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Trump’s World Bank lead, David Malpass, is an idiot. Also he’s a CO2 denialist.

Posted on September 20, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Trump did do much damage.

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Buying bicycle gear online – some sources (2012)

Posted on September 20, 2022 by jgordon

Link. I was looking for this a month ago and Google couldn’t find it. Some sites are dead but many survive. I need to update it.

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How to buy a used bicycle – and why carbon frames are a special problem (2014)

Posted on September 20, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Still pretty much my opinion though I’m more comfortable with carbon than I was then. Resurfaced in prepping a different post.

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“the total number of floppy users has gone down. However, the number of people who provided the product went down even faster.”

Posted on September 20, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Lots of money to be made in dying industries.

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Curves disappeared. Wikipedia article doesn’t explain why the women-only club died in most US markets.

Posted on September 20, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Founder was religious extremist and that caused issues, but sounds like it was dying by 2012.

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“Should he use nuclear weapons in a limited and possibly futile way, the threshold would still have been crossed and all bets would be off in terms of a NATO response.”

Posted on September 20, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Even Xi might turn against Russia.

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Air pollution and cumulative brain damage: suggestive studies.

Posted on September 20, 2022 by jgordon

Link. We need mechanism and animal models, but there should be abundant data from China and India. Electric cars?

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“The U.N. General Assembly voted 101-7 on Friday to allow Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to deliver a televised address.”

Posted on September 20, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Purim’s doom comes.

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“By mid-summer 2022, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce had tallied five job openings for every three unemployed workers—and word has gone out around the planet.”

Posted on September 20, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Well done review. GOP, as usual, is useless.

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“with the massive decrease in death rates, Covid is now no more dangerous than the flu for those who catch it”

Posted on September 20, 2022 by jgordon

Link. At least acutely.

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Passkeys need years of work.

Posted on September 20, 2022 by jgordon

Link. A good idea and a good start but a long road.

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Russia’s sabotage of women’s march: “They posted as Black women critical of white feminism, conservative women who felt excluded…”

Posted on September 18, 2022 by jgordon

Link. They found attacks on Sarsour tested well. “Believe the accuser” makes these attacks easy. There were no defenses then.

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“Stage Manager — that is entirely not needed on Macs because what was there already worked well enough”

Posted on September 17, 2022 by jgordon

Link. There are better areas of macOS to invest in.

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The migrant assault: “delegated to private parties who quite possibly broke a few laws to do it”

Posted on September 16, 2022 by jgordon

Link. The law turns toward two moron governors.

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“the real cause of the special educator shortage is persistent apathy among policymakers at every level.”

Posted on September 16, 2022 by jgordon

Link. There are some real hard problems but apathy is number one.

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Expelling demons from 2020 Air.

Posted on September 16, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Voice Trigger, SMC and Disk Utility issues.

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Union Test Prep/Become: Preparing for ServSafe and other vocational tests

Posted on September 16, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Navigation is clunky and we got ads despite paying, but for a test my son took this was very helpful.

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Monterey T2 bug – First Aid, unlocking disk, operation canceled – Do an SMC reset

Posted on September 16, 2022 by jgordon

Link. I could find only 1 result on a Google search but it worked. Resharing.

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“… suggests that Uber failed to fix a massive security hole”

Posted on September 16, 2022 by jgordon

Link. You can judge a nation by its prisons and a corporation by its cyber-security.

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From trains to CO2 to Ukraine cranky old man delivers.

Posted on September 16, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Demonic powers?

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China CO2: “… and possibly carbon tariffs.”

Posted on September 16, 2022 by jgordon

Link. “The U.S. offshores a little bit of emissions, the EU offshores a bit more (about 18%)”

The tariffs are inevitable.

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In Tibet Xi’s COVID cruelty grows.

Posted on September 16, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Do Chinese hate Xi yet?

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Passport Renewal to become more online eventually.

Posted on September 16, 2022 by jgordon

Link. USPO is overwhelmed.

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Next-gen cruise control is semi-autonomous with gaze monitoring.

Posted on September 16, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Nobody will drive stoned with this.

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TikTok as Search Engine: “personalizes the videos shown to them based on their interactions with content — to find information uncannily catered to their tastes”

Posted on September 16, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Privacy is priority zero.

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Amazon sells “suicide cords” for back feeding generator power into a home.

Posted on September 16, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Bezos is running a eugenics program.

