It’s pitched as a phenomenon amongst GenZ men or men & women. But it seems to me to be true in the over 60 crowd as well. To be clear, I’m suggesting that superficial appearances seem to be the paramount dating criteria across all ages in terms of how women judge men.
The marketers making the decisions to throw money at people like Clavicular are not themselves Gen Z.
Re: Gen Z article
Looksmaxxing sounds like a 21st C Ghost Dance for men.
Just viewed a statement by Secretary of War Hegseth saying that the DOW, not happy with the path that what used to be the Boy Scouts has taken, has basically extracted several major promises to reform their organization and policies to align them with the policies of the Trump Administration and DOW, with a 6 month reevaluation to determine if they have made the changes they have committed to, and if the DOW will continue to support the Scouts.
My guess is that the Scouts will not really make the major course corrections they have committed to and that , as a consequence, 6 months from now, the DOW will sever ties with then; it appears to me that that the Scouts are just too far gone.
P.S. Damn these small cellphone keyboards.
This is a very good video explaining the Abrahamic Covenant and the distortions and lies by Carlson during the now infamous interview of Ambassador Huckabee concerning what constitutes the land promised to Israel by God.
Here is the relevant passage from Genesis 15 where God gives the scope of the land and the tribes occupying the land. During the reign of King Solomon, the scope of Israel’s domination extended from the river of Egypt to the Euphrates, by conquest/occupation and tribute/vassal territories in the north.
On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your offspring I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates, the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites and the Jebusites.”
The video traces the occupation of the land from the time of the tribes of Israel to today.
Mike Plaiss, thanks for the link to the Dennis Prager editorial. I have seen his appearances on the PragerU app and he seems as articulate and intelligent as always. We need voices of reason like his to be heard.
We also nearly lost Victor Davis Hanson. He is still producing his wonderfully reasoned editorials, just not as many as before his illness.
Meanwhile: war between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
“Pity they can’t both lose.”
Maybe they can.
We will strike Iran later today. Maybe by the time this comment is posted. Tomorrow at the latest.
Well, Google discarded that mission statement a long time ago. But l spent some of last night batting persistent ads which started showing up on my Android phone recently.
Long story short — I determined the ad service was called “glance,” which had been installed by Google Play Store without my permission. The usual strategy to locate the app in the system settings then disable or preferably delete failed. Google would just reinstall in a way I could no longer see in the settings.
I actually had to give myself Developer permissions on my phone, connect via USB to my computer, then kill the damn thing using cryptic command line instructions in a Windows terminal window..
Until now Android has been pretty clean, compared to Windows, in not forcing ads and offers on its users. That seems to have changed.
There are Linux phones coming that manage phone and texting just fine, though hit and miss for phone apps, which I don’t use.
@IrishOtter49: We will strike Iran later today. Maybe by the time this comment is posted. Tomorrow at the latest.
I dunno, IrishOtter, doesn’t seem to me like they’d kick off during Shabbat, though it’s still possible. I’m guessing later next week is more likely, or even as late as mid-month after Ramadan ends. But hey, thems the wonders of misdirection!
As it would be US action mostly, not Israeli, Shabbat might not be a determining factor. And, since Islamist violent episodes have often happened during Ramadan, that ought not to influence it either. As usual, we’ll see. But I did write to my Israeli cousin to say, “Keep your head down.” As he’s Orthodox, he won’t see it until Sunday.
Admit to a long time listener to Dennis Prager and learned a lot from his books, especially his Bible study.
I am sure it was Peggy Fleming the family saw at a Ice Capades, early 70s Ithink
Snow on Pine mentions that the Trump administration via Pete Hegseth / DOW is pressuring Scouting America formerly known as Boy Scouts to drop all the woke stuff or lose their relationship with and funding from the DOW.
I was curious to see a graph of Boy Scout membership over the years:
Membership peaked at 5,000,000 in 1972 and has plummeted since to 1,000,000 in spite of the increase in US population.
Pathetic.
It is a bit pathetic, but I can testify that the kids in the scouts continue to be first-class. I often do astronomy presentations for Boy Scout groups and the kids are great. One of the few things left that give me hope for the future.
