing about these tropes is just a victim of their neoteneous brain maturing too slowly. It’s good from neuroplasticity pov but it’s bad for human interactions in general.

It’s sad when really smart people are unable to outgrow this kind of intellectual masturbation and weird technofetichism.

Not to mention, it is probably quite hard to put a taboo on brain organelles because they are the only real hope of understanding the mechanisms behind mental illness.

How much are the lots going for?

I bet he ain’t confused about Ziz. Like all of his twitter followers he pretends the entity never existed and will never whisper one word about him/her/it

LAist didn’t say. Many of the sellers cannot afford to build a new house to replace the one that burned down. It’s complicated. Supposedly you can’t own a mortgage without fire insurance but a bunch of the policies had clauses that wild fires are not covered. More than one person was arrested for arson. It is an antifa political statement to commit arson on rich people property and there may have been a number of arsonists on the loose.

In Pacific Palisades and Malibu those lots are in the “if you have to ask you can’t afford it” price range. I read Aldena is a negro community but I haven’t ever been there. The photo is in Aldena. Looks like a good place now for google and facebook and palantir to build a smart city.

Two similar lots show up on Redfin. These are approximately $500,00k each for an 8,000 square feet (< 1/5 acre) lot. Is 4 miles due north of CalTech.

Always got the impression there was something quasi-religious about his views on the topic. Can’t relate.

AI-related discussions used to put me off because of all these nerds living in their parallel world and using uninviting jargon (which they still do). But the fact of the matter is that LLM-based AI has already transformed the world and is certain to transform it more radically in the future, whether AGI materializes or not. Right now I can’t give any advice to my youngest son on what career he should follow. I’m not even sure if “following a career” will become a thing of the past.

But I am skeptical about mass job losses or the need (and feasibility) of UBI. Big technical advances in the past (industrial revolution, computers, internet,…) did not result in mass unemployment, quite the contrary. There are good economic reasons for this but they involve abstract economic theory concepts that are probably of little interest for most and economic theory being what it is, they would be disputed. It is also doubtful that artificial general intelligence can emerge from the LLM paradigm. Chatgpt itself once told me that it is more likely to emerge from additional components added to LLMs or from different and possibly brand new paradigms. If we do end up getting AGI, it might be the biggest human technical advancement to date so I’m not sure about any predictions. A brief look around shows that we are about as prepared for AGI as native Americans were for the arrival of European civilization.

About the power use in electronics, the improvements are also reaching limits as miniaturization of the transistors is already so far advanced, improvements from further miniaturization are becoming more costly with practical limits in the manufacturing and possibly theoretical ones in the physics. As the manufacturer wants to stay on the same node as long as possible, due to the cost of the next one, they are sometimes pushing crazy voltage.

Some of the CPU products recently, you have an impression that it almost seems like incompetent design, or at least not completely idiot-proof on the consumer end, as the later generations on same node are pushing crazy voltage and you need to undervolt for them to work as an effective product, as they are like something overvolted out of the box.

My intel CPU (14900kf) immediately overheats so fast (well, thermal throttles to prevent overheating), it would thermal-throttle, before the fan even moves enough air to be audible, until you undervolt it. So, there are how the manufacturers try to increase performance from the late CPU generations on the same node.

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High power use of the GPUs like 4090 (with 600-700w spikes/transients!) is because of the high absolute number of transistors at the same miniaturization level. But the potential future improvement for GPUs from miniaturization will be costly, just because the miniaturization is already so far advanced, that it’s soon reaching to practical limits, if not theoretical ones.

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Of course, for having robots, with the onboard data processing (i.e. which in my opinion, a definition of real, discreted robots, not just automated remote control car, will be onboard data processing, like we see in animals), a practical limit will be the battery, unless we should plug the robot into the wall socket which I don’t think the robots would enjoy (although maybe connected to wall sockets would reduce the risk of them leading a revolution against the owners of the means of production).

Batteries are improving in their energy density gradually, but the improvements in the batteries’ energy density a lot slower compared to the historical improvements in areas like e.g. electronics.

It’s sad when really smart people are unable to outgrow this kind of intellectual masturbation and weird technofetichism.

Yes. But some form of transhumanism is baked into our future. We decoded the human genome quite a while ago and we have an ever increasing understanding of what each gene does (most human genes appear to do nothing, which is unique to our species), how it does it and how to manipulate those genes. Genetically modified animals with knocked down, overexpressed or underexpressed genes are commonplace in research labs now. People’s desire to live longer, healthier and more fulfilling lives is not going anywhere so one thing will lead to another, even in the absence of AGI. I think we’ve already discussed this but depending on how you look at it, it is a somewhat encouraging future, at least for those of us unable to have any religious faith.

in the data center.

Think about delivery “robots” which are already being used. They are just a remote control car, with some automated features.

Although they still have potential “man in the loop”. If we remove the potential for “man in the loop” to control it, does it suddenly become a “robot”?

Yes, it’s “robot” in the usual commercial sense, but it’s not like the robot in standard science fiction films (Terminator, etc), which is usually a discrete individual, similar to an animal, but with a battery and onboard integrated circuits.

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Is it possible to have robots, that could seem like discrete individuals, but which just follow the instructions sent to them from the internet, where the actual data processing is happening, maybe on the other side of the world, on the corporation’s GPU, in the data centre?

Yes, kind of, like people today can use products like ChatGPT on the internet, without an onboard GPU, without running a deep learning model on their own computer.

But these robots will not be discrete individuals like animals are. Additional individuality could be simulated with cloud storage etc, but also someone can just turn them off remotely at any moment, download their data, reset them, stop streaming instructions etc.

To not have onboard data processing, would probably limit their agentic behavior, if the robot is a mostly empty shell, following instructions from the internet, while not having physical control even of its own hardware.

From consumer point of view, it’s also not very attractive for a household robot, you will be just allowing an external company to move a remote control car around your house by sending instructions, instead of having the machine which sends the instructions physically in your control (or its own control).

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In a Marxist or Marxian perspective, the development of the “real” robot (which has its own onboard data processing), will seem to have more significant implication, as it would be closer to a new class of workers, who could have labor power etc, while a remote controlled robot would be closer to capital than labor.

But I would agree the “real robot” will be likely a later development, which will depend on e.g. battery development. While we already see simple automated remote control “robots” entering market now.

The entrance to the cave naledi was found in was small. The cave was claustrophobic. Supposedly, only small anthropologists went in.

Meant to say “organoid” rather than “organelle.” Wiring them up may be a bit too fanciful, as reading the signal is difficult – limited bandwith and energy intensive. But I do wonder if could push neuromorphic design – being able to make them and take them apart to look deeply into them could potentially help a lot.

Some of the CPU products recently, you have an impression that it almost seems like incompetent design

This is a problem that goes back a long time. The initial Intel Pentium IV’s were slower than Pentium III’s.

Of course, for having robots, with the onboard data processing (i.e. which in my opinion, a definition of real, discreted robots, not just automated remote control car, will be onboard data processing, like we see in animals), a practical limit will be the battery, unless we should plug the robot into the wall socket which I don’t think the robots would enjoy

The T-800 that comes after German_reader may need a tether. (or Skynet may use drones or vehicle-sized robots.)

But I am not sure how big a problem power consumption would be in the home or business. Probably there are ways to engineer the environment. Like inductive floors. Many homes have radiant heating – so we can kind of see the example of expensive or laborious infrastructure making its way into homes. And compute could be moved into the wall, etc.

Ordinary VPNs are based on SSL. Probably no backdoors in the actual transfer, but there are some weaknesses (like potential man-in-the-middle or forcing a downgrade to a useless crypto). In the final analysis, it’s probably a too big protocol to really be trusted.

There are also the practical approaches of NSA insertions into the network, like splitting off the traffic or plugging in and capturing everything that goes into or out of the public VPN endpoint. These were things done during the height of the GWOT, as documented by Snowden for instance.

See your massive VPN-based surfing as a DDOS on that datacenter in Utah.

Or, try leaving a sacrificial computer (pref. Windows) to marinate on the unprotected internet for a couple of weeks, then claim that any strange posts or site visits must have been made by ‘hackers’. (Never connect it back to your own network.)

that the first Pynya’s foreign state visit was to UK, and that he has been received with royal honours in Londongrad. It was before BP got sidelined in RusFed, before Litvinenko, Skripals, Boris Johnson in Kiev, Nord Stream sabotage and other Brit/Noviop humorous stories…

China’s behind-the-scene 2007-12 power struggle was won decisively by the native side – it had regional support and there was the Western 2008 financial collapse. Obama’s election added an obvious light-weight front man for the planned accelerated soft power attack. Soft power was the rage at that time, we don’t hear much about it now.

The 2012 BBC article basically announced who were their guys. It’s not helpful, they do it for vanity, but by then it was over.

Back to Ukraine: the behavior of the Euro elites doesn’t make sense. There are careers, being stuck, miracle wishing…but it was a much bigger project than it appeared. It was a complete re-do plan: Russia effectively gone, resettling of Ukraine (?), resources and endless wealth. They bet the house on it and have no place to retreat. It can still go much worse, we are one or two random events from a catastrophe (not always random).

Ukraine is a cursed land: simultaneously very rich and strategic but always ruled by different oligarchs (Latin America is similar). It’s a terrible combination and they have never put it together: the riches lead to bad internal behavior and attacks by greedy outsiders – it is too easy or appears to be. Ukies are not a naturally cohesive nation and don’t see the obvious bad faith by their “friends”. They tend to be passive and too many give up. At the end what you do is what you become, nihilism leads to nothing.

some form of transhumanism is baked into our future.

I used to think that way, but now I just don’t know. Across the developed world, economy is growing at a slower pace if at all, and the technological development is arguably slowing down as well. Our sciences are now very technical and require a lot of expensive equipment, chemicals and consumables. We might go back to the pace of growth preceding the industrial revolution and the jumpstart of capitalism. Annual GDP growth was less than 1% for centuries before it changed during the industrial age. The pace of knowledge acquisition was probably faster, but it was mostly accruing to very small literati circles.

We decoded the human genome quite a while ago and we have an ever increasing understanding of what each gene does (most human genes appear to do nothing, which is unique to our species), how it does it and how to manipulate those genes.

