Aaron Mak - "If you ever wondered why nobody really reads ST any more....
Mothership: "Singapore's prominent Infectious Diseases doctor" – Paul Tambyah
Today: "President-elect of the International Society of Infectious Diseases" – Paul Tambyah
CNA: "Infectious Disease expert" – Paul Tambyah
Straits Times: "Singapore's experts" – Wang Linfa, Ooi Eng Eong, Hsu Liyang, and Sebastian Maurer-Stroh—the same guy featured with Tambyah in Today's and CNA's articles... but no Paul Tambyah"
Chocolate snow falls on Swiss town after ventilation defect at Lindt factory - "Residents of a Swiss town got a bit of a shock when it started snowing particles of a fine cocoa powder after the ventilation system at a chocolate factory malfunctioned.The Lindt & Spruengli company confirmed local reports on Tuesday that there was a minor defect in the cooling ventilation for a line for roasted “cocoa nibs” in its factory in Olten, between Zurich and Basel."
Japanese man gets fired for lying on resume by saying he had less education than he really does - "the man, a 48-year-old employee with the municipal waterworks bureau, has a four-year university degree, but had claimed differently when applying for, and obtaining, a job with the department back in 1996.So if he concealed the truth that he’d graduated from a four-year program, then a post-graduate degree, maybe even a doctorate, must have been a pre-requisite for the job, right? Nope. As it turns out, the employee was fired not for being secretly underqualified for the job, but secretly overqualified. The position he applied for specifically stated that it was for applicants whose highest level of education was high school or below (in Japan, compulsory education stops after junior high)."
Lusaka Man Snatches His Chinese Boss's Wife After Non Payment - "LUSAKA MAN SNATCHES HIS BOSS’S WIFE AFTER NON PAYMENT
A Zambian boss of Chinese origin will, in future, think twice before delaying paying his employees, especially male ones.This is after one of his male employees sneaked away with his wife after he [the boss] failed to pay them on time."
Comic Book Whisper Network That Utilizes Cancel Culture Unmasked - "There’s apparently a whisper network within the comic book industry operated from private social network groups, one of which is called Comic Book Women.According to a report from Bleeding Fool, there were rumors of a whisper network dating back to 2016, but proof of the network was never uncovered… until now."
Data show Nigerians the most educated in the U.S. - "Nigerian immigrants have the highest levels of education in this city and the nation, surpassing whites and Asians, according to Census data bolstered by an analysis of 13 annual Houston-area surveys conducted by Rice University... The reasons Nigerians have more post-graduate degrees than any other racial or ethnic group are largely due to Nigerian society's emphasis on mandatory and free education... "The typical saying in a Nigerian household is that the best inheritance that a parent can give you is not jewelry or cash or material things, it is a good education," he said. "It is expected.""
Damn racism and white supremacy!
Vinegar In Laundry For Soft Towels, Whiter Whites, And More
Minister who breached Covid-19 rules says ‘PM is right’, night spots should shut down for good - "Minister Datuk Khairuddin Aman Razali has supported Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin’s recent remark in support of nightclubs and entertainment centres to remain closed amid the recovery movement control order (RMCO).Khairuddin, recently under spotlight for breaching Covid-19 quarantine standard operating procedures, said the outlets should remain closed and minorities should obey the will of the majority who he claimed opposes the night spots.“The PM’s remark was accurate. It is fine if they remain closed forever,” Khairuddin posted on his official Facebook page today, referring to the outlets.“Just have fun at your own houses together with friends and acquaintances. No need for festivals until you get drunk and cause more problems."
Convenient that this is what Islam calls for
What gaslighting is, and 5 signs someone is gaslighting you - "1. They deny things you know to be true
2. They pretend to be concerned for your psychological well-being
4. They minimize your feelings and use them against you
Whether you express sadness, anger, or fear, they'll use it against you. They'll tell you that crying is "proof that you're crazy" or getting upset is evidence that you are "an emotional wreck.""
