>The official name of the device, dubbed “Ukrolancet” on social media, is not yet known, but it is known that series production started in February this year, that it will be equipped with a 3-kilogram warhead and feature a range of 100 kilometers. The drone can be used to destroy both static and moving targets and has already been used in live operations against a Russian air defense system.
>Russia is reportedly having difficulty manufacturing these drones because they use U.S.-made circuit boards from NVIDIA and AMD. The price of the drones is estimated at around $35,000.
>"These 3D images show the sheer magnitude of the very difficult and challenging salvage operation ahead," the US Army Corps of Engineers said in a Facebook post.
>The post continued, "The underwater sonar imaging tool, known as CODA Octopus, is the primary survey tool used by divers, with visibility clouded to just one to two feet because of the four to five feet of mud and loose bottom of the Patapsco River."
>"Divers are forced to work in virtual darkness, because when lit, their view is similar to driving through a heavy snowfall at night with high-beam headlights on. So murky is the water, divers must be guided via detailed verbal directions from operators in vessels topside who are viewing real-time CODA imagery," Army Corps of Engineers pointed out.
>They added that "no usable underwater video exists of the wreckage" because, as one Navy diver put it, "there's no need to take video of something you can't even see."
>The complexity of this salvage operation suggests the main shipping channel will be closed for weeks if not months.
@sickburnbro This does not account for the divergence between homosexual transsexuals (who possess an average IQ, even if reported often to be slightly on the right side of the median) and the autogynephilics who test for these high scores.
>Online activists across X, Reddit, and other popular internet forums are spreading anti-Semitic conspiracy theories claiming that prominent Jewish-American leaders oppose TikTok because it has emerged as a central repository for anti-Israel criticism related to the war against Hamas.
>One X account with nearly a million followers pinned blame for the ban on Jonathan Greenblatt, the Jewish leader of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a watchdog group that has raised concerns about the prevalence of anti-Semitism on TikTok. The claims parrot classic examples of anti-Semitism alleging that Jews control politics and use this power to silence criticism of Israel. The emergence of this argument is raising concerns on Capitol Hill amid a massive rise in Jew-hatred across America in the wake of Hamas's Oct. 7 terror strikes on Israel.
>"Seeing Gen Z in the US overwhelmingly support Palestine in the face of Israeli aggression, TERRIFIED [Greenblatt]," wrote X user "Censored Men" in a March 13 missive to more than 983,000 followers. "Is it such a coincidence that today the 'TikTok Ban Bill' passes after MONTHS of congress pushing for it so heavily?"
>"With the speed they moved to ban TikTok, there is 0 doubt in my mind pro-Israel lobbying groups are behind the pressure," wrote another X user, "Lolo," to more than 155,000 followers. "Israel has been getting absolutely cooked on TikTok the last few months and it doesn't help that their own bozo soldiers are posting videos of them doing war crimes once a week."
>This type of rhetoric has flourished on X, as well as other internet forums, since the House passed its version of the TikTok ban last week. The legislation is now in the Senate. Its chief Republican backer, Sen. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.), says the rhetoric is evidence that the Chinese Communist Party is using TikTok to foment unrest in American and promote inflammatory propaganda.
>"I understand why they love TikTok," Rubio said. "The Chinese-controlled app amplifies their views because Beijing wants to divide and weaken America from within. We can debate Middle East policy, but we shouldn't give the Chinese Communist Party—a group actively committing genocide against Muslims—the ability to control that debate."
"Wow! I am fucking SHOCKED that Dems are voting to ban Tik Tok. This is AIPAC at work," Democrat Pamela Keith, a former Florida state lawmaker, wrote last week on X.
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:afire: palingenetic man :afire:>A sweeping Senate bill would radically expand in vitro fertilization and other reproductive technologies for military service members without regard to their sexual orientation, gender identity, or marital status, promoting the creation of children outside of marriage, including between two men and their hired surrogates. [later] Such services directly undermine the family and use taxpayer funding to create, preserve, implant, and destroy embryonic human life. It even goes so far as to reimburse service members when they buy someone else’s egg or sperm. All under the alphabet soup banner of the rainbow flag.
>Democrats pushed for a unanimous consent agreement Tuesday, meaning, if passed, the Veteran Families Health Services Act would sidestep the normal legislative review process. Thankfully, Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., refused to give unanimous consent.
>For a long time, the military has covered certain IVF and egg and sperm preservation services for active duty service members who suffered or may suffer an injury that leads to infertility. Military benefits have typically been restricted to the service member, his or her married spouse, and in some cases, their dependents. This radical act, however, would expand IVF access to nonmarried partners and women who serve as gestational surrogates, too. Instead of encouraging family formation, the Veteran Families Health Services Act explicitly promotes the artificial creation of children outside of marriage. Worst of all, federal taxpayer dollars will foot the bill.
>This also means that a man who can’t get pregnant (oh, wait, that includes all men) or a woman who cannot conceive a child with her female partner (yep, this is the same for all lesbian relationships, too) could qualify as “infertile” and receive taxpayer-funded IVF through the military. Infertility here is radically redefined to refer not to a physical deficiency but to a lifestyle choice.
As long as the lives of the neurotypical white youth are not forced to die for the MICIMATT, it's fine by me.
