Wk 34 - Notes and Links
Wk 34 - Notes and Links
Hot in Central Canada this week, eh?
Ten things in the news
One simple trick to double the value of the Florida home you're trying to sell: just erase that pesky sinkhole designation on county records
I’ll tell you the secret about cancer.
“I once asked Rupert Murdoch why he was so opposed to the European Union.“‘That’s easy,’ he replied. ‘When I go into Downing Street they do what I say; when I go to Brussels they take no notice.’
Being in prison for murder, I have my own feelings to process around shame and self-worth, but when a bunny comes running up to me, it touches a deep part in my soul. It lets me know I’m worth something, you know?
Woman wears space helmet to Alabama school board meeting to protest mask policy because…reasons.
'No peeing towards Russia' sign appears on country's Arctic border with Norway
The U.K. is at the "businesses are begging for prison slave labor" stage of Brexit.
The mantra of "maintaining dialogue with Russia" is no longer meaningful. Germany needs a new concept for dealing with Russia's autocratic President Putin.
Misaligned factory robot may have sparked Chevy Bolt battery fires.
About Kabul
What I learned while eavesdropping on the Taliban
Kabul evacuation shows the unflattering truth: Canada is slow, risk-averse and selfish.
I served in Afghanistan as a US Marine, twice. Here’s the truth in two sentences
The Taliban, not the West, won the technological war
This week in data
A study of more than 30,000 heart patients shows that becoming active later in life can be nearly as beneficial to survival as continued activity.
Plaques found in the retina may indicate similar plaques in the brain, a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease, and may serve as a visible biomarker for detecting disease risk.
One person collected 33 TB of unique text documents and made them available on-line.
Introverts make better observers than bastards like Chip from Sales who will not shut up.
Dallas cops lost 8TB of criminal case data during a bungled migration, says the DA... four months later
Poorer UK towns found to have the most betting shops, study shows.
This experiment proves dogs can spot a liar or that dogs have major trust issues.
This week in science and tech
Feeding mice high-fructose corn syrup, a widely used sweetener in human diets, has been found to drive an increase in the surface area of the gut that is associated with enhanced absorption of dietary nutrients and weight gain.
"Transparency is an important part of everything we do at Facebook," reads the first line of a first-quarter Content Transparency Report, which Facebook later decided not to share with the public. They've now changed their mind, and released that report. The Hill summarizes its findings.
Moderna has developed two vaccines for HIV. The first phase of testing for both could begin as early as Thursday, according to a post on the National Institutes of Health website for clinical trials. Phase 1 of the vaccine trial will test the vaccines' safety, as well as measure immunity and antibody responses. There were 37.7 million people living with HIV globally in 2020, according to United Nations data.
Hybrid cars are twice as vulnerable to supply chain issues as gas-powered models.
Google Has Been Paying Wireless Carriers Billions To Not Develop Competing App Stores.
How do modern ships fend off torpedoes? Here’s another look at the subject of anti torpedo defence. Why is this an issue? The USN has torn out out its anti torpedo defences because it turns out lots of it doesn’t work.
This week in listening pleasure
Montreal has felt like Costa Rica this week but let’s remember 1815, the year without a summer
Comedian Athena Kugblenu tries to explain the cultural phenomenon of cancelling the famous by examining high profile examples, and setting out some all important cancel rules.
Comic mini-adventures written by comedy sketch group the Boom Jennies. This week: aliens!
The problem with virtual reality. It’s big news in the tech sector but does it have practical use?
This week in viewing pleasure
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How Murdoch’s Fox News allowed Trump's propaganda to destabilise democracy
A mass psychosis is an epidemic of madness and it occurs when a large portion of a society loses touch with reality and descends into delusions. Such a phenomenon is not a thing of fiction.
Lowered resting heart rate brought on by drug therapies may not be all it’s cracked up to be.
This takes confidently incorrect to a whole new level
Weird News
Weird headlines
Animal sanctuary answers locals' complaints about the noise from her petrol generator - by sealing it inside an insulated box which of course caused a fire.
