Imagine California actually throwing out this amount...

California, which entered the Union in 1850 as a free state, is now considering reparations of up to $360,000 per eligible recipient — more than 50% more than the amount floated as the highest possibility last year.

Hard to see how it would not negatively impact real estate and other markets. Hard to see how it would also not get wasted in notorious ways by some recipients.

I am not entirely against the idea of trying to uplift through handouts - I am not an extreme capitalist - but I think they should really be thinking twice before doing anything like this.

California: Reparations Now Up to $360,000; State Never Allowed Slavery

California, which entered the Union in 1850 as a free state, is now considering reparations of up to $360,000 per eligible recipient — more than 50% more than the amount  floated as the highest possibility last year.

^{Joel B. Pollak (Breitbart)}

Wonderful article:

The Secret Answer to Japan’s Baby Shortage Lies in a Tiny Remote Town
Visiting delegations trying to increase birth rates pay fees starting at $73 to get advice.

NAGI, Japan—Mayor Masachika Oku is worried about the children in this remote town getting tired. “They’re being chased by visitors with cameras every day,” he said.
The visitors, including Japan’s leader, are making the trek in search of a valuable secret that may lurk here: how to make more babies.

Women in Nagi, a town of about 5,700 people, on average bear more than two children. That figure makes it a standout in a country where the average is closer to one than two.

Fewer than 800,000 children were born in Japan last year, the lowest number since comparable records were first kept in 1899. It was about half the nearly 1.6 million deaths recorded.

Over three decades, the government has tried an Angel Plan, a New Angel Plan, a Child and Child-Rearing Cheering Plan and more, without much discernible difference. Some frustrated officials have concluded that the only step left is to go on a pilgrimage to Nagi, the town on which the gods of fertility have smiled.

Here they meet people like Yuri Takatori, 35, who is raising four boys.
“It’s quite common here to see a family with three or four children,” said Ms. Takatori, while holding her youngest, 7-month-old Kippei, on her lap.

She said her husband works long hours at a factory making industrial refrigerators, earning around $1,800 to $2,200 a month.

Despite a tight budget and lack of help at home, Ms. Takatori said she felt child-rearing was manageable. She credited aid from the town such as free medical care for all children as well as support from other moms and elderly women who help look after children.

At a park stocked with play equipment, Ai Todaka, 35, watched her 6-year-old daughter, Riko, holding her younger brother Aoi, 3, as they slid down a long winding slide together.

“The elder one begged for a baby because she envied her friends with many siblings,” said Ms. Todaka. “That’s why I had another one.”

Until a few years ago, Nagi’s claim to fame was serving as the model for the mystical “hidden leaf village” of ninjas depicted in the manga series “Naruto” by Masashi Kishimoto, who hails from the town. It also has a museum devoted to an extinct snail.
Then local media noticed the town’s birthrate. In 2019, it hit 2.95—the average number of babies a woman would bear if conditions that year lasted permanently. The number slipped a bit the next two years but still was 2.68 in 2021, the latest year for which data are available. Japan overall stands at about 1.3, while the figure in South Korea was just 0.78 last year.

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The visitors learn that parents pay no more than $420 a month for daycare for their first child, half that price for their second child and no charge for a third. Parents get the equivalent of $1,000 a year for each child in high school. Caregivers also get help from elderly women who look after children for a nominal sum.

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You might be surprised to hear that the department of defense is basically woke, but this is par for the course.

Any government institution can become subject to the social policy experimentation of the ruling party. It's where the first commissar are deployed.

And what has Biden done?

Deployed his commissar, Kelsi Wing, who is trying her hardest to control the minds of the children of servicemen:

The DEI chief’s “woke” books in DODEA schools saw a whopping 1200% increase since the investigation into her racist and divisive statements, with over 600 copies of her radical writings featured in 49 DODEA schools, according to a new report.

In a Thursday statement, Stefanik expressed outrage over the current administration’s passivity over the matter.

“Far-left radical Kelisa Wing is under investigation for her racist and divisive statements, but Biden’s Department of Defense is allowing her to continue to infiltrate the classrooms and minds of our servicemembers’ children,” she said.

“Even though Biden’s Department of Defense has already admitted this is a problem, they have allowed the number of the radical books Wing authored to increase in DoDEA schools during their investigation,” she added.

Elise Stefanik Slams DOD for Proliferating ‘Woke’ K-12 Curriculum, ‘Stonewalling’ Investigation

Following a report revealing a shocking rise in “woke” materials featured within the Department of Defense’s (DOD) Education Activity schools, House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik slammed the DOD over its “stonewalling” in the face of inv…

^{Joshua Klein (Breitbart)}

Make it so:

With you at my side, we will demolish the deep state. We will expel the war mongers. They are people that don’t get it, although in some cases they get it, they get it for their wallets, but we can’t do that. We can’t let that happen. We will drive out the globalists, we will cast out the communisits. We will throw off the political class that hates our country. They actually hate our country.

