2022-02-11

Worthy

• The Scientific Virtues – SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD

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• Astra rocket suffers catastrophic failure in Florida launch, 4 satellites lost

• German woman uses an AirTag to find a government arm that doesn't exist

• Order an orgasm from the tech queen of shame-free sex

Horseshit

• Ethereum Name Service Removes Core Member Brantly Millegan over 2016 Tweet

• Super Bowl Tickets Are Costliest Ever, Averaging $7,542 a Seat

Obit

• Betty Davis has died

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing

• Why covering anti-evolution laws has me worried about the future of vaccines

Ottowa Trucks

• Ontario court freezes access to donations for truckers' protest from GiveSendGo

• "Slash The Tires, Arrest The Drivers": Harvard Professor And CNN Analyst Calls For Violence Against Freedom Convoy | ZeroHedge

• Who are some of the leaders of the Truckers Convoy?

• What the Truckers Want - Common Sense

• Dispatch from the Ottawa Front: Sloly is telling you all he's in trouble. Who's listening?

  She told me that she was able to get inside by slipping in with a larger group. Once she started taking pictures, she immediately began to be followed, and she was tailed until she left shortly thereafter. She wasn’t harmed or threatened, and agreed with my description of the residents as organized, polite, and very clear in their desire for you to leave. She had a much better view of the entire area, and reports that the perimeter was pretty secure. Where it wasn't, she said, there were small groups standing on guard. Her impression matched my own entirely: this group is disciplined, organized and on alert for outsiders.

• Thoughts on the Canadian Trucker "Freedom Convoys" | naked capitalism

  First, the class composition of the Canada truckers.

  To put this in the U.S. context: If the Association of Flight Attendants, the International Longshoremen’s Association, the “Big Four” railroad brotherhoods, and of course the Teamsters had wished to, they could have done, on a national scale and with far more effect, what the Canadian Truckers are doing. These industrial unions might have demanded, at the very minimum, decent PPE for health care workers, and proper ventilation for teachers. At a maximum, they could have demanded that Americans be paid to stay home until Covid transmission in this country sputtered out, ending the pandemic here and setting an example for the world.

• How the Left betrayed the Truckers

• On the Canadian Trucker Occupations

COVID / VaxCult

• Nevada mask mandate ends today | Las Vegas Review-Journal

• Heart-disease risk soars after Covid – even with a mild case

  • HN thread

• Exercise May Enhance the Effects of a Covid or Flu Shot

• The Long Long Covid Post - Don't Worry About the Vase

• There was an unexpected 40% increase in ‘all cause deaths’ in 2021

  • HN thread

• There Is Nothing Normal about One Million People Dead from COVID

• A genetic difference affects the likelihood of severe Covid-19 infection

• How the Covid-19 pandemic might age us

  • Scientists have suggested that the pandemic has sped the aging process

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Using skin color emojis in chat can open a complex discussion on race : NPR

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• A top researcher says it's time to rethink our entire approach to preschool

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Facebook Has a Superuser-Supremacy Problem

• MoviePass is officially coming back

• Long-standing literary magazines are struggling to stay afloat

TechSuck

• An update on AirTag and unwanted tracking

  • HN thread

• I Used Apple AirTags, Tiles and a GPS Tracker to Watch My Husband’s Every Move

• Dremel leaving the 3D printing business

• BestBuy adding their own markup to RTX 30 FE cards ($199 exclusive event access)

• Microsoft's Small Step to Disable Macros Is a Win for Security

Economicon / Business / Finance

• U.S. Housing Affordability Worsens

• China bought none of the $200B it promised from the U.S. under ‘Phase 1’ deal

• Just stop Investors want the Fed to quit buying bonds now

• Tech talent shortage is helping drive M&A deals

• Peloton's stock crash is just the beginning - The Post

• To fight inflation, the Fed may resort to a tool it hasn't used since 2000 - CNN

  that implies the Fed would have to raise interest rates by a half a percentage point in a single meeting, instead of the more typical quarter percentage point moves. The Fed hasn't executed a half-point rate hike since 2000.

• Where did $12T of Covid spending go? Correlation, causation and money printing

• Zillow’s Shuttered Home-Flipping Business Lost $881M in 2021

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• CIA Collected ‘Bulk’ Data on American Citizens, Senators Say

• Biden Taps LGBTQ+ Activist, Drag Queen “Pup” Fetishist For High-Level Position at the Office of Nuclear Energy › American Greatness

• Outgoing Rep. Cooper: 'Democratic Party in Tennessee is basically facing extinction' because of self-righteousness – HotAir

• Abortions in Texas fell 60% in the first month after its new law

• CNN: A grim portrait of Biden’s unhappy America.

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• The Mystery Of The Migrant Kids The Feds Are Spiriting Into The U.S. Interior | ZeroHedge

  Department of Homeland Security replied late last month to a Congressional demand for information about the number of illegal migrants the department has flown from border towns to communities around the country. In 2021, it said, 71,617 were dropped off in nearly 20 cities including locales as far from the Mexican border as Atlanta, Chicago, New York and Philadelphia.

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• U.S. says Americans in Ukraine should depart immediately

• Ukraine Travel Advisory – Level 4: Do Not Travel

• Netherlands advises Dutch citizens to leave Ukraine

• The internet investigators tracking Russian movements on the Ukrainian border

• Putin hints at nuclear war in Ukraine diplomacy

• Pentagon Reporters Request Access to Troops in East Europe

• To go to 9/11 victims and a humanitarian trust fund: Biden Moves to Split $7 Billion in Frozen Afghan Funds

  • Biden splitting frozen funds for Afghan relief, 9/11 victims

• Navy Releases Timeline for Mysterious 2019 “UAS Swarm” Involving Warships Off CA

World

• Macron refused Russian Covid test in Putin trip over DNA theft fears – sources

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Judge restores protections for gray wolves across much of US

• The Great Climate Backslide: How Governments Are Regressing Worldwide

• Until some of these areas flood, next month. Worst Drought in Decades Grips Swathe of North Africa

• The Supreme Court is set to weigh in on the Clean Water Act’s reach

• Australia Declares Koalas an Endangered Species