Man alive and reportedly 'sun tanning' after authorities thought they found body in river
Are you a moron who has pressing questions about COVID-19 that have already been answered roughly 443,544 times since the pandemic started? Don't worry. Local news has your back
Dumb criminals
Claiming you were "out to get some exercise" doesn't fly when your pants were down to your ankles outside woman's home at night
Stealing a car to make it to a court appearance was not the worst decision the suspect made today
Just for fun
The pillow guy has a web site where people can submit proof that the 2020 election was stolen. You certainly wouldn’t use it to submit nonsense.
A tepid distopia
High school administrators tears pages from school yearbook because … reasons?
A man spent a year in jail on a murder charge that hinged on disputed AI evidence. Now the case has been dropped.
People watching
Weird Wiki: The Indigo Children
What terrible business decisions do you recall bankrupted companies?
My next car horn. Yep, that's right. You can put a train horn in a Miata.
When Kodak accidentally discovered A-Bomb testing
What simple fact took you an embarrassingly long time to figure out
Post of the week
Every day another GOP mayor, governor, Sherri, TV commentator, preacher or radio host announces they’re suspending duties to go into the hospital for SARS-Covid.
"He is in serious need of your prayers tonight." Nope. He was in serious need of the vaccine.
They were all antivax. It's like a mass suicide event. Their cause of death is not prayer insufficiency.
When researchers study middle aged males they find a high instance of suicide rates and just a lot of misery and anger. If you break down this data, the numbers are much worse in poorer red states/red counties. The consensus is usually that's because those areas are poorer, but I think that's not the whole story. We know what it takes to lead a happy life as an older person and conservatism and the toxic masculinity they all subscribe to goes 100% against that.
My pet theory is a lot of them don't mind checking out early. They've devoted their lives to hate, ignorance, racism, sexism, and have lead lives devoid of wonder and humanity since childhood. They lives without love, curiosity, fairness, caring about others, and they only use words as weapons, hence their love of dishonest conservative personalities. I think a lot of them honestly welcome death by covid or don't mind it all that much. If covid takes them, its fine, they don't want to be here much anyway. If they did, they probably wouldn't subscribe to conservative thought which is ultimately hateful and nihilistic.
I feel this also explains their obesity, alcoholism, refusing to see doctors attitudes, smoking, and other risk taking (driving unsafely, buying a motorcycle at midlife, fireworks, gun collecting, hunting). They just don't care very much to stay alive and won't usually take their own lives but if some other agency does, then that's a desirable outcome. I don't think we talk about the abject misery of being a conservative, but its a real thing. I see it in every conservative I know.
They're just miserable people. Some, maybe even most of them, past a certain age don't mind going down early and they certainly wouldn't mind taking others with them if they do. Covid gives them both outcomes unfortunately.
Quotes found on-line
If you are guilty of turpitude, you should be ashamed of yourself
Last night my wife's Uber had a duck in it.
Can you plead insanity in a civil case?
Hey who do you think you are? Bringing reason and common sense into this? Lol
Random in order post when the I are words
Capitalism makes it easy to figure out who is at fault. You simply follow the money. You are afraid to do that because you might have to admit a share of the culpability
“Studies show” with links to an opinion piece.
You might be talented in something that hasn't been invented yet
Why are so many of these dummies who were at the Jan 6 insurrection realtors? Is it because that’s where people with no brains can earn money but also have an open schedule?
The Fonz from Happy Days is actually an angel sent to Earth on a mission to save the Cunninghams. They are in denial about the death of their son Chip.
The pleated pockets of my cargo shorts are at the same height as the cabinet knobs in my kitchen. I've been opening drawers by accident all day, and nearly ripped one door off its hinges. Think Old Navy will refund me for this defective product?
Interesting that there is a substantial anti-vax movement, but no anti-ventilator movement.
Just more proof that you should never be trusting a libertarian with anything, ever. Not children. Not even their own wellbeing. Outward identification as a Libertarian should be a clear indication that you are not only too stupid to stand trial, but also too stupid to make your own life decision. They can be sent to an adult daycare to have their diapers changed by the frontline workers they don't give a shit about to live out their pitifully stupid days.
Ladies, if a guy sends you an unsolicited dick pic and it's really small, accuse him of sending child porn so he has to admit he has a small dick.
