2021-05-04
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Rocket debris from China's space station launch is falling back to Earth — but where? | Space
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N = 126 Nose size indicates maximum penile length | Basic and Clinical Andrology | Full Text
The fact that nose size is related to stretched penile length indicates that penile length may not be determined by age, height or body weight but has already been determined before birth.
Worthy
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If You Can Be Bad, You Can Also Be Good - Astral Codex Ten
Perfect rationality is probably impossible, just like perfect anything else. Luckily, we're all far enough from perfection that we don't need to worry about this - and we can go on trying to improve regardless.
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How science has been corrupted - UnHerd
One of the most striking features of the present, for anyone alert to politics, is that we are increasingly governed through the device of panics that give every appearance of being contrived to generate acquiescence in a public that has grown skeptical of institutions built on claims of expertise. And this is happening across many domains. Policy challenges from outsiders presented through fact and argument, offering some picture of what is going on in the world that is rival to the prevailing one, are not answered in kind, but are met rather with denunciation. In this way, epistemic threats to institutional authority are resolved into moral conflicts between good people and bad people.
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In the unforgettable Summer of 2020, the moral energy of anti-racism was harnessed to the scientific authority of public health, and vice versa. Thus “white supremacy” was a public health emergency — one urgent enough to dictate the suspension of social distancing mandates for the sake of protests. So how did the description of America as white supremacist get converted into a scientific-sounding claim?
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On Incels, Dead Bedrooms and The Hard Problems of Loneliness - Resident Contrarian
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Signal >> Blog >> The Instagram ads Facebook won't show you
We created a multi-variant targeted ad designed to show you the personal data that Facebook collects about you and sells access to. The ad would simply display some of the information collected about the viewer which the advertising platform uses. Facebook was not into that idea.
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Your Car Is Spying on You. A CBP Contract Shows the Risks.
The kit, MSAB says, also has the ability to discover specific events that most car owners are probably unaware are even recorded, like “when and where a vehicle’s lights are turned on, and which doors are opened and closed at specific locations” as well as “gear shifts, odometer reads, ignition cycles, speed logs, and more.” This car-based surveillance, in other words, goes many miles beyond the car itself.
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What Caused the Roaring Twenties? Not the End of a Pandemic (Probably)
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Jets brought in to tackle 300-tonne fatberg blocking Birmingham sewer
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International child abuse site with 400k users busted by German authorities
Four suspects from Germany were arrested in connection with the "Boystown" darknet site, which paedophiles used to exchange and watch indecent images of children and toddlers from all over the world, according to authorities.
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Five months later: Woman found alive after disappearing in Diamond Fork Canyon
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Mall owners find charter schools make good tenants in many spaces left empty
Horseshit
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This motorcycle airbag vest stops working if you miss a payment
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44% of older millennials have a chronic health condition
As millennials begin to turn 40 in 2021, CNBC Make It has launched Middle-Aged Millennials, a series exploring how the oldest members of this generation have grown into adulthood amid the backdrop of the Great Recession and the Covid-19 pandemic, student loans, stagnant wages and rising costs of living.
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Broadband Industry Sues New York State for Promising $15 Broadband
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Sex Work Is Work - Why It's Time to Decriminalize - ReportNOLA
celebrity gossip
Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination
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Exclusive: Coalition calls on Biden to form disinformation task force - Axios
Initiatives to blunt the impact of disinformation on Black, Latino, Indigenous, AAPI, rural, and immigrant communities that are deliberately and disproportionately targeted by disinformation, as well as veterans vulnerable to disinformation campaigns;
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In the Name of Equity, California Will Discourage Students Gifted at Math
Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship
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Triller gives those that pirated boxing match one last chance to pay 49.99
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The rise of the corporate censor has challenged long-standing assumptions of the free speech community. Our Constitution and much of free speech writings are focused on the classic model of government censorship and state media. What we have seen in the last few years is that corporations have far greater ability to curtail speech and that you can have a type of state media without the state.
TechSuck
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Like, what the hell am I even doing with my life? Why am I investing so much effort into this very niche domain, when the person in charge acts like he’s the one doing me a favor by having my unpaid work on his commercial app store, when I could have put all that time and energy towards a positive creative community that would actually want me to participate instead of wanting me gone?
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"We'll just uninstall that for you; it's not really your machine anymore, anyway" Adobe Flash: Microsoft says updates will remove it from Windows 10 PCs for good
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Google banned almost 120k spam developer accounts in 2020 for the play store | Hacker News
Poilitcks
Security / Militaria / Crime / Police
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Derek Chauvin files motion for new trial alleging jury misconduct
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FBI agents shoot armed man outside CIA headquarters in McLean, Virginia - CBS News
A man who was shot outside the Central Intelligence Agency's headquarters in McLean, Virginia, has died, the FBI said on Tuesday. The FBI said Monday night that the man had emerged from a vehicle with a weapon, and the CIA said the man did not breach the compound.
World
Health / Medicine / COVID
Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda
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Climate change clearly visible as NOAA prepares to release new 'normals'
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The refrigerant industry asked for HFC phase-out, and the EPA delivered
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Climate crisis: our children face wars over food and water, EU deputy warns
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One of NYC's – and the World's – Top Restaurants to Go Meat-Free
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A Giant Organic Farm Faces Criticism That It's Harming the Environment