“If you don’t have any borders, you don’t have a nation… Trump did a better job.” Bernie Sanders – Video
On the Boy Scouts….Eagle Scout here and very grateful for what scouting did for me. Very sad to see what has happened. They keep contacting me for donations etc, and I keep telling them not until they change their ways, as if they listen to me. Final nail in the coffin: Denver Area Council had a beautiful camp near Ward, CO called Camp Tahosa…..at 9000ft and had everything needed for year round mountain activities. Instead built a non-mountain camp between Denver and CO Springs, and last year sold Tahosa to the YMCA. I’ll never forgive them
Re striking Iran:
Of course I could be wrong on this. That should go without saying. But there, I said it.
I have a very good source on this. But of course he could be wrong too. Or deliberately feeding me false information.
I’m on a train that’s creeping along because of freight train interference, so I’ll tell my favorite Boy Scout/astronomy story.
I’ve done so many astronomy presentations under the night sky that I practically have a script down. I do it pretty much the same way every time. Included is a warning near the beginning that there will be math.
I ask them to ponder the fact that a given star may be bright in our night sky because it’s close to us, or it could be far away, but very big. I use an example star, Altair is my go to – 20 light years away. Brightness (the intensity of light) follows the inverse square law, like so many things in nature. So if we take Altair and move it out to 40 light years – double the distance – one might intuitively think it would be half as bright, but it would in fact be 1/4th as bright.
If we were to move it out to 200 light years – ten times further – it wouldn’t be 1/10th as bright, but…here I pause, hoping that someone will shout out the answer, but it almost never happens. With a bit of prompting someone will usually get it.
I’ve got maybe 15 Boy Scouts one night, I do my spiel, get to the the question and the smallest, and I presume youngest says, “1/100th as bright” almost before I can get the question out of my mouth. I asked the scout leader about this kid a little later and he said, “Oh yes, that’s so-and-so, he’s destined for greatness.”
That story is a good 15 years old now, so whoever that kid was he’s out of college by now.
@huxley What brand is your phone? Apparently it is installed if the manufacturer has an agreement with Glance, an Indian company. Grok has several suggestions on how to get rid of it, including: “the official Glance site even has a help page with device-specific instructions for turning it off”. I don’t have it on my phone.
Neo , Peggy Fleming is a sight to behold. But I am still in love with Dorothy Hamill, even after 50 years.
Mongo:
There’s room in the heart for more than one love. 🙂
However, my favorite moment of the Fleming clip is the “delayed” jump at 00:15. I also notice her jumps had a lot of altitude, and I bet she could have done triples if it was necessary back then. It wasn’t.
What brand is your phone?
Chuck:
Moto G.
From the glance wiki I see that the majority of glance funding — $145 million — came from Google.
This must be partly a Google play. The interventions into the Android OS, to make glance impossible to disable or remove at the user level, are so deep they must have required Google’s complicity.
Maybe Grok or you can find the glance web page with instructions for removing glance. I can’t.
The glance website advertises the millions of its users. I would be surprised if 1% of those users installed glance intentionally. Google caused it to be installed into users’ phones on the basis of commercial agreements.
Again, I call Google complicity.
Glance’s webpage is quite proud of what they’ve done and you’d better believe Google is complicit and getting a cut.
The glance feature completely reinvents the lock screen experience by displaying useful, personalized content like news, sports updates, entertainment news, motivational quotes, live cricket scores and more. That’s why the Glance feature is often confused with as Glance app which can simply be downloaded from the Google Play Store. However, that is not the case….
The Glance feature is a proprietary feature that is pre-baked into the firmware of certain Android smartphones. The lock screen is too deeply integrated into the smartphone system for an app to replace and replicate Glance’s functionality.
Phone manufacturers like Xiaomi, Realme and Oppo have partnered with Glance to provide it as a built-in, native feature in many popular budget and mid-range models.
@ physicsguy >”Denver Area Council had a beautiful camp near Ward, CO called Camp Tahosa…..at 9000ft and had everything needed for year round mountain activities. Instead built a non-mountain camp between Denver and CO Springs, and last year sold Tahosa to the YMCA. I’ll never forgive them”
AesopSpouse was a Scout Leader from before our oldest son got out of Cubs. He took many troops out to Tahosa after we moved to Colorado. I suspect Scouting USA needed the money after the LDS and some other groups parted ways (and funding) with them.
(Citing huxley’s reddit graph: “You can see the significant drop in membership in 1973 with the implementation of what was then called the “Improved Scouting Program” and then again at the end of 2019 when the LDS Church left.”
Why is it that “Improving” something that didn’t have anything wrong with it is always so popular? Kind of like with smart phones and “glance” with its kindred.
However, I agree with Mike Plaiss that the Scouts themselves are still stellar, including our grand daughter!
