2021-09-18

Cool

• Intersection geometry - A/B Street

  And then there's just the cases where I'm pretty sure civil engineers anticipated me writing this algorithm, and found the most obnoxious angles for roads to meet in order to maximize my pain

Worthy

• Collections: No Man’s Land, Part I: The Trench Stalemate – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

• Do taxes fund spending? — Crooked Timber

  • Truly the best "Modern Monetary Theory" argument ive seen. Still horse shit; "free money" printing is taxation by another name and another mechanism, but government still takes its bite. The MMT folks seem to think calling it by another name means government's bite can increase forever.

etc

• The Pandemic Caused a Baby Bust, Not a Boom

Horseshit

• Seat belt recommended on this one How the West Ends - How the Coronavirus Began (Part 1 of 2) - by Buck Williams - Global Community Weekly

  The Pilgrims (aka Amish) somehow attained the funding to construct the Mayflower and set sail to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Urban legend has it that the Amish successfully agitated other colonists to a Revolutionary War by the 1770s against the English “devils” who had so tortured and terrorized the Amish as well as serial raping and mass murdering Amish people in the 13 colonies because of their peaceful non-violent religious beliefs.

celebrity gossip

• Someone Placed a Sports Bet From Space

• Covid in California: S.F. mayor goes maskless at Tenderloin nightclub

• Weed helped turn him into an ultrarunner – and he’s far from the only one

• N.Y. multimillionaire Robert Durst found guilty of best friend’s murder

Obit

• Fred Dakota, Native American gambling pioneer, dies at 84

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy…on a societal scale? | kirsten mortensen

• Hospital staff must swear off Tylenol, Tums to get religious vaccine exemption

• Disney workers protest vaccine mandate, prefer personal choice – Miami Herald

• NYC restaurants not enforcing vaccine mandate

• sorryantivaxxer.com | A repository of stories of anti-vaxxers who died or came close to dying of COVID.

  • Florida official dies of Covid – and takes GOP software secrets with him

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• There is no liberal media bias

• New York Times forced to correct major error on ivermectin

  The story now bears two editors notes, one of which reads, “An earlier version of this article misstated the percentage of recent calls to the Mississippi poison control center related to ivermectin. It was 2 percent, not 70 percent.” “The erroneous alert from which the incorrect statistic was taken is what started the entire campaign against ivermectin,” she said. “It spurred the FDA tweet . The rest — the CDC tweet, the AMA decision — is history.” A couple more misfires like the ones we've seen from Rolling Stone and the New York Times and people might start to think the misreporting is by design.

• The Boys Who Cried Wolf - Tablet Magazine

  Regardless of how COVID-19 started, the premature suppression of the discussion of the lab leak theory highlights a new and unhealthy relationship between the mainstream media and science. It is alarming that journalists were labeling the lab leak hypothesis with all its different branches a “debunked” conspiracy theory as early as February 2020 based on studies that simply said that the virus was likely not engineered. Reframing this partial answer as a much broader and more definitive one, the press then cherry-picked comments from scientists who had collaborated extensively with the lab and whose apparent conflicts of interest were ignored in order to present their statements as proven facts.

  The media throughout 2020 reported a “scientific consensus” that the pandemic was a result of a zoonotic jump that is unrelated to lab activity without providing information on what questions the scientists it surveyed were asked, how many scientists were surveyed, and whether or not these scientists conducted investigations into the origin of COVID-19. It is clear that journalists have a powerful tool through which they are able to declare a scientific consensus before a matter is rigorously investigated.

• Campus Reform | EXCLUSIVE: Emory newspaper edits 20-year-old article written by Biden nominee

  removed a quote given to then-student editor Elizabeth Barchas, whom President Joe Biden nominated to be the U.S. Solicitor General in August.

  "It's really disappointing because we think we live in such a modern culture but there's still so many primitive people out there who think violence is an effective way to show anger or prove a point," then-freshman Justin Karp originally told the Emory Wheel in a now-archived version of their story after the September 11, 2001 attacks. "Were better than that."

• Apple and Google accused of ‘political censorship’ over Alexei Navalny app

  • Telegram Blocks Russian Opposition Bot as Google, Apple Pull App

• Leaks just exposed how toxic Facebook and Instagram are to teens, and everyone

• The Atlantic’s Franklin Foer Allegedly Identified as “Reporter-2” in the Sussmann Indictment – JONATHAN TURLEY

TechSuck

• Microsoft Azure says customers must fix critical “OMIGOD” backdoor themselves

• Ireland raises privacy question over Facebook smart glasses

• A new app helps Iranians hide messages in plain sight

• This Week in Programming: Go’s New Code of Conduct Arrives with a High Profile Ban – The New Stack

  "Don't act like people did on IRC 15 years ago"

Economicon

• The NFL Bets on Betting

• Renting 'is unaffordable to minimum wage workers in every state,' study finds

• Fed officials owned securities it was buying during pandemic

• How Marvel took over cinema and TV

• oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith: Ministry of Manipulation: No Wonder Trust and Credibility Have Been Lost

• 7 ways men live without working in America

Poilitcks

• Epik CEO’s live video response to hacking incident descends into complete chaos

Crime / Police

• What We Know About The Right-Wing Rally Planned For Sept. 18 | DCist

  “The advice I would give to people in D.C. is the same advice that a lot of these extremist groups are giving to their own members, which is don’t go. Stay away from this event,” says Holt. “Even though we’re not seeing the same kind of activity that led up to Jan. 6, there’s always the off chance that something with a cause as far right as this could produce a little bit of trouble.”

• Feds charge 138 w $1.4B fraud involving telemedicine, Covid, opioids

World

• El Salvador’s Bitcoin law – the system doesn’t work and the public hates it

• Notre Dame Cathedral secured, artisans to begin rebuilding - Axios

• Berlin buys thousands of apartments from corporate landlords

• Justin Trudeau Vows Two-Year Ban on Foreign Home Buyers in Canada Election

• France Recalls Ambassadors to U.S., Australia over Submarine Deal

  • France Recalls Its Ambassadors to the U.S. and Australia over a Submarine Deal

• Norway is wealthy because of oil. Can it give up fossil fuels?

Health / Medicine / COVID

• A Flawed, Strange Covid-19 Origin Theory Is Gaining Traction

  A spate of studies claim that the disease was circulating in Italy long before the pandemic—but they struggle to support the theory.

• DeSantis Office: Over Half Of Those Seeking Lifesaving COVID-19 Treatment In South Florida Fully Vaccinated | ZeroHedge

  “More than half the patients getting the monoclonal antibody treatment in south Florida are fully vaccinated,” DeSantis spokeswoman Christina Pushaw wrote

• Some Rich People Are Counting Their Antibodies ‘Like Calories’

• A QUARTER of NHS beds taken up by 'Covid patients' are being primarily treated for other reasons | Daily Mail Online

• Naftali Bennett on why Israel is giving booster jabs for Covid-19

• Health US panel backs Covid-19 boosters only for elderly, high-risk

• Uncontrollable vomiting due to marijuana use on rise, study finds

• White House Plans To Donate Millions Of COVID Shots After Pfizer Says 'Mysterious' White Particles Are 'Safe' | ZeroHedge

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• At least 291 birds were killed after becoming disoriented by reflective glass

• Drop Gas heat for electric heat pumps: A big source of carbon pollution is lurking in basements and attics

• Old Irish goats return to County Dublin to protect hills from wildfires

  • The Unconventional Weapon Against Future Wildfires: Goats

• The warming climate is causing animals to 'shapeshift'

• World’s largest tree wrapped in fire-resistant blanket as California blaze grows