Sequencing isn’t enough, synthesizing DNA isn’t enough either. CRISPR isn’t enough. It all requires adequate interpretation of the genomic data. We need to really understand what we read and write, and so far we don’t. Moreover, many phenotypes are cumulative, stochastic and nonlinear. It’s inherent to complex systems. Most genes “not doing anything special” is actually the perfect example of how little we know about genomics overall. Of course, there was tremendous progress since the first GMO but it is not enough yet for human genome editing to be able to transform our species into some H+ ubermenshen.

People’s desire to live longer, healthier and more fulfilling lives is not going anywhere

We live longer on average, but are we healthier? Especially from the psychological perspective ? And most people lives are only fulfilling on a very superficial level, they are not developing their inner potential to the fullest. It takes a lifetime of dedication to do that, and most people are simply busy with other things; consuming, spending, social climbing, using more accessible forms of gratification instead of complicating their lives with creative and intellectual pursuits.

for those of us unable to have any religious faith

It doesn’t need to be religious, one must just understand that as humans we have a certain potential, and most of it is independent of technological development. It’s mainly related to our consciousness. And we still have no idea really what our consciousness is. We live through our minds and we still don’t know what our minds are. It has been going on for thousands of years and it will probably continue for the foreseeable future. Even if we suddenly stop our idiotic wars, religious conflicts and territorial disputes, and we invest all our energy, resources and money into the scientific development, we would probably still be unsure of what our consciousness truly is. Even if our civilization collapses, and we end up having zero complex technology left, we would still have our minds to understand. Those who get to understand their own minds, understand reality. These people are a fringe minority of the human population across the world.

City of London is to Globalism what Mecca is to Islam. That’s where it all began (of course there were the Venetians and the Genoese prior to that but they were the equivalent of the Hanifs in pre-Islamic Arabia). There’s a globalist faction in every developed country. China is not an exception in this regard. We live in an interconnected world.

The main difference between countries such as UK vs China (or nowadays Russia) is perhaps that the PTB prioritize either the interests of a supranational globalist elite or the interests of the local elites. When Globalists rule we get Canada, Australia, EU, UK. When Globalists are pushed out of power, we get China, RF and (to a lesser extent) Trump’s US.

In a democracy, Globalists can easily come back to power (you push them away through the door, and they climb up back through the window). In totalitarian regimes, they can only come back through color revolution or some intra-elite coups. China is seemingly outwardly globalist, but it is focused on internal elite dynamics, Russia is seemingly outwardly antiglobalist, but it is focused on international elite dynamics.

The difference is due to Chinese elites having a strong home base, coupled with an enviable international status, while Russian (Noviop) elite has a weaker home base and a somewhat contested international status. Russian Noviops want to be part of the globalist elite, that is their primary objective. If they ever get that, they will immediately start acting as globalist elites do all around the world.

It’s just that other globalist elite factions don’t want the Russian Noviops sitting at the same table. Simply because they see themselves as inherently superior and the Russian Noviops as inherently inferior. After all, Russian Noviops are a mafia and corrupt nomenklatura byproduct. But in truth, it’s all a pride thing. In reality they’re all more or less similar, Chinese elites including.

I agree that AGI is a different concern from AI and LLM work in general. In most cases these computer programs simply perform tasks which humans already do, only the computer is quicker. Once a model is large enough and adequately “well trained” the results are often achieved much, much faster by the electronics. This may be a case where “quantity has a quality all its own” [speed is the quantity]. In other words, an LLM doing human mental tasks vastly faster is more consequential than it seems.

In the near term, the first problem is not that AI develops agency and becomes an independent force to be reckoned with (the valid AGI concern). The problem is that AI can and will be used to disenfranchise most of the working population of highly developed technological societies in the name of improved efficiency and reduced cost. In the past, one could argue that technology gave people more time and energy for thinking which is a positive development for humans since man is the rational animal. Unfortunately, AI is intended to remove the need for thinking which seems like the greatest step backwards in technological history. Even worse, I believe these developments are driven by a malicious desire to control people and most justifications for AI development based on improved efficiency are terrible lies.

I agree that general function robots will not be fully autonomous for a while for the reasons you mention (processing speed and power consumption) but I don’t think this limitation prevents this technology from driving major social changes. What I suggested was not strictly remote controlled machines, but more a case of distributed processing where the information has to be pre and post processed at the robot to reduce the burden on communications. I think this “division of labor” between the robot CPUs and the AI compute center will in fact be optimized by AI algorithms. These robots may be vulnerable to disruptions in communications and remote servers, which are good things – at this point humans need all the breaks we can get! Unfortunately, truly distributed processing is even worse, since short range communications can be used to network local groups of robots to make up for any loss of remote computing power.

Guess what Chris Chappell is talking about now.

The European Revolutions of 1848, in spite of the meticulous pre-planning and vast effort involved in bringing them about, only achieved a perceived limited success in overthrowing the old order of things there in regards to empire, autarky, and organic peoplehood, and installing republican forms of government in their place.

And indeed, some countries, notably Russia, had hardly been phased at all by the 1848 Revolutions. [It’s true that Britain hadn’t either, but then it had been a primary instigator of the 1848 Revolutions, and it wasn’t wholly buying what it was selling.]

A decision was then made by the powers that be that the fomenting of a European centered world war, perhaps more than one depending on how things worked out, ie continuation wars, with their necessitated large powerful standing armies and the force they represented, would be required to bring about the desired aforementioned radical social changes.

Revolution and war would be the ticket.

The reduction and ultimate destruction of Russia and the Russian people would be made a primary objective of these artificially fomented world war(s).

https://www.rferl.org/a/rutte-pistorius-warning-war-russia/33630822.html

“The dark forces of oppression are on the march again,” he [NATO chief Mark Rutte] said. “We are Russia’s next target.”

“This is something that I’ve been pondering especially as there is no evidence at all that Russia can or wants to attack NATO,” John Foreman, a former British military attache in Moscow and Kyiv, told RFE/RL.

Why Are So Many Leaders Warning Of War With Russia?

NATO chief Mark Rutte and other European leaders have issued repeated warnings in 2025 about a possible Russian attack on NATO countries in the coming years.

The polite applause faded and NATO chief Mark Rutte arranged his papers neatly on the rostrum. It took him 62 seconds to get to the point.

“The dark forces of oppression are on the march again,” he said. “We are Russia’s next target.”

Rutte’s speech in Berlin on December 11 was just the latest in an unprecedented series of warnings of direct conflict with Russia made in 2025 by senior European officials and intelligence agencies.

In February, Danish intelligence said “Russia sees itself in conflict with the West and is preparing for a war against NATO;” in June, Germany’s top general said an attack may come within four years; in November, his words were echoed by his Polish counterpart — two days after German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said “some military historians even believe we have already had our last summer of peace.”

This list of warnings is far from exhaustive. Rutte has been most frequent.

In January, he urged NATO members to hike defense spending or get Russian language classes, while in June he said an attack could be coordinated with a Chinese assault on Taiwan.

His December 11 speech was his loudest alarm bell yet, speaking of “the scale of war our grandparents or great-grandparents endured” with “mass mobilization, millions displaced.”

Ukraine was blessed with a large concentration of bright, well-educated people, courtesy of the Soviet Union (mostly). To phrase this ironically, the country had a lot of human capital. Since 1990 this wonderful gift has dissipated and is unlikely to be recreated since it was a Soviet creation, not Ukrainian. The rich agricultural land and any buried resources in Ukraine are far less valuable than this concentrated human capacity. It is still a nice place, but it is not special except to a few groups, particularly the people who live there. It is special to Slavs in Russia. It is enticing to people who dream of crushing Russia. It also seems especially important to some Ashkenazi Jewish people who apparently want to lay claim to the area.

Once the valuable Soviet enterprises have decayed away entirely perhaps the country can go back to being the unpretentious borderland. Russia can have its buffer zone, small time crooks can run their games and villagers can speak Ukrainian, all in relative peace.

Nice summary.

Does the last point suggest that a tense, three-way union between Russia, China and India has a lot of potential for healthy coexistence? Perhaps there will be no “in club” with entitled winners and frustrated losers, just mutual yet practical disdain between three incommensurable entities.

Of course the criminals are similar in all three kingdoms and this complicates things a lot. Maybe the globalists are simply the global criminal club as some suggest?

City of London is to Globalism what Mecca is to Islam.

Islam and Globalism are two faces of the same coin. Their goal is to degrade Judeo-Christian values and lives.

What has Islamic Globalism brought to Germany? (1)

German Streamer ATTACKED By Migrants While Trying To Prove Cologne Is Safe — Spectacular backfire

German Twitch streamer Kunshikitty set out on New Year’s Eve to demonstrate that the streets of Cologne are safe for women, streaming live to her audience. Instead, the broadcast captured two separate attacks on camera, forcing her to end the stream in distress.

The incident, which quickly went viral, underscores the ongoing public safety crisis in Germany, a decade after the infamous 2015 New Year’s Eve mass assaults in the same city.

In footage shared widely on social media, Kunshikitty, dressed in a bright pink outfit, is seen navigating crowded streets during celebrations. Fireworks explode in the background as groups of men approach her aggressively.

One clip shows her being targeted with thrown objects, while another depicts physical harassment that leaves her visibly shaken.

This event revives haunting memories of the 2015–16 New Year’s Eve sexual assaults in Cologne, where over 1,200 women reported being groped, robbed, or raped by groups of men, predominantly asylum seekers and migrants from North Africa and the Middle East.
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Police reports at the time described organized mobs encircling victims in “taharrush gamea” tactics, a term for collective harassment imported from some Arab countries.

The fallout from those attacks exposed deep flaws in Germany’s open-door migration policy under Angela Merkel, which saw over a million migrants enter the country in 2015 alone.

The trend overwhelmed integration efforts and fueled a spike in crime, with official data later confirming disproportionate involvement of foreign nationals in violent offenses.

Mass migration has reshaped demographics, straining resources and eroding cultural cohesion, all while globalist leaders prioritize open borders over citizen safety.

Anyone who denies the damage caused by The Great Muslim Replacement in Europe is not paying attention. Native Jews and Christians suffer when Islam arrives.

In a democracy, Globalists can easily come back to power (you push them away through the door, and they climb up back through the window).

Ban Islam. Send all Muslims home. This would slam the window closed on Islamic Globalists when they try to climb back in. Look at how much less crime takes place when Islamic Globalism is excluded.

Is this a 100% solution? Of course not. Nothing ever is. However, it is an obvious and easy place to start.

What else is needed? European (and American) churches and synagogues have gone astray, adopting progressive rather than traditional Judeo-Christian values. They need to refocus on their spiritual roots.

