Posted On: Tuesday - October 18th 2022 7:21PM MST
In Topics: Race/Genetics
It's easier for me to write post from personal anecdotes, as all the details are in my head. I've been lazy about this lately. There's still a point here, though, and we'll have some posts of a different sort coming.
We switch back to racial matters here. The problems seem to be bigger and more intractable than ever, due to the ctrl-left Establishment having steadily pushed harder and harder against the White traditional majority for years. 2020 was a real high for them, but then again, now talk about reparations is being taken seriously. I think that'll be a bridge too far, but who knows?
The family in question is younger than ours (the parents anyway), and the Dad is a real gig-economy type, and pretty adept at it too. The Mom too, also switches from various gig to gig, even though she's in a field in which she doesn't have to. Part of their income comes from this guy's holding onto the family's previous residences - all detached houses - to use as rental/AirBnB. I've known other people to do this, and it's a good way to build assets long-term.
As their primary residence had some problems and needed retrofitting, the man bought a house for them (3 kids) to live in that was very close to the ghetto. The piece of land the house is on is was, in fact, THE ghetto - 50 or 100 units in about 6-8 single-story buildings in rows - but they had been finally torn down. (Alas, the chicken restaurant on the corner of that piece of land then died too.)
These new houses are nice inside and (immediately) outside, but there is just that one row of about 10 of them with the 10 or so acres of empty land, formerly those projects, leading to a busy road in pretty much ghetto, with black areas also down the street both ways and across the street. The building of these new houses was a gentrification deal, with mostly White people moving in, from what I saw. It's just the one block so far. Thing is, usually it's not families with children at home that do the gentrification thing. It's too dangerous to be on the frontier, like a White family in eastern Texas in 1860, just too close to Comanche territory. Gay people often have a deluded attitude about blacks, which helps immensely, they have less to lose, and don't care about good schools*. Then, when the "Indians" have rolled up their teepees, families can move in. (Peak Stupidity had a post about gentrification written during the Saint Floyd riots called The current situation in gentrification nation, for your edification.)
It was too soon for this family. No, luckily it didn't end badly, with not even a thorough "cleaned out" burglary, such as happened to another friend a few years back in a different city. There was more to it, also. See, the developer who sold them the house hsf promised that'd there'd be loads more houses built, the idea being that that large piece of vacant land, formerly ghetto, would be filled by more of these new places. That never happened.
This guy told me about that broken promise, but he never would come out with the honest wording on what the problem was. Yeah, I knew what the problem was. It wasn't just that the value of this new place wasn't going up as he'd speculated on, but quite the opposite. More importantly, this wasn't a safe place for his family. He never said it like that, heaven forbid.
In fact, these two parent are half-woke. It's weird, because they are Christians and not into some of the stupidity, but they are somehow down with the racial "blank-slate" stupidity. I suppose they can often go together. However, you don't push your luck. After a couple of years, the family bugged out and moved back to their most recent previous residence. This time, I doubt they came out ahead from the place on the ghetto frontier.
So many decisions in American life that could have been easier must be made with threat of black dysfunction and violence in mind. This is no way to do business.
* This family was able to get away with keeping one kid at a school that's for a neighborhood of mostly White families, homeschooling one, and having the other in private school.
Comments:
Sam J.
Friday - October 21st 2022 2:52PM MST
PS
Moderator, "...
Sam, thanks for the l link to Law Dog. I'd read his last (or some previous) post on this along with all the comments.
The most major problem with this theory that nobody on there addressed well is the explosions in 3 places within 17 hours. I believe 2 were near each other so I could see a factor there, but not the 3rd on a different pipe far from the other rupture. One could explain the hydrate plugs, poor quality in the manufacturing, poor operation, whatever, but it'd still be a coincidence that the ruptures happened that close together in time..."
I fully acknowledge and agree that the timing would make one think that but note, lawdog uses the exact same timing offset to say it's less likely that they were blown up in the article. Why risk being caught by spreading out the blast timing so far? He also shows the pipeline map and where they blew there are turns. Turns that any change in pressure would be blocked no matter if they were moving or sitting still. They would be frozen curved and not make the turn, a curve frozen solid would not straighten out and then move down the pipe. Then pressure could build in that one place. If they were going to blow them up and let Putin know it, and I assume there's no way to do this without them eventually finding out, then wouldn't they blow them at the same time?
I admit, I don't know. I wonder if hydrates can freeze up like ice and put pressure on the pipe. If there was a long frozen section as soon as the pipe ruptured there would be a huge rip all along the frozen section just like hot dogs bursting their cases. I looked this up and found that hasty depressurization to get rid of the hydrates causes huge pressure rises. Oops. Maybe they were depressurizing the pipes on the Russian end and one blew then the other 17 hours later.
