Wk 36 - Notes and Links
Wk 36 - Notes and Links
Elections Canada needs citizens to help at advance polls, offer voting services at hospitals and long term care facilities, and on election day.
Ten things in the news
Taliban ‘disappointed’ the US disabled military equipment left behind. Bet there’s gonna be a bad Yelp review.
Russia’s social media strategy for heating up divisive issues in the west operates on an industrial scale and is still cheaper than nukes.
The seven stages of Covid-19. Stage seven isn't so much a stage as it is a milestone. They stopped at stage seven because that's when they no longer provide care after that. They don't handle stage eight. The funeral director does.
Chinese Communist Party bans 'sissy men' to save 'revolutionary culture' - https://news.yahoo.com/chinese-communist-party-bans-sissy-160600881.html
This piece of technical writing probably got updated last week and was used in at the Kabul International Aeroport.
The US Air Force's first ever chief software officer has quit the job after branding it "probably the most challenging and infuriating of my entire career" in a remarkably candid blog post.
The Southwest’s most important river is drying up. The Colorado River irrigates farms, powers electric grids and provides drinking water to 40 million people. But as its supply dwindles, a crisis looms. The roots of this current water crisis can be traced back nearly 100 years to the signing of the Colorado River Compact… Oh, it’s old now but check out the book Cadillac Desert.
ProtonMail removed “we do not keep any IP logs” from its privacy policy after Swiss courts compelled it to log and disclose a user's IP and browser fingerprint
Australian boy rescued after four days lost in bush. Thanks, anti-waxers
Some people on Linked In have no sense of humour
Amazing Obit
This week in data
Researchers have discovered a universal mathematical formula that can describe any bird's egg existing in nature
New research sheds light on the psychological payoff of believing in conspiracy theories. Or maybe that's what they want you to believe
US is No. 4 in the world with most orphaned children by COVID deaths, July study finds
CAA study confirms myth Quebec has the worst roads in Canada
Wealthy Americans eat a better-balanced and more nutritious diet than do those in lower income groups, but their food habits are a bigger burden on the environment. Prosperous people in the United States tend to consume food that requires large amounts of land and water to produce. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02404-x
Action at a distance: last year’s melting sea ice may have cause the US midwest deep freeze.
Death statistics for police officers in the USA from 2019-2021. And the biggest killer of police officers is... I'd say step up and take your shot but it turns out this is exactly the problem.
This week in science and tech
A difficult and nuanced topic made no simpler or easier by the fact that government officials seem hellbent on painting it in black and white by saying ‘won’t someone please think of the children!’
A social contagion caught in the wild. Some whacko made a video claiming to have Tourette’s. He didn’t. A bunch of teenagers watched it and, lo and behold, they all had his fake symptoms.
Epipen price spikes? Thank Joe Manchin's daughter for that, according to newly released court documents
Robotic penguins monitor the small but important ocean currents that are instrumental in producing up to 70% of atmospheric oxygen
Top Gun was a hit movie about pilots in the 1980s. A sequel is being made, but actor Val Kilmer’s throat has been ravaged by cancer. So, artificial intelligence is being used to modify his current voice so it matches his pre-surgery speech.
In 1869 Niagara Falls was dammed so erosion could be repaired.
Just a little bit of schadenfreude to brighten the mood: Ivermectin found to cause fertility problems in 85% of patients while taking the drug.
Scientific literacy doesn’t mean what most people think it means.
The Los Angeles police department directs its officers to collect the social media information of every civilian they interview, including individuals who are not arrested or accused of a crime, according to records shared with the Guardian.
Prepare for a volte-face from the antivaxxers once the anticancer vaccines start coming.
This week in listening pleasure
It's been almost impossible to "get away from it all" this year. No theatres to get lost in a film or play. No parties or get-togethers to unwind. No hopping on a plane for a tropical vacation. On this episode of CBC Radio’s Now or Never, people describe their pandemic escapes, such as figure skating, hotrodding cars and writing erotica.