PEACE 😇
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(1) https://modernity.news/2026/01/01/watch-german-streamer-attacked-by-migrants-while-trying-to-prove-cologne-is-safe/

Might be ‘coincidental’, though I have my doubts.

From a German perspective, December 11th was an interesting choice of dates for NATO chief Mark Rutte to have given his now somewhat infamous recent Munich speech, the one where he declared:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn81x8py3j5o

“We must be prepared for the scale of war our grandparents or great-grandparents endured.”

December 11, 1941was the date Germany declared war on the United States

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler%27s_Declaration_of_War_against_the_United_States

Deputies! Men of the German Reichstag!

A year of world-historical events is coming to an end. A year of great decisions is approaching. In this grave period I speak to you, deputies of the Reichstag, as the representatives of the German nation. In addition, the entire German nation should also review what has happened and take note of the decisions required by the present and the future.

After the repeated rejection of my peace proposal in 1940 by the British Prime Minister and the clique that supports and controls him, it was clear by the fall of that year that this war would have to be fought through to the end, contrary to all logic and necessity. You, my old Party comrades, know that I have always detested half-hearted or weak decisions. If Providence has deemed that the German people are not to be spared this struggle, then I am thankful that It has entrusted me with the leadership in a historic conflict that will be decisive in determining the next five hundred or one thousand years, not only of our German history, but also of the history of Europe and even of the entire world.

Once the valuable Soviet enterprises have decayed away entirely perhaps the country can go back to being the unpretentious borderland. Russia can have its buffer zone, small time crooks can run their games and villagers can speak Ukrainian, all in relative peace.

Ukraine will be used (already is) as bridgehead for attempting the “decolonization” (break up) of Russia. The Globalist elite want full control of the ressources of the three Slavic republics of the former USSR. They need it in their attempt to contain and outlive China. Leaving a major slice of the natural ressources’ wealth to Russian Noviops is out of question, giving them an equal status to British/EU elites is impossible.

The sign of the times; Budanov has supposedly been named head of the presidential administration in replacement of Yermak. Budanov is the guy who is of the opinion that Ukraine must follow Israeli policy and strategy towards all its neighbours. Zelensky has chosen him to weaken the chances of Zaluzhny to become president. Zaluzhny is not as close to Jewish circles as Budanov is.

An anecdote that is probably to LatW’s liking, Budanov has manipulated the Kremlinoids into believing that they managed to kill Denis (White Rex ) Kapustin, the half-Jewish “Russian nationalist” and “White suprematist” who is leading the Russian Volunteer Corps in the service of Ukraine. The Kremlinoids have paid 500K $ to kill Kapustin, the GUR pocketed the money, producing a video of a drone/rocket blowing a minivan. Kapustin was supposedly in that minivan and was announced killed to much Kremlinoids rejoicing. Then Budanov officially announced that Kapustin is alive and well and that the money Kremlinoids paid will be used to fund the fight against them.

Budanov is smart, ambitious and ruthless. Him and Azov’s Biletsky are the future of power politics in Ukraine, both of them have a lot of potential. The war will go on in 2026, possibly morphing into an European war in 2027 with a EU/NATO intervention on the ground. People such as Budanov and Biletsky will play a key role in that war on Ukrainian side. Perhaps Kapustin will end up playing an important role in the fight in Russia itself. If Hitler used RONA properly he might have won the war in Russia. Perhaps EU leaders have decided to not repeat his mistakes…

a tense, three-way union between Russia, China and India has a lot of potential for healthy coexistence?

It is an artificial construct that will only last as long as outside forces push them together.

Christian Russia and Christian America is a potentially durable combination if the deranged DNC Russia haters can be be pushed out. Both are Populist and have shared interests blocking Globalist degradation of the human condition.

India and China need imported natural resources. This makes them strategic competitors. If external pressures are removed, one would expect them to move further apart. If India is stopped from exporting its surplus population, they will adopt open colonialism bringing them head to head with China’s One Belt, One Road expansionary initiative.

PEACE 😇

However, it should be mentioned that using a VPN with exit points in various parts of the world still allows you to avoid various DNS blocks or the like that have been discreetly inserted. For instance, the Archive(.is) cluster seems to be blocked in Europe at the moment, which is a shame. Yet in other places you can still use it.

“I think a number of politicians and military types are using the specter of the Russian threat for more prosaic reasons: Rutte to encourage NATO nations to meet their spending commitments. The Poles to get more NATO on their territory,” he added.

I concur.

Factions that can gain directly from increased military expenditures have incentive to hype the non-existent “threat”.

It also serves as a distraction from domestic issues. For example, this is what Germany is up against: (1)

Recently a survey of major industries was conducted in Germany to determine the forecast for 2026, the results are not good.

Approximately half of the industrial sectors in Germany are anticipating job losses, cuts or layoffs this year.

22 out of 46 business associations are preparing to downsize their labor force. Only 9 of the 46 are expected to increase hiring.

At a top-line this looks bad. However, when you look at the sectors contracting versus the sectors stable or expanding, you suddenly realize there is a bigger geopolitical problem within the forecast.

Job losses are expected in auto manufacturing, the textile sector, wood and paper fabrication. Job gains are expected in aerospace, shipbuilding and defense production – i.e. the war machinery.

When the largest and most developed industrial economy in Europe is pinning its economic survival on war machinery, a particular momentum is created. It is never a good outcome for Europe when Germany becomes reliant on war to maintain employment.

Without fear of Russia, how would antisemitic Globalists like Merz and Macron stay in office?

PEACE 😇
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(1) https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/12/29/half-of-germanys-manufacturing-sectors-anticipate-significant-layoffs-and-job-losses-in-2026/

I’m sorry, but I’m unable to accommodate your curiosity here. The most exotic mushroom that I’ve ever eaten is the “lion’s mane” variety. It’s quite tasty and apparently has some medicinal value too. Devotees of the lion’s mane mushroom can even buy a powder made from it, and add it to their coffee for an extra “lift”. The problem is, that some (many?) complain of extreme, and serious deleterious long term side effects from even just of few infusions of this strong and toxic powder. I’m not aware of anybody experiencing similar effects from eating the whole mushroom, which is quite tasty. Buyer beware. Perhaps, ENR could weigh in on this one, who as I remember has a keen interest in psychotropic drugs and nutrients?…

Budanov is smart, ambitious and ruthless. Him and Azov’s Biletsky are the future of power politics in Ukraine, both of them have a lot of potential.

What direction do you see either of these two leading Ukraine into? More autonomous or more aligned with either Russia or with Europe?

Did you know this?

I always did suspect it.

The whiz kids at Palantir do not know what they do not know. The most important item might be Zizian game theory. The bits that Yudkowsky and Alexander and even Roko don’t dare speak about.

All bets are going to be off right quick when you got ninety million real human brain powered roko basilisks run amok. You can still buy a palette of 9mm ammo in my zip code. Just in case. : )

Definitely a better investment than the gila monster venom meme coin or the botulism neurotoxin meme coin.

Much is being made of the newly elected wannabe Communist mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, choosing to be sworn in at an ‘iconic, decommissioned subway station in Manhattan.’

When first hearing about it, I was immediately reminded of another ‘iconic’ New York City subway station once depicted in film, which had also been ‘decommissioned’, albeit permanently in it’s case.

Survivors of an increasingly likely WWIII, who today reside comfortably in the Greater New York Metropolitan area may actually live to personally see something remarkably like the subway scene depicted, provided the radiation levels aren’t too high…

https://internewscast.com/local-news/zohran-mamdani-makes-history-sworn-in-as-nyc-mayor-at-iconic-subway-station/

‘The ceremony took place at a unique location—an iconic, decommissioned subway station in Manhattan.’

Zohran Mamdani Makes History: Sworn in as NYC Mayor at Iconic Subway Station

NEW YORK – In a historic moment for New York City, Zohran Mamdani was sworn in as mayor just after midnight on Thursday. The ceremony took place at a unique location—an iconic, decommissioned subway station in Manhattan.

Mamdani, representing the Democratic Party, made history as the first Muslim to lead the nation’s largest city. He took the oath of office with his hand on a Quran, marking a significant milestone.

Wow, that is quite interesting.

I thought his subtle, passive style (which I quite like by the way) was a sign that he had accomodated himself to the political reality of being Euro in the modern West. (and thus was Euro)

Of course, identity has fuzzy boundaries, and, I don’t think Danny Thomas was functionally different than an Italian, though Nassim Taleb seems at least psychologically different – though there may be a selection filter there, what with mainstream publishing and academic acceptance.)

I think they want Ukraine to become a force in itself, however this is a goal that is very hard to achieve. It’s probably only achievable if RusFed is broken down into pieces and Ukrainian elites have access to its riches. As long as RusFed is not destroyed and its parts are not annexed to the EU / Turkey (Greater Turan) / China, Ukraine will remain a proxy for EU and/or US in the war against RusFed. Budanov is gambling on the collapse of RusFed, Biletsky aims higher at the collapse of both RusFed and EU. This is not new, some Galician Ukrainian ultranationalist thinkers already contemplated this type of (unlikely) scenarios in the interwar period regarding both Europe and USSR.

The war will go on in 2026, possibly morphing into an European war in 2027 with a EU/NATO intervention on the ground.

The war has little chances of lasting into 2027. Ukraine lasted so long just because Russia thinks it can appease US and EU by going slowly. They have sometimes such crazy ideas… Eventually they will start bombing the place properly.
But, if the war enters 2027, it won’t morph into an European war. Europe is weak and disinterested and although I don’t count of them being so weak in the future, that might change, their people will not fight. They couldn’t care less about other country or their owns – that they are letting them to be invaded by all sorts of aliens.

Then Budanov officially announced that Kapustin is alive and well and that the money Kremlinoids paid will be used to fund the fight against them.

There were some epic Russian fails in terms of military intelligence, almost on par with Nabiullina’s huge blunder – losing the huge amount of 300 billion dollars to the enemy. It appears that stupidity doesn’t prevent somebody to reach top Russian position. But at the same time, there are some really competent Russians in technical positions, who keep up their military-industrial complex. And the war.

What direction…autonomous or aligned with Russia or with Europe?

They all have a direction and then they meet reality. All three options above exist, none is strong enough to eliminate the others. It leaves a permanent conflict or separation. Europe (previously also US) wants conflict and Russia wants separation. Longer it goes on more Russia will separate and gain.

