2022-02-01

Worthy

• When They Honk People Off – According To Hoyt

  > Look, the problem we have here is that the left today is a
  > religion. It’s a religion that buys into a system that
  > explains EVERYTHING and promises glory to those who embrace
  > it. There’s only one small problem: it has no contact
  > whatsoever with reality. As a religion, it’s at the level of
  > the People’s Temple: a scam run by corrupt paranoiacs on the
  > vulnerable.
  

• Furiosa’s Cat Feeder – Blondihacks

  The reason for using 1/8″ steel is that the resulting box will be so heavy as to be utterly out of the question for an 8lb mammal to effect change upon it in 3D space.

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• These Tiny Cargo Ships Are How Sailors Learn to Steer the Big Ones

• Everyone Has Left the Chat

• Thousands forced to evacuate after fire at North Carolina fertilizer plant

Horseshit

• British pig farmers 'fear ruin' over Brexit and the rise of veganism

• The Moral Calculations of a Billionaire

• “Make It Right” New Orleans affordable homes turned into another disaster

• Reality by Consensus | Tom Lockwood - Developer

  But, this also means that the beliefs of the collective drive the adoption aka concreteness of these scientific facts. So, in order for a scientific fact to become concrete, the collective must believe it. Perhaps the laws can slowly change over time, and perhaps many were inherited from some initial setting of the universe, but a new law must be discovered, with collective consent.

• ‘I Cloned My Dog—They Have Completely Different Personalities’

• Progressive Extremism: How to Be a Better You

• Metaverse real estate sales top $500M, and are projected to double this year

celebrity gossip

• Tom Brady has retired after 22 seasons, 7 Super Bowl titles

Rank Propaganda / Machine Thunk / Voluntary Censors

• THE CANADIAN CONVOY HAS STOLEN THE HEARTS OF THE PEOPLE AND THE MEDIA IS NOT TAKING IT WELL

• Freedom Convoy: Trudeau calls trucker protest an ‘insult to truth’

• Globe and Mail: ‘Activists and academics’ say calling the Ottawa protest ‘peaceful’ undermines the ‘non-violent danger’ it posed – twitchy.com

• EU disinformation observatory has links with platforms

• Why the Experts Are Losing

  Like medieval nobles claiming a right to rule based on being a superior breed, and then openly practising inbreeding, our current elites rarely live up to their own hype. Often, the experts are stupid and wrong, sometimes to an almost comical degree. And yet they persist in trying to convince us that they deserve to rule us, and get mightily upset whenever someone dares to challenge their power.

COVID / VaxCult

• Transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 among fully vaccinated individuals

• ‘Pandemic of the unboosted’: low US Covid jab uptake piles pressure on hospitals

• Novavax Submits Request for Emergency Use Authorization of Covid-19 Vaccine

• Where did Omicron come from? Three key theories

• Vitamin D, D-binding protein, free Vitamin D and Covid-19 mortality

• Omicron's spread may boost collective immunity, but at what cost?

• Maskless Gov. Newsom spotted at 49ers, Rams game despite mandate

• Indirect protection of children from SARS-CoV-2 through parental vaccination

• Bioethicist: Mandatory Vaccines Should Also be Imposed For Measles and Flu – Summit News

• ‘Mark of the Antichrist’: Greek holy men sow vaccine mistrust

• Study on long COVID finds hidden lung abnormalities not detected in routine tests

• A cause of America's labor shortage: Millions with long Covid

• Why I’m for Covid vaccines, but against vaccine mandates

• Why are we boosting kids?

  If you are a vaccinated boy between the ages of 12 and 17, the graph shows the likelihood of being hospitalized with Covid is 0.3 out of 100,000. But if you are a boy in that same group and you get a booster, your likelihood of getting myocarditis is 10 out of 100,000.

  The cost benefit is even more problematic when you consider that at least forty percent of pediatric “Covid hospitalizations” are for kids hospitalized “with” Covid, not “because of” Covid. For example, a child who is in the hospital to have foot surgery but who also tests positive upon admission is still counted as a Covid hospitalization.

• Finland to end all Covid-19 restrictions

• You Can Have Covid but Still Get Negative Results on Rapid Tests

• Covid-19 news: 119 people test positive at Beijing Winter Olympics.

Culture War / Re segregation / Faith Fights

• Is America’s Biggest NFT Full of Alt-Right Red Flags?

