2021-11-03

Worthy

• Fortification, Part I: The Besieger’s Playbook

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• This Is The Damage Done To That Huge Container Ship That Clogged The Suez Canal

• Attention, New Englanders: Fluffernutter Is Now a Word

Horseshit

• The United Nations Could Finally Create New Rules for Space

• QAnons gather to see JFK Jr. emerge from the dead, announce Trump reinstated

  • QAnon supporters gather on the grassy knoll to await JFK Jr announcing a 2024 run with Trump  | Daily Mail Online

• Burger and a 'side of' crypto? Burger King teams up with Robinhood in a giveaway

• Los Angeles airport jet pack sightings: ‘Nightmare Before Christmas’ balloons

• In My First 5 Days of NFTs I Minted 2460 Collectibles from Hotel Quarantine

• Hedge Fund CIO: "There Is Too Much Capital In The World, And It Needs To Be Destroyed" | ZeroHedge

• Much of what you've heard about Carter and Reagan is wrong - by Noah Smith - Noahpinion

  How about Reagan? Despite his fiery rhetoric, Reagan during his two terms in office managed to pass only two pieces of legislation that make it onto Wikipedia’s list of significant deregulations — deregulating buses and savings & loans (oops). Carter, during his one term in office, passed seven major pieces of deregulatory legislation. Here’s Wikipedia’s list:

  • then cites 2 dated 1982(!) and 4 dated 1980 that can all be debated to have been campaign efforts. However i can agree with this:

  We Americans tend to act as if every presidential election is a cataclysm that will determine the fate of the nation, and occasionally this is true — but usually, there’s probably less at stake than we think.

• Where Gun Stores Open, Gun Homicides Increase

COVID / VaxCult

• The CDC Must Explain the Endgame for School Masking Mandates

• 'Falsified Data': Pfizer Vaccine Trial Had Major Flaws, Whistleblower Tells Peer-Reviewed Journal

• CDC Panel Recommends Pfizer Vaccine For 5-11 Year Old Children

• Study suggests SARS-CoV-2 spreading widely within wild deer population

• Why Are We Microdosing Vaccines for Kids

• CDC Emails: Our Definition of Vaccine is "Problematic" - by Techno Fog - The Reactionary

• Cisco requires Covid-19 shots for all US staff – even remote workers

• New Zealand gang leaders unite to urge community to get Covid shots

• Newsmax Reporter Claims Covid-19 Vaccines Have ‘Luciferase’ to Track You

• The number of people who have died from Covid-19 is likely to be close to 17m

• Has Spain reached herd immunity?

• Covid-19: How the virus spreads among vaccinated people

  This is the first evidence globally of doubly vaccinated cases with breakthrough infections transmitting virus to doubly vaccinated contacts and it is not rare.

  • HN thread

• WHO issues emergency use listing for eighth Covid-19 vaccine

• Comprehensive investigations revealed consistent pathophysiological alterations after vaccination with COVID-19 vaccines | Cell Discovery

  our study recommends additional caution when vaccinating people with pre-existing clinical conditions, including diabetes, electrolyte imbalances, renal dysfunction, and coagulation disorders.

• Uh, That's Not A Conspiracy Theory

  (Moderna) But there is a wild over-representation in deaths of just a few lots; in fact fewer than 50 lots account for all lots where more than 20 associated deaths accumulated and out of the 547 unique entries fewer than 100 account for all those with more than 10 deaths.

  Pfizer has 395 unique lot numbers associated with at least one death and, again, there are a few that are obviously bogus. But again, evenly distribution my ass; there is a wild over-representation with one lot, EN6201, being associated with 117 deaths and fewer than 20 are associated with more than 50.

  What the actual %%%% is going on here? You're going to try to tell me that the CDC, NIH and FDA don't know about this? I can suck this data into a database, run 30 seconds of queries against it and instantly identify a wildly-elevated death and hazard rate associated with certain lot numbers when the distribution of those associations should be reasonably-even, or at least something close to it, across all the lots produced and used? Then I look to try to find the obvious potential "clean" explanation (the higher death rate lot could have gone into older people) and it's simply not there when one looks at all adverse event reports. I have Moderna lots with the same average age of persons who died but ten times times the number of associated deaths.

  This means that no vector-based, irrespective of how (e.g. viral vector or mRNA), not-directly-infused coronavirus jab will ever have an acceptable safety profile because some lots will be "hot" and harm crazy percentages of those they're given to with no way to know in advance. The basic premise used here -- to have the body produce the agent the immune system identifies rather than directly introduce it where you can control the quantity, is a failure.

• Ontario will not mandate Covid vaccine for hospital staff after problems in B.C.

• Did Covid Change How We Dream?

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• To Protect Fauci, The Washington Post is Preparing a Hit Piece on the Group Denouncing Gruesome Dog Experimentations - by Glenn Greenwald - Glenn Greenwald

• Deracialize the Police

• I Was Told I Have Career Advantages ‘As a Black Woman.’ Here’s How I Replied

• Should Classic Rock Songs Be Toppled Like Confederate Statues?

