2022-04-02

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• Russia to halt cooperation over International Space Station

  • NASA says Russia is still ‘moving toward’ extending the space station through 2030

• 4chan Discusses HN

Horseshit

• Scientists to Broadcast Earth's Location to Aliens, Ignoring Stephen Hawking

• The Newest Bitcoin Diet Trend Is Hating ‘Seed Oils’

• April Fools' Day jokes present risks to businesses

• The Millennial Aesthetic Comes for Your Vacuum Cleaner

celebrity gossip

• Will Smith Resigns From Academy Over Chris Rock Oscars Slap - Variety

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• One Data Scientist’s Quest to Quash Misinformation

• Canada's Heritage Minister says online censorship bill will help free speech

• Facebook fails to label 80% of posts promoting bioweapons conspiracy theory

• On Edward Snowden – Zdziarski

• Study conspiracy theories with compassion | Hacker News

COVID / VaxCult

• Psychological impact of early Covid-19 on healthcare workers

• China reports 2,129 new COVID cases for April 1 vs 1,827 a day earlier

• Fauci Says China Was "Extremely Secretive" But "Didn't Necessarily" Cover-Up Pandemic | ZeroHedge

• Just 2.15% of U.S. hospital beds are now used for COVID-19 patients.

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• The Problem With Jon Stewart - The Weekly Dish

  On the race question, Stewart has decided to go way past even Robin DiAngelo, in his passionate anti-whiteness. His opening monologue was intoned at times in a somber tone, as if he were delivering hard truths that only bigots could disagree with. He argued that no one in America had been prepared to have an honest discussion about race — until the “reckoning” of 2020. He also suggested that nothing had been done by whites to support African-Americans from 1619 (yes, he went there) … till now.

• Highlighting COVID-19 racial disparities can reduce support for safety precautions among White U.S. residents

• Judicial Watch Victory: Court Declares Unconstitutional California’s Racial, Ethnic, LGBT Quota for Corporate Board

• Young women are out-earning young men in several U.S. cities

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Teachers in America Were Already Facing Collapse. Covid Only Made It Worse

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Frances Haugen asks Government Pension Fund of Norway to sell out of Meta

TechSuck

• Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express: Setting Standards for Chiplet Ecosystem

• Modem-wiping malware caused Viasat satellite broadband outage in Europe

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Ask HN: Why is cereal so expensive now?

• Does the cost of living crisis explain the leap in borrowing?

• Amazon union: The People, United, Are Not Going to Get Far

• Nearly 1 in 3 food companies forced to reduce or shutdown production

• Thousands of Russia-linked shipping containers are causing a ‘nightmare’ situation in the Port of Rotterdam

• If Biden Continues Massive Oil Release, How Long Would Reserves Last?

• ECB chief economist says it may have to 'think again' on policy

• Day drinking, 'Big Shot' and billions of dollars: How the nickel market imploded

  When the LME decided to retroactively cancel those $4 billion in gains on March 8, it was hedge funds who lost giant sums of money.

  Some analysts speculated that Xiang wasn't just looking to short his position, but he was also making a risky bet that his reserves would soon flood the market and lower the price of nickel. The choice was particularly risky because Tsingshan doesn't produce Class 1 nickel, the only type of nickel the LME accepts. That means there was no immediate physical delivery path for the company to escape through, instead, to stay solvent, they had to work out a deal with the banks who lent them money,

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Oops Nevermind the Records Are All There

• A Better Idea Than Releasing Oil from the Strategic Reserve

• Bye Bye: Jen Psaki Set to Leave White House in May, Bring Real Psaki Show to MSNBC

• Biden Mulls Lifting Ethanol Caps In A Bid To Lower Gasoline Prices

• Tone-Deaf Fed President Jokes About "Whopping" Golf Membership Fees  | ZeroHedge

• The scandal behind ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt paying for Biden’s science office

Hunter

• Lawmakers Demand Hunter Biden’s Communications With Obama White House | ZeroHedge

• “Jettison the Animals!” | Kunstler

• A Broken Country Buries a Broken Laptop :: Right & Free

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Auto Dealer Napleton Fined $10M for Sneaking Illegal Junk Fees

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Deputy national security adviser talks about the risk of Russia waging cyberwar

• Chinese Agents Hire Private Eyes to Harass Dissidents in U.S., Officials Say

• China Calls U.S. ‘Leading Instigator’ of Russia, Ukraine Conflict

• Unless democracies defend themselves, the forces of autocracy will destroy them

World

• Kazakhstan president proposes reforms to limit his powers

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• California Snowpack Melts, Leaving State Desperate for Water

Ukraine War

• Russian soldier dies from radiation poisoning in Chernobyl

  • Russians Suffer ‘Acute Radiation Sickness’ After Digging Chernobyl Trenches

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• We Know Why Russia’s Generals Keep Getting Killed in Ukraine (Cell Hack)

• Zelensky Dismisses Two Of His Top Generals For Being "Traitors"

• UK Urges Zelensky To Hold Out For Better Terms In Peace Talks With Russia

• 81% of Russians Support the War

• Putin making same mistakes that doomed Hitler when he invaded the Soviet Union

• Russia has killed civilians in Ukraine. Kyiv’s defense tactics add to the danger

• ‘No hope for science in Russia’: the academics trying to flee to the west

• Minor troop pullback in eastern Ukraine marks end of Zelensky’s honeymoon

• UK missile shoots down first Russian helicopter in Ukraine war

• Russia’s Gazprom exits German business amid crisis in energy ties

• Russian Oil Is Too Cheap To Resist For China And India

• Food Delivery Leak Unmasks Russian Security Agents – Bellingcat