"...Upon removal, when hydrate plugs are depressurized improperly, with large pressure gradients across the plug, hydrate projectiles frequently erupt from pipes
When hydrates are heated, large confined pressure increases cause pipe ruptures..."
https://petrowiki.spe.org/Hydrate_plug_removal
Maybe I missed it but I don't see the Russians jumping up and down about the US blowing up the pipeline. If they knew we did it. they would, on the other hand if they knew they might have caused it they would keep quiet about it and let us take the blame.
I'm one the last people on all of the planet earth to cover up for these guys but to me it looks like the Russians screwed this up. Blowing up pipelines is a major confrontation. It shocked me when I thought that we did it. I would rather believe that we didn't. Blowing this up really puts a huge strain in our European relations. It's really bad. Looking at the long term behavior of the Jews I could see them using this and other tactics to try and make a break between Europe and the US eventually leading to war between us because the Jews never get enough wars and enough blood shedding of White people.
I suspect no matter how it happened everyone in Europe thinks we did it. Maybe I may only fooling myself by seeing some other alternative as possible. I admit that but all the conditions for hydrates were met. The gas had been sitting there a long time not moving and if they changed the pressure or screwed with, maybe increase also, it could blow the whole thing up. And why weren't all of them blown if we meant to blow them? And once again how do you get this super long break from one area blasted?
Moderator, "...
Sam, thanks for the l link to Law Dog. I'd read his last (or some previous) post on this along with all the comments.
The most major problem with this theory that nobody on there addressed well is the explosions in 3 places within 17 hours. I believe 2 were near each other so I could see a factor there, but not the 3rd on a different pipe far from the other rupture. One could explain the hydrate plugs, poor quality in the manufacturing, poor operation, whatever, but it'd still be a coincidence that the ruptures happened that close together in time..."
I fully acknowledge and agree that the timing would make one think that but note, lawdog uses the exact same timing offset to say it's less likely that they were blown up in the article. Why risk being caught by spreading out the blast timing so far? He also shows the pipeline map and where they blew there are turns. Turns that any change in pressure would be blocked no matter if they were moving or sitting still. They would be frozen curved and not make the turn, a curve frozen solid would not straighten out and then move down the pipe. Then pressure could build in that one place. If they were going to blow them up and let Putin know it, and I assume there's no way to do this without them eventually finding out, then wouldn't they blow them at the same time?
I admit, I don't know. I wonder if hydrates can freeze up like ice and put pressure on the pipe. If there was a long frozen section as soon as the pipe ruptured there would be a huge rip all along the frozen section just like hot dogs bursting their cases. I looked this up and found that hasty depressurization to get rid of the hydrates causes huge pressure rises. Oops. Maybe they were depressurizing the pipes on the Russian end and one blew then the other 17 hours later.
"...Upon removal, when hydrate plugs are depressurized improperly, with large pressure gradients across the plug, hydrate projectiles frequently erupt from pipes
When hydrates are heated, large confined pressure increases cause pipe ruptures..."
https://petrowiki.spe.org/Hydrate_plug_removal
Maybe I missed it but I don't see the Russians jumping up and down about the US blowing up the pipeline. If they knew we did it. they would, on the other hand if they knew they might have caused it they would keep quiet about it and let us take the blame.
I'm one the last people on all of the planet earth to cover up for these guys but to me it looks like the Russians screwed this up. Blowing up pipelines is a major confrontation. It shocked me when I thought that we did it. I would rather believe that we didn't. Blowing this up really puts a huge strain in our European relations. It's really bad. Looking at the long term behavior of the Jews I could see them using this and other tactics to try and make a break between Europe and the US eventually leading to war between us because the Jews never get enough wars and enough blood shedding of White people.
I suspect no matter how it happened everyone in Europe thinks we did it. Maybe I may only fooling myself by seeing some other alternative as possible. I admit that but all the conditions for hydrates were met. The gas had been sitting there a long time not moving and if they changed the pressure or screwed with, maybe increase also, it could blow the whole thing up. And why weren't all of them blown if we meant to blow them? And once again how do you get this super long break from one area blasted?
Adam Smith
Thursday - October 20th 2022 8:22AM MST
PS: Greetings, Mr. Hail,
Thanks. It was fun while it lasted, but all good things must come to an end. (or something)
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Thanks. It was fun while it lasted, but all good things must come to an end. (or something)
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Hail
Thursday - October 20th 2022 7:11AM MST
PS
Adam Smith, Your twitter career was like a bright shining star, shooting across the vastness of digital-space; a bright shining star, which faded fast once it ran afoul of a six-pointed one up there somewhere.
