2021-10-13

Cool

• Meterorite chunk crashes into house, bedroom, pillow

• Northern Lights put on 'gorgeous display' above Iowa

• (2015) How To Paint A Snail - Snailed

Worthy

• Getting to the bottom of web map performance

• Fast character case conversion (or how to compress sparse arrays)

• Highlights from the Comments on Kids and Climate Change

  Why do you think it is important to convince people who are planning not to have kids to have kids?

  Here I have a simple answer, which is that a lot of people really want kids, and having kids would make them happy, and if some of those people weren’t having kids because of climate change, that would make their lives worse. I think telling them that their reason for making their life worse is wrong is an easy way to give them a happier life.

etc

• Five zebras that escaped a Maryland farm are surviving suburbia

• Wildlife officers remove tire that was around an elk's neck for more than two years

• Vast majority think life in SF Bay Area getting worse, want to leave, poll finds

• With first Martian samples packed, Perseverance initiates remarkable sample return mission

• Did an Asteroid Destroy Sodom? - SAPIENS

Horseshit

• New App 'LootDash' Lets You Send Someone to Loot San Francisco Stores for You

• Man's Vintage Camera Mistaken for Bomb, Causes Emergency Landing | PetaPixel

  The suspected terrorist was forced to lie face-down on the ground and be searched. His bags were also confiscated and searched, and they only revealed a skateboard and other vintage cameras. After being detained several hours by Port Authority police officers and federal agents, the vintage camera enthusiast was finally cleared of any wrongdoing and released.

• Tattooist shows off huge horse inking on customer’s leg – but everyone’s saying the same thing

celebrity gossip

• Michael Burry Drops Redpills In Epic Twitter Rant | ZeroHedge

• "No Further Action": UK Police Drop Jeffery Epstein Sex Probe Against Prince Andrew

• William Shatner and crew blast to the edge of space

  + [Blue Origin launches William Shatner and crew of 3 to the final
  frontier and
  back.](https://www.space.com/william-shatner-blue-origin-crew-launch-success)
  

  • William Shatner Completes Trip to Space Aboard Blue Origin Rocket

Obit

• Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner has died

COVID / VaxCult

• Southwest To Comply With Biden Vaccine Order, Ignore Texas Ban | ZeroHedge

• Judge Overrules NY Governor - Says Employers Must Grant Religious Exemptions To Healthcare Workers | ZeroHedge

• 2 Ohio Hospital Systems Requiring Transplant Patients to Be Vaccinated

• HN thread on Covid lesson: trust the public with hard truths

• Aspirin lowers risk in Covid ICU admissions: findings support preliminary trial

• Southwest Whistleblower: Canceled Flights the Result of a 'Coordinated Protest' Against Vaccine Mandate – PJ Media

• Outbreak caused by the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant in highly vaccinated (2021)

• Ohio Man Denied Kidney Transplant Because The Donor Isn't Vaccinated

• NHS Covid pass app suffers outage

• Covid, lockdown and the retreat of scientific debate | The Spectator

• ‘I hope you die’: how the Covid pandemic unleashed attacks on scientists

• How many people get 'long Covid?' More than half, researchers find

• United CEO confirms 232 employees are being fired for not complying with its vaccine mandate.

• (Oct 1) Newport News Shipbuilding employees protest vaccine mandate Friday | WAVY.com

• Thousands of Kaiser workers in California, Oregon authorize strike

• Tucker Carlson: Why Is Everyone Lying About Southwest Airlines? | Video | RealClearPolitics

• Masks Are Changing How Kids Interact.

• Go Fund Me Takes Down Fundraising Campaign for Litigation Over Vaccine Mandate – JONATHAN TURLEY

• Next time, we can close the vaccine gap much faster

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• Right-wing fumes over NFL coach Jon Gruden's resignation for racist, homophobic emails

• DC’s new comic book Superman is coming out as bisexual in next month’s issue

• The problem with America’s upper-middle class and meritocracy - Vox

• The Great Reset: The Global Elite's Plan to Radically Remake Our Economic and Social Lives

Edumacationalizing

• ‘It’s WORSE’: Fight For Schools shares timeline showing how Loudoun County schools covered up alleged rape of 9th-grade-girl by a boy in the girl’s bathroom – twitchy.com

• Biden signs school cybersecurity act into law

• Wisconsinites plan to sue “every school board” that ignores CDC’s Covid advice

• Orange County Public Schools board chair ejects parents, speakers from meeting.

