Open Minded Realism

I recently found a YouTube channel which contains videos that explain various types of affordable energy saving technologies that can be easily be added to people’s houses.

This is another example of how the political Establishment was never actually concerned about “global warming,” where in fact they’ve always actually been frightened of people finding out about how effective alternative energy technologies can be.  Their global warming scam was only an excuse for them to consolidate their corrupt control over populations at the international level under the guise of combating a “global” threat, where in fact the very last thing that they want is for people to learn how to become self-sufficient and independent.

Following are some selected videos:

“This $300 Tunnel COOLS Any Home 55°F FOREVER”

This video explains that a simple pipe buried in your yard can be used to cool your house essentially for free, due to the fact that the temperature a few feet underground always remains at about 55 degrees Fahrenheit, no matter what season of the year it is.

[Note: It would be interesting to know the correlation is between the length of the pipe and the volume of air that it can cool per minute.

I think it would be ideal if both the beginning and the end of the pipe would be inside the house, in order to not allow humidity, pollen, and other pollutants in the air outside to enter the house.  For example, the pipe could run underground to the end of the yard, and then an elbow could attach to an adjacent underground pipe which would head back to the house.]

“This $300 Tunnel HEATS Any Home All Winter FOREVER…”

Interestingly, the same sort of underground pipe as in the previous video can be used for heating in many circumstances.

“This Chimney Cools Your Entire Home WITHOUT Electricity.  Why’d They Hide It?”

This is interesting technology which naturally utilizes the pressure differences between warm air and cool air.

“This $300 Sand Drum Heats Any Home All Winter.  Why Did They Erase It?”

This looks like a great way to store solar energy for heating, as long as it would be implemented in a way where there wouldn’t be any danger of it causing fires.

“The $7 Powder That Beats Your $3,000 AC Unit (Physics Explained)”

[Note: This is interesting, but I think it would be an eyesore if a lot of people in traditional suburban-type neighborhoods started painting their rooftops white or installing white roofing tile, assuming that they leave the color schemes of the rest of their houses as it was when they had a dark colored roof.

However, I would agree with making such rooftops white if they could be concealed with trellises, where that could also be combined with the use of solar sterling engines as I had detailed in this article.  But the sterling engines would actually cast shadows on most of the rooftops anyway, which would mostly negate the need for making the rooftops white in the first place.]

“This Forgotten NASA Insulation Trick Cuts AC Costs By 70% – They Stopped Teaching It In 1991”

This is another very inexpensive way to save a huge amount of energy.

The street artist Banksy has recently installed a cringe pro-Establishment “anti-patriotism” statue in central London, which had been installed overnight supposedly “without the consent” of the city.  The statue depicts a man who is blinded by the flag that he is carrying and stepping off of the precipice of its pedestal into the void. (link)

Banksy has actually always been a butt-kisser when it comes to the political Establishment.  In recent years he has also created other pro-Establishment artworks, where for example he made a mural depicting a judge beating a pro-open borders and pro-Islam rioter with his gavel, and he has made other artworks advocating for those same types of issues as well. (link)

However, his latest work is actually made relevant when the flag on it is made to be specific for the United Nations, where other types of relevant flags would also be for the European Union, the Democratic National Committee, or the Communist Party for example.

(I think the sculpture would also actually be relevant it was taken completely literally however, if it was considered to be a “white flag of surrender” for example.  But in any event it would certainly not be relevant if it was a flag of the United States.)

[Note: After a lot of prodding, I was able to create the above alternative image using Grok, but when I tried to refine it even more it started refusing to do so for some reason.  I wanted to make the UN logo fill the proportions of the entire flag exactly as if it was a real UN flag, where most of the logo would be concealed by its folds, but it wasn’t able to do that where it told me it was “trying” but constantly never returned any improvements after I spent a considerable amount of time attempting to do that, where it then usually said “Grok was unable to reply.  Something went wrong.”