Adam Smith, Your twitter career was like a bright shining star, shooting across the vastness of digital-space; a bright shining star, which faded fast once it ran afoul of a six-pointed one up there somewhere.
Dieter Kief
Thursday - October 20th 2022 5:46AM MST
PS
Mr. Alarmist - - Matt M. Briggs in Scientism is Gnosticism from October the 11th:
Which brings us back the beginning of Voegelin’s book. There has emerged, he says, “a phenomenon unknown to antiquity that permeates our modern societies so completely that its ubiquity scarcely leaves us any room to see it at all: the prohibition of questioning.”
He doesn’t mean the always present “resistance to analysis” or the power of emotion over thought.
Rather, we are confronted here with persons who know that, and why, their opinions cannot stand up under critical analysis and who therefore make the prohibition of the examination of their premises part of their dogma.
This position of a conscious, deliberate, and painstakingly elaborated obstruction of ratio constitutes the new phenomenon.
(Voegelin's book about Gnosticism appeared 1959)
PS
I know Rottweil quite well. But I've never ascended to the Hohenzollern Schloss, as you might have (am not super-sure, that that is where you were). Btw. - I make lighter tours as the one you described usually in sandals - in - Birkenstock flip-flops even, as long as it is warm. And that works quite nicely.
Rottweil features a 200 m high escalator test-tower now with a great view of the Alp, the Alps, The Black forest etc. I haven't been up there either. But I love the old Salina, where (once famous) Rottweil metal sculptor Erich Hauser has created a little metal-sculpture kingdom of his own - with a glass pyramid in the middle, in which he had his studio and lived too.
Google:
AKTUELL | Kunststiftung Erich Hauser
Mr. Alarmist - - Matt M. Briggs in Scientism is Gnosticism from October the 11th:
Which brings us back the beginning of Voegelin’s book. There has emerged, he says, “a phenomenon unknown to antiquity that permeates our modern societies so completely that its ubiquity scarcely leaves us any room to see it at all: the prohibition of questioning.”
He doesn’t mean the always present “resistance to analysis” or the power of emotion over thought.
Rather, we are confronted here with persons who know that, and why, their opinions cannot stand up under critical analysis and who therefore make the prohibition of the examination of their premises part of their dogma.
This position of a conscious, deliberate, and painstakingly elaborated obstruction of ratio constitutes the new phenomenon.
(Voegelin's book about Gnosticism appeared 1959)
PS
I know Rottweil quite well. But I've never ascended to the Hohenzollern Schloss, as you might have (am not super-sure, that that is where you were). Btw. - I make lighter tours as the one you described usually in sandals - in - Birkenstock flip-flops even, as long as it is warm. And that works quite nicely.
Rottweil features a 200 m high escalator test-tower now with a great view of the Alp, the Alps, The Black forest etc. I haven't been up there either. But I love the old Salina, where (once famous) Rottweil metal sculptor Erich Hauser has created a little metal-sculpture kingdom of his own - with a glass pyramid in the middle, in which he had his studio and lived too.
Google:
AKTUELL | Kunststiftung Erich Hauser
The Alarmist
Wednesday - October 19th 2022 4:55PM MST
PS
Human nature in matters of social policy is too complex to be modelled as if the humans will behave by an observer’s/modeller’s standards of rationality.
But if you want a classic example of the enduring human nature with regard to immigration, I’d offer up the example of Valens, who allowed the Goths, fleeing from the Huns, to settle under Roman protection within the Empire, only to have them get pissed off with the way they were treated by the Romans, leading to the defeat of the Roman Army and the death of Valens himself at the battle of Adrianople.
The invaders who arrive in refugee clothing will almost always be ungrateful and vengeful toward their erstwhile hosts. We are seeing that repeatedly in the Western world. And yet we continue to welcome our conquerors, and wonder why our daughters aren’t safe. Yes, another example of unchanging human nature. Falsify that.
Human nature in matters of social policy is too complex to be modelled as if the humans will behave by an observer’s/modeller’s standards of rationality.
But if you want a classic example of the enduring human nature with regard to immigration, I’d offer up the example of Valens, who allowed the Goths, fleeing from the Huns, to settle under Roman protection within the Empire, only to have them get pissed off with the way they were treated by the Romans, leading to the defeat of the Roman Army and the death of Valens himself at the battle of Adrianople.
The invaders who arrive in refugee clothing will almost always be ungrateful and vengeful toward their erstwhile hosts. We are seeing that repeatedly in the Western world. And yet we continue to welcome our conquerors, and wonder why our daughters aren’t safe. Yes, another example of unchanging human nature. Falsify that.