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• One year later, The Post’s Hunter Biden reporting vindicated–but still buried

  One outlet, Politico, now finally admits we had the goods because its own reporter, Ben Schreckinger, got “independent” confirmation of some of the e-mails. Yet almost a year after it had already been confirmed by people like Bobulinski, The New York Times still called our reporting “unsubstantiated” — though hours later, it quietly deleted that word from its story.

• Telegram Is Becoming a Cesspool of Anti-Semitic Content

• Snapchat is down, as many users can’t post or send messages

• What If Performance Advertising Is Just an Analytics Scam?

Facebook

• Facebook has banned nearly 1,000 ‘militarized social movements,’ documents reveal

• A Second Facebook Whistleblower Comes Forward

• Coalition of non-profit groups launches “How to Stop Facebook” effort

• Instagram may not be harming girls

• Facebook to change rules on attacking public figures on its platforms

TechSuck

• Microsoft Azure fends off DDoS Attack

• Apple Set to Cut iPhone Production Goals Due to Chip Crunch

• OVH is down along with its status page | Hacker News

  Tough timing, considering their IPO is tomorrow.

  Wasn't the fire in one of the Strasbourg's datacenter the night after the announcement of the IPO ?

• LinkedIn avoids key questions on China censorship

• Amazon copied products and rigged search results, documents show

• Windows 11’s first update makes AMD CPU performance even worse

• Call of Duty Adds Kernel Level Driver for Anti-Cheat

Economicon

• M2 money supply chart is astounding

• Private-Jet Demand Soars As Planemakers Enter Boon Times  | ZeroHedge

• The global supply chain nightmare is about to get worse

• LG to pay up to $1.9B to General Motors over Bolt EV battery fires

• U.S. becomes largest Bitcoin mining centre following China ban

• Why millions of Americans are quitting their jobs in the Great Resignation

• Most of the workers that left the food sector have become white-collar workers

• U.S. inflation rate rises to 13-year high of 5.4%

• Walgreens closes five more San Francisco locations due to theft

  • Walgreens to Close Five San Francisco Stores on Shoplifting

• Supply crisis: Buy Christmas presents early to beat shortages

• Most Businesses Don't Know Where Their Money Is Being Spent

• Fed Releases the Names of Banks That Got Billions in Emergency Repo Loans in '19

• Almost 15% of high-paying job listings are now remote

• America Needs Higher, Longer-Lasting Inflation

• Kellogg’s cereal strike is latest sign of pushback from US snack makers Archive

• Social Security COLA largest in decades as inflation jumps

Poilitcks

• Terrified Virginia Democrats Seek to Change Election Laws After Voting Has Already Started – RedState

• Georgia election workers fired for allegedly shredding hundreds of registrations

Law / Crime / Police

• Homeland Security secretary orders ICE to stop mass raids on immigrants' workplaces

Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Russia excluded from 30-country meeting to fight ransomware and cyber crime

  • White House to host global anti-ransomware meeting; Russia not invited

• Robot Dogs Now Have Assault Rifles Mounted on Their Backs

World

• China’s solar power has reached price parity with coal

• China rushes to produce more power due to outages

• Russia’s population undergoes largest ever peacetime decline

• Singapore Covid: Airline websites crash as borders set to open

• Belgium’s nuclear feud threatens to split ruling coalition

• China launches app to report people with ‘mistaken opinions’

Health / Medicine

• FDA authorizes first e-cigarettes, cites benefit for smokers

• Titanium dioxide: E171 no longer considered safe when used as a food additive

• Exercise Is More Important Than Weight Loss for a Longer Life

• A hidden “credit score” for being prescribed opiates

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• ICC climate crimes suit filed against Brazil's Bolsonaro

• Visualization of Sea Level Rise for American and Other Landmarks

• COP26: Covid travel rules relaxed for overseas delegates

• Fuel oil production in EU decreased by 62% over the last 30 years

• IEA: World is not spending enough on fossil fuels to meet energy needs

• California Bans Small Off-Road Gas Engines, Including Lawnmowers And Chainsaws

• Gripped by Energy Crisis, Europe Considers Breaking Climate Promises and Turning to Coal.

• Ask HN: How destructive to the environment are these “space tourism” trips?

• The controversial plan to bring jaguars back to the US

• These Companies Are Making Physical Goods Out of Thin Air