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• What We Know Now About Friday Night’s Near-Disaster at JFK Airport

Horseshit

• Canadians are now stealing overpriced food from grocery stores with zero remorse

• A decade on, the 'This is fine' creator wants to put the famous dog to rest

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Deconstructing ‘The Twitter Files’

• The World Economic Forum is insulating policy-making from democracy

• Call for new taxes on super-rich after 1% pocket two-thirds of all new wealth

Musk

• Who should be the next CEO of Twitter? / Let’s play a guessing game

• The Shit Show • furbo.org

  • HN comments

• Twitter’s third-party client issue is seemingly a deliberate suspension

• Musk: Instagram makes people depressed and Twitter makes them angry

• Elon Musk, Tesla Poised for Trial over 2018 Take-Private Tweets

• Elon Musk’s buddies in Silicon Valley are predicting he will emerge laughing

• Tesla Price Drop Angers Current Owners

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Green Eggs and Hamfisted: Public intellectualism once involved a degree of humility. Now it is too often hubris all the way down.

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Other Communities Like HN? | Hacker News

• Did the Music Business Just Kill the Vinyl Revival?

  here’s an even more ominous sign. Half of vinyl buyers don’t own a record player. They apparently bought the Taylor Swift album as a kind of memorabilia—something a little nicer than a band T-shirt.

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Cheap Food Items to Buy When They’re on Sale

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Why Was Hunter Paying Joe Biden $50k Per Month To Rent House Where Classified Documents Found? | ZeroHedge

• Californians voted to spend billions on water storage but state sitting on cash

• How McCarthy’s speaker deals will cause ‘cannibalistic brawl among extremists’

• The Left Is Becoming Increasingly Similar to the Taliban

• No Visitor Logs Exist for Biden Home Where Classified Docs Were Kept, White House Reveals

• TAX CHEAT? Joe Didn't Report the $50,000/Month in Rent Hunter Claimed He Paid – PJ Media

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• UFO Sightings by US Troops Surge

World

• German defense minister announces resignation

• Opinion: Putin has lost the gas war against Germany

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Russian missiles used on Ukrainian apartments designed to sink aircraft carriers

Health / Medicine

• The global health-care collapse

  • HN comments

  • The Collapse of U.S. Healthcare – The Perspective of a Primary Care Physician | Hacker News

• Walking in Minimalist Shoes Is Effective for Strengthening Foot Muscles

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Bill Gates: We will overshoot 1.5 degrees Celsius of global warming

• Half of green claims used to sell products in EU are misleading, Brussels finds