To understand America, you must understand its theme parks
He might grow up to be a wonderful young serial killer.
The aviation industry and even Congress can in fact learn from multi-decade, trillion-dollar mistakes.
To be fair. Most of those militant groups hate each other... Both for religious differences but also because they're competition
Is it wrong to be shit faced drunk at 645am, and in the bathtub eating Cinnamon Toast Popcorn? Asking for a friend.
I literally meant that figuratively.
Carrot juice is also orange juice.
Maybe some entrepreneur out there should start selling medical bracelets that say "Do not provide medical assistance if you insist on wearing masks, gloves, or any kind of vaccinations."
If you think about it: The Scarecrow and Mrs. King, Bring 'Em Back Alive, Tron and Babylon 5 all take place in the same Bruce Boxleitner cinematic universe
About the people who refuse to take Covid seriously, I’m horrified at the thought of losing a quarter of the population. But that quarter? Even my jaded spine gets a little tingle.
It wasn't until I became affluent that I realized just how much money you could save by already having money.
"I won't put that vaccine in my body because I don't know what's in it” became "Gimmie some of that horse dewormer. Someone I don't know on the internet says it cures Covid."
Like… isn’t the whole point of civil rights the right to sleep with who YOU want to?
I guess my therapy works because I forgot about this absolute fucking trauma of seeing John Wayne play Gengis Khan.
Hypothetically, if my boss was crazy, could I have him committed?
Iraq will become the new Bengazi.
The side with the simplest uniform wins
In the grand scheme of things, a car you don't own parked in front of your house is a pretty solidly first world problem.
It's funny you mention this because I was thinking of that community along with just the leftist/Marxist/Anarcho-communist fringe groups in general, as some of the only people I've met who actually seem to have men who hold men accountable. I do note that many of them I witnessed were not cis hetero men.
Forget it Jake. It’s Alabama.
This man looks like he uses unrefrigerated hot dog water for aftershave
Looks like it was taken from a North Korean clothing depot.
To people who believe themselves infallible, consequences are always quite unexpected.
What are the crowdfunding rules for assassination? Asking for a friend.
She just needs to learn to deal with her stress. For instance, when she is feeling angry, just take a deep breath and slowly count to potato.
My mother was wrong: you cannot be whoever you want to be. Identity theft is a crime.
You will love the look as soon as you get used to the smell.
Society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
The recovering addict part of me feels bad for Mike Lindell. Clearly he's out of his damn mind and whatever the hell it is he's on, be it fame, notoriety, or just the embrace of the crackpipe's loving arms, he needs help. But the other 99% of me is enjoying watching this guy fall out of the "I'm fucking insane" tree and slapping his stupid fat face against every single branch on the way down.
I used to be a libertarian too. Then I hit puberty and lost my virginity.
I’ve always called it my Single Ladies Utility Tote or my SLUT bag for short
Believe it not not, lawyers actually have a terrible reputation when it comes to designing rocket engines.
Healthcare workers are not the monolith we imagine them to be. And between a third and over half of any given hospital's employees are non medical staff.
Nope: lizard person. The proof is in the toes.
It’s not the destination, but all the friends made and money spent along the way. But mostly the money spent.
Colonel Klink from Hogan's Heroes was tried as a war criminal which is why the actor also appeared in the dock in Judgment at Nuremberg.
In the 1960s it was 51 minutes of television and nine minutes of commercials per hour. By 2006 this was 48 minutes. In 2020 this became 42 minutes. Linear regression line suggests we'll hit 30 minutes of commercials per hour around 2115. And be at 40 minutes of commercials per hour around 2180 and 45 minutes of commercials per hour around 2225.
Today my girlfriend tried a balanced diet of nothing but onions
For 19.99 a month you can take my course on comfortably giving up your morals and doing so!
I haven’t shit myself since I was detoxing from heroin years ago.
If you remove all of the votes for Biden, Trump clearly won every state.
It's unfair for you to judge me based on my words and actions
Anti-vaxxers are a poorly educated outspoken minority and I hope that they are collectively dumb enough to throw away their vote on the Volksparty (PPC) at the CPC's expense.
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