2021-10-04

Cool

• Press release: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2021 - NobelPrize.org

  David Julius utilized capsaicin, a pungent compound from chili peppers that induces a burning sensation, to identify a sensor in the nerve endings of the skin that responds to heat. Ardem Patapoutian used pressure-sensitive cells to discover a novel class of sensors that respond to mechanical stimuli in the skin and internal organs. These breakthrough discoveries launched intense research activities leading to a rapid increase in our understanding of how our nervous system senses heat, cold, and mechanical stimuli. The laureates identified critical missing links in our understanding of the complex interplay between our senses and the environment.

Worthy

• The big alcohol study that didn't happen: My primal scream of rage

etc

• Let’s make a deal: Entrepreneur wants to trade Buran shuttle for a skull | Ars Technica

• Please don't pet the wildlife - Writers On The Range

Horseshit

• Viral ‘Jump Humping’ TikTok Teaches the World About Mormon Sex

• comment:

  My 4 hr/day, 3 day/week fasting regimen has changed my life!

celebrity gossip

• Trump wants Pulitzers for Russia collusion reporting revoked

• David Lee Roth Announces Retirement: ‘I’m Throwing in the Shoes.’

• A Company Family: The Untold History of Obama and the CIA

• William Shatner, 90, is headed to space

  + [William Shatner is scheduled to launch on the next spaceflight of
  Blue
  Origin](https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/04/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-launching-william-shatner-on-next-spaceflight.html)
  

  • Captain Kirk: Bezos' Blue Origin to Send William Shatner into Space

• Andrew Yang leaves democratic party

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• comment re "COVID Vaccines are still new":

  At this point, so many more have received the vaccine than have survived the virus that it is intellectually dishonest to voice doubts about the vaccines' safety. You are attempting to murder people with your words.

• How OSHA will enforce the vaccine mandate for 80 million workers

• Hospitals Should Hire, Not Fire, Nurses with Natural Immunity

• Left-Wing Authoritarianism Is Real And Needs To Be Taken Seriously In Political Psychology, Study Argues – Research Digest

• The Myth That Democracies Bungled the Pandemic

Edumacationalizing

• ‘White Supremacist’ Who Scrawled Racist Graffiti on Walls in Missouri High Schools Turns Out to Be Black Student

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• The FB Whistleblower, Frances Haugen, Says She Wants to Fix Company, Not Harm It

  + [Facebook encourages hate speech for profit, says
  whistleblower](https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/3/22707860/facebook-whistleblower-leaked-documents-files-regulation)
  

  • Whistle-Blower Says Facebook ‘Chooses Profits over Safety’

    • Whistleblower: FB misleading pub on progress vs. hate speech, violence, misinfo

  • Frances Haugen reveals herself as the Facebook whistleblower

  • Facebook whistleblower accuses the platform of a 'betrayal of democracy'

  • Who is Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen?

  • Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen details company's misleading efforts

  • 9 Horrifying Facts from the Facebook Whistleblower Interview

• Facebook Is Weaker Than We Knew

• 21 specific errors noted: Camera retracts story about 9/11 reflections of Boulder residents

  the article substantially misrepresented the stories of its primary subjects — Mark Pfundstein, John Maynard and Danna Hirsch. The Camera has determined that multiple statements attributed to these sources, including purported direct quotations, were fabricated.

• Carlos Watson Says Ozy Media Won’t Shut Down After All: We're Open for Business

TechSuck

• Google Pay’s disastrous year continues, promised bank account feature is dead

• U.S. Supreme Court rebuffs Oracle challenge to Pentagon cloud contract

• ~11a CST Facebook-owned sites are down | Hacker News

  When I noticed HN was loading slowly, I already knew FB was down.

  + [Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp Down Worldwide After DNS Records
  Vanish; Employees Badges Reportedly Not Working |
  ZeroHedge](https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/facebook-instagram-whatsapp-experience-global-outages)
  

  • Facebook employees badges aren't working, unable to enter buildings

  • Every device with FB app is now DDoSing recursive DNS resolvers

Economicon

• U.S. inflation rises sharply again in August and stays at 30-year high

• World's Largest Commodity Traders Face Massive Margin Calls As Global NatGas Arb Explodes | ZeroHedge

Poilitcks

• WATCH: Biden says activists harassing Sen. Sinema in a restroom isn’t appropriate but is ‘part of the process’ and ‘happens to everybody’ – twitchy.com

• Activists Harass Sens. Sinema, Manchin Over $3.5 Trillion Budget Bill

  • Manchin confronted by kayakers in his DC houseboat

  • Did Leftists Who Stalked and Filmed Sinema in the Bathroom Commit a Crime?

• Biden declares war on showerheads | Washington Examiner

  Supporters of the Biden proposal, including an army of efficiency activists, argue that very few people actually want showers blasting more than 2.5 gallons per minute. But they also argue that if Trump's change is allowed to stand, it would lead to dangerous increases in water use. Some activists even invoke the drought out west as a cause for the tighter limit.

• White House set to blast China

  • US to have 'frank conversations' with China on trade

Law / Crime / Police

• Firefighters say they’re swamped by calls for routine care from senior homes

• McKinsey Never Told the FDA It Was Working for Both the FDA and Opioid Makers

• Pharmacy chains CVS, Walmart and Walgreens face reckoning in opioid trial

Security / Militaria

• How the mysterious Havana Syndrome is a 'global experiment in mass suggestion'

• EXCLUSIVE: Maj Gen Ordered 50+ Evacuees off One of Last Flights out of Kabul to Make Room for Taliban Souvenir – RedState

  During the last hours of the evacuation, according to troops under his command and as documented by photographs and witness statements, Donahue ordered all of the passengers aboard a C-17 transport plane to disembark so he could have a souvenir loaded onto the plane. That souvenir, or “war trophy,” was an inoperable Taliban-owned Toyota Hilux with a fully operational Russian ZU-23 anti-aircraft autocannon mounted in the bed. Once the Hilux was loaded passengers were allowed back on the plane, but, of course, there wasn’t room for all of them. According to troops on the scene, at least 50 people and perhaps as many as 100 people were left at Kabul to make room for the Hilux.

  “I thought we aren’t allowed war trophies per the standing orders. They court martialed [name redacted] for trying to smuggle a pocket knife he took from the Taliban.”

  “You are not a Major General. Shut up and push.”

• Lt. Col. Scheller Rejects Trump Support: 'I Don't Need or Want Your Help'

World

• Parsis Helped Build Modern India but Are Shrinking as a Race

• British Army Begins Deliveries To Ease Fuel Crisis

• Taiwanese Foreign Minister warns his country is preparing for war with China

Health / Medicine / COVID

• China PCR test orders soared before first reported Covid case

• The time has come to declare an official end to the Covid crisis

• CDC Director Says Vaccines 'Can't Prevent Transmission'; Fauci Says 'Too Early To Tell' On Holiday Gatherings | ZeroHedge

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Should Neil Armstrong’s Bootprints Be on the Moon Forever?

• South Pole Sees Record Cold Winter, Smashing 1976 Record …WaPo Admits “Chill Was Exceptional” – Watts Up With That?

• A natgas Cassandra speaks out | Financial Times

  Continued commitment to a net zero carbon policy will drive energy poverty and a potential humanitarian crisis, industry insider warns.

• Can Nuclear Fusion Put the Brakes on Climate Change?

• First tropical cyclone on record pushes onshore in far north Oman

• 2020 babies may suffer up to seven times as many extreme heat waves as 1960s kids