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Atlas Air Boeing 747-8 from Miami International Airport Catches Fire Mid Air
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San Francisco Safeway to close its doors after 40 years
the Webster Street store has seen some "controversy" after they shut down their self-checkout kiosks last year to combat theft. The store also played classical music to prevent people from loitering in their parking lot, which ended up annoying some neighbors.
"The crime is probably the reason why. I’ve seen it with my own eyes," said customer Miguel Fonseca. "I knew one of two things would happen, the prices would go up or they would end up shutting it down. Probably a little bit of both has happened now."
In a statement, Mayor London Breed called the closure a "real and rare opportunity to add a significant amount of new homes" in the Fillmore District.
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'Cozy' relationship between Boeing and the US draws scrutiny amid 737 MAX 9 mess
Horseshit
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How To Spend A Million Dollars On The Ultimate Stereo
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Ken Fritz built a $1 million stereo. The real cost was unfathomable. - Washington Post
The 10-foot-tall speakers? After 18 bids, an Indiana man named Carlton Bale snagged all three for $10,100. Less than you’d pay for a pair of Yamaha NS-5000 bookshelf speakers. The total take for the million-dollar stereo system, including the speakers, the turntable, the dozens of other components from detached cones to the reel-to-reel decks? $156,800.
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French cheese under threat | CNRS News
“The population used in PDO Roquefort has not suffered so much from the selection process, and still has a bit more diversity,” adds Giraud, who reports having identified several different strains. This is not the case for the clonal line used by the rest of the producers, which has been weakened to the point of becoming nearly infertile. “Even the smallest cheese makers are affected,” the researcher recounts. “For a long time they ‘grew’ their own strains of P. roqueforti, but now they mostly buy their ferments directly from large spore producers that supply the entire food industry.”
Consequently, the fungi that have accumulated multiple deleterious mutations in their genomes over years of vegetative propagation become virtually infertile, adversely affecting cheese production. “This is what happens when we completely stop using sexual reproduction,” Giraud explains. “It’s the only way to compensate for detrimental mutations through the introduction of new genes – the famous genetic mixing.”
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New York Stock Exchange Abandons Plan To Control America's Natural Resources | ZeroHedge
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Courses in Wilderness and Survival Tactics Thrive in an Anxious Time - The New York Times
Outdoor education programs, survival courses and military simulations have been in high demand as wars abroad intensify and prospective voters in the 2024 presidential election tell pollsters and journalists about their fears of a civil war or even World War III.
... nine people — who had each paid about $800 to take part in a weekend-long SERE class devised for civilians by Ms. Krebs and her colleagues at the California Survival School ...
- "weekend long SERE class"
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The Knowledge Economy Is Over. Welcome to the Allocation Economy
We’ll go from makers to managers, from doing the work to learning how to allocate resources—choosing which work to be done, deciding whether work is good enough, and editing it when it’s not. It means a transition from a knowledge economy to an allocation economy. You won’t be judged on how much you know, but instead on how well you can allocate and manage the resources to get work done.
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Animal sounds in most nature documentaries are made by humans
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It's Amazing How Many Americans Think They Live in the Midwest When They Don't
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He likes to hang out with the bears? Study finds Bigfoot sightings correlate with black bear populations
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Median age of first time homebuyers has increased from 29 to 35 since 1980
Electric / Self Driving cars
celebrity gossip
Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering
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Japanese social media firms to boost monitoring of misinformation
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How Judge in India Blocked Americans From Reading a Blockbuster Reuters Investigation - POLITICO
Two months ago, the news agency Reuters published an eye-opening cybersecurity investigation bylined by Washington-based reporters and full of news of interest to Americans. But Americans aren’t allowed to read the story anymore — by order of a court in India.
Musk
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Tesla Cybertruck owners who drove 10k miles say range is 164 to 206 miles
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Tesla: You Have to Wipe Bugs/Bird Poop Off Your Cybertruck to Avoid Corrosion
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Las Vegas, Home of Bad Ideas, Goes All-In on Elon's Dumb Tunnels
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Twitter has just launched support for audio and video calls via the Android app.
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Tesla Employees Using Vehicle Cameras to Spy on 'Private Scenes;' Owners Suing
Trump / War against the Right / Jan6
Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp
Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
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GeoGuessr discontinues free game, must continue with paid subscription
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Walt Disney, Destroyer of Worlds - by Brian Howard
There’s a weird undercurrent to the festivities at Disney where people are consciously aware that they are paying a premium price for something that is objectively not premium. I suppose there is a certain relief in taking a selfie with an officially-licensed character in a sanctioned theme park as opposed to the same costume worn by an infringing migrant in Times Square. Instead of being offended by this, it seems as if everyone is okay with it – they even seem to appreciate the intellectual property monopoly at the core of The Walt Disney Company’s business model, as well as the logistical nuances of running this money and soul-sucking people-moving enterprise. The daily engineering challenge of funneling a hundred thousand humans into one place is something that surely would have engendered great envy in the heart of any card-carrying Bolshevik. There were lots of ironic t-shirts – “Most Expensive Day Ever” – which is clever, but when you see the tenth one, it becomes less of a badge of individual rebellion, and more of a shirt that Disney wants you to wear. Let’s admit it. You didn’t do anything all day that The Walt Disney Corporation didn’t want you to do.
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Apple Watch no longer sold with blood oxygen monitoring after patent battle loss
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Amazon plans to charge for Alexa in June–unless internal conflict delays revamp
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Palworld So Popular The Servers Can’t Handle It
Palworld, or the game more colloquially known as “Pokémon With Guns” is out today, January 19, and it’s quickly found a rather large audience interested in gunning down cute creatures.
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Vision Pro: Apple's first spatial computer is now available for pre-order - 9to5Mac
- "Starting at $3499. This being Apple, you need an iPhone just to order it."
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Amazon has taken down the Sad Bastard Cookbook | Hacker News
TechSuck / Geek Bait
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO
Economicon / Business / Finance
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Wayfair lays off 13% of its workforce weeks after telling employees: work harder
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Sports Illustrated's publisher terminates most of staff in mass layoff
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Video game developers union membership in UK soars after thousands laid off
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Googlers realizing layoffs are 'just business' – starting to fight back
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Ford cuts production of F-150 Lightning EV, adds jobs at Bronco and Ranger plant
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Half of recent US inflation due to high corporate profits, report finds
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Why American Investors Do Not Need to Worry About the National Debt
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Inflation is ‘far from dead’: Why one large asset manager doubts U.S. can hit 2%.
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Americans are spending billions on stuff they forget to cancel (Archive)
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
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Silicon Valley insiders are trying to unseat Biden with help from AI - The Washington Post
A new super PAC tied to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and billionaire Bill Ackman is backing Democratic challenger Dean Phillips
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After years of suppressing the story and casting doubts over its authenticity, many in the media in the last year have belatedly and reluctantly acknowledged that the Hunter Biden laptop is real. Some of us reached that conclusion years ago due to the self-authenticating emails confirmed by third parties. However, the denials and doubts have continued, including most recently by Rep. Dan Goldman (D., N.Y.) in hearings. The Justice Department has now again confirmed the authenticity and added details on why these denials are unsupported.