In any case, the large, rich, united Ukraine is gone – it was a self-destruction. It started with post-Maidan bombing of its own Donbas citizens. Can you imagine the Spanish government bombing Barcelona? How do you hold a country together after that?

I was thinking of a relationship between the three countries, not an organization or construct.

Russia hate in the USA predates our current political landscape.

The USA and Russia should both become inwardly focussed. I think planet Earth has plenty of room for several hermit kingdoms.

In the meantime: deport, deport, deport!

I think the whiz kids believe that AI gives them the ability to know what they know they don’t know, if you catch my drift. In other words these cats know they are missing crucial and highly consequential parts of the picture and don’t care because the mythical, mystical AI will bridge any gaps. They believe in a strange mechanistic mysticism.

Here is part of the Palantir-approved inner monologue which I sniffed on the waves of the aether. It is probably available for upload via neuroticalink.

Wheee, this is fun! Oops, I didn’t know we could wreck everything with AI.

Well actually I did know, I just don’t care. Does that make me a nihilist?

Wheee, I’m a nihilist!

Oh yeah, wrecking everything is the whole point!

Wheee!

…large concentration of bright, well-educated people, courtesy of the Soviet Union (mostly)

Eliminating these people, thinning them out, exporting and killing them, was one of the unspoken parts of the NATO-Ukraine project – they can’t be so stupid they couldn’t predict it would happen. They clearly don’t seem to mind – some say it openly.

Many could never be trusted in the military – how would they have a huge Ukie army in NATO with full access when half of them are Russians by ethnicity, language, culture?

But how do such smart, talented Ukie people manage to screw up so badly? Something doesn’t add up – as if the destruction was actually the goal.

important to some Ashkenazi Jewish people who apparently want to lay claim to the area.

It would fix a lot of their issues: lack of land to expand, resources, strategic depth, access to Europe if Ukraine would be in EU. They don’t need a populous Ukraine with 40-50 million, they could never reliably control it. Ashkenazis only need a small population of obedient and not too smart manual workers for their farms.

The crown jewel of that plan – if it actually existed – had to be Crimea. It explains the almost pathological refusal by the West to make a deal, any deal. Without Crimea they seem willing to just let Ukraine go to waste.

It is an artificial construct that will only last as long as outside forces push them together.

I was thinking of a relationship between the three countries, not an organization or construct.

I wasn’t thinking about an organization either. Would you prefer:

It is an artificial relationship that will only last as long as outside forces push them together.

Russia hate in the USA predates our current political landscape.

While there was good reason to fear the USSR, it disbanded back in 1991.

That NeoConDemocrats keep pumping unjustified hate against Russian Christians is another reason to support MAGA.

The USA and Russia should both become inwardly focussed. I think planet Earth has plenty of room for several hermit kingdoms.

Such isolationism may sound good on paper, but will not function well in the real world. Christianity in retreat would leave easy prey for Islamic Globalism. Also, supply chains are international. Everything America’s economy needs cannot be sourced here. MAGA Reindustrialization and gradual decoupling will reduce but cannot fully eliminate offshore dependencies.

The better alternative is Russia and America working together as leaders of Judeo-Christian Populist relationship of nations. This is necessary to protect those who follow God from Allah’s predators. And, it provides global balance versus other strategic competitors such as China.

PEACE 😇

But how do such smart, talented Ukie people manage to screw up so badly? Something doesn’t add up – as if the destruction was actually the goal.

The original goal of Islamophile European elites was for Russia to fold. That did not come to pass. Destruction is their back-up plan. And, from their perspective, it did not seem like a bad one:

-1- Migration of 6+ million Ukrainians broadly undercuts labor. European corporatists want to suppress wages of native workers. And, it serves to pit Christians versus Jews and each other.

-2- It also facilitates The Great Muslim Replacement. Between ¼ and ⅓ of the migrants are actually MENA and sub-Saharan Muslims. Forging Ukrainian identity documents is a huge business. European Islamophiles want Muslim masses to eradicate Jewish and Christian values.

-3- They planned use their puppets in Washington DC, Team Biden and his successors, to pay for everything.

Now the back-up plan has a huge problem — They lost the third leg of the tripod when Trump’s administration ended new appropriations for Europe/Kiev aggression.

Peace would allow real Ukrainians to return home, exposing the magnitude of corruption in Europe’s migration system. Islamic Globalism thus has to keep the destruction going. However, Europe cannot afford to do so.

€90 billion sounds like a lot. However, ~€40B will immediately circle around to pay off outstanding instruments. The remaining €50B will last 4-6 months. Will the EU be able to generate another round of funding in April or May? There is no hope of Europe/Kiev victory. At some point the Islamic Globalist scam will collapse.

When will the Ukrainian people refuse to keep paying in blood? They need to evict Führer Zelensky and other antisemitic neo-Nazi leaders. A smaller Ukraine will still have plenty of land and resources to prosper if they stop senselessly an agonizing Russia.

PEACE 😇

Sequencing isn’t enough, synthesizing DNA isn’t enough either. CRISPR isn’t enough. It all requires adequate interpretation of the genomic data. We need to really understand what we read and write, and so far we don’t. Moreover, many phenotypes are cumulative, stochastic and nonlinear. It’s inherent to complex systems. Most genes “not doing anything special” is actually the perfect example of how little we know about genomics overall.

That all sound true. But people are working hard on each of those hurdles and no economic slowdown is going to stop it. There is no lack of billionaires and centibillionaires funding a good part of this research. CRISPR is becoming a thing of the past. Just a crude first attempt at modifying genes by cutting them off that is giving way to much more sophisticated ways of genetic editing. I think last year was the first time some human illnesses were cured using genetic medicine. Cellular reprogramming through the Yamanaka factors is a well proven concept and new ways of reprogramming cells are in the pipeline. Partial genetic reprogramming has already restored irreversible blindness in monkeys and there are ongoing trials to do the same in humans. In fact, there are many things that are technically possible but not done due to regulatory reasons (genetically modifying humans is technically no harder than genetically modifying lab animals).

Another important thing to consider is that biology is pure science and we probably won’t decipher its huge complexity without advanced forms of AI (that appear to be also coming anyway) but medicine is more of an engineering discipline. We still don’t understand how exactly Tylenol works but everybody’s been using it for decades. Partial or full reprogramming with Yamanaka factors show that we can make cells return to earlier stages in their development, all the way back to their pluripotent stem cell identity and most everything in-between. Nobody knows where cells store the instructions to become earlier versions of themselves but empirical evidence shows that this information must be stored somewhere. We haven’t needed to solve this mystery to make those monkeys see again.

Progress will continue for sure, possibly at an accelerated pace with the use of ML and AI. The very problem you point out of higher life expectancy leading to increased sickspan is being tackled as we speak with GLP-1 agonists, SGLT-2 inhibitors and new or re-purposed drugs that are coming up all the time. It’s actually difficult to keep track of everything that is going on in this space.

In principle, none of this is going to do much for the big human existential problem but it will move the goalposts like the scientific revolution did. Longer, healthier lives with less contact with the reality of death should lead to an attenuated anguish, at least to the same extent that it has done in the past. By the same token, opposing this progress on religious grounds makes little sense to me. If Buddhism, for example, is the ultimate truth, it can’t possibly depend on how skillful homo sapiens becomes and how successful it is at postponing death and physical decline.

Those who get to understand their own minds, understand reality.

That reminds me of Woody Allen’s joke about God playing hide-and-seek. We all wish it was true but where can we find the evidence?

I agree.

I think most of the smarter and wiser Ukrainians retired, died or have moved away by now. There will always be some of these people in a quasi-European country but maybe not enough to retain a cultural critical mass. The post-Cold War USA is in a somewhat similar situation for different reasons. In post-Maidan Ukraine I assume the Neonazis are used to keep many people in line against their interests. If such people find this intolerable they probably leave.

Unfortunately, AI is intended to remove the need for thinking which seems like the greatest step backwards in technological history.

No way. AI is not going to change that essential part of being human. Since I started using AI for most aspects of my life I am not thinking less at all. I am probably thinking more with much more information at my disposal and thus more accumulated knowledge. Have you ever felt that you have already asked ChatGPT/Grok enough questions and you no longer need to know more?

Even worse, I believe these developments are driven by a malicious desire to control people

Every technological progress attracts bad actors who try to take advantage of it. Think of all the scammers, hackers and censors that the internet has given rise to. Should we roll back the internet?

Rex ) Kapustin, the half-Jewish

I think you confused with Babchenko. Kapustin seems Jewish (or “Jewish”, i.e. the people with Jewish roots, not the people with real culture) on both sides of his family, which were both able to qualify for strict German government’s Jewish resettlement programme, which most Israeli immigrants could only dream to qualify for.

Also you probably don’t need to add ” “, on “white supremacist”, as he is a comic example, but maybe not surprising, as in concentrated way representative of wider ideological confusion of the late soviet political influencers, who, after their ideology was thrown on the trash can of history, function nowadays as a world’s leading ideological waste disposal machine, breaking down previous generations’ ideologies into nonsensical combinations, “Slavic Nazi”, “Nazi Jew”, “National Bolshevism”, “square triangle”, “patriotic corruption”, “sovereign democracy” etc.

Logical waste disposal operation by reductio ad absurdum.

Although nowadays Americans are maybe not so far away, as leaders of their far-right movement are mostly African Americans, LGBT, latinos etc.

e live longer on average, but are we healthier? Especially from the psychological perspective ? And most people lives are only fulfilling on a very superficial level,

At least in Western Europe, life is better than ever before. Life is so good, the population seems to be psychological insane, from affluenza.

Humans’ brain is evolved for danger, scarcity, lack of people etc, it starts to behave strangely in the modern conditions of abundance, safety and overpopulation.

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We need a scholastic kind of distinction between potential and actuality though.

Today, you can listen to any Beethoven (music our ancestors would dream of), but most people will freely choose to listen to Katy Perry (music our ancestors couldn’t even have nightmares of).

People from the 1970s say “People today waste their life inside, looking at small screens, exchanging idiotic “memes”, watching videos on TikTok. When I was young, we played with friends, looked at the stars, read books.”

But of course, the Zoomer today, can turn their phone off. They can read Shakespeare and Goethe, instead of reading memes and Instagram posts.

In actuality, their experience is degraded, compared to people of 1970s. But in potential, the Beethoven is more easy to access than ever, maybe the stars are blocked by light pollution, but they could drive out the city to see them.

The issue is people, when they have free choice within abundance, freely choose the memes, TikTok, Twitter, Instagram etc, not the Shakespeare, Goethe, Beethoven.

