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[sunday]

3 minutes ago, urbanoid said:

Then it must be... really fucking bad out there.

It is.

Perhaps that is one of the reasons why we differ in which enemies of the Western civilization are most dangerous.

Edited August 10, 2023 by sunday

[urbanoid]

25 minutes ago, sunday said:

It is.

Perhaps that is one of the reasons why we differ in which enemies of the Western civilization are most dangerous.

Not really, I'm aware of many problems that are much worse in Western Europe/US than here in Central Europe, I just separate internal from international. I want the West to be on top of the pecking order even if it's shitty West - though I would naturally prefer it not to be shitty at all.

[sunday]

26 minutes ago, urbanoid said:

Not really, I'm aware of many problems that are much worse in Western Europe/US than here in Central Europe, I just separate internal from international. I want the West to be on top of the pecking order even if it's shitty West - though I would naturally prefer it not to be shitty at all.

After WWII, the German armed services needed to find a cleaner set of tradition and history, so they went to rescue some former traitors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Valkyrie

[Ivanhoe]

Begs the question of why we needed to know this;

 

[sunday]

Wonder if the sailfish could use his sword as a probe to achieve some kind of cavitation...

Probably not, but it would be cool.

[Rick]

For long-distance running, humans are hard to beat. 

[urbanoid]

2 minutes ago, Rick said:

For long-distance running, humans are hard to beat. 

Especially the Dunedain accompanied by an elf and a dwarf.

[Rick]

38 minutes ago, urbanoid said:

Especially the Dunedain accompanied by an elf and a dwarf.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_versus_Horse_Marathon

[sunday]

On the origins of Lyme disease

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1692009148484059432.html

Could be true, could not.

[bd1]

[sunday]

https://www.adl.org/resources/blog/racist-obsession-south-african-white-genocide

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The Racist Obsession with South African "White Genocide"

White supremacists across the U. S. reacted with exuberance after a recent tweet by President Donald Trump claiming he had asked the State Department to “closely study” farm expropriations and “the large scale killing of farmers” in South Africa.

By paraphrasing Fox News host Tucker Carlson, whose remarks on the subject apparently inspired the tweet, the President made it clear that he was referring to white South African farmers.

in related news:

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After Musk prods, ADL says ‘Kill the Boer’ song can be seen as a call for violence

JTA — The Anti-Defamation League expressed concern about a South African song calling to “Kill the Boer” after Elon Musk repeatedly prodded the group to speak out — the latest in an ongoing tiff between the Jewish civil rights group and the billionaire.

Late last month, a video of a left-wing South African politician leading a rendition of the decades-old song spread across Musk’s social network X, formerly known as Twitter. The lyrics to the song, which originated as an anti-apartheid chant, include the words “Kill the Boer, the farmer,” a reference to white South Africans. The politician, Julius Malema, chanted those lyrics into a microphone along with the crowd at a large rally, pointing his finger like a gun.

Malema has since shared posts on the network, saying that the chant is meant as a “struggle song” and is not meant to be taken literally, a position echoed by historians of apartheid. But voices on the right in South Africa and elsewhere — including Musk, who was born there and lived there until age 17, shortly after apartheid’s end — have called for the song to be condemned.

 

Edited August 19, 2023 by sunday

[urbanoid]

I think it's been like that for years, the only time they were mentioning murders of whites in South Africa was to complain about the people talking about them.

[sunday]

17 minutes ago, urbanoid said:

I think it's been like that for years, the only time they were mentioning murders of whites in South Africa was to complain about the people talking about them.

Pretty much. Here, however, is a case of the ADL defending opposite stances on the same matter.

[urbanoid]

On 8/9/2023 at 3:50 PM, urbanoid said:

They found the TMFINR lady, 38, marketing executive living in Dallas. 12/10, would put a ring on her finger, first-rate schizo waifu.

Original TMFINR video:

 

 

[TrustMe]

Alien mind parasites are amongst us ...

 

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/28/live-worm-living-womans-brain-australia-depression-forgetfulness

 

[sunday]

Another reason to not set foot in Oz...