  • Bored Ape Yacht Club finally responds to neo-Nazism accusations

• Whoopi Goldberg apologises after saying Holocaust was 'not about race' ...

  • Whoopi Doubles Down On Holocaust Remarks — Despite Apology: ‘They Had Issues With Ethnicity, Not With Race’ | The Daily Wire

• Bomb threats made to historically Black schools across US

  • At least 6 HBCUs canceled classes or went into lockdown after receiving bomb threats

• On the Subtlety of Monsters | Frontpagemag

  The fact that people don’t seem to understand that most of the country is living under emergency measures, is what is stunning about our current moment. This is why I keep saying these days that the coup d’etat has already taken place in America. By definition, when you are living under emergency measures, you no longer have a functioning democracy.

• Zen and the Art of Talking to Conspiracy Theorists

• Why I do not expect a civil war in America (and what does worry me) - Chris Blattman

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Teachers Are Quitting, and Companies Are Hot to Hire Them

• Randomized state funded pre-K correlated to lower achievement scores

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Sony to buy video game maker Bungie in $3.6B deal

• The New York Times Buys Wordle

  • Wordle's a copy of an 80s game show

• Bipartisan effort begins to break Google's advertising monopoly

• Spotify shares rebound after Joe Rogan apology

  • The Spotify boycott will likely be short-lived

• Conflict of Interest: New Washington Post National Editor Recused From FBI Coverage | RealClearInvestigations

TechSuck

• HN Jobs:

  • Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2022)

  • Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2022)

  • Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (February 2022)

• Apple AirPods could soon identify you based on the shape of your ear canal

• Windows Requires a Minimum of 8 Hours Online to Update Successfully

• BlackBerry sells mobile patents to patent troll for $600M

• The Great Google Rug Pull

Economicon / Business / Finance

• The curious case of rising stocks in the night-time

• U.S. Consumer Spending Drops with Inflation Hitting 40-Year High

• The record $1 trillion trade deficit doesn’t even count hundreds of millions of small packages mailed directly from China

• Marina Business Gets Lift from Pandemic Boat Sales

• Facebook sells crypto division for $200mn

• Despite a worldwide chip shortage, semiconductor sales cross $500B

• ‘Do what you love’ could be contributing to the Great Resignation

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Trump Had Role in Weighing Proposals to Seize Voting Machines

• The Supreme Court’s Christian conservative revolution is upon us

• Is The Media Actually Under-Covering Trump?

• Trump’s Promise to Pardon Jan. 6 Rioters is Worse Than Watergate

• Democrats Decried Dark Money in Politics, but Used It to Defeat Trump

• Senate introduces bill to allow farmers to fix their own equipment

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Islamophobia and the Capitol Insurrection

• All US federal prisons in lockdown after deadly gang fight

• FBI urges temporary phones for Olympic athletes

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Half Measures Are Worse Than Nothing in Ukraine

  • U.S., UK threaten sanctions for Moscow elite if Russia invades Ukraine

  • Russia provides written response to U.S. proposal for deescalation as Biden’s Ambassador to the UN claims Moscow is preparing to send 30,000 troops to the Belarus-Ukraine border: State Dept orders home family members of government workers in Belarus

• Evacuating Scientists and Engineers from Afghanistan

  • In 35 years as a reporter, I have never seen anything of Afghanistan’s magnitude

World

• Vice Media organised $20m Saudi government festival

• Fourth journalist killed in Mexico this year

• Israel Rolls Out Laser Defense System

Health / Medicine

• Why does my diet soda taste ‘off’? – Food Science Institute

  Officially, aspartame has a half-life of about 300 days in solution at about pH 4, about the pH of soft drinks, but half life means that half if it as gone by that time. And if the cans are exposed to a hot storeroom or stored in a warm summer garage, they may deteriorate faster.

  If you unzip aspartame into the two amino acids and remove that methyl to become methanol, you have a tasteless mixture of pretty harmless compounds. Your body easily metabolizes that bit of methyl alcohol and you are none the worse for it.

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Parasites that thrive in a warming planet are killing Minnesota’s moose

• EU solar and wind push not enough to limit global warming as coal use remains

• New flood maps show US damage rising 26% in next 30 years due to climate change

• Judges Increasingly Demand Climate Analysis in Drilling Decisions

• Europe Is Losing Nuclear Power Just When It Needs Energy

• New metric shows how severe global warming is getting