2022-05-08

etc

• A $35 Goodwill purchase turned out to be an ancient Roman bust

• Ford did what Tesla won’t

• Rich Strike, an 80-1 Long Shot, Surges to a Shocking Upset in the Kentucky Derby

Horseshit

• Why half a million people watch me study on TikTok

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Bill Gates Explains “How to Prevent the Next Pandemic”

• Meet the man who won’t let the haters win

• Wealthy Americans are buying second passports as a 'plan B'

Musk / Twitter

• Our Misguided Obsession with Twitter

• Musk’s Twitter deal could face national security probe into foreign investors | Ars Technica

• Make Twitter Great Again | ZeroHedge

Supreme Abortion

• Washington Post profiles woman protesting outside the homes of Supreme Court Justices.

• What did Roe do? – The New Neo

• Why I, As a Libertarian, Think You’re Silly To Worry About Your So-Called Abortion Rights

• "A Broader Right to Autonomy" - by Nikhil Mulani

COVID / VaxCult

• FDA Investigating Reports Of COVID Relapses Following Use Of Pfizer’s Pill

• Increased cardiovascular risk in under-40s during vaccine rollout and 3rd wave

• California versus Florida, a Covid Reckoning Archive link

  The headline outcome is that Florida’s Covid death toll relative to its population was 34% higher than California’s. Going by 2021 population estimates and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s May 4 weekly release of Provisional COVID-19 Deaths by Sex and Age, 241 in 100,000 Californians have died from the disease, 12th lowest among the states, while 322 Floridians have, 28th lowest and well above the national Covid death rate of 302 per 100,000.

  Young people have been much more likely to die of Covid-19 in Florida than in California, those 75 and older slightly less likely. Because Covid is so much deadlier for the old than the young, that works out to Florida having only a slightly higher age-adjusted death rate.

• Covid 19 Variants in Europe

• "The Whole Planet Is A Pot, And We're All Frogs" | ZeroHedge

• Expect rise in US COVID deaths, hospital admissions over next 4 weeks: CDC forecast

• Your health is in your hands? US CDC COVID-19 mask guidance reveals the moral foundations of public health

• Quantifying the relationship between sub-population wastewater samples and community-wide SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence

• Are Covid surges becoming more predictable? New Omicron variants offer a hint

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Highly religious Americans more skeptical of human enhancements

• Equality is prevented by the misperception that it harms advantaged groups

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• American Bar Association may eliminate standardized tests for admissions

• 65,000+ Fake Students Enrolled In The California Junior College System

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Star Citizen is doing 'bedsheet deformation' physics now | Hacker News

• TikTok May Be More Dangerous Than It Looks

TechSuck

• About those kill-switched Ukrainian tractors

  the technology was not invented to thwart Russian looters

Crypto con games

• The Crypto Industry Is Getting Too Honest

• Please Ignore My Last 577 Tweets

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Used Car Prices Are Crashing Near Record Pace | ZeroHedge

• Oil Prices Top $100, yet Some Big U.S. Frackers Let Their Production Fall

• Consumer debt soared by $52M in March

• Shortage of baby formula worsens in U.S.

• ICE/Black Knight: US exchange bets on mortgage market rebound

• No Fixed Address Bank Account

• Closer look at looming recession: jobs market may not be as healthy as you think

• Electricity Shortage Warnings Grow Across U.S.

• Greg Mankiw's Blog: An Inflation Puzzle

• Suddenly startups are having trouble raising money. Why?

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Biden Signs New $150 Million Military Aid Package For Ukraine

• China 'Carefully' Studying Ukraine War as It Eyes Taiwan: CIA Chief

• Global order in middle powers' hands as superpowers turn inward

World

• John Lee confirmed as Hong Kong's next leader with 1,416 votes

Health / Medicine

• Hundreds of Suicidal Teens Sleep in Emergency Rooms. Every Night

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• You Don’t Have to Quit Meat to Save the Planet–Just Eat Less

• Gas stoves emit greenhouse gases, even when not in use

• ‘Canaries in the coalmine’: loss of birds signals changing planet

• Fossil Fuel Growth Doesn't Mean We're Not Making Progres

• Claim: Cancer Surgery Causes Climate Change.

• Climate Change Is Rewiring the Network of Animal Viruses

• How worried should we be about ‘insectageddon’?

• Burning Crops to Capture Carbon?

• (2019) How Global warming has changed the world since the year you were born

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• Russia's economy is back on its feet | Hacker News

• Ukraine Grain Strain: Almost 25 Million Tonnes Blocked From Export | ZeroHedge

• Ukraine Evacuates Civilians From Steel Plant Under Siege

  • NC: "Interesting that, even in India, the story has become getting civilians out of Azovstal, instead of whacking the Nazis who held them as hostages."

• The War Is Getting More Dangerous for America, and Biden Knows It