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“Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is building a massive database with content seized from Americans’ cellphones at the border. Without warrants, the agency permits thousands of employees to search the database “for any reason,”

Posted on September 15, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Rogue.

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“team infused five patients with treatment-resistant SLE with modified anti-CD19 T cells. And so far, all of them have experienced a remarkable recovery.”

Posted on September 15, 2022 by jgordon

Link. All. Don’t see that often, even for small number.

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“crumbling ruins of Sak Tz’i’, a Maya settlement at least 2,500 years old. Spread across 100 acres of tangled vines and lumpy earth were reminders of lost grandeur:”

Posted on September 15, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Found in Mexican ranch.

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“neglecting to tell the bees could lead to various misfortunes, including their death or departure, or a failure to make honey.”

Posted on September 15, 2022 by jgordon

Link. “… Royal beekeeper had informed Queen Elizabeth II’s bees of her death”

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“already decided she would terminate the pregnancy if the diagnosis of Down syndrome was confirmed, though she would have to travel outside Ohio to do so”

Posted on September 15, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Lots of GOP voters abort Downs fetus.

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“as the Ukrainian Army advanced, the soldiers seemed surprised, she said, as they had made no special preparations either for defense or retreat”

Posted on September 15, 2022 by jgordon

Link. They were just controlling the locals.

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Oil industry climate talk shockingly insincere.

Posted on September 15, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Remember when big tobacco sponsored women’s tennis? Kind of like that.

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Sweden’s fascist side.

Posted on September 15, 2022 by jgordon

Link. MSGA.

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NYT article shows how to report a lie: “The Russian government has dismissed witness accounts, photographs, videos and other evidence of atrocities by its soldiers in Bucha”

Posted on September 15, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Now do this for DeSantis lies.

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What is “manliness” in 2022?

Posted on September 11, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Basically unchanged over the at least the past 80 years. Except no longer defined by anatomy.

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“Concerned that sharing their operational plans could highlight weaknesses and discourage continued American support, the Ukrainians were closely guarding their operational plans.“

Posted on September 11, 2022 by jgordon

Link. This seems thoughtful and as legit as war reporting can be.

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“The easiest way to understand what the CMRA portal does is to prowl around on its site. I cannot recommend that highly enough”. Fed climate site.

Posted on September 10, 2022 by jgordon

Link.

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TKTL1 single amino acid sub mutation caused frontal lobe proliferation within past few 100K years.

Posted on September 9, 2022 by jgordon

Link. One of 96 human/neand mutations. 150K y ago something big happened to humans. TKTL1 may play role in glioma. Expect studies of TKTL1 in cognitive disability.

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Long term high dose anabolic androgen use may be bad for the brain.

Posted on September 9, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Paywalled, but one review claims a dose-response curve with cortical thickness. MRI and cognitive testing. Correlation, not causation (non-random use). Mechanism unclear. Dosages much higher than androgen replacement of course.

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MN quack and GOP gov cand Jensen: “Abortion is divisive … let’s focus on the issues that matter.”

Posted on September 9, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Now trailing Gov Waltz by 20 points. GOP likely to abandon him.

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“Speech is not violence, and to argue so is to imply that violence is an appropriate response…The United States is living through the largest wave of state censorship since the second Red Scare.”

Posted on September 9, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Mostly GOP.

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Pinochet’s economic policy is vastly overrated.

Posted on September 8, 2022 by jgordon

Link. “There was a dictator in recent history who slaughtered thousands of his own people, but who liberalized his country’s economy, privatizing state-owned enterprises, dropping price controls…”

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Singapore: still not a democracy.

Posted on September 8, 2022 by jgordon

Link. A test of how much freedom people truly want.

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‘London Bridge is down’: the secret plan for the days after the Queen’s death

Posted on September 8, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Not new but neat history.

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AirPods Pro 2

Posted on September 7, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Same price, better performance.

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“In the weeks since President Biden signed a comprehensive climate bill devised to spur investment in electric cars and clean energy, corporations have announced a series of big-ticket projects”

Posted on September 7, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Biden delivers. Old but wise and effective.

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NYT: “The Murdochs: Empire of Influence,” which will be broadcast on CNN this month.”

Posted on September 7, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Surprised CNN agreed to this. I suspect they will back out.

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Xi’s great leap for COVID is a lot like Mao’s leap.

Posted on September 7, 2022 by jgordon

Link. He hates science. Most tyrants do.

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Separating tape from backing: techniques.

Posted on September 7, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Mine had dried too much. 30sec in microwave warmed glue do I could get backing off.

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