The Roots of GamerGate 2.0

The Dark Herald delves into the latest iteration of GamerGate at the Arkhaven blog: It all began with GamerGate. Well, no it didn’t. It began with decisions that the editors of PC gaming magazines made. Back in the 1990s I had a subnoscription to Computer Gaming World. It was a don’t miss back then. Given […]

https://voxday.net/2024/03/09/the-roots-of-gamergate-2-0/

House Democrats opened an investigation of Elon Musk’s SpaceX, examining whether the company implemented adequate safeguards to prevent Russia from deploying its Starlink satellite internet service in its war against Ukraine.

Reps. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) and Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) sent a letter Wednesday night demanding that the company report complaints about potential illegal acquisitions of Starlink terminals, including in Russian-occupied regions of Ukraine. The lawmakers said they were alarmed by Ukrainian intelligence officials’ allegations that Russian forces the company’s terminals in eastern Ukraine, potentially running afoul of U.S. sanctions. — Washington Post reports

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They are not wrong. Russian forces indeed utilize the Starlink. They either buy it on a black market, or take it as a trophy from the Ukrainian positions. Russian troops have been using the Starlink for months now, although the media got this information only couple of weeks ago.

A big win for French farmers 🇫🇷

“After massive protests in France, Paris dropped plans to scrap diesel subsidies and pledged to ease environmental rules on agricultural production. Farmers in France, Germany, and throughout the EU say the concessions aren’t enough and have vowed to keep protesting until all of their demands are met.”

https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/belgian-farmers-renew-protests-as-eu-agriculture-ministers-meet-5595242

Liberal academics are wetting the bed over this post from the British Museum's Instagram page.

A Controversial Opinion

Marilyn Monroe was never a great beauty

https://sigmagame.substack.com/p/a-controversial-opinion

India begins trial of Triple-Stacked Freight Trains

https://redd.it/1b3mhp2
@r_interestingasfuck

NYC Criminal Justice Advocate, Who Recently Appeared on Joe Rogan's Podcast, Arrested After Legs, Head Found in Freezer

• Sheldon Johnson, 48, was arrested following the discovery of body parts inside a Bronx apartment on Tuesday night.

• Johnson faces charges of murder, manslaughter, and criminal possession of a weapon. The ex-con has a lengthy criminal history, but recently worked as a criminal justice reform advocate.

• Police responded to a wellness check at 979 Summit Avenue in the Highbridge section around 8:25 p.m. concerning an occupant in Apartment 6G.

• Upon investigation, authorities found a torso and arms inside the apartment. Subsequently, detectives obtained a search warrant and discovered the victim's legs and head in a freezer on Wednesday night.

• The victim, identified as 44-year-old Collin Small, had been shot in the head, as confirmed by the Medical Examiner's Office.

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El Salvador 🇸🇻 President Bukele bans "every last trace" of gender ideology in public schools & universities. Education Minister Pineda says that he will implement this ban nationwide. Pres Bukele says he wants public education in El Salvador to educate and revilalize civility, religion, and the family.


https://twitter.com/endwokeness/status/1764294129419178489

⚠️ E-bike batteries a fire hazard?

RT

After he bestowing praise and honour to the fathers among the Roman knights, Augustus Caesar turned to the childless and unmarried and addressed them:

"A strange experience has been mine, O — what shall I call you? Men? But you are not performing any of the offices of men. Citizens? But for all that you are doing, the city is perishing. Romans? But you are undertaking to blot out this name altogether. Well, at any rate, whatever you are and by whatever name you delight to be called, mine has been an astonishing experience; for though I am always doing everything to promote an increase of population among you and am now about to rebuke you, I grieve to see that there are a great many of you. I could rather have wished that those to whom I have just spoken were as numerous as you prove to be, and that preferably you were ranged with them, or otherwise did not exist at all. For you, heedless alike of the providence of the gods and of the watchful care of your forefathers, are bent upon annihilating our entire race and making it in truth mortal, are bent upon destroying and bringing to an end the entire Roman nation. For what seed of human beings would be left, if all the rest of mankind should do what you are doing? For you have become their leaders, and so would rightly bear the responsibility for the universal destruction. And even if no others emulate you, would you not be justly hated for the very reason that you overlook what no one else would overlook and neglect what no one else would neglect, introducing customs and practices which, if imitated, would lead to the extermination of all mankind, and, if abhorred, would end in your own punishment? We do not spare murderers, you know, because not every man commits murder, nor do we let temple-robbers go because not everyone robs temples; but anybody who is convicted of committing a forbidden act is punished for the very reason that he alone or in company with a few others does something that no one else would do. Yet, if one were to name over all the worst crimes, the others are as naught in comparison with this one you are now committing, whether you consider them crime for crime or even set all of them together over against this single crime of yours. For you are committing murder in not begetting in the first place those who ought to be your descendants; you are committing sacrilege in putting an end to the names and honours of your ancestors; and you are guilty of impiety in that you are abolishing your families, which were instituted by the gods, and destroying the greatest of offerings to them, — human life, — thus overthrowing their rites and their temples. Moreover, you are destroying the State by disobeying its laws... Indeed, it was never permitted to any man, even in olden times, to neglect marriage and the begetting of children; but from the very outset, when the government was first established, strict laws were made regarding these matters..."

Cassius Dio. Book LVI.

"The most powerful combination was pre-nuptial chastity coupled with “absolute monogamy”. Rationalist cultures that retained this combination for at least three generations exceeded all other cultures in every area, including literature, art, science, furniture, architecture, engineering, and agriculture. Only three out of the eighty-six cultures studied ever attained this level.

"Effect of abandoning prenuptial chastity: When strict prenuptial chastity was no longer the norm, absolute monogamy, deism, and rational thinking also disappeared within three generations.

"Total sexual freedom: If total sexual freedom was embraced by a culture, that culture collapsed within three generations to the lowest state of flourishing — which Unwin describes as “inert” and at a “dead level of conception” and is characterized by people who have little interest in much else other than their own wants and needs. At this level, the culture is usually conquered or taken over by another culture with greater social energy."

https://frjohnpeck.com/why-sexual-morality-may-be-far-more-important-than-you-ever-thought/

This is one of my favorite books on the history of electricity and magnetism. It's very well-written and readable.

The downside is the authors do not cite sources, and a few of their more extraordinary tales I have not been able to verify. What I have been able to verify appears correct.

Updated version: https://movingtorussia.substack.com/p/sexual-restraint-helps-cultures-flourish

Ireland Rejects Clown World

A referendum in Ireland demonstrates the way in which “representative democracy” is now entirely unrepresentative of the will of the Irish people. ITEM 1: Ireland will be taking a “step backwards” this week if it votes against two changes to the constitution that are designed to remove “old-fashioned” language about women and formally recognise families […]

https://voxday.net/2024/03/10/ireland-rejects-clown-world/