The Big Dick Investigation (Full Cast Comedy Thriller) Follow a true crime radio host, Maya Scruggs, as she dives headfirst into a conspiracy investigation that claims men with little penises rule the world. She is quickly taken down the rabbit hole to discover the conspiracy reaches far into the depths of our government and possibly even... space.
All The Way Down - Action/Drama podcast series set two years after a viral pandemic causes three million United Kingdom deaths. The government successfully develops a vaccine that immunizes 80 per cent of the population but fails to work on the other 20 per cent. Segregating the population that have no immunity and enforcing a lock-down, all must rush to develop a new vaccine with the hope of getting the country back to normal.
Marlon and Jake read dead people: Man Booker Prize-winning and internationally bestselling author Marlon James and his editor, Jake Morrissey,chat about the last 400 years of literature
This week in viewing pleasure
If an 1890 woman and a 2021 woman had a conversation.
An interesting piece of history. There were early experiments with aircraft carriers that had water slides for landing aircraft. This 1948 gif is of a De Havilland Vampire landing on a carrier - with only water underneath it and no wheels.
Cops vs Firemen: A dad joke competition
The middle part of a longer documentary about the Bella Lugosi Dracula. There was a Spanish language version of the film made for foreign markets and in some ways it’s a better film. Lugosi shot the English version in the morning and the Spanish crew shot in the afternoons.
Weird News
It's that time of year when people in Arizona need to be reminded not to eat or inhale toxins secreted out of the glands of a mud toad.
When closing your auto dealership, don’t leave the keys to 17 cars in the vehicles overnight.
A tepid distopia
Misinformation on Facebook got six times more clicks than factual news during the 2020 election, study says
Prosecutor to disincentivize the police
Oklahoma's ERs are so backed up with people overdosing on ivermectin that gunshot victims are having to wait to be treated, a doctor says
In what may be the most shocking news to date, it turns out that when police unions say "Cops are quitting in drove over (Insert issue here)", it turns out that’s not exactly true.
Sorry, can't treat your gunshot wound because too many people are blind with horse dewormer because they don't trust an FDA-approved vaccine
People watching
How to get the right answer on the Internet: Cunningham’s Law
Wise words about the written word… from the Twilight Zone
How fulfilling a boyfriend’s fantasy ended up not working out so well
Mississippi man sues the prosecutor who tried him for a quadruple murder only to have the conviction thrown out SIX separate times. The Podcast In the Dark season 2 is a really great deep-dive into this case. The producers went and re-interviewed witnesses and re-examined evidence and were a HUGE part of Mr. Flowers getting his most recent conviction thrown out.
People on the internet have waaaaay too much free time.
Post of the week
I made up a family
My wife and I tried to have children. We wanted a family from the start. After the 3 time we knew it was not going to happen. We tried to adopt but for reasons I will not go into that did not happen, neither did fostering.
Some years back I worked for a company that if you had children you were given priority time and shifts. We my career progressed I remembered this. i worked for few different company's.
Then one day when I was chatting with one of my co-workers and she was taking about her kids and I mentioned we have a DAUGHTER! I just kept making it up. Her name her age, where she went to school, camp etc.
This went on for years.
I picked a year of birth that would make it easy to keep up with her age etc. I made u all kinds of stories of what she lie and what we did as a family. I eventually went to a new company and kept the story going. It kept me social. at this point she would have been 20.
I had found a picture of some random model who could have passed for our child. She was now in college. the same one her mother and I went to.
As time went on she graduated. Got a great job. She had the best. She is pretty and smart and just so cool. Her boyfriend was a doctor. They were living in a big house in a nearby town. He was being sent overseas for work for awhile and she was going with him.
They would come to our house on the weekend for barbecues and visit I would tell stories on how he would try to impress me.
My wife and I have no one. we are in our 50's. My wife has no family and mine live across the county.
We are really alone. I left my last job and do not keep contact with anyone from there.
The story stopped. I miss it. every once in awhile the reality sets in. It was all fake. I kept it up so long it doesn't fell like it was not real.
I drove by the school "she" went to the other day. I thought about her. It felt like she had died.
Quotes found on-line
I am the smartest and dumbest person I know.
Can we rename Texas to Howdy Arabia?
