2021-09-16

Cool

• Flying on Mars Is Getting Harder and Harder - NASA Mars

  We therefore prepared for flights at atmospheric densities between 0.0145 and 0.0185 kg/m3, which is equivalent to 1.2-1.5% of Earth’s atmospheric density at sea level. With Ingenuity in its sixth month of operation, however, we have entered a season where the densities in Jezero Crater are dropping to even lower levels. In the coming months we may see densities as low as 0.012 kg/m3 (1.0% of Earth’s density) during the afternoon hours that are preferable for flight.

• Scientists find evidence of humans making clothes 120k years ago

Worthy

• When they say they wish you dead, they mean it - by Baron Nostromo - Barren Moon

• Delft researchers unmask millions of unsafe face masks

  researchers at TU Delft developed a test method to check whether imported face masks met the safety requirements. And that was necessary, as it turns out, because in total only one-third of the 140 million face masks tested in 19 hospitals passed the safety test.

• Mainstream news outlets claim COVID-19 more likely to cause blood clots than vaccines citing study where 100% of participants were vaccinated - by Elliot Alderson - F Society

  Without monitoring unvaccinated COVID patients it is impossible to conclude that blood clots are less likely in people who are vaccinated vs. people who have COVID. In fact, an alternative hypothesis could be that the vaccines actually cause blood clots, and becoming infected with COVID while vaccinated enhances the severity.

• Lt. Colonel unleashes flames on Biden and the woke Pentagon in scorching resignation letter: "I cannot and will not contribute to the fall of this great nation" | Not the Bee

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• Famous social psychology paper retracted after possibly fraudulent data.

  The editors are retracting this article and note that Simonsohn, Simmons, and Nelson http://datacolada.org/98 have provided evidence to question the validity of the data in the article.

• Women Are Nearly Half of New Gun Buyers, Study Finds

• SpaceX Launches First All-Civilian Flight to Orbit

• The surprising power of daily rituals

Horseshit

• But this would require eating plants Grow and eat your own vaccines? | News

• Fears London and Paris would die due to Covid are unfounded, finds survey

• GM tells Bolt owners to park 50 feet away from other cars

• Bitcoin Can Immunize America from Cancel Culture

• What the Hell Is This 'Qux' Device for MAGA-Lovers?

celebrity gossip

• Twitter Denies Nicki Minaj Was Suspended

  • Nicki Minaj says she's in 'Twitter jail,' will never use platform again

• The Sexism That Led to the Elizabeth Holmes Trial

Obit

• Home computing pioneer Sir Clive Sinclair dies aged 81

• Inventor of 'Game of Life' and Prop Designer for Star Trek Dies

  Reuben Klamer, the inventor of Milton Bradley’s The Game of Life board game and the designer of a Starfleet phaser rifle for the original Star Trek TV series, died at his home in La Jolla, California on Tuesday at the age of 99, according to the Toy Association.

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• Vaccine Tribalism Is Poisoning Progress on COVID Science | MedPage Today

  I see more and more, among the ranks of physicians and other professionals, is a growing minority on the other end of the spectrum. These are people who are quick to label legitimate scientific dialog as "anti-vax" or "dangerous misinformation." In many cases, the speakers have little knowledge of the issues themselves. They couple this condemnation with a strong sense that they are "morally" correct, working to purge the world of dangerous anti-vax thinking. Ironically, they are further polarizing an already polarized debate, and worse, they are simply wrong. These are real and live issues. Intelligent scientists have to discuss these policy implications openly. The stakes could not be higher.

• Free markets are creating a major free speech problem - by Matthew Yglesias - Slow Boring

  Rather than trade and development allowing for some spread of American liberal norms into China, it is doing the reverse, and western multinationals’ commercial interests in China are inducing them to impose Chinese speech norms on the West. And we ought to try to do something about it.

• LA County To Mandate Segregation Of Unvaccinated Or Negative Test At Outdoor Events, Bars, And Clubs

• “Black News” now free from Atlanta Journal-Constitution, but everyone else has to pay.

• Reason to Fear a Vaccine Mandate – PJ Media

  here is good reason to fear being inscribed in the category of “the unvaccinated”—the New Jews at risk of disenfranchisement and worse in the increasingly fascist temper of the times.

• Indiana University hospital system suspends 280 employees for COVID vaccine refusal.

• CNN's Don Lemon Urges Viewers "It's Time To Start Shaming" Unvaccinated People

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• iTWire - Reuters scribes claim exclusive three years after it came to light

• Facebook drops hammer on song critical of Biden, ‘Blood on my hands’ | Washington Examiner

• Instagram chief uses awkward comparison with cars to defend social media harms

• Facebook to target harmful coordination by real accounts

• Political parties complained Facebook’s algorithm promoted polarization

TechSuck

• Hacking A Robot Vacuum To Write A Replacement App | Hackaday

• Microsoft is going password-free for consumer accounts

• Juniper Breach Mystery Starts to Clear with New Details on Hackers and U.S. Role

Economicon

• Lumber crash leads to 'blowout' sales as prices crater

  • Lumber price falls to $399–down from $1,515 this spring

• Teen Artists Are Making Millions on NFTs. Why–and How?

