Some Chilling Public Speaking History

CALIFORNIA: Despite strict lockdowns, ICUs are filling up.

Each year this tax net would gather up a new crop of taxpayers for the next decade. The range of people it proposes to ensnare is staggering: every student attending college in California, anyone having a major medical procedure at a California hospital and needing an extended in-state recovery period, and those who spend two months in California away from New York or London winters. Under California tax law, there is no distinction between a nonresident from Minnesota and a nonresident from Dubai.Assembly Bill 2088 proposes calculating the wealth tax based on current world-wide net worth each Dec. 31. For part-year and temporary residents, the tax would be proportionate based on their number of days in California. The annual tax would be on current net worth and therefore would include wealth earned, inherited or obtained through gifts or estates long before and long after leaving the state.The proposed wealth tax would fall on a star high-school or college athlete who grows up in California but becomes a wealthy professional in another state after graduation.

LA County Concedes: People Must Be Allowed to Worship Inside Churches

Much funnier then the title suggests. Germany and Europe Could Fall Short on Vaccine Supplies

Capella Space’s new satellite is eerily observant

Bellingcat Can Say What U.S. Intelligence Can’t

CISA: SolarWinds Not the Only Initial Attack Vector in Massive Breach

They Stole It Fair And Square

Drug Reverses Age-Related Mental Decline Within Days

The Orion spacecraft is now 15 years old and has flown into space just once

Has China’s Economy Already Gone Bust?

Nowhere To Go

Ludwig van Beethoven’s 250th birthday

Solid State Batteries — They’re Everywhere! They’re Everywhere!

18,000 Organizations Possibly Compromised in Massive Supply-Chain Cyberattack

Manly a Mac thing I think. Chrome is Bad

Silicon Valley couldn’t have designed a better way to further radicalize Trump voters

S Korea’s Covid success story sunk by third wave

4 Cups a Day: 4 Surprising Health Benefits of Drinking That Much Coffee

China launches ‘gray-zone’ warfare to subdue Taiwan

Artificial Skin’ May One Day Make Troops Invisible, Even to Heat Sensors

I have only one comment on this. Every pandemic will have a peak and drop off even if left unchecked.Anyone who does not acknowledge this and try to correct for it when evaluating effectiveness of options should be treated with suspicion. Reevaluating Children’s Role in the Pandemic

Germany Is Faring Poorly in the Second Wave of the Coronavirus

AlphaFold2 @ CASP14: “It feels like one’s child has left home.”

How Andrew Cuomo’s Executive Order Trapped My 89-Year-Old Mother in COVID Limbo for Weeks

Google’s YouTube Shuts Down Dilbert Creator Scott Adams