2021-11-22

There are men and women who make the world better just by being the kind of people they are. They have the gift of kindness or courage or loyalty or integrity. It really matters very little whether they are behind the wheel of a truck or running a business or bringing up a family. The teach the truth by living it. -- James Garfield

Worthy

• Give Thanks - by Marc Cenedella - Marc Cenedella Newsletter

• Science upside for Starship – Casey Handmer's blog

  Starship simply enables mass production and launch of these probes, along with improved propellant margins and reduced mass constraints. Why not launch 50 every six months, chase down ‘Oumuamua and 2I/Borisov, and get eyes on every major asteroid inside the orbit of Mars? It would not be cheap but I know dozens of astronomers who would donate half their meager salaries in perpetuity so they didn’t have to endure That Guy dragging Jill Tarter and insisting that it was an alien artifact, ever again.

• Current Events- November 2021 | Monster Hunter Nation

etc

• Growing share of childless adults in U.S. don’t expect to ever have children

• The "base nature" we will retreat to - by Tri Lecao - Taola Tri

• Was 1980 the worst automotive year ever?

• U.S. Workers Are Realizing Life's More Than Just a Job

• Association of County-Level Poverty with Firearm-Related Mortality in US Youth

Horseshit

• Epic: My 5-year getting paid for doing nothing is over. I'm heartbroken. : antiwork

• Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as sentient beings under UK law

• New luxury vacation: being dumped in the middle of nowhere

• Its a cult: It Is 2021, Star Citizen Has Raised $400M, and Is Still Not Out

• How the Pandemic Brought Campbell’s Soup Back from the Brink

• NASA Plans to Put a Nuclear Reactor on the Moon Within a Decade

celebrity gossip

• Inside the Turmoil at Jezebel

• Bill Gates has given $319M to bankroll select media outlets

• Company Man: The Data Behind Glenn Greenwald's Twitter Loyalty to Fox News - by Eoin Higgins - The Flashpoint

  Greenwald’s views are influential—so it’s important he be honest about them. His recent full-bore tilt to the right has led to Greenwald embracing partisan right-wing arguments, a shift has coincided with his work with conservative media personalities at Fox, primarily Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham.

• JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon and Tesla’s Elon Musk Feud Behind the Scenes

Obit

• Ardeshir Zahedi, Irrepressible Iranian Diplomat, Dies at 93

COVID / VaxCult

• How will the covid pills change the pandemic?

• Why is the Left So Enthusiastic About Covid Restrictions, Given that the People they Harm the Most are the Poor and Vulnerable? – The Daily Sceptic

• El Salvador has removed all entry requirements relating to the Covid-19 pandemic

• (Sep 2021) We’re Asking the Impossible of Vaccines

• Dr Thomas Jendges Commits Suicide “Covid-19 Vaccine Is a Genocide”

• Sweden currently has lowest new covid19 cases per capita in Europe

• Vax Has Slight but Waning Edge in Old but Harms the Young

• (PDF) The higher the vaccination rate, the higher the excess mortality

• (2015) Imperfect Vaccination Can Enhance Transmission

• Evidence Points to Animal Market, Not Lab, as Epicenter of Pandemic

• (Mar 2019) Deadly pathogens have escaped the lab – over and over again

• Australian Army Begins Transferring COVID-Positive Cases, Contacts To Quarantine Camps | ZeroHedge

• When Can the Covid Masks Finally Come Off?

• CDC panel recommends COVID-19 vaccine boosters for all adults.

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• The Problem of the New Right

• A meme sums up 90% of the left's Kyle Rittenhouse lies - Bookworm Room

• The Network of Global Corporate Control

• Althouse: "Asked"?! That's putting it mildly.

• CNN Publishes Op-Ed: “Nothing More Frightening Than an Angry White Man” – Summit News

Edumacationalizing

• Mad Studies fights ‘saneism’ on campus — Joanne Jacobs

• People mistake the internet’s knowledge for their own

• Fitchburg State U. offers safe spaces after Rittenhouse verdict; includes 3 lies in campus email.

• The Coddling of American Children Is a Boon to Beijing

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• Adele wants you to listen to her album in order, and Spotify agrees

• Warnings May Reduce Hate Speech on Twitter, New Study Finds

• Unity, Weta, and Faceless Platforms – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

• Never Trumpers Jonah Goldberg, Stephen Hayes Quit Fox News in Protest of Tucker Carlson’s January 6 Documentary.

