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Google seems to say that carbon footprint of solar breaks even pretty early and is at least better than gas and coal.

Here's the master study that articles tend to cite

Here is nasa giving irradiance data for new york

Family care centers in at least two states discarded thousands of cans of unopened, unexpired baby formula

Moderna has an omicron-specific booster that works really well!

Vaccine approved for humans under 5yrs old

Germany will use more coal! 

France’s nuclear energy output drops due to lack of maintenance of their nuclear fleet due to a pivot towards renewables

Chandler v California Department of Corrections targets California S.B. 132 

Collin Wright kicked off Paypal and Etsy soon after

WNYC and NYT both openly saying some kids may be being pushed into sex change too aggressively. 

FINA says to compete in swimming, transition must be before age 12

“Progressive prosecutor” Chesa Boudin crushed in San Francisco

The Asian Thing

A crazy dude almost tried to kill Brett Kavenaugh 

Inflation is high! But core CPI is falling

Employment is way up!

US to seize all imports from Xinjiang unless proven not made by slaves 

 Supreme Court allows states to use gerrymandered congressional maps in the 2022 midterm elections

SpaceX will be required to take more than 75 actions to mitigate environmental impacts before the company can receive a launch license for the site from the FAA

Turing test passed with flying colors

G7 discussing a price cap on Russian energy exports

Happy News!

Joe Biden proposes plan to save the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant

Driverless rideshare service approved in San Francisco!

Santa Claus is running for Alaska’s open house seat!

Vasectomy Switch! 

Popular/Beloved old lady had her house gifted to her by neighbors :) 

Diversity is supposed to be good because it promotes ... exposure to a wide range of ideas

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News discussed:

The receipt for the tactical vest worn by the Aurora shooter 

Kiel school had to open a Title IX investigation? 

The school closed the investigation

Abbott restarts production of specialty formulas at Michigan plant

CDC concluded its investigation with no findings of a link between Abbott formulas and infant illnesses.

Kyiv was hit by Russian missiles targeting a train yard used for food distribution.

SCOTUS blocked Texas social media law from going into effect

Also SCOTUS: ineffective assistance of post-conviction counsel can’t justify an evidentiary hearing in federal court

Iran seized a Greek oil tanker in the Persian gulf. 

Biden allowing solar panel imports from Asia for 2 years, and  invoking the Defense Production Act to help expand American solar panel manufacturing

Doctor Oz won the PA Republican primary

Boris Johnson Faces No-Confidence Vote Over Lockdown Parties

Podcast on nuclear regulation

Church Committee report 

Happy News!

A mom dodged cops and stormed the Uvala school to get her kid out. F*****g Chad As Hell.

THEY’RE BUILDING A HOTEL IN SPACE BEGINNING IN 2025

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News discussed:

The Ministry to Truth is dead? 

The director wanted to be able to edit tweets to add context

After 2 months of fighting, port city of Mariupol has fallen to Russia

NYT editorial urges Ukraine to consider surrender

Sweden and Finland applied for NATO membership

Turkey objects, claims they house Kurdish Separatists

Russia retaliated by cutting off gas to Finland

FDA shut down baby formula plant after voluntary recall in February.

Baby formula shortage results.

European formula is banned just because.

FactCheck.org says it’s “misinformation” to claim that the FDA isn’t awesome, and says the shortage isn’t anyone’s fault.

To solve this problem, congress passes a bill to give the FDA another $28M and allows food stamps (WIC) to cover more brands of formula. 

Also the military airlifted in 70,000 tons of formula from Germany. That’s enough for 9,000 babies and 18,000 toddlers for one week, and is not for retail, it’s going only to hospitals and clinics.

Elizabeth Warren Introduces Price-Gouging Bill

Quick analysis here

Twitter thread saying surge pricing ("gouging") should be mandatory

Insane racist kills 10 in supermarket shooting in Buffalo

Cites Great Replacement

That being said, leftists have been open about how replacing deplorables is a good thing.

Biden whoopsie on defending Taiwan vs China

Elon Musk accused of exposing himself to employee by “a friend” of employee, who pinky-swears that this totally happened.