MBlanc46
Wednesday - October 19th 2022 4:45PM MST
PS I’m definitely a minimal taxation guy (perhaps especially in Cook County, IL, and Riverside County, CA), but at least with property taxes I know what I’m paying for: fire and police protection and a criminal justice system, streets and roads, sewers, refuse removal, and some other services that I don’t use, but others do. With the income taxes (federal and state), I’m just giving money to the pols to steal and waste as they will.
Dieter Kief
Wednesday - October 19th 2022 3:06PM MST
PS
Something related - - about immigration - and the social sciences concerned with it - and the social policies that immigration asks for - - -
Steve Stewart-Williams (The Ape that Understood the Universe, 2018) writes:
Scary: 73 teams tested the same hypotheses with the same data. Some found negative results, some positive, some nada. No effect of expertise or confirmation bias. "Idiosyncratic researcher variability is a threat to the reliability of scientific findings." osf.io/preprints/metaarxiv/cd5j9/
This is by and large what Matt M. Briggs is saying - not least against Sir Karl Popper's falsification criterion as a safeguard to secure sound scientific results. No, says Matt M.Briggs, there is no methodological Popperian trick that could secure the scientifically correct outcome of any statistically oriented research***** -.
- What really helps is to look at social reality and see how the theory/ theory-based predictions of a given research paper hold up against reality. That's all. And that process tooo is very much a hermeneutical one in Hans Georg Gadamer's understanding. And that means it depends on the way people are willing to make use of (= to interpret!) this data... Matt M. Briggs calls this kind of thinking: To make a decision - and not: To research. Decision making is where research ends, because decision making is in all non trivial cases - value based.
Now Mod. - what was the subject, the data-interpretations of 73 research teams differ so widely about? - The subject was social policies with regard not least to - - - immigration! - And how immigration affects the social systems of the host countries!
The study authors explain that they worked with -
- "a six-question module on the role of government in providing different social policies such as old-age, labor market and health care provisions. This six-question module is also the source of the data used by David Brady and Ryan Finnigan in one of the most cited investigations of the substantive hypothesis participants were instructed to test (19). The PIs also provided yearly indicator data for countries on immigrant stock as a percentage of the population and on flow as a net change in stock taken from the World Bank, United Nations and Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development. Relevant ISSP and immigration data were available for 31 mostly rich and some middle-income countries..."
Here is Matt M. Briggs writing about the study above:
All Those Warnings About Models Are True: Researchers Given Same Data Come To Huge Number Of Conflicting Findings – William M. Briggs (wmbriggs.com)
Something related - - about immigration - and the social sciences concerned with it - and the social policies that immigration asks for - - -
Steve Stewart-Williams (The Ape that Understood the Universe, 2018) writes:
Scary: 73 teams tested the same hypotheses with the same data. Some found negative results, some positive, some nada. No effect of expertise or confirmation bias. "Idiosyncratic researcher variability is a threat to the reliability of scientific findings." osf.io/preprints/metaarxiv/cd5j9/
This is by and large what Matt M. Briggs is saying - not least against Sir Karl Popper's falsification criterion as a safeguard to secure sound scientific results. No, says Matt M.Briggs, there is no methodological Popperian trick that could secure the scientifically correct outcome of any statistically oriented research***** -.
- What really helps is to look at social reality and see how the theory/ theory-based predictions of a given research paper hold up against reality. That's all. And that process tooo is very much a hermeneutical one in Hans Georg Gadamer's understanding. And that means it depends on the way people are willing to make use of (= to interpret!) this data... Matt M. Briggs calls this kind of thinking: To make a decision - and not: To research. Decision making is where research ends, because decision making is in all non trivial cases - value based.
Now Mod. - what was the subject, the data-interpretations of 73 research teams differ so widely about? - The subject was social policies with regard not least to - - - immigration! - And how immigration affects the social systems of the host countries!
The study authors explain that they worked with -
- "a six-question module on the role of government in providing different social policies such as old-age, labor market and health care provisions. This six-question module is also the source of the data used by David Brady and Ryan Finnigan in one of the most cited investigations of the substantive hypothesis participants were instructed to test (19). The PIs also provided yearly indicator data for countries on immigrant stock as a percentage of the population and on flow as a net change in stock taken from the World Bank, United Nations and Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development. Relevant ISSP and immigration data were available for 31 mostly rich and some middle-income countries..."