>CAR-T therapy, which represents the most personalized form of cancer treatment, operates by leveraging a patient’s own cells to combat the disease. This involves extracting a patient’s cells, engineering them to express specific proteins on their surface, and then reintroducing them into the body to directly target the tumor.
>The trial, dubbed INCIPIENT, aimed to assess the safety of CARv3-TEAM-E T cells in patients with recurrent GBM. While CAR-T therapies have gained approval for treating blood cancers, their application in solid tumors has been limited due to the diverse cell populations within these tumors, which allow some cancer cells to evade immune detection even after CAR-T treatment.
>To address this challenge, the research team employed a novel strategy combining CAR-T with bispecific antibodies, or T-cell engaging antibody molecules (TEAMs). This combined approach, specifically designed for glioblastoma, involves direct injection into the patient’s brain.
>The strategy showed promise in preclinical models of glioblastoma, motivating the researchers to move towards clinical application.
>[from the study's abstract] "Radiographic tumor regression was dramatic and rapid, occurring within days after receipt of a single intraventricular infusion, but the responses were transient in two of the three participants."
It's a long way to a miracle treatment like Gleevec, and it's very expensive, but it's close enough to enhance the survival rate.
>All in all, a DVD-size version of the new disc has a capacity of up to 1.6 petabits—that is, 1.6 million gigabits. This is some 4,000 times as much data density as a Blu-ray disc and 24 times as much as the currently most advanced hard disks. The researchers suggest their new optical disc can enable a data center capable of exabit storage—a billion gigabits—to fit inside a room instead of a stadium-size space.
>“The use of ultrahigh-density optical data storage technology in big data centers is now possible,” says Min Gu, professor of optical-electrical and computer engineering at the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology.
>The sculpture, created by Mexican artist Teresa Margolles and named Improntas, features plaster casts of 850 transgender people, many of whom were prostitutes, and was designed to draw attention to the marginalization of the trans community.
>The casts are placed on top of one another to create a cuboid, and the work is inspired by the ancient inhabitants of the Mesoamerican region who used to display the heads of ritual sacrifices and enemies in skull racks.
>The sculpture will not just include casts of the transgender people to whom it is dedicated, but will also be “infused with their hair and skin cells” and is designed to deteriorate as it is exposed to the elements, creating an “anti-monument.”
>The artwork was reportedly approved by the London mayor’s office last month with £1 million in taxpayer cash being used to fund its production and erection.
After losing the empire, national sovereignty, the demographics, the dignity after Brexit, what is left to lose? Can Khan hire a crew of diverse Nigerian workers to dig deeper in the rusted barrel to find out?
>Interior Minister Nancy Faeser's proposals follow a report that said 'extremists' met to discuss the deportation of millions of immigrants. The group included members of Germany's conservative AfD party, whose support has doubled since the 2021 German election, the Washington Post reports.
>"No one who donates to a right-wing extremist organization should be able to rely on remaining undiscovered," said Frazer, adding that she's actively working with regional authorities to prevent right-wing 'extremists' from entering or leaving the country.
>"German right-wing extremists and foreign autocrats have one thing in common: They want to stoke rage and divide, above all through disinformation," she said, pointing to fake accounts and AI-generated content as a problem.
>Fraser said that the country's "early recognition unit" - housed within the Interior Ministry, will start work "hopefully in a few months."
@augustus Putin comes from an environment where being cunning, paranoid and ruthless makes the difference between being dead or alive in power (by having "connections" and talking the talk where there's the need to do so), a long-standing characteristic of most of the Soviet Union and it's aftermath. It complements well his compulsive and inflexible personality, probably the only national-conservative in power worth mentioning.
>Still, the same statement says they now have a "good picture" of the incident after a "systematic and thorough" investigation and this has ultimately led to the conclusion that "Swedish jurisdiction is missing" - according to Swedish Public Prosecutor Mats Ljungqvist. "It is not Sweden's task to continue this investigation."
>Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Wednesday Russia will now follow closely what Germany will do to investigate the explosions. "Of course, now we need to see how Germany itself reacts to this, as a country that has lost a lot in relation to this terrorist attack," he said. Moscow further suspects that given the likelihood of Western intelligence services or Ukraine being behind the sabotage attack, this is all a big stall tactic and that each investigation will ultimately point nowhere.
>“The record before this Court is underdeveloped, and this order should not be construed as expressing any view on the merits of the constitutional question,” the order reads. Its language indicated that the court could still consider the merits at a later date.
>The Biden administration defended race-based admissions at West Point, arguing that diversity was a “national-security imperative.” In her Jan. 26 brief, U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar also argued that courts shouldn’t select who is in the pipeline for military service.
>“It is the Executive officials charged with protecting our national security — not courts — that have authority to determine who will become a member of the Army (as cadets do immediately upon entering West Point … ) and who will form the pipeline for the Army’s future leaders.”
>The school similarly said that “the military has concluded that a diverse officer corps is critical to the military’s ability to defend our nation” because “it (1) fosters cohesion and lethality; (2) aids in recruitment of top talent; (3) increases retention; and (4) bolsters the Army’s legitimacy in the eyes of the nation and the world.”