Commenting so I can find this to view the vid later --
This is sort of interesting: ex-Muslim talking about his former religion. Not just that video, the whole channel. (www.youtube.com)
^ This is the way. Assume Trump knows what he's doing, BUT keep thinking for yourself and pointing out . . . whatever you think SHOULD be pointed out. Trump isn't God; he's human. He probably has a good reason, often a 4G Chess reason, for the "off-seeming" things he does, but sometimes a man is just wrong about something.
I read an article about this a year or two ago, and it was very thought-provoking.
One thing that struck me after reading it was that for most of human history, marriage (and thus sex, procreation, and adulthood generally) happened much earlier than today. (And of course, the average LIFE was a LOT shorter). Women often married in their early- to late-teens, and men as soon as they had an established job or trade, again often in their teens. Most women became mothers for the first time in their teens.
For example, a response on the subject from Brave Browser's Leo AI to a query about the typical age of marriage in the US during the 1600s sits well with what I've read over the years:
Typical Age of Marriage in the 1600s
During the 1600s in the United States, the typical age of marriage was even younger than in the 1700s. Based on historical records, here are some general trends:
For women, the average age of marriage was around 12-14 years old. For men, the average age of marriage was around 16-18 years old. These ages were influenced by factors such as economic necessity, social status, and cultural traditions. Women often married younger due to the need for a male provider and to secure their family's economic stability.
Even in the 1700s, the typical age of marriage was still in the teens for women ("16-18") and was "20-22" for men.
And today?
According to recent data, the typical age of marriage in the United States has increased significantly over the past few decades. Based on the American Community Survey (ACS) 2020 estimates, here are some general trends:
For women, the median age of first marriage is around 28-29 years old. For men, the median age of first marriage is around 30-31 years old.
For obvious reasons, waiting longer and longer to have sex may have influenced the perceived importance of the "be a virgin until your wedding day" idea.
Also, the current idea (and LEGAL strictures) on the age for sexual consent combined with the later typical dates for modern marriage make the idea of celibacy until marriage seem almost insane. Teen-age hormone levels make it clear that God / Nature WANTS humans having sex in their teens (can't "be fruitful and multiply" while celibate), just as hunger pains make it clear that God / Nature wants us to EAT when we feel the need for food.
I've always felt that using GOVERNMENT to set a one-size-fits-all age for sexual consent was about as smart as having the government force a one-meal-fits-all breakfast menu on the nation. People are different, for one thing, and watching out for your children is a family / extended family / neighborhood issue, not a state or federal one.
One element of a fix here would be earlier marriage, which would mean more in-person interaction between teens -- preferably outside of an authoritarian government institution like school -- and less moving a family from place to place while the kids are growing up so young people can really get to know each other. In any case, I suspect that when the typical age for marriage drops back down to reasonable levels, prenuptial celibacy will begin to return as a norm, but not before.
Back to the article (or thread) linked to in this post: The author makes a good case for prenuptial chastity being THE most important factor in the long-term success of a civilization.
The single most influential factor in a civilization's longevity and success is prenuptial chastity.
If people were expected to remain virgins until marriage, the culture was more likely to have all of the markers of human flourishing.
They were more likely to be an "advanced" civilization. What was the best combination, resulting in a culture that exceeds other cultures?
You probably won't be surprised.
Prenuptial chastity combined with absolute monogamy. Absolute monogamy means one spouse for life.
Why was prenuptial chastity the most important?
In cultures where virginity was no longer expected, within three generations, the following disappeared:
- absolute monogamy
- deism
- rational thinking
Without prenuptial chastity, people usually regress into the lowest "dead" category as they become interested only in their own wants and needs.
They become slaves to their appetites.
Cultures that have embraced total sexual freedom collapse within three generations.
They might limp along for a time, powered by some momentum, but eventually, they are conquered or taken over by another culture.
I don't have time right now to watch the vid, but I love seeing material like this on GA. Fighting the results of tyranny (including much of our maliciously created ill-health) is every bit as important as fighting the tyranny itself.
I continue to be a Brunson hopium junkie because the Brunsons' cases (there are more than one, actually) are completely righteous and SHOULD be heard and ruled on by the Supreme Court.
Everyone saying the Supremes will never take up one or more of these cases and rule honestly is saying the Supreme Court is hopelessly corrupt -- which of course may be true. It certainly is at least SOMEWHAT corrupt; the question is: will Team Trump be able to get the Court to behave honorably in this (these) instance(s)?
The mind control behind them is terrifying
Yes, it truly is, and people NEED to learn the truth and BECOME terrified of it. Communism should NEVER be portrayed as compassionate or "trendy" -- it is simply evil and creates Hell on Earth.
The excitement is because poison chemicals being sprayed on our FOOD is a bad thing, and this can eliminate much of that.
