2021-08-20

Cool

• 1,283-HP Chevy Diesel Rat Rod Truck Runs 8s and Is Still Street Legal

Worthy

• CA High speed rail People Who Draw Lines on Maps Are the Problem - by Dilan Esper - Dilan’s Newsletter

etc

• RRS James Clark Ross sold - British Antarctic Survey

• California Authorities Say Toxic Algae May Be Behind A Family's Demise : NPR

• MLB will end 70-year deal with trading card company Topps

  • Fanatics strikes deal to become exclusive licensee for MLB cards

• Blue Origin suit stops work on NASA HLS contract with SpaceX

• A Judge Has Given The Boy Scouts Conditional Approval Of A $850M Bankruptcy Deal

Horseshit

• More Americans Now Correctly Believe UFOs Could Be Alien Craft from Outer Space

• SpaceX’s Starlink near-misses with other spacecraft are getting ‘out of control’

  SpaceX’s Starlink satellites are responsible for over half of all near-collisions in space, according to the head of the Astronautics Research Group. Craft from the space company, which was founded by Elon Musk, are involved in approximately 1,600 close encounters every week says Hugh Lewis, the head of the research group.

  • HN comment

  ...Starlink satellites are responsible for over half of all near-collisions in space, according to...

  and yet

  ...there are approximately 228 million pieces of space debris...

  So - either the mere ~1,700 Starlink satellites are ~100,000X hyper-achievers when it comes to near-collisions...or else the The Independent is yearning to win a "Lies...Damn Lies...Statistics" hype-achiever award.

• Free Software NOT as in 'free speech,' NOR as in 'free beer'

  I am talking about free and open source projects that are increasingly restricting the access of Iranian users and in the most ridiculous case, they are blocking all Iranian IPs! which, as far as I know, is not mandatory, and US law does not force companies to block IPs, but only prohibits them from providing services and trading with Iran, which goes back to politics, but my current argument is not commercial or political. My argument is about access to the gratis part of the free (Libre) and open source world. Something that does not require any financial transactions, the part that is gratis and publicly accessible.

• We Wait Too Long to Diagnose Psychopathy. Doctors Are Trying to Change That

• Mayor of Community Neigboring Ferguson, MO Plans to Give Residents Bitcoin

celebrity gossip

• GOP Rep. Mo Brooks tweeted a sympathetic statement about the Capitol bomb ...

• 'Jeopardy!' producer Mike Richards steps down as incoming host

  + [The new ‘Jeopardy’ host, Mike Richards, is stepping
  down](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/20/business/mike-richards-quits-jeopardy.html)
  

  • Mike Richards Out as ‘Jeopardy ’ Host After Nine Days Amid Cascade of Scandals

• Jack Dorsey reveals he's dabbling in Bitcoin mining now

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• LA County school district mandates Covid-19 vaccines for K-12 kids

• Anxiety disorder symptoms more common among those with left-wing views in UK

• School boards are in open revolt against Ron DeSantis’s anti-mask crusade

• Patent holders are still largely white, male and wealthy, research shows

• Feds Deliberately Targeted Black Lives Matter Protesters, a Report Says

  The federal government deliberately targeted Black Lives Matter protesters via heavy-handed criminal prosecutions in an attempt to disrupt and discourage the global movement that swept the nation last summer in the wake of the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd, according to a new report released Wednesday by The Movement for Black Lives

• Too Much Covid Caution Will Be Bad for Schoolchildren

• The Quiet Rage of the Responsible

• Who gets to define what’s ‘racist?’

