2022-09-04

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• "Suicidal" Pilot Lands In Mississippi Field, Taken Into Custody

• Artemis standing down from current launch window – likely delayed until October

  • Years after shuttle, NASA rediscovers the perils of liquid hydrogen

• NASA to crash $330M spacecraft into asteroid to see if impact can alter course

• The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves

• Why was western printing superior to Asian printing? | Hacker News

• Coal miners help push tourists’ dead electric car in West Virginia

Horseshit

• In Jackson, Mississippi, a water crisis of unparalleled scale

  • HN comments

• Eating While Politicking Is Harder Than It’s Ever Been. Here’s Why

• Circular economy could expose children to hazard via old toys, childcare items

• The Distinctiveness of Human Aggression

Obit

• Colin Cantwell, ‘Star Wars’ Spacecraft Designer, Dies at 90

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Blocking Kiwifarms

  > This is an extraordinary decision for us to make and, given
  > Cloudflare's role as an Internet infrastructure provider, a
  > dangerous one that we are not comfortable with. However, the
  > rhetoric on the Kiwifarms site and specific, targeted threats
  > have escalated over the last 48 hours to the point that we
  > believe there is an unprecedented emergency and immediate threat
  > to human life unlike we have previously seen from Kiwifarms or
  > any other customer before.
  

  • HN comments

  • (Jun 2020) Turns out half the internet has a Single-Point-of-Failure called Cloudflare

  • HN comments

  • Weev claimed Stormfront had insiders at Cloudflare, CEO claimed not true

  • I ran the worlds largest DDoS-for-Hire empire and Cloudflare helped

  • HN comments

  • Under pressure, security firm Cloudflare drops Kiwi Farms website

  • Kiwi Farms response to CloudFlare

  • HN comments

Musk

• NHTSA Finds Teslas Deactivated Autopilot Seconds Before Crashes

• “Law of Elon Musk” Class at UCLA

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Former US Intel Chief: FBI "Didn’t Find What They Were Looking For" In Trump Raid

• CONFIRMED: As Gateway Pundit Reported -- FBI Doctored Mar-a-Lago Photo, Added Their Own Docs that DON'T MATCH INVENTORY REPORTS

• Biden’s Reichstag Blunder.

  Unable to campaign on substance, Biden’s Thursday speech was designed to change the subject. Biden is hoping his party can retain complete control of Washington by making the 2022 midterm elections all about one man whose name isn’t on a single ballot: Trump.

• "They Are Trying To Assassinate": Bannon Accuses Biden Of Stirring Anti-Right Hatred After Home 'SWATed' Again

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Unknown Cause of 1 Million Excess Deaths per Year.

• Data For Newly Authorized COVID-19 Boosters Based On Mice, Not Humans

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Bank of America to offer zero-down mortgages in Black and Hispanic communities

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Survey finds young people follow news, but without much joy

TechSuck

• Why is Intel's GPU program having problems? - SemiAccurate

  long time readers of SemiAccurate, please sit down and stop drinking anything before you keep reading. We say this for your safety because we are going to defend Intel for the second time in a row. The current Intel GPU program is in pretty awful shape but we are going to point out that the current malaise isn’t their fault. Really. OK, mostly not but this latest delay is truly something they could not have foreseen.

• 24 years ago, today – Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin

• The forty-year programmer

  • HN comments

Crypto con games

• Noah interviews Vitalik

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Will House Prices Decline Nationally?

• Bed, Bath & Beyond CFO Identified As Man Who Lept To Death From Tribeca Skyscraper

  • Bed, Bath, and Beyond CFO jumped to his death from NYC apartment building

• After ‘quiet quitting,’ here comes ‘quiet firing’

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Facebook parent company repeatedly violated WA campaign finance law, court finds

• Jackson, Miss: The liberation has begun! - by Ann Coulter

  According to our media, a major city in the United States of America 2022, does not have drinking water either because of heavy rain (who could have anticipated RAIN?) or racism. In fact, racism probably caused the wholly unexpected event of rain, meaning it’s a double whammy of racism.

• Activists More Than Halfway To Forcing Constitutional Amendment Convention | ZeroHedge

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Judge Dismisses Carter Page Lawsuit Against FBI Despite 'Deeply Troubling' Surveillance

  U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich issued the ruling on Thursday stating that Page, who was an informal presidential campaign adviser to Trump in 2016, cannot sue the FBI or other former officials involved in the $75 million lawsuit

World

• Life in Blackout Britain: Experts warn energy rationing this winter could see people told not to cook until after 8pm, pubs close at 9pm, ‘three-day-a-week’ school, care homes cancel outings for residents and swimming pools left unheated

• British-Owned Satellite Startup Takes $229 Million Writedown After Kremlin Halts Kazakhstan-Based Launch Plans

  OneWeb, a British startup company that is partly owned by the British government, was forced to take a $229 million writedown this week after Russia prevented its plans for a launch earlier this year and held 36 of its satellites hostage

• Europe’s Energy Crunch Squeezes World’s Largest Particle Collider

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Russians pay respects to former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Putin snubs

• How Russia Uses Low Tech in Its High-Tech Weapons

Health / Medicine

• Miracle ‘farm dust’ pill could prevent childhood allergies

• People generate own oxidation field, change the indoor air chemistry around them

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Drought causes Dutch wooden pole foundations to rot

• Ask HN: What is the perfect global planetary climate?

  • Near to one of my favorite questions: What would "solving" climate change look like? Eliminate the portion of human CO2 emission attributable to fossil fuels? Eliminate all human emissions? Seems like after all this time and all the word written about climate change there should be an articulated goal, somewhere. Most seem to boil down to "most humans (other than the author) should use less chemical energy."