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Stanford Researchers found that C19 had a median Infection Fatality Rate of 0.034% for people under 60: “a shockingly low fatality rate to close down the planet, sacrifice children’s educations, and keep people from their jobs for not having a vaccine.”
https://dailyclout.io/covid-investigations-have-entered-a-sensitive-and-critical-phase/
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COVID Investigations Have Entered a Sensitive and Critical Phase - DailyClout
My recommendation is to be skeptical, especially when the COVID Investigations have seemingly entered a sensitive and critical phase.
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BREAKING: Jacinda Ardern resigns as prime minister of New Zealand
“Asked how she would like New Zealanders to remember her leadership, she said ‘as someone who always tried to be kind.’”
https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/19/jacinda-ardern-resigns-as-prime-minister-of-new-zealand
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“Asked how she would like New Zealanders to remember her leadership, she said ‘as someone who always tried to be kind.’”
https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/19/jacinda-ardern-resigns-as-prime-minister-of-new-zealand
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Sword of Ulfbert
Between 800 and 1000 A.D. 170 Viking swords with the same innoscription "Ulfberht" were discovered in Northern Europe. Despite their age, the artifacts were neatly and masterfully made.
The attention of archaeologists was drawn to the purity of the metal from which the swords were made - such a result could not be achieved before the industrial revolution.
Between 800 and 1000 A.D. 170 Viking swords with the same innoscription "Ulfberht" were discovered in Northern Europe. Despite their age, the artifacts were neatly and masterfully made.
The attention of archaeologists was drawn to the purity of the metal from which the swords were made - such a result could not be achieved before the industrial revolution.
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Forwarded from Today I Learned
TIL that the “Mozart Effect" (the claim that "listening to Mozart makes you smarter" or that early childhood exposure to classical music has a beneficial effect on mental development) stems from a single published in the Nature journal in 1993. The results were highly exaggerated by the press.
https://ift.tt/pFlR6x4
https://ift.tt/pFlR6x4
reddit
TIL that the “Mozart Effect" (the claim that "listening to Mozart...
Posted in r/todayilearned by u/garamond89 • 311 points and 27 comments
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"The most exceptional thing about this show is the hatred. The writer’s hatred is the only pure thing in the show. That is the one thing about Velma that feels at all genuine."
https://arkhavencomics.com/2023/01/16/first-impressions-velma/
https://arkhavencomics.com/2023/01/16/first-impressions-velma/
Arkhaven Site
First Impressions: Velma - Arkhaven Site
Well, this is some low-hanging fruit. I mean it’s so low it’s been sitting on the ground for three weeks. This is not a review proper because I haven’t seen the entire first season and I am absolutely not going to do that. I am out as of now. One episode…
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Forwarded from Paul Joseph Watson
An American fashion designer who raised her two daughters in Shanghai before returning to the US says she misses how her kids were ‘co-parented by the Chinese government’.
https://summit.news/2023/01/19/american-mother-who-lived-in-china-says-she-misses-state-bringing-up-her-children/
https://summit.news/2023/01/19/american-mother-who-lived-in-china-says-she-misses-state-bringing-up-her-children/
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Forwarded from ZeroHedge
"The control of publicly-available information over the last 10 years by WEF, the White House, and intelligence agencies including the FBI has been remarkable.... But all of the above are retrograde attempts to put the Internet genie back in the bottle and thus doomed to fail."
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/why-shocking-number-crazy-sounding-right-wing-conspiracy-theories-turned-about-be-true
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/why-shocking-number-crazy-sounding-right-wing-conspiracy-theories-turned-about-be-true
"Freedom is always under siege from the roving bandits that seek to tyrannize and plunder the free. To protect themselves, the Founding Fathers of the United States erected the Constitution as a citadel of freedom. Like Minas Tirith, it was built with seven walls. From outer to inner, the walls are:
A written constitution.
A vertical separation of powers.
A horizontal separation of powers.
A government of enumerated powers.
A government of mixed type.
A bill of enumerated rights.
An acknowledgment of unwritten rights.
"All seven walls have been breached. Last week we documented the collapse of the first three walls. This week we’ll discuss the state of the fourth wall."
https://treeofwoe.substack.com/p/the-seven-walls-of-fortress-america-383
A written constitution.
A vertical separation of powers.
A horizontal separation of powers.
A government of enumerated powers.
A government of mixed type.
A bill of enumerated rights.
An acknowledgment of unwritten rights.
"All seven walls have been breached. Last week we documented the collapse of the first three walls. This week we’ll discuss the state of the fourth wall."
https://treeofwoe.substack.com/p/the-seven-walls-of-fortress-america-383
Contemplations on the Tree of Woe
The Seven Walls of Fortress America, Part II
The Breaching of the Fourth Wall
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Forwarded from Today I Learned
TIL Olympic swimming is only timed to hundredths of a second because the pools aren’t built to the millimeter tolerances necessary to measure thousandths of a second
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reddit
TIL Olympic swimming is only timed to hundredths of a second...
Posted in r/todayilearned by u/UltraMechaPunk • 39,713 points and 914 comments
Forwarded from Intel Slava
🇺🇦⚡Footage from the city of Brovary in the Kyiv region, where a helicopter crashed near a kindergarten and a residential building.
According to preliminary data, it was an EMERCOM helicopter shot down by Ukrainian air defense. After the fall, a fire broke out. At the moment, at least 5 dead are known. The children were not hurt.
According to preliminary data, it was an EMERCOM helicopter shot down by Ukrainian air defense. After the fall, a fire broke out. At the moment, at least 5 dead are known. The children were not hurt.