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You can see even within internet, with viewcount on YouTube, the quality of information, for example, is inverse with the viewcount.

So, channels like MIT provide many hours of lectures on cryptography, which would be at least interesting information associated with the word “crypto”. But if you type “crypto” on YouTube, of course it’s endless videos promoting sale of internet digital tokens (scams), without information about the actual topic “cryptography” which would be indicated by the word, and the cause of this is the free choice (clicking behavior) of the users.

Russia, China and India are natural trading and cultural exchange partners. I think they should leave it at that. Russia’s Christian roots make them a bit too trusting so they should watch out for themselves, but it can be a mutually beneficial triad. The US can naturally engage in this dialog as a friend of Russia.

I suspect contemporary Radical Islam is predominantly a (((Western))) creation. The degree to which this is accidental, intentional or merely opportunistic is for someone else to sort out. Israel as we know it almost seems intentionally created to make this problem as bad as possible.

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I wonder if people holding a Judeo-Christian mindset commonly have some sort of intriguing arrangement where one brain hemisphere aligns with one religion and vice versa? If so, I suspect some magic happens in the corpus callosum to somehow keep things together.

When do the Clone Wars begin?

I suspect contemporary Radical Islam is predominantly a (((Western))) creation.

There is nothing contemporary about (((Radical Islam))). The obligation to commit murder, a.k.a. (((Jihad))), has been around since the time of the (((Anti-Christ Muhammad))). Thus, it cannot be a creation of modernity.

I wonder if people holding a Judeo-Christian mindset commonly have some sort of intriguing arrangement where one brain hemisphere aligns with one religion and vice versa?

LOL — Judeo-Christian simply recognizes the irrefutable fact that both Christianity and Judaism share the same deity, God/YHWH. Why would following the shared Ten Commandments from the Torah/Pentateuch require wacky brain function theory? It is a single coherent belief system.

It would be unsurprising to find brain scan differences between Judeo-Christians and (((Radical Islamists))). The latter clearly are dangerously deficient in terms of impulse control. I don’t know if that would be visible in imagery though.

PEACE 😇

What if pit bulls were replaced with sea lions? (or even leopard seals, which seem much more aggressive than sea lions)

When sea lions attack, it is often caused by algal blooms.
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In Xi’s New Year address, he spoke about Wukong, Ne Zha, and the new Taiwain unification day.

how big a problem power consumption

If you think at least with current generations of desktop GPUs, it’s costing around 300 watts just to text with a chat bot.

A consumer household robot, to have some basic practical functions, like to process visual and auditory data, make decisions about how to behave in your house, how to interact with different people in your family, how to cook some basic meals (maybe cutting vegetables), and stroke your dog/cat, would probably need multiple times the transistors in the desktop gaming GPU.

So, let’s say just for meaningful example, maybe the 5x texting with a chatbox, e.g. 1500 watts, for the data processing to survive in your household. In today’s batteries terms, it would need to carry a pretty heavy battery around your house, which will be difficult without damaging furniture, just to power its data processing for a day, let alone the energy requirements for its movement.

And the battery power density improvements are slow enough this could be a problem for some time.

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I agree with QCIC, we will first just have a kind of remote control car, version of robots, which is what companies like Tesla are researching, partly because it won’t need so much battery.

But, also this type of remote control robot, which follows the instructions from the internet, also won’t be so interesting or like a real animal, and reality probably controlled by the company that sells it, not the customer or the robot itself.

Many homes have radiant heating – so we can kind of see the example of expensive or laborious infrastructure making its way into homes.

If built with the current products we have been getting by Nvidia, Intel, AMD etc, the robot could function as a mobile heater and place to cook toast on, if not use as a mobile barbecue.

And compute could be moved into the wall, etc.

Yes it would be the best interim solution.

You would have a server rack in a cupboard or the basement with the robot’s GPUs on it, which would also allow some of the energy to work as a heating source in winter and reduce size of the robot battery it has to carry on its back.

You could then control your own robot or you could let the robot manage this hardware, program it, own robot data physically etc.

Although probably the business model of the robot companies will prefer to control this and send it from the data centre. And maybe even just as subscription service etc, as the physical ownership model becomes less fashionable in many areas.

Personally, this kind of robot, where you just let an external company remote control drive around your home, and fund it without really owning it, like a Netflix subscription, doesn’t seem very ideal. But on the other hand, with a robot which has control of its own electronics, which will be more like a real animal, you might need eventually to pay salary to the robot itself etc (depending on what kind of legal revolution it would create).

Sure, they will be a labor saving device, from economic point of view, they will be capital, at least in the early stage of the robots, not a new type of labor which could be only in a later stage when its systems will integrated in the robot’s body.

To create something like a new kind of animal, which is what is exciting about the concept of the robots in many science fiction films, the hardware needs to be onboard in my opinion. Only then, it has some physical control of its existence and independence.

E.g. if your robot hears its family plans to throw it on the trash, it might actually become worried, like a real animal if it’s data processing is onboard, while if the robot body is just a remote control car receiving instructions from the internet, then its sense of existence isn’t physically in the robot body and it’s not really logically motivated to behave in the world like a real animal who responds to physical threats.

I think also for commercial and maybe eventually legal reasons, the robot industry might probably try to keep the different parts of the robot separate and not integrated like in an animal, so it would remain as capital instead of becoming a new proletariat often predicted in the science fiction films, which could (depending on robot technology’s potential) develop needs like worker protection laws or political representation.

From 1977 on Italian TV the French group ‘The Droids’ performs some ‘space disco’. The song is entitled ‘(Do You Have) The Force’.

And, yes, they had been influenced by Star Wars. 🙂

The music starts at 2:00…

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droids

Have you ever attended a Rationalists meet-up like Anatoly Karlin? The one I went to they all had chrome books and if I hadn’t been attending to my meditation practices it would have been very difficult to not just mash one of their devices to smithereens with my fist. I will never understand the market for a child’s computer that would not have lasted four days in my hands when I was a child. I guess maybe that might be one of the miracles of the modern pharmaceuticals. I don’t know. Do real human children use those devices?

I suspect Islam has been a controlling religion of violence from the beginning. My impression is that Islam is like many religions and grows in times of violence. Our current virulent wave of Islamic radicalism seems to have metastasized as a result of the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the growth of Arab petrostates and the breakup of India. These important Islamic geopolitical ingredients were part of a 20th century world shaping project which was powered by the Cold War and tied together by a radical (or is it reactionary?) Zionist foundation.

Some people who disagree with your position on Judeo-Christianity do not believe that Christianity has a natural cohesion with Judaism but rather is a correction (heretical) to the many mystical and human errors of the earlier path. Yes, there is temporal continuity between the religions because of the shared history, but radical mystical discontinuity. Or something like that.

No, I actually had to look up “Zivian”.

My lands! The stuff you kids are into these days…

I guess this happens when a turning is near. Or something like that.

🙂

PS: Are you saying that friends don’t let friends use Chromebooks?

If you think at least with current generations of desktop GPUs, it’s costing around 300 watts just to text with a chat bot.

looked at from a certain angle, one might consider that high progress. I still vaguely remember the canned taunt that a certain RTS videogame from the ’90s would give you, when the modem connection dropped out, and you lost the connection to your human opponent, and the “AI” took over for him.

I also remember 100 watt light bulbs.

A consumer household robot

People can probably go without that for a while, but I do wonder about the progress in robots to help with the elderly. The last demo I saw wasn’t impressive, to say the least – some robot carrying a tray with pills. And yet there seems to be a genuine aging crisis coming.

So, let’s say just for meaningful example, maybe the 5x texting with a chatbox, e.g. 1500 watts

I don’t know whether to think this was one of the weak parts of the terminator films or not. I guess cyborg assassins are pretty abstract and artsy. And the original iteration could be seen as a soft pronuclear power message, before it was replaced with hydrogen fuel cells, which to me seemed green messaging.

And maybe even just as subscription service etc, as the physical ownership model becomes less fashionable in many areas.

there seems to be a lot of rent-seeking nowadays, and for the life of me, I can’t understand how successful some of it is. Like, Microsoft Office 365 – the name kind of seems like an insult – and there is Libre Office and some other free alternatives. Am sure there is a technical reason some folks use it, but probably not true for most people who use it.

I think the large remote compute capacity is used to generate simplified rules of behavior for the robot so that a lot of processing is not required inside the robot. I have no idea how distributed AI processing like that is implemented but it seems like a natural thing. Once an AI program is trained, what is transferred to the next generation of code is not necessarily all the information, but rather the learned rules. In some future home AI robot, the robot is not taught every minutia of washing dishes, it is given rules which incorporate the generalities of the process and perhaps a table of special cases.

I agree that a truly autonomous robot will need more compute capability (more power and cost) or some breakthrough beyond what is practical now.

The guys working to create autonomous killer drones to take out the nasty Russkis in Ukraine are facing this challenge right now. A major advantage of AI in that case is independence from communications so the drone can be neither jammed nor tracked by its transmissions.

Someone broke into Chinese Historian’s car.

That was a very good comment Dima.

Yes, human society is not evolving through technological progress, it actually seems devolving from its maximum intellectual and cultural capability that in my opinion coincides with the Belle Époque just before the WWI.

And yeah, post-Soviet space is full of political cringe, and the kosher Kapustin leading Russian national socialist volunteers into battle against Russian Army, while fighting for a nationalist Ukrainian state ruled by a Jewish president, is one of the most comical twists in this absurd war.

It’s nearly as funny as Zhirinovsky (whose father died in Israel after immigration from the crumbling USSR, and who was bisexual) being the leader of the most “Far Right” party in RF.

Even funnier than a former Soviet Nomenklatura becoming the Turmenbashi.

Ah the irony of the world we live in…

Happy New Year Dima, don’t eat too much salad Olivier…

He’s back to Canada ?

He looked so happy in his old country.

Is he still sleeping in his car despite the Canadian winter ?

God and mind are somewhat different things, unless you are a Zen Buddhist.

Then Mind is no-mind, we just call it mind…

🤓

Some people who disagree with your position on Judeo-Christianity do not believe that Christianity has a natural cohesion with Judaism

Some people do not accept the irrefutable fact that 2+2=4. They are wrong.

Some people do not accept the irrefutable fact that water is wet. They are wrong.

Some people do not accept the irrefutable fact that the OT and Torah refer to God. They are wrong.
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Are there differences between Judaism and Christians? Of course.

