Indiana Jones and the Weight of Glory – Hannah Long (Plough.com)
Perhaps no cinematic frame better encapsulates the insight that “the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom” – certainly not in the tomb-raiding adventure genre – than one near the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
H/t: WDW Pro
In Ukraine, Logistics Rules the Battlefield – Strategy Page
The four-month-old Ukrainian offensive in southern Ukraine recently achieved a major objective. Ukrainian forces advanced to within GMLRS missile range of the only Russian rail line that carried supplies to occupied Crimea. Ukraine had already disabled the other rail supply route to Crimea, which used the Kerch Strait bridge.
H/t: Instapundit
It takes 10x as much money to get a new customer as it takes to merely keep the existing customers happy. In every woke “business” makeover, you intentionally alienate all of your existing customers to chase new customers, spending 10x more to attract this new supposedly more-desirable customer base than it would have cost you to excite the existing one. When the new “woke” customers do not come — they never do — you now have to spend 20x more to try to attract back your old customers.
But why would they come back? During this period they have either stopped buying the kind of products you sell entirely, and thus do not need your services, or have bought similar products from non-woke vendors, in which case they also do not need your services.
All of your old, undesirable customers remember that you decided that they were old and undesirable, and told them you did not want to sell to them any longer…
Why Does Google Hate the Blogfather? – The Other McCain
“Demonetizing” is censorship, period, and it didn’t start happening — the orchestrated attempt to shut down independent online publishing — until Obama’s second term. There was a left-wing blogosphere (the “moonbats,” as we called them) and a right-wing blogosphere (the “wingnuts,” as the Left called us), and the existence of two oppositional blogospheres was a fact of life everyone in the game understood.
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When Instapundit and Ace of Spades subsequently stopped using Twitter, it was not so much as a protest against the banning of myself and others as it was an acknowledgement that Twitter was (and is) a parasitical growth that exploits its users.
If memory serves, the immediate reason that Ace left Twitter was because he looked at his analytics and realized he was being shadowbanned. (Which numerous Twitter execs perjured themselves in denying ever, ever happened.)
However, both subsequently concluded that their Twitter content provided revenue for Twitter, not for them.