• Identified – Florida Man Behind World’s ‘Largest Antisemitic Internet Forum’

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• Apple bans the number 8964 in China

  • Jun 4, 1989

• Why Twitter Allows the Taliban to Maintain Accounts on Its Platform

• Danny DeVito was unverified on Twitter after supporting union strike

• OnlyFans bans sexually explicit content to appease banks and payment services

  • “A lot of people are getting the OnlyFans story wrong…”

• Facebook's Atlantic Coucil

• The Pro-Israel King of German Media Eyes Politico - Tablet Magazine

TechSuck

• Tesla Bot is the company’s troubled Autopilot system in humanoid form

• Nvidia's takeover of Arm raises serious concerns, says UK watchdog

• Google shuts down unified health division as chief leaves company

• All the best emails from the Apple vs. Epic trial

• SpaceX Starlink satellite internet new capabilities, Starship launch

• Princeton Researchers Who Built a CSAM Scanning System Urge Apple to Not Use It

• TSMC Is Now Key to Win the GPU Race

• Uber allegedly more than doubles prices when battery is low

• Apple delays return to office until January as Covid cases surge

• FBI to tech industry: China, Russia are blackmailing your employees into spying

• Roblox faces criticism for 'exploiting' young game developers

Economicon

• random comment:

  Even I, an average Joe, pay the minimum payment on my mortgage and invest the rest. It would be foolish to pay it off early.

• Home Prices Are Now Higher Than the Peak of the 2000s Housing Bubble

• 2021 Supply Chain Chaos - Pulp,Packaging, and Freight...Oh My! - Barcode Blog

• OnlyFans has tons of users, but can't find investors

• The electric vehicle boom is pay-dirt for factory machinery makers

Poilitcks

• Watch live: Biden addresses evacuation of Americans and Afghan allies from Kabul

  + ZeroHedge: "Update (1350ET): What a fucking farce... now he is
  speaking live..."
  

  • President Biden Remarks on Afghanistan Evacuations | C-SPAN.org

  Secretary Blinken And I Am Going To Be Working With Our Allies To See To It We Can Bring International Pressure On The Telephone -- Taliban. They're Looking To Gain Some Legitimacy. They Are Going To Have To Figure Out How To Maintain Their Country. There Will Be Strong Conditions We Will Apply, And It Will Depend On Whether They Get Help Is Done How Will They Treat Women And Girls, How They Treat Their Citizens. So This Is Just Beginning.

  I Have Not Seen Any Question About Our Credibility From Allies.

  We Have No Indication That They Have Not Been Able To Get, In Couple, Through The Airport. We Have Made An Agreement With The Taliban, And They Have Allowed Them To Go Through. We Know If No Circumstance Where American Citizens That Are Carrying An American Passport Are Trying To Get Through Through The Airport. But We Will Do Whatever Needs To Be Done To See To It They Get There.

  • comment:

  One corporate press stenographer changed up his pre-approved question. Biden literally answered, "I thought the question was," before attempting to answer the new question.

  Insane. Clown regime stuff.

• Afghanistan withdrawal: Biden continues bunker strategy after widely panned ABC interview | Fox News

• Canadian PM Spoke With Hillary Clinton About Afghanistan Because Biden And Harris Were AWOL | ZeroHedge

• Texas Democrats Return, End 38-Day Holdout Over Voting Bill

• They Knew: Leaked State Department Memo Warned Of Afghanistan Collapse | ZeroHedge

• Exclusive: Report confirms 2020 abuses and RNC deploys 'year-round' election integrity unit | Washington Examiner

Crime / Police

• FBI Shoots Down Dem 'Conspiracy Theory' That Jan. 6 Capitol Riot Was Pre-Planned | ZeroHedge

  Though federal officials have arrested more than 570 alleged participants, the FBI at this point believes the violence was not centrally coordinated by far-right groups or prominent supporters of then-President Donald Trump, according to the sources, who have been either directly involved in or briefed regularly on the wide-ranging investigations.

  • FBI finds scant evidence U.S. Capitol attack was coordinated

• Douglas Jensen Should Go Back to Jail, Says Govt.

  “He has proven that not even six months in jail will deter him from returning to the conspiracy theories that led him to commit an assault against a federal officer on January 6, 2021,” said the filing.

