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Sat, Dec 4, 2021 05:00 AM

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Hosts: R. Paul Martin & Pickles of the North

Topics:

Covid~19 cases in the whole world - 264,743,026 on Friday.
Covid~19 deaths in the whole world - 5,240,971 on Friday.
Covid~19 cases in the United States of America - 48,918,222 on Friday.
Covid~19 deaths in the United States of America - 786,898 on Friday.
Covid~19 deaths in the United States of America since our last program - 10,625.
Covid~19 vectors - 80% of the deer in Iowa are infected. Future problem?
The flaming end of the world - May be averted by a NASA experiment.
Sunsets - We are now experiencing the earliest sunsets of the year.

Synopsis:

These Sunsets In The Afternoon Are So Depressing

We talked about about the pandemic and the march of the Omicron variant.

We talked about deer in Iowa being infected with COVID-19. We gave a short rundown of animal vectors of other deseases, and pointed to the potential danger of a huge pool of deer helping the virus to mutate.

We talked about NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) Mission to smack a small asteroid and so affect the trajectory of a larger asteroid.

R. Paul whined about the earliest sunsets of the year happening for another 10 days.

Canada bans so-called LGBT+∞ "conversion therapy" for minors.

Rusian commisar complains that Netflix violates anti~LGBT+∞ laws.

Guests:

Guests? Guests? We don't got no guests. We don't need no stinkin' guests! -

Playlist:

Barracuda - Heart
Birthday - The Beatles
Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty

Info / Links:

I have a Web site.
R. Paul is on Twitter.
WBAI LSB Treasurer's Reports are here.
If you want to do something to protect your privacy while using regular browsers, like Firefox, you can check out NOSCRIPT which gives you more control over what Web sites can learn about you.
Search engines help us to find things on the World Wide Web. Most search engines exist not to help you find things but to allow the companies that provide the search service to data mine your searches and then sell your search history to clients so they can spam you. An alternative to getting your privacy compromised is to use the DuckDuckGo search engine.
If you'd like to keep your browsing history private you can get yourself the Tor Browser. Using the DuckDuckGo search engine is automatic with the Tor Browser, and by accessing the DuckDuckGo search engine from the Tor Browser you are pretty much guaranteed that no one can trace searches back to you.
Gnu Privacy Guard can help you to encrypt your data and preserve your privacy.
For those who need some help getting started with Gnu Privacy Guard there is Gentle GPG which does a lot of the work for you.
For the somewhat more advanced user who wants to protect his or her privacy there is the Tails OS. Tails is a live operating system that you can start on almost any computer from a USB flash drive or a DVD. It allows you to use any computer that will allow you to boot up off a USB flash drive or a DVD and it provides a lot of good security for your on-line activities. You can get the Tails OS here.

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