2021-11-06

Cool

• LibreOffice 7.3 supports Klingon language

etc

• Crowd crush At Least 8 Dead After Travis Scott Astroworld Festival Mass Casualty Incident in Texas, Houston Fire Department Confirms

• HOW PROFITABLE WAS/IS TOBACCO? - by Gene Hoots - Reflections on "Going Down Tobacco Road" and Investing

Horseshit

• Sleeping longer than 6.5 hours a night associated with cognitive decline

• Man donated his body to science; company sold $500 tickets to his dissection

• QAnon supporters speculate Rolling Stones's Keith Richards is JFK after Dallas disappointment | Washington Examiner

celebrity gossip

• Hackers Apologize to Arab Royal Families for Leaking Their Data

• Gov. Gavin Newsom remains out of public sight to deal with family obligations - ABC7 Los Angeles

COVID / VaxCult

• 100 comments/hr for 8hr+ HN thread on Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, death by 85% | Hacker News

  • Experimental Pfizer Pill Prevents Covid Hospitalizations and Deaths

• One in four vaccinated people in households with a Covid-19 case become infected

• NYC Firetruck Availability Down To 55%, Manpower Shortages Due To Vaccine Mandate: NY Firefighters

• CDC Director Refuses To Tell Senators How Many CDC Employees Are Fully-Vaxx'd | ZeroHedge

• (Oct 20) Ethics of vaccine refusal

• Study compares decline in effectiveness for Moderna, Pfizer, Janssen vaccines; and mortality consequences.

• The hospitals in Australia are being overrun. Not from Covid. And no one can explain why. - by Alex Berenson - Unreported Truths

• Bipartisan bill to create a 9/11-Style Covid-19 Commission

• Researchers Call for Halt on COVID-19 Vaccines for Pregnant Women After Re-analysis of CDC Study.

• Video: Oregon Bakery Owner Pulls Out A Baseball Bat To Maskless Customers And Receive Instant Justice - The Police Arrest The Customers

• The era of anti-Covid pills begins

• SARS–CoV–2 Spike Impairs DNA Damage Repair and Inhibits V(D)J Recombination

  • HN thread

• U.S. federal appeals court freezes Biden's vaccine rule for companies

  • (PDF) Mandate is hereby STAYED pending further action by this court

• Covid-19 Lockdowns Ripple Across China–'I Wonder How Long I Can Hang On'

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• What Collective Narcissism Does to Society

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• Taibbi: Rachel Maddow's Shocking New Low

• Why Are the Media Treating ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ Like Criminal Hate Speech?

Facebook

• Facebook What to Do?

• Zuckerberg's Metaverse: Lessons from Second Life

TechSuck

• IBM sheds 25% of its business in battle against decade of decline

• Amazon seeks U.S. approval to deploy 4,500 additional satellites

• Via to Offload Parts of x86 Subsidiary Centaur to Intel for $125M

• It's Been 9 Years Since Valve Rolled Out The Steam Linux Beta - Phoronix

  Over the past nine years Valve has done an incredible job advancing gaming for Linux and allowing it to reach heights never once imagined. As we move into 2022 and ten years of Steam on Linux it will be incredibly exciting to see how Steam Deck performs in the marketplace and ultimately its impact on the Linux ecosystem.

• DirectX 12 Applications No Longer Working on 4th Gen Intel Processor Graphics

Economicon

• Some new BMWs won't have touchscreens thanks to chip shortage

• The Fertilizer Shortage Archive link

• What’s Harder to Find Than Microchips? The Equipment That Makes Them

• Help Wanted: No Degree, Work Experience or Background Checks Archive link

Poilitcks

• (Video) Why would we give people coming here the right way money?

• Yankee Doodling the Media: How ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ Became a Rallying Cry Against News Bias – JONATHAN TURLEY

• Biden's $1.2T infrastructure bill passes US House with billions for EV sector

  • Biden hails infrastructure win as 'monumental step forward'

Law / Crime / Police

• Igor Danchenko Arrested as Part of Durham Investigation

• Attempted robbery victim shoots, kills attacker in SF Haight-Ashbury

• Police Justify Killing Drivers: The Vehicle Was a Weapon

Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• What Will Drive China to War?

• Mystery Object Detected Near Chinese Satellite

Health / Medicine

• Anxiety link to irritable bowel syndrome seen in DNA

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Atmospheric C02 Rebounds as Global Pollution Rates Approach Pre-Covid Levels

• China’s Deafening Silence Speaks Loudest at Global Climate Talks

• The Big “Take Away” from COP26 Confab is: Meat – Mark E. Jeftovic is The Bombthrower