2021-12-12

Worthy

• What Hypocrisy Feels Like

• “What is wrong with physicians?” (from the comments)

etc

• Civil War Cartoonist Created the Modern Image of Santa Claus as Union Propaganda

KY Tornadoes

• Kentucky tornadoes: Biden reaches out to affected US states - BBC News

  • Dozens Dead after Tornadoes Hit US; Toll Likely to Rise

  According to early reports, the tornado raced across the state for about 320 kilometers. But Victor Genzini, a researcher on extreme weather at Northern Illinois University, said it may have been on the ground for 400 kilometers. The longest twister on record tracked for about 355 kilometers across Missouri, Illinois and Indiana in March 1925.

• Before-and-after images show scale of tornadoes' devastation - CNN

• Six Amazon workers killed after tornadoes reduce warehouse near St. Louis

• HN thread

• Dozens Dead, Injured After Historic Tornado Outbreak | The Weather Channel - Articles from The Weather Channel | weather.com

• Maps: Where the Tornadoes Struck - The New York Times

• 'Quad-State Tornado' crossed four states in four hours, a rare December tornado

  > One tornado, being called the "Quad-State Tornado" ripped
  > across four states in four hours (Arkansas, Missouri,
  > Tennessee and Kentucky), slamming communities such as Monette,
  > Arkansas, and Mayfield, Kentucky, which were two of the
  > hardest hit towns.
  

• Track maps See map of Kentucky tornado path as it ripped through over 200 miles

• Tornadoes Leave Trail of Devastation Across Six States, With Scores Dead - The New York Times

• More than 80 feared dead after tornadoes hit central and southern US

Horseshit

• Crypto Rich Are Moving to Puerto Rico, World’s New Luxury Tax Haven

• NH woman accused of keeping mother's corpse for Social Security payments

celebrity gossip

• Julian Assange suffers stroke while in prison

  • Julian Assange ‘suffers stroke in jail’

Obit

• Python contributor; authour of re module among other works Fredrik Lundh Has Died

• Anne Rice, author of Interview With the Vampire, dies aged 80

• Al Unser, four-time Indy 500 winner, dead at 82

COVID / VaxCult

• Taiwan Investigating Whether Mice Can Transmit Covid To Humans After Bitten Lab Employee Tests Positive

• Genetic factor may soften Covid blow for Japanese: study

• Study: Use of Ivermectin showed significantly reduced Covid-19 adverse events

• Covid tests needed for international travel can cost more than a flight

• Pfizer Jab Is Only 23% Effective Against Omicron, South African Study Finds

• Omicron Spread: Even Mild Variant Could Create Chaos in Early 2022

• Pentagon Considering COVID-19 Booster Mandate for Troops

• Omicron has now been sequenced in HALF of U.S. states, while expert issues grave warning

• Vaxxed or not, data suggests people are over Omicron/Delta, and Covid altogether

• New study suggests natural immunity is more protective over time than COVID-19 vaccine.

• Study: High nursing home staff vax related to low resident cases and death

• Japan to add myocarditis side-effect warning to mRNA Covid vaccines

• Pfizer and Moderna Investors Became $10B Richer After Omicron Emerged

• Most reported U.S. Omicron cases have hit the fully vaccinated – CDC

• Melissa Fleming and Jeremy Heimans on countering vaccine falsehoods

• The End of a Return-to-Office Date

• Six Hundred IBM Employees: Open Letter Against Vaccine Mandates

• Covid pill being rolled out among vulnerable Britons could fuel dangerous mutations

• Pfizer CEO says fourth vaccine shot may eventually be needed

• The first U.S. vaccine mandate in 1809 launched 200 years of court battles

• Four States Calling In National Guard To Alleviate Healthcare Staffing Crisis

Culture War / Re segregation / Faith Fights

• EA Games Tells Kyle Rittenhouse His Name Could "Harm" Other Gamers | ZeroHedge

• The 1-Billion-Customer Racist Toothpaste You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

• When meditation turns toxic: the woman exposing spiritual sexism

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• “To Encourage the Others”: Making an Example of the NBSA - Capital Research Center

Media / ShowBiz / Censorship

• CNN producer arrested for attempting to persuade minors to engage in unlawful sexual activity

  • CNN Producer Arrested, Accused Of Raping Children As Young As 9

• Fox anchor Chris Wallace leaving network after 18 years

TechSuck

• "Open Source" is Broken - Xe

  This is why I am very careful about how I make "useful" software and release it to the world without any solid way for me to get paid for my efforts. I simply do not want to be in a situation where my software that I develop as a passion project on the side is holding people's companies together. That's why I make software how and where I do. Like, no offense, but I really do not want to go unpaid for my efforts. The existing leech culture of "Open Source" being a pool of free labor makes it hard for me to want to have my side projects be actually useful like that unless you pay me.

  • "Open source" is not broken - nadh.in

  • Putty maintainer on his attitude towards security and open source

• Riot may run programs in the background on your PC when not using the service | Hacker News

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Meat packers' profit margins jumped 300% during pandemic

• Why the demographic transition is speeding up

• For Americans Shocked by Inflation, Argentines Have Some Advice

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• US Formally Ends Combat Mission in Iraq, But No Troops are Leaving - News From Antiwar.com

World

• China: Democracy That Works

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• The Internet Has a Rat Poison Problem | Audubon

• The corporate climate migration has begun

• FEMA chief says powerful storms 'new normal' in era of climate change