2022-11-28

Worthy

• The world of pipe fittings

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• Small Plane Crashes into Transmission Tower in Maryland

• Mauna Loa eruption underway; lava currently contained to summit

• Inside the factory that only builds white Toyotas | Top Gear

  Toyota still builds a 4.2-litre non-turbo diesel. You can’t register a new one in Europe because of its emissions, but it doesn’t go wrong and any mechanic can fix it in the field because there’s no electronics around it. You don’t need diagnostic tools, you just need to know how an engine works.”

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Horseshit

• How Monogamy and Incest Taboos Made the West

Musk

• Twitter hit with wave of porn and spam obscuring tweets about China protests

• Twitter Is Too Musk to Fail

• Elon Musk’s Boring Company Ghosts Cities Across America

• Apple has stopped advertising on Twitter. Do they hate free speech in America?

• Twitter is now having trouble paying some employees on time

• Apple has threatened to withhold Twitter from App Store, but won’t tell us why

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• FBI Waited Over A Year To Fully Investigate Jan. 6 Pipe Bombs: House Judiciary Republicans | ZeroHedge

• A Peek Inside the FBI’s Unprecedented January 6 Geofence Dragnet

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• China Covid: Protests continue in major cities across the country

• Chinese Protest the Same Lockdowns That Elites Advocated Here

• Protests erupt across China in challenge to Xi Jinping’s zero-Covid policy

• BBC Journalist Beaten and Kicked by Police During Covid Protests in China

• California school districts can't independently impose Covid vax mandates

• Monkeypox given new name by global health experts

  Monkeypox will now be known as mpox, the World Health Organization (WHO) has announced, after complaints over racist and stigmatising language linked to the virus's name. The old term will be used alongside the new one for a year, before being phased out.

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• UC-Berkeley can’t use race in admissions. Is it a model for the country?

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Instagram Is the New Neighborhood Pot Dealer

• ‘Bullshit’ — CNN’s New Chief Addresses Nasty Rumors That It Might Become ‘Centrist.’

TechSuck

• HN Who is hiring job posts over time | Hacker News

Crypto con games

• Bahamas Attorney General Gets Defensive as FTX Users Wonder About Bankman-Fried

• A forgotten banking scandal suggests FTX is the tip of the crypto iceberg

• AAX Exchange Has Fallen

• BlockFi Files for Bankruptcy as Latest Crypto Casualty

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Thanks, Joe! 41% of small businesses can’t pay their rent this month.

• The great mismatch: Remote jobs are in demand, but positions are drying up

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• The growing unchecked power of state legislatures

• No joke: Supreme Court case could take a big bite out of the First Amendment | The Hill

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• US gives Chevron limited auth to pump oil in Venezuela on humanitarian agreement

• U.S. Effort to Arm Taiwan Slowed by War in Ukraine

Health / Medicine

• City of Houston Is Under a Water Boil Advisory, Affecting Millions

• Guzzling two litres of water a day is over the top

• New Study of 5M People Reveals Genetic Links to Height

• Lab-Grown Meat Is Safe to Eat, FDA Says

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Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Beyond Meat Is Struggling, and the Plant-Based Meat Industry Worries