N says he finds it curious that of all the languages I could have chosen, I went with German.

“Doesn’t it give you a bad feeling because of the Holocaust?” he asks.

But the German Jews killed by the Nazis were also speakers of German. The language was just as much theirs as anybody else’s.

Judging by the Germanic last names of my Jewish grandparents, we have roots in the upper left quadrant of the map. It’s not surprising then that I’d choose German as my next language.

Americans are about to learn how to
-maintain their own lawns
-clean their own house
-make home repairs themselves
-grow a home garden

Everyone nostalgic for the 1950s might not realize what that actually entails.

https://x.com/jasoncoxnc/status/1860761597783781442?t=zb4-uTFNpMUcD3qrU08gFg&s=19

We hire people to mow our lawn, clean our house, make home repairs, and deliver sprouts. Every single one of these great folks is a native-born American.

It’s a lie that Americans “won’t do these jobs” so impoverished migrants must be herded in to do them. Americans absolutely do them and do them well. But you can’t underpay them, abuse them, and condescend to them. If you are fine with that, there won’t be a problem.

The cynicism of the people who want to take jobs away from an American cleaning lady and an American lawnmower because they can underpay a migrant is truly shocking. My mower is a veteran and my sprout lady is a homeschooling mom of four, including one special needs child. What are they supposed to do if they get replaced?

I can’t extract a link out of these questions. I see them as images. Is it the post about Russia recruiting Houthis to fight in Ukraine? If so, I have no confirmation on that and don’t want to post before I’m completely sure.

Boredom is the engine of human progress. We slept in today, and Klara wandered around the house on her own. She got bored. Then she got very bored. Then she decided to make a model of our house and created a detailed project that is inventive and really cool.

I don’t hide the remote control from her. Neither did I install parental controls or anything like that. It’s unnecessary because she imitates what she sees, and we don’t have the TV running in the background or flip through channels to dispel boredom.

It’s impossible not to feel contempt for these empty condemnations of what Trudeau himself carefully engineered and aggressively implemented. Liberals do everything to create chaos, and then act shocked when they achieve exactly what they want.

When a liberal uses the word “condemnation”, know that some really outrageous manipulation is taking place.

I think it’s very important to provide accommodations for disabled people.

However, don’t disabled people have some responsibility to inform complete strangers about their disability in advance so that accommodations could be prepared? During the hiring process, it’s illegal for me to ask, “Are you disabled?” There’s no legal pathway for me to ascertain who might need accommodations and then provide them. I’m also not authorized to provide anything “just in case.”

We have all collectively engineered a situation where everybody is too scared to ask anything lest feelings be hurt and imaginary oppressions occur. This means people must take responsibility for their own needs. It’s not possible to have a community in this environment of suspicion and assumed guilt. Do for yourself, then, and don’t assume anybody else will risk their neck to help out. We don’t have a high-trust society. We have a litigious society that loves to hunt for microagressions. I’m presumed guilty of trying to oppress everybody from the get-go.

An immigrant into Canada from Iran prattles excitedly about her contempt for the country that welcomed her and gave her every possible comfort:

“Canada is a white supremacist, colonialist, racist project… I don’t even consider myself to be a Canadian because this is indigenous land and this land is occupied.”

https://x.com/LizaRosen0000/status/1860216480413192404?t=tHosZtI26RjpPYfJrthcmg&s=19

Destructive riots in Montreal over the weekend demonstrate what happens when the number of immigrants who despise and hate the country that for some inexplicable reason adopted them grows too large.

New York spends the whopping amount of nearly $30k per public school student per year. I struggle to imagine what this insane amount of money can even buy. Many people live a whole year on that amount. It’s a struggle but imagine pissing that all off on educating a single public school student.

The results of this spending are nil given that only 33% of NY students are proficient in reading.

One of the central beliefs of leftist ideology is that you can solve anything with money. So they keep throwing money at this issue yet it keeps getting worse. Observing any connection between these results and the aggressive addition to the public schools of New York of a large number of students who don’t speak English is beyond them.

I haven’t been able to wrench out of a single Democrat an admission that mass migration will make public schools even more underachieving, costly, chaotic and useless. Dogma always wins no matter what reality demonstrates.

I normally don’t support trigger warnings but I still believe that readers need to have some advance knowledge that there will be scenes of child pornography in a book. I’m in the last weeks of a very difficult semester, and I picked up an Alice Feeney mystery to have some nice, escapist fun. It was going great. Feeney brings a much appreciated freshness to the genre, and I was enjoying her light, undemanding writing.

But then it started getting graphic, and children are involved. I’m only mentioning all this because I saw online that there’s going to be a Netflix series based on the book, and there’s no way of writing child rape out of the plot. It’s at the heart of the story.

I understand the need to find shock value for an increasingly jaded audience but does it have to go all the way to this kind of thing?

Norway also has its race hoaxes. A dude called Hamse Ali claimed back in September that he was attacked by a bunch of Norwegian racists who racistly racisted him with slurs and beatings.

Overwhelmed with guilt, Norwegians started marching in torchlight processions, denouncing racism, and collecting money. I have no idea what the purpose of the money was but it must have been a form of expiating the terrible Norwegian guilt about having a nice country and a good life.

Norwegians are new to this variety of entertainment so they are still kind of innocent. In the US, even the most dense of us have started to realize that these “racist incidents” are always hoaxes. So when it came out that Hamse Ali is now a suspect instead of a victim, everybody became confused.

I’m glad that at least in America we are over it. Because we are, right? No more Jussie Smolletts or George Floyds. Norwegians need us to point the way, so let’s get to it.