2022-01-22

Worthy

• People Seem Evil Because World Has Gotten Better (& Then a Bit Worse Suddenly)

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• Humans probably didn't mean to tame sheep and goats | Popular Science

• The immense power of Tongan volcano eruption baffled scientists

• The YIMBYs are starting to win a few

• Among the Revellers at Ondalinda, Burning Man’s More Exclusive Cousin

• The Torsus Praetorian 4×4 School Bus Is Here to End All Snow Days

• It will be found: search for MH370 continues with experts

Horseshit

• USPS Getting into NFTs

• A Normie’s Guide to Becoming a Crypto Person

COVID / VaxCult

• Booster jab gives 90% Covid protection, study says

• Innate Immune Suppression by SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccinations

• Republic of Ireland scraps almost all coronavirus restrictions

  • Ireland to drop almost all Covid restrictions

• In rare cases, coronavirus vaccines may cause Long Covid–like symptoms

• With 92% vaccinated Portugal registers highest daily COVID deaths in year

• Practical Indicators for Risk of Transmission of Covid-19

• Great Hamster Rescue Sends Hong Kong into Furry Frenzy

• BA.2: More than 400 cases of new Omicron sub-variant found in England

• Bill Maher pushes back on Fauci

• Covid: Did Pfizer's boss cast doubt on his own vaccine?

• Covid Booster Highly Effective Against Omicron

• Patient, Beware: Some States Still Pushing Ineffective Covid Antibody Treatments

• Covid reinfection: how likely are you to catch virus multiple times?

  The team add that this means protection against catching Covid arising from a previous infection within the past six months has fallen from about 85% before Omicron turned up to somewhere between 0% and 27%. T

• Serological screening suggests single SARS-CoV-2 spillover events to cattle

• Oral CBD Prevented COVID-19 Infection in Real-World Patients, Study Suggests

• India's daily Covid cases rise by 337,704 in last 24 hours – govt

• Moderna vaccine produces lower risk of breakthrough infections, hospitalization

• Opinion: Vaccines are a tool, not a silver bullet

• Covid vaccines 5x more effective to prevent hospitalization than prior infection

Culture War / Re segregation / Faith Fights

• My Gentle Intelligent Brother Is Now a Conspiracy Theorist with Shocking Beliefs

• Google bans terms like ‘senior citizen,’ ‘dummy variable,’ and ‘black box’

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Documents show discrimination against Asian American students

• The pandemic pushed more families to home-school. Many are sticking with it

Media / ShowBiz / Censorship

• Pixar’s ‘Turning Red’ Marks Studio’s Third Straight-to-Streaming Film – The Hollywood Reporter

TechSuck

• The Nanotechnology Revolution Is Here – We Just Haven’t Noticed Yet

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Intel's $20B Ohio factory could become world's largest chip plant

• How Robinhood Investors Robbed Themselves

• Nasdaq, S&P Finish Worst Week Since Pandemic Onset

• ‘Farms are failing’ as fertilizer prices drive up cost of food

• US to allow teens to become truck drivers to combat supply chain issues.

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Doing your taxes? The IRS will require a video selfie to access your account

• How Biden Lost The Plot - The Weekly Dish

• Biden Looks to Intel’s U.S. Investment to Buoy His China Agenda

• Biden-Harris outrageously join the ‘war on democracy’

• Read the never-issued Trump order that would have seized voting machines

• Biden administration raises minimum wage for U.S. federal employees to $15

• Ted Cruz Mocks Tom Hanks For Narrating Biden Video, Reminds Him ‘ The Simpsons Did It First.’

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Durham Vs Horowitz: Tension Over Truth & Consequences Grips FBI's Trump-Russia Reckoning | ZeroHedge

• Cars Are Too Easy to Steal

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• US Embassy in Kyiv asks to authorize departure of nonessential personnel

  • Families of US Embassy personnel in Ukraine ordered to begin evacuating Monday

• Anthony Blinken and the intellectual bankruptcy of the Biden Administration

World

• ‘I Am Super Worried’ — Ukrainians Live in Limbo Amid Russian Threat

• Germany Blocks Estonia from Transferring Weapons to Ukraine

• Athletes competing in the 2022 Winter Olympics should keep their mouths shut if they want to get out of China alive.

• Sanctions point to the decline of Western liberal democracy

Health / Medicine

• A rare case report – Ovary attached to testicle inside hernia sac

• New genetic study confirms that alcohol is a direct cause of cancer

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• The excruciatingly long, slow ‘death’ of coal

• A Dairy Farm Is Defending a Pollution Lawsuit. Some Say Vermont’s Regs Are on Trial