Flutterby™! From 2019-03-01 to 2019-03-30

Grace Slick: Why I Decided To License Starship's Music To Chick-fil- A. All proceeds are being donated to Lambda Legal.

[ related topics: Music Law Gambling ]

The 2020 Democratic Frontrunners Need to Answer for Their Votes on SESTA.

From a Facebook thread:

Of all the presidental candidates in the Senate, the only ones who voted with Ron Wyden to amend SESTA/FOSTA and take out parts that hurt an open internet (and in turn sex workers) were Bernie, Gillibrand and Booker. Kamala Harris was the architect of SESTA/FOSTA. Klobuchar, Harris and Warren voted against the Wyden amendment. https://www.senate.gov/legisla...ongress=115&session=2&vote=00059

[ related topics: Politics Erotic Sexual Culture Work, productivity and environment Net Culture Architecture ]

Leaving a Stench: How a system fueled by corporate cash lets foul air persist in The Dalles:

The message was in tune with Huffman’s pro-jobs platform and his donor base. He took $445,000 from corporations and industry groups over a decade, compared with $56,000 from residents of The Dalles and small unnamed sources.

[ related topics: Currency ]

Typo of the moment: Faebook. Beware the virtual food you consume while visiting...

[ related topics: Food ]

Ya know, "grown ass men" cam have as amazing number of meanings depending on what you emphasize...

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I don't know all of the bands that I see on the Mystic Theatre marquee, but the different scales of tour bus (or beater van) on Friday evenings is always interesting

"Road to Cali Roots" Common Kings plus Nattali Rize, sold out.

[ related topics: Photography Theater & Plays Heinlein Public Transportation ]

Here's a new one to me: Product on Amazon for $499.99. Product on the company's web site for $249.99, marked down to $200. Apparently the Amazon version is a third party seller who's just buying it from the web site and doubling the price...

[ related topics: Books Invention and Design ]

Shadow forwarded along Seed, a dramatic web comic. I'm hooked. Damn it.

[ related topics: Bay Area ]

Yes, this bookshelf will be a combination of half and full-depth boxes to have a cat stairway up to the catwalk above the living room...

[ related topics: Photography ]

Gun slips from waistband, shoots man in genitals

"The bullet entered just above his penis and exited his scrotum," said a Marion Police Department spokesperson.

[ related topics: Sexual Culture Law Enforcement Guns ]

Another study finds no link between autism and MMR vaccine.

In the current study, researchers examined data on 657,461 children. During this time, 6,517 kids were diagnosed with autism.

Kids who got the MMR vaccine were seven percent less likely to develop autism than children who didn't get vaccinated, researchers report in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

Same study at NPR.

Measles, Mumps, Rubella Vaccination and Autism: A Nationwide Cohort Study. DOI: 10.7326/M18-2101

Measurements: Danish population registries were used to link information on MMR vaccination, autism diagnoses, other childhood vaccines, sibling history of autism, and autism risk factors to children in the cohort. Survival analysis of the time to autism diagnosis with Cox proportional hazards regression was used to estimate hazard ratios of autism according to MMR vaccination status, with adjustment for age, birth year, sex, other childhood vaccines, sibling history of autism, and autism risk factors (based on a disease risk score).

[ related topics: Children and growing up Erotic Sexual Culture Health ]

Kaiser Health News: GoFundMe CEO: ‘Gigantic Gaps’ In Health System Showing Up In Crowdfunding, an interview with Rob Solomon:

Some progress has been made here and there with the Affordable Care Act, and it’s under fire, but there’s ever-widening gaps in coverage for treatment, for prescriptions, for everything related to health care costs. Even patients who have insurance and supposedly decent insurance [come up short]. We’ve become an indispensable institution, indispensable technology and indispensable platform for anyone who finds themselves needing help because there just isn’t adequate coverage or assistance.

I would love nothing more than for “medical” to not be a category on GoFundMe. The reality is, though, that access to health care is connected to the ability to pay for it. If you can’t do that, people die. People suffer. We feel good that our platform is there when people need it.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Health Current Events Journalism and Media Pyrotechnics ]

Theranos: How a broken patent system sustained its decade-long deception

[ related topics: Intellectual Property ]

NPR: How Federal Disaster Money Favors The Rich

[ related topics: Currency ]

Melissa Gira Grant in the Washington Post: Kamala Harris brought sex work into the 2020 spotlight. Here’s what she should do next.

On Tuesday, Kamala Harris became the first mainstream U.S. presidential candidate to publicly state she supports the decriminalization of sex work. In an interview with the Root, the career prosecutor and junior senator from California was asked, “Do you think that sex work ought to be decriminalized?” She answered, “I think so. I do.” She later added that “when you are talking about consenting adults, I think that, you know, yes, we should really consider that we can’t criminalize consensual behavior as long as no one is being harmed.”

[ related topics: Erotic Sexual Culture virus Work, productivity and environment California Culture ]

Bahahaha! Shadow has been forwarding a bunch of cool new comics and fiction to me, and this one he sent as a Reddit link, but I think it's gonna make my regular comics reads: Monkeyuser: New model, on machine learning, AI, and training models.

[ related topics: Invention and Design Comics Education Artificial Intelligence ]

LHC "Collide" (with subtitles)

In 2015, three graduate students and a communications officer made a CERN-themed parody of Howie Day’s hit song “Collide”. Howie Day saw the parody on Twitter, and asked to visit CERN. We said yes, but only if he covered our parody of his song and let us make a music video with him during the visit. We were joking. He wasn’t.

Read more: http://cern.ch/go/vcM7

Symmetry Magazine: Howie Day records love song to physics

The original parody: LHC "Collide" (Howie Day parody)

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Music Movies Video Woodworking ]

Pantone Releases a New Shade of Deep Purple in Honor of Prince. And yet no mention of Ian Gillan, Jon Lord, Roger Glover, Ian Paice, or Ritchie Blackmore. Hmmmph.

[ related topics: Invention and Design ]

Chicago Police Sergeant Says He Was Punished For Refusing To Help Cover Up Shooting:

Sgt. Isaac Lambert filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the city Monday, centered around the 2017 police shooting of 18-year-old Ricardo Hayes.

