SO THE MOSCOW ATTACK IS LIKE A SMALL-SCALE VERSION OF Kurt Schlichter’s The Attack. I had some thoughts on that sort of thing here.
Archive for 2024
March 24, 2024
SOMEONE HAS HACKED MY FACEBOOK ACCOUNT and is posting scams about investments and Bitcoin on it. I have tried to report it, as have many of my family members, but the reporting function keeps giving me an error. So, 2 things:
1. If you follow me on Facebook, please do not fall for any scams! I am not trying to sell you something. Nor will I ever do so on Facebook.
2. If you have any suggestions about how to get through to Facebook that I have been hacked, so they can at least shut it down and stop them from trying to scam people, I’d appreciate it in the comments!
N.B.: I had two-factor authentication on, too, so I really don’t know how they managed this. So it might be worth changing your password, or what have you, if this is some kind of new exploit. It’s probably not – I probably did something dumb, somehow – but you never know.
QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED:
What happens to workers in the field when senior management of an industry makes the decision that they want to alienate half the population, and most of the people having children? https://t.co/PycUV3OZQl
— cdrsalamander (@cdrsalamander) March 23, 2024
There are lots of hard-working “below the line” positions in Hollywood who have been directly impacted by the decisions that execs have made in recent years. Perhaps continuing to generate “woke” content and going on strike after the pandemic was over were very bad ideas in an industry that needs to put butts in seats.
Flashback: Hollywood writers to go on strike, slam ‘gig economy.’
Television and movie writers declared late Monday that they will launch an industrywide strike for the first time in 15 years, as Hollywood girded for a walkout with potentially widespread ramifications in a fight over fair pay in the streaming era.
The Writers Guild of America said that its 11,500 unionized screenwriters will head to the picket lines on Tuesday. Negotiations between studios and the writers, which began in March, failed to reach a new contract before the writers’ current deal expired just after midnight, at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday. All script writing is to immediately cease, the guild informed its members.
The board of directors for the WGA, which includes both a West and an East branch, voted unanimously to call for a strike, effective at the stroke of midnight. Writers, they said, are facing an “existential crisis.”
As I asked last year, maybe wait and see if the film industry itself survives its own existential crisis before hitting the sidewalks with placards?
And from John Nolte last year: The Six Reasons Hollywood’s in Real Trouble This Time.
HIGHER EDUCATION, WAR ON MEN EDITION: University’s ‘Ejaculate Responsibly’ campaign blames men for unwanted pregnancies: Get sexual pleasure without risk of pregnancy via … homosexuality!
MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: RIP, Vernor Vinge. We are still living in his world, even if he is not.
THEY’RE NOT WRONG: Voters charge Biden wants to ‘jail’ Trump before election, 56%-30%.
SMART DIPLOMACY:
I thought we hated that oil stuff and wanted to replace it with batteries, windmills and solar farms. But Russia's oil is so important it can't be hit even if it fuels the Kremlin's armies and feedstock for it's high explosive production.
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) March 24, 2024
Flashback: Biden acts much more like Putin’s puppet than Trump ever did.
NOT EXACTLY ROCKET SCIENCE THERE, BUT GOOD FOR HIM: Leftist realizes killing nuclear power means more C02 emissions, news at 11.
AT AMAZON, Shop the Big Spring Sale. #CommissionEarned
KELLY JANE TORRANCE: Kate Middleton restored class to monarchy — may she get well soon.
GET WOKE, GO BROKE: Planet Fitness Paying the Price for Trans Agenda.
JAMES CARVILLE: “A suspicion of mine is that there are too many preachy females [dominating the culture of the Democratic party].”
Ya think? Plus: “‘Don’t drink beer. Don’t watch football. Don’t eat hamburgers. This is not good for you.’ The message is too feminine: ‘Everything you’re doing is destroying the planet. You’ve got to eat your peas.’ If you listen to Democratic elites — NPR is my go-to place for that — the whole talk is about how women, and women of color, are going to decide this election. I’m like: ‘Well, 48 percent of the people that vote are males. Do you mind if they have some consideration?'”
THIS IS THE WAY TO BET ON “HATE CRIMES:” Palestinian ‘hate-crime’ hoax: Statistics show that antisemitism is on the rampage, while Islamophobia is minuscule. And that’s bad for the Palestinian cause.
NONE IS SO BLIND AS HE WHO WILL NOT SEE: Putin Was Warned This Attack Was Coming But Brushed It Off.
March 23, 2024
MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: RIP, Vernor Vinge. We are still living in his world, even if he is not.
STRATEGYPAGE: Can Russia Continue the War After 2024?
Related thoughts on the Russian explosives supply chain from Trent Telenko.
OPEN THREAD: It’s Saturday night!
THE NEW SPACE RACE: China’s military is taking a strategic approach to on-orbit refueling.
HMM: Cutting Back on One Amino Acid Increases Lifespan of Mice Up to 33%. A lot of bodybuilders take Isoleucine as a muscle-building supplement.
VITAMIN D UPDATE: Sunlight, Vitamin D, and MS Risk.
BE PREPARED: Etekcity Lantern Camping, Flashlight for Power Outages. #CommissionEarned
PUTIN TRIES TO BLAME UKRAINE for Moscow terror attack. “Kyiv strongly denied any involvement in Friday’s assault on the Crocus City Hall music venue in Krasnogorsk, and the Islamic State group’s Afghanistan affiliate claimed responsibility. Putin did not mention IS in his speech, and Kyiv accused him and other Russian politicians of falsely linking Ukraine to the assault to stoke fervor for Russia’s war in Ukraine, which recently entered its third year.”
IS said it was retaliation for Putin’s military action in Syria, which would make this sort-of Putin’s responsibility, so he can’t talk about that. Besides, he needs something to drum up enthusiasm for the Ukraine quagmire.