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News discussed:

Ohio court blocks six-week abortion ban indefinitely 

Paypal will seize your assets to punish speech they don’t like. Anything that in their opinion promotes intolerance or is discriminatory.  

US Treasury Dept. bans math

Crimean Bridge blowed up

Kyiv bombed with long-range missiles in apparent retaliation 

And Belarus’ MoD talking about joining in the invasion 

Taiwanese MoD clarifies that they consider airspace incursions to be violations on Taiwanese sovereignty, to which they will respond with force 

Hurricanes are actually decreasing in number and intensity. 

EIA figures out some of what’s going wrong with ERCOT. It’s renewables. 

US getting into a slap fight with OPEC, Saudi Arabia in particular.

The Onion filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court. Quotes

Happy News!

A federal court issued an injunction against most of NY’s post-Bruen gun laws

A couple were mistakenly sent several crates of select-fire M16’s.

Biden pardoning everyone for weed possession 

Ontario extends the life of the Pickering Nuclear Power Plant 

House Republicans introd uce a bill to delay payment of startups’ NRC bills until after the conclusion of the NRC’s review process

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Eneasz wants to know if being a stay-at-home dad is a bonerkiller

Wes, Eneasz, and David discuss the news from the last two weeks from a rationalist perspective

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Railroad strike averted? Or delayed?

Fifth Circuit decided that 1A doesn’t protect website’s right to moderate

Nord Stream blowed up

Italians vote in right wing populists, Good speeching? 

German Economy Minister to German people: “just stop producing for 6 months and then the energy crisis will have passed”

Iran is finally getting fucked

FL state government threatens to ban credit card companies from doing business with the FL state government

Free Speech Union account reinstated!

NASA crashes DART spacecraft into asteroid in world's 1st planetary defense test

Words you can mute on Twitter

The Case Against The Case Against the Sexual Revolution

Happy News!

New malaria vaccine is world-changing

No more parking minimums in California near public transit

Cuba votes to legalise same-sex marriage 

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News discussed:

Probable cause claimed for evidence of obstruction in Trump affidavit

Sarah Palin lost her bid for Alaska’s house seat 

Palin only got 50% of second-choice votes from the other Republican running!

California passed a fast food workers bill

Washington State teachers “illegally” striking

US Rail strike is days away

Kiwi Farms is dropped by CloudFlare, effectively removing them from the internet.

Some republicans quietly backing away from further abortion restrictions

A NV politician has been arrested in connection to the stabbing death of an investigative journalist

Texas has bused more than 7,600 migrants to D.C. and more than 1,900 to New York City

The sanctuary cities leadership is unhappy.

Government Negligence Endangers 80,000

Happy News!

Utah banned minimum building dimension and most design requirements

Great Barrier Reef is once again as coral-covered as it was 36 years ago when measurements began! 

Diablo Canyon saved!

Plasma dilution has age-reversing effects???

White House Office of Science and Technology Policy updated U.S. policy guidance to make the results of taxpayer-supported research available to the American public at no cost, no later than December 31, 2025.

CA preparing pilot project to cover irrigation canals with solar panals

A nurse saved a 3-month-old baby who had stopped breathing during a flight

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News discussed:

IRA’s corporate minimum tax is written to apply to 150 companies. If a corporation pays the AMT, a credit against future corporate regular tax is carried forward.

Jakeup asserts “rich Americans subsidizing drug development for the rest of the world was maybe the most effective unintended altruism the US was doing”

Salman Rushdie recovering from stabbing on stage by 24-year-old fanatic 

Liz Cheney loses R Primary in Wyoming. "will be launching an organization to educate the American people about the ongoing threat to our Republic, and to mobilize a unified effort to oppose any Donald Trump campaign for president." - PAC is “The Great Task”

Fourth Circuit held that gender dysphoria is a disability under ADA

Biden about to transfer student loan debt to tax payers? (Update - Yup.)

FL’s Stop WOKE law suspended by appeals court. 

The judge says it’s a clear violation of 1A, and also says that it’s modeled on the Civil Rights Act

Europe's largest nuclear power station came under shelling at the front lines in Ukraine

Car bombing in Moscow oblast, likely targeting Alexander Dugin, kills his daughter instead. 