The NT teachings of Jesus leaven the harshness of OT with only YHWH/God. However, the NT would be meaningless without the OT. Could there be a religion with only the NT? Such a thing is hard to envision and would bear minimal resemblance to Christianity.

Christians accept that the various Bible editions are written by fallible men and are thus shaped by their times. It has been edited, translated, re-edited, and re-translated many times. Over literal textualism makes no sense when the text changes between versions.

PEACE 😇

He looked so happy in his old country.

I thought so too.

Is he still sleeping in his car despite the Canadian winter ?

I don’t really follow him regularly, but I think he must have a place somewhere. IMO, once you go so far north, you really need some kind of winter shelter.

The two rolls of toilet paper that the thieves left in the car, I am guessing was HBD – respiratory systems not meant for that level of cold.

Loosely speaking, in my opinion AI will help smart people get smarter (like your personal example) while leading not so smart people to become less smart. This will likely create some new form of caste structure. Some people will dislike this arrangement and will attempt to make not-smart people smarter using genetics. This will lead to some additional new caste structure.

A more positive scenario will be that AI is used to develop educational tools which lead people to think more on their own…and abandon AI! 🙂

I recognize free will so I think the entire situation with AI is at best destructive and pointless and at worst, pointless and disastrous. AI will make use of political and physical power more autonomous and less emotional. I think this will make life more dangerous since the people creating AI and controlling AI tend to have poor moral compasses while simultaneously believing they have great moral compasses. These concerns are not new to AI technology, but the stakes are simply much higher. I suspect AI is high on the list of possible answers to the question of the Fermi Paradox.

AI might be the dismal and destructive end point for reductionism.

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Of course someone could make a case that AI is maximally egalitarian since it may remove any unfair advantage which thinkers (perhaps “smart people”) have over their fellow humans. However, since man is the rational animal I think washing away these differences is dehumanizing.

Before the drugs. Before rehab. And Before Trump. Steve Bannon had been involved with Biosphere 2. [Just kidding about the drugs and rehab. He just looks like someone who has lived an exceptionally hard life.]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere_2

Bannon is a fascinating character and the stuff you see where he goes on the media and flogs some issue or another is dumbed down quite a bit. He also had a previous life as a Gurdjieff school mystic.

He has possibly consumed epic quantities of recreational drugs but most users try to keep that away from the records. The Michael Wolf show on Daily Beast has a bunch of Bannon dope. He and Epstein became close collaborators after Trump kicked Bannon out (permitted Jared and Ivanka to shove him out–he was too uncouth for their liking is one report.)

The other day, someone IRL was very excited about the protests in Iran, but I see A123 hasn’t commented recently about Iran (at least not for a few days) so I assume there will be no imminent regime change there.

They just don’t need toilet paper, a lot of people in this world don’t use it.

I agree that it suggests that they’re from warmer climes.

the most “Far Right” party in RF

…literally named as “Liberal Democratic” party;)

It’s pretty likely there’ll be another war in the next few months:
https://axesandatoms.substack.com/p/why-israel-wants-to-strike-again
Trump has already accepted the Israeli position that it’s not just about the nuclear issue, but about Iran’s missile programme in general. There’s nothing to negotiate here, it’s essentially a demand for surrender, so unless Trump gets cold feet, war is inevitable.
Of course questionable whether air and missile strikes could trigger a regime change (obviously there’s a lot of discontent with the present system in Iran, but nobody likes being bombed by foreigners after all, the effect could be rather counter-productive). If Khamenei is killed, maybe it would lead to some military regime that puts greater emphasis on nationalist themes (already seems to be happening to some extent, they just put up a statue in Tehran based on that famous relief of Shapur I humiliating the captive emperor Valerian: https://theconversation.com/a-roman-emperor-grovelling-to-a-persian-king-the-message-behind-a-new-statue-in-tehran-269367 ). But even if the clerical element is downgraded, such a regime would hardly be likely to be pro-Western and quite possibly pursue nuclear weapons with greater determination.

Yes, human society is not evolving through technological progress, it actually seems devolving from its maximum intellectual and cultural capability that in my opinion coincides with the Belle Époque just before the WWI

WWI messed up a lot of things.

The Belle Époque is remindful in some ways of this song, a composition with interesting Russian origins.

I’ve wondered whether the Christmas bombing in Nigeria was supposed to be some kind of warning signal. Frankly, it seems strange to get involved in Nigeria. (I am also thinking Trump never in his life once sang Silent Night.)

At any rate, Trump does seem more bellicose than I’d like. (also in rhetoric against Iran) Though, OTOH, public opinion seems to be moving against Israel, and I wonder if the Isaraelis are really reckless enough to keep pushing the US to do repeated favors for it – the optics certainly won’t be good, particularly at this moment, when it seems foreigners are sucking the US dry in graft.

Prof. jiang (reverse Zeihan) seems to be predicting war with Iran in the next few years, with the US losing and pulling out of the ME, leaving their assets there to Israel, which will then become a superpower and bring in the Antichrist or something. He has a certain apocalyptic strain, which I find curious – a deliberate appeal to Evangelists?

No way being any expert on genetics, so might be wrong, but such separation timelines from several months old paper indicate that anatomically modern humans existed at least about 600k years without showing any exceptional advantages among other various homo species in evolutionary marathon and only began spurting maybe roughly about 70-65k ago for whatever reason?

When restricting the analysis to neutrally evolving regions and using sequence divergence, a statistic less sensitive to gene flow, we estimate that modern and archaic humans separated 825-694ka, while Neandertals and Denisovans separated 585-504ka. These dates are substantially older than previous estimates (630-520ka and 440-390ka, respectively) and consistent with the time to the most recent common ancestor between Denisovan and modern human mitochondrial genome and Y chromosome (Figure 2B and 2C). The revised dates are also consistent with estimates based on dental evolutionary rates and the presence of derived Neandertal dental and mandibular traits in the early Neandertals from Sima de los Huesos. Finally, we estimate that the ancestors of Denisova 25 and Denisova 3 separated 15,000 (±2,000) years before Denisova 25 lived. Considering the uncertainty in the age of Denisova 25, this results in a split time of 231-204ka (Supplementary Note 8). We caution that the split time estimates, particularly those between archaic and modern humans, remain approximate; in particular, gene flow from more divergent groups into modern humans or Denisovans could inflate our estimates by tens, but not hundreds, of thousands of years.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.20.683404v1.full.pdf

It’s pretty likely there’ll be another war in the next few months:
https://axesandatoms.substack.com/p/why-israel-wants-to-strike-again
Trump has already accepted the Israeli position that it’s not just about the nuclear issue, but about Iran’s missile programme in general. There’s nothing to negotiate here, it’s essentially a demand for surrender, so unless Trump gets cold feet, war is inevitable.

ROTFLMAO — The substack author you are citing is badly ill informed.

Much like Venezuela, Trump cannot obtain a Declaration of War, or even an Authorization for Use of Military Force [AUMF], from Congress. Chances of regular military boots on the ground are *ZERO* There is *NO* path to a U.S. war with Iran. Unhinged verbiage like “cold feet” and “inevitable” are totally detached from reality.

The most Trump can do is:

• Add rhetorical fuel to the fire. IMHO he should not knowingly mislead Iranian resistance that America can protect them. However, it is not about “cold feet”, or as the Orange Man Bad shriekers would scream “TACO” or JJJjjjOOOOoooZZZZzzzzzzzz.

There is no viable option for U.S. on the ground intervention. No one rational can complain when Trump does not play cards he does not have. The upside is, I doubt that any domestic Iranian groups believe such open support is coming.

It is undeniably obvious that Trump’s statements are for U.S. domestic consumption… Mostly to agitate deranged Libtard whack jobs.

• Could Trump authorize follow up against Iran’s offensive nuclear program if needed? Absolutely. It was set back 2-3 years by the last strike, so such action seems unlikely in the near future.

• Hitting ballistic missile sites would be a favor to MbS and Saudi Arabia. The 3-way struggle in Yemen is quite ugly right now. Houthi/Iran share a common missile inventory. Such action would be an indirect play that has nothing to do with Israel.

Step back and look at the big picture:

— Islamic Revolutionary leaders have bungled basic infrastructure so badly they have turned a predictable rain shortfall into drought that could force Tehran to be largely evacuated.

— Potential replacement regimes have no short-term available “fix”. They cannot make water from thin air. Balancing infrastructure to consumption will take years of investment.

— Why would anyone want to over throw the theocracy “now”? That would leave them owning a situation they cannot immediately win.

The smart resistance move is letting genocidal Ayatollah Khamenei own the avoidable drought Islamic malice and incompetence created. The opposition will slowly ratchet up pressure. That improves their hand. When the rainy season starts they can judge if they have the cards to go… Or hold… There is very little anyone on the outside, including Trump, can do to influence that decision.

PEACE 😇

only began spurting maybe roughly about 70-65k ago for whatever reason?

There is thought to have been an earlier migration out-of-Africa going back at least 120,000 years. Depending on interpretation, with evidence possibly going as far east as this cave in China (or not?)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuyan_Cave

But they got mogged. By later humans? The climate, or archaics? And there is thought to be no significant introgression from them today.

we estimate that modern and archaic humans separated 825-694ka

And there are estimates that go earlier than that. And that estimate itself is earlier than the former estimates of human divergence from Neanderthals.

But it doesn’t mean the same as total isolation for that long. In fact, some say the ghost signal is substantially older than those remains in Nigeria, implying potentially that they had already been substantially admixed but retained archaic traits. (that those archaics were Nigerians)

But if they bred with archaic humans, it would certainly be significant. Perhaps, even more so than other homo species? As in theory, there would be less purifying selection for a number of reasons – later divergence, less isolation, probably less genetic load and greater population size, because of climate.

The introgression deserts of the West Africans are much less pronounced. There was no hard purifying selection on the X, so when you meet a sassy black lady, and wonder at her lack of facial dimorphism, that might be a small part of the explanation.

Buddhist transhumanism is an emerging idea, integrating transhumanism with Buddhism and Buddhist philosophy

Michael LaTorra published ‘What Is Buddhist Transhumanism?'[1][2] in 2015, covering goals such as reducing suffering and realizing awakening, but with the assistance of scientific knowledge and technological means.