Here is Matt M. Briggs writing about the study above:
All Those Warnings About Models Are True: Researchers Given Same Data Come To Huge Number Of Conflicting Findings – William M. Briggs (wmbriggs.com)
usNthem
Wednesday - October 19th 2022 2:56PM MST
PS
In this day and age, it's getting harder to realize most Whites can't see, understand and acknowledge what's right in front of their face. The blank slate brainwashing runs deep I guess. As you and others have mentioned, most blacks are probably decent, but WAY too big a percentage are not. Additionally, IMO most blacks will always be black first and whatever, second when push comes to shove. Some sort of hard separation is most likely the only hope. They can deal with their kind as they will and the rest of us can get on with our lives without the black undertow dragging us and everything else down as well.
In this day and age, it's getting harder to realize most Whites can't see, understand and acknowledge what's right in front of their face. The blank slate brainwashing runs deep I guess. As you and others have mentioned, most blacks are probably decent, but WAY too big a percentage are not. Additionally, IMO most blacks will always be black first and whatever, second when push comes to shove. Some sort of hard separation is most likely the only hope. They can deal with their kind as they will and the rest of us can get on with our lives without the black undertow dragging us and everything else down as well.
Time Of Great Stupidity
Wednesday - October 19th 2022 1:26PM MST
PS Barry Soetoro examined the map and will make sure that it is all ghetto in the spirit of egalitarian equity.
No wonder humanity has been enslaved by bankers for over 1000 years.
No wonder humanity has been enslaved by bankers for over 1000 years.
Adam Smith
Wednesday - October 19th 2022 12:51PM MST
PS: Good to hear from you too Mr. Moderator!
'twould it be foolish to expect a fair trial in virtual twitter court?
So, yeah, it's cool. The memes are fun, but twitter is more of a time suck than unz. I'm sure I could open a new account if I cared to, no virtual lawyer necessary. But why bother if I have to self-censor to stay in their good graces? I too thought my tweet was factual, but apparently truth has no utility in clown world.
A mechanic who changes his own water pump has a fool for a client.
And I agree about the so called property tax. I'd be ok with them charging a fee simple tax on mortgaged property, but once it's paid in full it should be allodial. (Yet another right American's have lost.)
I hope you and the Newman family have a great afternoon!
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'twould it be foolish to expect a fair trial in virtual twitter court?
So, yeah, it's cool. The memes are fun, but twitter is more of a time suck than unz. I'm sure I could open a new account if I cared to, no virtual lawyer necessary. But why bother if I have to self-censor to stay in their good graces? I too thought my tweet was factual, but apparently truth has no utility in clown world.
A mechanic who changes his own water pump has a fool for a client.
And I agree about the so called property tax. I'd be ok with them charging a fee simple tax on mortgaged property, but once it's paid in full it should be allodial. (Yet another right American's have lost.)
I hope you and the Newman family have a great afternoon!
☮
Moderator
Wednesday - October 19th 2022 12:00PM MST
PS: Good to hear from you, Mr. Smith! It's OK I guess, since Twitter is a waste of time IMO too, but do you need a good virtual lawyer for your Suspension Appeal? It sounds like you will be in a virtual room with people with virtual briefcases. Can the whole thing be run via Twitter? In that case, the old saw applies "A man who write his own tweets has a fool for a client". Wait, that one was probably written by the lawyers anyway, to keep up business.
Your tweet sounds quite truthful to me. I don't see a problem with it.
Your tweet sounds quite truthful to me. I don't see a problem with it.
Moderator
Wednesday - October 19th 2022 11:54AM MST
PS: Right, Mr. Blanc. One more thing that I put in that previous gentrification post (I believe I got the point from an iSteve commenter) is that blacks being against gentrification is basically their being against big property tax increases, as people finally fix up the slum nicely. I think property tax is THE worst form of taxation* too, and I understand their plight.
However, their moving into the neighborhood years back and cutting property VALUES way back just by being there cost White people much more money that the property tax bit.
* OK, 2nd to a head tax or "poll" tax (British definition?), which is a tax for being alive. (Sure, they can tax you when you're dead too, but it doesn't hurt so much...)
However, their moving into the neighborhood years back and cutting property VALUES way back just by being there cost White people much more money that the property tax bit.
* OK, 2nd to a head tax or "poll" tax (British definition?), which is a tax for being alive. (Sure, they can tax you when you're dead too, but it doesn't hurt so much...)
Adam Smith
Wednesday - October 19th 2022 11:38AM MST
PS: Good afternoon, everyone,
Mr. Moderator, LawDog is a police officer in Texas. (could be a sheriff?)
"explosions in 3 places within 17 hours"...
I was going to say the same thing, Mr. Moderator. Though I don't know for sure (and probably never will) I suspect AngloZionist sabotage. If three hydrate plugs could form and cause such spectacular failure in three (of four) pipelines in such short a time I would imagine that other gas pipelines would regularly fail in similar fashion.
