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The UN just voted to replace the Mercator projection with some more modern stuff (at least on UN maps). Only the United States voted against, calling it a ridiculous pseudo-issue. Sure, maybe. But this is of course the same Trump administration which renamed the Gulf of Mexico "Gulf of America" and (apparently) also rebaptized Lake Ontario. The pot is calling the kettle black, methinks.
But then it struck me. Greenland is enormously effing large at Mercator world maps. Larger than Africa, in fact. Maybe *that´s* why the POTUS likes this particular projection?
Några hübinetter om det stundande valet. Observera orsaken till det sjunkande valdeltagandet: det är invandringen. Bland etniska svenskar verkar valdeltagandet vara 91%. Bland etniska svenskar med post-gymnasial utbildning är det 97% (sic).
Själv är jag en icke-etnisk svensk som har post-gymnasial utbildning och allvarligt funderat på att stå över valet, men av olika orsaker kommer jag att rösta även denna gång. Fast jag är tydligen en anomali hur man än vrider och vänder på det! Okej, *det* är jag åtminstone bekväm med, LOL.
Och så har vi den här. En ovanligt gnällig PK-artikel om att vita kvinnor hyllar en mördad somalisk journalist. Men anta att de *inte* hyllat henne. Då hade skribenten såklart klagat på *det* istället.
Det ironiska är förstås att PK är västerländskt i sig själv, så den stenhårda afro-identitären imiterar egentligen helvita postmoderna filosofer (antagligen fransmän).
Hennes gnäll förminskar dessutom vad som faktiskt verkar ha inträffat, nämligen att reportern från Somalia avslöjade islamister från hemlandet, men blev ifrågasatt...av vem då? Det förklaras aldrig.
Tillägg: Det slog mig just att hela artikelns premiss är att Abdullahi *inte* var svensk, men bildredaktören kallar henne "svensk" i bildtexten. Vilket totalt negerar hela poängen med krönikan! Faktiskt ganska dråpligt. Hübinette kanske har en kommentar? Färgblind anti-rasism, und so weiter.
A Super-El Nino is (probably) about to begin and last for about 8 months. So for the next 8 months, climate change denialists will blame all heat waves on the (naturally occuring) Super-El Nino. Climate activists won´t say anything, since they are too busy doing pro-Hamas activism.
Between 1876 and 1878, there was a Super-El Nino during which about 60 million people died of famine. But the world looked very different back in 1876-78. I mean, colonial empires oblivious to the plight of the colored man, deficient supply chains, no international aid organizations...
Wait a sec.
Well, yes, sounds a lot like 2026, doesn´t it? But I´m not saying the doom-sayers are right. Probably just another slight turbulence on our way down. Right?
With all due respecc to this dude (the Catholic content-creator), why is this easier to believe if mentioned in a 2,500 year old scripture? I mean, it obviously doesn´t work, does it?
Just unleash the power of poly-crisis late capitalism and give us another RNA vaccine, Don! I´m sure your supporters (and RFK Jr) won´t mind at all, LOL.
In 100 years, most people will be West Africans freezing half to death in Europe, barely braving heat waves in the Middle East, or drowning in huge floods in North America. Or fighting Kazakhs and Pakistanis somewhere in Asia. Africa will have become uninhabitable by that time.
Why animal rights and veganism doesn´t work. The brains of our ancestors (Homo erectus again) became big thanks to hunting and feasting on primordial elephants...
This is getting more and more embarrasing by the hour. Look what Iran´s embassy in Ghana just posted. Assuming it´s an authentic account. But it´s reported as such in the mainstream media, so it´s embarrasing for the US anyway.
>>>BREAKING: "Rich Starry," a Chinese oil tanker sanctioned for shipping Iranian oil, flying the flag of Malawi — a country with no coastline — just sailed through America's blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. The Navy, with its many "big beautiful ships," issued repeated warnings. Reportedly, the tanker's captain upgraded to premium to skip the ads.
>>>EDIT: We're being told the blockade only applies to countries the US isn't afraid of. That list used to be long. It now fits on Trump's McDonald's receipt, delivered by DoorDash.
I just saw a triumphalist Christian video pointing out that Muslim birth rates are falling. Which isn´t even true, since they are still far above replacement level in many Muslim nations. Now, do Christian nations...
This is a long presentation (taped on location in Oman) about Ibadism, the "forgotten" third branch of Islam alongside Sunnism and Shiism. Ibadism is the dominant form of Islam in the Sultanate of Oman at the Arabian peninsula.
The Ibadis were originally something as strange as the moderate faction of the Kharijites (the "anarchists" or "ultras" of the Muslim world). Their most important doctrine was that Muslims who commit major sins or even repeated minor sins aren´t really Muslims and should therefore be excluded from the umma. This even goes for the imams - unless he is sinless, the imam can´t be a legitimate ruler. This marked the Ibadis out from both the Sunnis and the Shias. The former believed that even sinful rulers should be obeyed for pragmatic reasons, while the latter denied that imams could sin at all. It seems the purist attitude was balanced with a more tolerant-pragmatic one in practice, which distinguished the Ibadis from the Azariqa, the militant Kharijites who believed that all "Muslim" sinners should be killed?!
