2022-09-03

Worthy

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• After 53 Years of Daily Driving This 1969 Toyota Corolla Is Retiring to a Museum

• Science is political, and that's a bad thing

  • HN comments

• New York investigators seize over $13M worth of artifacts from Met

• Pilot Circling Mississippi City Threatens To Crash Plane Into Walmart

  • Pilot threatening to crash plane into Mississippi Walmart, police say

• Lost islands cited in Welsh folklore and poetry are plausible

Artemis

• Artemis Launch set for 2:17 pm ET.

• Launch Director Gives “Go” to Begin Cryogenic Operations

• After careful consideration, NASA ready to launch SLS rocket as is

• 10.20a CDT: Artemis I Launch Attempt Scrubbed

  The launch director waived off today’s Artemis I launch attempt at approximately 11:17 a.m. EDT. Teams encountered a liquid hydrogen leak while loading the propellant into the core stage of the Space Launch System rocket. Multiple troubleshooting efforts to address the area of the leak by reseating a seal in the quick disconnect where liquid hydrogen is fed into the rocket did not fix the issue.

Horseshit

• Superdeterminism: To Better Understand Our Universe, Ditch The Idea Of Free Will

Obit

• Peter Eckersley just passed away

  • Peter Eckersley, may his memory be a blessing

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• New evidence shows how YouTube’s algorithm fueled 2020 election deniers

• Biden admin held weekly censorship meetings with social media giants

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• FBI found more than 11,000 government records at Trump's Florida home

• Washington Post Columnist Admits Biden's Hellish Spectacle Was a 'Wartime' Speech

• WaPo reports ‘a Trump-led movement centered in victimhood sees Biden’s speech as an attack’ – twitchy.com

• Prosecutors Identify Police Supervisor Who Beat Woman On Jan. 6

• Feds Seized Dozens Of Trump’s “Clothing/Gift Items,” Books, and Hundreds Of Magazine Clippings In Mar-a-Lago Raid, Per Updated Inventory.

• Biden Walks Back “MAGA Republicans Are a Threat” Claim, Beclowning Sycophantic Media And Never-Trumpers.

• Even the media has issues with Biden’s speech.

  First, of course, is the supervillain-like optics of his speech, for crying out loud. As fantasy author Larry Correia pointed out, if he’d put that in a book, he’d have been accused of being hamfisted.

• (PDF) List of items found in Donald Trumps boxes seized by the FBI

• What the FBI Seized from Mar-a-Lago, Illustrated

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• “Game changer” Paxlovid turns into pandemic enigma

• Vaccinated at Higher Risk of Serious Adverse Events: Reanalysis of Original Data

• Monkeypox safety measures will be put to the test at New Orleans’ Labor Day festival.

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Anti-trans stalkers at Kiwi Farms are chasing one victim around the world

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• California school district asks parents to let teachers move in as rents soar

• The Rise and Fall of Vibes-Based Literacy | Hacker News

• Physics professor: Refusing to wear a face mask is a ‘manifestation of ableism and racism’ | The College Fix

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• A Conservative Publisher Wants to Be the Answer to Liberal Children’s Books

• IMDB deleted all negative user reviews for The Rings of Power

  • A Racist Backlash to ‘Rings of Power’ Puts Tolkien’s Legacy into Focus

TechSuck

• "Incel" and "alt-right meme-language" Why all personal websites die | Hacker News

Crypto con games

• Actor Bill Murray lost $185K raised for charity in crypto hack

• El Salvador Had a Bitcoin Revolution. Hardly Anybody Showed Up

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Americans taking out loans through buy now, pay later apps to purchase groceries.

• Amazon Closes, Abandons Plans for Dozens of US Warehouses

  • Amazon Entering the Warehousing Business

• FTC Investigating Amazon Deal to Buy One Medical Network of Health Clinics

• The Economist Who Knows the Miracle Is Over

• The World’s Energy Problem Is Far Worse Than We’re Being Told

• GM offers to buy out Buick dealers that don't want to invest in EVs

• Census Bureau: 3.8M renters will likely be evicted in the next two months

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Joe Biden, Lout, Liar, And Lunatic – Issues & Insights

• Watch: CNN Caught Color-Shifting Biden's Hell-Red Rant Mid-Speech

• IRS says it exposed some confidential taxpayer data on website

• Friday Humor: White House Takes Credit For Creating 10 Billion Jobs | ZeroHedge

  she noted that the White House has created "nearly ten-thousand million jobs," which she bragged was "the fastest job growth in history - so you're asking me 'where's the success?'"

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Remember "Defund the police?" The Injustice of Underpolicing in America

• Judge declines to overturn Elizabeth Holmes guilty verdict

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• U.S. angers China with potential $1.1B arms sale to Taiwan

World

• Nord Stream gas supply pipeline from Russia will be closed INDEFINITELY after ‘oil leak was found’… just hours after G7 nations decided to cap payments in bid to defund Kremlin war machine.

• Energy war as West caps Russian oil price, Moscow keeps gas pipe shut

• Russia shuts European gas pipeline indefinitely as energy crisis escalates

• Ukraine war: Russia to keep key gas pipeline to EU closed

• Fears rise of energy crisis after Russia switches off the gas – again

• Minister: All French nuclear reactors to restart by winter

• How's Brexit going lads? – Dariusz Więckiewicz

• As Britain awaits a new prime minister, its cost-of-living crisis mounts

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Lukoil Chairman Ravil Maganov the 8th Russian energy executive to die suddenly

• Ukraine sitrep: inspectors find military equipment at nuke plant, defenestration

Health / Medicine

• Cannabis users no less likely to be motivated or able to enjoy life’s pleasure

• An E. coli outbreak associated with Wendy's restaurants has now sickened 97

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Death Valley sets world record for September. Hits 127 degrees