2025-02-12
moving costs, mouse tape, tech layoffs, Texan debt, "less restrictive" Fed, Dems tricked on economy, Trump insufficiently Hitler-ish, 60% overhead is fine, voters too young to drink, rocket pollution
Horseshit
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With whom do they have a "bad reputation?" Canned foods are convenient, affordable and nutritious. Why do they have a bad reputation?
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Microchip data for Australian pets at risk as company goes dark
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How Progressives Froze the American Dream - The Atlantic
The U.S. was once the world’s most geographically mobile society. Now we’re stuck in place—and that’s a very big problem.
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(2021) I Tasted Honda's Spicy Rodent-Repelling Tape - by Liz Cook
Mouse tape exists solely to make Important Wires less delicious. Honda started selling rolls of the stuff a few years back to keep rodents from partying in their engine blocks.1 You see, the thing about rodents—be they rat or shrew or vole—is that they really like to gnaw.
- We used to make wire insulation out of plastics that didn't smell like food. "go back to the better plastic" somehow was not a viable solution to these problems when they first cropped up.
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Power Dressing: Silicon Valley's Macho Makeover Is a Warning, Not a Trend
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Did the Modern Mortgage Set the Stage for the U.S. Baby Boom?
celebrity gossip
Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering
Musk
Electric / Self Driving cars
Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation
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Corporate "DEI" is an imperfect vehicle for deeply meaningful ideals
The more I hear a company natter on and on about how much it cares for the environment, loves diversity, values integrity, yada yada, the more I automatically assume they must be covering their ass for some truly heinous shit behind closed doors.
- Corporations could be vehicles for Christian thought too; if we required them to be so by law. But we designed our government so it could not do that.
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Google Calendar no longer includes start of Black History Month, Pride Month
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
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Elite Grad Degrees, No Jobs: Half of My Harvard/MIT Peers Are Unemployed
It’s making us question whether a $50K/year degree is worth it—even from top schools.
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Her Discovery Wasn’t Alien Life, but Science Has Never Been the Same - The New York Times
The saga highlighted the internet’s possibilities for open discourse and real-time peer review. But it also revealed the perils of the medium, as Dr. Wolfe-Simon faced sustained personal attacks. She hasn’t really been part of scientific society since.
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
TechSuck / Geek Bait
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO
Crypto con games
Economicon / Business / Finance
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What are non intelligent people like me supposed to do for money? | Hacker News
- Ray Charles version: Busted
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Unity Suddenly Lays Off Numerous Developers with a 5 Am Email
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Chinese Temu sellers use fake U.S. postage labels to boost their profits
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An analysis of the anonymized credit reports of about 210,000 LendingTree users from April 1, 2024, through June 30, 2024, found that Austin had the highest non-mortgage debt in the nation at $45,920. This included auto loan debt, personal loan debt, student loan debt, credit card balances and others. By comparison, the average of non-mortgage debt for residents of the 50 largest metropolitan areas in the country was $37,827. "Auto loan debt is a huge reason why Texas cities have such high non-mortgage debt," LendingTree's chief credit analyst, Matt Schulz, told Newsweek. "San Antonio, Austin and Houston have the highest average auto loan debt among the cities we looked at, and Dallas wasn't far behind. "The truth is you generally need a vehicle to get around the biggest cities in Texas. That puts many Texas in a tough position, especially with vehicle prices and interest rates at today's sky-high levels."
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US industrial conglomerate Honeywell will split into three companies
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
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Incompetent or crooked? Elon Musk exposing Washington’s rotten system.
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Feds move to toss Mayor Eric Adams' historic bribery case
The letter notes “independent reasons” as to why Adams’ case was being tossed — including that the case was retribution for him speaking out against the Biden administration for its handling of the migrant crisis. “It cannot be ignored that Mayor Adams criticized the prior Administration’s immigration policies before the charges were filed, and the former US Attorney’s public actions created appearances of impropriety…”
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Report: FBI Stumbles Upon Secret JFK Files After Trump Executive Order.
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USAID reportedly bankrolled al Qaeda terrorist’s college tuition, unearthed records show.
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With our policy stance now significantly less restrictive than it had been and the economy remaining strong, we do not need to be in a hurry to adjust our policy stance. We know that reducing policy restraint too fast or too much could hinder progress on inflation. At the same time, reducing policy restraint too slowly or too little could unduly weaken economic activity and employment. we will do everything we can to achieve the two goals Congress set for monetary policy—maximum employment and stable prices. We remain committed to supporting maximum employment, bringing inflation sustainably to our 2 percent goal, and keeping longer-term inflation expectations well anchored. Our success in delivering on these goals matters to all Americans. We understand that our actions affect communities, families, and businesses across the country. Everything we do is in service to our public mission.
- Except that one guy who was working for China... How "less restrictive" is their policy now than it was under the Biden administration? the "only good news" rules don't apply now?