I hope she makes Eagle before Scouting totally implodes.
My guess is that HQ will dink around and pretend it’s going along with Secretary Hegseth, while waiting out the Republicans until the Democrats bring Woke back.
Google caused it to be installed into users’ phones on the basis of commercial agreements.
It isn’t on the google pixel phone. I think the question is why other companies installed it. Grok goes into more detail, but
Glance is not part of the core Android OS (AOSP) or Google’s GMS. Instead, it’s integrated through partnerships between InMobi and OEMs (e.g., Samsung, Xiaomi, Realme, Oppo, Vivo, Motorola). OEMs embed Glance directly into their custom Android builds during manufacturing.
Money is the root of all evil:
Business Model: InMobi partners with OEMs, who may receive revenue shares from ads displayed on Glance. Users can often disable it via settings, but it’s designed to be non-intrusive and free.
It’s also possible that some folks like glance, so it would be a selling point. But I put my money on money.
Huxley, smartphones, like MS PCs, have become hellish instead of fun.
Such a time eater, trying to regain control!! Seems we are constantly battling for it.
True consumer ownership has been killed.
I wonder if any co. will successfully compete for us who want freedom & ownership!
…
“There are Linux phones coming that manage phone and texting just fine, though hit and miss for phone apps, which I don’t use.”
I’m in!! Hoping they come sooner than later!
Niketas —
“manufacturers like Xiaomi, Realme and Oppo have partnered with Glance”.
Well, good reason to avoid trying those. Geesh.
And in a later comment, Samsung too!?!
I’ve got an old Samsung — Galaxy A32 5G. Haven’t seen this “glance feature” invasion on it. Maybe this phone is too old.
I wonder if there’s a way to tell — with certainty! — if a model has or will stealthily get the feature. I’ll be in the market soon.
Sigh … I remember when new things were fun. Heh.
Huxley, did you notice whether the glance feature ate up the battery charge?
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I imagine there are many Dennis Prager fans here. He has something in the WSJ today about his accident and his condition.
Mostly Paralyzed but Happy to Be Alive
https://archive.fo/A2P4f
I thought this was interesting. Yes, it has to do with social media “influencers” which normally I would dismiss.
Gen Z Men are Creating an American Tragedy and Internet Influencer ‘Clavicular’ Shows Why
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/02/gen_z_men_are_creating_an_american_tragedy_and_internet_influencer_clavicular_shows_why.html
It’s pitched as a phenomenon amongst GenZ men or men & women. But it seems to me to be true in the over 60 crowd as well. To be clear, I’m suggesting that superficial appearances seem to be the paramount dating criteria across all ages in terms of how women judge men.
The marketers making the decisions to throw money at people like Clavicular are not themselves Gen Z.
Re: Gen Z article
Looksmaxxing sounds like a 21st C Ghost Dance for men.
Just viewed a statement by Secretary of War Hegseth saying that the DOW, not happy with the path that what used to be the Boy Scouts has taken, has basically extracted several major promises to reform their organization and policies to align them with the policies of the Trump Administration and DOW, with a 6 month reevaluation to determine if they have made the changes they have committed to, and if the DOW will continue to support the Scouts.
My guess is that the Scouts will not really make the major course corrections they have committed to and that , as a consequence, 6 months from now, the DOW will sever ties with then; it appears to me that that the Scouts are just too far gone.
P.S. Damn these small cellphone keyboards.
This is a very good video explaining the Abrahamic Covenant and the distortions and lies by Carlson during the now infamous interview of Ambassador Huckabee concerning what constitutes the land promised to Israel by God.
Here is the relevant passage from Genesis 15 where God gives the scope of the land and the tribes occupying the land. During the reign of King Solomon, the scope of Israel’s domination extended from the river of Egypt to the Euphrates, by conquest/occupation and tribute/vassal territories in the north.
The video traces the occupation of the land from the time of the tribes of Israel to today.
Shocking Truth About Zionists Revealed Now — The Messianic Age Is Coming!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o371wWv3eE
Mike Plaiss, thanks for the link to the Dennis Prager editorial. I have seen his appearances on the PragerU app and he seems as articulate and intelligent as always. We need voices of reason like his to be heard.
We also nearly lost Victor Davis Hanson. He is still producing his wonderfully reasoned editorials, just not as many as before his illness.
Meanwhile: war between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
“Pity they can’t both lose.”
Maybe they can.
