2024-05-26
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Horseshit
Electric / Self Driving cars
Trump / War against the Right / Jan6
Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp
Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation
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America's premier pronatalists on having 'tons of kids' to save the world
The average pronatalist is “young, nerdy, contrarian, autist,” Malcolm says, proudly. “Usually, they will be running a tech company or be in venture capital.” There is a wider perception that pronatalists are also largely white; Malcolm staunchly denies this, but he is aware that, in promoting the idea that our culture faces existential crisis unless we reproduce, the aims of pronatalists overlap with those of racist conspiracists who believe in the “great replacement theory” – the conviction that people of white European heritage are being demographically taken over by non-whites who have children at a faster rate.
It is a very cold home. It’s early March, and within 20 minutes of being here the tips of some of my fingers have turned white. This, they explain, is part of living their values: as effective altruists, they give everything they can spare to charity (their charities). “Any pointless indulgence, like heating the house in the winter, we try to avoid if we can find other solutions,” says Malcolm. This explains Simone’s clothing: her normal winterwear is cheap, high-quality snowsuits she buys online from Russia, but she can’t fit into them now, so she’s currently dressing in the clothes pregnant women wore in a time before central heating: a drawstring-necked chemise on top of warm underlayers, a thick black apron, and a modified corset she found on Etsy. She assures me she is not a tradwife. “I’m not dressing trad now because we’re into trad, because before I was dressing like a Russian Bond villain. We do what’s practical.”
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO
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NASA finds more issues with Boeing's Starliner, but crew launch set for June 1
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Senior Military Officer: "Zero Doubt" Non-Human Intelligence Interacting with Us
At a prestigious New York City investment event, Colonel Karl Nell, a distinguished retired military chief formerly associated with the U.S. government’s Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) Task Force, asserted unequivocally that non-human intelligence exists, is interacting with humanity, and that unelected government bureaucrats are aware of this.
Economicon / Business / Finance
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
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People say even CSPAN doesn't have it: Video of hearing
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ATF director questioned on March raid of home of Little Rock airport executive Bryan Malinowski
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Whatever prosecutors from the office of special counsel David Weiss introduce will have to pass muster with federal judge Maryellen Noreika, who ruled Friday that the 54-year-old’s lawyers will be allowed to raise objections to data on a case-by-case basis. However, Noreika declined to block the laptop outright from evidence, rejecting defense arguments that the hard drive had been hacked and false information had been planted.
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What went wrong with capitalism
Faith in American capitalism, which was built on limited government that leaves room for individual freedom and initiative, has plummeted. Most Americans don’t expect to be “better off in five years” — a record low since the Edelman Trust Barometer first asked this question more than two decades ago. Four in five doubt that life will be better for their children’s generation than it has been for theirs, also a new low. According to the latest Pew polls, support for capitalism has fallen among all Americans, particularly Democrats and the young. In fact, among Democrats under 30, 58 per cent now have a “positive impression” of socialism; only 29 per cent say the same thing of capitalism.
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Antitrust Enforcers to Break Up Ticketmaster and End the "Ticketmaster Tax"
Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
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The new visa fees for foreign artists are out. This is not good
Before April 1, the application fee was US$460 per person. It is now between US$1,615 and US$1,655 per person, regardless of the size of your group and your commercial popularity. That’s an increase of more than 250%. acts of all sizes and types are being willfully shut out of the biggest music market in the world. Not exactly free trade, is it? In other words, no one wins except the US Government. Feels pretty xenophobic and unfair to me.
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Gambling addiction on steroids': fears of betting crisis at heart of US Military
World
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The UK Environment Agency admitted to "burying" FOIA requests.
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Germany’s Decriminalization Of Child Porn Reminds Us Why We Need Societal Taboos
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Canada orders dissolution of two firms, citing national security concerns
Ottawa has ordered the dissolution of Bluevec Technologies Inc. and Pegauni Technology Inc. following a national security review, said Innovation, Science and Industry Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne on Friday.
Iran / Houthi
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Iran's Military Concludes No Foul Play In Raisi Helicopter Crash
A preliminary report produced by Iran's military has found no evidence of criminal activity or foreign interference in last Sunday's helicopter crash that killed the late President Ebrahim Raisi and seven others, according to state media. The report was produced by the general staff of the armed forces, and it states Raisi's helicopter "caught fire after hitting an elevated area" and found no traces of "bullet holes" on the helicopter among the wreckage.