Russian feds claim to have arrested the responsible party, a Ukrainian and a member of the Azov Battalion but the official story is… very sus. 

US to send $3 billion in aid to Ukraine

Western states face deadline to cut water use from Colorado River

CA agriculture, despite using 80 percent of the state’s water, produces only about 2 percent of the state’s GDP.

Senior rights (first settlers) take priority. Called the "Prior Appropriation System.”

This drought goes back to at least 2014, is the worst in over 1200 years, and has probably reached the point of being self-sustaining

EDF cuts output at nuclear power plants as French rivers get too warm

Low Rhine water level to hit output at two German coal plants

China sees temps over 110 degrees

Lots of wildfires

Water levels are so low that power has been cut to factories for 6 days so far

Ex-Twitter exec Mudge Zatko leaks report revealing that Twitter has critical organizational vulnerabilities which mean a fairly simple attack which took all their data centers offline at once could unrecoverably destroy the entire platform.  New EA cause area?

$300 million dollars for a stockpile of 30 HV transformers is far too expensive to prevent 90% of the public dying and the rest reduced to cannibalism

Happy News!

AZ now has universal education vouchers!

It’s no longer illegal to buy hearing aids! 

EA gets favorable cover story in Time magazine.

Mice treated with altered stem cells were able to form new neurons, treating alzheimers and dementia.

£30 million grant from the British Heart Foundation to develop a treatment to reprogram the genetics which cause muscular heart disease

Bioengineered Cornea Can Restore Sight

6 High School Football Players Combine Their BRUTE STRENGTH to Rescue Injured Woman Trapped in a Wrecked Car

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News discussed:

Democrats agreed on environmental/inflation bill

Airfield in Crimea spontaneously combusts

Also, a conscript barracks in Moscow caught fire. No casualties reported.

Also, a Belarusian air force base also spontaneously combusted

Secret Service deleted all their texts from around 1/6

Outgoing Pentagon officials also had phones wiped

Mar-A-Lago raided

Equifax glitch misreported credit scores for millions by up to 130 points. Class action lawsuit now. 

Pelosi went to Taiwan

PredictIt being shut down by Feds

Trump endorsed “Eric” in Missouri Republican primary

United Mine Workers of America to pay more than $13 million in compensation to an Alabama coal company 

Nebraska teen and mother facing charges for DIY abortion at 28 weeks, cops using Facebook messages as evidence

America’s most reliable newscaster ordered to pay $49.3 ($45.2 punative, $4.1 compensatory) million in damages to Sandy Hook families

Texas statute probably limits punitive damages to $750K

Happy News!

Kansas abortion amendment got crushed

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ZOMBIE PIG INVASION!

The thrice-damned NRC approved NuScale Power’s small, modular reactor designs

The NRC also approved the Vogtle power plant in Georgia to begin loading fuel and testing whether it can run commercially. This is the first new US power plant to receive such approval since the NRC was formed in 1974

7yr old saves 3yr old from drowning

TBC Episode on Labor Unions

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News discussed:

Bill passed Senate to subsidize chip manufacturing

Manchin made a deal on a deficit reduction/climate change bill

Bill protecting same-sex (and interracial) marriage passed House w/47 votes from R’s

House passes stupid dumb assault weapons ban. Probably (hopefully?) doomed in the Senate.

PACT Act failed to pass

Kevin Drum thinks the Republicans have a point

A 2016 law requires the Office of Management and Budget to establish a board to provide information on the effects of regulations related to federal research requirements and make recommendations on aligning and streamlining requirements

My IRB Nightmare - Slate Star Codex

16 years of Alzheimer’s research was based on fraud

Zvi: “If this is fraud, we need to update a bunch on the probability that a bunch of other stuff is also fraud.”

Evergrande defaulted on their debt

Four rural banks in China's central Henan province froze millions of dollars worth of deposits

Led to a banking scandal investigation

War 

with 

China?

NHS in Britain to close Tavistock child gender identity clinic over safety fears

had no standards of care

Whistleblowers report harassment and threats when they brought up these issues

FDA added “brain swelling” and vision loss to warning label of puberty blockers

Your Book Review: The Castrato

Zelenskyy calls for mass evacuations as fighting rages in Ukraine's east

Apparently the Russian economy is in the toilet

Record heat wave in Europe

Fires everywhere

It’s time to riot

Happy News!