We will strike Iran later today. Maybe by the time this comment is posted. Tomorrow at the latest.
@neo –
I’ll see your Fleming and raise you a Yamaguchi.
The GOAT.
Re: Google / “Don’t Be Evil”
Well, Google discarded that mission statement a long time ago. But l spent some of last night batting persistent ads which started showing up on my Android phone recently.
Long story short — I determined the ad service was called “glance,” which had been installed by Google Play Store without my permission. The usual strategy to locate the app in the system settings then disable or preferably delete failed. Google would just reinstall in a way I could no longer see in the settings.
I actually had to give myself Developer permissions on my phone, connect via USB to my computer, then kill the damn thing using cryptic command line instructions in a Windows terminal window..
Until now Android has been pretty clean, compared to Windows, in not forcing ads and offers on its users. That seems to have changed.
There are Linux phones coming that manage phone and texting just fine, though hit and miss for phone apps, which I don’t use.
@IrishOtter49: We will strike Iran later today. Maybe by the time this comment is posted. Tomorrow at the latest.
It’s coming all right, though perhaps not today:
–Fox News, “DEVELOPING: US Embassy workers cleared to leave Israel after ‘HUGE BREAKDOWN’ with Iran”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbTP2DWEV10
I dunno, IrishOtter, doesn’t seem to me like they’d kick off during Shabbat, though it’s still possible. I’m guessing later next week is more likely, or even as late as mid-month after Ramadan ends. But hey, thems the wonders of misdirection!
As it would be US action mostly, not Israeli, Shabbat might not be a determining factor. And, since Islamist violent episodes have often happened during Ramadan, that ought not to influence it either. As usual, we’ll see. But I did write to my Israeli cousin to say, “Keep your head down.” As he’s Orthodox, he won’t see it until Sunday.
Admit to a long time listener to Dennis Prager and learned a lot from his books, especially his Bible study.
I am sure it was Peggy Fleming the family saw at a Ice Capades, early 70s Ithink
Ivanova: No boom today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pzKg7IxhNA
Re: Boy Scouts
Snow on Pine mentions that the Trump administration via Pete Hegseth / DOW is pressuring Scouting America formerly known as Boy Scouts to drop all the woke stuff or lose their relationship with and funding from the DOW.
I was curious to see a graph of Boy Scout membership over the years:
https://www.reddit.com/r/BSA/comments/1cngw3i/bsa_membership_graph_1911_2023/
Membership peaked at 5,000,000 in 1972 and has plummeted since to 1,000,000 in spite of the increase in US population.
Pathetic.
It is a bit pathetic, but I can testify that the kids in the scouts continue to be first-class. I often do astronomy presentations for Boy Scout groups and the kids are great. One of the few things left that give me hope for the future.
“If you don’t have any borders, you don’t have a nation… Trump did a better job.” Bernie Sanders – Video
https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2026/02/if-you-dont-have-any-borders-you-dont.html
Huxley,
On the Boy Scouts….Eagle Scout here and very grateful for what scouting did for me. Very sad to see what has happened. They keep contacting me for donations etc, and I keep telling them not until they change their ways, as if they listen to me. Final nail in the coffin: Denver Area Council had a beautiful camp near Ward, CO called Camp Tahosa…..at 9000ft and had everything needed for year round mountain activities. Instead built a non-mountain camp between Denver and CO Springs, and last year sold Tahosa to the YMCA. I’ll never forgive them
Re striking Iran:
Of course I could be wrong on this. That should go without saying. But there, I said it.
I have a very good source on this. But of course he could be wrong too. Or deliberately feeding me false information.
I’m on a train that’s creeping along because of freight train interference, so I’ll tell my favorite Boy Scout/astronomy story.
I’ve done so many astronomy presentations under the night sky that I practically have a script down. I do it pretty much the same way every time. Included is a warning near the beginning that there will be math.
I ask them to ponder the fact that a given star may be bright in our night sky because it’s close to us, or it could be far away, but very big. I use an example star, Altair is my go to – 20 light years away. Brightness (the intensity of light) follows the inverse square law, like so many things in nature. So if we take Altair and move it out to 40 light years – double the distance – one might intuitively think it would be half as bright, but it would in fact be 1/4th as bright.
If we were to move it out to 200 light years – ten times further – it wouldn’t be 1/10th as bright, but…here I pause, hoping that someone will shout out the answer, but it almost never happens. With a bit of prompting someone will usually get it.
