2021-04-28

• 10 years ago: National Weather Service - Memphis, TN - Late April 2011 Tornado Outbreak

Cool

• How do rockets really get to where they're headed? - Orbital Mechanics — Steemit

• Baked meteorites yield clues to planetary atmospheres

  The researchers compared their results with the predictions from chemical equilibrium models based on the composition of the meteorites. “Qualitatively, we get pretty similar results to what the chemical equilibrium models predict should be outgassed, but there are also some differences,” Thompson said. “You need experiments to see what actually happens in practice. We want to do this for a wide variety of meteorites to provide better constraints for the theoretical models of exoplanetary atmospheres.”

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• Where Does a Candle Go When It Burns?

• New 'Flintstones' sequel series in the works

• Oklahoma Grants Immunity To Motorists Who Unintentionally Harm Protesters : NPR

• Māori are trying to save their language from Big Tech

• Same decline in children's BMI may be achieved by extra sleep or extra exercise

• The number of cities with municipal broadband has jumped over 4x in two years

Horseshit

• Ban on menthol cigarettes expected soon

• The GPU Shortage Deepened My Existential Dread

  The lesson that Covid has taught me is one that the graphics card shortage has reinforced: I can’t control my son’s universe, and I can’t promise him things that are beyond my control. “It will be fine” is an unhelpful refrain during a pandemic. One day your world is predictable, and the next day that predictability has vanished. One day your virtual world is your refuge, and the next day it’s out of reach. My reassurance means little. Right now, all I can do for West is stand behind him and hover as he refreshes the Newegg tab.

• How Long Can We Live?

• D.C. Pastor Allegedly Used Coronavirus Relief Funds To Buy 39 Cars And A House | The Daily Wire

celebrity gossip

• The Mystery of Why a Foundering Football Player Killed a Family

• The Secret Footage of the NRA Chief’s Botched Elephant Hunt

• WITCH HUNT: Federal Agents Raid Rudy Giuliani's NYC Apartment Looking for "Lobbying" Crimes – PJ Media

• CEO of $2B Startup Ousted for Taking LSD at Work

• Hunter Biden will guest teach a class on 'fake news' at Tulane University this fall | Daily Mail Online

  • "Is it possible to learn this power?" "Not from a Jedi"

• What Snoop Dogg’s Success Says About the Book Industry

• Howard Stern has lost his sting — and his mojo

• One of Hollywood’s most audacious Ponzi schemes

• The Richest Men Are Brawling over the Moon

Obit

• Value Investing Icon Jumps Off Manhattan Skyrscraper To His Death Days After Liquidating Fund

  As Barrons adds, "de Vaulx, 59, had built a long career as a risk-aware global investor who never deviated from his deep-value approach, even when it meant keeping as much as 40% of his funds in cash because he couldn’t find attractive investments during a 13-year stretch in which the markets favored faster-growing companies. De Vaulx’s conviction set him apart in the industry, even among other battle-tested contrarians." He was also a father of two.

• Michael Collins, Apollo 11 astronaut, dies at 90

• ‘El Risitas’ (The Giggles) Dies

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• CISA Releases Second Graphic Novel to Combat Disinformation

  “Disinformation campaigns are a direct threat to our democracy and impact each and every one of us,” said CISA Acting Director Brandon Wales. “The Resilience Series is another way we raise awareness of the dangers and risks associated with the spread of false information online meant to disrupt our way of life and sow discord in our communities. You don’t have to be a superhero to stop the spread of disinformation, but as these graphic novels show, we all have a role to play.”

• Bayou Renaissance Man: Michael Yon: "I am warning and warning and warning that we are steaming straight into civil war"

• James Carville thinks the Democratic Party has a “wokeness” problem - Vox

• "I'm Really Living The Life Over Here" - Hot Mic Catches Illinois Profs Gloating About Social Justice Infestation In Schools | ZeroHedge

• Idaho moves to ban critical race theory instruction in all public schools

• Science Skepticism Across 24 Countries - Bastiaan T. Rutjens, Nikhil Sengupta, Romy van der Lee, Guido M. van Koningsbruggen, Jason P. Martens, André Rabelo, Robbie M. Sutton, 2021

  One notable effect was consistent across countries though stronger in Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) nations: General faith in science was predicted by spirituality, suggesting that it, more than religiosity, may be the ‘enemy’ of science acceptance. Climate change skepticism was mainly associated with political conservatism especially in North America. Other findings were observed across WEIRD and non-WEIRD nations: Vaccine skepticism was associated with spirituality and scientific literacy, genetic modification skepticism with scientific literacy, and evolution skepticism with religious orthodoxy. Levels of science skepticism are heterogeneous across countries, but predictors of science skepticism are heterogeneous across domains.

• America First Legal Sues Biden Administration to End Racial Discrimination of Farmers and Ranchers - The Last Refuge

  Today, America First Legal (AFL) filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas to stop the Biden Administration from administering a program created by Congress in the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 that discriminates against American citizen farmers and ranchers based upon their race. Specifically, Sections 1005 and 1006 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 provide benefits to farmers and ranchers, but excludes many potential beneficiaries based solely upon their ethnicity or race.