Hayes was shot twice and wounded by off-duty police Sgt. Khalil Muhammad around 5 a.m. on Aug. 13, 2017, on the far South Side of Chicago.

[ related topics: Law Current Events Law Enforcement Television Guns ]

The least watched YouTube videos: https://www.incognitube.com/

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My politics are wandering all over the place, though right now I think they're tending towards Guillotine Party, but this line from Brad Delong: A Clinton-era centrist Democrat explains why it’s time to give democratic socialists a chance:

“Barack Obama rolls into office with Mitt Romney’s health care policy, with John McCain’s climate policy, with Bill Clinton’s tax policy, and George H.W. Bush’s foreign policy,” DeLong notes. “And did George H.W. Bush, did Mitt Romney, did John McCain say a single good word about anything Barack Obama ever did over the course of eight solid years? No, they fucking did not.”

I believe history will remember Obama as something like a Reagan, though possibly with a little less illegal arms dealing.

[ related topics: Politics Health Rocky Horror Picture Show Global Warming ]

Georgia police officer recognized as an expert on impaired driving arrested on DUI charges.

[ related topics: Current Events Law Enforcement ]

Yeah, this landed a little close to home, especially since Charlene is out of town and I'm mediating in the household: The Onion: Woman Adopts Second Cat For First One To Terrorize While She At Work.

[ related topics: Food Work, productivity and environment ]

Given the various studies showing the inverse relationships between access to porn and sexual assault in all sorts of contexts, I wonder if the emphasis on perpetuating abuse at a social and institutional level will eventually be superseded, or continue to be a part of the establishment cultures: RT Porn Pedallers @pornpedallers:

BREAKING NEWS: Cycling is for everyone. Except people like us @pornpedallers. Today @BritishCycling revoked our club affiliation because PPCC breaches @UCI_cycling regulation 1.1.089. We're just a cycling club, riding for fun & raising money for @THTorguk. Is this justified? 👍 👎

Includes image from of text from the British Cycling organization that reads:

We have been aware that the club name stands for `Porn Pedallers Cycling Club' as per UCI regulation 1.1.089, no "pornographic bis products or any other products that might damage the image of the UCI or the sport of cycling in general shall be associated directly or indirectly with a licnence-holder". As such we would be unable to accept your affiliation at this time.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Erotic Sexual Culture Current Events Sports Currency Pedal Power Bicycling ]

RT bang on floor you need more stew @audendum

pick your battles. pick... pick fewer battles than that. put some battles back. that's too many

https://github.com/floooh/sokol - minimal cross-platform standalone C headers

Zlib license, implemented basically as .h files, looks like it's targeted at writing code for stand-alone apps that can also be compiled to Web Assembly + WebGL with Emscripten, or target Android.

[ related topics: Writing ]

XCode is giving me pages of "-pie being ignored." warnings. Pie should never be ignored, XCode. It is wrong to ignore pie.

Study Finds Artists Become Famous through Their Friends, Not the Originality of Their Work

Ingram and his colleague Mitali Banerjee, of HEC Paris, used MoMA’s findings to examine the role that creativity and social networks played for these artists, in relationship to the level of fame they achieved. In a 2018 paper, they relayed their findings—including that for successful artists, making friends may be more important than producing novel art.

[ related topics: Work, productivity and environment Art & Culture ]

Non-Indians indicted for selling 'Navajo' jewelry made in the Philippines:

According to the February 26 indictment, the owners of stores in Arizona marketed and sold jewelry as "Navajo" when in fact it was produced in the Philippines. But one of the defendants claims he did nothing wrong.

[ related topics: Current Events ]

Associations between sex work laws and sex workers’ health: A systematic review and meta-analysis of quantitative and qualitative studies

Conclusion Together, the qualitative and quantitative evidence demonstrate the extensive harms associated with criminalisation of sex work, including laws and enforcement targeting the sale and purchase of sex, and activities relating to sex work organisation. There is an urgent need to reform sex-work-related laws and institutional practices so as to reduce harms and barriers to the realisation of health.

[ related topics: Erotic Sexual Culture Health Consumerism and advertising Work, productivity and environment Government ]

Should Law Subsidize Driving? Gregory H. Shill: University of Iowa College of Law; American Bar Foundation; New York University School of Law

This Article conceptualizes this problem, and offers a way out. It begins by identifying a submerged, disconnected system of rules that furnish indirect yet extravagant subsidies to driving. These subsidies lower the price of driving by comprehensively reassigning its costs to non-drivers and society at large. They are found in every field of law, from traffic law to land use regulation to tax, tort, and environmental law. Law’s role is not primary, and at times it is even constructive. But where it is destructive, it is uniquely so: law not only inflames a public health emergency but legitimizes it, extending its longevity.

[ related topics: Children and growing up Politics Health Invention and Design Education New York Real Estate ]

Man taping drywall falls off ladder and breaks his femur. His employer had let worker's comp insurance lapse. Employer uses Boston Police Department and ICE to have man arrested in front of his 2 year old, and deported.

For those who have now concluded that Paz and his family deserved everything they got because he was in the country without authorization, a note: Retaliating against employees for asserting their rights under federal labor law is illegal, regardless of the worker’s immigration status. If an employer can violate the rights of undocumented immigrants with impunity, he could violate those of others too. And if he can exploit and abuse immigrant workers without consequence, he is more likely to employ them over those with greater protections.

No shit. Current immigration law essentially creates an underclass of unprotected workers who can be exploited and abused. It isn't protecting the jobs of citizens because it's more attractive to hire undocumented workers, you can just blow off your worker's comp payments and call the local police when your workers get injured.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Nature and environment Sociology Law Work, productivity and environment Law Enforcement Civil Liberties ]

Dear Cherry Valley parents at the Jubilee 2019 fundraiser auction: c'mon, I just beat y'all out for Disneyland tickets. Cough it up for your kids already...

[ related topics: Children and growing up ]

As I sit down to cook breakfast, a little bit of playing with food seems apropos: Kondomeriet - 30 years of naughtiness (YouTube video).

