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Covid-19 will never become endemic.
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/opinion/topic/2022/01/15/why-covid-19-will-never-become-endemic/164216520013155
saved 2022-01-16

Why Covid-19 will never become endemic
For most of the pandemic Australia has worked to contain the virus through evidence-based public health measures such as border closures, case finding, contact tracing, quarantine, social distancing, vaccines and, at times, lockdown. Sadly, the weaponisation of lockdown as a pointscoring issue and emotional trigger has led to a conflation of lockdown with all other public health measures, most of which do not impinge on freedoms. Denial is a major theme during the pandemic.

The EU is looking for short fixes to reduce gas demand and has failed to find any.
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/03/23/eu-pushes-early-gas-refills-while-easing-storage-targets-on-iran-war
China is ex…

EU pushes early gas refills while easing storage targets on Iran war
Goal is to avoid panic buying while ensuring that EU countries' gas storage is replenished by next winter. The European Commission also told member states to refill below the 90% level set by law in 2022. #EuropeNews

Over the two and a half years
following the 2022 rollout of the 988 national suicide prevention hotline,
the rate of suicides among young people in the United States dropped 11 percent below projections,
decreasing most sharply in states with a higher volume of answered 988 calls, a new study has found.

Youth Suicides Declined After Creation of National Hotline
Suicides among young adults dropped most sharply in states that actively embraced the 988 crisis line, new research has found.

Industrial electrification is now a security imperative, finds Oxford analysis. “Industry has now lived through two major fossil fuel shocks in three years. First the 2022 gas crisis and now Hormuz. At some point you have to ask: how many times does the alarm have to go off before we change the system?”

Industrial electrification is now a security imperative, finds Oxford analysis
Industrial electrification is becoming a matter of economic security as well as decarbonisation, according to new analysis from researchers at the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford. 

Nielsen: the Oscars drew 17.86M viewers on ABC and Hulu, down about 9% from 2025; the show delivered a 3.92 rating among those 18-49, or about 5.34M viewers (Rick Porter/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/oscars-2026-tv-rating…

TV Ratings: Oscars Fall to 17.9 Million Viewers, Lowest Since 2022
ABC and Hulu’s telecast was off by about 9 percent from the 2025 awards.

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,275,980 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2026/03/11/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

The US' February jobs report shows the tech sector's post-2022 job losses are now outpacing past downturns in 2008 and 2020 (Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-jobs-getting-demolished-great-recession-dot-com-era-2026…

Tech jobs are getting demolished in ways not seen since 2008 and the dot-com bust
It's a rough time to be looking for a tech job. Economist Joseph Politano said losses in the industry outpaced those in the last two recessions.

Heute vor 61 Jahren: Am 05.04.1965 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Whetstone die 36. Atombombe "Kestrel". Whetstone war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1964/65 insgesamt 46 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in

from my link log —
How I think about C99 strict aliasing rules.
https://alanwu.space/post/strict-aliasing/
saved 2022-05-25 https://d…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Warpaint:
🎵 Champion (6 Music Session, 4 May 2022)
#Warpaint
https://warpaint.bandcamp.com/track/champion
https://open.spotify.com/track/4PCOZeCLR4p8cvVBuGgfhm