• The invention of whiteness: the long history of a dangerous idea

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• Greenwald: CNN's New "Reporter" Natasha Bertrand Is Deranged Conspiracy Theorist And Scandal-Plagued CIA Propagandist | ZeroHedge

• 98% of the books that publishers released in 2020 sold fewer than 5k copies

• Darkness Falls: Bezos-Owned Washington Post To Stop Keeping Track of Biden's Lies - Washington Free Beacon

• NY Post Reporter Resigns After Retraction Of Kamala Harris Book Story | The Daily Caller

  The NY Post originally alleged that migrant children were being gifted Harris’s book in a welcome kit. The claim was eventually fact-checked by The Washington Post, which cited a spokesman for the city of Long Beach who said one copy of Harris’s book “Superheroes Are Everywhere” was donated by someone in the community.

TechSuck

• FCC lets SpaceX cut satellite altitude to improve Starlink speed and latency

• Signal's Cellebrite Hack Is Already Causing Grief for the Law

  • that whole "evidence should be real" thing is so pesky...

• Facebook approves alcohol, vaping and gambling ads targeting 13-17 year olds

• There's no such thing as "The Perl Community"

• Spotify reports strong Q1 revenue growth, tied to performance of Joe Rogan

  • Spotify shares fall after muted paid subscriber growth forecast

• Chia Cryptomining Causes 500% Increase in Adata High-Capacity SSD Sales

• Basecamp Another tech company bans employees from talking politics at work

• Oracle Responds to the Intercept's “How Oracle Sells Repression in China”

  • Oracle VP doxes itercept journalist over reporting

  • Oracle VP Ken Glueck Suspended by Twitter for Doxing a Reporter

• Experian API Exposed Credit Scores of Most Americans

Economicon

• Gas shortages predicted this summer

• Verizon is exploring a sale of its media assets including Yahoo and AOL

• Bitcoin is a fraud that will blow up, says JP Morgan boss

• The Car Models That Are Being Affected by the Chip Shortage

• Turkey Cryptocurrency Exchange Bust Spurs Move for Regulation

• Ask HN: Is buying first edition packs of Pokemon a good investment?

• The Fed fueled a stock boom that benefited wealthy and left behind everyone else

• Trans-Pacific deteriorating, brace for shipping ‘tsunami’

• Shipping Containers Fall Overboard at Fastest Rate in Seven Years

Poilitcks

• SEC Director of Enforcement resign after a few days on the job

• Biden Set To Unveil $1.8 Trillion Expansion Of American "Social Safety Net" | ZeroHedge

• Biden’s 100-Day Rampage | The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

  Not since 1932, when Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s first 100 days as president set a benchmark for presidential performance, has any president done so much so quickly as Joe Biden. In fact, Biden is surpassing Roosevelt significantly in imposing massive damaging changes on America that may not be reversible.

• U.S. Post Office to brief lawmakers on its covert surveillance program

• ‘Ghost Gun’ Plans Can Be Posted Online After Court Ruling

Security / Militaria / Crime

• Federal court approved FBI’s continued use of warrantless surveillance power despite repeated violations of privacy rules - The Washington Post

• US Orders Staff To Leave Afghanistan Embassy Due To Threats

• Fact Check: Awkward Viral Video of NYPD Officer Beaten With a Stick Is Real – PJ Media

• Navy SEALs to shift from counterterrorism to global threats

World

• Samsung's Lee family to pay over $10.8B inheritence tax

• Social network Yalla is rising star in Middle East

• European Parliament Approves Post-Brexit Trade Deal With Britain

Health / Medicine / COVID

• (Apr 7 2021) Why Are Millions Of N95 Masks Sitting In A Factory Without A Buyer? : NPR

  Fifteen million N95 masks just sitting in a Miami warehouse waiting for a buyer during a mask shortage. Arguello's story starts early in the pandemic when that shortage first began. Back then, he scaled up DemeTECH from 500 staff to 2,000. When they turned on their mask-making machines, they could make a million N95 masks a day. But today, DemeTECH and other new American mask manufacturers are having a really hard time selling their N95 masks to hospitals. It was a mystery why this masks supply couldn't match up with that demand. Shikha Gupta is the executive director of the nonprofit Get Us PPE. She says the first reason for the supply-demand mismatch is dwindling budgets.

• Benefits of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine outweigh its risks, modeling study

• Israel probing link between Pfizer shot and heart problem in men under 30

  • Israel examines heart inflammation cases after Pfizer shot

• Pandemic baby bust unprecedented in Bay Area, California history

• U.S. CDC has not seen link between heart inflammation and Covid-19 vaccines

• CDC Eases Face Mask Guidelines for Fully Vaccinated People Outdoors

• The CDC Is Still Repeating Its Mistakes

India

• 85-year-old vacates hospital bed for 40-year-old patient, dies at home

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Is Having A Baby In 2021 Pure Environmental Vandalism?

• Heat and Humidity Are Already Reaching the Limits of Human Tolerance

• Environmental Aspects of Individual Heat Generation for Sustainable Development

• To encourage more sustainable cooking, Epicurious won’t publish new beef recipes

• How mangrove forests helped stall environmental crime - BBC Future

• Tesla accused of environmental rule violations in U.S. and Germany

  • Tesla discloses notice from EPA alleging noncompliance with the Clean Air Act

• A Wave of Electric Trucks Could Create ‘Accidental Environmentalists’

• Nestlé threatened with cease-and-desist over alleged illegal water use

• Who will save the night sky?

• Why bullying is such a successful evolutionary strategy