Also I wasn’t even able to get Grok to recreate the above result again, even though I supplied the same sort of clear instructions that I originally had.  I wonder if it decided to start refusing or it was told to start refusing by moderators due to the political content.

In any event, while I was in the process of doing that and seeing all of the errors that it made on the way to the final image, I kept thinking about how utterly insane someone would have to be to ride in a car that is driven by AI!]

(Such maternity ward rooms don’t usually exist anymore.)

I made a comment in a Various News post a few months ago saying it would be ideal if more women had children every year rather than every two years, but since then I’ve been seeing information claiming that doing so results in a higher probability of complications with the births.  For example I saw AI saying:

“Women should wait at least a year between having children to reduce health risks for both themselves and their babies.  Short intervals between pregnancies can lead to complications such as preterm birth and maternal health issues.”

But I wonder if that is actually true.  I suspect that it is not actually, where instead I think the political Establishment has exaggerated or fabricated that claim in order to reduce the amount of births which occur, especially in the West.

I would be surprised if most women’s bodies would not able to heal enough to give birth at the same time a year later without problems, assuming they had previously given a standard birth without complications, they have been able to adequately rest during their pregnancy, and they have been eating healthy enough food.

A Mayo Clinic article says the following:

What are the risks of spacing pregnancies close together?

A pregnancy that starts within six months of a live birth has a higher risk of some health issues.  BUT IT’S NOT CLEAR FROM THE RESEARCH IF PREGNANCY SPACING IS THE CAUSE OF THESE CONCERNS. (emphasis added)  They include:

— A baby being born before the 37th week of pregnancy, also called premature birth.
— Low birth weight for the baby.
— A baby being born with a health concern.  These health concerns are called congenital disorders.  Or sometimes they may be called birth defects.

For pregnant people [(women)], a pregnancy that starts within six months of a live birth raises the risk of anemia.  In anemia, there isn’t enough healthy red blood cells or hemoglobin in the blood to carry oxygen to the body’s tissues.

What reason would there be for such health issues to occur, simply because a woman has become pregnant again soon or relatively soon after giving birth?  When a woman first becomes pregnant it does not start to heavily tax her body for many months, so I think it is suspicious that it is being suggested that women’s bodies are not capable of doing that, especially if they are receiving enough rest and making sure to be eating properly over the course of their pregnancy.  And wouldn’t women’s bodies have developed to naturally not be able to conceive soon after giving birth if there actually is a risk when doing so?  (But of course I realize that being pregnant and giving birth are usually a very physically strenuous process for women in any case.)

What most convinces me that such claims are illegitimate is because they don’t adequately explain “why” that would be case, such as for supposed birth defects that would occur.  For example the idea of “anemia” of the mother being be a factor seems ridiculous to me, where if for some reason a woman would happen to have that issue it would be a simple matter to counter it anyway.

I saw this article which cites a study which claims that short intervals between pregnancies creates greater risks for the health of older women while it creates greater risks for the children of younger women.  However I still doubt that correlation, at least for younger women, where I think it is likely that there are other factors causing the harm to the children in the study rather than the interval between the pregnancies.  For example women who have migrated from the third world tend to have children at a much higher rate and at much shorter intervals, so due to their presence in the study many other factors might actually be causing the problems.

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In a somewhat related issue, I noticed this horrifying CNN article which explains that an (evil) “American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists” organization is ridiculously “breaking with the CDC” and recommending that women take Covid-19 vaccines during their pregnancies!

Covid-19 vaccines are shown beyond any doubt to be useless and deadly, as is explained in numerous articles and videos in this article.

All of these articles should serve as an important reminder that YOU MUST ALWAYS BE SUSPICIOUS OF WHAT DOCTORS TELL YOU, where they and their representative associations often simply prescribe whatever the corrupt and malicious political Establishment tells them to do, even when it is contrary to the truth and to your health.

