ONT Flu Over The Cuckoo's Nest

Hello everyone. You know, THIS is what they should have done to everybody on Epstein's list:

I'd forego vengeance if we could just get all those assholes gone forever.

Not going to be much of an ONT tonight. I've been flat on my back with the flu for the last three days. I was OK if I was lying down, but when I sat up I sounded like the Ypres salient, April 1915. Seriously, I didn't know you could cough this hard. I have a whole lot more sympathy for WWI gas victims, I'm miserable and this isn't a patch on what they suffered, it must have been an excruciating way to die. I got back to work a bit today, but no work earlier in the week means I was not accruing content for the ONT. Well, onward we go.

Here's A Guy A Lot Tougher Than Little Ole Me And My Flu

Tyson Steele – 23 days in sub-zero temperatures

Tyson Steele has always loved the outdoors and decided he wanted to spend more time in the wild, so at the age of 30 he purchased a small cabin in the Susitna Valley, a very remote and hard to reach valley north-west of Anchorage, miles away from the nearest settlement. He moved in during September 2019 and lived there with his dog, a chocolate coloured Labrador called Phil.

The cabin was remote and essentially cut off during the winter, but Tyson was used to the weather and knew he had to be sensible if he was going to make this work, taking the time to properly stock the cabin with plenty of food and supplies.
 
Due to the relaxed nature of his life in the wilderness, he’s not quite sure exactly when the incident occurred, but he thinks it was either on the 17 or 18 of December. Just before he went to sleep, he decided to put a large piece of cardboard in the stove, which turned out to be a very bad idea. The smouldering ash from the cardboard quickly went up the chimney and landed on the roof of his hut, but Tyson didn’t realize this until he woke up to molten plastic dripping all over the room.
 
He ran outside in nothing but his boots and long johns to find the entire roof of his hut was ablaze. He went back inside and quickly grabbed some clothes and his rifle before heading back out to shovel snow onto his hut. The roof was already beyond saving before he even woke up, but he still spent a couple of hours frantically shovelling snow on to it.

His poor dog died in the fire, yet he somehow managed to survive until rescue parties came looking for him, 23 days later. Tough dude.

Sparing The Rod

Permissive Parenting: This Won't End Well

Every day that I am in the office, I now encounter parents who believe in “gentle parenting,” or its close relatives, mindful parenting or intentional parenting. The gentle parent lets the child decide. The gentle parent never uses punishments of any kind, not even time-outs. The gentle parent does not toilet train the child, but instead “models” toileting for the toddler, which will (it is hoped) inspire the toddler to want to use the toilet instead of the diaper. One mother was playing with her son, then gently let him know that she needed to take a break from playing with him in order to do some housework. Her son exploded in anger, hitting and kicking his mom. That mom reached out to Robin Einzig, a leading guru of gentle parenting, to ask what she should do in that situation. Einzig responded without hesitation, “He’s telling you very clearly that right now he needs your presence.” In other words, forget the housecleaning; you have to play with the boy until he decides to stop. Jessica Winter, writing for The New Yorker, observes that gentle parenting requires the parent to transform himself/herself into a “a self-renouncing, perpetually present humanoid who has nothing but time and who is programmed for nothing but calm.” Winter predicts that the next generation can “anticipate blaming their high rates of depression and anxiety on the over validation and under correction native to gentle parenting.”

As a family doctor, I simply did not encounter this kind of parenting 10 years ago. Now I see it every day. And the parents who are practicing gentle parenting are (in my experience) almost always politically left-of-center. 

There's a lot of terrifying stuff in the article, but in case that's not enough, I'm going to throw out this graphic:

None of this is indicative of a society that is in any way, shape, or form, healthy.

Question For The Peanut Gallery

Just before I got sick, I upgraded my computer hardware. The old one worked, but it was prolly 6-7 years old and the CPU was always running at 100%. I got a new mobo, i-9 CPU to replace the old i-5, and 32 GB DDR5 RAM. Put it all back together and hey, it works. My problem is that Windows (Win 10 pro) is now telling me I have to activate it. So I go setting > activate > “I made changes to my hardware”, it asks for my Microsoft ID and PW, but it won't accept it. Tells me I need to update. Win updates won't download the update (because it's not activated??), and the update isn't available to be downloaded outside of windows updater (I think the update has to do with having a 16 core CPU rather than the old 4 core one, but I'm not sure). I even tried just entering the valid product key (I still have it) but it won't accept that either. It seems to be a nice little vicious circle, and I'll be damned if I'm gonna buy a new key when I have a perfectly valid one already. Can anyone tell me how to resolve this?

Today's Game

Please put the number and then song title and artist. Example: 16 Video Killed The Radio Star-The Buggles

Der Westen Ist Tot

German judge lets 8 men who gang-raped girl walk free

A German court delivered its verdict Tuesday concerning those responsible for the barbaric September 2020 gang-rape of a 15-year-old German girl in the northern city of Hamburg.

Of the eleven men initially charged in relation to the gang-rape of the minor — only four of whom were technically German — two were acquitted. Nine were found guilty. Eight got probation, not exceeding two years. Only one is headed to prison.

There has been significant backlash following the release of eight convicted rapists, prompting officials to condemn critiques of the judgment, particularly those of an "anti-migrant" nature.

*** Details of the crime, it's horriffic ***

Among the so-called expert witnesses was psychiatrist Nahlah Saimeh. Saimeh intimated that the gang rape may have been a means to let off some of the "frustration" that supposedly comes with "migration experiences and socio-cultural homelnessness."

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While presiding Judge Anne Meier-Goering acknowledged that "none of the defendants uttered a word of regret" during the trial, she nevertheless sentenced eight of the rapists to probation, of no more than two years.

I have, shall we say, a modest proposal. Yes, a very modest proposal indeed. I propose that when any of these “migrants” starts to feel “frustration” with their “ migration experiences” that they be transported forthwith to the home of Judge Anne Meier-Goering where the good judge be made available to them to help alleviate their "mix of emotions of anger, sadness, powerlessness, depression, (and) fantasies of grandeur”.

Marbury Who?

Israel's high court kills democracy

In case you've heard leftists online talking about how Netanyahu is “attacking democracy” with his attempts at judicial reform, this article outlines the true nature of what is going on.

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