2022-02-05

Worthy

• Attack Of The Transphobic Putin-Nazi Truckers! | ZeroHedge

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• A Man Declared Dead by Three Doctors Woke Up Shortly Before His Autopsy

• ‘Something’s coming’: is America finally ready to take UFOs seriously?

• They should have gone whole groundhog and made it Feb 2nd. Feb 5th is National Weatherperson's Day

• Dogs that are super-friendly rank low in the dog hierarchy, study finds

Horseshit

• People Are Creating Sexbot Girlfriends and Treating Them as Punching Bags

• Vets call for end to use of flat-faced dogs on greeting cards

• National Butterfly Center closes indefinitely following threats from right-wing conspiracy theorists

  he and her staff were allegedly physically attacked there last week by congressional candidate Kimberly Lowe and an aide.

  “I was on a conference call… halfway through the call… my son, Nicholas Allen Wright, interrupted me to say we had two female visitors enter who did not want to pay admission,” said Trevino-Wright on an affidavit filed in Hidalgo County. “(They) wanted us to open up the gate for them to access the back 70 acres of the property, so they could go see ‘illegals crossing on rafts.’”

  • Shoulda set something on fire, the true mark of the "mostly peaceful protest"

• The NFT Ecosystem Is a Complete Disaster

• NYT “Self-Driving” Story Is Full of Dangerous Misunderstandings

• How cryptocurrency made these four ordinary people rich

• An Artist Dropped An $11.7 Million, 410lb Gold Cube In Central Park For A Day This Week | ZeroHedge

  • It measures about 18 inches on all sides, and the gold is roughly one-quarter inch thick

  It measures about 18 inches on all sides, and the gold is roughly one-quarter inch thick

• We Found the Real Names of Bored Ape Yacht Club’s Pseudonymous Founders

• Vitalik on Wordcels, liberalism, and more

• The Mile High Club, Complete with Membership Cards

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing

• GoFundMe Shuts Down Canadian Freedom Convoy Account and Sends the Money Where It Decides – RedState

  Given how this situation has evolved, no further funds will be directly distributed to the Freedom Convoy organizers — we will work with organizers to send all remaining funds to credible and established charities chosen by the Freedom Convoy 2022 organizers and verified by GoFundMe.

  + [GoFundMe ends payments to convoy protest, citing reports of
  violence](https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/gofundme-stops-payments-1.6340526)
  

  • GoFundMe reverses all donations to the Freedom Convoy 2022 fundraiser

  • Andy Ngo has the ‘thread of the year’ showing GoFundMe doesn’t seem to take issue with fundraising for leftist ‘occupations’ – twitchy.com

  • SUV Rams 'Freedom Convoy' Protesters in Canada, Multiple Injuries Reported – RedState

  • (goFundMe alternative site) “We have been under heavy DDoS and bot attacks.” GiveSendGo/ Twitter

  • Florida governor to investigate GoFundMe over Canada trucker donations

    • HN thread

• Spotify deletes over 100 'Joe Rogan Experience' episodes

  + [Spotify deletes 70 Joe Rogan episodes | Hacker
  News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30216740)
  

  • Joe Rogan: Podcast star apologises over past use of racist language

COVID / VaxCult

• The Grumpy Economist: Covid tests parable

• (Jul 2021) Relationship between blood type and outcomes following Covid-19 infection

  Eight of 9 studies demonstrated an association between blood type and susceptibility to infection with SARS-CoV-2. Four of these 9 studies also revealed an association with severity of illness. Ray et al [21] found that subjects with type O and Rh-negative blood were protected from viral infection, severe illness, and mortality.

  Many studies report that blood type A might predispose one to increased susceptibility of infection with SARS-CoV-2, and type O and Rh-negative blood groups might be protective.

