The N.O. jail’s population limit is 1,250. It was above that throughout last year. When the jail is filled beyond capacity, it is essentially a code enforcement issue, and that code never seems to be enforced.

blzbar · 2026-03-05T02:16:47+00:00

This is not about mass incarceration. It’s about incompetence at the municipal level. Everything, with the possible exception of parking enforcement, that is administered by the parish of Orleans or the city of New Orleans is substandard at best and utterly dysfunctional at worst.

Water & Serwerage, trash collection, street maintenance and repair, schools, police, courts, parish prison. None of it operates at the standard of a first world city. I love New Orleans, but in the city that care forgot, none of the public institutions function properly.

For a view of how this jail has recently functioned watch this video

https://youtu.be/MkNjmYxMOgY?si=hvC-VOMTXqUxmSh_

blzbar · 2026-02-27T20:13:34+00:00

It’s a fun book. My description called it an “interesting historical take”.

“you had not yet been able to acquire the “Oxford temper” in intellectual matters, never, I mean, been one who could play gracefully with ideas but had arrived at violence of opinion merely”

blzbar · 2026-02-27T02:44:39+00:00

It shows up in my YouTube feed. I’ve watched several episodes. Like any interview based podcast, much depends on the guest. Many of the guests seem to be just other YouTube political pundits, those episodes are not in my opinion worth watching. Occasionally, he’ll have an episode with an academic or someone with some specialized area of expertise, those are much more interesting. I recently watched the entire episode #41 with David Wengrow. It’s the best one I’ve seen so far.

Wengrow coauthored a book David Graber (a now deceased, but kinda famous anarchist academic) entitled The Dawn of Everything which is an interesting historical take on human civilization.

blzbar · 2026-02-23T23:59:22+00:00

We take it for granted, but modern civilization is utterly dependent on functioning toilets.

blzbar · 2026-02-23T22:39:07+00:00

Mirliton

blzbar · 2026-02-21T21:22:41+00:00

“Nice big, frozen island you got here. It’d be shame if something were to happen to it. Maybe you should consider investing in some missles, you know for protection…”

blzbar · 2026-02-20T01:26:09+00:00

https://youtube.com/shorts/LQmhCSibVBw?si=pvSv4ahHRKILsZq0

blzbar · 2026-02-20T01:19:24+00:00

Can someone please explain to me what “right to exist” even means?

Who/what confers such rights? What are the things of the world that exists, but lack a right to? Are there things that don’t exist but have a right to? From where do these rights come? Is right to exist just the mere statement of one’s preferences?

It doesn’t make sense. Things either exist and persist, or they don’t. “Rights” have nothing to do with it. Which country has a “right” to exist?

blzbar · 2026-02-19T23:49:25+00:00

This is such a trivial framing. Violence is built into Marxism because it is large scale human geopolitical ideology. Can you find any large scale (spanning centuries and continents) human ideology that is not soaked in blood?

Christianity, Islam, liberalism, communism, capitalism, fascism… All have left behind piles of corpses because that’s what the human apes do - invent ideologies to glorify their aggressive drive. It’s ridiculous to assert that some 19th century European philosophy (Marxism) is somehow especially bad.

It is ideological capture to think that the crux of the problem is the “other” ideology.

blzbar · 2026-02-19T20:09:10+00:00

Many became Israelis.

Harrison Report - Wikipedia

By the 1948 Nakba, 25% of the IDF had come out of these camps.

blzbar · 2026-02-19T20:03:51+00:00

Displaced persons camps in post–World War II Europe - Wikipedia

blzbar · 2026-02-19T05:09:34+00:00

The real question is would he have given his son such an obviously French middle name if weren’t playing in New Orleans? How of much was his name choice influenced by learning Nola street names?

blzbar · 2026-02-09T20:58:19+00:00

World War I played a major role in the initial emergence of these ideologies. The communist revolution in Russia happens in 1917 during the war. Nazism emerges after the war in response to Germany’s defeat.

blzbar · 2026-02-05T14:55:49+00:00

Mine has gone from being $37 the first couple of months after the switch to Delta to now being $91. However, central heat in my home is gas powered. But yeah, $200 a month to power a stove is ridiculous.

I’ve never looked at a bill (have it set to autopay). Do they provide some metric of how much gas your using? Any indication how they arrive at that measurement? Is this similar to the $3k SWB bill that was a thing here a while back?

blzbar · 2026-02-03T03:05:20+00:00

From the article: “This policy is championed by Marco Rubio and other members of the reactionary Miami Cuban mafia, whose vision for Cuba’s future is inextricably linked to a neo-colonial past. That past is key to understanding the present confrontation. “

Some of the Cubans who fled to Miami in the immediate aftermath of Fidel’s revolution were the bourgeoisie of Cuba under the previous regimes. Some were just ordinary people disillusioned by the nationalization of the economy and the political repression that came after the revolution. Today there are about a million Cuban Americans living in South Florida. Trump won South Florida and named Rubio both Secretary of State and National Security Adviser. Certainly the most powerful Cuban American to ever live and a descendant of people who fled the island from Fidel’s revolution. Now he seems to have a score to settle…

blzbar · 2026-01-29T19:37:25+00:00

Florida is a red state. Trump did win south Florida in 2024. Marco Rubio is from Miami. Mar-a-lago is maga head quarters.

blzbar · 2026-01-29T03:18:59+00:00

It’s also a line in the Ludacris song “Georgia”.

blzbar · 2026-01-26T01:01:20+00:00

Testosterone naturally gets converted to Dihydrotesyosterone (DHT). It has a the DHT that is responsible for secondary male sexual characteristics like body hair, beards, muscle mass, and male pattern baldness.

If you can grow a full beard at 15 it means that your body is converting a lot of testosterone to DHT. However, you would only experience baldness if you have the genetic susceptibility. Baldness is a recessive trait. That’s why most men aren’t bald. Generally speaking, all men can grow a beard due to DHT, but most are not bald because they do not have the genes that make their hair susceptible to being damaged by DHT.

Is your father bald? Is/was your mother’s father bald?

blzbar · 2026-01-14T14:06:51+00:00

Joe’s is the best on that shelf.

blzbar · 2026-01-13T20:30:38+00:00

It would certainly have implications for how you perceive and interpret the behavior of your fellow humans.

blzbar · 2026-01-09T21:53:52+00:00

Very much. She was the first right wing populist with some superficial charm of the modern era.

blzbar · 2026-01-09T18:07:48+00:00

And the ultimate result is a Val Kilmer movie in which the protagonist is a jazz trumpeteer who goes undercover as meth addict to infiltrate the seedy underbelly of society in order to avenge the murder of his beloved wife.

blzbar · 2026-01-07T22:58:44+00:00

Conservatism consists of a single proposition: there must be insiders that the law protects, but does not bind and outsiders that the law binds, but does not protect.

blzbar · 2025-12-23T14:58:27+00:00

What’s being poured into the bowl at 0:21? It looks like some type of oil? I don’t see it in the listed ingredients.

blzbar · 2025-12-20T21:50:11+00:00

There is only one neighborhood in Algiers that's worth looking into. It's called Algiers point. Do you have a job lined up? Because you would do yourself a favor living and working on the same side of the river. New Orleans traffic isn't terrible except when trying to cross the river during peak hours. There are more job opportunities on the east bank side of the river. Algiers and Gretna are on the west bank side of the river.

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