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• I don't like making the best things | Hacker News

• Throughout the rich world, the young are falling out of love with cars

  • HN comments

• NASA Confirms 1,000-Pound Meteoroid Made Entry Over South Texas | ZeroHedge

• ‘Chernobyl 2.0’? Ohio Train Derailment Spurs Wild Speculation

  • FEMA advises Gov. DeWine Ohio is not eligible for assistance at this time

  • Feds are sending medical experts to Ohio toxic train wreck site

Horseshit

• The average erect penis length increased by 24% over 29 years

• One Foot Tsunami: All The Buns Are Blank

  • HN comments

• 16-Hour Flight To Nowhere Caused By JFK Airport's Terminal Power Failure

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• RightWingGPT – An AI Manifesting the Opposite Political Biases of ChatGPT

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• There Are Vaccines and There Are Vaccines | Science | AAAS

• Moderna promises free COVID-19 vaccines after U.S. public health emergency ends.

• Immunity acquired from a Covid infection as protective as vaccination

  • Past SARS-CoV-2 infection protection against re-infection: a review and analysis

• US Navy Lifts COVID Vaccine Mandate For Sailor Deployment

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Use 'egg-producing' not 'female', call to phase out binary language

• The New York Times Turns Its Back on the Far Left

  In other words, the contributors are upset that the Times reports the existence of disagreement. They also complain that the Times’ reports have been cited by conservatives in judicial briefs and legislative debates around the country.

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Paramount+ plans price increases as it hits 56M subscribers

• How to Shoot Down a Chinese Spy Balloon - X-Plane

• The founder of WallStreetBets is suing Reddit

TechSuck

• Google Fiber comes back to life with 5 gigabit service, plans for 8Gbps soon

• Is the Living Computer Museum Dead? | PCjs Machines

  • HN comments

• A Brief History of Random Numbers

  • HN comments

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Apple has begun firing contractors amid mass tech layoffs

• Junk Fees, Bundling and Unbundling - by Zvi Mowshowitz

• Americans Have Nearly $1T in Credit Card Debt

• Manheim Used Car Prices Reaccelerate As "Disinflation" Narrative Falters | ZeroHedge

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• House GOP subpoenas Facebook and Google over content moderation

• Zoning laws are no longer in effect in much of the Bay Area

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• The FBI's Balkan scandal keeps spreading | Washington Examiner

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Hobby Club’s Missing Balloon Feared Shot Down by USAF

  The club’s silver-coated, party-style, “pico balloon” reported its last position on Feb. 10 at 38,910 ft. off the west coast of Alaska, and a popular forecasting tool—the HYSPLIT model provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)—projected the cylindrically shaped object would be floating high over the central part of the Yukon Territory on Feb. 11. That is the same day a Lockheed Martin F-22 shot down an unidentified object of a similar description and altitude in the same general area.

  • HN comments

  • The US Air Force may have shot down an amateur radio pico balloon over Canada | Hacker News

  • Amateur balloonist grp from Illinois says balloon last reported over Alaska MIA

• Debunking Seymour Hersh's Alta-Class Claims

  • HN comments

World

• Japan aborts launch of flagship H3 rocket moments before lift off

• China’s property crash is prompting banks to offer mortgages to 70-year-olds

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• The Drone War in Ukraine Is Cheap, Deadly, and Made in China

Health / Medicine

• Declining sperm count: Much more than you wanted to know

  • HN comments

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Google Greenwashes a Dirty Partnership with Climate-Destroying Saudi Aramco

• Climate, ice sheets and sea level: the news is not good

• What’s Wrong with Bananas (2018) | Hacker News