2021-02-09
Cool
Worthy
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1975 Banqiao Dam failure - Wikipedia
As the Boshan Dam, with a capacity of 400 million m3, crested and the water released from the failures of Banqiao and Shimantan was rushing downstream, air strikes were made against several other dams to protect the Suya Lake dam, already holding 1.2 billion m3 of water.
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I received my stipendium of 50 denarii, out of which I have paid barley money 16 denarii. […]rnius: food expenses 20(?) denarii; boots 5 denarii; leather strappings 2 denarii; linen tunic 7 denarii.’ And the total of deductions is 50 denarri – Messius’ entire pay check.
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John McWhorter: The Neoracists - Persuasion
all of this supposed wisdom is founded in an ideology under which white people calling themselves our saviors make black people look like the dumbest, weakest, most self-indulgent human beings in the history of our species, and teach black people to revel in that status and cherish it as making us special.
Lord forbid my daughters internalize a pathetic—yes, absolutely pathetic in all of the resonances of that word—sense that what makes them interesting is what other people think of them, or don’t.
The author and essayist Joseph Bottum has found the proper term, and I will adopt it here: We will term these people The Elect. They do think of themselves as bearers of a wisdom, granted them for any number of reasons—a gift for empathy, life experience, maybe even intelligence. But they see themselves as having been chosen, as it were, by one or some of these factors, as understanding something most do not.
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These examples of journalism being abused to demand censorship of spaces they cannot control are too numerous to comprehensively chronicle. That far more robust censorship is urgently needed is now a virtual consensus in mainstream corporate journalism: it’s an animating cause for them.
Just take a second to ponder how infantile and despotic, in equal parts, all of this is. This NYT reporter used her platform to virtually jump out of her desk to run to the teacher and exclaim: he used the r word! This is what she tried for months to accomplish: to catch people in private communications using words that are prohibited or ideas that are banned to tell on them to the public. That she got it all wrong is arguably the least humiliating and pathetic aspect of all of this.
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France expresses alarm about America's drift into left-wing radicalism - Liberty Unyielding
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Chinese microlending is out of control - Protocol — The people, power and politics of tech
"Weibo tells me it can lend me money; the delivery app tells me it can lend me money; and now even the photo editing app tells me it can lend me money," wrote one Weibo user last month. "I have 32 apps on my phone. Probably 30 of them have turned into microlending apps."
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Images Show U-2 That Flew Intriguing Flight Over California Was Equipped With A Panoramic Camera
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Pickup Truck Driver Survives After Plunging 70 Feet Off a Wisconsin Overpass
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Police: Prius crushes man who was under it trying to steal catalytic converter | News | kctv5.com
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"Ha Ha" Is This Cop Playing Sublime’s Santeria to Avoid Being Livestreamed?
Horseshit
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Dallas Mavericks No Longer Playing National Anthem Before Home Games
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Tampa Mayor Threatens Police Investigations Of Super Bowl Fans Who Didn't Wear Masks | ZeroHedge
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Open MS TeamViewer; observed by employees live Cyberattack On Florida City’s Water Supply | Hackaday
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Pseudophilosophy encourages confused, self-indulgent thinking | Psyche Ideas
Epistemic unconscientiousness is an essential but not exhaustive component of pseudoscience. To count as pseudoscientific, a belief must also be about some scientific issue, and this is precisely where pseudoscience and pseudophilosophy differ. Just like pseudoscience, pseudophilosophy is defined by a lack of epistemic conscientiousness, but its subject matter is philosophical rather than scientific.
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Man to pay £25,000 damages over negative TrustPilot review - BBC News
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Fox News asks for Smartmatic suit over election-rigging claims to be dismissed
TechSuck
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More stories about this drama than the issues under it A Joint Statement on Recent Events Between Signal and the Anti-Censorship Community · Issue #63 · net4people/bbs · GitHub
You were not blocked from this repository for "dropping knowledge." We're not trying to "suppress" any information about an nginx config file. You were blocked because you know that we don't use GH for discussion, but came here anyway and started opening fake PRs so that you could post and harass other people on GH. This is where we work.
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Farmers Are Having to Hack Their Own Tractors Just to Make Repairs
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NearlyFreeSpeech.net similar competitor of some history No support Linux hosting shutting down from hack
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Economicon
Politickles
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Trump trial opens with video of him calling for a march on Capitol
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"(CNN) The simple question posed by Donald Trump's second impeachment trial that begins Tuesday is whether a president who loses reelection can get away with a violent coup attempt in a desperate bid to stay in power."
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Trump lawyer argues that impeachment is politically motivated
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Instead of Lifting Trump’s Tariffs, Biden Is Imposing More of Them – Reason.com
World
Health / Medicine / COVID
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WHO Concludes That Coronavirus "Came From Animal," Not Wuhan Lab | ZeroHedge
“Our initial findings suggest that the introduction through an intermediary host species is the most likely pathway and one that will require more studies and more specific, targeted research,”
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> Update on February 8, 2021 at 10:00AM PT:Today, following consultations with leading health organizations, including the World Health Organization (WHO), we are expanding the list of false claims we will remove to include additional debunked claims about the coronavirus and vaccines. This includes claims such as:
+ COVID-19 is man-made or manufactured + Vaccines are not effective at preventing the disease they are meant to protect against + It’s safer to get the disease than to get the vaccine + Vaccines are toxic, dangerous or cause autism