Please quit with your problematic language. The correct terminology is “sexualities of colour”.
Ground zero rebuilding still unfinished 20 years later. This was and still is a metaphor
While there are plenty of people who've crossed the yellow hazard lines around operating jet aircraft without incident, there is very much a non-zero number who were buried in a very small container as a result. Have a friend who was a sr. airline mechanic trainer, he's filled out paperwork more than a few times and saw one mechanic ingested in person after instinctively trying to save a hat that was blown off his head.
My obesity and smoking are the good kinds, unlike those other people who died. They had the bad kind of obesity and smoker lungs, I’m actually really healthy.
People who married their 'highschool sweethearts' or first bf/gf are in no position to give dating advice. That being said, anybody who stays together has good advice, they obviously know how to work through shit situations and bad times. They won’t have advice for everything but they’re doing something right.
My imaginary friend just needs some space right now,
My next door neighbor just watched me spray a can of whipped cream directly into my mouth. We made eye contact through the window in my kitchen door.
Notice how the scenario is always "they want me/you/us dead”. It’s never indifference. Or even avoidance if you want to go that far. It’s always death.
I wish aliens would come to earth and they are actually f*ckable and hot.
Pronouns: give/me/attention
If you think it's the flu it's the gastro If you think you're gonna die, it's the flu.
It seems that the primary use of my pinky toe is checking if my furniture is still hard.
Next time your dog is barking, they're probably trying to tell you their gender
I’m not slutty, I just know what I want.
No matter how badly I fuck up today, I won't unnecessarily die from a preventable illness that I publicly bragged about not caring about.
Crucifixion resulted in the slow death of the victim over many days, as the victim’s lungs slowly filled with fluid and organs shut down until they essentially drowned to death. Ironically, this is also how antivaxxers are choosing to die of COVID while intubated.
These people have no stress in their lives. They’re pretty much all rich, spoiled, healthy and unburdened, so they feel a need to ‘live’. But instead of going out and doing something, they try to experience obstacles and suchlike via whatever made-up ‘oppression’ they can conjure up. And so, they suffer from a sort of mental rot, unable to distinguish between their fantasies and their actual circumstances.
“not all men” isn’t the goddamn answer. It happens quite often enough that it’s enough men for it to be a problem
Will my right to bear arms be honoured in England or Germany?
Astronomer here! Clap your hands once, and then a second later, clap them again. The distance between your hands when you clapped them is about 530 miles (850 km), due to the Earth's motion in space (around the sun, sun around the galaxy, galaxy moving through space towards the Virgo cluster, etc). I did the calculation once, to figure out where the different components are, and the interesting thing is pretty much all of it is from the motion of the Milky Way, and a tinier part from us going around the centre of the galaxy- speeds like the Earth spinning are just too small to matter.
Why are married people heavier than single people? Single people come home, see what's in the fridge and go to bed. Married people come home, see what's in bed and go to the fridge.
I don’t know if I’m happy or sad, but I do know that I’m slightly insane.
They take their horse paste but they don't even have horse sense.
I was in the same room as him. He neither verbally humiliated me nor did he attempt to kick my nuts, so I guess he was pretty nice.
Facts are objective. An event happened or it did not. This is why I hate the term “my truth”. Truth isn’t subjective. Facts are objective. Truth is a conclusion. Your experiences are subjective and valid but don’t confuse these with facts or truth.
That guy who is smooth and charming and knows exactly what to say is not naturally that way - he is practiced. He is a player, he got that way by gaining tons of experience, he enjoys the game and the chase and you are just another piece of his collection. The one who is nervous with little to no game, is the one who isn't gunna fuck around or cheat or flirt with other girls.
The self-pity combined with the superiority complex is even less attractive than their profile pic.
This is how the world ends. Not with a bang, but with a seemingly endless session on the toilet.
Yeah, beyond it diluting what the flag stands for, its also just looks fucking awful. It looks like a child’s depiction of the flag of the separatist movement of some Pacific island
Trans kids are like vegan cats, we all know who made the decision and it wasn't the kids, nor the cats.
