2021-04-10

Worthy

• Reviving Freedom of ‘Religion’

  All of which suggests that, unless we somehow revive a freedom of religion-like-stuff, we are likely to suffer increasingly destructive conflicts due to religious-like groups wielding the power of states against each other. But to revive such a freedom, we would have to pick a legal definition of “religious-like”. What could that be?

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• A world of heroes and villains: why we should challenge children's simplistic moral beliefs

  Among the first of many moral lessons children need to learn is that everyone is capable of both good deeds and bad. Morality is needed to keep all of us on the right track. The supposition that some people can do no wrong and others can do no right is not just false: it deprives morality of its very point.

• Why cats won’t punish a stranger who harms you

• Measuring human capital: Learning matters more than schooling

• Hasbro’s new $700 Optimus Prime toy can finally transform all on its own

• How to Survive a Killer Asteroid

• People tend to add elements to solve a problem rather than take things away

• Man charged with plotting to blow up an Amazon data center in Virginia

• I made a mobile app for my significant other and she won't use it

Horseshit

• Court rules grocery store’s inaccessible website isn’t an ADA violation

• “Semenly” Harmless Back Pain: An Unusual Presentation of a Subcutaneous Abscess – Irish Medical Journal

  While it is the first ever described case of intravascular semen injection and associated abscess in the medical literature its lessons can be applied on a broader scale; the dangers of venepuncture when carried out by the untrained layperson are highlighted as well as the vascular and soft tissue hazards surrounding the attempted injection of substances not intended for intravenous use.

• Facebook Censored Israeli Apartheid Week

• Coronavirus Toys Are Going Viral

• Minimum wage would be 44 $/h had it grown at the same rate as Wall St. bonuses

celebrity gossip

• Patrisse Khan-Cullors Buys Topanga Canyon Home – DIRT

  • BLM Founder Branded "Fraud" After Buying Million-Dollar Home In Mostly-White LA Enclave | ZeroHedge

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• Latest Must-Have for America’s Ultra-Billionaires: A Plan to Save Humanity

• Female truckers have become TikTok influencers, and they're changing trucking

• "BLM" fundraising isn't news... Proud Boys and other far-right groups raise millions via Christian funding site

  + [HN thread](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26761281)
  

  • Interesting notion: "the Tea Party started as honest people but then the Nazis took it over like they do everything on the Right," is this a nod to the wavering followers or a caution against listening to what sounds like reasonable points on the other side?

• "All in the Family" The Show That Changed Television Forever

• Williston, ND, where men work hard, make bank and get into trouble

• CNN Op-Ed: Fonts Can Be Racist – RedState

• More evidence that Facebook ad targeting illegally discriminates

Media / Many Ministries of Truths

• Too much? BBC gets complaints over Prince Philip coverage

• Why Targeted Ads Are a Disaster for Democracy

• NYT Journalist Erases ENTIRE Twitter After National Pulse Unearths Posts Admitting ‘Working’ For The Chinese Communist Party. - The National Pulse

• State of fear: how ministers ‘used covert tactics’ to keep scared public home

• How Bellingcat Launders National Security State Talking Points into the Press

TechSuck

• Apple’s Quiet War on Independent Repairmen

• Why Logitech Just Killed the Universal Remote Control Industry

• End of support for Firefox on Amazon Devices | Firefox for Amazon Devices Help

  Starting on April 30, 2021, we will no longer support Firefox on Amazon Fire TV or Echo Show. You will no longer be able to install the app on FireTV, receive security updates, or be able to reinstall the app

• Google does not want you to tell your players about your donation page

• Google is exploring a health record tool for patients

• With a new skipper at the helm, Intel heads for uncharted waters

Economicon

• Is the Fed hiding something? Why weekly money supply data just got discontinued - Steve Hanke | Kitco News

  • This is not the "M1 and M2 are effectively the same now because of rule changes" change they made a couple months ago; this is reporting frequency dropping back from weekly to monthly.

• Is There a New Housing Bubble?

  From a historical perspective, house prices are high. But lending standards have been solid, and we haven't seen significant speculation - so I wouldn't call this a bubble.

Poilitcks

• Wait, Could Andrew Yang Be New York’s Next Mayor?

• Supreme Court Drops Calif. Ban on In-Home Prayer Meetings – PJ Media

• 100k people ask Biden, will ya break that 2-2 FCC deadlock already?

• This Dem lawmaker seriously tried to compare the Capitol riot to PEARL HARBOR | Not the Bee

Security / Militaria

• Factors Shaping China's Use of Force Calculations Against Taiwan

World

• China slaps Alibaba with $2.8B fine in anti-monopoly probe

• India protests US Navy ship’s transit through its waters without consent

• 'Lost golden city of Luxor' discovered by archaeologists in Egypt

• Northern Ireland Violence Worst In Decades; Fears Of "The Troubles" Return

• What Was The Vatican Searching For When They Built Secret Tunnel Under Jerusalem Church?  | ZeroHedge

• Singapore's Endless Pursuit of Cleanliness

Health / Medicine / COVID

• Nearly 40% of U.S. Marines have declined Covid-19 vaccine

• America may be close to hitting a vaccine wall

• WHO Deletes Naturally Acquired Immunity from Its Website – AIER

• Scientists work toward an elusive dream: a simple pill to treat Covid-19

• ‘A small, sanitised existence’:what effect will pandemic have on today’s babies?

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• A thatch that can last up to 400 years

• Four gray whales have been found dead near San Francisco