Because the amount of writing that I feel needs to go into this, I will do it in installments or volumes and, for my enjoyment, it will be written in a legal format which is designed for a jury’s consumption. A.I. (Google Gemini) was used for data and references, as well as clarifications I needed, but not in writing of the following “explanation”, as Cody would put it. “We” is used throughout as I am representing We the people of planet Earth in the prosecution of the case against Trump. Is Donald John Trump worse than Adolf Hitler was? Yes. I am convinced that indeed he is. Executive Summary While Adolf Hitler is undeniably responsible for the most horrific deliberate atrocities in human history, this submission argues that Donald Trump represents a mathematically and existentially greater objective danger to the world. This argument establishes a rigorous methodological distinction between historical evil (malice and past body counts) and danger, which must be measured by a leader's capacity, scale, and potential to cause total global destruction. We demonstrate this modern threat through three main pillars, beginning with the apocalyptic scale of nuclear volatility, highlighted by the Doomsday Clock's unprecedented advancement during his tenure. Second, we analyze his deliberate acceleration of the climate crisis which as a pan-generational threat that, unlike mid-20th-century conventional warfare, holds the capacity to end all organized human life. Finally, we examine his model of 21st-century transactional imperialism. Evidenced by his attempts to purchase Greenland and the unprecedented January 2026 military abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro during "Operation Absolute Resolve", we argue that his blatant disregard for international sovereignty actively destabilizes the post-WWII global order and creates a "might-is-right" paradigm that risks catastrophic wider conflicts. Ultimately, this brief concludes that modern technological and ecological capacities elevate contemporary geopolitical threats far beyond the destructive limits of the 1940s.

I have to be honest, I still haven't watched the movie—it just looks like, ugh, gross cultural gender war stuff. I think men and women are good for each other, personally, and that we have created cultural solutions ON TOP of the biological solutions the evolution has provided us. Solutions that we aren't always that great at talking about, but directly relate to the bodies we...embody. [yingyang emoji] ANYWAY, to be a hypocrite about not participating in the gender wars, I stumbled upon this article against feminism from a British political and cultural magazine with a left-leaning, progressive, and liberal political position called "The New Statesmen". The article: https://www.newstatesman.com/cover-story/2026/04/meet-the-angry-young-women-why-young-women-dont-want-to-date-me It's paywalled, but here's an excerpt: ANGRY YOUNG WOMEN by @emilylawford and @Scarlett__Mag It was a Wednesday night and seven members of the University of Leeds’ feminist society had invited me to join their book swap. I asked how they felt about the young men they knew. “I don’t care for them,” said a girl called Ruby imperiously. “They’re not bad people, but they refuse to call out their friends who make other girls uncomfortable. They’ll laugh at jokes that are sexist, racist, homophobic, they don’t care about political issues… I don’t think they like women a lot.” If a man is attracted to you, she said, he might talk about things like toxic misogyny. If he doesn’t fancy you, he won’t bother. “I feel like a lot of it is quite sexually motivated with men.” I asked if they’d consider dating a man with different political views. They all immediately said no. “I don’t think I’d even be friends with one,” said one girl. “They don’t see you as human.” Only one woman, Evelyn, admitted to having male friends (though she was worried this made her a “pick me”, trying too hard for male attention). Evelyn was concerned about what the men she knew were watching online. “The stuff that’s being said about women is crazy,” she said. “They’re getting all these reels, talking about, like, bad stuff about women. And I get reels of women saying bad stuff about men. I try to think, not all men are like this, but…” On the internet, women and men have never been more alienated from each other. While the toxic, often hard-right politics of the manosphere have been exhaustively documented, the new generation of female influencers are nearly as extreme – just on the other side of the political spectrum. The “femosphere” spans a range of tones: there are misandrist dating coaches who urge women to reject men altogether, and more explicitly progressive content creators who cover global and domestic politics. Exclusive polling by Merlin Strategy for the New Statesman reveals that young women, aged between 18 and 30, are by far the most progressive demographic in the UK. Young women are 26 percentage points less likely to feel positively about capitalism than young men, and much less likely to feel the economy works in their favour. Gen Z women are more likely to support causes such as feminism, environmentalism and anti-racism than young men. They also feel much more negatively towards young men than young men feel about them. I spent the last few months in search of the new left-wing young women. It wasn’t difficult – they were everywhere. But it all felt impossibly bleak. They weren’t excited about their futures. They didn’t like the men they knew, or the idea of those they didn’t. Men were just a threat who had the potential to harm or trap them. This will almost certainly make relationships harder: fewer than half of young women feel men understand them. Young women are much less likely than men to date people who disagree with their politics. People will get lonelier, and angrier. Young women are twice as likely to not want children as young men. And it’s getting worse. Women under 25 are most likely to believe things are “stacked against me, no matter how hard I try”. A significant majority of young women feel isolated from the rest of the country. The two main political parties aren’t reaching out to them specifically. Many women told me they feared a Reform government pressuring them to have babies. Many say they will vote for the Greens in the upcoming local elections, but few seem to believe that will make a difference. They don’t feel represented by mainstream politics, and they don’t think anyone cares. It is interesting to me that kids are having less sex than ever (like has been a trend in Japan before it was a trend in America). I also do think that I have felt a lot of sentiment from women just straight up hating and distrusting men in general for being men, like, in principle. Like it's biology and there's nothing men can do, so count them out. Big generalizations there, lots to push back on. The article focuses on Brits, not Americans or Japanese, so there's that, too.

