2023-09-04

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• Hawaii wildfire offered insights into wireless alert system relies on cellphones

• Burning Man: Storms Leave Thousands Stranded in Nevada Desert | National Review

  • One dead, 70k stranded at Burning Man after rains

  • Burning Man burners ignore officials' calls to stay put, stream out of playa

  • Escapist Utopia Gets Real: Burning Man Revelers Stuck in Mud

  • Former acting Solicitor General describes 'harrowing' hike out of mud-bound Burning Man festival – Twitchy

• As Hurricane Idalia caused flooding, some EVs exposed to saltwater caught fire

Horseshit

• America’s Surprising Partisan Divide on Life Expectancy

• Are UFOs, Lasers, and Wildfires Linked in Hawaii?

• Pilot dies in gender reveal stunt

• The vertical farming boom is over (for now). What went wrong?

• Prison Amazon accounts keep federal inmates stuck in the 1990s

• Humans may be just as capable as dogs at following a scent trail

celebrity gossip

• Is Bach the greatest achiever of all time?

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• So-called Nazis resurface in Orlando, voice support for Biden over Trump: ‘He sends rockets to Ukraine’

  • That neo-Nazi clown who's all over social media and is definitely not a fed ... guess if he likes Trump or Biden better | Not the Bee

  • Shocking video shows Neo-Nazis marching outside Disney World chanting ‘We Are Everywhere’.

Musk

• VSCode Removes Twitter Integration

• Elon Musk 'likes' trending BanTheADL posts as white supremacist ad runs on X

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• What to know about COVID as hospitalizations go up and some places bring back masks.

• Early lab tests suggest new Covid-19 variant BA.2.86 may be less contagious

• Fauci urges people to listen to health officials on masking as COVID-19 cases rise in US.

• FDA, CDC Hid Data on Spike in COVID Cases Among the Vaccinated: Documents.

• Anthony Fauci continues to mislead about masking, as CNN confronts him (amazing video): It works for individuals but not populations, is his new line, but, this too, lacks data.

  Fauci’s answer is that masks work for individuals, but not at the population level. But this is bizarre. He advocated for mask mandates at the population level. If he knew they did not work, why did he encourage them for populations? Moreover, even this week, he continues to advocate for them— at a population level.

• Pfizer Asks Court To Revoke Moderna's COVID-19 Vaccine Patents

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• An effort to ban caste discrimination in California has touched a nerve

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Confessions of a Netflix DVD Dead-Ender

  • HN comments

• Private Equity Borrows Billions to Bring You Broadband Internet

• Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge

TechSuck

• Everything I know about floppy disks

• jwz: Wayland and screen savers

• Apple details reasons to abandon CSAM-scanning tool, more controversy ensues

• I built a Plane Spotter for my son in 120 seconds

  • HN comments

Economicon / Business / Finance

• The Airbnb Bubble Popping Will Pop the Housing Bubble

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Ask HN: Why is home property information so public? | Hacker News

• USPS Isn't Paying 45,000 Rural Postal Workers This Week

  • HN comments

  • 45k USPS Workers Aren't Getting Paid This Week Amidst Union Decertification Push

• Turley: Biden's Use Of Fake Names In Email Could Cost Him | ZeroHedge

• Vivek Ramaswamy Now A White Supremacist, According To Democrat Party | ZeroHedge

World

• No human remains found in excavation of Manitoba church basement

• British Court Rules that Competent and Conscious Patient Can Be Denied Life-Sustaining Treatment Against Her Will – JONATHAN TURLEY

  courts have declared that ST cannot choose to continue life-extending treatment and can be forced into palliative care against her will. The logic of the decision is chilling. The court is told that ST has cognitive and communicative abilities to make such decisions. However, because the court disagrees with her desire to continue to fight to live, she is treated as effectively incompetent. It seems like the judicial version of Henry Ford’s promise that customers could pick any color car so long as it is black.

• Australia rescues sick researcher from Antarctica

• In Japan, the young find dating so hard their parents are doing it for them

• Why it's so much cheaper to ship stuff from China than within Canada

• Germany ‘sick man of Europe’ – causing a shift to the right, top economist says

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Ukrainian counter-offensive fails, says Putin

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Care for Environment and Don't Drive Often? Buy Gas-Powered Car, Harvard Study

• Home insurers cut natural disasters from policies as climate risks grow

• How Accurate Were EPAs Predictions of climate change from 40 years ago?