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Explanation: Two galaxies are squaring off in Virgo and here are the latest pictures. When two galaxies collide, the stars that compose them usually do not. This is because galaxies are mostly empty space and, however bright, stars only take up only a small fraction of that space. But during the collision, one galaxy can rip the other apart gravitationally, and dust and gas common to both galaxies does collide. If the two galaxies merge, black holes that likely resided in each galaxy center may eventually merge. Because the distances are so large, the whole thing takes place in slow...

In the name of diversity, equity, and inclusion, a Connecticut bill would require fire departments to hire female firefighters who aren’t strong enough to do their job.I’m against this proposal.As always, I support 100% meritocracy.For the record, I am male, and I am too weak to pass their strength test. Weaklings like me should not be firefighters. Any woman who is strong enough to pass the test deserves to be hired.I support meritocracy because I want airplanes that don’t crash, bridges that don’t fall down, doctors who don’t kill their patients, and firefighters who fight fires and save lives.

In two days an EU regulation will go into effect that allows for ‘acheta domesticus’, aka house crickets, to be added to flour, bread, pasta etc. as an ‘authorised novel food for the general population’. They want you to eat bugs without you knowing it.🦗 https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX%3A32023R0005 The application requested for partially defatted powder obtained from whole Acheta domesticus (house cricket) to be used in multigrain bread and rolls, crackers and breadsticks, cereal bars, dry pre-mixes for baked products, biscuits, dry stuffed and non-stuffed pasta-based products, sauces, processed potato products, legume- and vegetable- based dishes, pizza, pasta-based products, whey powder, meat...

At a memorial event—held in their home town of Fayetteville, North Carolina on January 17—remarks by the surviving sister, Herneitha Rochelle Richardson, have sparked confusion over the nature of her death, and whether it is being attributed to the COVID-19 vaccine. SNIP Neither sister appear to have publicly said whether they were vaccinated or not. However, the reaction to Richardson's memorial speech suggests others believe they were, though she does not mention the vaccine explicitly. "Don't you dare call me a conspiracy theorist, because I saw it happen," Richardson said. "I saw how it happened. I was there when it...

Australia's first openly gay bobsled player and Sydney Convicts Rugby club representative Simon Dunn has died suddenly, shocking the country's sport, arts and LGBTIAQ+ communities. Police and his agent Ruby Rose Management both confirmed the death of the 35-year-old, who broke new ground in both sports. 'About 10 am on Saturday, January 21, 2023, police were called to a unit on Crown Street, Surry Hills, after reports the body of a man had been found inside,' New South Wales police said in a statement. Dunn travelled to Canada for work and found a new love in bobsledding, representing Australia in...

Jeremy Ruehlemann passed away on Sunday. The male model, born in New Jersey, was 27 years old. Though no cause of death is known at this time, news of Ruehlemann’s death was announced on Facebook by his childhood friend Gianni Simpson.

Mis- and disinformation have been prevalent throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, but in recent months anti-vax activists and conspiracy theorists have latched on to a new phrase to help their cause: “died suddenly.” Anti-vaxxers hoping to convince people that COVID vaccines are linked to sudden deaths among younger people have invoked the term while trying to exploit tragic events like the death of soccer journalist Grant Wahl, or Damar Hamlin suffering a cardiac arrest during an NFL game. Though that theory has no scientific evidence to support it, the “died suddenly” rhetoric has gained a lot of traction on social media....

Jon Hill, whose real name is Andrew Jonathan Hill, died on Aug. 10, 2022Jon Hill, the ex-husband of beauty influencer Jaclyn Hill, died of fentanyl intoxication. The cause of death was confirmed by the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner almost six months after his death. Methamphetamine also contributed. Jon, whose real name is Andrew Jonathan Hill, died on a sidewalk just days before his 34th birthday, according to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner. Jaclyn, 32, mourned the loss of her ex-husband in an Instagram Story in August. Per Insider, she wrote on a black background, "I was asked by...

The Oscar nominee also cut 'Blume in Love,' 'Smokey and the Bandit II,' 'Twins,' 'Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling' and 'The Hindenburg.'Donn Cambern, the film editor who used his musical background to help make Easy Rider a masterpiece and 15 years later shared an Oscar nomination for cutting Romancing the Stone, has died. He was 93. Cambern died Wednesday at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank of complications from a fall three weeks ago, a family spokesperson told The Hollywood Reporter. The Los Angeles native edited Blume in Love (1973), Willie & Phil (1980) and Tempest (1982)...

Charles McGonigal, a retired counterintelligence investigator from the FBI’s New York Field Office, was just arrested because he allegedly took substantial sums of money from Oleg Deripaska, a Russian billionaire, to get the latter off a U.S. sanctions list. Where this goes beyond the ordinary corruption that periodically crops up among people with too much power, too few morals, and too little accountability is that McGonigal was one of the people investigating Trump over the Russia Hoax, while Deripaska employed Christopher Steele, whose false dossier seeded the Russia Hoax. Anyone who paid attention during the “hot” years of the Russia...

