Archive for the 'Collapse' Category
Pentagon Wants to Feed Troops ‘Experimental’ Lab-Grown Meat to ‘Reduce CO2 Footprint’
June 14th, 2024The U.S. military is a bigger polluter than as many as 140 countries, so feed U.S. military personnel experimental lab-grown meat??? Via: Washington Free Beacon: A Pentagon-funded company is seeking proposals to feed America’s soldiers lab-grown meat in a bid to “reduce the CO2 footprint” at Defense Department outposts. BioMADE, a public-private company that has […]
Water Is Bursting from Another Abandoned West Texas Oil Well
June 12th, 2024Via: The Texas Tribune: In recent years, Schuyler Wight has noticed a growing number of abandoned oil wells coming back to life, gurgling fluids on the surface of his West Texas ranch. Last week he found the biggest one yet. Gassy water was gushing from the ground and down a quarter mile of roadway before […]
10,000 California Fast Food Workers Fired Thanks To $20 Minimum Wage
June 11th, 2024Via: ZeroHedge: Nearly 10,000 California fast food workers have been fired thanks to the state’s new $20 minimum wage, according to the California Business and Industrial Alliance (CABIA), which slammed Governor Gavin Newsom for the law which went into effect April 1. “California businesses have been under total attack and total assault for years,” said […]
Ukraine Claims First-Ever Fighter Jet Strike On Russian Territory
June 10th, 2024I always thought that nuclear war would occur with almost no warning. I never would have guessed we would slowly stumble toward it, escalation after escalation. But here we go… For the positive thinkers out there, maybe it stays conventional, like in Red Storm Rising. Here’s to hoping! Via: ZeroHedge: Ukraine is touting that it […]
Adobe: “We May Access Your Content Through Both Automated and Manual Methods, Such as for Content Review”
June 7th, 2024Madness. Via: Venture Beat: In particular, users have objected to Adobe’s claims that it “may access, view, or listen to your Content through both automated and manual methods…using techniques such as machine learning in order to improve our Services and Software and the user experience,” which many took to be a tacit admission both of […]
U.S. Employment Levels, Native Born vs. Foreign Born
June 7th, 2024Holy. Shit. The insane trend continues… In just May, 414,000 immigrants (legal and illegal) gained a job. Meanwhile, 663,000 native-born Americans LOST their job. Since pre-Covid, native born workers have actually LOST ~2 million jobs. All of the net job gains are immigrants. pic.twitter.com/BNEWRSBDrU — Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) June 7, 2024
Microsoft Will Switch Off Recall by Default After Security Backlash
June 7th, 2024Via: Wired: When Microsoft named its new Windows feature Recall, the company intended the word to refer to a kind of perfect, AI-enabled memory for your device. Today, the other, unintended definition of “recall”—a company’s admission that a product is too dangerous or defective to be left on the market in its current form—seems more […]
“Tech is dead. I’m done.”
June 5th, 2024I’m not sure if this is satire or not, but it contains a lot of truth and his deadpan delivery is hilarious. Via: TechLead:
OPEC+ Agrees to Extend Production Cuts in Bid to Boost Oil Prices
June 2nd, 2024Via: Wall Street Journal: OPEC+ on Sunday agreed to extend all production curbs into 2025 in an effort to shore up oil prices, delegates said, with top producers in the group continuing to haggle over a deal to cut output further. The agreement comes on the same day the group’s kingpin, Saudi Arabia, launched a […]
Poll: Three Quarters Of U.S. Voters Say Country Is “Out Of Control” Under Biden
June 1st, 2024Via: Modernity: A whopping three quarters of voters say the US is “out of control” and on the “wrong track” under the Biden administration, according to a poll. A Hart Research/Public Opinion Strategies/NBC News survey reveals that 73 percent of voters overall hold the opinion, making it the highest on record under any president since […]