Elon says he’ll vote Republican because Dems “have become the party of division & hate”

Tech stocks plummet, Musk tries to get better deal on Twitter purchase

Opening Argument on why It’s probably a pretext

Texas social media law allowed to go into effect

Text of the law

PopeHat thinks it’s bad

Afghan women will be forced to wear Burqas

Three schoolboys (age 13) are being taken to court in the US state of Wisconsin for sexual harrasement after one of them allegedly declined to use the they/them pronouns for a fellow student

StableCoins are dead, at least for now

Mercedes Lackey Cancelled

Happy News!

80,000 Hours releases climate change review endorsing “this is not an existential risk to the species”

New York Rolling Out Noise Law

“Something Weird” happening re Universe Expanding. 

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News discussed:

Russian blockade stops export of Ukranian wheat - 4.5M tons. 

Trains trying to take up slack, 600k tons/month.

Louisiana introduced a bill to classify any abortion after conception as homicide

Biden created a “Disinformation Governance Board” that’s totally not a Ministry of Truth

Nina Jankowicz has a book all about how hard it is to be a woman

PayPal canceled accounts of two prominent independent news outlets 

The news sites are critical of the war in Ukraine and call it American Imperialism

Criticism of the NYT Elon Musk hit piece 

NYT drops in stealth-edits

NYT requested an interview from a friend of Musk. His reply was f*****g epic.

Dave Chappelle tackled on stage by some dipshit

ACLU Wrote Amber Heard's Op-Ed for $3.5M. 

Smithsonian will be returning stolen artifacts

Happy News!

People aren’t as crazy as you think!

And they hate you less than you think!

Prometheus Fuels converts renewable electricity from solar and wind power into zero net carbon gasoline 

It’s likely that over half of Russia’s nukes are duds

Troop Deployments

David - Servant of the People is very good

Heumer on Abortion

Eneasz -  Secure abortion rights in your state

Wes - How to do a self-managed abortion

Don’t get misoprostal from veterinary sources!

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News discussed:

Maybe we already have missile defense tech?

Youtube video claiming we can handle intermediate range missiles, but not ICBMs with reliability

US intercepted an ICBM in 2020

Zvi post on game theory

Crisis Watch China-focused OSINT Substack

World food prices are up 13%

Major fires in Russian chemical plant, industrial center, and defense research buildings

Sweden and Finland will apply to join NATO

What is Germany doing?

Greg Abbott caused a huge traffic backup on the Mexico border for no reason

Florida stripped Disney’s independent status because of opposition to “Don’t Say Gay” bill

It’s definitely unconstitutional

Cases in China still increasing despite lockdowns

A nuclear-armed state accidentally launched a missile at another nuclear-armed state

CNN+ collapsed in less than a month

Macron won in a landslide

Federal courts keeps telling Biden to stop being racist

Agricultural bailout targeted only non-white applicants

Google’s AI-Powered ‘Inclusive Warnings’ Feature Is Very Broken

Trump held in contempt for failing to provide documents

Happy News!

UK building 8 more nuclear plants

Bailout for nuclear plants!

Mask mandate declared unconstitutional 

Now you can wear good masks if you want to

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News discussed:

Farmers planted extra wheat last fall due to expectation of conflict

Michigan Governor Kidnap Plot - 2 not guilty, 2 mistrial, due to FBI entrapment

Europe not paying for gas in rubles

Russia has withdrawn from Kyiv, focusing on Eastern Ukraine

Mass murder of civilians in Bucha and several other cities

Biden called Putin a war criminal

EU banning all bank transactions and coal imports

Russian state media is calling for full genocide

Poland is going full gigachad and has accepted 2.3 million refugees

Russian parliament introduced bill declaring any Russian speaker a citizen

Trump still asking Putin for dirt on Biden

7 hours of Trump’s call logs missing on 1/6. 

Unrest is beginning in China, possible riots?

