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• Gas station bathrooms weren't always gross. They used to be kept pristine

Horseshit

• I’m in a relationship with my 1998 Chevy — and our sex life is so special

• New York City Sued over Foie Gras Ban

• Is swinging back?

• AstroForge aims to succeed where other asteroid mining companies have failed | Ars Technica

  the company plans to build and launch what Gialich characterized as a "small" spacecraft to a near-Earth asteroid to extract regolith, refine that material, and send it back toward Earth on a ballistic trajectory. It will then fly into Earth's atmosphere with a small heat shield and land beneath a parachute. The goal is to build each of these satellites at a recurring cost of significantly less than $10 million.

• Women have been betrayed by a culture of porn gone wild

• Astronauts face mental and emotional challenges for deep space travel

celebrity gossip

• Yellen Wanted Biden Relief Plan Cut by a Third, Biographer Says

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• To Reject Bigotry, Libertarians Should Become Neoliberals

• The Top 10 Creepiest & Most Dystopian Things Pushed By The World Economic Forum | ZeroHedge

• "Musk is a tyrant! oh wait..." NYC Mayor's letter to employees: 'You are required to report to work in person'

Musk

• Elon Musk Leaves Biden in the Dust After Joe Tries to Take a Shot at Him – RedState

• Can the SEC stand up to the richest man on the planet?

Gun Control / Mass shooting

• Rep. David Cicilline: ‘Spare Me the Bullsh*t About Constitutional Rights.’

• The US ‘Has the Most Mass Shootings’—and Other Bogus Gun Research.

• Are We Just Going to Ignore Biden's Biggest Whopper in His Shoddy Anti-Gun Address Last Night?

• Mother who ran into Texas school during shooting discusses moments inside

• No Radio, Old Tactics: How the Police Response in Uvalde Broke Down

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Scott Alexander's correction on ivermectin, and its meaning for the rationalist project.

  The erroneous meta-analysis is simply one step in a long walk of errors that got us here. These kinds of errors happen to all of us. But the reason Scott stopped at the result he got, I suspect, is that this is the result he was expecting, based on what he was hearing. It was a result that confirmed his biases. I’ve made the same error in recent memory, and I’m not sure how it can be avoided.

• California High School Bars Unvaccinated Students From Attending Graduation Ceremonies.

• June 21 is expected start date of Covid vaccination for kids under 5

• Widely touted abstract on ivermectin and Covid-19 retracted

  The authors of a controversial meeting abstract linking ivermectin to lower mortality from Covid-19 have retracted the study, saying that the work has been widely “misinterpreted” and might be leading to patient harm.

• Vaccine injury compensation programs overwhelmed, lacking Congressional reform

• Will Covid controls keep controlling us?

• Alameda County to reinstate indoor mask mandate starting Friday amid rising COVID cases and hospitalizations

• 2 monkeypox strains in US suggest possible undetected spread.

• What to make of the many mutations on the monkeypox genome

• High viral loads: What drives fatal cases of Covid-19 in vaccinees?

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Amazon urges consultant to ‘push’ message from minority groups

• Republicans’ Anti-LGBTQ Conspiracy Theories Are Fueling Far-Right Threats to Pride Celebrations

• Sabine Hossenfelder: Backreaction: Trans women in sports: Is this fair?

  Athletes are biological extremes. “Fairness” has never been the point of these competitions. They’re really more like freak shows. Kind of like physics conferences.

  genetic engineering has become reality. And as long as athletes can make a lot of money from having a genetic advantage, someone’s going to breed children who’ll bring in that money. This is why I suspect a century from now professional athletics will not exist anymore. It creates too many incentives for unethical behavior.

• Elders helped white man preserve culture, then he tried to sell it back to them

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Ohio set to allow teachers, other staff to carry guns

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• US child advocacy groups have asked the FTC to investigate EA over loot boxes

• Dear Spotify, can we just get table of songs?

  • HN comments

• Washington Post issues two corrections after stealth-edit scrubbed false claim from Taylor Lorenz report

TechSuck

• Sr Manager at Google Resigns After Dalit Activist Disallowed from Giving Lecture

  • HN comments

• Google is killing location-based reminders

• “I wonder if RMS anticipated that,.. Mercedes would be shipping these mini CDs” | Hacker News

• Have an old iPad lying around? You might be able to make it run Linux soon

Crypto con games

• Adam Neumann’s Goddess Nature Token Is the Future of Crypto–For Better or Worse

• Reports show scammers cashing in on crypto craze

• Crypto has crashed – can it bounce back?

