2021-09-28

Cool

• 'Fireball' Meteor Caught on Camera Soaring over North Carolina at 32,000 MPH

• FCC just rolled out its updated broadband and LTE maps

etc

• Father beats up pastor allegedly caught on video touching boy at bus stop

• I find the praise of "lack of physical controls" chilling Rivian’S R1T Electric Pickup Truck Took Me to the Top of the Mountain

Horseshit

• Impossible Pork: Muslims like me aren’t sure about eating it

• A Danish Museum Lent an Artist $84,000. Instead, He Pocketed It

  • Museum lent artist $84,000. He kept cash and named it ‘Take the Money and Run.’

• People who ‘can’t fit into jeans they wore aged 21’ risk developing diabetes

• What Does Price Mean When There’s No Supply? - by Doomberg - Doomberg

  I couldn’t get that meeting out of my head, but not for the reasons you might suspect. I couldn’t stop thinking about that Rolex! Everybody knows that if you are going to buy a Datejust, you buy one with a fluted bezel. Were market trends shifting? Did his purchase represent a generational change in taste that I needed to understand?

  And then it hit me.

  He bought that watch because he walked into an authorized Rolex dealer – thinking he “needed” a Rolex for his various pitch meetings – and that’s all they had on offer. He simply bought what they had left in stock, which wasn’t much.

celebrity gossip

• Laurene Powell Jobs to invest $3.5B in climate group

• Trump pushing Microsoft to buy TikTok was ‘strangest thing I’ve ever worked on,’

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• U.S. Adults' Estimates of COVID-19 Hospitalization Risk

  Previous Gallup research has found that the American public has a poor understanding of the true risks associated with the COVID-19 pandemic and that misperceptions vary by political party. In December 2020, through the Franklin Templeton-Gallup Economics of Recovery Study, we asked 5,000 U.S. adults: "As far as you know, what percentage of people who have been infected by the coronavirus needed to be hospitalized?" Only 18% provided the correct answer, which at that time was between 1% and 5%, and a higher percentage of Republicans (26%) gave the correct response than did Democrats (just 10%). Likewise, experimental research from Gallup and Franklin Templeton found that providing people information about high vaccine efficacy led to greater acceptance of the vaccine.

• Fully vaccinated Grand Rapids couple dies a minute apart from Covid-19

• Biden administration ‘strongly opposes’ honorable discharge for service members who refuse COVID-19 vaccine

• Misinformation Is About to Get So Much Worse

• NY gov: Foreign workers could replace unvaccinated hospital, nursing home staff

• Far-right cryptocurrency follows ideology across borders

  [Dialy Stormer founder] Anglin has tapped a worldwide network of supporters to take in at least 112 Bitcoin since January 2017 — worth $4.8 million at today’s exchange rate — according to data shared with The Associated Press. He’s likely raised even more.

• As Florida punishes schools, study finds masks cut school Covid outbreaks 3.5X

• The first coronavirus lockdown revealed big behavioral gender differences

  In a crisis, women make significantly longer phone calls and adhere more closely to governmental measures than men; men are less willing to have their mobility restricted and return to normal more quickly than women. Researchers at the Complexity Science Hub Vienna (CSH) found cliché-sounding behavioral patterns like these in data from the first coronavirus lockdown in spring 2020.

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• Extremists using video-game chats to spread hate

• The CW Is Rebooting Horny Space Opera Babylon 5

• Twitch leak suggests major response to streaming site’s “hate mob” issues

• Viral Video to 'Stay in Your Hood' Was Recorded by a Known Fabulist

• Ozy Media co-founder impersonated YouTube exec in call to Goldman Sachs

TechSuck

• BattlEye Anti-Cheat Will Support Steam Deck and Proton, Too

• Google sets burial date for legacy Chrome Extensions, fears for ad-blockers grow

• KERNEL PATCHES: Intel is adding subscription-based feature switches to chips

• My Wife Was Dying of Brain Cancer. My Boss at Amazon Told Me to Perform or Quit

Economicon

• Why is the number of railcars in storage important?