Mostly this is just a thread for me to keep track of my predictions for boxing matchups. I've been right about my picks for several big fights which have gone against the conventional wisdom of experts and media pundits... Fury beat Wilder (their 3rd fight) Usyk beat Joshua Kambosos Jr beat Teofimo Lopez and just this last weekend I picked Bivol to beat Canelo Alvarez But I'm not going to count those four on this thread. I'm starting fresh and this thread will serve as my record keeping and proof that I made my pick before the fight took place.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSb7myd6J90 Taking Children Seriously something I've been taking very seriously for the last 2-3 years since I discovered it. Not that long ago, and in some places today, it was perfectly normal, even logical, to discriminate on sex or the marital status of women. Not that long ago interracial marriages were not only frowned upon, but illegal. Not that long ago slavery was legal. Even after it was made illegal, discrimination persisted for a long time. But, whereas most people treat adults as sovereign individuals regardless of gender or race, almost no one treats children with the same respect. We will look back on the way most of Western society treats children today like we do bloodletting by leeches at barber shops until the late 1800s. In practice it's actually very difficult to "take children seriously." There are social and cultural norms that are adhered to and when you suddenly don't abide by the rules that can really, literally, scare people around you. Not only that, but there are laws in place that prevent children from being taken seriously in some contexts (namely education, e.g. Truancy). In my personal life I struggle to get people to take Isamu seriously daily, I find these adult->child domination/power behaviors very hard to avoid. But, I hope that there will be some cultural event in the near future where most people come together to try and incrementally change the way we treat children as a society. There's a lot of content here at the two links at the top, the video and the landing page by Sarah Fitz-Claridge, but I think it boils down to this: How is it any less immoral to control children that it was to control women? To control black people? To control any group we now treat as deserving equal respect? And this point in particular from the bullet list on Fallible Ideas: Ignorance isn’t stupidity. Ignorance (/intelligence) refers to what is known. Stupid (/smartness) refers to what could be known. There is an infinite amount of things that can be known in the universe, so relying on a measure of what IS known (say an IQ test) instead of what an individual is capable of knowing is irrational. We are all equally smart (what we are capable of knowing), and infinitely ignorant (what we know will always be a small part of what is capable of being known). I try to keep that in mind with every frustrating interaction with adults AND with children, particularly the one that I am responsible for. As Popper says, "I may be wrong and you may be right, and by an effort, we may get nearer to the truth." ---------------------------------------------- So, that's the primary post. But I also wanted to start a subthread here about the example 'Truancy' that I have listed about. I think it is irrational to force children to go to school. BUT, it does solve a problem of me wanting to help people at my job and not being able to. At least that's how I describe it. When I have to go to work and Isamu doesn't want me to, and a part of me also doesn't want to, I explain it like this: I want to stay here too, BUT I have made a commitment/promise to help Jiji and the others at the office. I help people, and then I get money and we can use that money to cause our lives to be more comfortable. But it's also about problem solving creatively. Trying to come up with new options that solve both our problems (A. he wants to be with me, or B. he doesn't want to go to school). I have taken Isamu to work on quite a few occasions, letting him take the school day off, and working together with Junko to not force distress upon him against his will. He has learned that he doesn't like the