• Radio Log from Police Copter's Chase of Bizarre Craft over Tucson Add to Mystery

• WA ‘counter-terrorism police’ raid climate activists’ homes over chalk graffiti

• Bay Area doctor found with 2k images, videos of child porn: federal complaint

Security / Militaria

• The Forever War Isn’t Over

Afghanistan

• How Climate change helped strengthen the Taliban

• State Dept. scraps plan to bill Kabul evacuees $2K for flights

• Packed C-17 Cargo Jet Out Of Kabul Actually Had 823 People Onboard Setting New Record The Air Force says its original figure for how many people were on the flight, known by the callsign Reach 871, did not include children on laps.

• Girls on Afghanistan's robotics team rescued

• Kabul Evacuation Flights "Paused" For Hours As Military Scrambles To Find Reception Facilities | ZeroHedge

  CNN's Clarissa Ward writes that "Soldiers by the runway at Kabul airport tell me that there are 10,000 people here processed and ready to go… but nowhere to fly them to because Qatar is refusing to accept more Afghans because they’ve reached capacity."

• Military Tear Gasses Crowd At Kabul Airport As US Struggles To Ramp Up Evacuation Effort | ZeroHedge

• Biden Administration Continues To Tell Fleeing Americans To Pay Their Way Out Of Afghanistan, Hours After Telling The Press Otherwise | The Daily Caller

  “Repatriation flights are not free,” Question 14 of the form stated when accessed by the DCNF around 10 p.m. Thursday, over two-and-a-half hours after Price issued his statement. “All passengers will need to reimburse the U.S. Government for the flight. A promissory note for the full cost of the flight, which may exceed $2000 per person, must be signed by each adult passenger before boarding,” the form stated.

  Politico first reported Thursday afternoon that sources on the ground witnessed the State Department charging American citizens who had made their way past armed Taliban checkpoints and into the Kabul airport upwards of $2,000 to board evacuation flights. The outlet added that the State Department did not deny it was charging Americans seeking to flee Afghanistan.

• Afghan man hands child over wall to soldier at Kabul airport

• To protect users, Facebook is hiding friends lists on accounts in Afghanistan

• U.S. Media Groups Scramble to Evacuate Afghan Colleagues

• Senators "Horrified" To See Black Hawk Helicopters In Taliban Hands | ZeroHedge

• Taliban Militants Have Burnt Down An Amusement Park A Day After They Were Enjoying Rides

World

• ‘I don’t hold back’: Merkel to pay Putin a farewell Kremlin visit

• Large-Scale Israeli Attack Rocks Damascus, Multiple Impact Sites Burning | ZeroHedge

• China passes new personal data privacy law, to take effect Nov. 1

Health / Medicine / COVID

• Has eighty percent of South Africa already had Covid

• First llama-derived antibody for Covid-19 headed to human trials

• USDA APHIS | Surveillance Data Shows White-Tailed Deer Exposed to SARS-CoV-2

  Results of the study indicate that certain white-tailed deer populations in Illinois, Michigan, New York, and Pennsylvania were exposed to SARS-CoV-2. Antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 were detected in 33% of the 481 samples collected from January 2020 through 2021. None of the deer populations surveyed showed signs of clinical illness associated with SARS-CoV-2.

• AstraZeneca's antibody therapy prevents Covid-19, study shows

• What we actually know about the vaccines and the delta variant

• U.S. officials' decision on Covid-19 boosters baffles and upsets some scientists

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Rain at the summit of Greenland | Greenland Ice Sheet Today

  Earlier melt events in the instrumental record occurred in 1995, 2012, and 2019; prior to those events, melting is inferred from ice cores to have been absent since an event in the late 1800s.

  • Rain falls at the summit of Greenland Ice Sheet for first time on record

  • Rain falls on peak of Greenland ice cap for first time on record

• CFC ban bought us time to fight climate change, say scientists

• Nitrous Oxide – A forgotten greenhouse gas

• Massive volcanoes could cool Earth more in a warming world

• Study finds 74% increase in deaths associated with extreme heat

• Attack of the superweeds: herbicides are losing the war

• New England preps for first hurricane in 30 years

  • New England preps for first hurricane in 30 years with Henri

• China announces tree planting pledge to increase forests and bring down CO2

• Millions of electric car batteries will retire in the next decade