Potala Palace. Tibet.


National Geographic

BREAKING: Beto O’Rourke says people who currently own semi-automatic rifles should have them confiscated.

"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate."

- Noam Chomsky

What is going on?

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/elon-musk-says-bill-gates-short-position-tesla-has-ballooned-15-2-billion

A fun urban fantasy series that will appeal to Harry Dresden fans. Check it out.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dhumphreys/paxton-locke-relaunching-the-acclaimed-urban-fantasy-series

How will the alt-right survive the humiliating shame of this devastating intellectual takedown?

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2022/05/the-strange-and-terrifying-ideas-of-neoreactionaries

The reviewer:

“You not only dissect in this book some of these horrific stupidities, but you do so with a kind of wit and beautiful prose that makes me want to be on your side rather than with these stupid neoeactionaries.”

The privacy-focused DuckDuckGo browser purposely allows Microsoft trackers on third-party sites due to an agreement in their syndicated search content contract between the two companies. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/duckduckgo-browser-allows-microsoft-trackers-due-to-search-agreement/

💬 Denis Rancourt co-authored a 170-page paper showing that all-cause mortality shows no evidence of any pandemic in the last two years.

All-cause mortality is the most accurate variable, since deaths are recorded. (Hiding millions of dead people is generally frowned upon.)

Watch the brilliant conversation here, or listen via your podcast app (search for Jerm Warfare).

After actor Johnny Depp emerged successful from his defamation trial with Amber Heard, questions remained about the Washington Post op-ed that triggered the lawsuit given that it was ghostwritten by an ACLU staffer.

https://summit.news/2022/06/02/questions-remain-over-amber-heard-op-ed-that-was-ghostwritten-by-aclu-staffer/

Looking back on your youth to when you were trans is set to be the dark, no refunds version of the mullet and shit tattoo.

https://news.1rj.ru/str/BertieBassett4Life/3863

TIPS ON PUMPING GAS
I don't know what you guys are paying for gasoline.... but here in California we are paying up to $3.75 to $4.10 per gallon. My line of work is in petroleum for about 31 years now, so here are some tricks to get more of your money's worth for every gallon:
Here at the Kinder Morgan Pipeline where I work in San Jose , CA we deliver about 4 million gallons in a 24-hour period thru the pipeline.. One day is diesel the next day is jet fuel, and gasoline, regular and premium grades. We have 34-storage tanks here with a total capacity of 16,800,000 gallons.
Only buy or fill up your car or truck in the early morning when the ground temperature is still cold. Remember that all service stations have their storage tanks buried below ground. The colder the ground the more dense the gasoline, when it gets warmer gasoline expands, so buying in the afternoon or in the evening....your gallon is not exactly a gallon. In the petroleum business, the specific gravity and the temperature of the gasoline, diesel and jet fuel, ethanol and other petroleum products plays an important role.
A 1-degree rise in temperature is a big deal for this business. But the service stations do not have temperature compensation at the pumps.
When you're filling up do not squeeze the trigger of the nozzle to a fast mode If you look you will see that the trigger has three (3) stages: low, middle, and high. You should be pumping on low mode, thereby minimizing the vapors that are created while you are pumping. All hoses at the pump have a vapor return. If you are pumping on the fast rate, some of the liquid that goes to your tank becomes vapor. Those vapors are being sucked up and back into the underground storage tank so you're getting less worth for your money.
One of the most important tips is to fill up when your gas tank is HALF FULL. The reason for this is the more gas you have in your tank the less air occupying its empty space. Gasoline evaporates faster than you can imagine. Gasoline storage tanks have an internal floating roof. This roof serves as zero clearance between the gas and the atmosphere, so it minimizes the evaporation. Unlike service stations, here where I work, every truck that we load is temperature compensated so that every gallon is actually the exact amount.
Another reminder, if there is a gasoline truck pumping into the storage tanks when you stop to buy gas, DO NOT fill up; most likely the gasoline is being stirred up as the gas is being delivered, and you might pick up some of the dirt that normally settles on the bottom.