2022-01-09

Worthy

• (Mar 2021) In Defense of Bradford Pear — The Fruit Explorers

• Oh, 2022! - Charlie's Diary

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• Electric cars aren’t just vehicles. They’re big batteries

• GIANT ROCK DISLODGES IN BRAZIL CANYON — ‘MANY’ TOURISTS FEARED DEAD

• Scientists vacuum zoo animals' DNA out of the air

• Dangerous travel conditions expected as ice blankets much of the North

• Morrisons, the UK retailer, scraps 'use by' date on milk in favour of sniff test

Horseshit

• People Obsessed with Celebrities May Be Less Intelligent, Study Suggests

• Tesla owner says he mines up to $800 a month in cryptocurrency with his car

• The empty promises of Marie Kondo and the craze for minimalism

• AI: Are we witnessing the dawn of post-theory science?

COVID / VaxCult

• Covid-positive nurses are in hospitals. Biden mandate forbids unvaccinated ones

• U.S. Is Open as Canada Shuts Down. The Difference? Their Health Care Systems

• Vaccinated women pass Covid-19 antibodies to breastfeeding babies

• Food and Drug Administration Guidance Drives Racial Rationing of Covid Drugs

• Reflections on the Supreme Court oral arguments in the OSHA vaccine mandate case

• Omicron surge pushes U.S. Covid hospitalizations toward record high

• Youth suicide attempts soared during pandemic

• How Soon Will Covid Be “Normal”?

• Cyprus Finds Covid-19 Infections That Combine Delta and Omicron

  • Cyprus reportedly discovers a Covid variant that combines omicron and delta

• End mass jabs and live with Covid, says ex-head of vaccine taskforce

• REVEALED: Canadian military officer calls for a probe into a ground zero ‘Covid’ outbreak at Wuhan forces games two months before world was alerted to the ‘mysterious new illness.’

• First-dose vaccinations quadruple in Quebec ahead of restrictions at liquor and cannabis stores

• Met Opera sings through Omicron

• A Texas team comes up with a Covid vaccine that could be a global game changer

• Hospital boss admits they may lose staff over compulsory vaccines

• Fact Check: Unfounded theory used to dismiss Covid measures

• New big data study of 145 countries show Covid vaccines makes things worse

Culture War / Re segregation / Faith Fights

• Racial Demographics Influence School Choices for White, Asian and Latino Parents

• (Oct 2021) Why don't liberals support free speech anymore?

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Yale continues to say it can ban legal, off-campus behavior

Media / ShowBiz / Censorship

• Lost Footage of Rolling Stones Altamont Festival Unveiled by Library of Congress

• Shareholders Press Google and YouTube To Disclose White House Requests To Scrub COVID-19 Videos: Big Tech under fire for removing content that questions Biden administration COVID policies.

TechSuck

• Forced to sell chipless ink cartridges, Canon tells customers how to bypass DRM

• Worst in Show 2022 – The Repair Association

• Upwork wants me to refund $12k as their client was using "another" card.

• Re: Moxie on Web3. On decentralization, servers and… | by Mike Hearn | Jan, 2022 | Mike’s blog

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Ford threatens dealers: won't send you F-150 Lightnings if you break sales rules

• Bitcoin prices fall to lowest in months after US Fed remarks

• Millennials Didn’t Kill the Economy. The Economy Killed Millennials

• The US jobs report was a warning sign – even before the Omicron surge

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• ‘NOT how this works, bud.’ Marc Elias melting DOWN over Washington Examiner’s caricature cover of him (claims bigotry?!) BACKFIRES hilariously – twitchy.com

• Hamsterdam, NY - by Pablo Antonio - Contemporary Idiot

  As if somehow maybe criminals will call it quits because they feel their profession no longer challenges them enough. At least that’s the only explanation I have for new Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s Charmin Xtra Soft stance on crime. He released a 10-page memo on Monday detailing his Hamsterdam plan, or rather his list of reasons why Manhattan is soon to take over San Francisco as the best city in the country for a criminal to break into the industry.

• RSS Feeds about what the Government is doing

World

• Argentines are desperate for dollars as bets on devaluation soar

• Kazakhstan unrest: At least 164 killed in crackdown on protests, reports say

  • (Dubious source?) The situation in Kazakhstan is a much bigger deal than media is letting on

Health / Medicine

• 88% use smartphones on the toilet, and 44% put those phones in their mouths

• Alcohol should have cancer warnings, say researchers pushing to raise awareness

• For some Greenlanders, eating sugar is healthy

• Global spread of autoimmune disease blamed on western diet

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Spanish should eat less meat to limit climate crisis, says minister

• Do Climate Models Predict Extreme Weather?

• Why Are Freakish Fish Washing Ashore in California?

• Atmospheric CO2 causes lower protein, higher sugar content in modern crops

• Atlassian ran a front-page ad on NYTimes calling companies fight Climate Crisis