James Hughes, a former Buddhist monk himself, has written of a ‘Cyborg Buddha’ as analogy for combining practices such as meditation to increase empathy with established transhumanist ideas such as cyborgization in a term he describes as ‘moral enhancement’. The Cyborg Buddha project has undergone as small amount of critique, in fashions comparable to the issues faced by christian transhumanism.[3] Commentary has also come from India, where commentators appear open to the idea.[4]

There is now a Buddhist crypotocurrency to inventive Buddhist activities.[5]

https://hpluspedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_transhumanism

Also:

https://www.buddhistgeeks.org/p/transhumanism-and-the-authentic-self-0b6

several months old paper indicate that anatomically modern humans existed at least about 600k years

The excerpt you’ve posted doesn’t say that. It refers to the last common ancestor between the branch leading to Homo sapiens and the branch leading to other archaic forms. The earliest Homo sapiens–like fossils date to ~315,000 years ago in Morocco and I think that such an early date is disputed. The Ethiopian early Homo sapiens are less contentious at ~200k years ago. But even though anthropologists categorize these fossils as anatomically modern humans, I’m not sure we would recognize them as such if we saw them among us.

He looked so happy in his old country.

If Khamenei is killed, maybe it would lead to some military regime that puts greater emphasis on nationalist themes (already seems to be happening to some extent, they just put up a statue in Tehran based on that famous relief of Shapur I humiliating the captive emperor Valerian:

A primary objective of WWI and WWII was the general destruction of identity, and it’s the same with an impending WWIII.

This is why the angst between people’s is increasingly being made ‘personal’ by the corporate mass media, as they want the various peoples of the world to destroy what remains of their core identities in the fighting between them.

In that vein, and for that reason we saw the quite deliberate targeting and destruction by fire bombing of the German art center of Dresden in 1945, the allowed to happen looting of Iraqi antiquaties from the national museum in Baghdad during the US invasion.

We see ancient Rome being attacked here as part of Europe’s core identity in your Iranian example, and in the bizarre examples below from a couple of years ago.

https://time.com/6317735/men-roman-empire-mary-beard-history/

https://apnews.com/article/israel-museum-roman-statues-damaged-tourist-arrested-c1f793f1df00d477adac3e651e5751a7

I suspect, therefore, that in an impending WWIII, that the target solutions for major cultural centers such as Rome, St Petersburg (Rus), and Mecca, etc, have already been programmed into missiles for planned nuclear strikes.

And what do they want to replace the old identities with? The answer is a homogenized one, that is neither the individualist American ‘Rugged Individual’ nor the collectivist ‘New Soviet Man’, but rather a synthesis of the two I’ll christen the ‘New Multi-Cultural Man’.

Venezuela first, let’s see how far it goes.

Not very far in my opinion, they need to keep their eyes on the ball.

To much at stake to risk ground forces.

…AI will help smart people get smarter while leading not so smart people to become less smart.

It’s how all technologies work, even education makes not so smart people more stupid, they lose the intuitive ability to perceive reality on their own. AI is an order of magnitude more powerful and is playing out over a much shorter time – the consequences will be very dramatic.

I recognize free will… AI will make life more dangerous since the people creating controlling AI tend to have poor moral compasses

We all have free will but very few use it – it is societally dangerous. Moral compass is a biological oxymoron (unfortunately). Our species are meant to read the environment and adapt to it, possessing an apriori morality goes against it. Most moral compass societies in the past perished or didn’t do well.

I realize it is a dilemma and sacrificial sainthood has always had its attraction and devotees. But societies losing sight of reality and embracing utopian ideas don’t last. In retrospect they are also often demonized. Dreams are for sleeping.

Brazilian reaction will be very important.

Monroe doctrine and spheres of influence are back.

…A smaller Ukraine will still have plenty of land and resources to prosper if they stop senselessly an agonizing Russia.

But it hurts. Shrinking one’s lands is extremely unpleasant. In this case especially so since it is obvious it didn’t have to happen – there was a doable compromise available.

The West intentionally overlooks the undeniable fact that in the Minsk deal Russia was literally giving back Donbas to Kiev – returning what they controlled and people who wanted to be a part of Russia. Kiev’s stupidity in not taking it is mind-boggling.

You are barking up the wrong tree with the “Islamo” angle – this has almost nothing to do with it directly. It undermines your other points, I will not address your J-Chr chimera – combining two ideas can be done at random but in this case neither one of them would actually exist if they combine, they are very different. Stick to what is observable: Trump has done a lot of good, the Euros are self-destructing, Ukraine is in desperate straits, it will most likely end in 2026.

When you have the time you must give us your assessment Mikel.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has declared a state of emergency, calling on people to mobilise to “defeat this imperialist aggression.”

So far, the U.S. Airforce has attacked targets in at least 4 different regions of Venezuela.

– Dozens of airstrikes targeted the capital of Caracas, including the Fort Tiuna military base, and a number of ammunition depots, resulting in massive secondary detonations.

– At least 6 airstrikes targeted the La Guaria Port in the La Guaria State.

– Several airstrikes targeted the Miranda State, with most/all impacting Higuerote Aiport.

– Multiple airstrikes targeted something in Aragua State, likely El Libertador Air Base (the Headquarters of the Venezuelan Air Force).

Apparently, the US has bombed – among other things – Hugo Chavez’s tomb… So, are the rumors about them being a death cult true?

But to enter Caracas with helicopters?! A few soldiers with Iglas, placed on roof tops, would have made for some nice surprises…

Donald Trump has released a statement claiming to have captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife.

Audentis Fortuna Iuvat.

Carney and the Mexicans must be getting real nervous.

According to on the ground reports, Caracas International Airport is under U.S. control and ready to accept transport aircraft.

When will AK be doing a travelogue?

Mexicans could do a better job. Unfortunately, Venezuelans talked a lot but did nothing. Maduro should have declared the mobilization long ago. What’s the point of having fighter jets if you don’t use them? I know it would have been a difficult decision, but they should have stricken first, there were a lot of large targets in the sea…
Everybody should have maritime drones now, even primitive ones made out of jet-skis. Send twenty such drones against a warship and see what is happening.
Maduro should have paid one thousand Houthis and arm them with Iglas, RPGs, portable mortars and large caliber machine guns. So far, they were the most successful against the US and their proxy Israel.

https://buddhabrands.com/collections/hungry-buddha-snack-bars

The guy is AWOL since forever. Maybe he will visit Maduro in Guantanamo and make a first post after such a hiatus? It would be a coming back with a huge bang. Of course, if he is not actually in some Dagestani shack raising the Lak brood…

Как в было в реале:

The way my kids imagine it was:

Much like Venezuela, Trump cannot obtain a Declaration of War, or even an Authorization for Use of Military Force [AUMF], from Congress.

Who cares about such legal niceties, he still bombed Fordow, didn’t he? And given today’s news from Venezuela, his hubris is likely to reach stratospheric levels even by his standards.
I didn’t write anything about a ground invasion, I agree it’s unlikely. The idea probably would be to do “decapitation strikes” and encourage unrest on the ground (including by ethnic separatists and Sunni jihadi-types) in the expectation that the regime will collapse and Iran will slide into civil war and become a balkanized failed state. But of course it’s far from clear that this can succeed, or that periodic “lawn mowing” by the Israelis will be indefinitely sustainable. It might lead to a nuclear-armed, IRGC-ruled Iran in a few years time.
Btw, if there’s such a war, it will probably wreck Trump’s presidency, so Dems will return to power in 2028, enact their revenge and let another 30 million illegals or so into the country. I hope you enjoy the prospect.

Киев за три дня ?

No, Caracas in three hours !

The Donald is showing Pynya how it’s done.

Imagine how the Colombian president feels right now.

“Though death befalls all men alike, it may be weightier than Mt Tai or lighter than a feather”

Will they still put that Obama-lookalike in charge?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Guaid%C3%B3

Anyway you slice it, it’s a huge shame for Venezuela and a massive embarrassment for Russia and China. It must have been treason, you can’t enter a capital city with a bunch of helicopters… CIA did its job in Venezuela, but their Latin counter intelligence really sucked.
But it’s not analogous with Ukraine, the Americans would have failed to extract Zelenski. And the Russians didn’t try to take him out with a missile.

I agree, it seems this capture of Maduro would have required a lot of help from a fifth column inside Venezuela, including his inner circle. I think such a scenario is pretty common for regime change in South America. The faction which wants to grab power is not strong enough to do it on their own, so they align with the USA (or were created by the USA in the first place) and take power in a way which loosely establishes their legitimacy in parts of the Western world. The local people may not accept the change of power, but usually no one asks what they want. It will be interesting to see how things pan out. If the new regime is not too bad there may be a smooth transition…or the new leaders may be assassinated immediately.

It seems that Saint Nick was a bit too optimistic. He should have fled the country before his old friends ratted him out to Trump.

I think the situation in Ukraine was different, in that Zelensky was simply a puppet, especially back in 2022 before he had cemented some power of his own. His puppet masters could simply tell the Kremlin, “You can keep Zelensky, we’ll make more!”

However, various elements may now want to parade around a captured Zelensky. If some of his crimes can be inflated, the Russians can give him to the ICC where he can be publicly flogged. This would be a good gambit to paper over the fundamental US role in the Ukraine conflict and provide cover to the puppet masters in all countries.

Speaking of which, what if Maduro secretly had impersonators for himself and his wife? If this pair of body doubles was captured in a raid and the real people escaped, would the US government tell us? Would they come clean with the simple truth or fabricate some complex tale?

unless Trump gets cold feet, war is inevitable.

Chances of regular military boots on the ground are *ZERO* There is *NO* path to a U.S. war with Iran. Unhinged verbiage like “cold feet” and “inevitable” are totally detached from reality.

I didn’t write anything about a ground invasion. I agree it’s unlikely

War = Ground Invasion. And, war is clearly not in the cards.

In think we agree on this point. There will be no war.

Much like Venezuela, Trump cannot obtain a Declaration of War, or even an Authorization for Use of Military Force [AUMF], from Congress.

Who cares about such legal niceties, he still bombed Fordow, didn’t he?

Non-war actions against the Ayatollah’s aggression do not require Congressional approval. Trump is strictly observing the “legal niceties”. He is working within the rules as to how the American system functions.

Should the rules be different? Nothing will change anytime soon. It might be an interesting but largely theoretical topic for a different discussion.

The idea probably would be to do “decapitation strikes” and encourage unrest on the ground (including by ethnic separatists and Sunni jihadi-types) in the expectation that the regime will collapse and Iran will slide into civil war

There is no reason to believe that America will launch “decapitation strikes” on Iran or Venezuela. Where do you come up with these bizarre, counterfactual fantasy scenarios? You need to find better grounded substack authors.