Hero saves family from burning house 

Troop Deployments

Eneasz -  Well Actually Accuracy Is Important

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News discussed:

Idaho GOP overwhelmingly rejects adding abortion exception to save the life of the mother to their platform 

Ohio abortion clinic received calls from two women with ectopic pregnancies who said their doctors wouldn’t treat them 10-year-old girl who had been raped was forced to travel from Ohio to Indiana to get an abortion

An Abortion Is Not An Abortion If A 10-Year-Old Gets One, Says Anti-Abortion LeaderGermany: reject modernity, RETVRN TO COAL

Sri Lanka suffers critical existence failure 

Compare: protests in The Netherlands.

US and Russia getting into dick-measuring contest over Lithuania. 

Surprise Jan. 6th hearing!

Biden bought back “guilty until proven innocent” campus sexual assault rules

Omicron booster!

Paxlovid at the pharmacy!

SCOTUS granted cert in a worrisome election law case

Alito, Gorsuch, and Thomas all wrote in favor of this theory before

FDA killing smokers for lulz 

California passed a gun bill authorizing civil enforcement by individuals

Armed Bystander (carrying legally) stopped a mass shooting in a mall in Indiana 

MonkeyPox News:

Doesn’t require sexual contact. It is an overall rash that is easily mistaken for chicken pox.

It is primarily an affliction of MSM though. Seems to mostly be spread thru sexual networks

Cases in US up to 1800 as of a few days ago 

Receiving a vaccine up to four days after exposure can prevent disease onset altogether, but even getting it up to two weeks after exposure can reduce symptoms 

US has over 1M vaccines, but FDA bureaucracy has strangled distribution to ~1/10th of that 

2.5 M more Monkeypox vaccines ordered 

Happy News!

First batch of pictures released from the James Webb space telescope. 

the deep field image which shows clear lensing

a picture of Andromeda where individual stars are clearly visible

a patient in New Zealand has undergone gene-editing to lower their cholesterol 

Samsung has started initial production of its 3-nanometer semiconductor chips

Tata Chemicals opened the UK’s first industrial scale carbon capture and usage plant today, captures 40,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide each year

In England, a dog escaped only to return later that day with a ribbon won at a local dog show 

David’s LinkedIn

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Wes, Eneasz, and David discuss the news from the last two weeks from a rationalist perspective. This week, it’s all Supreme Court!

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News discussed:

Followup: Turkey is supporting Sweden and Finland’s NATO applications

SCOTUS News

Roe is dead

Egbert v. Boule - border patrol agents can’t be sued for excessive force

Ahmed v. Weyker - 8th Circuit - (deputized) federal officer invented a fake drug trafficking ring and fabricated a bunch of evidence

Byrd v. Lamb - 5th Circuit - DHS agent tried to kill a guy for personal reasons

NYSRPA v. Bruen - “may issue” gun permits are unconstitutional

Related - gun control bill passed Senate

Vega v. Tekoh - victim can’t sue for lack of Miranda warnings

West Virginia v. EPA - EPA can’t regulate carbon emissions

Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta - State criminal laws apply to non-Indians on Indian land

Biden v. Texas - Biden can end the “remain in Mexico” asylum policy

Denezpi v. US - double jeopardy clause is dead?

Carson v. Macon - essentially reiterates Espinoza saying school choice programs can’t exclude religious

Related - Shurtleff v. Boston - if State allows citizens to fly flags at city hall, they can’t prohibit “Christian flag”

KENNEDY v. BREMERTON SCHOOL DISTRICT - Coach leading prayer on field after game is OK

Clarence Thomas is at the peak of his power

Thomas: "substantive due process" is an oxymoron that "lack[s] any basis in the Constitution." 

Happy News!

FIRE goes global

PG&E Commissions Its Moss Landing Elkhorn Battery 

158 Tesla Mega-Batteries Will Boost Hawaii Green Energy By 10%, And Shut Down Coal-Fired Power Plant

Qilin Battery can achieve 1,000 km vehicle range

Implant that relieves pain on demand and without the use of drugs

A stray dog in the country of Georgia has appointed himself as the local crossing guard for young children crossing a busy intersection. He’s a very serious boy.

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