2022-03-20

Worthy

• Things Worth Fighting For - Common Sense

• Why America can’t build quickly anymore

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• Pope in 'tectonic' shake-up of Vatican bureaucracy

  • Pope Francis Promulgates Apostolic Constitution 'Praedicate Evangelium'

• Japanese Researcher Publishes Study on Quality of Sleep When Pet Cats Choose Location of Slumber

• Permanent Daylight Savings Time Tried and Abandoned in 1974

  • Permanent daylight saving time might not be as popular as Congress thinks

• Planners Battle Over Marking U.S. 250th Anniversary

Horseshit

• Lights Out: Profitable Utility Company Shut Off Electricity to Homes Hundreds of Thousands of Times

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing

• The spread of misinformation: A pattern we see over and over

• Mitsuhiko on anti-vax groups now spreading pro-Russia conspiracy theories

• Economics of Content Moderation: Theory and Evidence from Hate Speech on Twitter

• The New York Times, Hunter Biden and the Suicide of Media Credibility | Newsbusters

• Weird Science

COVID / VaxCult

• We Can't Fund Covid Treatments for the Uninsured in the U.S.

• The psychological version of Long COVID

• Mask Producers Seeing Major Hit in Orders Look to Forge On as Mandates Ease

• Hong Kong to review Covid-19 curbs as case spike eases

• Covid-19 antibodies found in 15% of Massachusetts deer tested

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Google Sued by Black Ex-Employee over ‘Racially Biased’ Culture

TechSuck

• Remember when Apple built a Mac OS running on top of Solaris and HP-UX? Seriously. It happened.

• FOSS devs are burning out, quitting, and even sabotaging their own projects

• Hacker Challenges MemoryStick To A Fight And Wins

Economicon / Business / Finance

• America’s Energy Security Is Falling Apart

• Turns out the Great Resignation may be followed by the Great Regret

• Modern Capitalism Is Weirder Than You Think It No Longer Works as Advertised

• Credit reporting agencies will wipe out most medical debt

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Republicans demand new probe into Hunter Biden laptop, coverup

• Big Oil rakes in Billions as Prices Soar – Lawmakers want them to pay Us back

• Psaki: We have no idea if Hunter Biden got a ton of money from China and Russia – HotAir

  Psaki was next asked about the report that Hunter Biden’s company received $3.5 million from Yelena Baturina, a Russian oligarch and the richest woman in Russia. By some curious coincidence, Baturina is one of the few oligarchs not to be hit with any sanctions thus far. So how is Joe Biden “navigating” what clearly appears to be a potential conflict of interest?

  All Psaki would say was, “I don’t have any confirmation of the accuracy of that report.” When pressed further on the potential conflict of interest angle, she completely played dumb, asking, “What would be his conflicts of interest?”

  At that point, things became even more uncomfortable. Psaki attempted to shut down the New York Post, pointing to another reporter and telling them to “go ahead.” But the other reporter declined, indicating that the Post should continue with the current questions. The reporter seized the opportunity to ask about Hunter Biden’s claim that he had divested himself from his interest in BHR Partners, a Chinese investment fund controlled by Chinese state-owned entities. They asked if she could confirm that claim and pointed out that the press has received virtually no information about the divestment, including who bought out Biden’s son and how much he was paid.

• Opinion: The Senate accidentally agreed to move our clocks forward

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• TSA’s First Crack at Protecting Pipelines from Hackers Falls Short

• NYC allows citizens to report idling vehicles in exchange for a cut of the fines

  • HN thread

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Clip Of Biden Boasting He Proposed NATO's 78-Day Airstrikes On Belgrade Goes Viral In China | ZeroHedge

World

• The Curious Case of the Accidental Indian Missile Launch - War on the Rocks

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Both of the planet's poles experience extreme heat, and Antarctica breaks records

• Fears that dash for wind power could endanger lost world of Doggerland

• Increasing demand threatens toad population

Ukraine War

• We Have Questions About Russia’s Claimed Kinzhal Hypersonic Missile Use In Ukraine (Updated)

  We can now say for certain that the strike depicted happened nowhere near the western part of the country and not at some major military weapons storage area. It happened at a heavily bombarded rural area in the far eastern area of Ukraine:

• Russia-Ukraine War – What Happened – March-19

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• Ivan Krastev on Russia's Invasion of Ukraine

• Ukraine War Ends the World as We Know It

• Belarusian railway workers today sabotaged the railway lines leading to Ukraine

• EU Officials Mull Using Sanctioned Russians’ Assets for Ukraine

• Russian army truck logistics failure

• ‘We have to come to protect you’ Russian soldiers told Ukrainian man they’d shot

• Australia bans export of aluminium ore to Russia over aggression towards Ukraine

• Japan imposed Russia sanctions as it needs help if China invades Tokyo Kono says

• The western elite preventing us from going after assets of Russia’s hyper-rich

• Russians using VPNs for truth on Ukraine starts fights among friends and family

• Russian spy chief arrested, officials split over Ukraine invasion

• Nationalists plotting chemical attacks in Ukraine when Russian troops approach

• Vladimir Putin Has Fallen into the Dictator Trap

• Mariupol City Council says Residents are being-forced to go to Russia

• President Biden's Strategy with Russia's Putin Is Decades in the Making

• Vladimir Putin Has Fallen into the Dictator Trap

• Opinion – Russian Forces 'Clearly Have Poor Standards,' Gen. Petraeus Says

• Russia is using ‘digital repression’ to suppress dissent

• Was bombing of Mariupol theater staged by Ukrainian Azov extremists to trigger NATO intervention?

• Russia regroups for assault on Kyiv as it tightens grip on Mariupol

• Deadly Strike on Ukraine Barracks Punctuates Russian Military Gains

• Ukrainian Officials Say Russia Bombed a School with 400-People Sheltering Inside

• What’s Really Happening in Ukraine? - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

• Russia says it used hypersonic missiles in Ukraine again