I often like the content that the Babylon Bee media outlet creates, but I disagree with this video that is typical of conservative satire that depicts veganism as being impractical and ridiculous.

Personally I’m not opposed to the consumption of animals, but I think they should be well-treated when they are raised, which is almost never the case as this video explains.  Also see this article which explains that the political Establishment only wants conservatives to “think” that they want to ban meat.

I think most people who are opposed to veganism would not be willing to personally mistreat an animal the way that it is usually mistreated when it is raised, for example.

There are other good reasons to be a vegan as well.  For example meat and dairy production creates a lot of pollution such as in the waterways (not counting the ridiculous claims of cows creating methane that supposedly contributes to supposed “global warming”), and the production of meat is wasteful due to animals requiring 12 times the amount of farmland that would be needed to otherwise grow crops that are eaten directly.  Other crops such as hemp could be grown instead.

And despite what the political Establishment wants people to think, it is healthy to be a vegan, as this video explains.

I’ve been a vegan for over 15 years, and I find it to be easy to do and it is healthy.  It is easy to be a vegan if you know what your options are.

This article explains the benefits of “raw veganism” which I also like, which is different than basic veganism.  I’ve been shifting more toward raw veganism once again.

Some of my favorite basic basic vegan cookbooks are “Real Vegetarian Thai,” “Caribbean Vegan,” and “Vegan Tacos: Authentic and Inspired.”

I don’t like most of the commercial “frankenfood” meat substitutes such as the “Beyond Meat” brand, which contains GMO ingredients.  (I believe that Burger King actually chose that brand for its veggie burgers in a “pro-meat conspiracy” because it is shunned by most most vegetarians due to it being GMO, and additionally vegetarians don’t want to eat those burgers because Burger King cooks them in the grease of meat hamburgers.)

This video shows an all-natural gourmet vegan burger that doesn’t contain GMO ingredients:

I like the taste of cheese, but I don’t really miss it because my recipes compensate for it.  And I can get cheese flavor using nutritional yeast, which is actually made from beets.

In any event I don’t miss drinking cow’s milk, since I think plant-based milks such as almond milk and hemp milk taste better anyway.

About the Yulin Dog Meat Festival in China

In a somewhat related matter, this Breitbart article says that Animal defenders are saying that China is still allowing the slaughter of dogs at the Yulin Dog Meat Festival.

I think it is interesting that Westerners often see eating dog meat as being inhumane while other types of domesticated animals also have similarly sophisticated personalities and they often suffer even more than such dogs likely do when they are raised for meat, such as pigs and chickens, etc.

[Note: In any event, I think consuming free-range animals is fine, but nonetheless I don’t want to post meat recipes on my websites, even if they would say “‘free range’ this and that” in the ingredients list because few people actually do that.  For example many people might consume free range meat every now and then as a token gesture such as at a barbecue or whatever, but otherwise they eat non-free range meat, especially because the prices of groceries are so high.  Also a lot of meat that is labeled as “free range” actually isn’t.  There are more than enough meat recipes on the internet already anyway.  I’m fine with posting other types of information however such as about the benefits of raising free-range animals for consumption.]

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This Russia Today article explains that Elon Musk is calling out Wikipedia for wasting an enormous proportion of its donations on woke DEI and “safety and inclusion” agendas, among other issues.

The article explains that Wikipedia receives 90% of its funding from donations, and in its 2023-2024 budget of $177 million, $50 million was spent on such woke agendas.

Other points talked about in the article:

— Musk wrote on X: “Stop donating to Wokepedia until they restore balance to their editing authority,” and he wrote that Wikipedia “sucks” for spending $50 million on DEI.

— Wikipedia claims it is “taking steps to address barriers to free knowledge caused by racial inequality, while also striving to close the gender gap and ensure equal representation of knowledge and people on the platform.”  They also claim that they seek to “defend our people and projects against disinformation and harmful government regulation” and other “external threats.”

