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YUM! Fish head stew

We have this dish a couple times a month.

More HERE:

You might be wondering, how did salmon, a fish commonly found in the icy waters of the Atlantic and Pacific, make its way to the Philippines? Salmon is not native to tropical waters, which makes it a relatively recent addition to Filipino cuisine. Historically, it wasn’t something you would find in local wet markets. However, as global trade increased, imported salmon became more accessible to the average Filipino. Interestingly, countries that export salmon typically prioritize the fillets, leaving the heads as by-products. Luckily for us, these heads are often sold at a fraction of the cost of fillets, making them an affordable option for creating this flavorful dish.

Post modernism and mental problems

mainly posted for later listening.

The cult like beliefs of the left are obvious, and the left mainly points to the cult like Trumpieboy followers.

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another podcast for later consideration:

Just for nice

 

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Happy Holiday weekend

 

the more things change the more they stay the same

Since taking on my shoulders the burden of pastoral care, I have been unable to keep steadily recollected because my mind is distracted by many responsibilities. I am forced to consider questions affecting churches and monasteries and often I must judge the lives and actions of individuals; at one moment I am forced to take part in certain civil affairs, next I must worry over the incursions of barbarians and fear the wolves who menace the flock entrusted to my care; now I must accept political responsibility in order to give support to those who preserve the rule of law; now I must bear patiently the villainies of brigands, and then I must confront them, yet in all charity.

Pope Gregory the Great recognized he had to preserve the rule of law because of barbarians and wolves who would menace ordinary folk.

He didn't have to bow to political correctness.

background here.and HERE:

Rome, his birthplace, was sacked by barbarians when he was only six years old, and barbarian raids around the Italian countryside brought throngs of dirt-poor refugees flooding into Rome, carrying with them a plague that wiped out a third of the region’s ..population.....

It was Gregory who first conceived of a global plan of spreading the Gospel to the empire’s barbarian conquerors, sending St. Augustine of Canterbury, the prior of his former monastery, to England as the head of a mission team.

He organized the first universal system of relief for the poor in Rome, harvesting produce from the Church’s lands and sending teams patrolling the streets to distribute prepared food to the indigent refugees

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Drones and future wars

StrrategyPage has lots of essays on drones which alas I can't keep up with since this is outside my level of expertise.

But today there is a discussion of the treatment of Russian Casualties in the Ukraine war, and I came across this snippet:

The primary source of Russian losses has been Ukrainian drones. These drones come in an increasing number of types, and new models appear rapidly. Russia has been unable to compete. To make matters worse, Ukraine has developed an effective drone interceptor, further diluting Russian offensive efforts. Over the last year, Ukrainian long-range drones have intensified their attacks on military and economic targets in western Russia, including major cities like Moscow and St Petersburg. These attacks are bringing the war home to Russian civilians who have been told for years that Russian forces were winning.

this article is for later reading at my leisure:Weapons: Drone Wars Past and Future

In 2026, Ukraine plans to build at least eight million, and possibly ten million drones. They built about five million drones last year. In 2024, the total was 1.5 million drones. There have been problems. Chinese component producers are having a hard time keeping up, and last year, to assist the Russians, China halted sending drone components to Ukraine

those Chinese drones are spies for China here in the Philppines: Lots of underseas drones in the area, many being civilian drones. But China can control the regular drones too:  Philippine mission's China-made drone won't fly in West Philippine Sea

A China-made drone for a Filipino civilian mission to the West Philippine Sea would not take off, as it received prompts that required the operator to register the unit with Chinese authorities....,,According to Vonne Aquino's report on "24 Oras," the drone received the prompts even when the Atin Ito vessel was well within the Philippines, just 127 nautical miles from Mindoro...

and then there are the underwater drones:

MANILA — Five underwater drones found by Philippine fishermen were capable of gathering information that could aid in "underwater warfare", the country's military said Tuesday, noting at least one had relayed a signal to China.

That article is 2025.

StrategyPage essay on the latest aggression of China against the Philippines LINK

how to manipulate small meetings

first draft so excuse the mistakes and awkward writing

there are oodles of youtube videos on how to run meetings. Excuse my synicism but I remember the old encounter groups of the sixties where the leader guided everyone and everyone went along with them, except me because I was a stubborn nerd: I mean, I was a medical student at a time when less than ten percent of docs and less than ten percent of my class were women, so I was not obedient. It got so frustrating that I got a nurse to call me out of the meetings with medical problems that required my presence.

Most videos are how to do this, but this one is a good summary:15 Psychological Mind Tricks To Get People To Do What You Want

In Part 1 of this conversation, Fr. Murray takes apart the vocabulary: Sr. Nathalie Becquart calling synodality “a social prophecy” and “a grammar of peace”; the Synod Secretariat classifying Catholics who disagree not as people with differing views but as “resistance”; and the question nobody in Rome has answered — where in the world do we find a Catholic mandate to invent a church in a different way?

so this is how to manipulate people and a bit honest that they are doing it.

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this is first draft but the videos say what I want to say: It's a scam manipulating people, and of course normal folks end up leaving the meeting (as I did in the encounter groups of the sixties)  because they know the emperor is naked