• Football fan jailed for racially abusing Rashford, Sancho and Saka after final

  A man who livestreamed himself on Facebook racially abusing three England football players after the Euro 2020 final has been jailed. The CPS said the court heard Best, a forklift driver of Feltham, west London, was caught out after a colleague and Facebook friend reported the 18-second clip to Facebook and the police after he refused to take it down. Facebook took the clip down three days later. On Tuesday Best was sentenced to 10 weeks in prison at Willesden magistrates court.

• Who Speaks for Science? | SpringerLink

  (Emphasis original)

  The central lesson for the consumer, then, is to acknowledge our epistemic limits and indebtedness. The corresponding epistemic challenge is to assess the expertise of those who communicate the science. What matters is not the evidence but the credibility of whoever purports to speak for science. That is, to support functional public scientific literacy, educators need to focus foremost on the epistemics of science in public discourse. They cannot rely solely (or even mainly) on the epistemics of evidence and arguments that characterize “scientific practices” and the discourse among expert peers, wholly within scientific communities. Nor can they treat science news media as transparent or epistemically unproblematic. Students need to learn instead the distributed structure of knowledge and the social architecture of credibility

• Lesbian porn star platformed by BBC calls for lynching of trans women

Edumacationalizing

• McAuliffe Plan: Giving Parents a ‘Choice’ Leads to ‘Segregation’

• Homeless students at LB college can sleep in their cars in parking structure

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• Justice sues to block Penguin Random House’s acquisition of Simon and Schuster

• The Absurd Twitter Suspension of Quin Hillyer

• Prospects have dramatically dimmed for fed legislation to help local journalism

• NBC News’ Ken Dilanian confirms he called the Secret Service over ‘F**k Joe Biden’ ’emblazoned on an assault rifle’ – twitchy.com

• CNN’s Jim Sciutto wants ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ crowd to think about the lesson they’re teaching the children – twitchy.com

• Upset Over 'Let’s Go Brandon,' CNN Warns Political Speech Has Reached ‘Toxic Levels’! | Newsbusters

• PANIC: MSNBC Election Hosts Decry ‘Dangerous,’ ‘Racist’ Republicans ‘In Fleece’ | Newsbusters

Facebook

• Facebook is blocking access to data about how much misinformation it spreads

• The metaverse race is on for Meta and Microsoft

TechSuck

• Starlink nightmare: Moving service location a few feet delays orders until 2023

• Amazon seeks FCC approval for prototype satellites

• Ford unveils a custom, electric pickup ahead of F-150 Lightning

• Microsoft announces its own Metaverse and it will have PowerPoint

• MIT License, no less Luau (Roblox's scripting language) goes open source

• Waymo will start testing self-driving cars in New York City

Economicon

• Zillow Shuts Home-Flipping Business After Racking Up Losses

  + [Zillow Quits Home-Flipping Business, Cites Inability to Forecast
  Prices](https://www.wsj.com/articles/zillow-quits-home-flipping-business-cites-inability-to-forecast-prices-11635883500)
  

  • Zillow to stop flipping homes, loses more than $550M, lays off 25% of staff

  • Zillow Is Done Trading Houses

• Is Elon Musk one of the bigger winners from inflation?

• Beware People Trying to Dismiss Jack Dorsey's Inflation Analysis as Disinformation - Reason.com

• Federal Reserve Announces Plan to Slow Bond Buying Program

Poilitcks

• Toyota Calls on Congress to Shoot Down Union-Built EV Incentives

• "It's A Blood Bath" - NJ Governor's Race Still Too Close To Call As Voters Punish Democrats For Leftward Shift | ZeroHedge

• Republican Youngkin Wins VA Governor Race | ZeroHedge

• Cruz: Columbus ‘Discovering America Was a Good Thing,’ ‘George Washington Was an Extraordinary National Hero’ :: Grabien News

Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• A U.S. submarine struck an underwater mountain last month, the Navy says

  + [China Accusing US of Cover-Up After Submarine Incident in South
  China
  Sea](https://www.businessinsider.com/china-keeps-demanding-answers-mysterious-us-submarine-incident-2021-10)
  

  • USS Connecticut Smashed Into A Seamount, May Have Ripped Off Sonar Dome

World

• Ukraine Denies WaPo Report Of Russian Troop Build-Up Near Border

• China is urging families to stock up on food as supply challenges multiply

• China to build 150 nuclear reactors- more than rest of world over last 35 years

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• COP26 Climate Summit Lines So Long Officials Missing Meetings: Report

• The COP26 menu is ‘like serving cigarettes at a lung cancer conference’

• Poison in the Air

• Protecting the ozone layer is delivering vast health benefits

• Greenwashing on Facebook: Biggest Polluters Obfuscate on Climate Change