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FEMA sent $59M last week to luxury NYC hotels to house illegal migrants, Elon Musk says
City Hall officials told The Post that no one has reached out for action on Musk’s demand. They also issued a statement denying Musk’s assertions that carefully avoided naming the mercurial billionaire or explicitly saying he was dead wrong. The hands-off approach to Musk coincided with Adams convening a meeting of his top commissioners to tell them to avoid criticizing Trump in order to avoid putting billions in federal funds for the city at risk, The Post learned. Only $19 million of the $59 million that Musk highlighted in his tweet will go toward housing migrants in hotels, luxury or otherwise, officials said. “We have already spent over $7 billion on this crisis alone, and the previous administration committed only $237 million in funding to help house the migrants in our care and for future services,” the City Hall statement reads.
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Getting rid of the penny introduces a new problem: nickels – CNN Business
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NOAA's public weather data powers the local forecasts on your phone and TV
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Associated Press Barred from Oval Office for Not Using 'Gulf of America'
Trump
Democrats
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How Democrats Were Tricked Into Believing the Economy Was Strong - POLITICO
Before the presidential election, many Democrats were puzzled by the seeming disconnect between “economic reality” as reflected in various government statistics and the public’s perceptions of the economy on the ground. Many in Washington bristled at the public’s failure to register how strong the economy really was. They charged that right-wing echo chambers were conning voters into believing entirely preposterous narratives about America’s decline. What they rarely considered was whether something else might be responsible for the disconnect — whether, for instance, government statistics were fundamentally flawed. What if the numbers supporting the case for broad-based prosperity were themselves misrepresentations? What if, in fact, darker assessments of the economy were more authentically tethered to reality?
Left Angst
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What Trump Could Learn From Hitler on NIH Funding - The American Prospect
Hitler did seek to turn science to his own ends, to promote research on eugenics, new technologies for blitzkrieg war, sick medical experiments, and more efficient ways for the mass killing of Jews. Yet civilian German science, long a mark of German pride, also thrived. During the Nazi era, German scientists and engineers invented the first electron microscope, industrial-scale production of artificial fiber, pharmaceuticals such as advanced sulfa drugs, artificial rubber, and much more. Trump, in short, is even more nihilist than Hitler.
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The assault on USAID is a wake-up call for the rest of the world
The wanton destruction of the US Agency for International Development by the Trump administration is misguided, shortsighted and will have devastating consequences for millions of poor people around the world.
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Trump to halt enforcement of law banning bribery of foreign officials
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Strengthening America Through Service: Announcing the Public Service Alliance (PSA)
PSA is founded on a simple yet profound belief: the American people deserve a government that serves all of us. That’s only possible if public servants can serve without fear, harassment, or partisan interference, while being held to the highest standards, regardless of who holds power. Providing high-quality resources isn’t cheap, so fees and grants will help ensure more affordable access to best-in-class services. We are first and foremost a mission-based organization and we will always strive to keep fees as low as possible. As we scale, we expect costs to decrease over time. To ensure cost is not a barrier, we will seek to offer waivers for certain fees upon request.
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A father of five was detained by ICE on his way to work. Now his family is losing their home.
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Texas Woman Sends Message to Trump After Husband Detained by ICE.
- " Like, excuse me they have at least three children together, how come he never applied for a green card? If you marry a citizen, you can, you know? So, why not?"
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Migrants turning around and heading back home in ‘new trend’ under Trump border crackdown.
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The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) said on Monday it would suspend some of its humanitarian work across nearly 20 countries worldwide after U.S. President Donald Trump imposed a freeze on U.S. foreign aid worldwide when he took office on January 20. The non-governmental organisation received just under 20% of its funding from the United States in 2024, or around $150 million, it said, with that funding helping some 1.6 million people worldwide. "We have, in our 79-year history, never experienced such an abrupt discontinuation of aid funding from any of our many donor nations, inter-governmental organisations, or private donor agencies," the NRC said in a statement.
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Trump demands $500B in rare earths from Ukraine for continued support
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CEO of a Diabetes Research Group on Costs Cuts: "impacts will be vast"
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Federal judge blocks Trump administration cuts to medical research funding
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Force the Democrats to Explain Their DOGE Vapors – PJ Media
Democrats are treating everything that President Trump does as if it will rend the very fabric of the universe. We've become used to their disproportionate responses to all things Orange Man Bad. The Dems' superpower is always being able to become worse, even when you think they've plumbed the deepest depths of depravity. Their reactions to the first few weeks of the Trump 47 era have seen them go lower than ever before. Finding and eliminating financial waste in the federal bureaucracy in order to save the taxpayers some money seems like something everyone could get behind, doesn't it? Not our friends, the Democrats. They've been euphemistically referring to taxes as revenue for so long that they're now buying their own B.S. Democrats are so ideologically cocooned that they're often ignorant of the fact that they're actively involved in ripping themselves off.
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“Get Violent and Fight”: Tennessee Minister Calls for Violence – JONATHAN TURLEY
“And I will say to you, beloved: no one likes violence, but sometimes violence is necessary. When Elon Musk forces his way into the United States Treasury, and threatens to steal your personal information and your social security check, there is a possibility of violence. Sometimes the devil will act so ugly, that there is no other choice but to get violent and fight!”