• Paper that claims ivermectin reduces Covid-19 hospitalizations withdrawn

• The US Public Health Response Has Been a Colossal Failure

• U.S. coronavirus deaths surpass 900k

• As Omicron peaks, the US healthcare system is left ‘broken beyond repair’

• Vitamin D deficiency is associated with increased Covid-19 severity

• Tracking cryptic SARS-CoV-2 lineages detected in NYC wastewater

• Lockdowns Prevent Only .2% of Covid Deaths: Study

• Lockdowns had little effect on death rates: Johns Hopkins study finds

• Opinion: It’s a delusion to think mass spread of Omicron will end the pandemic - The Globe and Mail

• N95, KN95 masks provide best protection against covid, CDC study shows

• '80% of serious Covid cases are fully vaccinated' says Ichilov hospital director

• Why do some people get Covid when others don’t? Here’s what we know so far

• How Pfizer made an effective anti-Covid pill

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• No, the Wokeness Revolution Isn’t Over

• Is this good or bad, now? I can't keep up.... And: Didn't say "transphobia" enough I guess. Tennessee Book Burning (Incl. Harry Potter, Twilight)

  • Tennessee pastor leads burning of books

• (Oct 2021) The Reality War - by N.S. Lyons - The Upheaval

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Another Unhinged Professor Has Been Exposed As A Pedophilia Apologist

• Teachers are leaving and few people choosing the field. Experts sound the alarm

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Meta to bring in mandatory distances between virtual reality avatars

• We all learned a painful lesson from Facebook. Now Facebook is learning it, too

• Bloomberg accidentally published a story headlined 'Russia Invades Ukraine'

• Dutch Journalist Manhandled Off Camera by Guards at Olympics

  • Chinese Police Manhandle a Reporter During a Live Olympics Broadcast

• Beijing Wanted the Winter Olympics. All It Needed Was Snow

Economicon / Business / Finance

• It's OK to not be passionate about your job

• Ford to suspend or cut output at 8 of its factories due to chip shortage

• Inflation Is a Moral Wrong

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Biden sets first-year record with 6.6 million jobs added

• Republican party calls January 6 attack ‘legitimate political discourse’

• CNN Employees Continue to Push Back on the Fall of Jeff Zucker | Vanity Fair

  Jamie Gangel spoke up. “The first calls I got this morning were from four members of the January 6 committee, who felt devastated for our democracy, because Jeff was not going to be around to make sure that CNN is able to do its job,” she said (later clarifying to colleagues that she meant to say four congresspeople, including one member of the committee).

• Why Are Biden’s Spokespeople Being All Authoritarian?

• New Emails Suggest Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas Was Communicating With Ron DeSantis — For Some Strange Reason

• Federal Job Fakery Hits Peak Balderdash

• Biden Withdrawing Student Debt Appeal After Outcry

  • reversing: Biden Moves To Block Student Debt Victory

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Amid Slowdown, Immigration Is Driving U.S. Population Growth

• Delta CEO wants U.S. to put unruly passengers on 'no-fly' list

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Wetlands and radioactive soil: How Ukraine’s geography could influence a Russian invasion

• Breaking: Biden Lifts Sanctions On Iran’s Nuclear Program

• Are we truly heading towards a bipolar world?

• Look at the map! Where are the Ukrainian military forces concentrated and where are they absent?

  after eight years of facing down one another across about 200 meters of no-man’s land at the line of demarcation, the situation between Ukrainian armed forces and Donbas forces is very tense and volatile, so that it would be very easy for a provocation staged by British or American special forces, who are known to be in the area, to touch off a major conflagration.

• The Reason Putin Would Risk War

• Russia to Use Crisis Actors to Stage a False Flag and Start War in Days

  MR PRICE: It is intelligence information that we have declassified.

  QUESTION: Well, where is it? Where is the declassified information?

  MR PRICE: I just delivered it.

  • HN thread

• Pentagon: Lone Bomber Behind August 2021 Attack on Kabul Airport

World

• Turkey, you were doing so well

• ‘Mass migration is coming and the future of Scotland is Asian' says expert

• Former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder nominated to join Gazprom’s board

Health / Medicine

• Discovery of HIV variant shows virus can evolve to be more severe

  • A highly virulent variant of HIV-1 circulating in the Netherlands

  • comment:

  The paper is notable because it is an example of a highly lethal virus (doesn’t get worse than 100%) becoming even worse.

  • I can't even

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• ‘Word salad of nonsense’: scientists denounce Jordan Peterson’s climate comments

• Los Angeles Bans New Oil Wells and Will Phase Out Existing Ones

• California subsidies for dairy cows’ biogas are a lose-lose, campaigners say

• Gas stoves in kitchens pose a risk to public health and the planet, study finds