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Comment on The vertical hand-me-down of culture from previous generations is being replaced by a flood of horizontal transmission by Isegoria

Isegoria — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 19:28:14 +0000

From The Screwtape Letters (Letter 27), by C.S. Lewis:

And since we cannot deceive the whole human race all the time, it is most important thus to cut every generation off from all others; for where learning makes a free commerce between the ages there is always the danger that the characteristic errors of one may be corrected by the characteristic truths of another.

Comment on The vertical hand-me-down of culture from previous generations is being replaced by a flood of horizontal transmission by David Foster

David Foster — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 16:09:23 +0000

CS Lewis said (quoting very loosely) that if you want to destroy and infantry unit, you cut it off from its adjacent units…if you want to destroy a generation, you cut it off from its adjacent generations.

Comment on The human gut microbiome primes fever after vaccination by McChuck

McChuck — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:36:58 +0000

A mild fever for a day or two after an inoculation is nothing. It’s a normal response to your body fighting an infection — which is the entire point of the inoculation. The strokes, heart attacks, and blood clots after the mRNA Covid shots are of real concern — but of course they can’t possibly study those, because they “don’t exist”.

Comment on Nothing prevents a state from concealing a weapons program under the guise of protecting commercial secrets by Ozornik

Ozornik — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 18:44:24 +0000

It’s funny to read it against this: “The CDC advised her to take her temperature”, posted here on October 14th, 2026

Both Marburg and Ebola are not airborn and require direct bodily contact to spread.

Methinks the author of the book might be either one of the lowest form of human existence – a journalist, or might have monetary interest in scaremongering oblivious sheeple.

Oh, wait.

Comment on The distinctive feature of elite Victorian lifestyles was not laziness, but an extreme weighting toward what we might call team building and professional networking by Phileas Frogg

Phileas Frogg — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:34:54 +0000

People who intend to sit atop hierarchies should acquire the skills for getting and remaining on top of hierarchies. The great delusion of modern education is that they’ll somehow accomplish this by being good at math or engineering.

I didn’t realize until I was in my mid-20′s that networking is an art, a specific skillset that needs deliberate cultivation. The best part is that when you tell most people they don’t believe you and just keep on hammering on about working harder.

Comment on A drone war is won by the side that can build more by McChuck

McChuck — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:24:50 +0000

“Quantity has a quality all its own.”

Comment on A drone war is won by the side that can build more by PM

PM — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 13:26:57 +0000

Phileas Frogg says: “The first country to fully re-embrace rule by warriors is going to be hellacious to deal with for a few years.”

Which puts me very much in mind of the Russian Federation’s ongoing initiative to load their bureaucracy with returning veterans of the SMO.

Comment on The distinctive feature of elite Victorian lifestyles was not laziness, but an extreme weighting toward what we might call team building and professional networking by Bruce

Bruce — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 05:01:22 +0000

Characters in 19th Century novels are constantly “overworking” and then taking off a summer or an entire year from their jobs.

Getting ‘tired and emotional’? or other euphemisms for ‘publicly drunk’? Lot of overdrinking at work in 19th century culture.

Comment on A drone war is won by the side that can build more by Phileas Frogg

Phileas Frogg — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 15:29:49 +0000

The side with better PPP is always more militarily dangerous than the side with better GDP. We’re going to learn that hard lesson very soon, but what do you expect? We’re ruled by bankers and merchants, while Russia and China are ruled by spies and engineers.

The first country to fully re-embrace rule by warriors is going to be hellacious to deal with for a few years.

Comment on The distinctive feature of elite Victorian lifestyles was not laziness, but an extreme weighting toward what we might call team building and professional networking by Bob Sykes

Bob Sykes — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:27:59 +0000

The novels of Jane Austin, Charles Dickens, and Thomas Hardy, truly excellent as stories, also provide detailed descriptions of life in Britain during the 19th Century. Austin for the gentry, Dickens for the urban poor, and Hardy for the rural working class. Also, A.J.P. Taylor’s history of WWI has an analysis of the economic conditions in the run up to the War, and he concludes that working class was materially better off under wartime rationing than during the peace in the early 1900’s. The British working class did not get the vote until 1919 or so, and the nobility controlled parliament until 1945.

Life could be hard, especially for the urban poor, but looking at the chaos in modern America and Europe, one has to wonder if there has been any real progress or improvement in the lives of most people.