2022-10-04

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• Why did we wait so long for wind power?, part II

Horseshit

• Almost three-quarters of dating app users subjected to online sexual violence

• The deserts of Saudi Arabia will soon be a playground for winter sports

Obit

• Loretta Lynn, coal miner’s daughter and country music queen, dies, age 90

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Federal Reserve announces pilot exercise for ESG social credit score system

Musk

• What if Musk loses the Twitter case but defies the court?

• There Was One Person Who Didn’t Embarrass Himself in the Elon Musk Texts

• All Hell Breaks Loose After Musk Posts "Russia-Ukraine Peace" Twitter Poll

• Elon Musk Draws Criticism from Ukraine’s Zelensky over Russia Tweets

• Elon Musk's Empire of Risk

• SpaceX has been bidding against itself for NASA’s science missions for awhile

• Musk said to propose to Twitter to proceed with deal at $54.20, shares halted

• Elon Musk says he's willing to buy Twitter after all, possibly averting a trial

• Elon Musk Proposes Going Through with Twitter Deal at Original Price

• Musk makes U-turn before trial, tells Twitter he’ll complete merger

• Elon Musk proposes buying Twitter for originally agreed $44B

• Elon Musk proposes to buy Twitter at original $44B price to avoid trial: sources

• Ask HN: Why Musk’s Twitter news is not on front page?

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• ‘Russian Lackey, Racist, Hitler’: Trump Sues CNN for Defamation, Seeks $475 Million in Damages.

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Peter Daszak Awarded Another $650k to Study Bat Coronaviruses

  • Peter Daszak has a new grant from the NIH to study bat coronaviruses in the wild

• Will there be a Covid winter wave? What scientists say

• Tell HN: University of California is forcing all members to take a flu vaccine

TechSuck

• AMD Ryzen 7000 Series performs better with Spectre V2 Mitigations enabled

• Using Google Maps history to see if my boyfriend and I could have met earlier | Hacker News

• Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into print | Hacker News

• Lowest “Who is hiring?” Post Count in 30 Months

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Fed's Williams says Fed policy not restrictive, still has ways to go

• Home Builders Offer to Sell Homes in Bulk at Discount to Investors

• How big is the capital hole at Credit Suisse?

• Generation Covid: Record Numbers of Youth Opt Out of College, Work

• The UN Demands All Central Banks Stop Rate Hikes And Switch To Price Controls Instead | ZeroHedge

• The end of cheap money reveals global debt problem

• Facebook 'looks to quietly cull 12,000 underperforming workers'-15% of its staff

• Amazon Freezes Corporate Hiring in Its Retail Business

Shortages

• The Adderall Shortage Is Causing Mass Chaos for Patients, Doctors and Pharmacies

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• White House unveils artificial intelligence ‘Bill of Rights’

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Fight over social media’s role in terror content goes to Supreme Court

  • SCOTUS weighs first case testing Big Tech liability for recommending content

• The Onion files Supreme Court amicus brief defending the right to parody

  • (PDF) Brief of The Onion as Amicus Curiae of Petitioner.

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• How We Would Know When China Is Preparing to Invade Taiwan

  • HN comments

• We still haven't solved the Nuclear Age - by Noah Smith

World

• Iranian security forces beat, shot and detained students of university in Tehran

• North Korea launches missile 'believed' to fly over Japan

• Children removed from Jewish sect's jungle compound in Mexico - BBC News

• Worldwide fertiliser shortage prompts Peru to turn to bird poo

• European Parliament passes legislation introducing universal charger

• Haiti is truly collapsing

• How did South Korea become such a world power?

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Putin deploys largest submarine, 'nuclear' convoy

• Former Pentagon Advisor Says US Likely Attacked Nord Stream Pipelines To Isolate Germany

• Russia’s “Filtration Camps” in Eastern Ukraine

• Single line of Nord Stream 2 can still export gas, analysts say

• Ukraine tank breakthrough in south towards Kherson

• Ukraine troops break through Russian lines in Kherson

• Jeffrey Sachs: Rest of World Thinks U.S. Probably Sabotaged Nord Stream

Health / Medicine

• Walmart, CVS face trial for putting sham homeopathic products next to real meds

• At Long Last, Can Malaria Be Eradicated?

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Heating homes with hydrogen is neither cheap nor environmentally friendly

• California braces for dry winter as Western drought drags on

• California wells run dry as drought depletes groundwater

• Population is 'exploding' in the region hit hardest by Hurricane Ian

• Want a career saving the planet? Become an electrician