"The problem is not there are not any decent Black people..."
"I personally avoid any interactions with Black people if I can..."
"There's no benefit in being around them at all that I can see and I couldn't care less about diversity..."
I couldn't agree more, Sam. Fortunately (for me) I live in a very White area and I almost never have to interact with a black.
Kinda off topic...
https://i.ibb.co/N7qcqdc/Tweet.jpg
To which I replied "Anything worth doing is worth doing right. ☮"
The reply to Miss Jacoby that got my account suspended...
"No. Kyle Rittenhouse "got away with" self defense. Thank God the pedophiles he killed were jewish and not black. If he killed blacks in self defense he would not have received a fair trial. Blacks would have rioted and burned the town to the ground if he were acquitted. ☮"
Which was my most popular tweet ever. It had 38 likes, 14 replies (positive and negative) and a retweet.
https://i.ibb.co/K6fZ186/email.jpg
The "suspension appeal" and "support team" links just send me to the same blank page.
Twitter was fun while it lasted but it's just as well. Twitter is a waste of time.
I hope you all have a great afternoon!
☮
Mr. Moderator, LawDog is a police officer in Texas. (could be a sheriff?)
"explosions in 3 places within 17 hours"...
I was going to say the same thing, Mr. Moderator. Though I don't know for sure (and probably never will) I suspect AngloZionist sabotage. If three hydrate plugs could form and cause such spectacular failure in three (of four) pipelines in such short a time I would imagine that other gas pipelines would regularly fail in similar fashion.
"The problem is not there are not any decent Black people..."
"I personally avoid any interactions with Black people if I can..."
"There's no benefit in being around them at all that I can see and I couldn't care less about diversity..."
I couldn't agree more, Sam. Fortunately (for me) I live in a very White area and I almost never have to interact with a black.
Kinda off topic...
https://i.ibb.co/N7qcqdc/Tweet.jpg
To which I replied "Anything worth doing is worth doing right. ☮"
The reply to Miss Jacoby that got my account suspended...
"No. Kyle Rittenhouse "got away with" self defense. Thank God the pedophiles he killed were jewish and not black. If he killed blacks in self defense he would not have received a fair trial. Blacks would have rioted and burned the town to the ground if he were acquitted. ☮"
Which was my most popular tweet ever. It had 38 likes, 14 replies (positive and negative) and a retweet.
https://i.ibb.co/K6fZ186/email.jpg
The "suspension appeal" and "support team" links just send me to the same blank page.
Twitter was fun while it lasted but it's just as well. Twitter is a waste of time.
I hope you all have a great afternoon!
☮
MBlanc46
Wednesday - October 19th 2022 8:01AM MST
PS Quite a few urban pioneer types have done quite well for several decades by buying up properties on the fringes of black ghettos and turning those areas into Hipstervilles. I can think of several areas of Chicago where that has happened. Blacks, of course, hate seeing “their” neighborhoods being colonized by Whitey. Even though it was only 40 or 50 years ago that their ancestors had colonized a white neighborhood. The events of the past couple of years have cast serious doubt on the future of big cities, so it is unclear whether such gentrification has much of a future. But it was an interesting process whilst it lasted.
Moderator
Wednesday - October 19th 2022 4:43AM MST
PS: Sam, thanks for the l link to Law Dog. I'd read his last (or some previous) post on this along with all the comments.
The most major problem with this theory that nobody on there addressed well is the explosions in 3 places within 17 hours. I believe 2 were near each other so I could see a factor there, but not the 3rd on a different pipe far from the other rupture. One could explain the hydrate plugs, poor quality in the manufacturing, poor operation, whatever, but it'd still be a coincidence that the ruptures happened that close together in time.
You can have what you think are the exact same conditions, same materials, same pressure, etc., but just like (as some commenter on LawDog brought up, one 1,000 hr light bulb will probably not fail within 10 hours of another one installed at the same time in a similar fixture. Things don't fail THAT consistently.
Secondly, the LawDog guy, who is no engineer, as I can tell, keeps talking about these hydrate plugs slamming into bends in the pipes. These aren't residential water lines. They don't have elbows and such, as far as I know. The bend radii in these 4' diameter lines must be in thousands of feet - the pipes can't bend but so much, as the stress in the pipe would be too large, and the joints couldn't hold either.
Why is it a whole 50' section? Even if done by a small bomb in the right place, I'd think the pressure would rupture the pipe along a longitudinal or spiral crack from one joint to the next.
That doesn't mean I am so sure of what happened either, though. Reading the details is pretty interesting.
