2023-01-03

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• Bullying your mum isn’t activism

• How the marijuana ‘green rush’ fell apart | Hacker News

Obit

• Ken Block: Rally driver and YouTuber killed in snowmobile accident

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Russia's Prigozhin admits interfering in U.S. elections

Musk

• Elon Musk has lost a bigger fortune than anyone in history

• What Elon Musk Is Teaching Us About Billionaires

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• ‘Died Suddenly’? More Than 1-in-4 Think Someone They Know Died From COVID-19 Vaccines - Rasmussen Reports®

• Monday Night Football Postponed After Bills' Hamlin Collapses, Receives CPR On Field | ZeroHedge

• Retrospective look at rapid Covid testing

  The well-known Society for Healthcare Epidemiology just recommended that hospitals stop testing asymptomatic patients for Covid. You may or may not agree, but that is a sign of how much status testing has lost.

• Vaccines and prior infection reduce omicron transmission in California prisons

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• White companies wouldn't remove Confederate statues. So a Black man did it. - The Washington Post

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Google and Meta’s Advertising Dominance Fades as TikTok, Netflix Emerge

TechSuck

• The strangest computer manual ever written

  • HN comments

• Python 2 removed from Debian

  • HN comments

• The infrastructure behind ATMs

  • HN comments

• The UK’s PSTN network will switch off in 2025

Crypto con games

• Caroline Ellison wanted to make a difference. Now she’s facing prison

• Sam Bankman-Fried Asks Judge to Keep His Bail Guarantors Secret

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Third of world economy to hit recession in 2023, IMF head warns

• The Fed needs to jack rates up by 10%

• Wave of Job-Switching Has Employers on a Training Treadmill

• Apartment vacancies are piling up

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• McCarthy Fails To Secure Enough Votes To Become House Speaker | ZeroHedge

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Virgin Islands AG Fired Three Days After Suing JPMorgan Over Jeffrey Epstein

• Tesla on autopilot leads police on chase before driver finally wakes up

World

• What's behind NYE attacks on German police, firefighters?

• First LNG tanker arrives at Germany's new floating terminal

• Why Americans with Chronic Pain Are Dying

• Japanese government offers families 1M yen a child to leave Tokyo

• Tobacco companies to be billed for cleaning up cigarette butts in Spain

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Ukraine claims hundreds of Russians killed by missile attack

• Hacked Russian Files Reveal Propaganda Agreement with China

• Why does mystery blonde keep popping up in Putin photo ops?

Health / Medicine

• Cheese offers nutrition benefits, less lactose than previously thought

• Easy Home Remedies to Prevent Negligent Homicide

• Richard Hanania defends Canadian euthanasia

  Critics of MAID often argue by anecdote. Sometimes, you’ll see headlines along the lines of “I needed crutches and they offered me euthanasia.” These are practically always one-sided stories that haven’t been verified, amplified by a network of social conservatives, disability activists, and socialists who are opposed to MAID or want to use it to achieve other political ends like a more expansive welfare state. Yet one has to employ a bit of common sense. If the Canadian MAID program is overwhelmingly used by the sick and the elderly, how likely is it that doctors are pushing suicide in cases like this? The Canadian government report notes that only 139 MAID recipients were between 18 and 45 in 2021. I would bet a lot of money that the vast majority, if not all of them, had at least one extremely painful and incurable physical condition.

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• The Global Fertility Collapse - by Brink Lindsey

• Snow shortage threatens Alps with wet winter season

  • Grassy slopes in the Alps? European slopes' snow shortage in record warm winter

• Noise pollution is a menace to humanity – and a deadly threat to animals

• Solar Panels Reduced My Electric Bill by $2,677 in 2022 – Matt Bruenig Dot Com

  . If every year results in this kind of savings, then the panels will pay themselves back in 7 years. The remaining 13 years on the “lifetime” of the panels would thus be profit.

  • HN thread