• AMD CEO: Global Chip Shortage to Ease in Late 2022

• What Happened in 1971? Edward Snowden and Jack Dorsey Want to Know - Foundation for Economic Education

• ETH miner to return the $23m tx fee from earlier this morning

  • Crypto Exchange Gets Refund on $24M in Fat-Finger Fees

• comment on "semiconductor shortage":

  Do we really need to produce more IC's ? Can't we just limit the demand a bit ?

• Wall Street Scans the Lots as Used Cars Prod Inflation

• Bitcoin wallet from the Satoshi Nakamoto era suddenly activates

Poilitcks

• random comment:

  If the Republicans shut down the government again, they will be savaged. But they're just fear mongering about this "deadline."

• Democrats are considering minting a trillion-dollar coin

  Some progressive policy analysts have been pushing for the minting of the $1 trillion coin. On Tuesday, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, a Michigan Democrat, tweeted her support for the coin solution.

• Top generals contradict Biden, say they urged him not to withdraw from Afghanistan - POLITICO

  • ‘BUT TRUMP’: CNN’s Jim Sciutto wastes no time running interference after military testimony points to Joe Biden lying about Afghanistan withdrawal – twitchy.com

• Trillions in infrastructure spending could mean hundreds of billions in fraud

• Republicans Refuse to Raise Debt Ceiling, Flirt with Economic Suicide

• U.S. Senators call for 'full accountability' in World Bank data controversy

Crime / Police

• Federal Judges Broke the Law by Hearing Cases with Financial Interest

• FBI: Record Surge in 2020 Murders

• California Will Let 'Violence Prevention' Researchers Know That You Have a Gun

Security / Militaria

• Milley Defends Promise To Tip Off China In Case Of US Attack, Excuses Botched Afghanistan Withdrawal | ZeroHedge

• Marine Who Criticized Deadly Afghanistan Withdrawal Thrown in the Brig – RedState

  “They had a gag order on him and asked him not to speak,” the senior Scheller said. “He did, and they incarcerated him. They don’t know what to do with him.” After this story was first published, the Marine Corps issued a statement confirming that Scheller has been sent to the brig.

• CIA officials under Trump discussed assassinating Julian Assange

• State Dept Says About 100 US Citizens Seeking To Leave Kabul - Foreign Airlines Staying Away

  • About 100 Americans Still Trying To Leave Afghanistan, Official Says.

• U.S. to open program to replace Huawei equipment in U.S. networks

World

• WHO employees took part in Congo sex abuses in Ebola crisis

• Britain begs drivers: Don't fill old water bottles with fuel at gas stations

• False Pro-China Accounts Invade Twitter in the UK

• Bolsonaro’s Ban on Removing Social Media Posts Is Overturned in Brazil

Health / Medicine / COVID

• Covid: 37% of people have symptoms six months after infection

• Gov. Abbott Bypasses Biden On Lifesaving Antibody Care, Obtains Doses For Texas Outside Of Ration.

• Smoking and COVID-19 outcomes: an observational and Mendelian randomisation study using the UK Biobank cohort | Thorax

  genetically predicted propensity to initiate smoking was associated with higher risks of infection (OR 1.45, 95% CI 1.10 to 1.91) and hospitalisation (OR 1.60, 95% CI 1.13 to 2.27). Genetically predicted higher number of cigarettes smoked per day was associated with higher risks of all outcomes (infection OR 2.51, 95% CI 1.20 to 5.24; hospitalisation OR 5.08, 95% CI 2.04 to 12.66; and death OR 10.02, 95% CI 2.53 to 39.72).

• Pfizer Launches Final Study For COVID Drug That's Suspiciously Similar To 'Horse Paste' | ZeroHedge

• Sunlight exposure guidelines may need to be revised

• Review of "Uncontrolled Spread" How the CDC Bungled Covid-19

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Should the Climate Movement Embrace Sabotage?

• Australia has lost one-third of its koalas in the past three years

• Climate change in Brazil: Fire, frost, and drought upends global markets