2022-06-11

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• Smart meters are not just ‘dumb’ but a scandalous waste of money

• No wait stop it matters how you raise your kids

Horseshit

• The Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to life

• Geico ordered to pay woman $5.2M after she contracted STD in a car

• Starbucks may close its bathrooms to the public again

  • HN comments

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Wealthy elites, rather than foreign cash, rescue countries from poverty

• PayPal and Etsy ban biologist Colin Wright

Jan6

• Jan. 6 live updates: More than 19 million people watched first January 6 public hearing

• Jan. 6 Committee Pulls Dismal Ratings In Prime-Time Show Trial

• In Philadelphia, liberals gather to experience the first Jan. 6 hearing together

• Jan. 6 Committee Being Used To "Abolish Electoral College", "Cover Up" For Pelosi: House Republicans

• Trump’s Truth Social Is Banning Users Who Post About Jan. 6 Hearings

Musk

• Tesla files for 3-for-1 stock split

  • Tesla Jumps After Board Proposes For 3-For-1 Stock Split, Larry Ellison To Step-Down

  • Tesla stock is about to get much cheaper

Gun control / Mass shooting

• Uvalde Shows Once Again That Cops Are Just Armed Bureaucrats: What happened in Uvalde is part of a pattern, not an aberration.

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• In Shanghai, Bleak Mood Lingers Beyond Lockdown's End

• Welcome to the Great Covid Reinfection

• Shanghai to lock down 2.7M, a week after easing Covid restrictions

• Republicans Press FDA On Why COVID-19 Vaccines Would Be Authorized For Young Children

• A Negative Covid Test Has Never Been So Meaningless

• Neanderthal gene probably caused up to a million Covid deaths

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• White supremacists are riling up thousands on social media

• Asian Woman Mistaken for White, Attacked in Retaliation for Rise in Hate Crimes

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• The Fight to Start High School After 8 A.M

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Workers on ‘The Simpsons,’ ‘Family Guy,’ and ‘American Dad’ Vote to Unionize

Crypto con games

• Seth Green Pays $300K to Recover His Stolen Bored Ape Ethereum NFT

• Coinbase: Brian Armstrong: This is really dumb on multiple levels | Hacker News

• Axie Infinity (AXS) Crypto Game Promised NFT Riches, Gave Ruin

• Cooperation among an anonymous group protected Bitcoin during failures

  • HN comments

• As energy prices soar, the Bitcoin miners may find they have struck fool’s gold

Economicon / Business / Finance

• US consumer sentiment hits lowest level since recording began in 1952

• The US housing market is seeing its worst contraction since 2006 as mortgage applications crumble, says Freddie Mac economist

• Soaring inflation fuels bets on sharper Fed rate hikes

• Gasoline Prices Reach $5 a Gallon Nationwide for the First Time

• 75% of recent home buyers have regrets about their new home

• Kohl’s Enters Exclusive Talks to Be Sold to Vitamin Shoppe Owner

• The U.S. housing market headed toward significant contraction since 2006

• Supply chain outlook still ‘pretty severe,’ economist says

• Silicon Valley braces for the good times to end

• Cosmetics Maker Revlon Nears Chapter 11 Filing

• Mobile home rent increases skyrocketing as corporations take ownership

Shortages

• Crops go to waste as UK farmers struggle to find workers

• Explosion at US natural gas plant raises risk of shortages in Europe

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Biden blames Russia's war in Ukraine for continued high inflation

• Biden calls for ocean shipping overhaul as part of inflation response

• Biden Administration to Pursue Rule Requiring Less Nicotine in U.S. Cigarettes

  • The White House wants to slash nicotine levels in all cigarettes sold in the US

• House approves bill to combat gasoline ‘price gouging’

• Pennsylvania Dem Says ‘Diseased’ GOP Must Be ‘Cleansed’ After Preaching ‘Unity.’

• IRS increases mileage rate for remainder of 2022 | Internal Revenue Service

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Nintendo Nemesis Max Louarn: Hacker, Rebel, and Wanted by the FBI

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• WMD Threat Reduction Efforts with Ukraine, Russia and Former Soviet Union

• US defense chief says China muscling neighbors, plundering resources in Pacific

• Drone swarms that harassed navy ships demystified in new docs

  • HN comments

• Three US Military Aircraft Crash In Southern California Within One Week | ZeroHedge

• US Air Force reactivates 65th AGRS as F-35 aggressor squadron

World

• Trudeau accuses China of harassment of Canadian jets

• Japan edges closer to intervention in yen

• Taiwan: Preparing for a Potential Chinese Invasion

• China warns Taiwan independence would trigger war

• Taiwan to Deploy ‘Bee Eye’ Radars Near Chinese Mainland

• But Can the United States Defend Taiwan?

Health / Medicine

• Canada to put warning on each cigarette, not just packaging

• One in 500 men carry extra sex chromosome, research suggests

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Sriracha hot sauce production suspended due to climate crisis

• L.A.'s coast was once a DDT dumping ground

Ukraine War

• Russia’s Duma mulls revoking recognition of Lithuanian independence.

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• Shortage of Artillery Ammo Saps Ukrainian Frontline Morale

• Suitcase or a “porta-potty”? How Putin protects his biomaterials

• Ukraine says Russian army is storing dead soldiers in meatpacking plant.

• Putin speaks his truth, yet again

  Wow, Putin basically just stopped pretending: "During the war with Sweden, Peter the Great didn't conquer anything, he took back what had always belonged to us, even though all of Europe recognised it as Sweden's. It seems now it's our turn to get our lands back [smiling]".

• U.S. Lacks a Clear Picture of Ukraine's War Strategy, Officials Say

• Is Time on Ukraine’s Side?