[ related topics: Movies Food Video ]

On a road trip up the north coast we saw a beautiful, but pricey, clock on a piece of redwood burl. I thought "well,I've got some pretty chunks of wood". This one's a bit of olive.

The inlay pips are something that... I got a hunk of wood off freecycle that someone said was a walnut mantle. It had an alignment strip pin nailed on to it. I cut a piece of that and turned it into a dowel on the mill. It's redder than I'd expect walnut to be, so I don't know what it is, but I'm guessing it'll age darker, 'cause the outside of the wood was more like walnut

[ related topics: Photography Nature and environment Travel Woodworking ]

Interesting: We may have some of these measuring cups: Stop using your vintage Tupperware NOW. These measuring cups are positive for 2,103 ppm Lead + 250 ppm Arsenic.

Just this morning, a friend complained that Facebook suppressed a Zero Hedge link they were trying to post that, when we went and looked at the sources, massively misrepresented the original Reuters report (I didn't get further than that, given that it was Zero Hedge to begin with).

The veracity of news sources is going to become more and more important. With Vice President Pence and CNN apparently spreading deliberate propaganda, as seen in this New York Times debunk of alleged attacks on aid trucks in Venezuela at https://www.nytimes.com/2019/0...as/venezuela-aid-fire-video.html and https://theintercept.com/2019/...govt-and-media-spread-fake-news/ it's becoming harder and harder to vet news sources, especially those forwarded around on Facebook.

In the arms race between the propagandists and the fact checkers I assume that we're soon going to be at the CAPTCHA level of text distortion in image-ified memes as people continue to try to push propaganda.

So consider carefully what you choose to pass on.

Poynter: Forget fake news stories, false text posts are getting massive engagement on Facebook.

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Closing Central Madrid To Cars Resulted In 9.5% Boost To Retail Spending, Finds Bank Analysis

Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria – better known as BBVA – compared the 2018 takings with retail data from two previous Christmas periods, and found a 3.3% increase in spending across the whole of Madrid thanks to the restriction on car use in the central area. The study, carried out in association with the City of Madrid, measured sales between December 1, 2018 and January 7, 2019.

[ related topics: Automobiles ]

Modern font characters have the ability to shape themselves based on surrounding characters. This can be used to do arithmetic. A font which does addition.

[ related topics: Mathematics Typography Graphic Design ]

Lessons from "Selling Pain to the Saturated Self"

With all of the people talking about feeling alienated in school, including those I thought were part of the in crowd, maybe it's actually that one of the inherent functions of grade school is to create an insular sense of insecurity and separation.

[ related topics: Children and growing up ]

I guess the scandal here is that they were able to do this for ten or twenty grand through a broker rather than a million dollar endowment directly to the school? And if this scheme got the kids in and they did okay, what does this say about the relative value of the information taught in school to the filtering process of the admissions? (Hint: It lines up with previous research that suggests that, except for extremely low-income students, the value of college is filtering, not education.)

Of course this also depended on corrupt sports coaches. Given the recent revelations about how deep those sports coaches are willing to go to cover up sexual assault, it should come as no surprise that a little graft to work around admissions is all in a day's work...

FBI accuses wealthy parents, including celebrities, in college entrance bribery scheme.

[ related topics: Children and growing up Interactive Drama Erotic Sexual Culture History Work, productivity and environment Law Enforcement Currency Education ]

With the recent documentary about Michael Jackson, I've been thinking about whether I continue to use his music with my square dance calling. I'm getting more and more towards "yes, it's more work for me to find new tracks, but doing that work is part of making sure that the non-monsters get coverage".

Pete Davidson made a joke on SNL about the Catholic Church. Now officials are demanding an apology.

I'm sorry, but I think it's hilarious:

“This guy is a monster and he should go to jail forever,” Davidson said, referring to R&B singer R. Kelly, who has been accused of sexually abusing young women. “But if you support the Catholic Church, isn’t that like the same thing as being an R. Kelly fan? I don’t really see the difference, except for one’s music is significantly better.”

Unfortunately, dude's not great at reading off a teleprompter, but... Weekend Update: Pete Davidson on R. Kelly and Michael Jackson - SNL

[ related topics: Religion Interactive Drama Music Movies Invention and Design Journalism and Media Work, productivity and environment ]

RT Jamie Mitchell @realJ_Mitchell:

Ten years ago I realized I did not enjoy confiscating student devices...a thread.

The resulting thread is about the teacher learning how to integrate the students' use of their augmented brains, by way of phones, laptops, and tablets, into the classroom experience, rather than pretending that the millenium never happened. Really good stuff in there...

[ related topics: Children and growing up Education ]

Man accused of local bank robberies was neuroscientist with Ph.D.

[ related topics: Bay Area Current Events ]

A chronic low dose of Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) restores cognitive function in old mice

https://doi.org/10.1038/nm.4311

[ related topics: Nature and environment Mathematics ]

Study Finds Racial Gap Between Who Causes Air Pollution And Who Breathes It. Tying this to Nextdoor comments would be shooting fish in a barrel.

[ related topics: Health ]

Kickstarter: Offensive Adult Party Game by The Dragon's Tomb:

To begin the game, each player draws one white card. All white cards are identical and say "I lack creativity and enjoy the illusion of being funny."

[ related topics: Games Political Correctness Race ]

Tech privilege: When you're irritated that the defaults for the new device you bought are set to Britain, or Shenzen, rather than California...

[ related topics: Invention and Design California Culture ]

“Yelp, but for MAGA” turns red over security disclosure, threatens researcher: 63Red Safe app—a "Green Book" for conservatives—left APIs exposed.