Look at the actual situation:

• The current Khamenei will almost certainly be the last leader from the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Trying to prop up cadre from that event would lead to an ineffective gerontocracy.

• The stated plan is a father-to-son transition of power to Mojtaba Khamenei who is neither a deep theologian nor a revolutionary. Iran may not officially change the titles, but that form of succession is the hallmark of monarchy. Theocracy is ending.

• Mojtaba will be a “King” not a revolutionary “Ayatollah”. This is not atypical for the region. There is a good chance that the new King will want to focus on domestic issues. Stopping senseless support for terror groups such as genocidal Hamas and genocidal Hezbollah would pave the way for Iran to rejoin the community of civilized nations. And, it would free up resources to meet desperate internal needs.

• The IRGC has also abandoned much of its prior revolutionary zeal. Their operation of state owned enterprises has given them a distinctly capitalist outlook. If something goes wrong with the elevation of King Mojtaba, the most likely outcome would be a new leader similar to Egypt’s el-Sisi.

• America’s interests are served by containing the Ayatollah’s aggression and blocking his offensive nuclear program. There is no impetus for any large precipitous action, such as war.
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The situation is nowhere near as dire as the Islam Firsters portray. They exist in a deranged mental aberration where they believe JJJjjjOOOOoooZZZZzzzzzzzz have mystical and overwhelming power. Don’t be lured in by their irrational hysteria.

Qatar alone, despite its money, cannot lead action against indigenous Palestinian Jews. Over seven decades of trying to steal Christian and Jewish land is about to collapse and the Islam Firsters are distraught. The Abraham Accords destroy their unhinged world view.

PEACE 😇

However, various elements may now want to parade around a captured Zelensky.

Agreed, that’s a message to Zelensky as well, if he’s thinking he can play tricks on Trump with the help of the EU globocrats. He’s better getting that holiday in the sun with Mindich in Haifa.

Otherwise they could capture him and try him for embezzlement of US taxpayers’ money anytime. They could even try the EU globocrats for embezzlement of US taxpayers’ money through some USAID contracts, and/or the British yookaycrats for election interference.

Donnie is the real deal.

The Sheriff is in town and he’s the mob’s boss too.

Murika, f**k yeah!

it’s a huge shame for Venezuela and a massive embarrassment for Russia and China.

I am unsure whether anything can truly embarrass Venezuela, it really is a failed state with an extremely incompetent leadership that has used an ideological facade for personal advantage to a ridiculous degree.

It is indeed a huge embarrassment for the Kremlinoids, Assad, then Maduro, who’s next ?

China is above it all, they’re never really attached to any of their allies. Chinese firms still sell drones to Ukraine while Russians are dying in Kupyansk to buy them time before the NATO makes a full pivot to the Indopacific.

Actually that’s the crux of the problem; who’s gonna have more resources in the coming war between China and the globalized West. If China loses Iran (highly likely) and RusFed (also possible), then I would not bet on the Chinese in the coming conflict.

Maduro secretly had impersonators for himself

https://avatars.dzeninfra.ru/get-zen_doc/271828/pub_6554e3facace6c26d582a319_6554e426cd9b6e439e4cc89a/scale_1200

🙂

There is now a Buddhist crypotocurrency to inventive Buddhist activities.

All you need is buddhist gila monster venom and a fat buddha diet with lab grown filet mignon. The business opportunities are near limitless.

I responded to your post before seeing the story about Maduro. I wonder who sold him out. Could it be the VP Delcy Rodríguez? I don’t know anything about her, but she is the most obvious winner from the bloodless removal of her superior.

Chances of repeating such a mission in Iran are virtually nil. So, it does not change my analysis above. Unless the Ayatollah does something crazy to escalate, America will wait for him to be claimed by the fate that awaits all men.

PEACE 😇

Most moral compass societies in the past perished or didn’t do well.

The Mossad information bureau has acquired your preferred tiktok channel. They are persuading you to endorse more palestine massacre. More to come. A lot more.

This man is a genius.

I don’t know if anyone watches his content on YouTube.

He just bought a massive property in Venezuela for peanuts.

Your post strikes me as unduly optimistic. It would certainly be better for Iran to focus on domestic issues and end its involvement in the Palestine issue, but I don’t think at this stage there’s much space for any sort of lasting diplomatic solution. Iran isn’t going to give up its missiles (which are their main means of deterrence), while Israel regards them as an unacceptable threat (or at least claims to do so), and Trump has already lent public support to that view and threatened military action, so conflict seems highly likely.
But we’ll see soon enough, no point to arguing about it.

‘Chinese Peptides’ Are the Latest Biohacking Trend in the Tech World

People are trying BPC-157 and TB-500 for healing injuries by stimulating new blood vessel growth, oxytocin for improving eye contact (one OpenAI researcher called it “Ozempic for autism”), epitalon for sleep and retatrutide — a next-generation weight-loss drug still in clinical trials — for everything from appetite suppression to increased focus.

https://archive.is/y7POc#selection-465.0-465.68

They’ve been selling « research peptides » for at least a decade in North America itself.

Did you try to inject both Semax and Selank at the same time?

The world is so much more pleasant when your brain is full of BDNF…

🙂

Your post strikes me as unduly pessimistic. Containing the Ayatollah’s offensive nuclear weapons program will *not* lead to a larger conflict. America is not going to put regular military boots in the ground in Iran. And, Iran is not going to land their troops on U.S. soil. There is not going to be a war.

It would behoove you to avoid unwarranted panic over nonexistent fantasies that will not come to pass.

we’ll see soon enough, no point to arguing about it.

I concur.

PEACE 😇

I am not an early adopter for new drugs. Man has been using and abusing alcohol, cannabis, and psilocybin for tens of thousand of years. We know all of the good and bad effects.

The one I have been studying the most is ketamine. Many years ago I made a snap judgment after observing a few users under the influence to cross it off my candidate list. Recently I learned that the main neurotransmitter signal pathway ketamine interferes with is the same one where alcohol is reactive. Periodically I look for more on this but information seems sparse. Maybe my holy guardian angel is managing the flow of internet bits away from my computer. After years of dilly dallying I still have not crystalized the interest nor summoned the will to give the compound a personal system test drive.

The Daily Mail stories on GLP-1 side effects (about one every three days) are sublime enough for Dickens. The one about Gwyneth Paltrow pooping on her clothes in public should make all the 2025 top ten lists. Her outfits cost as much as most cars. I wonder how much the woman who washes and presses her clothes gets paid.

Did you know massive involuntary pooping is an effect of ayahuasca?

Adventures of southamericano Saddam lookalike in detention;)

I wonder how good these Japanese chefs are. To me, bear is definitely not delicious.

Guess who won’t be getting regime changed in 2026?

Did you know massive involuntary pooping is an effect of ayahuasca?

Always use the purified product.

Even better, just meditate now and then.

The neurotransmitter balance is altered by meditation as much as it is by psychotropics it just takes time to get there.

However, in due time, we all can get the insight into our real nature, without cheating by ingesting toxic substances.

If Altan was still around, he might have shared his Mahamudra insights. We discussed Dzogchen vs Chan/Zen and their differences a couple of times.

Nah, I think Cuba’s next.

Rubio wants his family’s estate back.

Interestingly enough, a few hours before the US attack, Maduro was meeting with an official Chinese delegation. It didn’t prevent him from being photographed in the charming company of DEA officers.

Hard to know how far to trust each individual claim, but some people more recently are promoting 80,000 y.o. arrowheads in Uzbekistan.

My bias is towards the earlier divergence of Africans and non-Africans (which includes the possibility of isolation within Africa), but I think the bias of anthropologists runs counter to that. Quite recently I heard one with the name Berger use the word “reactionary”, when talking about ancient hominins, which I thought was pretty weird.

It is really hard to understand the politics of this sort of thing. I guess you’d have to closely follow what they were saying to each other. Slimak was saying something like, it might be racist to think Neanderthals were intelligent – which I had a hard time understanding at the time – but, now that I think of it, probably relates to the idea non-Africans got something special from Northern archaics.

What about airag?

Does it have a similar effect?

Altan you know we love you Buryat bro 😜

Klyosov wrote about the divergence between the exclusively African Y haplogroups and all the others at -65k years BP.

My current favorite contrarian is Shi Huang. He is basically the modern standard-bearer of Out-of-Asia. I don’t know whether all of his arguments are sound, but I really appreciate how he isn’t invested in woke ideology.

One of the things that he was recently saying is that a lot of skulls labelled “modern human” in Africa and ME actually fail the definition and for example have receding chins, or sometimes prominent protrubences on the skull.

That is something a guy like John Hawks probably would never say.

The way your kids imagined it, except without vodka and with coffee instead, 1986 the Schmenge Bros “Cabbage rolls and coffee”, 🙂

A classic!

I wonder if the serfs which come with the property also work for peanuts? Or do they demand bitcoin?

When you have the time you must give us your assessment Mikel.

Guys, you’re once again being misled by the MSM. What you think happened last night did not happen at all because:

Much like Venezuela, Trump cannot obtain a Declaration of War, or even an Authorization for Use of Military Force [AUMF], from Congress.

Why don’t we all start paying more attention to the only commenter here who gets everything right all the time?

Anyway, like I said above, we’re not ready as a species for AGI. If AGI/ASI emerges as an independent and conscious entity while we are devolving towards the “Donroe Doctrine” (ie medieval forms of dispute resolution), could we blame it for deciding that we’re too primitive and must be disposed of? There is a reason why we are the only extant homo species ourselves.

Does Cuba even have a regime? The absence of an enthusiastically annoying leader on the island shows either a lack of creativity on the part of our (((troublemakers))) or they are getting lazier. Maybe (((they))) are just getting weary from all the meddling.

My take from that story is that Tozan was no longer interested in the Buddha. It must have happened to a lot of monks (not only Buddhists) gazing at their navels for too long. Mumon was just trying to turn the obvious into yet another cryptic meaning to keep people navel-gazing harder.

Is your take very different? And if so, can it be expressed in simple terms?

The default option should be the 2025 Peace Prize winner, shouldn’t it?

The neurotransmitter balance is altered by meditation as much as it is by psychotropics it just takes time to get there.

That seems to be the conventional wisdom even among mainstream psychologists but there is emerging evidence questioning it:

https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/why_meditation_might_need_a_warning_label?

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32820538/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34074221/

Just like psychedelics, it may not be for everyone.