2023-08-28
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FAA investigation into pilots hiding major health issues. Most are still flying
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The Rock and the Egg - by Librarian of Celaeno
that was the point. He should have died, Kenosha should have burned, and the deplorables should have taken the lesson to heart. Instead, an untrained kid put two members of the paramilitary wing of the Democrat Party in the ground and left a third horribly wounded. There were no riots in Kenosha after that. Rittenhouse was acquitted of all charges in November 2021.
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Hawaiian Electric points finger at Maui County over wildfires, stock jumps 40%
Horseshit
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Scientifics in Antarctica say they were left alone against sexual harassers
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Self-driving cars less likely to detect children and people of color
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Divide your life into semesters, even when you’re not in school
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Storm Idalia: Cars may stop working mid-evacuation due to fuel contamination
The contamination was caused by "human error" at the Port of Tampa, according to a news alert from the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. The affected gasoline and diesel, supplied by Citgo, may have been sold at nearly 30 stations after 10 a.m. ET on Saturday, mostly along the Florida coast from the Tampa Bay region to Fort Myers. "Basically it was just human error — they just put diesel in tanks that were supposed to be regular gas," DeSantis said,
Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering
Musk
Trump / War against the Right / Jan6
Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult
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Biden Suggests He Will Mandate a COVID Booster for All Americans This Fall.
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In Wuhan, Doctors Knew The Truth. They Were Told To Keep Quiet.
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Past Covid infection protection against re-infection: a systematic meta-analysis
protection from past infection and any symptomatic disease was high for ancestral, alpha, beta, and delta variants, but was substantially lower for the omicron BA.1 variant. Pooled effectiveness against re-infection by the omicron BA.1 variant was 45·3% (95% uncertainty interval [UI] 17·3–76·1) and 44·0% (26·5–65·0) against omicron BA.1 symptomatic disease. Mean pooled effectiveness was greater than 78% against severe disease (hospitalisation and death) for all variants, including omicron BA.1. Protection from re-infection from ancestral, alpha, and delta variants declined over time but remained at 78·6% (49·8–93·6) at 40 weeks.
Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation
Media / ShowBiz / Advertising
TechSuck
Crypto con games
Economicon / Business / Finance
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Evergrande shares plunge as much as 87% as trading resumes after 17 months
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‘They would not listen to us’: inside Biden’s troubled $53B chip plant
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The Smallest Bank in Tennessee Grew Fast With BaaS. Why It May Give The Entire Industry A Hangover.
Lineage Bank, now a significant player in fintech through its banking-as-a-service partnerships with Synapse and Synctera, was known as Citizens Bank and Trust Company — the smallest bank in Tennessee — until 2021. Since its acquisition, which closed at the beginning of 2021, the bank has seen its assets balloon by an astounding 790%, from $27.25 million at the end of 2020 to over $242 million just two years later.
at the beginning of 2021, the Herringtons quickly set about bulking up the bank, with assets growing by nearly 60% in the first quarter under their control. By the second quarter of 2021, Citizens was officially re-christened as Lineage Bank and relocated from Atwood, Tennessee, to Franklin.
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Reliably Bad Reliable Sources - by Brennan Robbins
he secret purpose of this blog is to chronicle the rise of a kind of new authoritarian and anti-intellectual political worldview, with betting markets deployed as an early warnings system. All across the world, from New Delhi to Jerusalem to Budapest to West Palm Beach, rising “populist” autocrats rail against journalists, and academics and all institutions of educated people. The response from the left has been to dig in its heels - Trust the Experts, Trust the Science. And the danger of that response is that it favors a credentialism that alienates most people. It also is self-undermining when the experts turn out to be lazy or have incentives that do not align with truth.
The truth is that believing true things requires continuous work. You have to read multiple sources. You have to interrogate the track records of the experts. You have to question the incentives of the experts. In short, you have to think.
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Nvidia On the Mountaintop – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
If GPUs are going to be as big of a market as Nvidia’s investors hope it will be, it will be because applications that are only possible with GPUs generate the demand to make it so. I’m confident that time will come; what I, nor Huang, nor anyone else can be sure of is when that time will arrive.
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
World
Health / Medicine
Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda
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Paper drinking straws may be harmful and may not be better for the environment
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How trees guard their seeds: Unlocking the secrets of mast seeding
the research also unveiled an emerging issue: mast seeding events appear to be losing their efficacy in satiating seed consumers. This decline is suspected to be a consequence of global warming altering seed production dynamics. Such a shift is concerning, as it could undermine trees' natural defense mechanism, making their seeds more vulnerable to consumption.
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Scientific Journal Retracts Article that claimed no evidence of Climate Crisis