The thread: https://twitter.com/fs0c131y/status/1105260936305274880

[ related topics: Books Bay Area ]

Careful with that canning, folks: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR): Notes from the Field: Botulism Outbreak Associated with Home-Canned Peas — New York City, 2018

The patient who prepared the home-canned peas was a novice home canner. She used a peach preserves recipe with a boiling water technique, replacing the peaches with frozen vegetables. The patient was unaware that low-acid foods (e.g., vegetables) must be canned in a pressure canner rather than a boiling water canner to eliminate C. botulinum spores (1). After the jars cooled, the patient correctly checked for jar seal. One of the jars of peas was not sealed, so the patient covered and refrigerated it, and the family consumed the peas in the potato salad. The U.S. Department of Agriculture guidelines state that “foods in single unsealed jars could be stored in the refrigerator and consumed within several days” (1). However, this recommendation applies only to cans that have been correctly processed. In the absence of a pressure-canning step, C. botulinum spores were not eliminated, and the closed jar created an anaerobic environment allowing spore germination and BoNT production.

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When a vendor does a cutesy little "find the errors in this JavaScript" programming challenge, but it's quicker to just rewrite in Perl... https://antsle.com/stpatricksday-2019/

[ related topics: Perl Open Source Software Engineering hubris ]

Abuse of Unicode for destruction of accessibility and short-term amusement: Weird Text Generator

𝔖𝔬𝔪𝔢 𝔴𝔢𝔦𝔯𝔡 𝔱𝔢𝔵𝔱 𝔤𝔬𝔢𝔰 𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢

𝕾𝖔𝖒𝖊 𝖜𝖊𝖎𝖗𝖉 𝖙𝖊𝖝𝖙 𝖌𝖔𝖊𝖘 𝖍𝖊𝖗𝖊

💗🐲 ѕ𝔬ᵐє 𝐰єĮ𝕣𝐝 𝓣𝒆𝐗Ť g𝕆ⓔѕ 𝕙𝔢𝓇𝔢 ♞👻

𝓢𝓸𝓶𝓮 𝔀𝓮𝓲𝓻𝓭 𝓽𝓮𝔁𝓽 𝓰𝓸𝓮𝓼 𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓮

𝒮𝑜𝓂𝑒 𝓌𝑒𝒾𝓇𝒹 𝓉𝑒𝓍𝓉 𝑔𝑜𝑒𝓈 𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒

𝕊𝕠𝕞𝕖 𝕨𝕖𝕚𝕣𝕕 𝕥𝕖𝕩𝕥 𝕘𝕠𝕖𝕤 𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕖

and so on and so forth...

Meanwhile: Florida high school student has dropped her fight to validate her SAT score

[Kamilah] Campbell and attorney Ben Crump held a news conference in early January, saying they believed test administrators were holding up one of her scores -- a 1230 -- because it was too high an improvement from her initial effort, a 900.

Makes an interesting contrast to the other SAT news of the week, I thought...

[ related topics: Children and growing up Law Current Events Conferences ]

Yet another example of "study for the test, but don't let that information keep you from learning the facts": RT PasswordResearch.com @PwdRsch

Security+ certification study guide mentions that what the test expects you to know about password complexity doesn't necessarily match what the experts say.

[ related topics: Education Douglas Adams ]

Scott Madin @ScottMadin:

this is wild to me. imagine:

"huh, psychological distress and major depression rose incredibly sharply in teens and young adults from 2005 to now"

*looks around at economic crises, increasing inequality, endless war, climate change, resurgent fascism*

"must be snapchat's fault"

NPR @NPR

A new study shows a rise in depression and stress among young people parallels the growth in smartphone and social media use. https://n.pr/2CjXGxH

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Because I keep coming back to this: ASRS reports for the 737 Max 8. At least one friend has interpreted this as US pilots being much faster to disengage automatic systems.

[ related topics: Aviation ]

Topspin posted this on Facebook describing it as:

I'm not sure "Waitsian lyrics" is a term that I've seen before, but it applies here.

Will Kimbrough "I Like It Down Here"

Though Kimbrough has much smoother voice than Tom Waits...

[ related topics: Movies ]

The misspelling is just the icing on the bullshit. Also intrigued by some of the YouTube recommendations I've been seeing recently, makes me yearn for the days when ads were just trying to participate in capitalist consumerism.

[ related topics: Photography Consumerism and advertising ]

Wait, wombats have cubic scat? This gives new meaning to "shitting bricks".

[ related topics: Invention and Design ]

All I'm saying is that if you think I don't know how to find my way out of a labyrinth, get a clew.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama ]

Sure, everybody says they love their cats... And their books (not yet installed)...

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How High School Sex Ed Can Help Prevent Rape In College<:

A team at Columbia University, lead by pediatrician and professor John Santelli, MD, reports that sexuality education in middle and high school may have protective effects that extend well past graduation. In the study, published in PLOS ONE, the researchers found that students who had comprehensive sexuality education classes, including specific refusal skills training (practice on “how to say no” to sex) before age 18, had a lower risk of experiencing sexual assault during college.

“We looked at factors before college that influence young people's risk of sexual assault—a lot of things were associated,” Santelli said. “One of the things that jumped out was that certain kinds of sex ed before age 18 had a protective effect. It looked like students who had education about refusing sex had a reduced risk of sexual assault. This difference was particularly true for young women—a reduction of about 50 percent.”

(Emphasis mine)

[ related topics: Children and growing up Erotic Sexual Culture Weblogs History Education ]

Marijuana Use Before Sex Leads To More Satisfying Orgasms, Study Finds, at least in women.

After they adjusted for race, the authors found that women who said they used marijuana before their bedroom activities had 2.13 higher odds of reporting satisfactory orgasms during sexual activity than those who reported no marijuana use before sex.

[ related topics: Drugs Erotic Sexual Culture ]

Dr Jen Gunter: How to respond to a question about “late-term abortion,” a procedure that doesn’t exist

[ related topics: Sexual Culture ]

Via Shadow: Reddit /r/CrappyDesign: That's gonna be an easy ride. Yet another bike infrastructure attempt that discourages bikes.

[ related topics: Bicycling ]

Air pollution causes 8.8 million extra early deaths a year

The researchers found that air pollution caused an estimated 8.8 million extra deaths globally rather than the previously estimated 4.5 million. Co-author of the study, Professor Thomas Münzel, of the Department of Cardiology of the University Medical Centre Mainz in Mainz, Germany, said: "To put this into perspective, this means that air pollution causes more extra deaths a year than tobacco smoking, which the World Health Organization estimates was responsible for an extra 7.2 million deaths in 2015. Smoking is avoidable but air pollution is not.

