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Monday, June 23, 2025

The United States struck three key nuclear sites in Iran overnight, leaping into Israel's eight-day military campaign against Iran with bunker-buster bombs, in a dramatic American attack that could reshape the Middle East for decades to come. read more


Sunday, June 22, 2025

Modern vehicles have quietly become rolling monuments to terrible user experience, trading intuitive physical controls for flashy but dangerous touchscreen interfaces.


The Iranian parliament backed a measure to close the critical shipping route in response to U.S. airstrikes on nuclear sites in Iran, state media reported


By delivering an HIV vaccine candidate along with two adjuvants, researchers showed they could generate many more HIV-targeting B cells in mice.


The United States is requesting [PDF] a month-long extension to the deadline for its final decision regarding an appeal against a judge's ruling that obtaining tower dumps is unconstitutional. The term "tower dump" refers to law enforcement obtaining records from cell towers, specifically related to individuals' locations and connection times, via warrants.


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Tesla Robotaxi Videos Show Speeding, Driving Into Wrong Lane
finance.yahoo.com

... Tesla Inc.'s self-driving taxis appeared to violate traffic laws during the company's first day offering paid rides, with one customer capturing footage of a left turn gone wrong and others traveling in cars that exceeded posted speed limits.

In a video taken by Rob Maurer, an investor who used to host a Tesla podcast, the Model Y he's riding in enters an Austin intersection in a left-turn-only lane. The Tesla hesitates to make the turn, swerves right and proceeds into an unoccupied lane meant for traffic moving in the opposite direction.

A honking horn can be heard as the Tesla re-enters the correct lane over a double-yellow line, which drivers aren't supposed to cross.

In two other posts on X, initial riders in driverless Model Ys shared footage of Teslas speeding. A vehicle carrying Sawyer Merritt, a Tesla investor, reached 35 miles per hour shortly after passing a 30 miles per hour speed limit sign, a video he posted shows.

In a separate live stream from Herbert Ong, a YouTuber with more than 123,000 subscribers, he commented that the vehicle was going faster than the posted limit of 35 miles per hour. ...


@#3 ... to our alien overlords ...

So, my guess might be that you are a fan of the late 1990's TV show, Earth: Final Conflict?


Earth: Final Conflict
en.wikipedia.org

... Earth: Final Conflict is a science fiction television series based on ideas developed by Gene Roddenberry.

The series was produced under the guidance of his widow, Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, who possessed notes kept by Roddenberry that would provide the conceptual basis for the series. It ran for five seasons between October 6, 1997, and May 20, 2002. ...

Early in the 21st century, a race of aliens, the Taelons (often referred to as "the Companions"), travel to Earth and take up residence in limited numbers. The Taelons possess highly advanced technologies, many of which they share with humanity, seemingly out of generosity and good will.

As a result of these advances, disease, war and pollution are nearly eliminated within three years of their arrival.

Despite this, some question whether the Taelons' motives are as benevolent as they appear, and a resistance movement forms to halt the Taelons' ever-growing influence on humanity. ...


An interesting sci-fi series.

I'd really like to see it again ...



... and going back to the topic of this thread it posted, instead of its deflection attempts ...

Several countries ready to supply nuclear warheads to Iran': Top Putin aide amid US strikes on Tehran
indianexpress.com

... Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has said that several countries are poised to directly provide Iran with their nuclear warheads amid US strikes on Iran's three nuclear sites, Isfahan, Natanz and Fordow and added that it is US President Donald Trump who has "pushed America into another war".

The deputy chairman of the Security Council of Russia, Medvedev, outlined his views in a series of posts on X on what the Trump administration's strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities accomplished for the US. "The enrichment of nuclear material and, now we can say it outright, the future production of nuclear weapons will continue," said Medvedev. ...


From a link that MGST introduced me to ...

mediabiasfactcheck.com

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Fox News (foxnews.com) -- Bias and Credibility

A questionable source exhibits one or more of the following:

extreme bias, consistent promotion of propaganda/conspiracies, poor or no sourcing to credible information, a complete lack of transparency, and/or is fake news.

Fake News is the deliberate attempt to publish hoaxes and/or disinformation for profit or influence (Learn More). Sources listed in the Questionable Category may be very untrustworthy and should be fact-checked on a per-article basis.

Please note sources on this list are not considered fake news unless specifically written in the reasoning section for that source. See all Questionable sources.

Overall, we rate Fox News right biased based on editorial positions that align with the right and Questionable due to the promotion of propaganda, conspiracy theories, pseudoscience, the use of poor sources, and numerous false claims and failed fact checks.

Straight news reporting from beat reporters is generally fact-based and accurate, which earns them a Mixed factual rating.


Detailed Report

Questionable Reasoning: Conspiracy Theories, Pseudoscience, Propaganda, Poor Sources, Numerous Failed Fact Checks



@#7 ... They've had one for years. ...

Decades.

Nuclear program of Iran
en.wikipedia.org

... Iran's nuclear program began in the 1950s under the Pahlavi dynasty with US support. It expanded in the 1970s with plans for power reactors, paused after the 1979 Iranian Revolution, and resumed secretly during the 1980s Iran--Iraq War.

In the 1990s, Iran pursued a full nuclear fuel cycle and acquired centrifuge technology through illicit networks, including ties with Pakistan and North Korea.[citation needed] Undeclared enrichment sites at Natanz and Arak were exposed in 2002, and Fordow, an underground fuel enrichment site, was revealed in 2009. ...


... the US Government is expected to eliminate the the dietary guideline that adults not consume more than two alcohol drinks per day when new guidelines are released in the coming weeks. ...

Big Audio Dynamite - Medicine Show (1986)
www.youtube.com

Lyrics excerpt ...

genius.com

...
[Intro]
"Get three coffins ready..."
"Huh?"

[Verse 1]
Covered wagon, medicine show
Take you to a place where the healing flows, oh-ho
Weak in spirit, we got the juice
Won't save your soul; it'll shine your shoes, oh

Treated king to kangaroo
Santa Fe to Timbuktu, oh-ho
Don't be fooled by imitation
This is the stuff that cured a nation

[Pre-Chorus 1]
We took the Tube and the high plains too
Never stopped long, just passing through
A drop of the laughter of the maids of France
Makes a hopeless cripple dance, oh

[Chorus 1]
It was really vile weather
When we got tarred and feathered
You could hear the six-guns sound
As they chased us out of town
...



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