Monday, September 28, 2026

VISEGRAD24: People in Latino neighborhoods in New York City are becoming increasingly irritated with the decision by the authorities to allow mosques to play the Islamic call to prayer 5 times a day from loudspeakers.

It's a small price for that treasured diversity. 

JIMMY WATSON: "The three terabytes of information that I have are located . . . ," and then he gives the exact address of the Surfside Miami Condo.

You need to go find your war.  --John McAfee 

Who's the most feared man on the battlefield?  The oldest man.  --John McAfee 

John McAfee, 1945-June 23, 2021.  

The Surfside Condominium collapse occurred on June 24, 2021, when the Champlain Towers South partially fell, resulting in the deaths of 98 people and injuring many others. Investigations revealed that the collapse likely began due to structural failures in the pool deck weeks prior to the incident.

SAMA HOOLE: Fructose is the only sugar that produces uric acid as it's metabolised. It does it straight away, in the liver, and a can of the stuff moves the number more than a week of chops.

The gout leaflet tells a man to cut down on steak, and the thing driving his uric acid is the can of pop he was handed instead. What the leaflet says to limit: - Red meat - Offal - Shellfish - Oily fish What the leaflet says to swap in: - Fruit - Fruit juice - Wholegrains - Low-fat dairy What actually raises uric acid, in order of how hard: - Fructose, from sugar, pop and the juice - Beer - Insulin resistance, which stops the kidneys clearing it Fructose is the only sugar that produces uric acid as it's metabolised. It does it straight away, in the liver, and a can of the stuff moves the number more than a week of chops. Gout was the disease of kings because kings had sugar, port and pastry. The peasants eating mutton didn't get it. So the man with the swollen big toe is told to give up the roast beef, keep the orange juice, and take a tablet.

The joint is the sugar. The steak has been carrying the blame for the sweet stuff since Henry VIII. 

SAMA HOOLE: Every civilisation on earth wrote its founding story about a cow.

Every civilisation on earth wrote its founding story about a cow. Egypt gave the sky to Hathor, a cow, and the pharaoh drank from her udder to become king. Sumer sent the Bull of Heaven against its first hero, and killing it was the deed that made him one. Crete built a palace around a bull and put a labyrinth under it. The Vedas wrote the word for war as the search for cows. Greece named a continent after a girl carried off by Zeus in the shape of a bull, sent Heracles to steal the cattle of Geryon, and drowned Odysseus's crew for eating the cattle of the sun. Ireland wrote its national epic about a war over one bull and called it exactly that. The Cattle Raid of Cooley. The Norse began the universe with Auðumbla, a cow, licking the first god out of a block of salted ice. The Zulu, the Maasai, the Nuer and the Fulani each hold that God gave the first cattle to them alone, and each has gone to war on the point. Five thousand years, every continent, one animal at the root of the story. Nobody sacked a city for a courgette. No god came to a mortal as a chickpea. No epic was ever sung about a lentil.

The animal every people on earth put at the beginning of everything is the one your dietitian calls optional.