No walls, no borders. Bad elections, no voter ID. We will beat the Democrats. We will route the fake news media, we will expose and appropriately deal with the RINOs. We will evict Joe Biden from the White House and we will liberate America from these villains and scoundrels once and for all.

Donald Trump: ‘We Are Never Going Back to the Party of Paul Ryan, Karl Rove, and Jeb Bush’

Former President Donald Trump boldly proclaimed that the Republican Party is “never going back to the party of Paul Ryan, Karl Rove, and Jeb Bush” during his Saturday speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). 

^{Jordan Dixon-Hamilton (Breitbart)}

When men impregnate thirteen year old girls there's no way they don't go to jail but....

The double standard always wins out in the end in clown world.

31-Year-Old Colorado Woman Pregnant By 13-Year-Old Boy Faces No Jail Time | The Gateway Pundit

^{Cristina Laila (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)}

Not sure how this is tolerated even in Britain.

How quickly culture is coming apart is truly remarkable.

UK: Sold Out "Rave" For Babies Featuring Drag Queens Prompts Outrage - Reduxx

A London cabaret company which caters to infants is sparking backlash after disturbing video clips from their supposedly child-friendly events began circulating social media.

^{Yuliah Alma (Reduxx)}

I don't believe in merit out weighing demerits... Rather, grace is what comes into play.

There's no amount of deeds that can be done which will earn your way into heaven

Honestly I side with the democrats and endorse as much decentralization as possible. Of course, this is not a standing principle of theirs by any stretch. It's just the best criticism that they can raise in this case... Nonetheless, they're right...

And anytime democrats are infighting I do laugh a little.

White House Struggles To Defend Biden’s D.C. Legislation Decision After Outrage From Democrats

The White House struggled to defend President Joe Biden’s decision to support a bill blocking Washington D.C. from overhauling its criminal code and voting rights laws. Biden announced Thursday that he would sign a Republican bill blocking D.C.

^{John Rigolizzo (The Daily Wire)}

Back in my day, artillery was referred to as the king of n battle... It's the category of weapon that has killed the most people since its inception, and to dominate in terms of artillery is to have control over the battlefield.

Everywhere the Ukrainians gather, they are ultimately under a sort of siege. They become targets that have no choice but to move quickly or break ranks. They can't actually sit in positions and hold them for the long term without taking immense casualties.

It's foolish to fight in these conditions. It's a waste of lives.

Get to the negotiating table and stop making poor Ukrainians go die pointless deaths.

Ukraine outgunned 10 to 1 in massive artillery battle with Russia

Kyiv urgently requires ammunition as the Kremlin seeks a breakthrough on the eastern front, where Moscow is sending waves of infantry to deplete the defenders’ stocks of heavy shells

^{María R. Sahuquillo (Ediciones EL PAÍS S.L.)}

I'm always skeptical of conservatism, Inc., but if this gets off the ground... If they really are building alternatives... I'll take the w and I'll buy their product.

Nonetheless, I want to give my loyalty to the most authentic options in the parallel economy.

‘Jeremy’s Chocolate’ Sells More Than 100,000 Chocolate Bars In First 12 Hours

In just the first day since announcing the release of “Jeremy’s Chocolate,” The Daily Wire has already sold more than 100,000 of the non-woke chocolate bars.

^{John Rigolizzo (The Daily Wire)}

I remember hearing about this for the first time several years ago.

The prospects of an energy weapon being employed to produce devastating results like this was quite interesting, but it appears that that is not the case.

‘Havana syndrome’ not caused by foreign adversary, US intelligence says

The involvement of oversees foes in ‘anomalous health incidents’ suffered by US diplomats and spies was deemed ‘very unlikely’

^{Julia Carrie Wong (The Guardian)}

I don't think anybody really understands the logic behind this.

Why even try to explain it?

San Francisco's reparations committee reveal how it calculated $5M payout

Black San Francisco residents could see up to $5million each in reparations as the city admits there's no 'mathematical formula' for the number.

^{By Alyssa Guzman For Dailymail.Com (Daily Mail)}

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Resetting your tolerance to coffee can take a week - "preferably 12 days."

It depends on the existing tolerance as well as things like your bodyweight.

How Long Does It Take For A Caffeine Tolerance to Reset? - The Optimized Gentleman

Are you a coffee addict? Then you may be curious how long it takes for a caffeine tolerance to reset. Click here to discover how to reset it!

^{The O.G. (The Optimized Gentleman)}

It just seems like some slow pitched battle to us but it's an absolute grind:

>"It's been pretty bad on the ground. A lot of casualties. The life expectancy is around four hours on the front line," Troy Offenbecker, formerly of the United States Marine Corps, told ABC News.

Average Lifespan Of A Frontline Soldier In Ukraine Is 4 Hours, American Fighter Reveals

The fighter, a former U.S. Marine, described the situation on the ground as "chaotic."

^{Dane Enerio (International Business Times)}