2021-12-29

Worthy

• The Pinouts Book

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• Ethical non-monogamy: the rise of multi-partner relationships

• Those Hyundai and Kia Fire Recalls Might Be More Serious Than We Thought

• No contact required: Covid fuels vending machine revival in Japan

• How Oklahoma Became a Marijuana Boom State

Horseshit

• The Bill for My Homelessness Was $54,000 Archive link

  It was as if one moment I was standing in a meadow next to my horses, stroking their manes, and the next I was lying inside a plastic garbage bag on a park bench, wrapping clothes around my shivering body.

• ACX Grants Results - by Scott Alexander - Astral Codex Ten

  Legal Impact For Chickens, $72,000, to help kickstart their project of suing factory farms that violate animal cruelty laws or otherwise expose themselves to legal action. They write: "If we sue a company that kills 100 million chickens a year, then success would mean incrementally improving the lives of a significant number (perhaps 80 million) of these chickens".

• Big Cars Are Killing Americans

Obit

• Legendary announcer John Madden has died

• Harry Reid Has Died

  • Harry M. Reid, a Power in the Senate, Dies at 82

• Seal Team Six Founder Richard Marcinko Has Died

COVID / VaxCult

• The Coronavirus Can Persist for Months in Brain, Heart, and Intestines

• Delta turned flight around mid-air, citing China's new Covid cleaning rules

• 79 Research Studies Affirm Naturally Acquired Immunity to Covid-19

• Omicron Variant May Help Beat Delta, Study Suggests

• Omicron is ‘not the same disease’ as earlier Covid waves, says UK scientist

• Bad reviews of Yankee Candle might predict waves of Covid-19

• FDA: Antigen tests may have reduced sensitivity detecting Omicron

• The CDC Has New Covid Guidelines. This Is What It Got Wrong

• Omicron appears to protect against Covid delta variant and could displace it

• Does My Mask Protect Me If Nobody Else Is Wearing One?

• WATCH: Aaron Rodgers drops more COVID TRUTH BOMBS | News Thud

• Experts dubious of fourth COVID-19 booster doses as Israeli hospital launches tests | Washington Examiner

• SD Governor Calls On Biden To Rescind All Mandates After He Claims ‘There Is No Federal Solution’ To Pandemic | The Daily Wire

• Is Omicron a New Wave or a Parallel Pandemic?

• CDC sharply drops estimate of Omicron prevalence in U.S.

• Facebook Said My Article Was False. Now the Fact-Checkers Admit They Were Wrong

• Covid-positive Vermonters with no symptoms clog up ERs

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

• Why CDC doesn't require testing at end of isolation: Director

  • comment:

  So people have been testing themselves with these PCR tests post-initial diagnosis for two years and this has been yielding false positives for up to 12 weeks post-infection, and no one bothered to say so until now?

TechSuck

• After 10 years, HTTPS is truly everywhere

• Apple ditched Intel, and it paid off

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Retailers surrender to unprecedented costs on online returns

• Covid-19 Made Americans into Super Savers. Now They’re Hoarding Cash

• Rivian delays deliveries of pickup, SUV with big battery packs to 2023

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• DA: Cuomo Allegations Are ‘Credible,’ Sexual Harassment 'Did Occur,' But We Can’t Charge Him - Breaking911

• Some red states take action to limit the power of their public health authorities

• New Book: Public Choice Theory and the Illusion of Grand Strategy

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Feds Claim Former FBI Agent, Accomplice Defrauded Woman Out of Over $700,000 | Dallas Observer

• Court Upholds “Geofence” Warrant for Information on Phones Near a Crime

• Street crime has distorted our politics before; it could do so again

World

• Hong Kong pro-democracy Stand News shuts down after police raid, arrests

Health / Medicine

• Direct voluntary control of pupil constriction and dilation

  We present a single case who can change pupil size on command with dilation of pupil diameter of around 0.8 mm, and constriction of around 2.4 mm.

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Chile Rewrites Its Constitution, Confronting Climate Change Head On

• It's 65 Degrees in Alaska–In December

• Coal power’s sharp rebound is taking it to a new record in 2021

• ‘The Fuse Has Been Blown,’ and the Doomsday Glacier Is Coming for Us All