2021-05-13

Worthy

• What’s up with lumber prices? - The Prepared

  The bottleneck seems to be sawmill capacity - the price for finished lumber is way up, but the price for unprocessed logs is flat or even down. “Stumpage” (the price harvesters pay to cut down trees on a plot of land) is driven by the total inventory - how many trees are available to harvest. Post 2008, stumpage prices collapsed, and since then tree inventory has continued to increase:

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• Midair Collision over Denver

• Even If You Think Discussing Aliens Is Ridiculous, Just Hear Me Out

Horseshit

• Man Riding in Driverless Tesla Is Arrested in California

• For the Brain, Timing Is Everything - Neuroscience News

  • Nothing against the people studying this; but this shows how ignorant we are. This is watching a freeway and speculating on the society of the beings inside those cars.

• Russia Is Going to Try to Clone an Army of 3,000-Year-Old Scythian Warriors

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• Black homeowner has white friend stand in for third appraisal. Value doubles

• The tragedy of the commons is a false and dangerous myth

• Do You Live in a Political Bubble?

• 'American Idol' finalist Caleb Kennedy out after video surfaces

  "American Idol” top-five finalist Caleb Kennedy has left the show after a video surfaced showing him next to someone wearing what appears to be a Ku Klux Klan hood.

• The 'cancel culture' war is about old elites losing power in social media age

TechSuck

• Nikon is slowly discontinuing more Nikkor reflex F-mount lenses

• SpaceX inks satellite connectivity deal with Google Cloud

Economicon

• Colonial Pipeline Paid Hackers Nearly $5M in Ransom

• U.S. Home Prices Surge, Scaring Off Some Potential Buyers

• WeWork CEO Says Least Engaged Employees Enjoy Working from Home

• Tesla Suspends Bitcoin Purchases

  • $365B wiped off cryptocurrency market after Tesla stops accepting Bitcoin

• Millions Are Unemployed. Why Can’t Companies Find Workers?

• Credit-Card Debt Keeps Falling. Banks Are on Edge

• Bird to go public via SPAC, at an implied value of $2.3B

Poilitcks

• How Klobuchar and Hawley See Things When It Comes to Technology

• Pentagon surveilling Americans without a warrant, Senator Wyden reveals

• BREAKING: 'Significant Discrepancies' Discovered In Arizona Audit, Ballots Off Up to 17.5%, 'Likely Joe Biden Did Not Win' - National File

Security / Militaria / Crime / Police

• Senator Proposes Cyber 'Academy' to Attract More to National Service

World

• Swiss spy chief exits after reports of row over CIA-linked firm

• Iron dome intercepting a barrage of rockets over Tel Aviv

  • Israel's Iron Dome proves successful against Gaza rockets

• Chart shows every person killed in the Israel-Palestine conflict since 2000

Health / Medicine / COVID

• Ohio’s million-dollar idea: Lottery prizes for vaccinations

• CDC Says Vaccinated People Can Go Maskless in Most Places

• Quebec stops offering first doses of AstraZeneca vaccine

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• How Much Time Does Humanity Have Left?

• We can’t beat the climate crisis without rethinking land use

• Climate Change Indicators in the United States