Pets of COVID-positive citizens are killed

Zvi’s latest update

Far-Right French President Candidate has a good shot at winning

Ginni Thomas is a crazy conspiracy theorist

Amazon challenging union vote due to organizers handing out weed

MIT is bringing back the SAT

DALL-E 2 makes amazing art on demand

Googles Pathways Language Model explains jokes, and it can distinguish cause and effect and understand counterfactuals

AlphaCode can solve natural-language coding problems at the level of a new programmer. 

Socratic Modeling system

Musk not joining the Twitter board

State Court Finds California’s Diversity Mandate for Corporate Boards Is Unconstitutional

BLM is a huge scam

US passports now include Gender X 

Happy News!

Old skins cells reprogrammed to be young again!

“The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy estimates it would cost just over $24 billion to have prototype vaccines ready for each of the 26 known viral families that cause human disease.”

SCOTUS held that you can sue for malicious prosecution if your criminal charges are dropped

The Bayesian Conspiracy on whether you should punch Nazis

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News discussed:

CDC alcohol guidelines

Will Smith Assaults or Batters Chris Rock?

Ukraine News:

Russia seems to be switching focus to Donbas

Russia said on Friday that the first phase of its military operation was mostly complete 

Putin complained that he was getting canceled like JK Rowling

Biden wants to remove Russia from the G20

Did Hunter Biden personally finance Ukraine weapons labs?!?!?!?

Putin demanded natural gas be paid in Rubles

Taxes are canceled for the duration of martial law and at least a year after its end

“If you can, pay, if you can’t, there are no questions,” Zelensky said

A developer has been caught adding malicious code to a popular open-source package that wiped files on computers located in Russia and Belarus. 

Biden Says to Expect ‘Real’ Food Shortages Due to Ukraine War

Counterpoint 

Zelensky is open to Ukrainian neutrality

No deal yet on Crimea and Donbas

Other News:

Manchin says he’ll vote to confirm Judge Jackson

Hunter Biden laptop (sort of) confirmed to be real

NYT seems to have reported about it accurately in Oct. 2020

Kevin Drum says media did nothing wrong

New study data showed little difference in excess deaths in European countries during covid

study of microlending shows many of the “small-businesses” opened are actually MLM scams

FTC demanded that Weight Watchers destroy the algorithms or AI models it built using illegally harvested data. Permanent daylight savings?

USPS is only buying 20% electric vehicles

Antarctica more than 70 degrees warmer than average, Arctic more than 50 degrees

Biden statement honoring the victims of Atlanta Shootings

Happy News!

Maryland Governor Announces Elimination of Four-Year Degree Requirement For Thousands of State Jobs

Scientists at University of Texas at Austin have redesigned a key component of a widely used CRISPR-based gene-editing tool, called Cas9, to be thousands of times less likely to target the wrong stretch of DNA

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News discussed:

Texas appeals court sided with the parents of a transgender teenager, rejecting Attorney General Ken Paxton’s efforts to allow a child abuse investigation to proceed

Appeals Court held that it did not have jurisdiction

Preliminary injunction issued on Friday

Jussie Smollett sentenced, and assures us that he’s not suicidal

Eneasz was wrong, it’s pronounced Kee-v

EA group’s rough attempt to profile charities which support Ukrainian war relief

Fukuyama is predicting that Russia will lose

Random Russains getting canceled for no good reason

Tchaikovsky. Cats. Mustard. wtf

Facebook is allowing calls for violence against Russia

EU sanctioning Russia Today and Sputnik

Zvi on the Ukraine situation

Russia warned the United States that convoys with weapons sent to Ukraine would be “legitimate targets” for the Russian military.

Orthodox theologians declare the "Ruskyy mir - Russian world" a false teaching. They have openly called "Russian world" doctrine a heresy

Biden gave a speech. No further comment. 

