2021-12-15

Cool

• NASA spacecraft ‘touches’ the Sun for the first time ever

Worthy

• AT&T longline history Computers Are Bad

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• They Said the Tornado Would Hit at 9:30. It Hit at 9:30

• James Webb launch postponed until Dec. 24th at the earliest

Horseshit

• Reality TV star strikes gold with $50k a week in jarred fart sales

• Chickpeas, a neglected crop, may soon get a high-tech makeover

celebrity gossip

• Ex-NFL player Phillip Adams who killed 6 people had CTE, doctors say : NPR

• Five democracies conspired to entrap Julian Assange

COVID / VaxCult

• Google says unvaccinated employees will lose pay, eventually be fired

  • Google will soon fire all unvaccinated employees

  • Google says employees flouting vaccination rules will eventually be fired

• Myocarditis associated with Covid-19 compared to mRNA vaccines

• Unrepresentative big surveys significantly overestimated US vaccine uptake

• Sinovac Provides Inadequate Shield Against Omicron, Studies Show - Bloomberg

• COVID: Suspension of the 15-minute wait after vaccination with mRNA vaccine

• (PDF) Unusual Features of SARS-CoV-2 Suggesting Sophisticated Laboratory Modification

• Wuhan lab leak 'now the most likely origin of Covid'

• Covid’s deadly tradeoffs, by the numbers: How each state has fared

• Colleges go back to drawing board – again – to fight new Covid variant

• Twitter to Penalize Users Who Claim Vaccinated People Can Spread Covid-19

• The Omicron Question - by Tomas Pueyo

• Omicron evades Moderna vaccine too, study suggests, but boosters help

Culture War / Re segregation / Faith Fights

• Suspension warning tweet leads user to decrease hateful tweets for a week

• Denver School Promotes Playground Times Segregated By Race | Not the Bee

• More Americans Left Religion During the Pandemic

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Low-income kids use different brain function to ace achievement tests

• Teacher of the Year arrested for child sex crimes… Mugshot – CITIZEN FREE PRESS

Media / ShowBiz / Censorship

• CNN declares “end of the Internet as we know it” after net neutrality vote

TechSuck

• UK's antitrust watchdog writes angry letters to Apple and Google

• Apple Removes All References to Controversial CSAM Scanning Feature from Its Website

• (9.30a CST) AWS appears to be down again

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Bitcoin could become ‘worthless’, Bank of England warns

• Kronos hack will likely affect how employers issue paychecks and track hours

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• When the government hides spy cameras on your land, fight back in court

• Why US senators live so long | South China Morning Post

• So there! Jen Psaki tells Peter Doocy that the CBO’s findings on Build Back Better’s price tag are ‘a fake score about a bill that doesn’t exist’

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Jan 6 Texts To Mark Meadows Are Supposedly The Smoking Gun - Victory Girls Blog

• San Francisco mayor pledges more police, safety measures

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• New U.S. Navy Sea Base Sucks Up Volcanic Stone, Clogging Engineering Systems

• Test shot US Navy fires laser weapon in Mideast amid drone boat threat

World

• Lithuanian diplomats leave China as relations sour over Taiwan

• Ethiopia The Nobel Peace Prize That Paved the Way for War

Health / Medicine

• (Mar 2021) Mormon Fertility: 6 indicators | Eternal Anglo weblog

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• NYC’s Gas Ban Takes Fight Against Climate Change to the Kitchen

• Bidets vs. Toilet Paper for the Environment