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Today, instead of reusing the free single-use bags to line their trash cans and dispose of their cat litter, Californians now pay 10 cents every time they exercise that privilege. And how does this help the environment, when reusable plastic bags have 11 to 14 times the mass of disposable plastic bags, and hardly anyone reuses them that many times?

Further evidence of the absurdity of laws banning single-use plastic bags is found in a study commissioned by the United Kingdom’s Environmental Agency, which estimated reusable grocery bags made of cotton fabric to have 131 times greater “global warming potential” than conventional disposable plastic bags.

CNN.

WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE! Women and minorities hardest hit. This … is CNN.

Climate Research Universities Unite to Accelerate Action

San Francisco Reverses Ban On Single-Use Plastic Bags, Prohibits Reusable Totes

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Dirigible airships are like flying cars in their populatiry in science fiction. It will be interesting to see whether they can get these things to work.

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A Venezuelan navy ship fired shots at a German-owned cruise ship on March 30 and rammed into the passenger vessel, leading to the sinking of the warship in the Caribbean.

The Iranian regime-allied Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro accused the captain of the RCGS RESOLUTE cruise ship of “terrorism and piracy” and sought to force the ship into a new direction on the high seas. The cruise ship, which had no passengers on board and was flying under a Portuguese flag, has a reinforced hull that enables it to sail through ice water.

Oops.

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How very white of her.

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If you’re a “white evangelical Christian,” you might want to check your back for a bullseye — or maybe just a “Kick Me!” sign. Everybody’s looking for someone or something to blame for our current crisis, and for the progressives of The New York Times, The Washington Post and other elite newsrooms, you’re it. (Shhh, don’t mention the Chinese government, you racist!)

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The problem appears to be that our economy is much more complicated than you had imagined.

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Contrary to what you may have heard from the ‘news media’.

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We can hope.

UPDATE: Infectious Disease Expert Says Anti-Malaria Drug Marks ‘Beginning Of The End’ Of Pandemic

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There are many surreal aspects to this pandemic but Eduardo Moreno is still something of a stand out. The California engineer attempted to ram his locomotive into the USNS Mercy because he was suspicious of its real purpose in Los Angeles.

His effort took the train off the rails and across a remarkable distance before stopping short of the ship. The family has started a GoFundMe page that cryptically says “Eddie is not hurt physically but isn’t with us at this time.”

Sounds as if he left us a while ago.

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Yeah, it was SO RACIST when the slaves were freed under Lincoln. What was he thinking?

Alex aubarrok, a Real Economist, is dumbfounded.

The KN95 mask is China’s version of the N95 mask. 3M, America’s largest manufacturer of N95 masks, said in January that the masks are equivalent. But the FDA is not allowing KN95s into the country.

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Many hospitals are refusing to accept them, even as free donations, because they fear legal liability should a health care worker get ill while using a nonpermitted device…Although some hospitals flat-out reject KN95 masks at any price on advice of their lawyers, people rounding up masks to give to hospitals have found that individual doctors or nurses will often accept the donations, given the dire need.

Researchers investigate how forests are changing in response to global warming

Carbon-free hydrogen production needs multi-billion dollar subsidies to make it cost effective: research

A Greener Google

Solar Power Is Sustainable for the Economy, Too  Wired ‘Science’.

Concrete Is Awful for the Planet. Clever Chemistry Can Help  Wired ‘Science’.

Geoengineering Is an Option. Just Read the Fine Print  Wired ‘Science’.

The Battle Against Global Warming Is the New Cold War  Wired ‘Science’.

The secret to curbing farm emissions is buried in the Stone Age  Sometimes the old ways are best.

An environmental stimulus bill could help us bounce back from COVID-19  More political partisanship from Wired ‘Science’.

‘This Is Evil’: MyPillow’s Mike Lindell Punches Back At Jim Acosta, Other Media Critics Of White House Appearance

MSNBC’s Melber Sets Up Rep. Ted Lieu to Trash Fox for Endangering Lives with Fake Virus News

Senior Adviser To Anti-Trump Super PAC The Lincoln Project Calls Trump ‘Retarded’

Yale epidemiology professor accuses NY Times of ‘journalistic malpractice’ over report on Trump’s virus-testing claim

The state of the conservative intelligentsia is weird  At least the Washington Post thinks so.

MSNBC Says Coronavirus Response Proves Trump Has Difficulty With ‘Strong Women Leaders’

Don Lemon Lies: Blame Trump Because He Called the Virus, a ‘Hoax’

Chuck Todd Offers Obnoxious Disclaimer Before Coronavirus Briefing

Biden Says Trump Needs ‘Someone Else In Charge With Him’ To Manage Coronavirus Crisis

It took 27 days for CNN to say what they previously accused Trump of lying about

Howard Stern on Trump’s Virus Response: He ‘Doesn’t Give One S**t About Public Service’  And of course Howard Stern is the expert on public service.

ABC’s Jon Karl: ‘Legitimate Debate’ Over Covering Trump’s Corona Briefings Live

Daily Caller: CNN Bashed Trump for Saying What They’re Now Reporting on Death Rates

NY Times Boosts Biden’s Sad Social Media Presence Against Trump ‘Disinformation’

Williams Asks Biden About Trump’s ‘Culpability’ for Virus Deaths

‘IMPEACH HIM AGAIN’: Cusack Calls for 2nd Impeachment to Prevent Virus Deaths

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The package also included millions in funding for the arts and several other peculiar, even potentially suspicious areas.

ZMan speculates.

Current events offers some insight into why we may never meet space aliens. The panic over the virus is something new to modern society. This virus is not a threat to humanity, but it is treated as one. We know there was no panic over the Swine flu, the Asian flu, the Hong Kong flu and so on. There was no panic over the great influenza outbreak of 2017 that killed 80,000 Americans. Yet with the death toll soaring to 4,000 with the Chinese flu, America is paralyzed with fear.

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What we may be seeing is the early stages of a new social model, one imagined in science fiction a century ago. Once a species becomes sufficiently advanced, the population shrinks, but lives in greater comfort. Perhaps in time lifespans will extend so a small number of humans, cared for by automated cities, live long lives almost like children in a daycare center. A species of pampered toddlers is no going to risk it all to explore the stars and come visit earth.

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The Left Coast continues its transition to People’s Republic status.

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The Unified Patent Court (UPC) has issued an pan-European injunction to halt the sales of ventilators across Europe. The Court ruled that ventilators used by hospitals in the current pandemic of COVID-19 were violating an EPO patent on graphical user interfaces using tabs, granted to Bulldog Diagnostics LLC. Despite the lockdown, crowds started assembling around EPO offices, and the protests quickly escalated into violent riots. Protesters said that patent law cannot live in its own bubble, that lives were more important than profit.

And the myth of ‘intellectual property’ rears its ugly head yet again.

NPR has their hair on fire so you don’t have to.

NPR will be publishing stories from this investigative series in the weeks ahead, even as we focus our current coverage on the coronavirus pandemic. But here’s a look at some of our key findings.

God forbid you shouldn’t be panicking about SOMETHING.