Simone de Beauvoir’s “The Second Sex”. It has the sentence that started the trans movement.

“One is not born, but is rather made, a woman.”

She certainly didn’t intend it this way, but it is wonderful waving this in the faces of TERFs when they tell you a woman is an adult human female. And the beautiful part is that they can’t refute the statement without kicking the legs out from under their entire feminist movement. The Second Sex was huge for feminism.

Minorities were never affected by the one-child policy. They could have as many children as they liked. So the Han are the ones suffering demographic collapse in all those Zeihan videos where he won’t shut up about it. Great Replacement, anyone?

The real gem was watching Bob from Office Space. He was born for the “smiling asshole executive” role.

The government had already decided to close the telescope. It collapsed afterwards. It was decrepit and had been falling apart for a long time. It hasn’t had a real scientific use since the the 70s and 80s.

It’s pretty solidly anti-MIC. I wouldn’t call it a “military movie”.

What I found interesting was to see how drafting and designing worked in an era before CAD.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1568182048564875265.html

I dunno, I saw that self-portrait of Van Gogh in Chicago and there wasn’t any glass or anything. There’s a docent watching the room but that’s it. I could have just taken out a dremel and rearranged his face until he looked like that portrait of Jesus that that woman “fixed” in Spain.

This is like milkshaking. It’s a symbolic assassination. It’s proving that there are no defenses, and that anything treasured by chuds can be attacked.