Facebook

• When the traffic firehose is pointed at you - by Ryan Broderick - Garbage Day

  This is an objectively terrifying idea. To pass no judgment on the blogger who was playing around with these tools — you know, get that passive income — but imagine if you woke up one day, posted something to your Facebook page, and suddenly had more viewers than the Super Bowl. Because that’s what appears to have happened here. Facebook flipped a switch, favoring comments and reactions over shares, and suddenly a food blogger from Utah became the largest publisher in the country, if not the world.

• The Dangerous Experiment on Teen Girls

• The New Monarchy a.k.a. Why Hawaiians Hate Mark Zuckerberg

• Critic blasts Facebook's power after Kyle Rittenhouse verdict

• We’re Making the Facebook Papers Public. Here’s Why and How

TechSuck

• Tesla Supercharging Costs Have Quadrupled Overnight

• 'Crypto' Means Cryptocurrency. We Lost the War, and It's OK

  Ironically, one of the people posing with a “Crypto. It Means Cryptography” hoodie is none other than computer science veteran Matt Blaze, the former owner of the very Crypto.com URL that took over the Staples Center. For 25 years, until 2018, Crypto.com was Blaze’s personal website. After receiving a series of surely copious and tempting offers, Blaze decided to sell it to a company that has the mission to “accelerate the world’s transition to cryptocurrency.”

• The IETF FTP service will be retired

• Rust Moderation Team Resigns | Hacker News

  • Possibly related dramas: HN discussion

  While she was working for npm, she violated npm's Code of Conduct numerous times, saying incredibly horrible sexist and racist things such as "kill all men", and actively trying to prevent white men from speaking at tech conferences

Economicon

• Desperate Parents Turn to Shopping Bots to Hunt for Hottest Christmas Gifts

• The U.S. Supply-Chain Crisis Is Already Easing

• Uber Doober

• Capitalism’s over: The man who made millions betting economy would never recover

• Today’s Shortages Could Soon Become Tomorrow's Gluts

• How America Lost Its Tools To Fight Inflation - by Noah Wardlow - cyber drunk

Gubmint / Poilitcks

• President Biden Nominates Jerome Powell to Serve as Chair of the Fed (2nd term)

• Big Business Declares War on Lina Khan - by Matt Stoller - BIG by Matt Stoller

• We (Sorta) Had Our First Woman President Thanks to a Colonoscopy

• U.S. lawmakers call for privacy legislation after Reuters report on Amazon

• Not a ‘Single Person’ Thinks Biden Will Run Again.

• Hunter Biden’s Firm Helped Secure Cobalt for the Chinese

Law / Crime / Police

• FBI Raids Homes of GOP Election Official, Conservative Activists in Colorado

• 'Mass Casualty Event' Reported At Waukesha Christmas Parade After Car Plows Through Police Barricade, Shoots At Bystanders | ZeroHedge

  • Suspect in Waukesha ‘mass casualty incident’ identified as career criminal Darrell E. Brooks.

  • Reap what YOU sow: Dem Party of DuPage County, IL social media mgr. tries deleting ABHORRENT tweets about Waukesha (we got ’em) – twitchy.com

  • Milwaukee DA Admits They Really Screwed Up Letting Waukesha Suspect Out On Bond Just Days Before Christmas Parade Attack | The Daily Caller

• Bay Area hit with spate of large-scale smash-and-grab robberies

  • Looters strike high-end San Francisco-area stores for third day in a row

  • Bay Area third consecutive day of looting as 50-strong gang storms store

• The TSA's 20th Birthday Should Be Its Last

Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Kremlin Blasts 'Disinfo Campaign' As US Briefs Allies On Russian Troops Readying Ukraine Invasion | ZeroHedge

• Russia-NATO war over Ukraine is becoming increasingly unavoidable

• Sino-Russian collusion over Taiwan, Ukraine seems improbable but isn’t

World

• New homes in England to have electric car chargers by law

• The case of Japan’s curiously quiescent inflation rate

• Northern Ireland to Scotland bridge plans scrapped

Health / Medicine

• Can mRNA Vaccines Defeat Herpes?

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• The ‘Torture Orchard’ Is a Testing Ground for the Coming Climate Crisis

• Greta Serves the Elites

• New York City Is Building a Wall of Oysters to Fend Off Floods

• Ted Nordhouse: How green activists mislead and hold back progress

• Thousands of giant sequoias killed in California wildfires