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Feds ask Colorado River official to resign, leaving another leadership gap
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Musk Team Cuts Education Department Arm That Tracks National School Performance
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One Agency Tried to Regulate SpaceX. Now Its Fate Could Be in Elon Musk's Hands
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CISA puts election security staffers who worked with the states on leave
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States sue to block new NIH funding policy–court puts it on hold
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Trumping the media - Don Surber
The media claims that the government paying $10,000 each for a bunch of subscriptions does not affect the media’s coverage of the government but dropping those subscriptions does.
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DOGE Teen Ran Image-Sharing Site Linked to URLs Referencing Pedophilia and KKK
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The Recruitment Effort That Helped Build Elon Musk's DOGE Army
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The Continuing NIH/NSF Crisis, Part III: Indirect Costs
Late on Friday came the unexpected and unwelcome news that the NIH is trying to cut the overhead payments in its external grants. If you’re not part of this ecosystem, that might sound like a pretty dull accouncement, but unfortunately, it’s anything but. If they manage to follow through on this (see later in this post for more on that), that one move is going to close academic medical research centers around the country and rip up a large part of the US’s world-leading biomedical research system.
indirect overhead costs (sometimes also known as facilities and administrative, F&A) are generally expressed as a percentage of the direct grant money, and they vary by the institution where the funds are being received. Typically those are stated to be in the 40% to 60% range for government grants, and lower for grants from private foundations. Those rates are set by negotiations between those institutions and the granting agencies
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DOGE heightens national security risks for U.S., experts warn
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Elon Musk's Business Empire Scores Benefits Under Trump Shake-Up
Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
World
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London has 400 GW of grid requests holding up datacenter builds
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Labour have announced that children of 16 and 17 will soon be able to vote. Britain is by no means unique in this: sixteen-year-olds are already able to do so in Austria, and in Germany the voting age for European elections was lowered last year. Several other countries have instituted similar changes. And it is not entirely out of the blue; as far back as 2013, Ed Miliband proposed giving 16-year-olds the vote because, as he put it, it will make them ‘part of our democracy’.
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Do Left-wing Voters Cycle more than Right-wing Voters? | Published in Findings
The highest proportion of people who cycle regardless of frequency is found among the Greens (76%) followed by The Center (CVP) voters (73%) (Figure 1). Two thirds cycle among the voters of the Social Democratic Party (SP), the Free Democratic Party (FDP) and the Swiss People’s Party (SVP). The lowest value is found among those who do not belong to any party (33.5%) All things being equal, Green voters have the highest odds ratios – Exp(B) – for both frequent cycling and transport (Table 3). They are followed by SP and CVP voters for utility cycling (and the same parties but in reverse order for the frequency to cycle). Among right-wing voters, cycling is more restricted to leisure.
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UK copyright law consultation 'fixed' in favour of AI firms, peer says
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A Revolution That Has Run Out of Gas - by Noah Millman
we made the plan back in the summer, at a time when it wasn’t clear to me just how bad things had gotten in Cuba. Also, the truth is this was a family trip, a belated celebration of my mother’s 80th birthday, and after different members of the family (including my mother) suggested a variety of different ideas, only to see them shot down by one or another member of the group, Cuba is the suggestion that emerged as the most viable consensus choice. And so we went.
Cuba’s leadership has in effect seceded from the people, has kept themselves afloat above the crisis with the help of money skimmed from deals with foreign companies from Spain to Russia. They therefore view domestic issues solely through the lens of maintaining control, not only without regard for the people’s welfare but, indeed, for the ultimate viability of the country. And that, it seems to me, is the difference between a regime that can command respect along with fear and one that inspires contempt. Whatever else you say about the CCP—and it’s worth noting that the Chinese have been pushing Cuba to do more to marketize their economy, with minimal success—they care very much about their country’s economic power. Cuba’s leadership, not so much.
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French far-left leader Mélenchon openly calls for Great Replacement in shock speech
“In our country, one person in four has a foreign grandparent. 40% of the population speaks at least two languages. We are destined to be a Creole nation and so much the better! May the young generation be the great replacement for the old generation,” said Mélenchon.
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Crazy smart meter prices in Germany: Tibber and Rabot Energy warn grid operators
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Japan can be a science heavyweight once more – if it rethinks funding
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Apple Is Renaming Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America on Maps App
Russia Bad / Ukraine War
Health / Medicine
Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp
Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda
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In Greenland, the Ice Doesn't Just Flow, It Quivers and Quakes
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Global 3D rocket launch and re-entry air pollutant and CO2 emissions
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The Long Flight to Teach an Endangered Ibis Species to Migrate
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Satellite data identifies warning signs ahead of 2018 volcanic eruption, tsunami
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Microplastics in blood induce cerebral thrombosis and neurobehavioral abnormalities
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Seafood firm offers bounty to catch 27,000 escaped salmon off Norway
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Many birds-of-paradise species emit light through their plumage, study finds