2021-08-24

Worthy

• Nike's End of Men - by Ethan Strauss - House of Strauss

  let’s get real. You dislike this ad because it sucks. You are having a natural, human response to shitty art. This a hollow sermon from a priest whose sins were in the papers. Nobody is impressed by what Nike’s doing here. Nobody thinks Nike, a multinational famous for its sweatshops, is ushering us into an enlightened utopia.

  The older leaders, uneasy in their station and thus obsessed with looking cutting edge, lean on the younger types because the youth are confident. Unfortunately, that confidence is rooted in an ability to regurgitate liturgy, rather than generative genius. They’ve a mandate to replace a marred past, which they leap at, but they’re incapable of inventing a better future.

• The new reality of UFOs: An interview with journalist Leslie Kean | Space

  I would advise the public to be careful about whom they listen to. Focus on official information, provided by current and former government officials and others with credentials that are in a position to have knowledge. They often speak in generalities because they have been exposed to much classified information and can only go so far in what they can say publicly. But their words carry a lot of weight and should be taken seriously. I recommend paying attention to in-depth investigations, such as those from The Debrief and The Drive.

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• McDonald's runs out of milkshakes in England, Scotland and Wales

• The First Step Toward Protecting Everyone Else from Teslas

Horseshit

• Cash for kills: why are people paying for coaches to get better at video games?

• Costa Ricans Live Longer. What’s the Secret?

• They thought they were going to rehab. They ended up in chicken plants

celebrity gossip

• Apple’s Tim Cook, Microsoft’s Satya Nadella Plan to Visit White House

• Bob Ross documentary complicates the legacy of an artist

• Virtue-Signaling Academy Of TV Arts Strips Cuomo Of Emmy "In Light Of AG Report" | ZeroHedge

• Tony Hawk is selling 100 skateboards painted with his actual blood

Obit

• James Loewen, Author of ‘Lies My Teacher Told Me,’ Dies at 79

• Igor Vovkovinskiy, tallest man in US, dies in Minnesota

• Former NHL and Boston College star Jimmy Hayes found dead at 31

• Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts dies at 80

• Chad’s former president, jailed for crimes against humanity, is dead. Reports cite COVID

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• School mask battles rage on as more children fall ill, fill hospitals

• Parents get coached on how to escape mask and vaccine rules

• Biden celebrates 2020 WNBA champs Seattle Storm

• AI Can Guess Your Race Based on X-Rays, and Researchers Don't Know How

• Will Policymakers Let the Covid Crisis End?

• "Have become?" cf the barbershop in "Coming to America" Black barbers have become mental health advocates for African American men

• Mosque bombing convict wants transgender identity recognized

• Sundown Towns Are Still a Problem for Black Drivers

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• It's time to break up Big Tech's media monopoly

• Covid: Most popular Facebook link in US spread vaccine doubt

• Three major networks devoted a full five minutes to Afghanistan in 2020 – Responsible Statecraft

  Out of a combined 14,000-plus minutes of the national evening news broadcast on CBS, ABC, and NBC last year, a grand total of five minutes were devoted to Afghanistan

• Facebook Is Allowing Ivermectin Ads at a Time When It Shouldn’t

• Getting OnlyFans to ban sex videos isn’t something to be proud of

• OnlyFans CEO on why it banned adult content: ‘the short answer is banks’

TechSuck

• SpaceX ships 100k Starlink terminals to customers

• Bad News For South African Looters As Samsung Moves To Block Their Stolen TVs | ZeroHedge

  • Samsung remotely disables TVs looted from South African warehouse | Hacker News

• Waymo starts offering autonomous rides in San Francisco

• Chicago IG finds that Shotspotter alerts rarely lead to evidence of gun crime

Economicon

• I Don't F*ckn Get It - The Irrelevant Investor

• EU to make Bitcoin traceable, ban anonymous crypto wallets

• Pacaso is turning houses into corporations

  • comment:

  There's a new startup called Pacaso selling timeshares. Like most people who sell timeshares, they loudly claim they aren't timeshares at all. Unlike most people who sell timeshares, they also ignore all laws against timeshares. Because we live in the dumbest timeline, because they claim to be a tech company and not a timeshare company, this means they are now worth a billion dollars.

• Why the Bezzle Matters to the Economy

• Cal accepts cryptocurrency for Memorial Stadium field naming rights

• Startups Now Spend More on Airbnb Than on Office Rent

• Uber rival Didi Chuxing suspends plans for UK and Europe launch

• Should Your Web History Impact Your Credit Score? The IMF Thinks So - ExtremeTech

• Walmart to Launch Delivery Service for Other Businesses

Poilitcks

• Harris Rebukes China In Major Speech On Indo-Pacific

• Watch Live: 2 Hours Late, Biden Explains Why He'll Stick To Taliban's Exit Deadline, Shrugging Off Allies | ZeroHedge

• Apple and Google’s Fight in Seoul Tests Biden in Washington

• Arizona "audit" report delayed by Cyber Ninjas COVID ...

