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Oh my.
Full blown conspiracy theorist claiming that killer Covid vaccines and "the production of earthquakes on command" were a deliberate and planned event to kill people on purpose.
Scary stuff.
Strange stories and bizarre news
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Full blown conspiracy theorist claiming that killer Covid vaccines and "the production of earthquakes on command" were a deliberate and planned event to kill people on purpose.
Scary stuff.
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Interesting who said it.
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A Romanian senator?
The US-bred of Conspiracy Theorist Culture is a worldwide phenom now.
Brexit is a perfect example of a population being manipulated into thinking that being exclusionary is in their best interest. Once a population is so easily duped, it seems that they're riped for multiple dupings.
Individually people fall for scams all the time through pressure and scare tactics.
Collectively it seems to be an even easier con.
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Las Vegas Thieves Steal Catalytic Converter From Wienermobile
As a result, the engine of the 27-foot hot-dog-shaped vehicle just couldn't cut the mustard.
As a result, the engine of the 27-foot hot-dog-shaped vehicle just couldn't cut the mustard.
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Uh-oh. Super Pigs.
www.theguardian.com
‘Incredibly intelligent, highly elusive’: US faces new threat from Canadian ‘super pig’
Northern states on alert for invasion of cross-bred pig that threatens flora and fauna – and is difficult to stop
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File under: UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES
You know how when there's a "Warning Tag" on some product?
You know, like "Don't put this paper bag on your head", or "Do not drive with the sun screen in place"?
At the 94th Oscars last year, Chris Rock made a “G.I. Jane 2″ crack about Will Smith’s wife Jada Pinkett Smith having very little hair on her head. Smith then walked onstage and smacked Rock across the face, prompting the stunned comic to say, “Wow, Will Smith just smacked the sh.t out of me.” As the Academy officials, the Dolby Theater crowd and millions watching on TV tried to digest what they’d just seen, Smith returned to his seat and yelled at Rock, “Keep my wife’s name out your *****ng mouth,” twice.
So . . . . now there will be a "Crisis Team" in place at the Oscars.
“Because of last year, we’ve opened our minds to the many things that can happen at the Oscars. But these crisis plans — the crisis communication teams and structures we have in place — allow us to say, ‘This is the group that we have to gather very quickly. This is how we all come together. This is the spokesperson. This will be the statement.’ And obviously, depending on the specifics of the crisis, and let’s hope something doesn’t happen and we never have to use these, but we already have frameworks in place that we can modify.” - Academy of Motion Pictures CEO Bill Kramer
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You know how when there's a "Warning Tag" on some product?
You know, like "Don't put this paper bag on your head", or "Do not drive with the sun screen in place"?
At the 94th Oscars last year, Chris Rock made a “G.I. Jane 2″ crack about Will Smith’s wife Jada Pinkett Smith having very little hair on her head. Smith then walked onstage and smacked Rock across the face, prompting the stunned comic to say, “Wow, Will Smith just smacked the sh.t out of me.” As the Academy officials, the Dolby Theater crowd and millions watching on TV tried to digest what they’d just seen, Smith returned to his seat and yelled at Rock, “Keep my wife’s name out your *****ng mouth,” twice.
So . . . . now there will be a "Crisis Team" in place at the Oscars.
“Because of last year, we’ve opened our minds to the many things that can happen at the Oscars. But these crisis plans — the crisis communication teams and structures we have in place — allow us to say, ‘This is the group that we have to gather very quickly. This is how we all come together. This is the spokesperson. This will be the statement.’ And obviously, depending on the specifics of the crisis, and let’s hope something doesn’t happen and we never have to use these, but we already have frameworks in place that we can modify.” - Academy of Motion Pictures CEO Bill Kramer
“Crisis Team” In Place At Oscars For First Time, Academy CEO Says: “We’ve Run So Many Scenarios”
Movie Academy CEO Bill Kramer said there is “a whole crisis team” in place for the Academy Awards next — a first for the ceremony in its 95 years. The move is another reaction to …
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So . . . Some folks are spreading some fake news that President Biden announced that the US is reinstated the draft. It seems that there is a video "proving" that announcement, a video of Pres. Biden himself saying so, on camera. This has happened before, with politicians from both sides having this sort of thing manufactured.
The problem, of course, is that the video is fake, or, in more specific terms, a "deep fake".
www.cbs19.tv
So, I'm older than I look, and I remember watching original episodes of MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE (it debuted in 1966 and ran for seven seasons), and I recall an episode in which the IMF (Impossible Mission Force) completed their mission by doctoring a video of some dictator somewhere, making it look like that dictator confesses to his crimes and resigns.
The prescience in the plot line is remarkable. This episode is around 50 years old, when the technology was primitive. The actual faked video in the episode was crude, with obvious hard cuts, but was effective; no one detected that it was fake.
Our technology nowadays allows video to be manufactured to look like anyone and anything, from President Washington on the dollar bill singing some random pop song, to a bear snorting cocaine. One has to be far more wary than the fictional citizens of some fictional country 50 years ago.
Wild.
The problem, of course, is that the video is fake, or, in more specific terms, a "deep fake".
Viral video of Biden saying he's reinstating the draft is a deepfake
In the video, President Joe Biden appears to say he’s reinstating the draft so the U.S. can help defend Ukraine against Russian forces. The video is a deepfake.
www.cbs19.tv
So, I'm older than I look, and I remember watching original episodes of MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE (it debuted in 1966 and ran for seven seasons), and I recall an episode in which the IMF (Impossible Mission Force) completed their mission by doctoring a video of some dictator somewhere, making it look like that dictator confesses to his crimes and resigns.
The prescience in the plot line is remarkable. This episode is around 50 years old, when the technology was primitive. The actual faked video in the episode was crude, with obvious hard cuts, but was effective; no one detected that it was fake.