office, and is frankly a little scared of Junko's dad, lol. So, that has gone a long way towards letting other take care of him while Junko and I get things done quickly. (Subtext being that it's hard to get things done quickly with Isamu figuring things out that we've already figured out) When I take him to school now, he seems more open to it. But there is also the issue of: he did not choose his school, we did. There were no options provided to us, and "markets" designed for children are actually designed for adults permitting children to do things. So, especially in Japan, the market for "shopping around" for schools is really only for the super rich. I'm trying to teach him about money and value give him more power over his life. If we're already spending money on him, perhaps we should just figure out how much money we're spending on him in various ways and let him have that money to make mistakes and discoveries on his own. Another personal anecdote: In the video there is a guy who's like "Yeah, I do TCS, we let our daughter watch as much YouTube as she wants." And Sarah, comes back with something like, "Hmmm, well you say 'let' which means you still have a sense of power in the situation." I try to not think of myself as an authority ALLOWing Isamu to do anything, but instead GUIDING him, like a friend, through decisions. And, obviously, I have boundaries. So, that means if he hurts me, what do I do? Force him to not hurt me? So, what's the moral there: the person who has the most power to enforce is the one who defines morals? That's a slippery slope, to say the least. So, instead I will simply leave, like if one of you guys hit me I would just leave, or ask you to leave. This is far more distressing to Isamu than physical punishment (like solitary confinement, eg 'time out', which I have never and will never do). But, also, like brushing his teeth. I have shown him Junko's mouth, he knows what mouth pain is and what it will look like--but he has to make the rational decision for himself to brush his teeth. I will not hold him down and scrub, or whatever. Bribing, is something Junko has gone to, and I've been really reluctant to get on-board with, like, intuitively--but I don't have a good internal explanation for why that's totally bad in all situation right now. Need to think on it some more. Anyway, there is SO much going against him in terms of personal free will. Especially in Japan. Almost every aspect of life here is driven by behavior, memes, and not explanations. It's, from ancient times through to today, a culture of loyalty, protocol, discipline, obedience and respect for authority. What are your guys' thoughts on this?

This is a thread for one-off random cool stuff we may come across. [image: Slow_dance_9_1512x.gif?v=1623300000] Slowdance This is a device vibrates the objects placed within the frame at one frequency and strobes light on the objects at a slightly offset frequency. The difference between the frequencies called the beat frequency creates an optical illusion ghosting affect. [image: wcw7hxwym7gfrd0wl4htiwnkao5h.mp4]The creator of "BCrypt", a common library for cryptography for web apps (in fact, the password you use for this site is secured with bcrypt), "Yan" made one for a weekend project and posted about it on TwitterーWhich is how I found out about it. But, you can hack an IKEA frame to do it yourself using this Instructable.

I listen to a lot of podcasts, thought we could share any we like, dislike, would recommend. Any takers?

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Statement: While there is probably no way to completely eliminate corruption and other issues that plague a democratic system of government, the cake cutter principle could serve as a useful foundation from which laws are created and how taxpayers' money is used. Is anyone willing to mediate?

Richard, I thought it best to start a thread here to discuss with you a potential "can't miss" movie script I want to write and sell and I wanted to get your input since you've already dabbled in a script of your own. Of course the other Dutchmen are MORE than welcome to chime in and throw out opinions and whatnot.

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