European Heart Journal: Cardiovascular disease burden from ambient air pollution in Europe reassessed using novel hazard ratio functions

https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehz135

Via

[ related topics: Drugs Health Nature and environment Invention and Design Education ]

Taps on link. Taps on "no, don't redirect me to the US version". Taps on "don't send me emails". Or notifications. Don't share my location. Close the popover ad. The other one. Sigh. Choose "Request desktop site". Do it all over again.

John Robb ‏@johnrobb:

Job posting at the University of Illinois for an Adjunct Instructor/Lecturer

https://jobs.illinois.edu/facu...junct-instructor-lecturer-unpaid

"This is a 0% FTE, unpaid position. If considered to teach future courses, salary will be offered."

Reply from mark safranski @zenpundit:

“We are hiring unpaid labor to teach a body of undergrads increasingly composed of Chinese nationals and out of state nonresidents who pay full freight tuition. And relatives of Illinois politicians who enter on clout instead of meeting admissions standards but they attend free”

[ related topics: Children and growing up Interactive Drama Work, productivity and environment Heinlein Education ]

It was within the past year or so that I first learned of Panic at the Disco!, and now we're here... Panic at the discount.

[ related topics: History Douglas Adams ]

Suzannah Weiss at The Establishment: The Feminist Potential Of The Consensual Dick Pic

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How Sextech Pioneers Are Outsmarting Conservative Gatekeepers

S-COP-LAWS, CONT’D: Police Personnel Drive a Lot Worse than Everyday People:

Coming on the heels of 12 days of intense coverage of police officers’ poor driving records, we decided to compare cops to the regular folk that they’re supposed to be protecting. We chose two random blocks — one in Park Slope, one in the West Village — and ran the plates of 100 residents’ parked cars through the Howsmydrivingny database and discovered that regular people drive far more safely than cops.

[ related topics: Journalism and Media Law Enforcement Databases Government ]

If I could rewrite computer science curriculum, day 1 would be "don't ever store passwords in plain text, ever, and overwrite any memory in which they were stored as soon as possible".

Yes, I know many languages don't allow you to overwrite specific memory, and maybe we should look at why we write code that handles secure information in those languages...

But seriously: This practice apparently started in 2012, which means that this wasn't like some 1990s Matt's Script Archive boneheaded maneuver, this was a failure of process in a company that's allegedly hiring top people.

Krebs on Security: Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in Plain Text for Years

[ related topics: Interactive Drama ]

Impaired Decision Making in Conference Rooms

However, the point of interest was something else entirely: three people quietly sitting in a mid-size conference room produced CO2 levels that within 60 minutes, reached concentrations high enough to impair their ability to make the right decisions. In a corporate world where Directors regularly pile into closed-door conference rooms for hours on end, making the most important planning decisions for their companies, this was a disturbing realization.

RT Sister Mary Clarence ‏ @emilyt804

Show us what 30 high school students in a classroom built for 20 does to the air.

Associations of Cognitive Function Scores with Carbon Dioxide, Ventilation,and Volatile Organic CompoundExposures in Office Workers: AControlled Exposure Study of Greenand Conventional Office Environments

Methods: Twenty-four participants spent 6 full work days (0900–1700 hours) in an environ-mentally controlled office space, blinded to test conditions. On different days, they were exposed toIEQ conditions representative of Conventional [high concentrations of volatile organic compounds (VOCs)] and Green (low concentrations of VOCs) office buildings in the United States. Additional conditions simulated a Green building with a high outdoor air ventilation rate (labeled Green+) and artificially elevated carbon dioxide (CO2) levels independent of ventilation.

Results: On average, cognitive scores were 61% higher on the Green building day and 101% higher on the two Green+ building days than on the Conventional building day (p<0.0001). VOCs and CO2 were independently associated with cognitive scores.

Full study cite is: Allen, Joseph G., Piers MacNaughton, Usha Satish, SureshSantanam, Jose Vallarino, and John D. Spengler. 2015. “Associationsof Cognitive Function Scores with Carbon Dioxide, Ventilation,and Volatile Organic Compound Exposures in Office Workers:A Controlled Exposure Study of Green and Conventional OfficeEnvironments.” Environmental Health Perspectives 124 (6): 805-812.doi:10.1289/ehp.1510037. http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.1510037

Bonus: Siloxanes Are the Most Abundant Volatile Organic Compound Emitted from Engineering Students in a Classroom. Or: yes, deodorants and body sprays and such are highly measurable in an indoor classroom environment.

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RT Violet Blue® @violetblue

The former deputy national security adviser used AOL email to discuss selling nuclear technology to the Saudis. I'm screaming, we're all screaming, it's like grandpa fell asleep smoking in bed.

Politico: Cummings demands docs on Kushner's alleged use of encrypted app for official business

RT Galen @gln

TIL that people still use AOL and they are de facto in charge of US foreign policy.🤦‍♂️

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When you've fucked up your brand so much you need to start over: Cable lobby seeks better reputation by dropping “cable” from its name — American Cable Association is now "America's Communications Association."

Well duh, the kids weren't armed, the cops and soldiers were: More Children Were Shot Dead in 2017 Than On-Duty Police Officers and Active Duty Military, Study Says

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Because I've seen people posting the pictures as possibly real, and because I like having original sources around to point people too, super cute needle felted bat plushie.

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RT Robert Klemko @RobertKlemko

Was talking to an NFL exec for another story and he went off on this tremendous rant on college football and amateurism that I have to share.

"This whole thing stinks..."