Our technology nowadays allows video to be manufactured to look like anyone and anything, from President Washington on the dollar bill singing some random pop song, to a bear snorting cocaine. One has to be far more wary than the fictional citizens of some fictional country 50 years ago.
Wild.
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I relish the thought of watching it trying to ketchup to the other Wienermobiles.
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I think that PETA has offered to foot the cost of fixing the vehicle, as long as they rebrand it to the Vegan Wienermobile.
Our silly government... 😄
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AI Adviser ‘Hired’ by the Romanian Government To Read People’s Minds
“My role is now to represent you, like a mirror,” the AI, which is called Ion, said at the launch event.
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In a Chinese, mainly Muslim province, at least 175 people have been arrested by the authorities for NOT drinking alcohol
Source, detailed, unfortunately only in Danish: https://nyheder.tv2.dk/samfund/2023...g-i-kina-tvangsdruk-og-overvaaget-oelfestival
Source, detailed, unfortunately only in Danish: https://nyheder.tv2.dk/samfund/2023...g-i-kina-tvangsdruk-og-overvaaget-oelfestival
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Here's an oddity:
The band Yes have "postponed" their 2023 European Tour to 2024 as they unable to acquire Tour Insurance. It seems that their "Touring Model" isn't compatible with the threat of COVID or "an act of war".
Refunds are already being offered for purchased tickets.
The band Yes have "postponed" their 2023 European Tour to 2024 as they unable to acquire Tour Insurance. It seems that their "Touring Model" isn't compatible with the threat of COVID or "an act of war".
Refunds are already being offered for purchased tickets.
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"Larry Thomlison, 70, of St. Charles, was found guilty Monday of first-degree assault and armed criminal action in the March 2019 shooting of 21-year-old Jaylen Walker, who was paralyzed from the waist down, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported."
The shooting was the end result of a scuffle that began after the 21 year old slapped Thomlison's cell phone out of his hand as he recorded the illegal parking of Walker's delivery van in a handicapped parking slot. What a strange twist of fate. Now fully entitled to handicapped parking, but not without the horrific memory of the past when making use of it..
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The shooting was the end result of a scuffle that began after the 21 year old slapped Thomlison's cell phone out of his hand as he recorded the illegal parking of Walker's delivery van in a handicapped parking slot. What a strange twist of fate. Now fully entitled to handicapped parking, but not without the horrific memory of the past when making use of it..
Missouri man guilty in shooting over disabled parking spot
ST. CHARLES. Mo. (AP) — A suburban St. Louis man has been convicted of shooting an Amazon delivery truck driver during a dispute over a disabled parking spot. Larry Thomlison, 70, of St. Charles, was found guilty Monday of first-degree assault and armed criminal action in the March 2019 shooting...
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Russian scientist telling enthusiastically about growing brains in thousands of glass containers, based on mouse brains. They live in an abstract space and don't receive stimuli by the bodily senses. So far, they can survive for about 2 years. They might be controlled and integrated with computers in the future, she says. In theory, also human brains can be made to live for thousands of years some day.
Apparently true. In Russian - use Google translate.
www.gazeta.ru
Apparently true. In Russian - use Google translate.
О чем думает выращенный в пробирке мозг? - Газета.Ru
Сколько клетки мозга проживут, если им обеспечить питание? Что умеет выращенный в пробирке мозг? Как ученые связываются с ним, говоря на общем электрическом языке? Как обеспечить связь нерва с проводящим электричество проводом для протезов нового поколения? Об этом в интервью «Газете.Ru»...
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Mice generally have an average life span of 1 to 2 years.Russian scientist telling enthusiastically about growing brains in thousands of glass containers, based on mouse brains. They live in an abstract space and don't receive stimuli by the bodily senses. So far, they can survive for about 2 years. They might be controlled and integrated with computers in the future, she says. In theory, also human brains can be made to live for thousands of years some day.
Apparently true. In Russian - use Google translate.
О чем думает выращенный в пробирке мозг? - Газета.Ru
Сколько клетки мозга проживут, если им обеспечить питание? Что умеет выращенный в пробирке мозг? Как ученые связываются с ним, говоря на общем электрическом языке? Как обеспечить связь нерва с проводящим электричество проводом для протезов нового поколения? Об этом в интервью «Газете.Ru»...
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Yes; concerning this, an ongoing project with gene therapy injections on elderly mice has so far been able to extend their live span with about 7 %.
The idea is to gradually develop the science in relation to humans too.
This biotech startup says mice live longer after genetic reprogramming
The result is a widely anticipated landmark for rejuvenation technology.
www.technologyreview.com
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Offhand I'd say that using isolated test tube human brains might be a very bad idea. Brains are unpredictable. Many humans suffer from mental and psychological issues. I can only imagine that a human brain cut off from normal sensory input might develop some "quirks". When a brain has only ONE output, what might it think and communicate?Yes; concerning this, an ongoing project with gene therapy injections on elderly mice has so far been able to extend their live span with about 7 %.
The idea is to gradually develop the science in relation to humans too.
This biotech startup says mice live longer after genetic reprogramming
The result is a widely anticipated landmark for rejuvenation technology.
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I totally agree, and since it's meant to function in relation to sensory impressions, it's away from what it's supposed to do. Now, if there is somehow instincts or even some sort of other memories stored in it, it will add to the general, potentially weird behaviour and alienated presence.
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The brain (or consciousness) might not survive in isolation or it will probably get "mad".
There is a Wittgenstein quote "If a lion could talk we wouldn't understand him." Similary, we probably would not understand an isolated (ex/quasi-human) brain.
There is a Wittgenstein quote "If a lion could talk we wouldn't understand him." Similary, we probably would not understand an isolated (ex/quasi-human) brain.
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