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A comely MAGA influencer who racked up millions of followers with patriotic content of her posing in a bikini while ice fishing, drinking Coors Light and shooting guns has been unmasked — as an Indian man who put himself through med school on the proceeds of his trickery. “Sam,” a 22-year-old orthopedic surgeon in training, told Wired that he got the idea to sell AI-generated images of a young woman in a bikini while scrounging for money in school — and trying to save up enough to emigrate to the US after graduation. He turned to Google’s Gemini AI for...

You are all freaking low class jerks. The Heidi thread has been pulled multiple times. Free Republic has become trump derangement central. I HAVE NEVER SEEN A BUNCH OF CONSERVATIVES SO PICKY, PETTY AND STUPID - STUPID FREAKING LOSERS YOU DAMN DEFEND TRUMP AS IF HE WERE A FREAKING BABY BECAUSE HE IS! DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL.

Tonight's crescent moon is surrounded by a blue circle. I noticed it while going outside to move tomorrow's garbage. I then put on my distance glasses and could see a red stripe within the blue. I suspect it is a really high cloud with moisture that is getting sun. We are in Pittsburgh, so it may not appear the same for all.

I think Charlize Theron is my ultimate Goddess of a Woman.

A major solar storm with the force of a billion megaton bombs could be set to hit the Earth, scientists warned yesterday. The storm is expected to be unleashed from a group of sunspots 20 times the size of Earth, with experts believing it is aimed at our planet. The area of spots - called Number 652 - could release a storm powerful enough to damage satellites and put power grids out of action. The Sun's last bout of intense storms occurred last autumn, when a string of ten major flares over two weeks knocked out satellites, damaged others, and...

A mission to put an orbiting spacecraft around the Sun may get a second chance, after being rejected by the US space agency five years ago. A positive assessment of the proposal by the National Research Council has renewed interest at Nasa. So the team behind the idea is working on another study to examine how such a mission might be carried out. A new vision for "Solar Probe" was outlined by the project's team at a space exploration conference in Paris. But building a spacecraft that can survive repeated flybys of the Sun poses significant challenges. "In order to...