2023-07-26

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• When did people stop being drunk all the time?

  • HN comments

• Congress Wants Answers on UFOs: ‘The American People Deserve the Truth’ - WSJ

• Chevy Bolt EV is returning to market, months after GM scrapped it

Horseshit

• The first room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductor? | Hacker News

• New Mexico Governor’s Hotline Caught Referring Women to Satanic Temple for Abortions.

celebrity gossip

• Actor Kevin Spacey cleared of all charges of sexual assault

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• NPR ridiculed for regurgitating claim that the movement to push bug food on the masses is a 'racist' conspiracy theory - TheBlaze

Musk

• The logo of X, formerly Twitter, wasn’t stolen

• Elon Musk takes control of X account from user who had held it for 16 years

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Everybody seems to be getting blood clots.

• The Fallacy of Red Covid - by polimath

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Unesco calls for global ban on smartphones in schools

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• As Actors Strike for AI Protections, Netflix Lists $900k AI Job

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• 10 Media Hack Factories That Pooh-Poohed The Biden-Burisma Scandal As A Conspiracy Theory.

• Ron DeSantis Involved in Car Accident in Tennessee – PJ Media

• “Nothing to See Here”: Members and the Media Panic as the Biden Scandal Mounts – JONATHAN TURLEY

• Small funnel cloud over US Capitol turns into viral photo

• Biden claims 'we ended cancer as we know it' and says there's 'no difference' between a broken arm and a mental breakdown | Daily Mail Online

• DeSantis Axes A Third Of 2024 Staff As Distant-Second Campaign Spins Its Wheels

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Tyranny of the minority: Liberal law profs urge Biden to defy the courts and the public | The Hill

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Another Layer to the Nation Humiliation at Kabul.

  Family given the bill for repatriating the remains of their Marine sergeant daughter who was killed in Afghanistan during the withdrawal.

World

• Tesla Cars Barred from World University Games in Sichuan Ahead of Xi Visit

• Number of Japanese drops in all 47 prefectures as foreign population surges

Health / Medicine

• We Need More Research on How CO2 Affects Cognition

  But there’s a problem: the literature on CO2s effects on cognition is extremely inconsistent. In some studies, relatively small increases in CO2 levels cause large impacts on cognitive performance. Other studies don’t find any cognitive impacts at all, even when CO2 levels are ten to one hundred times higher than atmospheric levels.

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Rabbits have overrun a suburban Florida community

• Solar Panels Are Three Times More Carbon-Intensive Than IPCC Claims

• Cities Must Prepare for Deadly Heat

• Mexico's heirloom corn strains are resurging amid more demand