Text of the attached image reads:

"This whole thing stinks. There's so much money at the college level, and if the good guys aren't gonna pay you , then the bad guys are. The college coaches are always on us about their kids leaving early, and I tell them, until you start paying them, they're leaving. You have these huge TV contracts and you can pay 10 coaches on the staff $1 million but you can't pay the players? It doesn't make sense. It's garbage. And everybody knows it's garbage. The NCAA, they're all crooks. It's extortion of these players, because they're all beat up. In April I see 360 physicals and listen to all the injuries and it's just brutal. They're 22-years-old and we can't draft him, or we knock 'em down the board and the doctor says we might be able to get one contract out of him. They're never more marketable than the our years there in college. Their stadiums are bigger than ours and everyone paid $100 bucks to get in and $50 to park and the conference has a TV contract and there's national TV and the players don't get a dime? How in the world is this legal? If you or I were real talented at singing or playing a guitar or rap, we could just go and make a bunch of money. It's not like we have to go to some music school and let them reap millions off of us first. We can go off on our own. These kids don't have that option. You throw in the fact that the average NFL career is three years, and it's just a travesty."

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Extra Fabulous Comics — Did it hurt when you fell from heaven?

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Why did I unsubscribe? Because it's "fewer", not "less".

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She's still only doing short sprints, and has figured out how to slow the wheel rather than get tossed of the back when she stops. Which is less hilarious... https://youtu.be/AD-e8_0f_NY

Programming in Cocoa: Days of Googling "how do I turn off [visual effect]" because said visual effect is broken and shows up in horribly the wrong place and if Mac OSX would just stop trying to be helpful things would work better.

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Office of the Inspector General OIG-19-32: Management Alert – FEMA Did Not Safeguard Disaster Survivors’ Sensitive Personally Identifiable Information (REDACTED)

During our ongoing audit of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Transitional Sheltering Assistance (TSA) program, we determined that FEMA violated the Privacy Act of 19741 and Department of Homeland Security policy2 by releasing to ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ the PII and SPII of 2.3 million survivors of hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria and the California wildfires in 2017.3 FEMA should only provide ⬛⬛ with limited information needed to verify disaster survivors’ eligibility for the TSA program. The privacy incident occurred because FEMA did not take steps to ensure it provided only required data elements to ⬛⬛ Without corrective action, the disaster survivors involved in the privacy incident are at increased risk of identity theft and fraud.

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San Francisco To Pay $13.1 Million To Man Framed By Police For Murder

He sued in January 2016. In April of last year, a jury in Oakland found that two police officers on the case, Maureen D'Amico and Michael Johnson, deliberately fabricated evidence and failed to disclose exculpatory material.

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Twitter thread on software engineering practices, the MELCOR nuclear reactor failure simulator<, automatic translation of code from Fortran to C++/a>, and more stuff I may want to call back to later...

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‘Toxic’ Ash Wednesday crosses burn 73 pupils

As JWZ put it: "Iron-age death cult's botched ritual burns its logo into 73 children's faces"

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‘Toxic’ Ash Wednesday crosses burn 73 pupils

As JWZ put it: "Iron-age death cult's botched ritual burns its logo into 73 children's faces"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-...land-hereford-worcester-47481998

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ne...ns-ash-wednesday-church-service/

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Because I know it's gonna come up in local discussions, and I've linked to various studies about sharrows killing cyclists before: Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) Chapter 9C on bicycle shared lane marking (sharrow) placement:

04     If used in a shared lane with on-street parallel parking, Shared Lane Markings should be placed so that the centers of the markings are at least 11 feet from the face of the curb, or from the edge of the pavement where there is no curb.

05     If used on a street without on-street parking that has an outside travel lane that is less than 14 feet wide, the centers of the Shared Lane Markings should be at least 4 feet from the face of the curb, or from the edge of the pavement where there is no curb.

California's version of the MUTCD notes:

04     If used in a shared lane with on-street parallel parking, if the effective lane width is 14 feet or greater, Shared Lane Markings should be placed so that the centers of the markings are at least 11 13 feet from the face of the curb, or from the edge of the pavement where there is no curb. If the effective lane width is less than 14 feet, the marking should be centered within the effective lane width. See Figure 9C-108(CA).

05     If used on a street without on-street parking that has an outside travel lane that is less than 14 feet wide, the centers of the Shared Lane Markings should be centered in the travel lane. If used on a street without on-street parking that has an outside travel lane whose width is 14 feet or greater, the shared lane markings should be centered at least 4 feet from the face of the curb, or from the edge of the pavement where there is no curb.

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AT&T’s “5G E” is actually slower than Verizon and T-Mobile 4G, study finds

Such data now comes from an OpenSignal report that is scheduled to go live at this link today at 9am ET. After comparing user-initiated speed tests from more than 1 million devices, OpenSignal found that AT&T's "5G E" phones get average speeds of 28.8Mbps, which is less than T-Mobile's 29.4Mbps and Verizon's 29.9Mbps but higher than Sprint's 20.4Mbps. The AT&T average of 18.2Mbps on non-advanced LTE was also slightly behind T-Mobile and Verizon but ahead of Sprint:

Endless - an SSH tarpit

This program opens a socket and pretends to be an SSH server. However, it actually just ties up SSH clients with false promises indefinitely — or at least until the client eventually gives up. ...

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So I follow basic security practices with my email, among other things I don't load images embedded in email. I just received the following from our city's economic development manager, with the subject line: "You're Invited - Help Set Our City Goals".

Yep, the entire damned content of the message is in images. The only thing that isn't is this little snippet of text.

Now you can say "sure, Dan, but how many competent computer users actually care about mail from the city?", I mean, after all, most people aren't competent computer users and are just using Outlook or whatever with the default settings, but...

Also think about this from the perspective of someone who's disabled and needs to use, say, an assistive screen reader?

I don't know whether to lay this incompetence on Constant Contact, or on the person sending the email, but it is distinctly *not* a good look on city staff.

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13'2" to the center of the sharrow from the edge of the road, but the parking lane is 10' wide...

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10'8" to the center of the sharrow, the parking lane is 9'.

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In a recent conversation with city staff about the design for the repaving and restriping of Petaluma Blvd S., I mentioned that it's well documented that "sharrows" on the right side of the lane kill bicyclists. Studies from Chicago ( https://www.citylab.com/soluti...rastructure-lane-chicago/460095/ ) and Toronto and Vancouver ( https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3519333/ ) suggest that sharrows probably don't do anything positive, but are actively dangerous to cyclists when placed on the right side of the lane.

