2021-05-31

Cool

• (Jan 2020) Could invisible aliens really exist among us? An astrobiologist explains

• A never-before-documented flower blooms on one of world’s rarest trees | National Geographic

Worthy

• Answers to 12 Bad Anti-Free Speech Arguments: Featuring That XKCD Cartoon Everyone Likes to Quote! - Areo

• (South Korea, 1980) The May 18 Gwangju Uprising

etc

• Space Debris Has Hit and Damaged the International Space Station

  A piece of space debris too small to be tracked has hit and damaged part of the International Space Station - namely, the Canadarm2 robotic arm. The instrument is still operational, but the object punctured the thermal blanket and damaged the boom beneath. It's a sobering reminder that the low-Earth orbit's space junk problem is a ticking time bomb.

Horseshit

• Wikipedia is swimming in money–why is it begging people to donate?

• Woman Catches State Police Attaching Tracker to Her Car, Now They Want It Back

celebrity gossip

• ‘Lost’ Charles Schulz strips have been rediscovered. Do they show an adult Lucy?

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• Founder Of Black Lives Matter Chapter Quits After Learning the "Ugly Truth" | ZeroHedge

• Are we cut out for universal morality?

• The Devastation of the Tulsa Race Massacre

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• Naomi Osaka faces default from Grand Slam for refusing to speak to media

• Emily Wilder’s Firing Is No Surprise: AP Has Always Been Right-Wing

TechSuck

• Why Is Amazon in Entertainment?

Economicon

• Rental Car Rates Vivify the Ongoing Lockdown Horrors | RealClearMarkets

  The only real deals out there – by which I mean not $14 per day like it was six months ago but $70 – require that you grant the agency choice over what car they give you: the answer is whatever they happen to have on the floor. Also watch for a change in terms of service. Some companies have dropped “unlimited mileage:: a woman in Denver found herself with a $28,000 bill from driving 200 miles.

Poilitcks

• The Mystery of 'Havana Syndrome'

• Appellate Court Strikes Down Racial and Gender Preferences in Biden's COVID Relief Law - Glenn Greenwald

Security / Militaria / Crime / Police

• Death of QAnon Follower at Capitol Leaves a Wake of Pain

• 27 Shot in Miami 'Urban Beach Week' Event – PJ Media

World

• In Mexico, cartels are hunting down police at their homes

• China allows couples to have three children

• After years of conflict and instability, Iraq is opening up to tourism

• Air France cancels flights as Russia withholds clearance

• Iran’s failure to explain uranium traces is ‘big problem’, says IAEA chief

Health / Medicine / COVID

• Why Deadly ‘Black Fungus’ Is Ravaging Covid Patients in India

• The Dubious Origins of Long Covid

• I’m a doctor, but Covid’s broken my faith in medical research. I can’t believe anything I read or accept any mainstream facts — RT Op-ed

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Most Dairy Cows Are Kissing Cousins, and Scientists Are Worried

• Exxon Lost a Board Battle with a Small Hedge Fund

• Big Setbacks Propel Oil Giants Toward a ‘Tipping Point’

• Battle Brews over Banning Natural Gas to Homes