Oh man I would love a 3.5kg chicken nugget right now
If the Netherlands has stopped using Fahrenheit, you should too.
Holy Shit! That’s horrible! I can’t stop rewatching it!
My only regret is that we didn't have a way of sorting society this well until Covid came along.
Look, I'm no scientist, but why couldn't we get a virus that gives me six-pack abs and impeccable social skills?
Socialism is for when capitalism strikes again
Man, if only we had voted Biden out of office sooner. That monster. And to think he has the nerve to end the war and withdrawal our troops unlike the previous 3 presidents.
I had crampy painful gas tonight and now I'm sexy.
I passed through a huge section of Paris that was still destroyed from WW2. It was so bad it looked like Chicago.
Some people would complain if you hung them with a new rope.
I spent some extra money and bought another vibrator that was rechargeable, quiet, waterproof, and had a light on it so i could use it as a flashlight for nighttime bathroom trips.
If you live in Ohio and don't become an astronaut, you are probably destined for pro wrestling
Jesus himself could come back to earth and tell them they are wrong and they would call him a heretic and nail him to the cross again.
My dad took Ambien on an international flight and woke up wearing different pants. He had no idea how or why.
Is 27 too old to be putting glow-in-the-dark stars all over my bedroom ceiling?
If I see a mother in the grocery store shoplifting baby formula, I'm minding my goddamn business
Most drugs are prescribed to you because a hot girl with a rolling suitcase gave your doctor a free pen.
I do have a tattoo up my ass. I had to have a polyp removed from my colon a few years back. When they removed it, they actually tattooed a marker inside my colon, so that spot would be easier to find and check in a colonoscopy.
One thing I find so funny is how often they ask for prayers, yet those people never ever prayed for the infected before they got it. It comes off as so smug that now divine intervention is necessary, and only because it is happening to them.
A single ravioli is called a raviolus.
What is a pdf file and why is my uncle under arrest for being one?
We should say asshole not dick for clarity when talking about rotten behaviour as both sexes have those.
20,000 Americans die each year from the flu. During a regular year when there is no social distancing, no masks, a small fraction of the population get the flu shot. You can safely say that we don't do much to combat the flu during a typical year. But Covid has killed 600,000+ Americans in a year, and that was with people trying to be safe
They say they’re the, “SilenetMajority” and yet they won’t shut the f*ck for one GD minute.
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.
I'm ok with the freedom argument. But why must you use your power and freedom to choose to make the stupid choice? It's a simple answer: Because if you choose to do the smart thing, no one will know that you used your freedom. It's performative.
I have a feeling that Americans would turn on each other before they turn on their Government. They'd be walking around with guns, slaughtering each other and you know that a certain subsection would prove themselves "patriots" by protecting those in power.
I have a no sex right after eating spicy wings rule. There’s a story behind this.
Has anyone figured out how tp wear face masks with hoop earrings?
I like measuring temperatures, but only to a certain degree.
"That's like saying my girlfriend isn't really because she disappears when I take my schizophrenia medication" or something along those lines?
“We pay your salary”. I said that to a cop when I was 20. Guess what happened next. I saw the jail cell I also pay for.
I have a message for patriots: ANTIFA are hiding web cams inside fake wasp nests. Go ahead and knock these down.
The term is aircraft mechanic, not planeologist.
Took a free course on money management online and it was the best $500 I've ever spent.
If you carve a pumpkin in September, it's called premature ejackolantern.
Reset the "Joe Rogan Just Said Something Stupid" clock
I worked for a company that adopted SAP. I wanted to kill myself after changeover. Apparently that's normal from what I've heard.
In my line of work I investigate abnormalities in a manufacturing environment. One of the very most rudimentary tools we use is called the 5 whys. You look at your issue and ask why. Then you look at that explanation and ask why that happened. And then you drill down until you get to the bottom, the root cause. it may not be 5 levels necessarily, it might be more but usually it's not less. It's almost never human error.
Oh, no - there’s a teenager on the internet who doesn’t like me! Whatever will I do?
People shouldn’t post any story from any “Sun”. It’s ironic that there is print media for illiterates.
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