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“At the time of writing, the Scottish first minister Humza Yousaf edges J. K....
At Oxford Sour, Christopher Gage updates us on the mental gymnastics required to navigate Scotland’s new hate crime law: To the surprise of many terminally online folks, J.K. Rowling is not the top...
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QotD: A social conservative criticism of libertarianism
Libertarians are also naive about the range and perversity of human desires they propose to unleash. They can imagine nothing more threatening than a bit of Sunday-afternoon sadomasochism, followed by...
View ArticleUS PT Boats of WW2 – Guide 369
Drachinifel Published Jan 6, 2024 The PT Boats, fast attack craft of the United States Navy, is today’s subject. Read more about the ship here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/U-S-Small-Co…...
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Historical examples of social contagion
Andrew Doyle discusses how social contagions of the past resemble the current gender identity boom among western young people: … social contagions are especially common among teenage girls, and that...
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Checking in on the front lines of paleontology research
Sarah Hoyt is amazed and surprised at some recent revelations about the latest paleontological discoveries: Yesterday I did something I used to do more often, and looked into the latest discoveries in...
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QotD: Aprons
It’s like the thing with the aprons, that science fiction writers older than I think that Heinlein was a sexist, because he has women wearing aprons. Instead of “Everyone who worked with staining...
View ArticleThree Joints, a Handful of Tools | Paul Sellers
Paul Sellers Published Jan 5, 2024 It was almost 35 years ago when I was about to teach my first woodworking class, and I struggled because what could be taught in a one-day workshop that would have...
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CDR Salamander says it’s “time to drag LCS out of the gimp box again”
CDR Salamander has never held back on his dislike of the Little Crappy Ship (Littoral Combat Ship) design(s) the US Navy settled on nearly 20 years ago: As promised yesterday, time to drag LCS out of...
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Saving Our Democracy watch –“[Trump] has to do at least ten years, or...
Chris Bray suggests that reading the full linked document may be hazardous to your mental health, so he’s helpfully highlighted a few of the key points that may have you scratching your head and saying...
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We can expect to see a lot more commercial bankruptcies in future
Although Tim Worstall is talking specifically about commercial properties in the UK, I suspect the same basic mechanism is in place here in Canada, the US, and many other countries and the outcomes...
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QotD: North America will never be a “bicycle” culture
Regarding bicycles, they, like motorcycles, have long since transformed from “a means of locomotion” to “a lifestyle”. Note that I’m only talking about AINO here. Everyone has heard that “more bicycles...
View ArticleSVT-40: The Soviet Standard Semiauto from WW2
Forgotten Weapons Published Jan 10, 2024 The Red Army was interested in developing a semiautomatic rifle clear back to the mid 1920s, and they spent about 15 years running trials and development...
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The CIA would “brief the press on matters of national importance … when ‘we,...
Jon Miltimore outlines the fascinating revelations from 1983 about how the CIA directly manipulated American journalists to propagandize certain issues in the way the Agency desired: One of Snepp’s...
View ArticleDisney: go woke, go broke?
spiked Published Apr 10, 2024 The Walt Disney Company has gone from being an international treasure to an international laughing stock. Its films are flopping at the box office and fans are fuming....
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All the ways A few of the ways Canada is broken
In The Line, Andrew Potter outlines some of the major political and economic pressures that prompted the formation of the Dominion of Canada in 1867, then gets into all the ways some of the myriad ways...
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QotD: Prepper fantasy versus prepper reality
… note that this is also a bit of a rebuke to the dominant strain of prepper fantasies, such as those I began this review with. Prepper fantasies are most fundamentally fantasies of agency, dreams that...
View ArticleFURY – How a Museum with a Sherman Made a Movie
The Tank Museum Published Jan 5, 2024 If you enjoyed the 2014 movie FURY, watch this and get the inside scoop behind The Tank Museum’s role in David Ayer’s Hollywood production. Ten years on from its...
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Busybody Alberta cabinet minister claims cheap booze is not in “compliance...
Chris Selley points and laughs at Dale Nally, Alberta cabinet minister with responsibility for the regulation of gambling, booze, and cannabis: Lauren Boothby on Twit, er, I mean “X” –...
View ArticleGreek History and Civilization, Part 6 – The Search for Stability
seangabb Published Apr 7, 2024 This sixth lecture in the course deals with the period of Greek history between the end of the Persian Wars and the assassination of Philip II of Macedon. Books by Sean...
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When it comes to media coverage of environmental issues “bad news sticks...
In Spiked, Matt Ridley debunks the attitude — universal among climate activists — that humanity’s mere existence is “bad for the planet”: A 16 foot high sculpture of a polar bear and cub, afloat on a...
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