2022-08-21

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• Exploding meteor startles Utah.

• Mobile home residents say landlords make millions, neglect them

Horseshit

• “They're Parked On The Side Of The Crater – They're Watching Us” – When Neil Armstrong Landed On The Moon

• A dad took photos of his naked child for a doctor; Google reported him to police

  • HN comments

• Understanding “longtermism”: Why this suddenly influential philosophy is toxic

• As divorce applications peaked during Covid, a surprising new profession emerged

• "If You Gonna Be A Ho, Be A Real Ho": CPS Worker Fired After Telling 14-Year-Old To Become Prostitute

• Top Tier Gasoline Worth the Extra Price, Study Shows

celebrity gossip

• Jonah Hill to stop promoting films to protect his mental health - BBC News

• Gary Busey faces sex charges in New Jersey

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• The Great Reset: Testing, Testing… | The Pipeline

• Historical prevalence of slavery predicts contemporary American gun ownership

• interfluidity » Consensus not censorship

Musk

• People are now testing Tesla's 'full self-driving' on real kids

• Price of FSD will rise to $15k in North America on September 5th

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Tribe: The Criminal Case Against Trump is Another “Slam Dunk” – JONATHAN TURLEY

• Peter Thiel Is MAGA’s Big Money Man

• MSNBC Host: “Civil War” is Here With Republicans

• The Return of Peter Strzok: How a Fired FBI Official Is Making the Case Against Himself – JONATHAN TURLEY

• Poll: Nearly Two-Thirds Of College Democrats Would Refuse To Room With A Trump Supporter; Republicans Far Less Likely To Reject A Biden Voter

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• The Origins of the Pandemic – Under That Rug

  no one seems to be able to persuade the Chinese government of anything. The official line is that China has nothing to do with the outbreak in any way, that it's all the fault of foreigners and anti-Chinese forces, and that now the world must come together to find these culprits who are absolutely, positively, somewhere other than China.

• A Twitter thread on the worst “science”-driven craziness of 2020

• Neurological and psychiatric risk trajectories after SARS-CoV-2 infection

• Mountain View California Principal Calls Police to Remove 4-Year Old Boy From School For Not Wearing a Mask

• Silent crisis of soaring excess deaths in Britain is only tip of the iceberg

  • HN comments

• What's behind the FDA's controversial strategy for evaluating new COVID boosters

• New study suggests Covid increases risks of brain disorders

• New WHO guidelines: Monkeypox could be classified as an Sexually Transmitted Infection.

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• UC Berkeley Student Housing Co-Op Bans White People From Common Areas

• Astrophysics helped me embrace my nonbinary gender identity

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Nearly 2M fewer students have enrolled in public school

• Nobody Wants to Teach Anymore

  • HN comments

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Apple builds new ad empire after kneecapping competitors

• Cancel Culture Is Coming for Google

• The Dangers of TikTok Stardom for Children

• Deception vs. authenticity: Why the metaverse will change marketing forever

• HBO Max Pulls Nearly 200 ‘Sesame Street’ Episodes

  • HN comments

TechSuck

• My tone doesn’t make me wrong, or how I convinced the Ruby project to fix an inconsistency – Felipe Contreras

  • HN comments

• We can make our phones harder to hack but complete security is a pipe dream

Crypto con games

• Crypto Is Tumbling, but in Argentina It’s Still a Safer Bet

• The Merge is approaching, and comes with changes to Ethereum

• The Merge

  • HN comments

• What Ethereum’s Big ‘Merge’ Means in Crypto Land

• FTX grew revenue 1,000% during the crypto craze: Leaked financials

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Regal Owner Cineworld Nears Bankruptcy as Theater Comeback Lags

• Ultra-rich fueling sales of luxury brands despite inflation and recession fears

• Over-50s turn to house-shares to beat rising rents

• The Average Used Car Price Is Now $33,000

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Energy Projects Sought Across the U.S. Face Local Regulatory Hurdles

• As Apartment Rents Soar in Orlando, Rent Control Goes to a Vote

• Mitt Romney is running for President.

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Man suspected of spray-painting swastika on Rainbow crosswalks arrested after standoff in Midtown.

  It’s unclear what charges the suspect faces or what his motivation was.

  • 8/17/2022: UPDATE Arrest made: Rainbow Crosswalk Vandalism - Crime Stoppers Release and Video Clip. | News List | Atlanta Police Department

World

• Indian doctors are removing the wombs of cane-cutters to increase productivity

• 5G wars: the US plot to make Britain ditch Huawei

• Quebec moves to protect French amid Canada’s shift towards English

• Singapore will decriminalize sex between men, prime minister says

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Ukrainians Speak about Being Taken to Russia

• Daughter of Putin Propagandist Killed in Car Bomb Outside Moscow

  • Daughter of Ukraine war mastermind ‘is blown to pieces in Moscow car bomb:’ Darya Dugin ‘assassinated in attack meant for her father Alexander’ – one of Putin’s closest aides often dubbed the Russian leader’s ‘brain.’

• The Far-Right Book Every Russian General Reads

  The Foundations of Geopolitics, in which he promotes the idea of a vast Eurasian empire that looks east, not west, is required reading at the General Staff Academy for every Russian military officer above the rank of colonel.

• Russia’s war at 6 months: A global economy in growing danger.

• Zelensky Warns Of 'Nastier' Phase Of War As Russia Says Dugin Car Bombing Was A 'Contract Killing'

Health / Medicine

• Does ‘vabbing’ work? The truth about vaginal pheromones.

• Late-stage cervical cancer cases are on the rise

• Nose picking: The health reasons you shouldn’t indulge in it

• Is losing weight an important health goal?

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Rip up your lawn for $6 a square foot? Welcome to drought-stricken California

• Killer whales are 'attacking' sailboats near Europe's coast

• The world's rivers are drying up. See how 6 look from space

• Nuclear Power and Hot Air Balloons

• UK drought: Why do the trees think it's autumn already?

• The Silence of Risk Management Victory - by Stephanie Losi

  • HN comments

• Is modern environmentalism a pagan religion?

• I used to support wind power and vilify natural gas. I was so wrong

• Volcanic eruptions: risks are greater than people think, time to prepare

• If everyone bicycled like the Danes, we’d avoid a UK’s worth of emissions

  • HN comments

• The Limits to Growth

• Rare toxic algae behind fish deaths in river Oder, say researchers

• Heat waves aren't going away