2021-09-21
Cool
Worthy
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My Body, My Choice - by Mike Solana - Pirate Wires
It was an almost perfect cognitive dissonance, and it should have been enough, once illustrated, to jar even the most ardent partisan hack from their bullshit. Long story short, approximately zero partisan hacks were jarred from their bullshit. My body, my choice? Depends on who’s asking, and for what reason.
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Links For September - by Scott Alexander - Astral Codex Ten
Not sure if this counts as “the left is eating itself”, but the (unofficial) Brandeis Suggested Language List now recommends students not use the term “trigger warning” because it is “violent language”.
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Business Sense: Free Diamonds - by Chuck Palahniuk - Chuck Palahniuk's Plot Spoiler
Horseshit
celebrity gossip
Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination
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Why women want sugar daddies - UnHerd
“All the sugar babies I know consider themselves feminists,” said Molly. “But it’s more misandry than feminism. It’s ‘men are scum’. Both parties sort of despise each other.” Aria, 25, a Cornell graduate currently in law school in DC, has been on Seeking Arrangements for five years. She, too, despises her clients, telling me over WhatsApp video from a Balkan city: “Men are nothing. They’re just fucking idiots. The hardest thing about being a sugar baby is pretending to give a shit what these older men have to say. Older men are so archaic and out of it.”
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The Extremely Weird Politics of Covid
One could sympathize with the prostitutes who kept working, the peasants slipping “past bored guards as they played cards” or the girls who broke the rules and danced. But given that the Sanità was fighting a disease that killed more than half the population in some cities, it felt like folly to romanticize the rule-flouters. And not just folly but a particular kind of left-wing folly — still worse, left-wing academic folly — whereas my more pro-Sanità reaction felt impeccably right wing. In a crisis the government needs to act to save lives, even if ordinary liberties need to be suspended. Yes, there will be unevenly distributed injustices; yes, it’s good to point that out. But if the Sanità’s temporary authoritarianism saved thousands of lives, then it deserved the gratitude of Florentines, despite the costs.
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(Sep 15) Natural immunity to Covid is powerful. Policymakers seem afraid to say so
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Texas restaurant kicks out couple who wore masks to protect their at-risk son
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The bias that blinds: why some people get dangerously different medical care
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Navy SEALS Told They Won’t Be Deployed Without COVID Vaccine
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The “Too many white dudes” problem in software – George Stocker
Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship
TechSuck
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Latency is a hard problem; but easier than what the others are claiming they can solve Startup's Autonomy Workaround: Teledrivers to Operate Cars from Remote Location
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Leaked Apple Training Videos Show How It Undermines Third-Party Repair
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Roblox Introducing Age Verification System, Includes Government ID Scan
Economicon
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U.K. Soft Drink Makers Have Just Days of Carbon Dioxide Left
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Baltimore neighborhood's last remaining restaurant closes due to lack of staff
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What Does Evergrande Meltdown Mean for China? - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
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U.S. sanctions virtual currency exchange after spike in ransomware attacks
Poilitcks
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Watch Live: President Biden's Speech to the U.N. General Assembly
President Biden gives his first speech to delegates at the United Nations General Assembly Tuesday morning, one that the administration says will address an array of issues, including COVID-19, climate change, the withdrawal from Afghanistan and what one official called "vigorous competition" with the nation's competitors.
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Rhode Island Unusual lawsuit filed – RI vs. Facebook
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DHS chief 'horrified' by images of US Border Patrol confronting migrants
Crime / Police
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“It seems the two-tiered system of justice continues — how can a judge oversee a federal criminal case in which his wife’s client may end up being a witness in, for either the defense or the government?” Kash Patel, who served as chief of staff to the acting Secretary of Defense under President Donald Trump, told The Washington Times in a statement.
Security / Militaria
World
Health / Medicine / COVID
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Gottlieb: ‘Nobody knows’ origins of six-foot social-distancing recommendation
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For the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, fetal cell lines were used in the production and manufacturing stage. To make the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, scientists infect PER.C6 fetal cell lines to grow the adenovirus vector. (Learn more about how viral vector vaccines work.) All PER.C6 cells used to manufacture the Johnson & Johnson vaccine are descended from tissue taken from a 1985 abortion that took place in the Netherlands. This cell line is used because it is a well-studied industry standard for safe and reliable production of viral vector vaccines.
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All of the National Zoo’s Lions and Tigers Have Tested Positive for Coronavirus
Over the weekend, zookeepers observed multiple cats showing decreased appetites, coughing, sneezing, and lethargy. The lions and tigers are undergoing treatment with antibiotics to help with their discomfort and decreased appetite.
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Trials begin on Covid booster jab hoped to protect against new variants
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Covid-19 Has Now Killed About as Many Americans as the 1918-19 Flu
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researchers, including Peter Daszak from the EcoHealth Alliance