2021-10-11

Cool

• JV Softball Player Pitches For Opposing Team After Their Pitcher Gets Sick

Worthy

• Please Don't Give Up on Having Kids Because of Climate Change

  If you think privileged modern Americans shouldn’t have children now because of quality-of-life issues, you implicitly believe that nobody in the Third World, or nobody before 1900, should ever have had children. This isn’t necessarily wrong. There’s a group of philosophers called “antinatalists” who believe nobody should ever have kids because life is suffering. These people are at least consistent. If you’re not one of them, I think the quality-of-life argument for not having kids now is pretty weak.

  I did an analysis to try to figure out how much this matters, and I predict that if 5% of people in the last generation had avoided having children because of climate change, that would have been enough to switch the outcome of the 2020 presidential election from Biden to Trump. Remember, most presidential elections are very close. So even though 5% fewer kids will only decrease carbon emissions by 1-2%, it will decrease Democrats’ chance of winning elections by a lot more.

  • Large percentage fear having children because of climate crisis

etc

• Mystery Boom in New Hampshire

• Why Do Species Get a Thin Slice of π? Revisiting Lewontin’s Paradox of Variation | vince buffalo

• Bear Came in the Bedroom Window. The Family's Dilemma Was How to Get It Out

celebrity gossip

• Paul McCartney sets the record straight on who broke up the Beatles

  McCartney said Lennon's decision to leave the band was driven by his pursuit of social justice, including movements such as "bagism," where he and his wife, Yoko Ono, wore bags to urge people not to judge others based on their appearance.

Obit

• RIP Jörg Schilling

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• Lego to remove gender bias from its toys after findings of child survey

• California will require large retailers to provide gender neutral toy sections

• Archibald winner was devastated by men telling her she painted 'the wrong way'

• Credit-card firms are becoming reluctant regulators of the web

• GitHub - merill/m365-gender-pronoun-kit: Helper scripts and guidance to add a Pronoun field (She/Her, They/Them, He/Him) to your Microsoft 365 tenant and display it in the Microsoft 365 profile card shown in Outlook, SharePoint, Delve...

• Talking about "some people don't want the vaccine" is now promoting "anti-vax views", apparently Southwest operational meltdown as hundreds of flights canceled or delayed | Hacker News

• Top Israeli immunologist accused of promoting antivaccine views

• Employee exodus could 'cripple' Washington ferry system as dozens of sailings canceled again Friday | king5.com

• On "natural immunity" to COVID-19 (and every other vaccine-preventable disease) - RESPECTFUL INSOLENCE

  that’s not what the invocation of “natural immunity” by COVID-19 contrarians and antivaxxers is about. What they are about is to deny the efficacy of vaccines and assert the supposed superiority of “natural” post-infection immunity, frequently in the context of minimizing or denying the likelihood of severe disease and death due to the coronavirus.

• The scapegoating of the unvaccinated - James Greene

Edumacationalizing

• Teachers Union Urges TikTok, Facebook, Others to Stop Spread of Viral Challenges

• Virtual Classroom Company Made Millions on Software That Left Students Abandoned

• High School Student Arrested for Refusing to Adhere to Mask Mandate

• California first state to require ethnic studies for high school graduation

• US schools gave kids laptops during the pandemic. Then they spied on them

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• The Rise of the ‘Vietnamese Rush Limbaugh’

• Carcinogens | No Mercy / No Malice

  Even ads that do make it to real humans are not all that likely to be seen by the people the advertiser is looking for. This was the core promise of digital advertising — saving modern-day John Wannamakers the half of their ad budget that was wasted on uninterested consumers. But there’s increasing evidence that this promise was the biggest fraud of all.

• Twitch Leak Reveals Streamers on 'Do Not Ban' List

• Chatroulette's Founder Has Spent 12 Years Trying to Solve ‘The Problem’

Facebook

• Facebook to add new Instagram safety features for children

• Facebook will not fix itself

• Nobody cares if Facebook harms teens

• After Whistle-Blower Goes Public, Facebook Tries Calming Employees

• How to blow the whistle on Facebook – from someone who already did

TechSuck

• It’s Time to Stop Paying for a VPN – VPN services can no longer be trusted

• Blue Origin: Toxic, dysfunctional ‘bro culture’, low morale and delays

• Google adds a guitar tuner to Search

• And You Will Know Us by the Company We Keep

Economicon

• Gas prices skyrocket as the global energy crisis worsens

• Unemployment benefits ended, but hiring did not surge in September

• Southwest Airlines cancels 1,000 more flights as disruptions mount

  + [Southwest operational meltdown as hundreds of flights canceled or delayed](https://thepointsguy.com/news/southwest-meldown/)
  

  • Southwest Air Pilots Seek to Block Covid Vaccination Mandate

  • URGENT: A Southwest Airlines pilot explains why you will not hear anything about vaccine mandates from his union - and why Southwest has more flexibility than it admits to stand up to the White House - by Alex Berenson - Unreported Truths

  • Southwest cancels more than 1,000 flights, Cruz says it’s Biden’s ‘illegal vaccine mandate at work.’

  • The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity : The Great Southwest Airlines Rebellion?

• Rulings affirm no coverage for Covid-related business interruption claims

• ‘It’s Not Sustainable’: What America’s Port Crisis Looks Like Up Close

• The US Is a Banana Republic: The 1% Own More Wealth Than the Entire Middle Class

• Coal Prices Rising Exponentially

• Grocery store shelves aren't going back to normal this year

Poilitcks

• Statement by President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. On National Coming Out Day

• David Shor Is Telling Democrats What They Don’t Want to Hear

• FACT CHECK: McAuliffe Spreads COVID Misinformation at Candidate Forum

• Capitol Police Whistleblower Claims Leadership Botched Jan. 6th And Lied to Congress About It - The Lid

Law / Crime / Police

• GoFundMe nukes page set up for alleged school shooter asking for $25k to treat 'trauma'

• Black Children Were Jailed for a Crime That Doesn’t Exist. Almost Nothing Happened to the Adults in Charge. — ProPublica

• The Shadow Penal System for Struggling Kids Archive

Security / Militaria

• A Pentagon official said he resigned because US cybersecurity no match for China

World

• Russia-based criminals are still the UK's number 1 cyber-foe

• Saskatchewan ex-police will enforce Covid rules, 'secure isolation site' planned

• U.S. imposes Nord Stream 2 sanctions; opponents say they won't halt project

• Sydney celebrates end of 107-day lockdown

• England's Data Guardian warns of plans to grant police access to patient data

• The City of London Is Hiding the World’s Stolen Money

• China Prepares For Possible Large-Scale COVID-19 Outbreak: Leaked CCP Documents | ZeroHedge

• Chinese coal prices hit record high and power cuts continue

  • China’s Coal Hub Broadens Output Freeze Amid Heavy Rain, Floods

Health / Medicine / COVID

• Merck seeks FDA emergency use authorization for antiviral Covid-19 treatment

• Covid-19 vaccine given to family, including small kids, instead of flu shots

• Pioneering work that has changed our understanding of migraines

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Polar Vortex 2021/2022 season

• Mining Bitcoin Using Nuclear Power May Be Fine

• Plant-Based Alternatives to Egg and Shrimp Now on Menu at Nestlé

• How Climate Scenarios Lost Touch With Reality - Issues in Science and Technology