As for your point about the benefits of weeds: I suspect what needs to happen is to optimize the robot's actions: kill all of only X1 weeds, 20% of of X2 weeds, kill 50% of X3 weeds every other year, and so on. There will be some algorithm that will minimize the harm and maximize the benefits of this method of farming.
Having said that, I believe you are correct that small-scale farming is better for the land, regardless of the care taken, than large-scale factory farming.
Solid post. The reality of where tyranny leads needs to be shown to the brainwashed public constantly; the media (famously including the NY Times, which whitewashed the mega-murdering Soviet regime from the start), most of the education system, and much else in the Establishment have been soft-pedaling the horrors of Communism and even promoting it for generations.
EVERY Communist regime is and has been a mass-murder machine of epic dimensions.
Plenty of non-Communist regimes have also; POWER (as Tolkien described it) is the problem, although Communism includes a particularly robust mind parasite designed to get the targeted victims (i.e., everyone other than those at the top) excited about creating the "Workers Paradise" that (surprise!) turns out to be a prison-and-death-camp society where EVERYTHING is owned and controlled by a small, murderous clique.
Probably the best resource on the topic is The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression -- $64.75 in Hardback (and no Kindle version available), but if you have the cash and an interest in the truth about Communism, this book -- written by a group of left-leaning European scholars and published by Harvard University Press right at the end of the 20th Century -- is a must-have for your bookshelf. Includes (sometimes horrific) photographs.
From the description at Amazon:
As the death toll mounts―as many as 25 million in the former Soviet Union, 65 million in China, 1.7 million in Cambodia, and on and on―the authors systematically show how and why, wherever the millenarian ideology of Communism was established, it quickly led to crime, terror, and repression. An extraordinary accounting, this book amply documents the unparalleled position and significance of Communism in the hierarchy of violence that is the history of the twentieth century.
I don't understand why you're asking; there are two -- one to a company that makes these things and one to a Zerohedge article on the topic -- right at the top of the post.
In case they aren't showing up for you, here they are again:
https://carbonrobotics.com/laserweeder
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/farming-robot-kills-200000-weeds-hour-lasers
Solid post. The reality of where tyranny leads needs to be shown to the brainwashed public constantly; the media (famously including the NY Times, which whitewashed the mega-murdering Soviet regime from the start), most of the education system, and much else in the Establishment have been soft-pedaling the horrors of Communism and even promoting it for generations.
EVERY Communist regime is and has been a mass-murder machine of epic dimensions.
Plenty of non-Communist regimes have also; POWER (as Tolkien described it) is the problem, although Communism includes a particularly robust mind parasite designed to get the targeted victims (i.e., everyone other than those at the top) excited about creating the "Workers Paradise" that (surprise!) turns out to be a prison-and-death-camp society where EVERYTHING is owned and controlled by a small, murderous clique.
Probably the best resource on the topic is The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression -- $64.75 in Hardback (and no Kindle version available), but if you have the cash and an interest in the truth about Communism, this book -- written by a group of left-leaning European scholars and published by Harvard University Press right at the end of the 20th Century -- is a must-have for your bookshelf. Includes (sometimes horrific) photographs.
From the description at Amazon:
As the death toll mounts―as many as 25 million in the former Soviet Union, 65 million in China, 1.7 million in Cambodia, and on and on―the authors systematically show how and why, wherever the millenarian ideology of Communism was established, it quickly led to crime, terror, and repression. An extraordinary accounting, this book amply documents the unparalleled position and significance of Communism in the hierarchy of violence that is the history of the twentieth century.
Yep, if Yellowstone goes off, most of the US will be finished. For that matter, the entire world will likely have serious weather problems (a mini ice-age perhaps) and millions will starve. Might happen tomorrow; might happen 100,000 years from now.
Kind of like another Dinosaur-ending meteor, or like the cometary shower that killed most of mankind about 12,500 years ago (not a widely-held theory but one I think holds water, and we're due for another one pretty much any time now).
It has definitely gotten worse over the last decade or so. The Fall in this are began with LBJ's Great Society and Medicare. Using Big Government to run so much of the medical industry has had the same effect that using Big Government to run Welfare, Education, and everything else it touches has had: turned it to shit.
EDIT: But overall, things are still better here than in England and most of Europe, from what I hear (I have relatives in the EU).
The article is too long to reproduce here; if you click the link (and bypass the "sign up" page, if you get one, by clicking "maybe later" or the like) you'll be able to read it all.
In the meantime, here are just the category titles:
- Perpetual War and the Military-Industrial-Complex
- Illegal Immigration
- The Deep State
- The Intelligence-Industrial-Complex
- The Administrative State
- The Democratic Party
- The Legacy Media
- Censorship
- Lawfare
- Identity Politics and DEI
- Big Pharma, Big Food and Medical Tyranny
- ESG
- The Great Reset
- Closet Trump Supporters
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