I’ve got maybe 15 Boy Scouts one night, I do my spiel, get to the the question and the smallest, and I presume youngest says, “1/100th as bright” almost before I can get the question out of my mouth. I asked the scout leader about this kid a little later and he said, “Oh yes, that’s so-and-so, he’s destined for greatness.”
That story is a good 15 years old now, so whoever that kid was he’s out of college by now.
@huxley What brand is your phone? Apparently it is installed if the manufacturer has an agreement with Glance, an Indian company. Grok has several suggestions on how to get rid of it, including: “the official Glance site even has a help page with device-specific instructions for turning it off”. I don’t have it on my phone.
Neo , Peggy Fleming is a sight to behold. But I am still in love with Dorothy Hamill, even after 50 years.
Mongo:
There’s room in the heart for more than one love. 🙂
However, my favorite moment of the Fleming clip is the “delayed” jump at 00:15. I also notice her jumps had a lot of altitude, and I bet she could have done triples if it was necessary back then. It wasn’t.
What brand is your phone?
Chuck:
Moto G.
From the glance wiki I see that the majority of glance funding — $145 million — came from Google.
This must be partly a Google play. The interventions into the Android OS, to make glance impossible to disable or remove at the user level, are so deep they must have required Google’s complicity.
Maybe Grok or you can find the glance web page with instructions for removing glance. I can’t.
The glance website advertises the millions of its users. I would be surprised if 1% of those users installed glance intentionally. Google caused it to be installed into users’ phones on the basis of commercial agreements.
Again, I call Google complicity.
Glance’s webpage is quite proud of what they’ve done and you’d better believe Google is complicit and getting a cut.
@ physicsguy >”Denver Area Council had a beautiful camp near Ward, CO called Camp Tahosa…..at 9000ft and had everything needed for year round mountain activities. Instead built a non-mountain camp between Denver and CO Springs, and last year sold Tahosa to the YMCA. I’ll never forgive them”
AesopSpouse was a Scout Leader from before our oldest son got out of Cubs. He took many troops out to Tahosa after we moved to Colorado. I suspect Scouting USA needed the money after the LDS and some other groups parted ways (and funding) with them.
(Citing huxley’s reddit graph: “You can see the significant drop in membership in 1973 with the implementation of what was then called the “Improved Scouting Program” and then again at the end of 2019 when the LDS Church left.”
Why is it that “Improving” something that didn’t have anything wrong with it is always so popular? Kind of like with smart phones and “glance” with its kindred.
However, I agree with Mike Plaiss that the Scouts themselves are still stellar, including our grand daughter!
I hope she makes Eagle before Scouting totally implodes.
My guess is that HQ will dink around and pretend it’s going along with Secretary Hegseth, while waiting out the Republicans until the Democrats bring Woke back.
Google caused it to be installed into users’ phones on the basis of commercial agreements.
It isn’t on the google pixel phone. I think the question is why other companies installed it. Grok goes into more detail, but
Glance is not part of the core Android OS (AOSP) or Google’s GMS. Instead, it’s integrated through partnerships between InMobi and OEMs (e.g., Samsung, Xiaomi, Realme, Oppo, Vivo, Motorola). OEMs embed Glance directly into their custom Android builds during manufacturing.
Money is the root of all evil:
Business Model: InMobi partners with OEMs, who may receive revenue shares from ads displayed on Glance. Users can often disable it via settings, but it’s designed to be non-intrusive and free.
It’s also possible that some folks like glance, so it would be a selling point. But I put my money on money.
Huxley, smartphones, like MS PCs, have become hellish instead of fun.
Such a time eater, trying to regain control!! Seems we are constantly battling for it.
True consumer ownership has been killed.
I wonder if any co. will successfully compete for us who want freedom & ownership!
…
“There are Linux phones coming that manage phone and texting just fine, though hit and miss for phone apps, which I don’t use.”
I’m in!! Hoping they come sooner than later!
Niketas —
“manufacturers like Xiaomi, Realme and Oppo have partnered with Glance”.
Well, good reason to avoid trying those. Geesh.
And in a later comment, Samsung too!?!
I’ve got an old Samsung — Galaxy A32 5G. Haven’t seen this “glance feature” invasion on it. Maybe this phone is too old.
I wonder if there’s a way to tell — with certainty! — if a model has or will stealthily get the feature. I’ll be in the market soon.
Sigh … I remember when new things were fun. Heh.
Huxley, did you notice whether the glance feature ate up the battery charge?