2021-10-02

Cool

• Rare one-in-30M orange lobster rescued from grocery store tank

• Mercury looks stunning in this 1st flyby photo from Europe and Japan's BepiColombo mission | Space

etc

• USPS changes including service slowdowns and price hikes took effect today

  • International Service Alerts - Newsroom - About.usps.com

    The Postal Service™ is temporarily suspending international mail acceptance for certain destinations due to impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic and other unrelated service disruptions.

  • USPS suspends mail deliveries to New Zealand

• After 3.5 million-year hiatus, the largest comet ever discovered is headed our way | Live Science

• The Martians of Budapest

Horseshit

• More people are eating bugs – but is it ethical to farm insects for food?

• Black mamba venom is 'better painkiller' than morphine

celebrity gossip

• Donald Trump asks Florida judge to force Twitter to reinstate account

  • Trump sues to reinstate his Twitter account

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• U.S. Pilots warn vaccine mandate could cause holiday travel chaos

• California outlawed all-white-male boardrooms – reshaping corporate America

• Unvaccinated employees can't work at American Airlines due to federal mandate

• ‘Right to repair’ law may run into the changing definition of ‘ownership’

Edumacationalizing

• Collections: So You Want To Go To Grad School (in the Academic Humanities)? – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

  And so at the end of all of this I am afraid to say my best advice is “don’t go” or at least “don’t go if you are not already wealthy.”

• Ed Secy. Miguel Cardona Won’t Say Parents Are ‘Primary’ Stakeholders in Children’s Education

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• Media stops covering FL COVID data because DeSantis’ downtrend threatens lockdown politics

• Why Is Every Young Person in America Watching ‘The Sopranos’?

• Could the Teen Magazine Rise Again?

Economicon

• Wave of US labor unrest could see tens of thousands on strike within weeks

• Why Carmakers Can’t Transition to Newer Chips

• Can the US tackle rising beef prices?

Poilitcks

• Biden Fails To Clinch Infrastructure Deal With Progs, Says "Doesn't Matter" When Bill Passes, Is Ordered By Staff Not To Take Questions | ZeroHedge

• Alabama governor signs bills to use Covid-19 relief funds to build prisons

• Fed Vice Chair Clarida Traded Millions One Day Before Powell Emergency Pandemic Statement | ZeroHedge

Law / Crime / Police

• King County Courts Want to Make Virtual Jury Selection–and Trials–Permanent

• Elad Blog: The False Narrative Around Theranos

World

• Six more zeros are to be removed from Venezuelan currency | Hacker News

• As Bikers Throng the Streets, ‘It’s Like Paris Is in Anarchy’

• Chinese military sends record number of warplanes to test Taiwan’s air defences

• Iran Says "War With Israel Has Already Begun" Amid Fresh Covert Attacks | ZeroHedge

Health / Medicine / COVID

• U.S. Covid Death Toll Surpasses 700k Despite Availability of Vaccines

• New COVID-19 antigen testing method offers highly accurate results in under 3 minutes.

• FDA will review Merck’s new Covid treatment ‘as quickly as they possibly can’

• (Feb 2020) Tamiflu and influenza vaccines: More harm than good?

  We hear so much about the vital importance of flu shots that it will come as a nasty surprise to learn that they increase the risk of illness from noninfluenza virus infections such as rhinoviruses, coronaviruses, RS viruses, parainfluenza viruses, adenoviruses, HMP viruses and enteroviruses. This has been shown in at least two studies that have received little attention from public health authorities

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• New UN Tool Maps Floods Since 1985 to Street Level, Will Aid Disaster Planning

• What’s the Least Bad Way to Cool the Planet?

• The new hot theme in gaming: climate change

• Apple and Disney among companies backing groups against US climate bill

• The surprising downsides to planting trillions of trees

• Salt-tolerant crops ‘revolutionise’ life for struggling Bangladeshi farmers

• Can Geoengineering Fix Climate Change?

• Traces of 122 different pesticides in 12 most polluted fruit and veg products