So apparently telling a mad woman she is mad is gaslighting
Salon had to remove job ad for 'happy’ stylist because it is 'discriminatory' against unhappy people - "Alison Birch listed a job ad looking for a part-time qualified hairdresser at her AJ's Unisex Hair Salon in Stroud, England"
The time is not far off when we cannot discriminate against the lazy and the stupid
The Left's Long March Through The Institutions Is Now Pretty Much Complete, And It's A Disaster. - "There’s little debate that modern-day American universities, public education, mainstream media, Hollywood and political advocacy groups are dominated by Leftists. This is no accident, but part of a deliberate strategy to pave the way for communist revolution developed more than eight decades ago by an Italian political theorist named Antonio Gramsci... Gramsci argued that the Bolshevik Russian revolution of 1917 worked because the conditions were ripe for such a sudden upheaval. He described the Russian revolution as an example of a “war of movement” due to its sudden and complete overthrow of the existing governing structure of society. Gramsci reasoned that in Russia in 1917 “the state was everything, civil society was primordial and gelatinous.”As such, a direct attack on the current rulers could be effective because there existed no other significant structure or institutions of political influence that needed to be overcome.In Western societies, by contrast, Gramsci observed the state is “only an outer ditch” behind which lies a robust and sturdy civil society... Gramsci spoke of organizations including churches, charities, the media, schools, universities and “economic corporate” power as being organizations needing to be invaded by socialist thinkers.The new dictatorship of the proletariat in the West, according to Gramsci, could only arise out of an active consensus of the working masses – led by those critical civil society organizations generating an ideological hegemony."
Matt Walsh on Twitter - "For decades conservatives allowed the left to infiltrate and seize control of every major cultural institution. Rather than combating this, they focused on electing Republicans who'd cut taxes and spread Democracy to countries 5,000 miles away. Not the best strategy, it turns out"
Bad Linguistics: peer reviewed - "I keep seeing this post on Tumblr, and it keeps making me irrationally upset. The angry-making portion:
Fan Fact #2: When Spanish conquistadors landed in the Yucatán peninsula, they asked the natives what their land was called and they responded “Yucatán”. In 2015, it was discovered that in those mesoamerican languages, “Yucatán” meant “I don’t understand what you are saying”
OK first of all, by "the natives" and "those mesoamerican languages", you mean "Mayan". It is not some great mystery who lived there, y'all.Secondly what does "in 2015 it was discovered!!!" even mean? There are literally millions of native speakers of Mayan languages, and this makes it sound like the Mayan languages are some obscure thing.Thirdly, the theory that it comes from a phrase meaning "I don't understand you" dates back to at least 1914 from the book Historia de los indios de la Nueva, so you're off by a century anyway.And finally, that's only one of a variety of theories, and tbh I find the theory that it's derived from a historical name for the Chontal Maya people to be a lot more likely. So this etymology isn't even necessarily correct."
"Fun fact: There are a lot of rivers in the UK named “avon” because the Romans arrived and asked the Celts what the rivers were called. The Celts answered “avon.”“Avon” is just the Celtic word for river."
"Yeah but it has less to do with Romans asking 'the Celts' what the name of the river is and getting a witty response back and more to do with the fact important rivers tend to just be called 'the river' in colloquial speech. Then after conquest it becomes an abstract name in subsequent languages because it's no longer just 'the river'."
In ‘most shocking and horrific’ case, 20-year-old man jailed 22 years for raping, sodomising underage girls - "he met most of his victims on Facebook or WhatsApp. He would then get compromising photographs and videos of them and use these to blackmail the girls into having sex with him... Another victim, aged 13 at the time, initially refused to entertain his many Facebook messages. But after a quarrel with her boyfriend, she talked to him and he seized the chance to manipulate her, asking for nude photos in exchange for not spreading rumours about the nature of the quarrel... In mid-2015, he tricked another girl into sending him nude photos by telling her he needed them for a school project... He lured yet another rape victim, aged 17, while out on bail. He pretended to be a wealthy man who needed a social escort, but even after she told him she was not willing to give him sexual services, he forced himself on her.He also got her to transfer S$500 to him as “bank fee” so that he could release her cash payment of S$3,000 to her... both Anddy’s stepfather and biological father are serving time in prison for long-term drug offences."
