2021-11-23
Cool
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Launch Systems User Manuals (ie, Rockets):
Worthy
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Higlights From The Comments On Ivermectin - Astral Codex Ten
I’m not publishing this exchange just because I like compliments, I actually have a relevant story here. When I was working on the ivermectin post, I mentioned it to a friend who’s a journalist. She shocked me by reciting a list of all the same studies I’d been looking at, her (completely correct) opinion on each, and then ending with the same conclusion I did (any remaining positive signal after you remove the fraudulent studies might be because of worms). I asked why her article hadn’t said any of this. She said that, in consultation with her editor, they decided that reviewing all the studies would have taken too much space, and mentioning the worms would have been too speculative.
I was flabbergasted. I thought I was doing some pretty novel journalistic research here, better than all the other science communicators, but here I was just lucking out by not having an editor telling me to maintain normal journalistic standards of concision and evidence. I think this journalist was very unrepresentatively good - but it was still a bit of a wakeup call.
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entertaining at the least: Is Crypto Bullshit? - by Will Wilkinson - Model Citizen
I mean, it’s hard to beat “NFTs seem to repel attention, as if coated in oil of tedium.” No wonder the man’s got a Pulitzer! Now, I don’t know if Chabon’s crypto-skeptical or -hostile or anything like that. But the idea that crypto topics repel attention, but seem to keep demanding it from us nevertheless, gets at something essential about the mood of widespread exasperation and antagonism around crypto. A lot of us just don’t understand it, don’t want to understand it, and wish people would just shut up about it. That’s sort of how I felt before diving in head-first — though, like Chabon, I was a bit ashamed about not wanting to understand it.
For now, I’m sold. I think there’s a there there. I honestly think blockchain can change the world — and for the better. Which, I’m sorry to say, makes it pretty hard to shut up about it. My sincerest apologies to all for whom the entire subject is “coated in oil of tedium,” especially my beloved and longsuffering wife.
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They dropped it? An “incident” with the James Webb Space Telescope has occurred | Ars Technica
NASA is leading an anomaly review board to investigate and conduct additional testing to determine with certainty that the incident did not damage any part of the telescope. NASA said it will provide an update when the testing is completed at the end of this week.
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The Searing Beauty, and Harsh Reality, of a Kentucky Tobacco Harvest
Horseshit
celebrity gossip
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What New Documents Reveal About Jeffrey Epstein's Final Days Archive link
The night he killed himself, Mr. Epstein lied to jail officials and said he wanted to phone his mother — who was long dead. He instead called his girlfriend. Jail personnel left him alone in his cell that night, despite an explicit directive that he be assigned a cellmate.
After finishing the call, Mr. Epstein returned to his cell, where he was alone because no new cellmate had yet been assigned. He was also left unmonitored by two officers on duty, whom prosecutors later accused of spending their time surfing the internet and appearing to be asleep. (This May, the two officers entered into a deferred prosecution agreement on charges that they had falsified jail records about checking on Mr. Epstein.) At 6:30 the next morning, he was found with a bedsheet tied around his neck like a noose. He was pronounced dead an hour later.
He said the other inmate had told him: “Jeffrey Epstein definitely killed himself. Any conspiracy theories to the contrary are ridiculous.” The man had heard Mr. Epstein “tearing up his sheet before committing suicide,” the kitchen worker wrote.
COVID / VaxCult
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Australian Army Has Started Transferring Covid Positive to Concentration Camps
+ [AU Army Forcibly Hauled Away 38 Covid-Positive to Concentration Camp Last Night](https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1462767223853010948) -
Antivaxx Holocaust - by Talia Bracha Lavin - The Sword and the Sandwich
I’m angry at the people who adopt their false badges of craft-store felt, their mendacious victimhood, why I am so angry at people who adopt the mantle of persecution when asked to save their own lives, and those of their neighbors? Because there are people for whom victimhood was never a fantasy, who chose bravely, who died in death marches, who died knowing vaccines work, and from whom they are withheld, and to whom they are given, matters. Did you know my mother had a sister, and she died in the cold woods? Wake up.
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Indoor mask mandate in effect in Santa Cruz Co, subject to arrest
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When Will The FDA Approve Paxlovid? - Astral Codex Ten
Like everyone else, I hate the fact that pharmaceutical companies are the only people with enough resources to run high-quality studies, and that this controls what drugs we end up using. But while we’re working on that problem, pharmaceutical companies do have a lot of resources, and their studies are pretty good, and we don’t have to grade them by the same standards we use for amateur hour, especially when their studies are 20x bigger. Just because this shouldn’t be true doesn’t mean that we have to pretend it isn’t, especially when that pretense could kill thousands of people unnecessarily
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What They Did to the Kids - Tablet Magazine
All these protocols at first seemed comical and absurd to me, but eventually I came to feel that there was something deeply insidious about training children to be hyperaware of a disease that posed no meaningful threat to them. Masks have become a constant reminder of potential transmission, and mask mandates have given rise to a wide array of new educational materials, such as dystopian singalongs and call-and-response routines that teach young children to cover their faces in order to keep their friends safe. In some schools, students are rewarded with “mask breaks” and can be suspended for mask noncompliance. Back-to-school activities that once had names like “All About Me” now have names like “Me Behind the Mask.”
