2021-09-12

Cool

• Sep 12, 1962 We choose to go to the Moon - Wikipedia

  We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win, and the others, too.

• The World's Oldest Active Torrent Turns 18 Soon * TorrentFreak

  The oldest surviving torrent we can identify is a copy of the Matrix fan film “Fanimatrix.” The torrent was created in September 2003, which means that it will turn 18 this month.

• The Sumerian Game: The Most Important Video Game You've Never Heard Of – A Critical Hit!

Worthy

• Mediaeval Mythbusting Blog #3: The Man Who Invented the Spiral Staircase Myth – Triskele Heritage

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• More children in Chicago have been shot than died from COVID.

• Leftover bacon grease is liquid gold

Horseshit

• 25% of students age 16-32 take Adderall 1-7X week

• Why Is America So Bad at Keeping People Alive?

celebrity gossip

• He Founded the Internet Archive with a Utopian Vision. That Hasn’t Changed

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• Merit system is unjust because it rewards productive individuals, professors argue.

• “We Bury the Ashes of Racism, Discrimination and Stereotypes”: Canadian Schools Hold Book Burning Demonstration to be a More “Inclusive Country” – JONATHAN TURLEY

• CNN’s Leana Wen: The Unvaccinated Should Not Be Allowed To Leave Their Homes – Reason.com

  "We need to start looking at the choice to remain unvaccinated the same as we look at driving while intoxicated," she told CNN's Chris Cuomo Thursday night. "You have the option to not get vaccinated if you want, but then you can't go out in public."

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• More examples of FB marking Mastodon related links as spam | Hacker News

Economicon

• America to Wells Fargo: This is unacceptable

Poilitcks

• How Outrage over Vaccine Mandates Became a Mainstream GOP Stance

• Fauci Was Untruthful to Congress About Wuhan Lab Research

Crime / Police

• Capitol Police Inquiry Into Jan. 6 Riot Recommends Disciplining Six Officers.

Security / Militaria

• Biden Declassifies Secret FBI Report on Saudi Connections to 9/11

  • FBI, PDF 9/11 Material Released in Response to Executive Order 14040

  • FBI releases 9/11 investigation document that scrutinized Saudis

• PDF Declassification Reviews of Certain Documents on the Attacks of 9/11

• On 9/11, Obama DHS Sec. Jeh Johnson Warns of 'Principle Threat' to the Homeland (Hint: It's Not Terrorism) – PJ Media

  But what really worries Johnson is… wait for it… global warming.

Afghanistan

• Times Investigation: In U.S. Drone Strike, Evidence Suggests No Isis Bomb

World

• Thousands protest new Turkish vaccine and test rules

• Forget Tiger Moms. Now China's 'Chicken Blood' Parents Pushing Kids to Succeed

• One specific app Apple Bans the Quran in China

• England vaccine passport plans ditched

• Iran training terror groups to operate advanced UAVs

• Iran to allow new memory cards in UN’s nuclear site cameras

• 'Fortress Australia' cautiously moving away from Covid Zero policy

Health / Medicine / COVID

• Against all odds: how New Zealand is bending the Delta curve

• One in Three Americans Already Had Covid-19 by the End of 2020

• Why many scientists say it’s unlikely that SARS-CoV-2 originated from a lab leak

• Boys more at risk from Pfizer jab side-effect than from Covid, suggests study

• Is this proof of lab leak lies? - UnHerd

• Revealed: 26 out of the 27 Lancet scientists who trashed theory that Covid leaked from a Chinese lab have links to Wuhan researchers

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Significant flooding threatens the Gulf Coast as tropical threat looms next week

• Oil-Rich Norway Goes to Polls with Climate on the Agenda

• (2016) Leaded Gas Was a Known Poison the Day It Was Invented

• Are ‘water positive’ pledges from tech companies a new kind of greenwashing?

• How to end the American dependence on driving