Podcasts, videos, books and tweets of the week 78

Some random pseudo-military stuff

From the Philips O Brien academy of Russians are stupidos

I wonder why Russia is the largest country on the planet if they’re all so stupid. Why are they occupying Ukraine?

Dah, they’re so stupid.

What does that make us?

Russians know how to make artillery shells cheaply and in large numbers for instance even if they wished they could make more. Smooth production.

Something Krupp’s descendants have forgotten how to.

Russian production is winning

I don’t agree much with Navalny being a hero, but have a read yourself

The Ordinary Heroism of Alexei Navalny

Did Putin kill Navalny? It seems ridiculous to even wonder, but let’s consider the available evidence. First, Putin already tried to kill Navalny in 2020 by having FSB operatives poison him with the nerve-agent Novichok. Second, the circumstances of his death are hi…

Unpopular Front

Olear can write

Sunday Pages: "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"

Milan Kundera, the great Czech-born French novelist, died this past July at the age of 94. His father was a prominent musician who ran the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts, and for a while, it seemed like Milan would follow in his footsteps. But 1929 was a bad time to be born in Czechoslovakia. Kundera entered the world during the progressive, democrat…

PREVAIL by Greg Olear

What the hell is this horror

“On the other hand, personality did play a role in how quickly people recovered. Individual differences in people’s recovery were linked to a personality trait called “stability”. Stability is a broad dimension of personality that combines low neuroticism with high agreeableness and conscientiousness (three traits from the Big Five personality framework).

In a supplementary analysis, we found the effect of stability was driven specifically by neuroticism and agreeableness. The fact that people higher in neuroticism recovered more slowly accords with a wealth of research linking this trait with coping difficulties and poor mental health.”

Fukk off.

Our book is still out :)

A lot of what we predicted has happened and what we described has been confirmed. Check out Phil talking grand politics and Europe not being able to rely on the USA!