David Foster: I actually haven’t read the Little House books — must get around to it — but I’ve read just about everything by daughter Rose (who was considerably more than a “talented short-story writer”), most recently Travels With Zenobia, in which she and a friend describe a 1926 adventure driving from Paris to Albania in a Model T Ford. The book contains a funny description of Almanzo’s first attempt at driving a car: when he felt he needed to slow down fast,...
Thibodeaux: I read the “Little House” books many times as a child; just this year I finished reading them to my daughter. These days I often find myself looking at what I read through a “red-pill” lens. For example, in manosphere terms, both Pa and Almanzo (and Almanzo’s dad, too) are Alphas: capable, confident, leaders of men. Pa could build a freakin’ house from scratch using basically and ax and a pocketknife, plus he was on the schoolboard, AND he could stare down...
Lucklucky: Commenters are essentially correct. And the USA was late to the party, 10 years later than West Germany with the Marder — and the French came out with the AMX10P in the beginning of the 1970s. I must disagree with Space Nookie. The Bradley specs are more in line with the West German Marder IFV — heavier IFV, better armored, and general design — than BMP1 and AMX. I also think it is not a mediocrity; it is more of a choice based on tactical and operational doctrine. Something...
Lucklucky: Always the dominant narrative is that the growth is linked to politics, or in current times money (Keynesians, Monetarists), erasing the technology status from the picture. It is understandable engineers aren’t in media. Media is part of the political-journalist complex, so they talk about things they can get power from. But most of the time growth is linked to the technology status available that makes it easier or more difficult to grow.
Slovenian Guest: And for your information, the entire first episode of Vice TV, which is currently airing on HBO, can be watched here.
Sconzey: I think that’s an old fencing glove on his right hand…
Isegoria: It looks like the French have traditionally used shotguns for boar-hunting, but they’re moving toward rifles, as in Germany. Either one should do the trick.
Wobbly: No idea what they use for the boar, but I can find out. Likely pretty much the same except nothing in military caliber. And you’d have to be as macho as Robert Baratheon to use one of those boar spears.
Isegoria: By the way, there are folks bowhunting hogs in the US.