• OpenSea admits insider trading of NFTs it promoted

• Tobacco firm Philip Morris seals £1.1bn takeover of asthma inhaler maker Vectura

• Margin Accounts at Brokers and Dealers hits highest-ever levels

Poilitcks

• Capitol Police Ask National Guard For Support At "Justice For J6" Rally, Roger Stone Fears 'False Flag' | ZeroHedge

  • EXCLUSIVE: Trump Calls Sept. 18 Rally A 'Setup,' Says McConnell Should Be Fired

• The danger of the President's "sole authority" on nuclear weapons - Axios

• The Justice Department Moves to Block the Purdue Pharma Sackler Bankruptcy Deal

• The Meaning Of The Recent FDA Resignations | ZeroHedge

  At the same time, there are possible side effects that could discredit all vaccines for a generation or more. “There could be risks,” they write, “if boosters are widely introduced too soon, or too frequently, especially with vaccines that can have immune-mediated side-effects (such as myocarditis, which is more common after the second dose of some mRNA vaccines, or Guillain-Barre syndrome, which has been associated with adenovirus-vectored COVID-19 vaccines.”)

• Migrant Crisis In Texas: Thousands Massed Under Border Bridge As Law Enforcement Facilities Overwhelmed

  “The City of Del Rio is aware of the escalated situation under the Del Rio International Bridge with the growing influx of migrants in Del Rio over the last couple of days,” said Del Rio mayor Bruno J. Lozano. People started gathering under the bridge on Monday after 2,200 people showed up, reported KSAT. The number of migrants joining the flock continues to grow. On Wednesday, 3:30 p.m., the migrants' number stood at 5,600.

Crime / Police

• Star Gymnasts Give Senators an Unsparing Account of FBI’s Failures in Nassar Investigation.

  • Simone Biles condemns U.S. Olympic Committee, FBI for sex-abuse crisis

• Facebook fights among teens prompting many shootings in Green Bay this year

• Backpage founders get mistrial because US overplayed child sex trafficking claim

  • (2019) Secret Memos Show the Government Has Been Lying About Backpage All Along – Reason.com

• The new warrant: how US police mine Google for your location and search history

• NYT: John Durham seeks indictment of Clinton Campaign Lawyer - by Techno Fog - The Reactionary

  • GRAND JURY INDICTS DEMOCRAT LAWYER MICHAEL SUSSMANN; ACCUSED OF LYING TO FBI IN RUSSIA PROBE

Security / Militaria

• U.S. court upholds dismissal of lawsuit against NSA on 'state secrets' grounds

World

• UK pledges to restore pounds and ounces as Brexit benefit

• Italy to make Covid 'Green Pass' mandatory for workers – minister

• Australia to acquire nuclear submarine fleet to counter China's influence

  + [Australian Navy Goes Nuclear with Future Submarine
  Force](https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/42390/australian-navy-goes-nuclear-with-future-submarine-force)
  

  • China slams move by US and UK to help Australia build nuclear submarines

Health / Medicine / COVID

• RCOG/FSRH respond to reports of 30,000 women’s periods affected after COVID-19 vaccine

• Idaho rations health care statewide amid Covid surge

• Vaers Covid Vaccine Adverse Event Reports

• When will the Covid-19 pandemic end?

  it is most likely as of now that countries will reach an alternative epidemiological endpoint, where COVID-19 becomes endemic and societies decide—much as they have with respect to influenza and other diseases—that the ongoing burden of disease is low enough that COVID-19 can be managed as a constant threat rather than an exceptional one requiring society-defining interventions. One step toward this endpoint could be shifting the focus of public-health efforts from managing case counts to managing severe illnesses and deaths.

• SARS-like viruses may jump from animals hundreds of thousands of times a year

• FDA Says Covid-19 Vaccines Remain Effective Without Boosters

• ‘Covid-19 Hospitalizations’ Are Increasingly Misleading Measure of Severe Disease

• Gov’t moves to go back on rule allowing Medicare to cover ‘breakthrough’ devices.

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Eco-fashion’s Inconvenient Truth - About ethical clothing and sustainability

  Does "vegan" fashion always equal a win for the environment? In this exploration of the hidden stories behind materials such as wool and rayon, silk and polyester, and vegan leather alternatives, Alden Wicker—founder of EcoCult and expert on sustainable fashion—finds some inconvenient truths for the animal rights movement.

• Komodo Dragons Are Now Endangered and ‘Moving Toward Extinction’

• Antarctica could melt 'irreversibly' due to climate change