The Global Peace Index is an annual report published by the Institute for Economics & Peace, headquartered in Sydney, Australia. This year’s report ranks 163 countries according to their level of peacefulness. …

How They Fared During the Pandemic According to Johns Hopkins, America had 1,123,836 Covid deaths for a per capita death rate of 341.11 per 100,000 population. China had 101,056 Covid deaths for a per capita death rate of 7.16 per 100,000 population. America’s per capita Covid death rate was 47.64 times greater than China’s. It’s worth…

In the past decade or so, a number of programming languages have been very actively vying for software developer attention, “upstart” languages that are not yet mainstream. Are any of these languages worthy of your attention? Should you give any of them a try? Let’s do a survey… Clojure Lisp is…

It’s notable that, historically, there’ve been two languages that share a similar evolutionary trajectory: LISP and Smalltalk. Both languages are VM-based and image-based. Both are very dynamic and flexible. Both had special hardware to run them (in the case of Smalltalk, the Xerox Alto). Both needed expensive hardware (lots…

The Most Common Anti-China Racist Remarks. — China’s military is over rated and inferior to America’s. Then by all means, start a war with China and see how you fare. War with China risks nuclear devastation. China has some 400 nuclear weapons and 300 ICBMs. If even a hundred nuclear warheads land on mainland USA, they would wipe out dozens of cities, kill tens of millions…

A lot has changed in America over the past several decades. The country has been sliding downwards in many ways. The politics has changed. America has never been so deeply divided before. Congress has been practically paralyzed. The White House and Congress are effectively in the pocket of the wealthy…

Politico EU published a story about Macron and von der Stupid’s visit to Beijing. First off, I have to say that von der Stupid is a genuine cunt. Stupid doesn’t even begin to do her justice. “Nobody should unilaterally change the status quo by force in this region [Taiwan],” von…

…are the Chinese! Ipsos just published an eye-opening report entitled, “Global Happiness 2023” (dated March 2023). The report states that China has the highest level of happiness in the world at 91 percent. The United States is well behind at 76 percent. My home country of Canada is at 74…

Coronavirus Resource Center According to Johns Hopkins, the United States has the world’s highest Covid death toll at 1,123,836. This works out to a per capita rate of 341.11 per 100,000 population. China is #20 with 101,056 Covid deaths. This works out to a per capita rate of 7.16 per 100,000 population. America’s per capita rate is 47.64X higher than China’s. How to explain this? Is it because of USA’s incompetent health policies during the pandemic?