— Elon Musk also called out Wikipedia in October for calling Donald Trump a “fascist,” where he said the site is controlled by far-left activists.

— Later that month Musk offered Wikipedia $1 billion if they would rename the site to be “Dickipedia” for at least a year.

— In 2023 Wikipedia’s co-founder Larry Sanger said that the platform is being used by US intelligence community as an instrument of “control,” and to further the agenda of left-liberal establishment.

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… All of that is depressing to hear.  I bet that angers many people who donate to it, and also people who contribute content to it.

I must admit that I find the website to be useful nonetheless.  Of course there is always a danger of its content being biased, but people should expect that because it is a wiki.  (And I do point out when I find issues with it.)

Other similar wikis also exist, and I will examine them more.  But I wouldn’t trust many of them to be much better and they likely don’t have as much content.

Following are links to the Wikipedia alternatives that are mentioned in this article:

Encyclopedia Britannica  (This does not seem to be a “wiki” however.)

Kiwix  (This is “downloader” for various wikis including Wikipedia, which could be useful.)

KnowledgePicker  (This seems to no longer be accepting new content, but its old content is still available as an archive.)

Oppia  (This didn’t work on my browser.)

Scholarpedia  (This one focuses on “academic” topics.)

Metapedia  (This one “focuses on culture, art, science, history, politics and philosophy.”)

World History Encyclopedia  (This one focuses on ancient history.  It is an NGO like Wikipedia, and it mainly focuses on providing information and content for teachers and students.)

Wikiless  (This is some sort of a custom Wikipedia front end that web developers can host themselves.  It says that it prevents Wikipedia from getting the IP address of the people who are searching it, and it is somehow “customizable” for individual users.  This article explains it more, and it gives a list of examples of its use.)

Wikispooks  (This one focuses on “conspiracy” related content.)

[Note I wrote this article a while ago.  I actually have a bit of a backlog of articles that I wrote but never got around to posting.  Many of them I didn’t post because I decided that they would distract from other new articles.]

I saw the movie Gladiator II recently, which I thought was well-made, but it did have issues such as with the fictional animals they fought and man-eating sharks being in the Colosseum for example.

The movie had corrupt twin brother emperors who were based on real emperors Geta & Caracalla, and they also incorporated aspects of madness into them as with the emperor Nero.  Nero was a homosexual however, but the filmmakers seemed to go out of their way to depict them as being heterosexuals despite their effeminate nature, where they weren’t even willing to just leave that up to speculation.

See a video that depicts how insane Nero was in this docudrama series.  (The documentary was previously available on YouTube but it is now on Amazon Prime.  The entire series is well-made, where each episode portrays a unique interesting aspect of ancient Rome.  Note that the written description for the video on the page is for a different video however.)

A “woke” movement actually exists claiming that “Nero wasn’t actually that bad,” however he definitely was bad.  Apparently he didn’t personally start the fire in Rome, but most of the other horrible things about him aren’t disputed.  But that doesn’t stop his proponents from claiming that he was “misunderstood” and some even ridiculously saying that he was “actually good.”

The issue with Nero being claimed to be “misunderstood” is another example of leftists attempting to do a “woke” re-writing of history, such as with Alexander the Great inaccurately being depicted as being a homosexual, (link) the Carthaginian general Hannibal being depicted as being black, (link and link) and the Crusades being depicted as Muslims being attacked by Europeans for no reason. (link and link)

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I also heard about the “gay comedy” superhero movie Deadpool and Wolverine, and I was surprised to hear that it was very popular and I was curious why.  So I saw it but I still can’t understand how it could have been so popular.  It is definitely a “gay” movie, and I just can’t imagine large crowds of heterosexual guys (or girls) lining up to see that.

The following are real promotional posters for the movie:

The movie was actually a “blockbuster,” supposedly grossing $1.338 billion worldwide, and it was the highest-grossing R-rated movie of all time!  Why?  Did activists somehow coordinate with each other and buy ten or twenty tickets each?  I just don’t believe it.