The most major problem with this theory that nobody on there addressed well is the explosions in 3 places within 17 hours. I believe 2 were near each other so I could see a factor there, but not the 3rd on a different pipe far from the other rupture. One could explain the hydrate plugs, poor quality in the manufacturing, poor operation, whatever, but it'd still be a coincidence that the ruptures happened that close together in time.
You can have what you think are the exact same conditions, same materials, same pressure, etc., but just like (as some commenter on LawDog brought up, one 1,000 hr light bulb will probably not fail within 10 hours of another one installed at the same time in a similar fixture. Things don't fail THAT consistently.
Secondly, the LawDog guy, who is no engineer, as I can tell, keeps talking about these hydrate plugs slamming into bends in the pipes. These aren't residential water lines. They don't have elbows and such, as far as I know. The bend radii in these 4' diameter lines must be in thousands of feet - the pipes can't bend but so much, as the stress in the pipe would be too large, and the joints couldn't hold either.
Why is it a whole 50' section? Even if done by a small bomb in the right place, I'd think the pressure would rupture the pipe along a longitudinal or spiral crack from one joint to the next.
That doesn't mean I am so sure of what happened either, though. Reading the details is pretty interesting.
Moderator
Wednesday - October 19th 2022 4:33AM MST
PS: Alarmist, as Sam wrote too, there are plenty of decent black people. However, the sheer amount of violent black men of the age range 12 to, I dunno, probably 45, just make it a bad bet to stay in an area like this with a family. That is besides the just plain annoying black stupidity and dysfunction - that's not something that would stop a partially-woke gentrifying family, but the first bit did.
Sam J.
Wednesday - October 19th 2022 3:36AM MST
PS
"...interesting to walk the streets, largely unmolested, of black single-family homes. I met plenty of decent, hard-working black folks walking those routes..."
The problem is not there are not any decent Black people. The problem is the numbers are so high of those that are not decent. About 40% go to jail so this is a decent number to reference. Maybe some would not be arrested if they were White. But many do things and are never arrested.
I personally avoid any interactions with Black people if I can. Not always possible but a 40% chance that interaction with them will be negative is very high. Black people have nothing to offer me in interactions. I used to hang with them at times when younger but many times this ended up in negative situations. There's no benefit in being around them at all that I can see and I couldn't care less about diversity.
Off topic but I read an article on zero hedge on the pipeline blast. They said the explosive needed to be
They said,
"...one section of the pipeline is missing 50 meters of concrete-reinforced steel pipe. ...".
They have pictures and video. To me this looks like the idea that the pipeline exploded from maintenance issues much more viable. If the US or anyone were going to blow up a pipeline I can’t see them destroying 50 meters of it. Most likely would be shaped charges to demo it. Looking at the video, I see the pipe seems to be blown out. I guess if you punctured it, it would still do this but where's the big crater a bomb would make? I’ve seen pictures of torpedoes they say are in the area but torpedo blast down to a buried trench through concrete and destroy 50 meters of pipe? I don't think so. And can you imagine digging up 50 meters of pipeline encased in concrete? You can hear this sort of thing for a long ways. I don't think you could do it quietly. Having such a big length gone strengthens the idea that maintenance caused this. A large plug could have built up in the 50 meter section, then split the whole pipe. If it was maintenance, the Russians are not going to tell us that as it suits them to blame the US. The idiots we have in charge don't help, as it's believable that they are stupid and psychopathic enough to do this. It could even very well be Israel that did this and set it up to blame the US if it were demoed. They have subs and divers capable of doing this. It would not surprise me at all if that were the case. They love to do exactly this sort of thing.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/first-images-blown-nord-stream-reveals-50-meter-missing-section-pipeline
https://twitter.com/GuyReuters/status/1582292909667516418
Link to article with explanation of the most common ways a hydrate plug ruptures a pipeline. You should read this and the comments where people calculate the effects of the pipeline rupturing. Big blast. I would say, with no other information, the pipeline blew itself up from poor maintenance. For sure at first I thought the US or Israel did it but facts are facts. Strategically blowing up the pipeline would be stupid but that has never stopped the Jews.
https://thelawdogfiles.com/2022/10/nordstream-ii-electric-instapundit.html
"...interesting to walk the streets, largely unmolested, of black single-family homes. I met plenty of decent, hard-working black folks walking those routes..."
The problem is not there are not any decent Black people. The problem is the numbers are so high of those that are not decent. About 40% go to jail so this is a decent number to reference. Maybe some would not be arrested if they were White. But many do things and are never arrested.
