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Cures and Diseases – a blast from the past from 3/24/2020

*Note that was too pessimistic. Maybe. I thought just the lockdown would cause famines in the US. It just pinched us a lot. The rest… I stand by it – SAH*

Cures and Diseases – a blast from the past from 3/24/2020Cures and Diseases

I’m sorry I’ve been largely absent from my own blog. The truth is that I’ve been largely absent from my own life.

It is a form of depression, but one I hadn’t wrestled with before. I’ve never before been THIS angry. Angry enough I had to shut my entir...

The Good Times

So, it’s 2024, and we know — we know — it’s going to be a hell of a year, unless several miracles occur.

But frankly, the way it’s been stacking up, and the way things have been going for 3 to 4 years (yes, before that too, but it’s been weaponized since) this was going to be a bad year either road: the increasing incompetence of the “elites”; the increasing panic of the “elites” as the system they’ve been relying on fails, the increasing insanity of their “solutions” and simply the culm...

Why AI Art Sucks – by Killbait

Why AI Art Sucks – by Killbait

This conversation is not going to get into any legality issues revolving around the various model sets. If that’s what you’re here for, move along.

What I am going to talk about is why AI art sucks, and why it doesn’t. Get ready, this is going to offend some folks…

AI art sucks because it’s too convenient and makes things easier for both mass production artists and those with little to no personal skill. It removes the ability for people to suffer ...

A Blasted And Empty Future

Sometimes while I’m here, in the evening chair, in the family room, writing my blog post and doing instapundit, my husband watches a movie. Ranging on what the movie is, this can range from distracting because I watch it or parts of it, to infuriating.

Elysium was the second kind. in fact, it was so bad that about halfway through I went upstairs to bed because otherwise I was going to just start screaming at the TV and not stop. The reasons were many from worldbuilding — LA looks like th...

Saturmeme! Memeaday!

Under The Surface a blast from the past from December 6 2021

Under The Surface a blast from the past from December 6 2021

Last year, in our escape from lockdown Colorado, we visited a riverboat museum near Kansas City, and that was….. bizarre.

No, not the fact we went to the museum. Given how starved we were to see human beings, how addicted we are to museums, the weirder the better, and the fact I grew up on Mark Twain, it was almost guaranteed we’d go and poke about the museum.

The museum itself was also not bizarre. It was an interesting s...

Equalizing!

Faced with the disaster of the fall of the USSR and the multiple disasters communism and socialism have engendered across the world, since, the left had to discover something very wrong in the free market.

And as usual when they can’t find anything, they invent something. And then try to convince everyone it’s a huge issue.

I’m always puzzled by the duckies who immediately fall for it.

For the last… oh, thirty years, they’ve been screaming at the top of their lungs about “inequality...

A Fatal Lack Of Imagination

Apparently over the weekend a movie called The American Society of Magical Negroes bombed pretty badly at the box office.

The first I heard of it was that Hollywood was blaming the black population of America for not doing enough to promote it. Which, as one of you put it, is bizarre lunacy, because even if all 14% of America that self identifies as black were madly in love with it and pushed it, how would it have made the movie a blockbuster.

Put that in your mental tab for a moment....

A Peek Into American Racism, or is it? by the Balloonatic

A Peek Into American Racism, or is it? by the Balloonatic

I finally decided to join the platform previously known as Twitter, now X almost a year ago. And it took this long for me to finally unlock the “Blocked by Raging Leftist” achievement. It happened when I was scrolling through my feed on my break a few days ago and casually commented on a political post where someone was replying to a post about Trump being racist by observing that Biden had idolized a KKK leader. Another left-leani...

Another Turn Of The Wheel

All over the world, the pseudo-expert elites are embattled and being challenged by increasingly more vocal masses who have had about enough.

In a way it’s a very recognizable landscape to students of history, and it will make you go “um…. I see it.”

Or at least it should be recognizable, because in the history of mankind there have been many such periods of equilibrium that finally break and lend to periods of extreme turmoil.

The turmoil isn’t always bad, and the result suddenly i...