He played Fuji Kobiaji, the Japanese prisoner of war turned Seaman 3rd Class, on all 138 episodes of the wacky ABC series.Yoshio Yoda, who portrayed Fuji Kobiaji, the lovable Japanese prisoner of war who becomes a valued member of the PT-73 crew led by Ernest Borgnine on the 1960s ABC comedy McHale’s Navy, died Jan. 13 in Fullerton, California, it was announced. He was 88. Yoda appeared on every one of the 138 episodes of McHale’s Navy during the Universal Television show’s 1962-66 run, plus two movies. His character deserted from the Imperial Japanese Navy and becomes a Seaman 3rd...

Steve Bannon may already be picking sides in a potential 2024 Republican presidential race between Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis. This past weekend Bannon, the one-time close adviser and confidant of Trump, touted an appearance made by the Florida governor at a postseason NFL game. While praising who many in the GOP believe could be the next president, Bannon also expressed disdain towards his former boss closely unifying with Senator Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican. "I have no earthly idea why [Graham's] around [former] President Trump," Bannon said regarding Trump's campaign event on his War Room program. "He's a...

Breaking: Police released mugshots of the #Antifa riot arrestees who allegedly carried out a terrorist attack in downtown Atlanta on Saturday. 5 out of the 6 are from out of state, w/one originally from Portland. They’ve been charged w/domestic terrorism.https://m.facebook.com/story.php/?story_fbid=pfbid0JQQddTQV7P1aAfokvwL1KgCESaUD3RNkrU3Qb2sPMgNvFZX1c8WfLPyPfJr6HutHl&id=100064655350949

Researchers report promising results from their ongoing ATLAS trial. The results indicate that maintenance therapy (a term researchers use to describe therapy with aim to preventing disease progression or death) with a combination of three drugs, carfilzomib, lenalidomide, and dexamethasone (known as KRd) may improve progression-free survival (a term clinicians use to describe the time to disease progression or death) when compared to the current standard of single agent lenalidomide treatment in patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma who have undergone initial induction treatment followed by autologous stem cell transplantation. The KRd arm received either 8 or 36 cycles of...

Europe to send modern armoured vehicles as Russia prepares new mobilisation Kyiv and allies have been calling on Germany to send Leopard 2 battle tanks Germany has been reluctant, but foreign minister has signalled shift if position Germany would not block Poland sending its Leopard 2 battle tanks to Ukraine, its foreign minister said, in a blow for Putin and his invading forces. Ukrainian officials have been calling on Western allies to supply them the modern German-made armour for months, but Germany has held back from sending them or allowing other Nato countries to do so. In apparent shift, Annalena...

Brain structures which could predict an individual's predisposition to accidental awareness under anesthetic have been identified for the first time by neuroscientists. The findings could help identify individuals who may require higher than average doses of anesthetic. Although anesthesia has been used in clinical medicine for over 150 years, scientists do not fully understand why its effect on people is so varied. One in four patients presumed to be unconscious during general anesthesia may in fact have subjective experiences, such as dreaming, and in very rare cases (0.05–0.2%) individuals become accidentally aware during a medical procedure. The research found that...

Israel’s Ministry of Defense sent an official request to the United States last week to buy 25 F-15EX fighter jets it approved ordering three years ago, according to the Breaking Defense news site. The F-15EX jets can be loaded with numerous heavy-weapon systems, capable of hitting Iranian nuclear sites buried deep underground. The purchase of the jets was delayed because of the political uncertainty in Israel created by five general elections in less than four years. Israel sees the acquisition as urgent, amid deepening defense ties between Iran and Russia and Israel's concern that Russia might supply Iran with the...

A cover I did for fun. New original song on Friday.

A former top FBI counterintelligence agent based in New York who investigated the Trump campaign’s alleged ties to Russia in 2016 is accused of illegally working for — a Russian!Charles McGonigal was charged with money laundering and violating US sanctions law by working for Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, the Justice Department said Monday. McGonigal, who led the bureau’s NYC counterintelligence division between 2016 and his retirement in 2018, was arrested Saturday evening at JFK Airport. He pleaded not guilty to four counts in Manhattan federal court Monday and was released on $500,000 bond. Sergey Shestakov, a court interpreter who also...

Inflation in Venezuela hit 234% in 2022, Vice President Delcy Rodriguez said on Monday, representing a slowdown from the previous year, as the South American country struggles with a deep and lengthy economic crisis. Rodriguez provided the inflation rate during a meeting with Turkish and Venezuelan business leaders. Venezuela's central bank infrequently publishes economic data, and has not given inflation data since October. For months, socialist President Nicolas Maduro and his government was able to keep a lid on consumer price inflation with rigid economic policies, including anchoring the exchange rate, limiting public spending and increasing taxes.