2026-10-20

Paris Is Burning. Is Washington Next?

There is a very real possibility that an international cabal of leftist tyrants in the making is attempting to bring civil war across the West — and we aren’t immune.

Now, here’s something to understand about the “democracy” and protest ecosystem: almost nobody knows the ‘grand plan’ so to speak. They simply agree to play a role.

For example, 99% of people breaking stuff on the streets believe they’re doing it out of an organic uprising. They don’t see that the police have been ordered to stand down. They don’t see that legal services have already been arranged for them. They don’t see that foundations are paying for their bonds.

Similarly here, governors aren’t participating in a pact to destroy the Constitution. Governors simply have agreed to push back on the Insurrection Act. The effect is the same: the governors end up playing a role in a grander plan.


Motivations differ, people rarely agree to the big evil supervillain framing, but incentives all converge in the same end goal. No Kings might not agree to explicitly tear down the Constitution, but they nonetheless work with DSA and will turn out millions of people if the right phone call is put in.

Convince people to do the things they want to do anyway, and the component parts will work together.

And if you have a Democrat-controlled legislative branch taking office in early January, you can create so much chaos as to make the country ungovernable. 

We saw a strong taste of this in 2000, you know. The George Floyd riots more or less rendered the federal government irrelevant on the streets of those cities most affected. 

And six years later, we still have millions more foreigners here to serve as a standing army of chaos than we had in 2020. We have a more militant Democrat party than we had in 2020.

Six years ago this would have been considered shocking. It barely raises eyebrows now…

2026-10-17

This Ring of Plasma Could Change the World

 https://sciencenews4you.blogspot.com/2026/10/this-ring-of-plasma-could-change-world.html

8K TVs Are Stupid


When 4K TVs came out, some people complained that you can't see that level of detail...


Much depends upon how big your screen is, how far you sit from it, and whether you are John Coffey. My eyesight has never been 20/20, but even with the corrective lens I got during my cataract surgery, which was a huge improvement, I see more like 20/25. So when 4K first came out, I had a hard time telling the difference between 4K (which is just a marketing name for 2160p) and 1080p.

Although surgery vastly improved my distance vision, it made it harder for me to see up close. I can't see anything up close without reading glasses, and getting the right focus for playing chess has been tricky. I liked my old vision because I needed glasses just for distance, but now I need strong reading glasses to see my phone.

For a large-screen TV, a 4K display makes sense. However, I have two 27-inch monitors, and for these, I feel that 1440p is ideal. On a 27-inch monitor, 1080p is not as good because you can see individual pixels when sitting close, but 4K makes all the Windows and Mac icons look small, so you have to artificially enlarge them to be able to see anything comfortably.

I don't think that a person is going to gain anything by having 4K on a 27-inch monitor. There is a limit to what our eyes can see. Although it doesn't make much difference, 4K requires more overhead from the graphics hardware when playing games, so you can get a better frame rate with 1440p. Although you could run a game in 1440p on a 4K monitor, it is less than ideal because the video output doesn't match the pixels on the screen, requiring the computer or monitor to scale the images.

My iMac is 5K, but I run it at half resolution, which is 1440p, and I am more comfortable with it that way. For people who do video or photo editing, 4K and 5K are better.

On a smaller computer monitor, such as one measuring 19 or 20 inches, I think that 1080p might be fine. Most laptops have displays with resolutions higher than 1080p, but because of their size, I don't think that they need to.

Because of the small screen and keyboard, I don't recommend using a laptop as your main computer, but I have used a laptop with an external screen and keyboard.




2026-10-02

The Renee Good Case Isn't What the Headlines Say

 https://politics4thought.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-renee-good-case-isnt-what-headlines.html

Are People Getting Hotter?

https://healthnewsandnutrition.blogspot.com/2026/10/are-people-getting-hotter.html

Is Zinc Even Good?


According to the comments, you should not take zinc on an empty stomach.

7 Dog Breeds Id Never Let in My House

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTeR6Xapaes

Golden retrievers and labrador retrievers are gentle family dogs that love children and other pets.

For a smaller dog, I hear that Beagles make great pets.  They have a good disposition and love kids.

Not only am I allergic to dogs, but owning one would take too much of my time.

Something Is VERY Wrong With This Winter...

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My Facebook Posts from ten Years ago

 https://politics4thought.blogspot.com/2026/10/my-facebook-posts-from-ten-years-ago.html