Forwarded from Intel Slava
🇺🇦⚡️On board the helicopter that crashed in Brovary were the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Denis Monastyrsky and his deputy Yevgeny Enin, they died, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported.
"Heroism has not disappeared, but subversive undertones have worked their way into all our stories."
https://thesaxoncross.substack.com/p/marvel-morality
https://thesaxoncross.substack.com/p/marvel-morality
The Saxon Cross
Marvel Morality
The Subversion of the Folk Hero
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Forwarded from South Africa Reports
🌽 An Energy Crisis Is Seeping Into South Africa’s Food Supply — Bloomberg
The most severe power cuts ever experienced in South Africa are threatening food and water supplies and disrupting the lives of millions of people, including chicken farmers.
In the poultry industry, electricity outages have forced factories to pause round-the-clock operations for as long as half a day at a time. As a result, over 10 million birds designated for slaughter are still alive and consuming feed, creating a backlog that companies fear they won’t be able to fix.
“We actually have enough chickens on farms around the country, but we can’t supply the market because we can’t slaughter the chickens,” Izaak Breitenbach, Chief Executive Officer of the South African Poultry Association, said in an interview. As a stopgap measure, producers have begun using generators, which cost the industry about 75 cents ($0.0439) above the normal price of production per kilogram of chicken.
In response to these pressures, KFC temporarily shuttered some of the 750 fried chicken restaurants it operates in the country at the end of last year.
Agriculture Suffers
Over the last 15 years, Eskom, which provides 90% of all of South Africa’s electricity, has kept its grid from collapse by cutting power when it has been unable to meet demand. Known locally as “loadshedding,” these planned blackouts mainly affected mining operations and heavy industry until last year, when they became much more widespread. As the utility has struggled under a leadership crisis, its assets have deteriorated from age, lack of maintenance and even vandalism, all of which pushed outages to record levels in 2022.
The blackouts have created problems at every step of the agricultural production chain, affecting crop irrigation, processing and storage. Stores have also taken costly measures to keep produce from spoiling on shelves.
Some of the country’s biggest food retailers, Shoprite and Woolworths, have increased investment in standby generators, rooftop solar panels and refrigerated trailer trucks. But smaller businesses haven’t had opportunities to adapt. The Sowetan, a local newspaper, addressed a cover story to President Cyril Ramaphosa that listed dozens of small companies “crippled by every failed promise to fix Eskom.”
The cost has been significant. Shoprite, for example, is currently spending an extra 100 million rand per month on diesel to keep the lights on in its stores.
Among those affected are farmers in the Northern Cape province, who are already suffering under massive heat waves that have seen temperatures in some areas edge toward 117 degrees. Without energy, they can’t irrigate their crops, which include thirsty citrus trees.
“If you don’t have enough electricity, you don’t have enough water,” said Nicol Jansen, president of Agri Northern Cape, adding that cash crops such as soybeans are also vulnerable. “We urgently need more electricity in the irrigation areas.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-18/an-energy-crisis-is-seeping-into-south-africa-s-food-supply?srnd=premium-africa
https://archive.ph/Tk9fE
The most severe power cuts ever experienced in South Africa are threatening food and water supplies and disrupting the lives of millions of people, including chicken farmers.
In the poultry industry, electricity outages have forced factories to pause round-the-clock operations for as long as half a day at a time. As a result, over 10 million birds designated for slaughter are still alive and consuming feed, creating a backlog that companies fear they won’t be able to fix.
“We actually have enough chickens on farms around the country, but we can’t supply the market because we can’t slaughter the chickens,” Izaak Breitenbach, Chief Executive Officer of the South African Poultry Association, said in an interview. As a stopgap measure, producers have begun using generators, which cost the industry about 75 cents ($0.0439) above the normal price of production per kilogram of chicken.
In response to these pressures, KFC temporarily shuttered some of the 750 fried chicken restaurants it operates in the country at the end of last year.
Agriculture Suffers
Over the last 15 years, Eskom, which provides 90% of all of South Africa’s electricity, has kept its grid from collapse by cutting power when it has been unable to meet demand. Known locally as “loadshedding,” these planned blackouts mainly affected mining operations and heavy industry until last year, when they became much more widespread. As the utility has struggled under a leadership crisis, its assets have deteriorated from age, lack of maintenance and even vandalism, all of which pushed outages to record levels in 2022.
The blackouts have created problems at every step of the agricultural production chain, affecting crop irrigation, processing and storage. Stores have also taken costly measures to keep produce from spoiling on shelves.
Some of the country’s biggest food retailers, Shoprite and Woolworths, have increased investment in standby generators, rooftop solar panels and refrigerated trailer trucks. But smaller businesses haven’t had opportunities to adapt. The Sowetan, a local newspaper, addressed a cover story to President Cyril Ramaphosa that listed dozens of small companies “crippled by every failed promise to fix Eskom.”
The cost has been significant. Shoprite, for example, is currently spending an extra 100 million rand per month on diesel to keep the lights on in its stores.
Among those affected are farmers in the Northern Cape province, who are already suffering under massive heat waves that have seen temperatures in some areas edge toward 117 degrees. Without energy, they can’t irrigate their crops, which include thirsty citrus trees.
“If you don’t have enough electricity, you don’t have enough water,” said Nicol Jansen, president of Agri Northern Cape, adding that cash crops such as soybeans are also vulnerable. “We urgently need more electricity in the irrigation areas.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-18/an-energy-crisis-is-seeping-into-south-africa-s-food-supply?srnd=premium-africa
https://archive.ph/Tk9fE
Bloomberg.com
An Energy Crisis Is Seeping Into South Africa’s Food Supply
The most severe power cuts ever experienced in South Africa are threatening food and water supplies and disrupting the lives of millions of people, including chicken farmers.