Archive for the 'Collapse' Category
Tepco’s ‘Ice Wall’ Fails to Freeze Fukushima’s Toxic Water Buildup
March 8th, 2018Mmm hmm. This was treated like comedy gold on Cryptogon when it was announced. And now, not only has it not worked, but the problem is worse. Via: Reuters: A costly “ice wall” is failing to keep groundwater from seeping into the stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, data from operator Tokyo Electric Power Co shows, […]
42% of Americans Have Less Than $10,000 Stashed Away for Retirement [???]
March 6th, 2018Can this possibly be right? Via: CNBC: At this rate, retirement is more of a fantasy than a reality for many people in this country. About 42 percent of Americans have less than $10,000 saved for when they retire, according to a study by GoBankingRates released Tuesday. The No. 1 reason most people cited for […]
Uber and Lyft Drivers’ Median Hourly Wage Is Just $3.37 (Update: Author Admits Flaws)
March 5th, 2018Update: Uber, Lyft Drivers Might Make More than $3.73/Hour, MIT Paper Author Says Via: USA Today: After a working paper published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology claimed 74% of Uber and Lyft drivers take home less than minimum wage, the paper’s author said his analysis might be wrong. The paper suggested median profit for […]
‘Dorm Living for Professionals Comes to San Francisco’
March 5th, 2018The New York Times is promoting Khrushchyovka-style living in San Francisco for $1,400 to $2,400 a month. Via: New York Times: Shared bathrooms at the end of the hall and having no individual kitchen or living room is becoming less weird for some of the city’s workers thanks to Starcity, a new development company that […]
Los Angeles: How Can a Place with 58,000 Homeless People Continue to Function?
March 1st, 2018How Can a Place with 58,000 Homeless People Continue to Function? Answer: With favelas and airmobile paramilitary forces. Most Americans couldn’t identify Brazil on a map, but the sprawling U.S. ghettos will increasingly look like Rio. Via: Los Angeles Times: Homelessness affects the lives of all Angelenos, not just those forced to live on the […]
South Africa to Seize Land from White Farmers Without Compensation
March 1st, 2018“But he stressed it must be conducted in a manner which preserved food production and security.” Oh sure. Russian Famine of 1921–22 Great Chinese Famine Cambodian Famine Keep those in mind when you see the kids in the streets waving hammer and sickle signs. Via: Independent: South Africa‘s parliament has passed a motion to seize […]
Palantir Has Secretly Been Using New Orleans to Test Its Predictive Policing Technology
February 28th, 2018Via: The Verge: The program began in 2012 as a partnership between New Orleans Police and Palantir Technologies, a data-mining firm founded with seed money from the CIA’s venture capital firm. According to interviews and documents obtained by The Verge, the initiative was essentially a predictive policing program, similar to the “heat list” in Chicago […]
Trump Announces Re-Election Campaign and Campaign Manager
February 27th, 2018It’s a bit like the Christmas shit appearing in stores in October. Hmm. I wonder if They’ll fit Hillary with a powered exoskeleton suit this time? Via: CBS: President Donald Trump announced that he’s running for re-election in 2020, and Brad Parscale, who served as the Trump campaign’s 2016 digital guru, has been named campaign […]
Norway Will Spend $13 Million to Upgrade Its Doomsday Seed Vault
February 26th, 2018Via: The Verge: Norway will spend 100 million Norwegian Crowns ($12.7 million) to upgrade the doomsday seed vault it built 10 years ago. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault was constructed in an abandoned Arctic coal mine to store and safeguard the world’s crops and plants from global natural or man-made disaster. If nuclear war or […]
Kids Use Tech So Much They Can’t Hold A Pencil Anymore, Doctors Say
February 26th, 2018Swipetarded parents. Swipetarded children. This should be a boon for the public school to private prison gravy train. Via: Guardian: Children are increasingly finding it hard to hold pens and pencils because of an excessive use of technology, senior paediatric doctors have warned. An overuse of touchscreen phones and tablets is preventing children’s finger muscles […]