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GarbageHuman - Posts - "Black woman get mad at this shit. hey don't be mad that we like white women who don't wear weave & have 10 kids by 10 different men. It is what it is"
MSM's favorite feminist bully Anita Sarkeesian trashes ‘abusive’ Cards Against Humanity co-creator, but only after taking his cash - "By her own admittance she was friends with Max, even after knowing such allegations existed. She’s been on his podcast, and he on hers. She’s stayed at his home and used his Chicago office to complete work. On top of that, she’s accepted donations from the guy. And she’s teamed up with Cards Against Humanity for fundraising efforts.But now that she’s gotten what she needed, it’s time to throw him under the bus, which is exactly what she’s done. Her blog post ends with a call for people and businesses to cut all ties with Max and the companies he’s linked to. In her own words she wants to “reduce the amount of social power he wields.” In simpler terms, she wants to destroy him.Broken down, Anita was all too willing to financially thrive with the help of Max Temkin and Cards Against Humanity, but now that a bigger social trend is here, she’ll put on a show and ruin him because that’s where her next financial opportunity lies. Pay attention to how she always has a new reason to poke her head up with each major event.This is the Feminist Frequency grift. One you can easily spot due to the trail of bodies it leaves in its wake."
Unrepresentative Democracy - "Nearly 30 years after German reunification, East Germans remain dramatically under-represented among the country’s elites. As a result, many feel estranged from the democratic institutions, giving the far-right Alternative für Deutschland a huge boost in the East... The East German revolution of 1989, like all revolutions, consisted of replacing the elites – the people working for the communist party and state institutions, including the secret police, the Stasi. But in contrast to what happened in Eastern Europe, the old East German elite was not replaced by new local leaders, but by West Germans who brought their political system to the former GDR and occupied nearly all key positions to manage the change... Gleicke quoted a 2014 poll by sociologists from Halle that found that almost three out of four West Germans feel “politically at home” in the Federal Republic, while not even half of East Germans do. “If you leave out the East, you will to have to pay for that at some point in time,” she said."
Musings of the Regressive Left - Posts - "LA Times: Armed protesters are dangerous extremists, not upholders of the American way
*Armed Black Protesters*"
"Changing the photos on news articles is my new thing."
Why you can’t win arguments against intersectionality — and shouldn’t try - "Any opponent starts out in the defensive position and must produce copious amounts of research and expertise to substantiate all claims to the contrary, since the original claim, though utterly ridiculous, is extremely cohesive — it exists within its own stitched and armored mythological framework, whereby a challenge to any one point is dispersed across the entirety of the ideological fabric, and resisted equally by all.This is the endgame of intersectionality.And it’s why conservative arguments against it fall flat.Not because they’re factually wrong, but because it’s just one piece of a postmodern mythology that we have failed to effectively understand and combat in its more nascent and manageable stages. Now the mythology is mature, and has become a religion that demands unquestioning loyalty and unflinching sacrifice.And we have no answer for it, because it’s a hydra — for each head you cut off, two more take its place. Each part makes sense to adherents, not because of externally-substantiated fact or logical flow, but because of the self-referencing nature of its claims.It is *designed* to be insular, to shed attacks, and to ultimately define all who oppose it as heretics and enemies of the common good... If you have been engaged in this debate lately and feel frustrated that facts and figures bounce off of the social justice crowd, don’t be discouraged. You’re not just challenging a media narrative or a faulty assumption. You’re calling into question an entire worldview, and leaving the other person without a frame of reference through which to understand the world. And when you challenge someone’s innermost worldview, you’re not just questioning their understanding of politics or current events, you’re challenging their identity, their character, their priorities, and their morality.They can’t concede any one piece of intersectional dogma, because (just as in other religions) to concede the errancy of one piece of canon means leaving all the rest of it vulnerable to attack.So in order to defend against that, they will build more and more context, weave more and more mythology around the premise under attack, leaving you with insufficient time, energy, or information to dismantle it all — leaving their holy scripture intact.The only way to win is not to play.Don’t accept the negative position — build and defend a positive one... When you begin a post with “I’m not a racist, but…” you’ve already lost your argument and your audience, and the best result you can hope, no matter what point you’re making, is establishing, or undermining, that baseline.Ditto for “I’m not sexist/homophobic/a science denier/judgemental/partisan, but…”When truth is at issue, let truth fight for itself, and don’t allow consideration for your self-image to blunt its blade."
Meme - "WHAT'S THE MAGIC WORD TO GET WHAT YOU WANT?"
"I'M OFFENDED!"
