2021-12-27

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• (PDF) Maneuvers to avoid collision between Chinese space station and Starlink

  • SpaceX Starlink satellites twice came too close, China tells UN chief

Horseshit

• Metaverse Land Rush Is an Illusion

• Walking is a glorious, primal pastime – and far more radical than you think

• Man Who Tried to Kill the Queen With a Crossbow Made Darth Vader Terror Video Before Breaking into Palace

• Arizona Senate candidate brings NFTs to politics

Obit

• E.O. Wilson, a Pioneer of Evolutionary Biology, Dies at 92

COVID / VaxCult

• Counting the neurological cost of Covid-19

• Omicron Is Pushing America into Soft Lockdown

• Omicron extensively but incompletely escapes Pfizer BNT162b2 neutralization

• (PDF) Risk of myocarditis following sequential COVID-19 vaccinations by age and sex

  • HN thread

• (Nov 2020) N-Acetylcysteine to Combat Covid-19: An Evidence Review

  • comment:

  FDA sent out some threatening communications in fall 2020 which suggested they’d contemplate prosecuting the sales of NAC as a supplement and it predictably got a lot harder to find.

• Coronavirus can persist for months after traversing entire body: Study

• There's an ARM Cortex-M4 inside a $3.85 Covid test kit

• Amazon Yankee Candle reviews are mirroring the Covid-19 surge – again

• Health Ministry grants emergency approval to Pfizer's anti-COVID pill | The Times of Israel

• Striking antibody evasion manifested by the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2

• SARS-CoV-2 infection and persistence throughout the human body and brain

• A super-spreading event of Omicron amongst triple-vaccinated healthcare workers

• No Credible Evidence COVID mRNA Vaccines Dramatically Increase Heart Attack Risk

• What to expect from America’s third year of COVID

• The Biden Administration Rejected an October Proposal for “Free Rapid Tests for the Holidays”

• Omicron Is Pushing America Into Soft Lockdown

• The dangerous failure to stop tainted remdesivir

• Fauci Warns of Complacency With Virus Set to Fill Hospitals

• New York Gyms Are Sweating Over New Covid-19 Mask Mandate

• Pfizer antiviral pills may be risky with other medications

• Effectiveness of a third dose of the BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 vaccine

• Travel nightmare: Another 2,000 flights canceled Monday

• Two College Bowl Games Are Canceled Because of Covid Cases

• This Scientist Created a Rapid Test Just Weeks Into the Pandemic. Here’s Why You Still Can’t Get It. — ProPublica

• NY Times Editor, 49, Dies One Day After Moderna Booster Shot.

Culture War / Re segregation / Faith Fights

• (2018) What Happens When Your Town Lands on the Hate Map

• Australia’s far right uses cryptocurrencies to monetise hate online

TechSuck

• Big Tech’s Next Monopoly Game: Building the Car of the Future

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Lego sets better investment than gold, study finds

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Oregon Man Who Told Biden "Let's Go Brandon" Speaks Out | ZeroHedge

  + [Man who said 'Let's Go Brandon' to Biden on Christmas Eve says he
  was only
  joking](https://www.npr.org/2021/12/26/1068173175/man-who-said-lets-go-brandon-to-biden-on-christmas-eve-says-he-was-only-joking)
  

  • Editor For ‘The Atlantic’ Claims ‘Let’s Go, Brandon’ Phone Call Is ‘About Insurrection’ | The Daily Caller

  “I don’t think it’s fundamentally about incivility. I think it’s fundamentally about insurrection,”

• Student Loan Debt Relief Is Self-Interest, and Self-Interest Is Politics

• Modern America's Most Successful Secessionist Movement

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Whitmer kidnapping plot defense seeks to dismiss indictment

World

• Ukraine's Plan B Against Russia: A Civilian Militia

• Ukraine crisis: how Putin feeds off anger over NATO’s eastward expansion

• Afghanistan’s Taliban ban long-distance road trips for solo women

• Jesus statue smashed in spate of attacks on India’s Christian community

Health / Medicine

• Talking to kids about the 'zoo in their poo' could inspire healthier food choice

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• US snowstorms: California and other western states battered

• Perth records its hottest Christmas Day on record