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Mendocino County: Where You Could Find the Most Expensive Gallon of Gas in US History at $9.45 Per Gallon

• Americans are poorly served by their grocery stores

  • HN comments

• (May 26) Stimulus cheques have buoyed America’s stockmarket

• Can buy now, pay later survive the cost of living crisis?

• "Pilot shortage" American CEO says the airline has grounded 100 planes

• Solving the Housing Crisis will Require Fighting Monopolies in Construction

  there will be no progress ending these great disparities until the residential construction industry adopts technology that other industries began adopting more than 100 years ago – factory production methods. There have been attempts to introduce these methods in residential construction for the last century, but they are always blocked and sabotaged by monopolies in the traditional construction sector, that is, the sector producing homes outside, on-site, using “stick-built” methods. Monopolies in traditional construction sabotage many types of factory-built homes. In this essay, we focus on the sabotage of particular types of such homes, what we call small-modular homes. These homes can be produced and sold at very-low prices, so that the sabotage of these homes has disproportionately hurt the low-income. The sabotage is the primary reason for the existence of, and perpetuation of, U.S. housing crises.

  • Mobile Homes Might Make Housing Affordability Plans Work

• Amazon Retail CEO Dave Clark Quit

• Economy shows resilience despite mounting recession fears

• US Recession Is Avoidable If Fed Is Able to ‘Thread the Needle’

• Goldman Sachs senior chairman urges 'dial back' on negativity over economy

• On Stretch Wrap — The Prepared

Shortages

• Companies Are Hacking Their Way Around the Chip Shortage

• U.S. Midwest in danger of rotating power blackouts this summer

• One in Five US States Is 90% Out of Baby Formula

• Abbott’s baby formula shortage reveals deep problems with the US industry

• Switzerland Risks Power Shortages Next Winter

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Why Are We Still Governed by Baby Boomers and the Remarkably Old?

• January 6th Committee Kicks Off Prime-Time Hearings Next Week

• ‘Thanks, Joe:’ Gas Prices Have Officially Doubled Since Biden Became President

• Concerns over housing purchased for Seattle homeless

• Harris calls water security a foreign policy priority

• Before Jan. 6, Aide Warned Secret Service of Security Risk to Pence

• Tenn. Congressional Candidate Robby Starbuck Wins His Challenge Against State GOP - Will Be Placed Back on August Ballot – RedState

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Fiat Chrysler Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy in US Diesel Case

• John Durham lost because he treated the FBI as a dupe — rather than a Clinton collaborator

• Peter Navarro Arrested | Power Line

• The FBI Tried to Ambush My Source. Now I’m Telling the Whole Story

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• The Guardsman Helping Ukrainians Blow Up Russian Tanks over the Phone

• US Navy Super Hornet Crashes In Southern California

World

• Turkey’s inflation soars to 73%, a 23-year high, as food and energy costs rise

• Telegram has released user data to German Feds in multiple cases

• Hong Kong police warn Tiananmen anniversary gatherings will break the law

• South Africa: Black Ineptitude/White Capital

• From 'a bunch of terrorists' to tourists: Iraq's plan to tempt back travellers

• A Popular Benefit of Houseplants Is a Myth

• Turkey’s president changes country’s name

• Norway to Track All Supermarket Purchases

  • HN comments

• San Francisco keeps Tiananmen Square massacre memory on anniversary

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Devastating Forest Fires in Balochistan

• How Our Demand for sand is destroying our world

• Pacific Crest Trail may become 'all but impossible' to hike due to climate change

• Corn lobby wins big as EPA finalizes record ethanol blending requirement

• The Most Popular Weed Killer Has a Previously Unknown Effect on Bumblebees

• Drought-stricken US warned of looming 'dead pool'

• Carbon dioxide levels in air spike past milestone

• Car tyres produce vastly more particle pollution than exhausts, tests show

• Will California's Central Valley stop sinking?

• California is rationing water amid its worst drought in 1,200 years

• EPA raises amount of ethanol that must be blended with gas

• Let’s Not Pretend Planting Trees Is a Permanent Climate Solution

• Carbon Dioxide Levels Are Highest in Human History

Ukraine War

• Western allies meeting regularly to game out frameworks for Ukraine ceasefire

• Alternate view: Biden’s trip to Saudi Arabia exposes the hypocrisy of the imperialist war against Russia

• Pot, Meet Kettle: Putin Has An 'Almost Messianic Belief In Himself', Says Hillary Clinton

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• Companies that exited Russia are being rewarded with outsized stock returns

• The Utopian Russian Novel That Predicted Putin’s War Plan

• Deadly secret: Electronic warfare shapes Russia-Ukraine war