Charisma and Selfishness: "Vibe Popes"

"Vibe Popes" leverage their charisma to make sure everyone has a good time at parties and other social gatherings. And other people can learn to be more charismatic, too, by knowing what to say.

Typically female, (and typical of most midwits), the author focuses and defines "Charisma" in terms of conversations. However, as the common saying goes, 70% -90% of communication is non-verbal, and similarly for Charisma and other status effects. So right off the bat, we can see that the author is presenting a biased form of Charisma.

Her talk of Selfish Charisma and Selfless Charisma is also silly. Charisma is orthogonal to internal motivation. And an organization headed by selfish Charismatic individuals can still have strong social cohesion, with very satisfied members, compared to selfless charismatic-led organizations. To some extent, most people are at the mercy of the charismatic individuals in their lives. The author seems like she is bitter about that fact of life. Which is silly, and why her study is futile.

Ukraine Leopards now doing indirect fire, too

Ukraine now employing Leopard tanks in indirect fire roles for infantry fire support, instead of Western style fire and maneuver.

Thus completing the Ukrainian evolution back into Soviet tactics. Russia has been doing this all along. And most of the resurrected T-55 and T-62 tanks are used similarly.

A few months ago, Western "analysts" were concern-trolling the Russians, by saying that using tank cannons as artillery will wear out the barrels too fast and cause all kinds of problems. Well, it turns out that tank cannon indirect fire was standard Soviet tactic, which has continued post-Soviet. We know that Russians do know how to regularly replace cannon and howitzer barrels based on battle usage. We don't know if they have enough barrels to keep up regular replacement. (Given the apparent ammunition semi-shortage, they probably don't have enough barrels either. But then, they're not firing as many, so it all kinds of work out.)

And a few months before that, Western analysts were again concern-trolling by talking about barrel failure from over-use. What they didn't realize, was that Russian howitzer barrels (not sure about cannon ones) are made with untensioned steel, whereas Western ones are made with tensioned steel. Therefore, Western howitzers will explosively fail from over-use, whereas Russian ones will simply get less accurate and less range.

So what this story says, more than anything, is that Ukraine is definitively ending their "Counter-Offensive". And that the vaunted "American/NATO" tactics are merely an alternative to Soviet ones, not terribly better or worse. And that, concern-trolling aside, Russian Army does kind of know what they are doing, and are sometimes fairly good at their jobs. This story is manifest evidence that most of what "Western analysts" were telling us is merely propaganda. (Useless propaganda at that, because their opinions have little effect on Russian performance.) And now it seems that the Russian "failures" during 2022 Spring is more a result of a more lethal battlefield (a la Nagorna-Karabakh) than Russian ineptitude or Ukrainian aptitude. (And relearning classic lessons like tanks cannot survive an unsupported attack, that all attacks must be infantry-led.)

Now that Europe has no more tanks to give out. (Nor many more American ones, due to production constraints and Taiwan demands.) So that means Ukraine will not do more armor assaults/exploitations in 2024, probably nor 2025. And Zelensky is complaining that his howitzer shells are going to Israel instead. (Which sounds like giving out excuses for upcoming failures.) This phase of the Ukraine War is likely coming to a close soon. Unless Russia gets some DPRK mercenaries, or many more DPRK rockets and shells, then the frontlineis unlikely to change much for the next few years.

And notice that Business Insider does not know which Ukrainian Leopard is doing the indirect fire, I or II. It cites a Swedish II, but shows a I picture. Can you really trust them for quoting analysts correctly.

San Francisco Chinese name shenanigans

San Francisco now forbid non-Chinese people from using Chinese-type names on ballots, giving them generic transliterated names instead. If they have not been using their Chinese names in public for at least 2 years.

So stupid.

Excuses for the Retail Apocalypse Store Closings

many possible causes for stores closing, other than shoplifting, which does not have definitive proof in official statistics.

Let the Whitewashing begin.

Jews Buying Guns And Taking Classes

More Jews are buying guns and taking gun classes, after the Hamas attack and the pro-Palestinian protests in October.

Only time will tell if they really change their minds. God only knows how stupid the Asians living in America have been with their anti-gun views through the Anti-Asian Hate era.

Mass Psychological Programs Don't Work

mass psyhological programs do not work, and may make the problem worse.

Stuff White People Like are usually stupid.

Single people complain single life is expensive

Single people complain that they have more expenses than married people. The author recommends getting a roommate or turning friends into a sharing community to reduce expenses like married people do.

It is almost like, people need to join and participate in a community, instead of thinking you can lonewolf it like libertarians. Gee, who'da thunk. Duh.

Join a community.