2022-04-12

Worthy

Freedom is for Nazis - by Mike Solana - Pirate Wires

The danger of, explicitly, people themselves determining what they read? “It would be the Wild West of speech and power,” VandeHei continued. “The rule-makers America has relied on since its founding — government and business — would be replaced by a brave new world of astonishing individual freedom.”

Scientists and US Space Command confirm first alien meteorite to hit Earth
Human Brain Compresses Working Memories into Low-Res ‘Summaries’
Neptune just experienced an unexplained temperature shift
A Brief History Of The Military’s Unsightly ‘Birth Control Glasses’

Over the last five years, the Pentagon has gradually switched to the smaller, black-rimmed 5A glasses that take us back to an era when wannabe punk rockers everywhere donned the spectacles to look fly. But around the same time military scrapped the ghastly S9s, those civilian punks who made black-rimmed glasses popular in the first place grew up, got jobs, and reinvigorated the market for what appear to be overpriced military-style BCGs.
Nasa spots record breaking, huge comet headed towards Earth | The Independent
- Hubble Space Telescope Detection of the Nucleus of Comet C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein)
- Hubble Confirms Largest Comet Nucleus Ever Seen
The behemoth comet, C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein) is barreling this way at 22,000 miles per hour from the edge of the solar system. But not to worry. It will never get closer than 1 billion miles away from the Sun, which is slightly farther than the distance of the planet Saturn. And that won't be until the year 2031.
- Newly found mega comet may be the largest seen in recorded history
- 4 billion-year-old relic from early solar system heading our way
Why Airbnb Cleaning Fees Cost So Much Now

The New Campaign for a Sex-Free Internet
The Ironclad Argument Against Racism - by Bryan Caplan

Racism is wrong because collective guilt is wrong.

You’re born into a race, you can’t control what other members of your race do, so you should bear no liability for their actions. No matter how awfully other members of your race have behaved, you should be judged as an individual. To hold you responsible for anything they did is a grave injustice.
- HN thread
Who are the woke? If you don’t know, that is the point – Grey Enlightenment

This spontaneous, as opposed to centralized, coordination seems characteristic of the woke.

Biden to announce emergency waiver on summer ethanol ban
- Biden admin gives a green light to a fuel that could be dirtier than regular gas
Democrats need to run on the war - by Noah Smith

Their economic agenda has been stymied, so they should trumpet their strength on foreign affairs
The Great Billionaire Space Caper - TK News by Matt Taibbi

In a story that shows how hard it is to deter a billionaire ravenous for public money, Jeff Bezos of Amazon and The Washington Post fame appears to have prevailed upon buddies in the Senate to keep alive a childhood dream of not only going to the moon, but getting the public to pay for it. A Bezos company officially lost this moon contract three times in less than a year, but the fourth time’s a charm: thanks to congress, his Jason Voorhees-like determination may be rewarded with a contract worth $6 billion or more.

the space agency’s next big goal is to put a black woman on the moon.