2021-12-04

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• Indonesia's Mount Semeru Erupts As Thousands Flee  | ZeroHedge

  • Thousands flee as Indonesia's Mount Semeru volcano erupts

• MH370: Could missing Malaysian Airlines plane finally be found?

Horseshit

• Thousands of Americans will still be without power and heat this winter

• California firm touts mushroom leather

• CEO Feels Terrible About Laying Off 900 Employees over Video Chat

• Misinformation fuelled by ‘tsunami’ of poor research, says science prize winner

• “UnGoogley”? Worker says she was fired for questioning no holiday pay

• Homeowner trying to smoke out snake infestation burns down own house

celebrity gossip

• Mark Cuban Buys a Small Town in Texas, Just Because

• Elon Musk Needs China. China Needs Him. The Relationship Is Complicated

COVID / VaxCult

• Inside Australia's Covid Internment Camp

  • HN thread

  This is not a concentration camp ... It is an internment camp. It is used for both voluntary and involuntary internment/quarantine.

• How the Virus Struck Back

• Omicron outbreak at Norway Christmas party

• Dutch say 14 air passengers from S. Africa with Omicron were vaccinated

• Nevada Becomes First State To Impose Surcharge On Unvaccinated Workers

• Omicron variant may have picked up a piece of common-cold virus

• We won't know how bad omicron is for another month

• COVID-19 Reinfection Study from South Africa Yields Ominous Data About Omicron

• Review of A Plague Upon Our House by Scott Atlas | City Journal

• Omicron: What We Know, What to Expect, & What to Do

• Study: Tight-fitting FFP2/N95 masks drastically reduce risk of COVID19 infection

• Stats on England mortality data suggest mis-categorisation of vaccine status

• Omicron variant may have picked up a piece of common-cold virus

• Ask HN: How are you preparing for the coming lockdowns due to Omicron variant?

• Transmission potential of vaccinated and unvaccinated persons

• A Sequencing Lab on the Front Lines of America’s Search for Omicron

• SARS-CoV-2 “Gate” Discovered – Opens to Allow Covid Infection

• What the Moderna-NIH Covid vaccine patent fight means for research

• Global Trends in Vaccine Sales Before and During First Wave of COVID-19 Pandemic

• We’ll know more soon about Omicron. How to interpret the coming flood of data

• The Omicron Factor the Media Won’t Tell You About

• Chewing gum that could reduce Covid transmission

• Atomic Simulation of Corona Virus

• Some Vaccines Last a Lifetime. Here’s Why Covid-19 Shots Don’t

• Researchers on the Omicron Variant “We Are Playing with Fire”

• Report from the Hospital at the Epicenter of Omicron

• Omicron has unique insertion mutation of putative viral/human genomic origin

Culture War / Re segregation / Faith Fights

• Republicans lost faith in 2020 election results. Fox News played pivotal role

• America Is Running on Fumes

• How billionaire George Soros has bankrolled woke DA's in Democrat cities with HIGHEST crime rates | Daily Mail Online

• 65M women could lose abortion rights in Supreme Court case

• Why punish a scientist for defending science? | The Spectator

• Black couple ‘erases themselves’ from their home, its value goes up by $500k

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• ‘How dictatorship works’: Hungarian academic quits in censorship row

• ASU rejects student demands, refuses to ban Rittenhouse from future enrollment.

• (Nov 18 20212) How Activist Teachers Recruit Kids - by Abigail Shrier

Twitter

• Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal announces major reorganization

  • New Twitter CEO has already begun a 'major reorganization'

• Twitter suspended accounts after flood of “coordinated and malicious reports”

Facebook

• Facebook Owner Meta Relaxes Rules On Cryptocurrency Adverts

TechSuck

• Why the World Needs Lower Egress Fees

• Hundreds of Malicious Servers on the Tor Network Might Be De-Anonymizing Users

• Open-source Vizio lawsuit takes an ugly turn

• Police expect increased use of AirTags to facilitate auto theft

Economicon / Business / Finance

• The U.S. productivity slowdown: an economy-wide and industry-level analysis

• The escalating costs of being single in America

• Inflation has risen around the world, but the U.S. has seen big increases

• Bitcoin Drops $9K in an Hour on Spot Market Selling

  + [Bitcoin extends downtrend, falls 12.1% to
  $47,176](https://www.reuters.com/technology/bitcoin-extends-downtrend-falls-121-47176-2021-12-04/)
  

  • Leveraged Bitcoin Traders Flushed Out In Epic Overnight Crash | ZeroHedge

  • Bitcoin Plunges Overnight

  • Bitcoin Price Tumbles After Wall Street Selloff

    • HN thread

• The fraud supply chain

• Biden Hasn’t Fixed The Port Crisis — Ships Are Just Being Counted Differently

• Why Has the Press Ignored Retailers' Crappy Black Fridays, as Experts Warn of Coming Bankruptcies? | naked capitalism

• Modern-day “migrant worker” slavery uncovered in South Georgia

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• DeSantis proposes a new civilian military force in Florida that he would control

• Emails show what happened before Missouri gov falsely called journalist a hacker

• The Alliance for the Future of the Internet (White House)

• More Russiagate Nonsense: DOJ Considers Releasing Alternate Mueller Report - The Lid

• Influential Koch network rocked by an alleged affair scandal, donor departures and a discrimination lawsuit

• Here Comes the Limited Hangout - Tablet Magazine

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Biden says he's preparing initiatives to make it difficult for Putin

• Russia's Lavrov Warns Blinken Of Return To Military Confrontation "Nightmare" | ZeroHedge

• US believes Russia could invade Ukraine ‘as soon as early 2022’

• Russia planning massive military offensive against Ukraine involving 175,000 troops, U.S. intelligence warns

• Hundreds of military families sickened by contaminated Pearl Harbor water

World

• Brazil orders probe into Bolsonaro linking Covid vaccine and AIDS

• Antenna in China uses Earth itself to send signals to submarines

• Why rising ultra-left nationalism is the biggest danger to China’s development

Health / Medicine

• Mumps cases in vaccinated people increasing, reason why is unclear.

• Scientists raise concerns over UK baby genome sequencing plan

• 1 in 44 US children are diagnosed with Autism

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• California Will Curtail Water to Farms and Cities Next Year as Drought Worsens

• Toyota commits to 100% zero-emission sales in Europe by 2035, because it has to

• To regrow forests the U.S. needs billions of seeds–and many more 'seed hunters'

• What Privilege Means in the Climate Crisis Fight

• Western U.S. could become nearly snowless due to climate change

• 700 years ago Maori land clearing left a sooty signature in Antarctica

• Rare Blizzard Warning Issued For Hawaii

• It's December and it hasn't snowed in Denver yet. That's never been recorded