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AstraZeneca chief links Europe’s Covid surge to rejection of firm’s vaccine
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Assessment of Sequelae of Covid-19 Nearly 1 Year After Diagnosis
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The Left's Covid failure - UnHerd
Another Left-wing fantasy that has been shuttered by reality is the notion that the pandemic would usher in a new sense of collective spirit, capable of overcoming decades of neoliberal individualism. On the contrary, the pandemic has fractured societies even more – between the vaccinated and the unvaccinated, between those who can reap the benefits of smart working and those who can’t. Moreover, a demos made up of traumatised individuals, torn apart from their loved ones, made to fear one another as a potential vectors of disease, terrified of physical contact – is hardly a good breeding ground for collective solidarity.
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A ML View of the Role of Blood Glucose Levels in the Severity of Covid
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Lost to Covid: Did vaccine advice cost the life of a young pregnant mother?
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"Thanksgiving is going to be a big push to get kids vaxed" ... appears that rumor was true: NIH Director's Thoughts on Feeling Grateful for Biomedical Research
Children age 5 and up are also now eligible to get the Pfizer vaccine, a development that I know brought a sense of relief and gratitude for many parents with school-aged children at home. It will take a little time for full vaccination of this age group. But more than 2.5 million young kids around the country already have rolled up their sleeves and have some immunity against COVID-19. These children are on track to be fully vaccinated before Christmas.
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Scotland: Care home residents injected with salt water instead of Covid vaccine
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Covid patients in ICU now almost all unvaccinated, says Oxford scientist
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"Wait, What?" Even Reuters Tripping Out On 55-Year Delay To Release Pfizer Vax Data | ZeroHedge
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And it's still slivers of shavings anymore isnt it? Covid-19 death rate difference b/w those who are vaccinated and those who aren't
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Plastic Waste Release Caused by Covid-19 and Its Fate in the Global Ocean
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Exposure to harmless coronaviruses boosts SARS-CoV-2 immunity.
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Several Hundred Google Employees Sign Manifesto Against Widened Vaccine Mandate
Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination
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Kim Stanley Robinson on Science Fiction and Reclaiming Science for the Left
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Rationalists are wrong about telepathy
With their support, Pinker thinks he has bought into the “consensus of established science” — but this consensus is sometimes illusory. His understanding of scientific consensus is not based on empirical data, such as surveys of scientists’ opinions worldwide or on experimental research, but rather on the beliefs of his CSI colleagues. He puts his faith in a denialist coalition in which rationality is unfortunately scarce. Their echo chamber is now greatly enlarged through Wikipedia. CSI encourages groups like ‘Guerrilla Skeptics on Wikipedia’ to train committed skeptics as editors and administrators.
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Conspiracy and Social Struggle • Ill Will
he extension of the Green Pass obligation to every working sector is provoking an increasing number of inconsistencies and contradictions. It becomes more evident every day that the Pass is just a way for the Draghi government — which continuously legitimizes itself with a "war on the virus" framework — to offload all responsibilities on the population while pursuing its policy of social butchery. While we fix our gaze on the virus, the government and the bosses are slaughtering us. This growing awareness is provoking outbursts of anger among various social ranks. Only ideological prejudice can prevent one from realizing this is a "hot autumn".3 This is a wave of conflict defying description and prediction, but without a doubt a real awakening of the social body after two years in a coma.
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Rittenhouse There's nothing more frightening in America today than an angry White man
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It’s Woke Time: Thanksgiving Is Inherently Racist And Evil - The Lid
Edumacationalizing
Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship
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Lush to stop some social media until it's 'safer' - BBC News
Cosmetics firm Lush says it is deactivating some social media accounts until platforms "take action to provide a safer environment" for users.
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"As the Bay Area grapples with a wave of seemingly organized smash and grab robberies this weekend, policing and journalism analysts are cautioning against the use of the term looting," Julian says.
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CNN's Van Jones Take on the Rittenhouse Verdict Was Debunked Before He Even Said It
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New York Times’ Wirecutter Writers Plan Strike Around Black Friday
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Facebook decided not to block racism to keep 'conservative partners' happy
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Meta delays encrypted messages on Facebook and Instagram to 2023
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Facebook Execs Nixed Employees' Plan to Quell Hate Speech: Report
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Far more important than diplomatic recognition: Facebook Grants Afghanistan Government Limited Posting Rights
TechSuck
Economicon
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Shortage Signs vs. Facing: Cheap Talk in Supply Chains - by Gad Allon - Gad’s Newsletter
What does all this mean for us, as customers? Everyone is experiencing shortages right now, so if you want to know where to buy things, it’s best to do the leg-work. Do not take information at face value. It’s not meant to inform you. It’s intended to influence you.
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Bite the bullet, go to "Tree Fiddy". Dollar Tree says US$1.25 price point to become new standard
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Best Buy CEO says the trauma from rising retail thefts causes employees to quit
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The Rise and Fall of Clubhouse, a Poster Child of Pandemic Hype
Gubmint / Poilitcks
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Democrats are pushing tax breaks for rich. They’ll cry when voters punish them
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Biden opens the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
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U.S. will tap strategic petroleum reserve as gas prices hover around 7-year high
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I can't differentiate this forum from Breitbart anymore.
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Weekly U.S. Ending Stocks of Crude Oil in SPR (Thousand Barrels)
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Law / Crime / Police
Security / Militaria / Diplomania
World
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Why commercial ties between Taiwan and China are beginning to fray
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Lira Resumes Freefalling After Central Bank Has "No Comment" On Today's Historic Crash | ZeroHedge
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Gazprom Will Halt Gas Flows To Moldova In 48 Hours Over Non-Payment | ZeroHedge
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Moscow tells 13 mostly U.S. tech firms they must set up in Russia by 2022
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India seeks to block most cryptocurrencies in new bill, government says
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Wuhan scientists were studying Laos bat viral samples before Covid: Report | Business Standard News