2022-01-13

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• Shark attacks related to lunar phases

• Condom Sales Plunge 40% As World Tosses Rubbers Aside | ZeroHedge

• Here’s why modern cars feel so lifeless to drive | Ars Technica

• Exercise-induced piezoelectric stimulation for cartilage regeneration in rabbits

• What to pack in your car to stay safe during severe winter weather

• The Swedish parents paid to care for sick kids

• Cigarette smoking is having a comeback

Horseshit

• The Metaverse Is Already Here for Cows and It’s Sad

• Ireland to launch universal basic income program for artists

• Ohio reached Suburb Saturation long ago: There’s no longer one rural America – could there be five?

celebrity gossip

• Baldwin: "Rust" shooting: armourer sues guns and ammunition supplier

COVID / VaxCult

• Pandemic rapidly moving towards endemicity, says European Medicines Agency

• Repeat Covid Booster Shots Spur Warning on Immune Response, EU Regulators Warn

• Cannabis Compounds Prevented Covid Infection in Laboratory Study

• Looks Like the Omicron Wave Is Cresting in Santa Clara Sewage

• Covid-19 news: Majority of people in Europe will soon catch omicron.

• NIH unearths more grant violations by Wuhan lab collaborator EcoHealth Alliance

• California tells coronavirus-positive medical workers to stay on the job

• FDA head says 'most people are going to get Covid' at hearing with Fauci

• Scientists: Cannabis Can Prevent Covid-19 Infection

• CDC Won’t Budge on Mask Guidance Despite Science Saying Cloth Masks Don’t Work.

• All the COVID heroes of yore are now being flattened.

• Bulgarians Storm Parliament To Protest COVID "Green" Pass

• "We Failed": Danish Newspaper Apologizes For Publishing Official COVID Narratives Without Questioning Them | ZeroHedge

  WE HAVE NOT been vigilant enough at the garden gate when the authorities were required to answer what it actually meant that people are hospitalized with corona and not because of corona. Because it makes a difference. A big difference. Exactly, the official hospitalization numbers have been shown to be 27 percent higher than the actual figure for how many there are in the hospital, simply because they have corona. We only know that now.

• Why did scientists suppress the lab-leak theory? - spiked

• Immune system vs. virus: Why omicron had experts worried from the start

• An expert weighs in on how parents should care for a child who tests positive

  I'd recommend splitting up the household so that one parent cares for the child who has Covid-19 and the other one cares for the child who does not have it. The two different "pods" should not interact with one another during the isolation period. If possible, they shouldn't share any indoor space. They should sleep in different rooms, not share the same bathroom, and not get together indoors at all during this time. The parent caring for the child with Covid-19 should wear a mask when with the child to try to reduce the likelihood of getting infected themselves.

• Christina Pushaw & others spot suspicious timing in the AP’s new guidance on reporting Covid cases & hospitalizations – twitchy.com

• Covid-19 will be like seasonal flu once omicron wave passes

• Sanders Reintroduces 'N95 Mask for All' Legislation

• FT Says “Anti-Vax Sentiment” in the West Being Fueled by Russia & China – Summit News

• Doctors Sign Open Letter Asking Spotify to Address Rogan's Misinformation

• The economy cannot stay open

• How Does Covid Spread? Virus’ Infection Capacity Weakens After 20 Minutes in Air

• Supreme Court Blocks Biden's OSHA Vaxx Mandate

  + [Supreme Court halts Covid-19 vaccine rule for US
  businesses](https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-vaccine-mandate-eb5899ae1fe5b62b6f4d51f54a3cd375)
  

  • SCOTUS blocks vaccine mandate for large businesses, allows for health workers

  • Supreme Court Halts Vaccine Mandate That Covered 80M Workers

• Poorer nations dump millions of close-to-expiry Covid-19 vaccines, says UNICEF

Culture War / Re segregation / Faith Fights

• Toxic Culture Is Driving the Great Resignation

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• College Prep Software Naviance Sells Advertising Access to Millions of Students

Media / ShowBiz / Censorship

• Ask HN: What do you think of the Wordle guy not monetizing it? | Hacker News

• Academics Want to Preserve Video Games. Game Industry Is Fighting Them in Court

