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"In conversations caught on hidden camera, New York City’s former COVID czar said that he’d organized a pair of sex parties in the second half of 2020, as New Yorkers coped with peak pandemic social isolation. “The only way I could do this job for the city was if I had some way to blow off steam every now and then,” Jay Varma told an undercover reporter with whom he thought he was on a date. In a video compiled from several recordings taken this summer, the onetime senior public-health adviser to city hall describes the two events that took place in August and November of 2020. He also talked about his work promoting vaccination in the city by making it “very uncomfortable” for those who wanted to avoid the shots."

https://archive.is/2024.09.22-123502/https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2024/09/jay-varma-covid-sex-parties/679983/#:~:text=In%20conversations%20caught,avoid%20the%20shots.

⁣We, the people of the United States, don’t care what your “prominent” Ukrainians think.

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Rachel Maddow is having a meltdown over Georgia’s new rule that requires hand counting ballots in the 2024 Election.

“Radical stuff going on in Georgia” 🤣

These people are TERRIFIED of what the results will look like without their precious vote counting machines.

In many countries votes are hand counted and the results are known n election day, not sure what she’s talking about!

https://x.com/patri0tcontr0l/status/1837334887491051563?s=46&t=yH_YwZotlm6m-dfwNvYx3Q

These dances still make me vomit.

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🇷🇺☢️ About how fast our hypersonic nuclear weapons can reach their target.

The video shows the visualization of the flight speed of the hypersonic maneuvering unit 15U71 of the Avangard missile system.

The declared flight speed of the product is more than 28 Mach numbers. The video shows a speed of 20 Mach numbers (20.4 thousand kilometers per hour). The power of the warhead is about 800 kilotons.

🇩🇪Lufthansa Withdraws from Competition with Emirates, Etihad, and Qatar Airways

Lufthansa is set to discontinue its Frankfurt am Main to Beijing route, citing the impact of EU anti-Russian sanctions.

The key issue is that Russia has closed its airspace to EU carriers, forcing them to extend their flight paths. As a result, the flight duration from Germany to Beijing has increased by two hours. Lufthansa explained to Spiegel that the route is operated by fuel-hungry Airbus A340-300s, which consume significant amounts of kerosene.

Meanwhile, competitors from Turkey and the Gulf states continue flying through Russian airspace without restrictions. These airlines are gaining a competitive edge over Lufthansa by offering faster and more cost-efficient flights.

#Germany #fuel #Lufthansa
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Tonight, on the Mosaic Ark, we continue our discussion of Girardian mimesis. Can you spot the twinnings in our politics and culture?

"My reading of Neil Postman and Marshall McLuhan convinced me that “the myth of technological neutrality” was just that. In conversations with friends, often somewhere downtown, I disputed the view that these technologies merely added technical capacities to our lives. They exerted a negative spiritual, cultural, and political effect. They were superseding better ways of being and acting, while empowering certain groups over others. I argued that the first question about any technology was what kind of people it made us into. I convinced basically no one.

"Today, the Institute for Family Studies, of which I am executive director, is a leader in efforts to require age verification for social media platforms and pornography sites, as well as to weaken the hold of smartphones over the lives of kids."

https://www.firstthings.com/article/2024/10/the-myth-of-technological-neutrality

I see that Maggie Smith has just died. RIP.

https://youtu.be/TvBtPjtTAOQ

Never forget.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aj5whlRTYs

Scientists have captured Earth’s climate over the last 485 million years. Here’s the surprising place we stand now:

"An ambitious effort to understand the Earth’s climate over the past 485 million years has revealed a history of wild shifts and far hotter temperatures than scientists previously realized — offering a reminder of how much change the planet has already endured and a warning about the unprecedented rate of warming caused by humans.

The timeline, published Thursday in the journal Science, is the most rigorous reconstruction of Earth’s past temperatures ever produced, the authors say."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/09/19/earth-temperature-global-warming-planet/

ROBINMG 🚀

My first job was working for IBM in the 1980s. The most important lesson I learned was "never work for IBM." It was a soul crushing experience working for a company with such a destructive business model. Those chickens have not only come home to roost, but they've also torn down the coop and are busy selling marshmallows toasted over the flames of the wreckage remaining from the barn.

"I thought the most informative aspect of this IBM employee’s critical rant about the former tech giant is the way it reveals how the corpocracy ends up devouring itself once it makes the shift from production to services. We’re presently seeing this transformation take place in the game space, as the corpocratic-“game developers” seek to capture customers and feed upon them over time rather than simply make good games and sell them to gamers.

"And the larger corporations, of course, can’t survive by feeding on individual consumers, so they have to predate upon smaller corporations, locking them into “service contracts” and keeping them dependent upon their increasingly inferior technologies. The inevitable results are exactly the opposite of the theoretical benefits of so-called “capitalism”."

https://voxday.net/2024/09/28/the-corpocracy-devours-itself/

⚠️ As of this morning, over 400 roads remain closed in North Carolina. All roads in Western NC should be considered closed.

Remember: As crews work to clear and inspect roads and bridges, please give them room.

Go to http://DriveNC.gov for the latest road information.