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Consulting firm McKinsey agrees to $78 million settlement over opioids
Read fewer books and feel better about it - by Przemek

I didn’t read all those books because I wanted to read them. I wanted to have read them. I was reading because I wanted to see myself as a person who reads a lot. I made up an arbitrary goal of reading 40 books to prove to myself that I have a reading habit. To make things harder I even convinced myself that I need to read the famously unreadable James Joyce’s Ulysses.
Nearly 70% of the Richest Americans Don't Feel Wealthy | Kiplinger

the two youngest generations self-reported the highest levels of financial comfort. Roughly six in 10 millennials and five in 10 Gen Zers reported feeling wealthy, while only four in 10 Gen Xers and four in 10 Baby Boomers said the same.
Psychopathic men have more children, study finds
How Tracking and Technology in Cars Is Being Weaponized by Abusive Partners - The New York Times
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Why asking your customers what they want doesn't work
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Navajo Nation president asks NASA to delay Moon launch over possible human remains.
- Navaho Indians attempt to claim ownership of the Moon, delay Vulcan launch
though the Navaho have no plans to ever go there, have done nothing to try to explore it, and have no remains of any tribal members on the flight, he wants to claim the Moon as controlled entirely and forever by the Indian tribes of North America because of a law designed solely to protect specific archeological sites on Earth, where Indian remains are discovered.
- Navajo Nation president asks NASA to delay Moon launch over possible desecration
Keeping a streak alive can be strong motivation to stick with a chosen activity
People who read the Constitution are often called: Sovereign citizen movement - Wikipedia

a loose group of litigants, anti-government activists, tax protesters, financial scammers, and conspiracy theorists based mainly in the United States. Sovereign citizens have their own pseudolegal belief system based on misinterpretations of common law and claim to not be subject to any government statutes, unless they consent to them.
When does "no" mean no? Insights from sex robots

celebrity gossip

2023 Person of the Year: Taylor Swift

Obit

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

Dr. Mattias Desmet: Technocratic Totalitarianism

Perhaps one of the most positive aspects of the COVIDcrisis is that many, including myself and perhaps also yourself, have become aware that we are being manipulated, lied to, and forced to comply with the wishes of these Globalist Elites who exert their will via force, violence, and coercion on a global scale. The work of reporters Michael Shellenberger, Matt Taibbi (The Racket News) and so many others have picked up where Carl Bernstein once left off in documenting the Censorship-Industrial complex. We now have the documents and receipts demonstrating how thoroughly we have all been played. The question now is what to do about it.
A simple theory of cancel culture

In the fullness of time, the staff at major social institutions will be replaced by people with native expertise in online spaces and more effective strategies for managing social media. This will level the playing field to a significant degree, neutralizing whatever advantages young people have enjoyed over the past decade or so. One can already sense the asymmetry diminishing. My feeling is that, at least in North American, peak effectiveness of cancellation practices was reached sometime around 2018 and has since been in decline, although I could easily be wrong about that.

Musk

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

TechSuck / Geek Bait

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

Crypto con games

Economicon / Business / Finance

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

5 twists that could upend Democrats’ 2024 election plans
US Appeals Court Allows California to Bar Guns in Most Public Places
Chicago Mayor's Grand Plan To Stop 'Crime Crisis' Are Reparation Checks | ZeroHedge
- This would be the "crime crisis" we've been repeatedly assured isn't happening; along with the "immigration crisis" that's all Texas' fault.
Vivek Slams CNN For 'Egregious Interference' After Town Hall Answers Go Viral | ZeroHedge

Vivek Ramaswamy slammed CNN for what he characterized as 'egregious interference' with the Iowa GOP caucus for allegedly cutting his Town Hall short and then threatening his campaign with a cease-and-desist for posting it to YouTube (while allowing Nikki Haley to do the same).
How will California's new laws affect you?
Sununu Claims Nikki Haley’s Slavery Gaffe is a ‘Nonissue’
Fetterman believed going public with mental health struggles would ‘end’ his career
- John Fetterman: social media made battle with depression more difficult

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

World

Israel

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

Health / Medicine

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

Unpacking Phthalates from Obscurity in the Environment
You May Be Wrong About the Climate Crisis (in a Good Way) - The New York Times

the flood of doom-laden stats and stories about climate change is obscuring our ability to imagine solutions to the crisis and envision a sustainable, livable future. That brighter story is one Ritchie, who is 30, builds by pointing to the progress being made in areas like deforestation, air cleanliness and the falling cost and rising adoption of clean-energy technologies. “For a long time I felt helplessness, that these problems were massive and unsolvable,” Ritchie says. “It’s important to counter those feelings. We need to go much faster, but there is a lot of progress to acknowledge and lessons to learn.”
Electric school buses more than doubled in USA from March 2022 to June 2023
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  From 598 in March 2022 to 1,285 in June 2023. There were nearly 450,000 school buses in the U.S. in 2023. So 0.3% of the fleet
The World Bank run first-ever climate reparations fund: Nobody's happy about it
An Incurable Disease Is Coming for Deer
The art world's big planetary problem

Over the last five years, it’s become increasingly clear to major art institutions that the sector has a sustainability problem. Compared with other forms of culture, like say, books, film, TV and music, art as both a pastime and an industry relies heavily on travel — often by air. Buyers fly around the world to look at works in person; artists, galleries and private collectors gather throughout the year based on a relentless calendar of fairs and events; works are zipped to global institutions under tightly controlled conditions of temperature and humidity.
"Do Unto Otters" Thriving Otters in North America Linked to Nuclear Weapons Tests. Here's Why. : ScienceAlert
Record Number of Tornadoes in the NWS Chicago Forecast Area in 2023