• Twitter Allows Iranian Threats To Assassinate Former President Trump

TechSuck

• More Chevy models get limited rear park assist availability due to chip shortage

• PCIe 6.0 spec just released

• Xbox One manufacturing discontinued, Microsoft confirms - Polygon

• Falcon 9 completes launch, has now lifted 550 satellites into orbit

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Grocery store shortages are back

• TikTok Stars Made More Money Than Many of America’s Top CEOs

• Another key inflation measure hit a record high

  • Wholesale prices jumped a record 9.7% in 2021

• Mechanics Ask Walmart, Bike Manufacturers to Stop Selling “Built-to-Fail” Bikes

• 340 million PCs shipped - PC market had another big year thanks to pandemic

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Biden administration announces new measures to upgrade power grid

• Empty Shelves Disprove Biden’s Supply-Chain Boasts.

• Supreme Court takes up a case that could legalize bribery

• The growing demand for more vigorous antitrust action

• New Law Will Install Kill Switches in All New Cars

• Biden’s Epic Collapse Has Democrats Desperately Looking to Hillary Clinton for Salvation.

• Elizabeth Warren Blames High Food Prices on Grocery Chains’ ‘Record’ 1 Percent Profit Margins.

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Data shows that DHS cannot account for nearly 50K migrants released

• Oath Keepers Leader Charged with Seditious Conspiracy

• Is the DOJ Readying Biden's Brownshirts to Deal With His Political Opposition? – PJ Media

• The FBI's Honeypot Phones Were Widely Distributed in the U.S.

  • FBI Honeypot Phone Company Anom Shipped over 100 Phones to the United States

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Can the United States Decouple from China?

• Army increases bonuses for recruits to $50K

• U.S. Diplomats in Geneva, Paris Struck with Suspected ‘Havana Syndrome’

  • 'Havana syndrome': US baffled after new cases in Europe

• I Spent 20 Years Covering Guantanamo

• The Nonproliferation Regime Is Breaking

• Why Russia Fears NATO | IRRUSSIANALITY

  However, from Russia’s own subjective position, things look differently. NATO’s claims that it is a purely defensive alliance ring hollow after its attacks on Yugoslavia and Libya. NATO has a proven track record of attacking weak states it doesn’t like. Russians might well conclude that maintaining a strong military is the only guarantee they have of not meeting the same fate.

  Beyond that, the rhetoric coming out of the West, and particularly the United States, is extremely belligerent. NATO might have no intention of attacking Russia, but if you read the American press, as I’m sure the Russian government does, you might not be so sure.

World

• U.S., NATO reject Russia’s demand to exclude Ukraine from alliance

• Hamas accuses Israel of deploying ‘killer Zionist dolphins’ near Gaza.

• Lithuania’s foreign minister calls on EU to stand up to China

• Prince Andrew loses military titles and patronages

  It comes as he faces a civil case in the US over claims he sexually assaulted a woman when she was 17, which he has consistently denied.

• BoJo’s Green Energy Britain: Cuddle Your Pets for Warmth – Watts Up With That?

• China allows no war nor chaos, will keep its word: Foreign Ministry

  Kazakhstan is the largest country in Central Asia, and its common border with China is more than 1,700 kilometers long. It's quite necessary to prevent "color revolutions" and the "Three Evils" - namely terrorism, extremism, and separatism - in Kazakhstan from causing regional unrest and spillover to the surrounding regions.

• Putin Declares "Mission Accomplished" In Kazakhstan As Russian Troops Start Pullout

• Russia says Ukraine talks hit 'dead end', Poland warns of risk of war

• NATO offers arms talks as Russia warns situation is 'dangerous'

Health / Medicine

• The Joys (and Challenges) of Sex After 70

• Should e-cigarettes be licensed as medicines?

• The impact of sexual abuse on female development: a longitudinal study

• Two decades of soldiers’ medical records implicate virus in multiple sclerosis

  • Strong new evidence suggests a virus triggers multiple sclerosis

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• US Oil Production Will Surge to an All-Time High in 2023

• 2021 was world’s 6th-warmest year on record

• The hottest eight years on record were the last eight years