Federal COVID response money is almost gone, they asked for $30B more

The White House hasn’t publicly detailed exactly how it’s spent the more than $4 trillion Congress authorized for Covid-19 relief 

SCOTUS held that government doesn’t have to turn over information on secret torture sites

New law bans forced arbitration of sexual harassment suits

A Republican proposed an actual policy agenda, with predictable results

Mitch McConnell slapped him down immediately

Andrew Torrez thinks Trump is going to jail

Idaho house passed a law that would make it a felony to give trans kids surgery

Idaho house also passed a law removing an exemption that protects libraries, schools, museums, colleges and universities for “disseminating material that is harmful to minors.” 

Mary Elizabeth Coleman of the Missouri House of Representatives has introduced a provision that would allow private citizens to sue anyone who helps a Missouri resident obtain an abortion out of state.

Happy News!

Happy Victory over Covid-19 day

“Test to treat” plan for covid - Test positive at a pharmacy, they give you free Paxlovid

Not paid for - Republicans (who else?!) holding up funding

CDC predictably foot-dragging on public transit rules, giving us all a chance to practice ignoring the CDC

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News discussed:

SNL Covid Sketch

Putin’s “unhinged” speech 

the looting of Russia in the 90s

With English subtitles

Putin’s spy chief visibly scared of Putin during grilling

Sanctions happening

SWIFT ban imminent, Germany has mostly dropped opposition

Leaving exemptions for energy & agriculture

Russia’s biggest bond is down 50%

Russia considering seizing citizens’ assets

Frum thinks sanctions are the real deal, worries that they’ll be too effective

Snake Island bad-ass chads are still alive

EU in talks to give jet fighters to Ukraine

Slovak government has launched a website with info for Ukrainians coming to Slovakia

First Day of Negotiations are over, talks are expected to continue

Voters in Belarus have approved constitutional reforms that will allow the country to host nuclear weapons

Convoy disbanded

Trudeau froze protesters’ bank accounts

Without the right to transact, you effectively have no constitutional rights.

Zvi - “The only way that is in the government’s interest is if it wants this fight in order to further suspend freedom and democracy and destroy the rule of law that much faster.”

Biden Nominated Ketanji Brown Jackson to SCOTUS

Endorsed by Fraternal Order of Police

Afghanistan is fucked. 

US froze $7B in assets, giving half to 9/11 survivors.

Multiple Sclerosis Is Likely Caused by a Virus

Sarah Palin trying to overturn NYT v. Sullivan “actual malice” standard 

Sandy Hook families reach $73 million settlement with gun manufacturer Remington

3 San Francisco school board members were recalled

FL Dont Say Gay bill

the ban would be on "classroom instruction" for those from kindergarten through the third grade

TX gov Says Some Sex Change Procedures Are Child Abuse Under Texas Law. 

Many R lawmakers admitted it was subject matter they weren't familiar with.

Happy News!

NIH issues a seismic mandate: share data publicly

B/Yamagata influenza lineage may have become extinct

CDC getting ready for covid independence day

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News discussed:

GoFundMe canceled $10 million fundraiser for Freedom Convoy

Zvi can’t figure out if the protests are calling for racist violence or not

They’re not

Actual violent occupations were not impacted.

Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson said he had reached a tentative agreement with a key protest organizer to remove trucks from residential areas, and to limit vehicles to a perimeter near Parliament downtown in exchange for a meeting.

Supporters jam the “fuel ban” 

France and Brussels get their own Convoys

The bridge shut down is over now, but the Ottowa protest continues

The job market is back

Spotify took down 111 past Joe Rogan episodes where he used racial slurs

His apology

SSC splinter subreddit TheMotte “now considering misuse of the block feature to be a bannable offense.” 

Insurance Companies Withdraw Coverage From Airlines Flying Through Ukraine Airspace 

Ukrainian oligarchs, business people leave country en masse

Right wingers upset about new head of the energy dept??

Congress is passing a wave of bipartisan bills as Biden’s big plans stall

Happy News!

Fewer people are using Facebook!

Blue States are ending covid restrictions

Also Denmark, Sweden, Norway. Mostly Italy, Spain. Loosening in France, Germany, Czech, UK

Implant allows man with fully severed spinal cord to walk

European scientists in ‘landmark’ nuclear fusion breakthrough

France announces a wave of new-generation atomic reactors 

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