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Another movie that I think has suspiciously inexplicable aspects is “The Dark Knight” that was made in 2008, which was seemingly universally hailed by critics as being “one of the greatest movies of all time!” despite just being a run-of-the-mill action movie except for the fact that it was particularly violent.  Even to this day it is ranked among “the greatest of all movies.” (link and link)  For some reason an agenda seems to exist to make sure it is artificially praised and ranked in such a positive way.

It is interesting to think about the cultural differences in society in between 1920 and 1960, and then between 1985 and 2025— where both are 40 year differences, however the cultural changes that occurred in the latter 40 years are very slight even as technology has become much more advanced and more accessible by everyone.

For example the following music videos seem as modern today as they did in the 1980’s.  (Note that I don’t necessarily like some of those groups however.)

Popular Western culture such as music and movies hasn’t really changed much since the 80’s and 90’s, other than the ridiculous dysfunctional “wokeness” that the political Establishment has been recently trying to force onto everyone.  Actually the political Establishment has always exploited the popular culture for its own purposes however, starting even decades before the 80’s.

(Nonetheless I think a difference between now and then is many of the new popular music celebrities today aren’t as sophisticated or clever of musicians or songwriters, where I think the new music is generally much more one-dimensional and monotonous across songs, and the topics spoken about are more superficial and vapid.  I actually think that is also likely at the instructions of the political Establishment.)

In any event, the biggest factor in slowing the cultural changes has been the internet decentralizing and diffusing what defines everyone’s taste, where there is no longer a monolithic defining source through the broadcast media as was the case prior to the internet.

Nonetheless a downward shift in culture will more rapidly be occurring in the future as the political Establishment will not be letting up on its attacks on society with its intentionally harmful agendas.  See the weekly online show “You Can’t Stop Progress” that shows the current state of dysfunctional leftist culture.

Image from BigStockPhoto.

Mostly starting in September of 2024, a slew of articles has been published claiming that British people “don’t rinse the dirty soap off their dishes when washing them”— where they claim that instead it is customary in the UK for people to simply set the dishes on the drying rack with the soap still on them!

I believe this is some sort of a weird media hoax for a few reasons.  First of all because I can’t believe that anyone would not automatically quickly rinse the soap off their dishes before setting them on the rack, because it is effortless to do so and there is every reason to do it and no reason not to do it.  And also I don’t believe that such a ridiculous supposed phenomenon could not have been widely reported before.

I think this is another strange gaslighting campaign that is similar to the “Flat Earth Society,” or with the more recent situation of thousands of leftists seeming to pretend to be enamored with the United Healthcare CEO killer, as explained in this link.

For example, it was recently reported in these articles:

A November 29, 2024 House Digest article: “Is The British Dish Washing Trend Really Getting Your Dishes Clean?” (link)

A September 19, 2024 Apartment Therapy article: “I Discovered the British Way of Washing Dishes, and I’m Shocked” (link)

A September 12, 2024 Metro.Co.Uk article: “Americans are horrified by the ‘strange’ way Brits wash dishes” (link)

September 11, 2024 PopSugar article: “Is the ‘British Way’ of Washing Dishes Really So Bad?” (link)

September 11, 2024 Edinburg Live article: “Americans in stitches at how British people wash up – saying we get it wrong” (link) — (Note this article in a British media outlet even says in its title that “we” do it!  But I still don’t believe it though.)

I was able to find some older articles that mention it, but nonetheless I still don’t believe that it can be true:

This March 11, 2022 “Medium” article: “Why Brits Don’t Rinse Off Their Dishes” (link)

This 2014 “Straight Dope” article: “Do the British not rinse dishes after washing them?” (link)

This is actually true.  The book “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” has been re-written by “sensitivity experts,” including making the Oompa Loompas “gender neutral.”