Today, the tolerant and supposedly peaceful side of Ibadism is emphasized, with Oman having freedom of worship for various immigrant communities and also for the Sunni and the Shia. However, the video says relatively little about modern Omani history, perhaps because it isn´t particularly "tolerant". Oman is an absolute monarchy and it´s interesting to note that the Sultanate was often in political or even military conflict with the Imamate, despite both nominally being Ibadis. The British Empire and the black gold (you know, oil) lurks in the background...
- Why weren´t we mentioned in your peer reviewed paper, huh?
Some recent revisions of our bushy family tree. However, the main lines of evolution are still clear. So our direct ancestor wasn´t Lucy, but some *other* ape-woman? Go figure. But sure, the skeletal remains at Dmanisi need to be sorted out, I think!
This is kind of obvious, but since ChatGPT said it, it´s now Revealed Truth as well. Bigfoot (at least if taken to be a flesh-and-blood animal or manimal) simply *can´t* exist. It´s ecologically impossible. Nor can they hide from modern science (or hunters) for centuries. Especially not if they are supposed to live pretty much everywhere!
Explain why large mammals are hard to hide.
Large mammals are hard to hide not because scientists are unimaginative, but because biology leaves unavoidable, cumulative traces. Once an animal passes a certain size and population threshold, its existence becomes ecologically loud, even if it is shy, nocturnal, or lives in remote terrain.
Here’s the logic step by step.
1. Large mammals require breeding populations
A single animal proves nothing biologically. For a species to persist:
You need hundreds to thousands of individuals (minimum viable population)
They must reproduce continuously
They must be distributed across suitable habitat
This immediately multiplies evidence:
Births
Deaths
Dispersal
Genetic diversity
A hidden species would still leave many bodies over time.
2. Bodies don’t vanish: bones, teeth, DNA
Large mammals inevitably leave:
Skeletons
Teeth (the most durable mammalian tissue)
Hair
Scat
Environmental DNA (eDNA) in soil and water
Key point:
We routinely find bones of rare, elusive animals — even those thought extinct.
Examples:
Wolverine remains in low-density populations
Snow leopard bones in extreme terrain
Saola remains before live sightings were common
For Bigfoot-scale mammals:
❌ No verified bones
❌ No teeth
❌ No uncontested DNA
This is decisive.
3. Large mammals alter ecosystems
Big animals reshape environments simply by living:
They consume large quantities of food
They trample vegetation
They create trails
They compete with other species
They influence predator–prey dynamics
Ecologists detect species indirectly all the time:
Through browse lines
Through prey population changes
Through parasite networks
A North American hominid would dramatically affect:
Deer populations
Plant communities
Carnivore competition
None of this is observed.
4. Energy economics: big bodies are expensive
Large mammals need:
Lots of calories
Large home ranges
Reliable food sources
This forces:
Repeated visits to feeding areas
Predictable patterns
Detectable impact
Even animals that actively avoid humans (e.g., grizzlies, mountain gorillas) are still:
Regularly photographed
Killed accidentally
Found dead
Sampled genetically
You can’t “ghost” your way around thermodynamics.
5. Human detection is now overwhelming
Modern landscapes are saturated with detection:
Trail cameras (millions worldwide)
Drones
Satellites
Hunters
Hikers
Road networks
Forestry and mining
eDNA surveys
Even extremely rare species are detected:
Amur leopards (~100 individuals)
Javan rhinos (~70)
Cross River gorillas (~300)
All are better documented than Bigfoot.
6. “But forests are vast” — a scale illusion
Yes, forests are large. But:
They are fragmented
Heavily monitored
Ecologically mapped
Regularly entered by humans
Large mammals don’t need to be seen often — just once, clearly.
Bigfoot has had:
~70 years
Tens of thousands of observers
Zero conclusive biological specimens
That’s not a mystery; it’s a negative result.
7. Historical pattern: how real discoveries happen
When genuinely unknown large mammals are found:
Local people already hunt them
Physical remains exist
Western science is late, not clueless
Examples:
Mountain gorillas (bones known before live study)
Okapi (skins and skulls first)
Saola (skulls found before camera footage)
Bigfoot has skipped every step of this pattern.
Bottom line
Large mammals are hard to hide because life leaves evidence.
Not just sightings — but bones, DNA, ecological footprints, and population dynamics.
Bigfoot fails not because it’s implausible in principle, but because it is ecologically impossible in practice given modern detection and 70+ years of searching.
If you want, I can:
Compare Bigfoot to plausible undiscovered species (small, aquatic, subterranean)
Explain why marine cryptids are more plausible than terrestrial ones
Analyze Bigfoot belief using cognitive science or religious phenomenology
