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2023 Editors’ Choice: Best Turntables $10k and Up

Eschewing an enclosed plinth in favor of an open chassis, the ($15k) Spyder mounts the platter assembly’s base on a cylindrical pillar. Additional cylindrical pillars support up to four tonearms as well as the outboard motor. The Spyder’s sound is transparent, dynamic, low in perceived distortion, with a high degree of neutrality
How the Rich Reap Huge Tax Breaks From Private Nonprofits | Hacker News
Andreessen: American nuclear tests might've been faked to freak out the Russians
Buckling up to save lives: UN celebrates five decades of seat belt laws

Subclinical Heart Damage More Prevalent Than Thought After Covid-19
Mysterious Chinese Covid Lab Uncovered in City of Reedley CA | Hacker News

This was reported last Oct-22, nothing happened, then a Chinese Scientist involved got ill, fled back to China. Then a retired Investigator filed a FOIA in Jan-23 . Kept asking questions no answers then, a leak happened and mysteriously a FBI, DEA, HHS, NIH, CDC< EPA and Military Bio-Terror units got involved and this happened.. yet the full facts and truth are NOT being revealed ask some deadly pathogens got released. Experiments were much more in depth than is being told. 4 Chinese Scientist are now missing and one is on the Global Wanted List, he was right here in Reedley. The water wells, soils and all farms within 12 miles need to be tested

Stoller: How to Forget the Lessons of the Pandemic

Four days ago, Donald Trump went on YouTube and attacked the Biden administration for allowing medical shortages to get worse. “China produces 95% of all ibuprofen, 91% of hydrocortisone, 70% of all Tylenol, and nearly half of all penicillin,” he said. “Can you imagine that?” He also went off on how cancer drugs are often unavailable, and how dependent we are on China for active pharmaceutical ingredients.

You won’t see Trump’s arguments in most of the media, because journalists don’t focus on what Trump says when it comes to policy. But Trump is right: medical shortages are a serious crisis in the U.S., and they are getting worse.
Samsung’s profits are down 95 percent for a second quarter duet to unsold chips

Light bulb ban: DOE's ban on incandescent lightbulbs goes into effect

Come Tuesday, while it won’t be illegal to own incandescent light bulbs, it will be illegal for stores to sell them and companies to manufacture them.
"Jackasses! You Little Sh*ts!" - House Rep Curses Teenage Senate Pages | ZeroHedge
Oh, he's a rouge element / loose cannon; not a bagman for a corrupt family: Hunter Biden Is a Geopolitical Disaster - WSJ

When Hunter’s lawyer threatened to walk away from a plea deal that didn’t close the investigation, he was throwing down a gauntlet before Mr. Biden and his attorney general that Hunter has spent his life throwing down to his father. To state the obvious example, President Obama assigned Vice President Biden to be his point man on Ukrainian corruption. Hunter thereupon took a do-nothing job with a notorious Ukrainian oligarch and essentially dared his father to stop him. As public testimony and news reporting have established, not only did Mr. Biden decline to intervene when State Department officials brought the problem to him, he engaged in an emotional outburst that made them unwilling to bring it up again.