I was pointed to the MUTCD, the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices. It turns out that the Federal Highways Administration has a version of this, and California has a version of this. In the California version, the chapter that deals with "sharrows" is https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/htm/2009/part9/part9c.htm#figure9C09

04 If used in a shared lane with on-street parallel parking, Shared Lane Markings should be placed so that the centers of the markings are at least 11 feet from the face of the curb, or from the edge of the pavement where there is no curb.

05 If used on a street without on-street parking that has an outside travel lane that is less than 14 feet wide, the centers of the Shared Lane Markings should be at least 4 feet from the face of the curb, or from the edge of the pavement where there is no curb.

Note that these are *minimums*, and that California DOT has various other documents discussing placement, several of which discuss rationale, including http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/tpp/o...AC_SLM_and_BL_Best_Practices.pdf . These suggest much higher numbers, which generally put the sharrow in the center of the lane.

The general thought is that sharrows need to place cyclists safely outside of the "door zone", which they claim as 40" from the side of the car. It happens that both of our automobiles (a 1997 Ford Ranger and a 2014 BMW i3) have doors that extend more like 44" out from the side of the vehicle. But if a car is parked on the shoulder, 6" to 12" in from the white line, that suggests that the right edge of the sharrow should be at least 3' from the white line.

So let's look at a couple of places in Petaluma:

First is Mountain View Avenue at Olive. The center of the sharrow is 10'8" from the curb. This is definitely less than 11'. The shoulder here is a solid 9', so if cars park 6-12" from the curb you could, if you squint hard, make the argument that there'd be enough clearance... but yeah, come on out and look at how people park for yourself.

The second I street at 5th. This one is a little bit better, the center of the sharrow is 13'2", the shoulder lane is 10', so there's a little more clearance, but it still doesn't fill me with optimism.

The third picture is from I Street at Round Court, and this is why I rail against separated infrastructure: The shoulder "bike lane" is, at best, unswept, but the sharrows tell drivers that the cyclist doesn't belong in the lane.

If you were going to design infrastructure to kill bicyclists, this is how you'd do it. We should be livid that this shit got past city planning, and hopefully our new city engineer can shut this crap down.

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Sigh. Just when I thought my anti-vaxx flouride-is-a-conspiracy friends were wrong about everything... https://www.newsweek.com/fluor...cavities-huge-study-shows-348251

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Shadow sent along Tales from the postmaster, in which university administrators learn about DNS and domain names.

And I wish I could say "nobody's that stupid" and "completely implausible", but...

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Fuuuu! Found that my LEDs are probably SK6812, found a spec sheet to hook them up, but then my Gemma M0 was acting wonky, dropped back to Arduno, and... no light from the LEDs.

Uh oh: Hackers Hijacked ASUS Software Updates to Install Backdoors on Thousands of Computers

The Taiwan-based tech giant ASUS is believed to have pushed the malware to hundreds of thousands of customers through its trusted automatic software update tool after attackers compromised the company’s server and used it to push the malware to machines.

Apparently it was a targeted attack on 600 machines, using MAC address to identify the targets.

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As we think about California water policy, especially with respect to agriculture, let's think about how we massively subsidize [checks notes] a despotic regime that destabilizes a region in which we have a lot of military presence and is known for horrific human rights abuses.

Who keeps buying California's scarce water? Saudi Arabia

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The Adult Brain Does Grow New Neurons After All, Study Says:

Now, a new study published today in another of the Nature family of journals—Nature Medicine—tips the balance back toward “yes.” In light of the new study, “I would say that there is an overwhelming case for the neurogenesis throughout life in humans,” Jonas Frisén, a professor at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, said in an e-mail. Frisén, who was not involved in the new research, wrote a News and Views about the study in the current issue of Nature Medicine.

Letter to Nature Medicine: Adult hippocampal neurogenesis is abundant in neurologically healthy subjects and drops sharply in patients with Alzheimer’s disease. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-019-0375-9

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Thunderbird 2 Camper Van. That is all.

I am getting old and fat and am having trouble finding time to exercise, but... I have started doing my push-ups again. It took me a few days to get back to 25 in a set rather than 20, but I'm at 150 for the day so far. So go me, I guess.

Yet another killer sharrow placement

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Washington Post Opinions: The op-ed that got Stephen Moore his Fed nomination is based on two major falsehoods

There you have it. Trump has nominated to the world’s most powerful central bank a guy who has trouble telling whether prices are going up or down, and struggles to remember how the most famous Fed chair in history successfully stamped out inflation. But hey, Republican senators still seem keen on him because “the establishment” keeps pointing out how inept he is.

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RT Article Group @ArticleGroup

Back in 1896 men didn’t call women sluts.

They called them “bicycle face”.

Why? Because bicycles <gasp!> helped women 💪 make their own dating choices.

IOW bikes were the first dating app. That scared men.

Let’s talk about it.

Hold on to your bodices people, THIS IS A THREAD

Unrolled thread at https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1109898225438412801.html

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A square dancer turned me on to Jackson Galaxy, who apparently has some sort of cat whisperer TV show, but whose online store has a lot of products and/or ideas for the well-spoiled cat.

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Face off - Cyclists not human enough for drivers: study

The research, Dehumanization of cyclists predicts self-reported aggressive behaviour toward them published in Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, notes that cyclists have been conceptualised as a minority group and a target of negative attitudes and behaviour.

More than half of car drivers think cyclists are not fully human, according to new study

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Sen. Mike Lee says we can solve climate change with more babies. Science says otherwise.

“Climate change . . . is a challenge of creativity, ingenuity and technological invention,” Lee said. “And problems of human imagination are not solved by more laws, but by more humans. More people mean bigger markets for innovation. More babies mean more forward-looking adults — the sort we need to tackle long-term, large-scale problems.”

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ROFL: The Beaverton: Palestinians recognize Texas as part of Mexico

“We understand that the Mexican state of Texas is a sacred place for many large-buckled Americans, but they can rest assured that a two-state solution or a wall was not feasible,” explained Abbas.