I personally avoid any interactions with Black people if I can. Not always possible but a 40% chance that interaction with them will be negative is very high. Black people have nothing to offer me in interactions. I used to hang with them at times when younger but many times this ended up in negative situations. There's no benefit in being around them at all that I can see and I couldn't care less about diversity.
Off topic but I read an article on zero hedge on the pipeline blast. They said the explosive needed to be
They said,
"...one section of the pipeline is missing 50 meters of concrete-reinforced steel pipe. ...".
They have pictures and video. To me this looks like the idea that the pipeline exploded from maintenance issues much more viable. If the US or anyone were going to blow up a pipeline I can’t see them destroying 50 meters of it. Most likely would be shaped charges to demo it. Looking at the video, I see the pipe seems to be blown out. I guess if you punctured it, it would still do this but where's the big crater a bomb would make? I’ve seen pictures of torpedoes they say are in the area but torpedo blast down to a buried trench through concrete and destroy 50 meters of pipe? I don't think so. And can you imagine digging up 50 meters of pipeline encased in concrete? You can hear this sort of thing for a long ways. I don't think you could do it quietly. Having such a big length gone strengthens the idea that maintenance caused this. A large plug could have built up in the 50 meter section, then split the whole pipe. If it was maintenance, the Russians are not going to tell us that as it suits them to blame the US. The idiots we have in charge don't help, as it's believable that they are stupid and psychopathic enough to do this. It could even very well be Israel that did this and set it up to blame the US if it were demoed. They have subs and divers capable of doing this. It would not surprise me at all if that were the case. They love to do exactly this sort of thing.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/first-images-blown-nord-stream-reveals-50-meter-missing-section-pipeline
https://twitter.com/GuyReuters/status/1582292909667516418
Link to article with explanation of the most common ways a hydrate plug ruptures a pipeline. You should read this and the comments where people calculate the effects of the pipeline rupturing. Big blast. I would say, with no other information, the pipeline blew itself up from poor maintenance. For sure at first I thought the US or Israel did it but facts are facts. Strategically blowing up the pipeline would be stupid but that has never stopped the Jews.
https://thelawdogfiles.com/2022/10/nordstream-ii-electric-instapundit.html
The Alarmist
Tuesday - October 18th 2022 7:56PM MST
PS
As a youngster, I delivered those supermarket flyers, a racket run by a family with 8 kids who got all the safe neighborhoods while us poorer worker bees got the hood. We fortunately didn’t have to deliver in the projects, which, BTW, had more new Caddies than the richer neighborhoods in town, but it was interesting to walk the streets, largely unmolested, of black single-family homes. I met plenty of decent, hard-working black folks walking those routes.
I doubt the experience in the projects would have been as carefree. In fact, I know it, because i ended up being in the minority in a city school with many of them. There is a definite pathology to the projects and ghetto that are best avoided at all costs, whether you be White or black.
As a youngster, I delivered those supermarket flyers, a racket run by a family with 8 kids who got all the safe neighborhoods while us poorer worker bees got the hood. We fortunately didn’t have to deliver in the projects, which, BTW, had more new Caddies than the richer neighborhoods in town, but it was interesting to walk the streets, largely unmolested, of black single-family homes. I met plenty of decent, hard-working black folks walking those routes.
I doubt the experience in the projects would have been as carefree. In fact, I know it, because i ended up being in the minority in a city school with many of them. There is a definite pathology to the projects and ghetto that are best avoided at all costs, whether you be White or black.
"...(gas hydrates) has become focus of industry and economy.
But this promising future energy carrier also causes problems, mainly in gas-transporting pipelines. Because gas hydrates form at high pressures and low temperatures, they can block pipelines in deep sea or permafrost regions, especially after bends and valves. This so-called plugging leads to critical operating conditions and high operating expenditure and may even lead to accidents with fatal consequences...."
https://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijce/2015/214638/
"...The most common way to remove a hydrate plug from a flow channel is by depressurization. Flow is stopped, and the line is slowly depressurized from both ends of the plug. At atmospheric pressure, the hydrate stability temperature is invariably less than that of the surroundings, so heat flows from the environment into the hydrate plug. The plug melts radially inward, detaching first at the pipe wall.
Any pressure gradient across the detached plug causes it to act like a projectile, as shown in Fig. 1.1a, [1] with measured plug velocities up to 180 miles/hr for short distances. The hydrate has the density of ice, almost twice that of the surrounding fluid, so at the line velocity, the plug momentum is twice that of the surrounding fluids. When the hydrate projectile encounters an obstruction or change in flow direction, such as a pipe elbow, bend, or valve, the resulting impact or pressure increase frequently causes line rupture, equipment damage, fire, and potential injury or loss of life..."
https://petrowiki.spe.org/Hydrate_plug_removal