2021-12-24

Cool

• Webb is scheduled for liftoff at 7:20 am EST Saturday, Dec. 25

• Plant Root System Drawings

• How to track Santa around the world, thanks to NORAD

Worthy

• RESPONSES TO “PUTTING OUT” A TOBACCO CROP - by Gene Hoots

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• NWS Memphis, TN - December 10-11, 2021 Tornado Outbreak

  • Dec 10-11 2021 Tornado Event

• Baby uses sign language to say ‘Help’ while on Santa’s lap

• Estimates Show Slowest Growth on Record for the Nation’s Population

• More than 2k flights canceled on Christmas Eve

Horseshit

• I Think My Husband’s Constant Demand to Get a Dog Is Sexist.

• If a Humanity-Ending Asteroid Heads Our Way, Will Anyone Believe Scientists?

• The Absurdity of Renting a Car Will No Longer Be Tolerated

• Nissan's new camping vans are too cool for the USA

• McDonalds Peace Theory Epitomized America's 1990s Hubris

celebrity gossip

• "An Acquittal Wouldn't Surprise Me": Lawyers Ask Why Just Four Epstein Accusers Were Called During Maxwell Trial | ZeroHedge

• Snowden on Assange: Everything Going Great

COVID / VaxCult

• "Thousands who ‘followed the rules’ are about to get covid. They shouldn’t be ashamed"

• Molnupiravir increases Covid mutations, will it breed the next variant?

• Pfizer Codi-19 pill (Paxlovid) distribution per state

• Some Tech Companies and Tech Journalists Scrap Plans for In-Person CES 2022

  • Google cancels CES show presence amid omicron concerns

• Many vaccinated Americans will at some point test positive. Here’s what to do

• (Oct 2020) Five LDI Senior Fellows Among 65 Top Health Experts in Letter Cautioning Pfizer CEO Against Vaccine Approval Rush - Penn LDI

  Six days after receiving a letter from 65 top national health authorities, Pfizer Chairman and CEO Albert Bouria yesterday backed off earlier predictions that a COVID-19 vaccine would be ready for FDA emergency approval by October.

• Omicron Has Cracked Open the Overton Window

• Ontario to list fluvoxamine as a Covid-19 treatment to consider

• Paxlovid production may be difficult to scale

• Don’t dismiss Omicron as ‘mild’. Take it from a Covid long-hauler

• The mechanisms of action of ivermectin against SARS-CoV-2: an extensive review

• Noam Chomsky says the unvaccinated should just remove themselves from society

• Droplet Dogma's Role in Misidentification of Airborne Infection Transmission

• The omicron variant: What we know so far about the symptoms

• Make Covid Predictions, Take My Money: On Zvi, Bets and Taking Ideas Seriously

• U.S. Domestic Migration During Covid – July 2020 to July 2021

• Pushback against blacklists: Employee resistance force hospitals nationwide to abandon COVID shot mandates.

• We Cannot Stop the Spread of COVID, But We Can End the Pandemic ⋆ Brownstone Institute

• CDC infographic lets you know if your facial hair won’t work with a mask

• 70 Per Cent of London’s COVID Hospitalisations Diagnosed After Being Admitted For Other Ailments – Summit News

• (PDF) Vaccine effectiveness against SARS-CoV-2 infection with Omicron / Delta variants

• Sweden Vindicated

• Children develop robust and sustained cross-reactive immunity after Covid

• COVID "Bullshit Jobs" Are Driving Everyone Crazy, Including TV Crews!

• Pfizer aims to build voice algorithm for mobile app detection of Covid

• Florida’s Plague Is the Media’s Cold

• New studies say Omicron COVID-19 variant appears milder than Delta strain.

• (PDF) Vaccines Do Not Stop COVID-19 Spread As Governments Claim

Culture War / Re segregation / Faith Fights

• Human geneticists curb use of the term ‘race’ in their papers

• The Turn - Tablet Magazine

  You might be living through The Turn if you ever found yourself feeling like free speech should stay free even if it offended some group or individual but now can’t admit it at dinner with friends because you are afraid of being thought a bigot. You are living through The Turn if you have questions about public health policies—including the effects of lockdowns and school closures on the poor and most vulnerable in our society—but can’t ask them out loud because you know you’ll be labeled an anti-vaxxer. You are living through The Turn if you think that burning down towns and looting stores isn’t the best way to promote social justice, but feel you can’t say so because you know you’ll be called a white supremacist. You are living through The Turn if you seethed watching a terrorist organization attack the world’s only Jewish state, but seethed silently because your colleagues were all on Twitter and Facebook sharing celebrity memes about ending Israeli apartheid while having little interest in American kids dying on the streets because of failed policies. If you’ve felt yourself unable to speak your mind, if you have a queasy feeling that your friends might disown you if you shared your most intimately held concerns, if you are feeling a bit breathless and a bit hopeless and entirely unsure what on earth is going on, I am sorry to inform you that The Turn is upon you.

• (Nov 2021) What's Happening - by Michael Belcher - A Path Through

• On subversion and dissolution of opposition movements

• Liberal democracy may not be ended with a gun, but on a Zoom call

TechSuck

• Is It Even Worth Working on FOSS Anymore?

• Running your own email is increasingly an artisanal choice, not a practical one

• Cryptominers now gobbling up AMD CPUs because graphics cards are too expensive

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Amazon building in ‘opportunity zones’ that provide tax breaks, secrecy

• Many U.S. workers are seeing bigger paychecks in pandemic era

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• (PDF) Festivus Report on wasteful government spending

• CNN Correspondent Comments on Biden Appearing “Confused” After Yet Another Slip Up – Summit News

• Singing Nurses Break Out In Song And Dance At White House | The Daily Caller

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Colorado DA celebrates with grotesque 'trophy' after trucker whose brakes failed sentenced to 110 years in prison - American Thinker

• The great American shoplifting freakout

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Please—Stop the Coup Porn › American Greatness

• Russia on Cyber attacks: “correct to say this is already a Third World War.”

• US academics say Taiwan could destroy TSMC factories to deter Chinese invasion

World

• Why are gas prices so high and what is happening to fuel bills?

• U.S. bans imports from China’s Xinjiang region, citing human rights abuses

• Lebanon faces ‘depressing’ Christmas as internet crisis stops festive calls

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• 2021's floods and heat waves are signs of what's to come