Coming later this morning at https://aetherczar.substack.com/.

How Descartes' Baconian transhumanism and leisurely Platonic deductive approach to science led to error, confusion, and ultimately death.

https://aetherczar.substack.com/p/25-rene-descartes

Downtown Huntsville, last night. It's pretty, but I'm ready for all this global warming to be over.

Van de Graaff generator dome in action 😎

"Younger women tend to have longer, healthier hair, and healthier hair correlates with actual bodily health (Hinsz et al., 2001), making it a potentially reliable indicator of a woman's youth, health, and therefore fertility. Women also report wanting longer hair than they have, and believe that men would also prefer them to have longer hair than they do (Jacobi & Cash, 1994). Men rate female faces with (experimentally added) long hair as more youthful, healthy, sexy and feminine (Mesko & Bereczkei, 2004), as well as more intelligent and dominant (Bereczkei & Mesko, 2006). Interestingly, long hair may also contribute to perceptions of promiscuity, when worn out rather than tied back (demonstrated solely by Matz & Hinsz, 2018). As such, recommending that a client cut off more of her hair, especially when that hair is healthy, could diminish the client's physical attractiveness, and hobble her capacity to manipulate signals of sexual intent."

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019188692300329X

NEW - White people joining the U.S. Army have declined by nearly 50% over the last five years, hitting a record low in 2023.

https://www.disclose.tv/id/j10f5q49uh/

@disclosetv

Did you know that the crows are this intelligent? He can do it faster than I do for sure.

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My debut article as a pop-culture journalist.

https://fandompulse.com/2024/01/17/viral-twitter-thread-lists-authors-for-woke-readers-to-blacklist-including-pierce-brown-sarah-j-maas-stephanie-meyer-rick-riordan-brandon-sanderson-and-j-k-rowling/

"Outrageous facts have come to light about the murder of journalist Gonzalo Lira."

https://southfront.press/gonzalo-liras-torturers-were-allegedly-trying-to-extort-500000-from-him-killed-him-after-he-told-his-lawyer/

"The Twitter Files disclose more than just a private company exercising the right to be wrong in suppressing users’ free speech: they also implicated the US federal government with damning proof of serious transgressions, such as (explicitly unconstitutional) state collusion in censorship.

"However, the US Supreme Court has now refused to consider X’s request to be able to publish some relevant numbers."

https://reclaimthenet.org/supreme-court-declines-to-hear-xs-challenge-to-fbi-surveillance-gag-orders#:~:text=The%20Twitter%20Files,some%20relevant%20numbers.

The Irrelevant Media

The mainstream media is still operating under the illusion that it can control the Narrative. MSNBC and CNN refused to air former President Donald Trump’s Republican Iowa caucus victory speech Monday evening, while airing fellow candidates’ speeches. To say that they don’t have any grasp whatsoever on the current situation would be an understatement. And […]

https://voxday.net/2024/01/17/the-irrelevant-media/

"Harari seems to now acknowledge that globalist viewpoints, including his own, are becoming increasingly unpopular. When asked the question, “Are you concerned that Trump might be elected again shortly?”, Harari responded, 'I think it's very likely.'”

https://expose-news.com/2024/01/15/if-trump-is-elected-it-is-likely-to-be-the-kind-of-like-the-death-blow-to-what-remains-of-the-global-order-wef-adviser-yuval-noah-harari/

Drone gets hit by eruption lava in Iceland (23 seconds)

I can now report that Swiss Miss also leaves a magnetic residue tracing the outlines of magnets attached to my porcelainized metal cup; not just the Walmart hot chocolate. None of the coffees I tried left any traces.

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Disintegration

One of the reasons I selected Martyanov’s book on military supremacy for the Library series is that he’s considerable more perceptive than the average geopolitical observer. I’ve been reading his book on the ongoing breakup of the United States, and it was intriguing to see that he’s one of the few observers who understands that […]

https://voxday.net/2024/01/17/disintegration/

🚢 🇺🇸 🌍 We got too accustomed to peaceful seas

Say goodbye to the global ‘conveyor belt’

🔶️ Such intensively globalized supply chains are a somewhat recent invention. There once was a time where you could not buy tangerines in Minneapolis in January or receive South Korean face wash through free, next-day shipping. Little, if anything, that we use or eat everyday did not spend some amount of time in a shipping container. “In 1956, the world was full of small manufacturers selling locally; by the end of the twentieth century, purely local markets for goods of any sort were few and far between,” wrote economist Marc Levinson in his seminal book “The Box.”

🔶️ It’s somewhat ahistorical that the world’s oceans have been relatively painless to navigate in the second half of the 20th century, permitting trade to flow around the world. That was not the case for much of human history. “Pirates, predatory states, and the fleets of great powers did as they pleased,” wrote Jerry Hendrix, senior fellow at the Sagamore Institute, in The Atlantic last year. “The current reality, which dates only to the end of World War II, makes possible the commercial shipping that handles more than 80% of all global trade by volume — oil and natural gas, grain and raw ores, manufactured goods of every kind.”

🔶️ Such peace can no longer be assumed. It’s unclear whether ongoing diversions from the Suez Canal will become the norm going forward, but it’s clear that things are shifting — and it’s not in the favor of frictionless trade or a U.S. hegemony.

🔶️ “It was almost like you had a conveyor belt from the shoe factory in Bangladesh to the shop in Chicago,” said Simon Sundboell, founder and CEO of Copenhagen-based maritime intelligence company eeSea. “That’s just not happening anymore. You’re in a world that’s going increasingly from American-controlled unipolar to multipolar globally. You’re going to have a much more fraught supply chain, and every BCO [beneficial cargo owner], importer, exporter, and logistics provider is going to have to deal with that going forward. The Houthis are just one step in that.”

https://freightwaves.com/news/we-got-too-accustomed-to-peaceful-seas

"For many years, the United States has been effectively a technocracy, run by unelected “experts.” Former Harvard president Claudine Gay’s fall from grace may mark the end of that era."

https://brownstone.substack.com/p/the-collapse-of-credentialism