2021-02-07
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Transient lunar phenomenon - Wikipedia
During the Apollo 11 mission in July 1969, Houston radioed to Apollo 11: "We've got an observation you can make if you have some time up there. There's been some lunar transient events reported in the vicinity of Aristarchus." Astronomers in Bochum, West Germany, had observed a bright glow on the lunar surface—the same sort of eerie luminescence that has intrigued Moon watchers for centuries. The report was passed on to Houston and thence to the astronauts. Almost immediately, Michael Collins reported back: "Hey, Houston, I'm looking north up toward Aristarchus now, and there's an area that is considerably more illuminated than the surrounding area. It seems to have a slight amount of fluorescence."
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Time on the vast conspiracy to “save” the 2020 election before it even took place – The New Neo
It does something far more devious – it claims that everything this group did was non-partisan, had absolutely nothing to do with wanting Biden elected, and was merely for the noble purpose of guaranteeing a fair election and making sure people didn’t believe Trump’s conspiracy claims which they of course knew would be false even before the election occurred. And to do this, they paradoxically helped to relax the election rules so much that actual fraud and/or claims of fraud would be far more likely, and they did that only for the very noble purpose of stopping the nefarious “voter suppression” the GOP was trying to accomplish. You see, all efforts at voter security can be re-defined as voter suppression, and many courts will buy it.
My guess is that this story was going to get out anyway – or already has, in the right’s “paranoid fever dream” that turned out to have been correct – and the group wanted to make sure it is defined and described in the way they would like the public to think of it: as a “for your own good” protective device that fortifies democracy.
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(archive.org link) The Secret Bipartisan Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election | Time
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OPINION: Don’t Stop at Big Tech—We Need to Bust Big Agriculture, Too - Modern Farmer
the six biggest agricultural biotechnology firms collapsed rapidly into the Big Three—Bayer, DuPont and ChemChina. This wave of consolidation, which was met with little resistance from antitrust authorities, gave these corporations control of proprietary, multi-level systems of traits, seeds, agrochemicals and digital technology that limit farmers’ choices and lock them into limited cropping systems.
notable examples of this is in beef packing, where the top four firms now control about 85 percent of the national market. Similar allegations of price fixing have been leveled against tuna, chicken, turkey, egg, pork and peanut producers, among others.
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A Student Stole My Academic Work, Copied My Tattoos and Pretended to Be Me
- Oh. tats were for identifying the bodies.
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Talent is largely a myth - Temporary heresy
you would expect people will have an answer to the question “what is talent?”. You’d expect, and you’d be wrong: “it’s like porn, you know it when you see it” is the answer I usually get - and as with porn, this only conveys that the word is merely an unhelpful judgemental label.
Horseshit
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Israeli Jewish Antifa hacks KKK website, doxxes members
Stout is known as TexasKKK on the infamous white supremacist website Stormfront, and has reportedly been active in promoting white supremacy for three decades.
- and yet note "cells hidden" language etc. There's more people, and far more money, in monitoring Nazis and reporting on them than there is in being one. I wonder how much of the "white supremicism" movement is secretly funded by the SPLC so they'll have someone to yell about.
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Health / Medicine / COVID
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Study identifies 'Achilles heel' of bacteria linked to Crohn's disease
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Biden says it will be difficult to achieve Covid herd immunity before summer end
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Covid-19 Vaccines Raise Hope; Cold Reality Is That Illness Likely Here to Stay
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59.3M doses of Covid-19 vaccines distributed, 39M administered: U.S. CDC
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'We blew it': NYC's COVID vaccine hubs are ghost towns
- I gather its "By appointment" but the system for making appointments isn't functional yet.
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the hospital said Prof. Nadir Arber’s EXO-CD24 substance had been administered to 30 patients whose conditions were moderate or worse, and all 30 recovered — 29 of them within three to five days.