2021-11-21

Cool

• DirtyBertie: the Love Chair of Edward VII - Whores of Yore

Worthy

• The Weirdness of Government Variation in COVID-19 Responses - by Richard Hanania - Richard Hanania's Newsletter

etc

• Arecibo’s Legacy Lives On, a Year After Its Collapse

• Meat packaging without absorbent materials

• More Americans say they’re not planning to have a child, U.S. birthrate declines

• Rural exodus: Newfoundland’s quest to save its community

Horseshit

• A dog isn't really selling Madonna's former Florida mansion

  “A dog doesn’t own the house,” admitted Mian, “but there is a foundation [for the care of the dog.]” He went on to confess that, “The dog belonged to someone else.”

• Children do not understand concept of false beliefs until age 6 or 7

• Turkey or Tofurkey? | FRED Blog

COVID / VaxCult

• Fractions Can Create a Vaccine Fallacy

• Covid Sure Looks Seasonal Now

• Must This Swab Go That Far Up Your Nose to Test for Covid?

• mRNA Covid Vaccines Dramatically Increase Endothelial Inflammatory Markers

• ACS Risk Biomarkers Significantly Increase After mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine

• UK Calls Out Racial Bias in Oximeter Device Used to Assess Covid Patients

• Covid-19 Breakthrough Hospitalizations Concentrated Among Most Vulnerable

• Pfizer CEO predicts most likely scenario is the need for annual vaccine shots

• Is COVID-19 here to stay? What an endemic means for the community | LLUH News

• (Aug 2021) I Was Wrong. So, So Wrong. - by Holly Math Nerd - Holly’s Newsletter

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• Assessing the Scale of German Language Disinformation Communities

Edumacationalizing

• How to Undo Woke Programming - by Holly Math Nerd - Holly’s Newsletter

  I was handed a gold-plated excuse to fail, a permission slip to mediocrity that wouldn’t be my fault. The part of me that still believes their bullshit is the part of me that wants to cling to those things as a safety net. I am angry that our culture is now set up to give people, especially the people who can least afford it — racial minorites, women in STEM, the disabled, etc. — those things as a matter of course.

  They are “gifts” that I intend to return to sender. Preferably in pieces.

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• Spotify has removed the shuffle button on its album pages after request by Adele

  • Adele gets Spotify to take shuffle button off all album pages

Facebook

• Meta delays encrypted messages on Facebook and Instagram to 2023

TechSuck

• Apple tells workers they have right to discuss wages, working conditions

• The history of Berkeley DB | Hacker News

Economicon

• Net-Zero Policies: Taking From The Poor And Giving To The Rich | ZeroHedge

• Hey, I want to buy your house: Homeowners besieged by unsolicited offers

• Home Prices Are Surging: The Manufactured-Housing Industry Sees an Opening

Gubmint / Poilitcks

• The Rise of the Republican Class Warrior

• The Progressive Dark-Money Group You’ve Never Heard Of

• Facebook and Apple’s privacy war is mucking up voter turnout efforts

• Joe Biden is the first president to turn 79 while in office

  Born on November 20, 1942, Mr. Biden's birthday is Saturday.

• Beto O’Rourke doubles down on vow to ‘take your AR-15, your AK-47.’

Law / Crime / Police

• Smash-and-Grab Thieves Ransack Louis Vuitton Store in San Francisco Union Square

• FBI searches for Jimmy Hoffa’s body in New Jersey landfill after deathbed tip

• Hundreds protest Rittenhouse acquittal across US.

• Black Lives Matter Statement on Kyle Rittenhouse Verdict - Black Lives Matter

  We are not shocked. Today’s not-guilty verdict is expected when white supremacy lives and breathes within our institutions. It is a reminder of how our legal systems are deeply rooted in white supremacy.

Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• America Decided to Leave Afghanistan–Now Leave Them in Peace

• The Day Mandela Was Arrested, with a Little Help from the CIA

• Is Russia Preparing to Invade Ukraine?

• Explanations for the Havana Syndrome

• Chinese Hypersonic weapon fired sep. from missile, tests constraints of physics

World

• Price of China's coal future drops as daily output reaches over 12M tons

Health / Medicine

• Dopamine Fasting: A Maladaptive Fad

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Fearing Liability, U.S. Resists U.N. Fund for Climate Damages

• Wolves make roadways safer, generating large economic returns

• To Breed or Not to Breed?

• Oil ads that told us climate change was nothing

• COP26 Summarized in 5 Cartoons