We Need to talk about that H.S. Production of "Alien"...

In the past 24 hours, I've been asked by many people what my thoughts are on the story out of North Bergen, NJ that a high school drama club performed an adaptation of the movie, "Alien".

If you're not familiar with the story, here is a breakdown.

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This fucking country: Nixle Alert: Sonoma County Sheriff's Office: Follow up to Ocean Cove Murder/Suicide investigation:

During the course of this investigation, detectives learned that the Sheriff’s Office had responded to this location on February 25, 2019 and that Maria had been diagnosed with stage 4 cancer and at that time she was suicidal and had held a gun to her head. Maria was taken for a mental health evaluation and two handguns were removed from their home and still remain in Sheriff’s custody.

Both Maria and Robert have extensive medical and financial issues which were getting worse with time. ...

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When the law and a city's police are so corrupt that they've lost all moral authority over those they're supposed to be serving: On the West Side, the street shows no fear of Chicago police

Authorities confirmed that two police officers — TAC cops, not rookies — were making a drug arrest shortly after 2 p.m. on Sunday.

A mob appeared, threatening the officers, surrounding them, threatening to reach for their own weapons to shoot them dead, and the cops let the suspect go.

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FTC: Office Depot computer scans gave fake results

... Many customers who took their computers in for a free “PC Health Check” at Office Depot or OfficeMax stores between 2009 and November 2016 were told their computers had malware symptoms or infections — but that wasn’t true. The FTC says Office Depot and OfficeMax ran PC Health Check, a diagnostic scan program created and licensed by Support.com, that tricked those consumers into thinking their computers had symptoms of malware or actual “infections,” even though the scan hadn’t found any such issues. Many consumers who got false scan results bought computer diagnostic and repair services from Office Depot and OfficeMax that cost up to $300. Support.com completed the services and got a cut of each purchase.

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Laura Ingraham Guest Says Trans People Will 'Destroy' Gender Norms to Create 'New Species'—'Human and Part Machine'

Teen turns prosthetic arm into glitter-shooting unicorn horn

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I am... not sure how I feel about this. On the one hand, it's automatically generated and way more amusing than any of the simple attempts at clipping video of Greta on the cat wheel that I've come up with... On the other hand, it's absolutely nothing like Greta on the cat wheel. Yet.

I mean, we have aspirational hopes, but this sort of loop and morphing is.... kinda freaky. And to have Google Photos doing it automatically makes me want to go see what the privacy settings on my phone are actually set to.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/SBdeA1iV2gk1wewx6

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Meet the Reclusive Woman Who Became a Pioneer of Science Fiction — The Amazing Stories of Clare Winger Harris

In the early 1930s, after “The Ape Cycle,” a fan of Clare’s from the east side of Cleveland wrote her a fan letter. He gushed about her work. He said that he was working on his own magazine with his best friend and would like her to submit to it. He was in high school.</blockquote

Clare might have smiled at this request, which might be why she sent a story. It appeared in 1933 in the fifth and last issue of a stapled, mimeographed pamphlet called Science Fiction that had a print run of maybe—maybe—50 issues. The boy who wrote her was Jerry Siegel and his friend was Joe Shuster. In a couple of years, they would go on to create Superman, the most recognized science fiction character on the planet.

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Posting mostly just so that I can use either the 😲 or the 😮 emoji: WOW Air Has Suddenly Collapsed And Passengers Have Been Left Screwed — An estimated 10,000 people have been left stranded by the low-budget Icelandic airline.

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RT Justin @shitmydadsays:

"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."

This Company Will Pay You to Learn to Code, and Take 15 Percent of Your Income Later — Modern Labor promises to teach you to code in five months and help find you a job when you graduate—but you’re on the hook for the next two years.

When the financial architects figure out how to extract the last little bit of value from your labors, your parents will end up trading the costs of your elementary school education for your future earnings...

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McSweeney's: This Is Embarrassing, But It Turns Out Our Fake Jewish Bagel Chain Was Funded By Nazis by Rebecca Saltzman

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DEA looking for a contractor who can burn 1,000 pounds of marijuana per hour

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Vancouver Canada's Harbor Air is adding an electric float plane to its fleet, aims to convert all of its airplanes to electric

Price comparisons between standard and electric planes are difficult to make because Harbour Air is still in the research-and-development phase, he said.

“What we’re doing here is retrofitting new technology to older technology. The cost is very similar to us putting a turbine engine on the aircraft, but the big win there is that the electric motor doesn’t have to be rebuilt every 2,500 to 3,000 hours.

Via AvWeb

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The share of Americans not having sex has reached a record high.

But changes at the other end of the age spectrum may be playing an even bigger role. The portion of Americans 18 to 29 reporting no sex in the past year more than doubled between 2008 and 2018, to 23 percent.

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Two women describe how an indicted Columbis Ohio vice officer pressured them to trade sex for rent

In the federal motion, the U.S. attorney’s office described Mitchell’s dealings with women in Columbus as an abuse of his power as an officer, and a reason to deny him bail. “The victims and witnesses who will provide testimony against the defendant are terrified of him,” the motion states. “They fear that they will be retaliated against by the defendant and other law enforcement officers because they have come forward to provide evidence against a police officer. These fears are not unfounded. Multiple victims, when asked if they had reported these incidents, consistently responded that they could not ‘report it to the police because it was the police.’ The defendant further instilled these fears by telling them ‘even if you reported me, no one will believe you because you are just a prostitute’.”

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The Day The Dinosaurs Died. A paleontologist says he's discovered fossils actually in the KT boundary.

“We have the whole KT event preserved in these sediments,” DePalma said. “With this deposit, we can chart what happened the day the Cretaceous died.” No paleontological site remotely like it had ever been found, and, if DePalma’s hypothesis proves correct, the scientific value of the site will be immense. When Walter Alvarez visited the dig last summer, he was astounded. “It is truly a magnificent site,” he wrote to me, adding that it’s “surely one of the best sites ever found for telling just what happened on the day of the impact.”

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