• Rare Breed Triggers Fires Back At ATF, Says "Will Not Comply" ​​​​​​​ | ZeroHedge

• Republicans Are Weaponizing Afghanistan Chaos to Get Ahead in 2022

Crime / Police

• San Francisco DA sues 3 California-based ‘ghost gun’ makers

• Recall ballots found in vehicle of passed out felon in Torrance, CA

  • California Man Found Passed Out In Car With 300 Unopened Recall Ballots And Forged Licenses | ZeroHedge

• Proud Boys leader gets more than 5 months in jail for burning BLM flag

• Atomwaffen leader and neo-Nazi publisher outed as 18 year FBI informant

• US Capitol Police says shooting of rioter Ashli Babbitt was 'lawful'

• Bennie Thompson: Jan 6. committee to seek phone records of lawmakers - Washington Times

Security / Militaria

• Vice President's Flight Possibly Delayed Due to Havana Syndrome in Singapore

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  President Harris
  visit](https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/case-havana-syndrome-vietnam-delays-vice-president-harriss/story?id=79618335)
  

  • Possible Havana syndrome incident delayed Harris flight to Vietnam - CNNPolitics

• U.S. diplomats to be evacuated from Vietnam after “Havana Syndrome” incidents

Afghanistan

• Americans stranded in Afghanistan: 'We are scared for our lives' | World News | The Christian Post

• The Largest Hostage Crisis in American History - Noah Rothman, Commentary Magazine

• People posing ‘direct threat’ to UK found among potential Kabul evacuees | Afghanistan | The Guardian

• Tech Against Terrorism calls for removal of Taliban content on online platforms

• American Taliban - by Mike Solana - Pirate Wires

• Eavesdropping on the Taliban

• ‘An enormously valuable trove’: America’s race against Afghan data

• Taliban Hold Firm Against Extending Aug. 31 Deadline

• Reuters photographer was killed after being left behind in retreat

• Here are two sentences of truth about the US and Afghanistan | The Kansas City Star

  So when people ask me if we made the right call getting out of Afghanistan in 2021, I answer truthfully: Absolutely not. The right call was getting out in 2002. 2003. Every year we didn’t get out was another year the Taliban used to refine their skills and tactics against us — the best fighting force in the world. After two decades, $2 trillion and nearly 2,500 American lives lost, 2021 was way too late to make the right call.

• CIA Chief Met "Secretly" With Taliban Leader On Monday | ZeroHedge

  White House Deputy Press Secretary Chris Meager said Tuesday morning that 21,600 people have been evacuated within the last 24 hours, bringing the total evacuated since Aug. 14 to 58,700.

• Afghan Military Officers: We Fought Hard but Biden 'Abandoned' Us

  The Afghan army relied on a network of planes and helicopters to deliver food, fuel, and ammunition to outlying outposts. Helicopters were needed to ferry the wounded and deliver replacement soldiers. Even the bases on Kabul's mountainous approaches had to be supplied by helicopters.

  While the Afghan Army had one of Central Asia's largest fleet of choppers, he said, virtually all the mechanics and maintenance crew were U.S. contractors, many of which were withdrawn months ago. Helicopter repair facilities and spare-parts warehouses were largely located at Bagram Air Base, which was shuttered by the U.S. military several weeks before the Taliban took control. Fuel, once delivered by the U.S., was also in short supply. "The Americans abandoned us," the 36-year-old Afghan National Army lieutenant colonel told Zenger.

• Afghans use Citizen-style public safety app to dodge violence in Kabul

• (2019) Why did Obama fire General Mattis? - Quora

• Afghanistan flag to feature in Paralympic opening ceremony as a show of 'solidarity'

• Airbnb says it plans to temporarily house 20,000 Afghan refugees

• Washington Post reporter saved by British troops in Afghanistan

• Videos Show Rush to Burn, Destroy U.S. Equipment as Kabul Fell

World

• Belarus Hackers Seek to Overthrow Local Government

• UK food firms beg ministers to let them use prisoners to ease labour shortages | Food & drink industry | The Guardian

• Demonstrators Occupy London News Headquarters Over Pandemic Coverage

• Australian Truck Drivers Vow To Block Every Major Highway In Radical Anti-Lockdown Strike

• Anonymous tipster calls police on Sydney church service. fines worshippers

• More on Australia, from an MR reader

• South African Unemployment Rate Rises to 34.4%(Highest in the World)

Health / Medicine / COVID

• Study shows low or undetectable immune response to double COVID-19 vaccination in patients with impaired immune systems

• Texas town closed due to Covid: In Iraan, nearly half its people hit by Covid-19

• New CDC studies point to waning immunity from vaccines

• Caught in the Crossfire over Covid’s Origins

• New Zealand Covid-19 Delta outbreak spreading rapidly as cases jump

• Delta variant will acquire complete resistance to wild-type spike vaccines

• Boosters Before the World Is Vaccinated Isn’t Just Unjust. It Could Prolong the Pandemic for Everyone.

• The World Needs to Know What Happened at the Wuhan Lab

• Rice univ: Dozens of people whose initial tests showed them to be COVID-positive have been retested twice and all but one of those have turned out to be negative.

• Overweight Adults Should Be Screened for Diabetes at 35, Experts Say

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Reversing ocean acidification with aggressive CO2 removal will take 700+ years

• Q&A: did the climate crisis fuel Henri and the Tennessee flooding?

• Volcanoes acted as a safety valve for Earth's long-term climate

• With nothing able to eat them, cane toads are eating each other

• The Growing Market of Not Cutting Down Trees

• Bitcoin’s Energy Usage Isn’t a Problem. Here’s Why.

  Bitcoin’s energy usage is a rounding error as far as global energy usage is concerned. And I mean that literally; when scientists estimate that the world uses a certain amount of energy in a given year, they can easily be off by a couple percentage points in either direction, let alone a couple tenths of a percent. Bitcoin is estimated to use less than one tenth of one percent.

• We leaked the upcoming IPCC report

• The Cotton Tote Climate Crisis