2022-01-12

Worthy

• The Redneck Guide to Children’s Rights

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• Ancient Mesopotamian Discovery Transforms Knowledge of Early Farming | Rutgers University

  Rutgers researchers have unearthed the earliest definitive evidence of broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum) in ancient Iraq,

• Millennials in the US are driving less than previous generations

Horseshit

• How Much Is a Dog's Life Worth?

• Sex Robots Could Change Our Love Lives

• Doctor loses practice after branding patients' livers with his initials

• Men getting vasectomies to save the world

• Long-termism is killing us

• Gene discovered in Georgia water a possible global threat

• A U.S. child is shot every hour, and hundreds die annually

celebrity gossip

• The Great Epstein Cover-Up, Part I

COVID / VaxCult

• Covid loses 90% of ability to infect within minutes in air

• ‘Most people are going to get Covid’: A momentous warning at a Senate hearing

• Quebec to force unvaccinated to pay ‘significant’ financial penalty

  • Unvaccinated Quebecers will have to pay a health tax

• Ivermectin Works Throughout All Phases Covid According to Leaked Military Docs

• Research shows hemp compounds prevent coronavirus from entering human cells

  • Cannabinoids Block Cellular Entry of SARS-CoV-2 and the Emerging Variants

• ‘Killer’ immune cells still recognize Omicron variant

• Vaccine effectiveness (against infection not severe disease) goes down the drain

• Military Documents About Gain of Function Contradict Fauci Testimony Under Oath

• New documents reveal early beliefs that SARS-CoV-2 was engineered

• The media suddenly notices the CDC is clueless

• Pfizer exec says new COVID-19 vaccine against Omicron variant coming soon.

• Chicago Mayor Gets COVID After Striking Deal With Teachers To Return To Classrooms

• Scientists believed Covid leaked from Wuhan lab, but feared debate could hurt

  + [HN thread](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29901824)
  

• Biden administration planning lists of employees seeking 'religious' vaccine exemptions - Washington Times

• Former DARPA Official: COVID-19 Was Designed to Be an Aerosolized Synthetic Spike Protein Vaccine For Bats › American Greatness

• Teachers’ Unions Are Making Totally Reasonable Pandemic Health and Safety Demands

• Which mask? What test? Covid’s latest surge spreads an epidemic of confusion.

• Two Years Is Long Enough

• Nearly 23% of hospitals report 'critical staffing shortage' amid record COVID-19 cases

• Switching to an N95 mask gives a 75x boost in Covid protection

• Covid loses 90% of ability to infect within 20 minutes in air

• Novak Djokovic admits Covid breach and ‘error’ on Australian entry forms

• Why Some Workers Are Getting All the Covid Tests They Need

• FDA head: Omicron is a “natural disaster most people are gonna get Covid”

• (Sep 2019) Surgical masks as good as N95 against respiratory virus

• The Covid generation: how is the pandemic affecting kids’ brains?

• Doctors fear health care collapse amid omicron surge

• Vaccine purity has infected the West

• Quebec health tax for unvaccinated residents prompts fierce Covid debate

Culture War / Re segregation / Faith Fights

• Pope warns about dangers of 'cancel culture'

• Reddit Allows Hate Speech to Flourish in Its Global Forums, Moderators Say

• ‘Did the Lincoln Project write this?’ USA Today wants you to know that ackshually, ‘there’s a lot we’re misunderstanding’ about pedophilia; UPDATED – twitchy.com

• The Gumption for a Civil War? | Frontpagemag

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• California schools face funding crisis as enrollment declines

Media / ShowBiz / Censorship

• Fighting Misinformation or Fighting for Information?

• ‘The Commercial System Isn’t Providing the Local News We Need’

• Facebook asks for FTC Chair Lina Khan to be recused from its antitrust case

• Facebook Papers: The radical chiropractor Facebook banned and then studied

• Vinyl outsold CDs in the US for the first time in decades

TechSuck

• Is the madness ever going to end? | Hacker News

• How to set up a router's port forwarding for a nintendo switch console | Hacker News

  Within the port range, enter the starting port and the ending port to forward. For the Nintendo Switch console, this is ports 1 through 65535. Set the protocol as UDP.

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Ethereum loses nearly a quarter of its value over the past week

• Amid rising prices, American families fall deeper in debt

• Jerome Powell says the Fed is prepared to raise rates to tame inflation

  • Fed’s Powell Says Economy No Longer Needs Aggressive Stimulus

• Housing Analysts Already See Blistering Start to the Market in 2022

• New year brings new all time high for shippings epic traffic jam

• US Shoppers Find Some Groceries Scarce Due to Virus, Weather

• Inflation rises 7% over the last year

  • US consumer prices soared 7% in past year, most since 1982

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Trump exits NPR interview abruptly

• Buttigieg touts supply achievements at ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Cruz asks "Who is Ray Epps?"

  • ‘Just another misled man’: Rep. Adam Kinzinger puts to rest all doubts about ‘Ray,’ says he apparently broke no laws so was let off – twitchy.com

  • Jan. 6 Panel Seeks to Debunk Unfounded Theory About F.B.I. Role in Riot

• January 6th, The Disconnect - by Kenneth Drew

• Cop Who Killed Ashli Babbitt Was Cleared of Criminal Wrongdoing Without Interview | RealClearInvestigations

• U.S. Justice Department forming unit to counter domestic terrorism

  • HN thread

• The hunt for "domestic terrorists" is already underway: Education Secretary Cardona solicited NSBA letter comparing protesting parents to domestic terrorists: email | Fox News

• Neo-Nazi leader sentenced to 7 years for plot to intimidate Jews, journalists

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Held at Gitmo for 20 yrs wo trial, petitions Biden for release. He also paints

World

• F-16 jet goes missing off western Taiwan

• Ukraine: We will defend ourselves against Russia 'until the last drop of blood'

• Russia’s belief in NATO ‘betrayal’ – and why it matters today

• Information Chaos in Kazakhstan

• IEA chief accuses Russia of worsening Europe’s gas crisis

• Will the Chinese Civil War End with a Bang or with a Whimper?

Health / Medicine

• The New Trend in Healthcare: Do-It-Yourself

• US Cancer Deaths on Decline

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Seven hottest years on record were the last seven; CO2, methane continue to rise

• How the speed of climate change is unbalancing the insect world

• The Great Siberian Thaw

• The US Government spent $1.1B on carbon capture projects that mostly failed

• We study ocean temperatures. the Earth just broke a heat increase record

• U.S. greenhouse gas emissions jumped in 2021, a threat to climate goals

• It's not an 'energy' crisis – it's a fossil fuel crisis

• Call for a moratorium on climate research until governments take real action