American farms suffering from drought
The costs of growing food keeps going up
Flooding in Pakistan, and why this is a bad thing
Shortage of energy adding to European farmers problems
PFizer says vax 73% effective in children under 5
Your face mask may contain carcinogens, twitter thread
Omicron boosters not tested on humans, well, still they start administering it anyway
Infact, they only have final testing data from a whole 8 mice, gosh its so nice, the way they’re being so sure these things are safe.
AND at the same time they’re “de-authorizing” the old boosters, so even if you just got your last booster, you could be forced to get this one to stay up to date
If you’ve recently had Covid you need to wait at least 60 days before getting a booster
Twitter thread: C19 test swabs may contain a carcinogen
Mandatory hospital screenings fueling inaccurate death count (that was another conspiracy theory wasn’t it)
Natural immunity wins again, and again, bigtime
UK to stop offering the vax to healthy under 12yr olds
Cali set to pass law that takes away medical license of anyone who doesn’t toe the party line
Some health systems may start refusing medical exceptions for the vax again
Goldman Sachs orders all WFH workers back to the office
Biden Admin had weekly meetings to discuss who to censor.
Excess under 5 mortality
Tennessee will hold back 3rd graders who can’t pass reading test
If your 3rd grader is still struggling to read, this is your last year to help them catch up
Kentucky floods damaged schools
Your tinted car windows aren’t protecting your stuff
Missouri sheriffs resisting FBI CC audit
There aren’t enough metal and minerals available in order to get rid of oil
Most EVs may not qualify for the new EV credit
Austria sees energy price hike
UK coffee shop see’s its latest energy bill
Oil refinery shut down in Indiana, SOE declared
Less than a week after passing the bill that requires EVs only after 2035, CA requires EV owners to stop charging their cars due to lack of power
Cali decides that they need nuclear power afterall.
EU wants to “flatten the curve” of power use
Switzerland considers jailing people who use to much power
Another reason not to get a smart thermometer
Over 22% of San Fran’s EV charging stations don’t work
Ethanol plants allowed to pollute more than oil refineries
New paypal phishing scam
NY declares SOE over Polio
New Additional Philips Respironics device recall. Philips still hasn’t managed to fulfill the replacements for the previous recall.
Railroad strike imminent
Social worker threatened to take away kids if mom refuses sexual offers
Suicide! With 10 stab wounds in her back.
Cell phone tracking, on a budget
IRS disclosed private taxpayer info
The teenage girls are not all right
The kids, in general, aren’t all right
Legitimizing irrational anxiety is not healthy
Twitter thread: population crash
Twitter thread with links: Greenland ice sheet had the largest mass gain ever in one day
Snapchat gave Republican voter data to Democrats
Deja vue? Ship runs aground in the Suez canal. (they got it moving within a day this time though)
Visa, Mastercard, and AmEx to start tracking firearm purchases
Remote controlled cyborg cockroaches are now solar powered
Arkansas town banned from giving speeding tickets for a year
France to make twice as much champagne this year
Shrooms might be effective depression treatment
The EV tax credit – we complain when the government doesn’t encourage US made, and now complain that they do. We complained that most battery materials are from foreign sources and say we need to bring that to the US, until it is required. And yes, we do have mines and have more mines in development – but no, it isn’t enough. How many people know that previous EV tax incentives actually discouraged use of US made product (they capped how much could apply to any one company, and guess which maker topped out so their offerings no longer qualified – the US company).
I don’t have a dog in this hunt, but just find it interesting that no matter what it does/encourages, people find fault – even taking an opposite position to what they once wanted. (This comment in no way is about you – you’re just providing links to various news).
Of course it would be great to get government out of most things – but I don’t see that happening real soon.
Pretty much. The whole mess drives me nuts.
Most people I talk to at work love the concept of battery powered everything. Given a free choice most would pick a battery unit over gas, even at the higher price, assuming the battery unit is capable of what they want. The thing is battery units AREN’T capable of everything, and while thats subject to change forcing the change before they CAN is going to cause problems.