Sorry, mates.

[lucklucky]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/08/31/bull-passenger-seat-howdy-doody-police-stop-nebraska/

[Ivanhoe]

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2243174-ancient-anchovies-were-huge-and-used-sabre-teeth-to-eat-other-fish/#:~:text=The sabre tooth may have,of the other marine predators.

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Huge sabre-toothed anchovies once hunted other fish through the seas. They may have evolved because the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs also wiped out many of the world’s marine predators, providing an opportunity for the metre-long anchovies to take their place.

Alessio Capobianco at the University of Michigan and his colleagues used a technique called micro-computed tomography, similar to the sort of CAT scan you might get at the hospital, to examine two fossilised fishes that lived about 55 million years ago. This allowed them to examine the fossils in more detail than has been possible before.

They found that both fossils – one found in Belgium and the other in Pakistan – bore many similarities to modern anchovies. But there were two surprising differences: each of the fossilised skulls had teeth similar to carnivores with one long sabre tooth at the front of its mouth, and they were both far larger than modern anchovies. One was nearly half a metre long, and the other a full metre.

 

 

[sunday]

Yummy!

[Ssnake]

[sunday]

Scientists grow whole model of human embryo, without sperm or egg

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Scientists have grown an entity that closely resembles an early human embryo, without using sperm, eggs or a womb.

The Weizmann Institute team say their "embryo model", made using stem cells, looks like a textbook example of a real 14-day-old embryo.

It even released hormones that turned a pregnancy test positive in the lab.

(...)

Time to worry...

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-65914934

Edited September 7, 2023 by sunday

[urbanoid]

[Ivanhoe]

7 hours ago, sunday said:

Scientists grow whole model of human embryo, without sperm or egg

Time to worry...

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-65914934

 

 

[lucklucky]

Toyota closed all factories in Japan. Reason: lack of space in disk.

https://global.toyota/en/newsroom/corporate/39732568.html

 

[BansheeOne]

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Scientists found a ‘golden egg’ deep in the sea near Alaska. But what is it?

By Adela Suliman

Updated September 7, 2023 at 11:20 a.m. EDT | Published September 7, 2023 at 9:09 a.m. EDT

A smooth golden orb has been found deep on the Alaskan seafloor — and marine scientists admit they have no idea what it is, although they speculate it could be the “egg casing” of a mysterious creature.

The unusual, soft material was discovered last week by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) during a mission to map unexplored deepwater habitats off Alaska using remotely operated vehicles.

Scientists are both intrigued and excited by the Aug. 30 discovery, while openly admitting they are baffled by what it could be, according to a live-streamed feed of the mission. Viewers online, meanwhile, joked that it could be the egg of an alien or a predator — or that it reminded them of a chocolate egg.

“It’s definitely got a big old hole in it,” one researcher says on the live stream. “So something either tried to get in or tried to get out.”

As scientists mused over whether it was an “egg case,” “encrusting sponge” or “coral,” some also joined in the fun, with one joking: “I just hope when we poke it, something doesn’t decide to come out. … It’s like the beginning of a horror movie.”

“When our collective knowledge can’t identify it, it’s something weird,” said a member of the NOAA Ocean Exploration team. “What kind of an animal would make an egg casing like that?”

“While somewhat humbling to be stumped by this finding, it serves as a reminder of how little we know about our own planet and how much is left to learn and appreciate about our ocean,” Sam Candio, the NOAA Ocean Exploration coordinator for the expedition, told The Washington Post on Thursday.

NOAA admitted that the finding had “struck an imaginative chord for many watching,” with its official research account saying scientists were “trying to crack this golden egg mystery!” and calling on the public to send in their ideas.

“At first glance, it’s possibly the remains of an egg case of an invertebrate animal, or perhaps a slightly mangled sponge,” Jon Copley, a professor of ocean exploration and science communication at the University of Southampton, told The Post after looking at images Thursday. He also sought to reassure the public, saying the orb was “certainly nothing that should worry us.”

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2023/09/07/golden-egg-noaa-ocean-alaska/