Things change.
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No, Google's AI is not sentient. Happy the elephant may be sentient, but a court says she's not a person. As one of the X-Men once remarked, "Stinks to be sentient, sometimes, don't it?"
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Cloned crayfish accidentally created in an aquarium are conquering the world. Let's just hope the marbled crayfish never sets its sights on humanity. If they do, we may never be able to stop them.
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How zoology got female animals all wrong. Female animals are just as promiscuous, competitive, aggressive and dynamic as their male counterparts and play an equal role in driving evolutionary change...
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Tom might have problems explaining this: Mother and teenage son create 'first time sex starter kit'.
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Coffee brands with the worst ingredients. As long as they have caffeine, I'm ok.
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A three-hour long solar flare erupted from the sun. Impressive video; fortunately, it only caused isolated radio blackouts.
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Wingnuts helpfully threaten to kill police after arrests of neo-Nazis who planned pride event riot.
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Over 100m Americans urged to stay indoors over extreme heat and humidity. Heat wave expected to settle over states from Gulf coast to Great Lakes and east to Carolinas with 100°F temperatures in some cities.
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No, Marjorie Taylor Greene, transgender people aren't causing the tampon shortage. ...the real issue can be traced back to an increase in the cost of cotton and plastic used to produce tampons. These materials, also used for masks and other medical supplies, have been in particularly high demand since the pandemic. The conflict between Russia and Ukraine has added another challenging layer to the problem, as both countries are key exporters of the materials.
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Miscellany:
Birthdays:
- 1909 - Burl Ives, American actor and singer (d. 1995) (Video)
- 1919 - Gene Barry, American actor (d. 2009) (Video)
- 1925 - Pierre Salinger, American journalist and politician, 11th White House Press Secretary (d. 2004)
- 1928 - Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Argentinian-Cuban physician, author, guerrilla leader and politician (d. 1967)
- 1931 - Marla Gibbs, American actress and comedian
- 1931 - Junior Walker, American saxophonist (d. 1995) (Video)
- 1946 - Donald Trump, American businessman, television personality and 45th President of the United States
- 1961 - Boy George, English singer-songwriter and producer (Video)
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On this date in:
- 1775 - American Revolutionary War: the Continental Army was established by the Continental Congress, marking the birth of the United States Armed Forces.
- 1777 - The Second Continental Congress passed the Flag Act of 1777 adopting the Stars and Stripes as the Flag of the United States.
- 1822 - Charles Babbage proposed a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society.
- 1900 - Hawaii became a United States territory.
- 1949 - Albert II, a rhesus monkey, rode a V-2 rocket to an altitude of 134 km (83 mi), thereby becoming the first mammal and first monkey in space.
- 1951 - UNIVAC I was dedicated by the U.S. Census Bureau.
- 1954 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a bill into law that placed the words "under God" into the United States Pledge of Allegiance.
- 1959 - Disneyland Monorail System, the first daily operating monorail system in the Western Hemisphere, opens to the public in Anaheim, California.
Today is:
Army's Birthday, Call Your Doctor Day, Family History Day, Flag Day, International Bath Day, National Bourbon Day, National Strawberry Shortcake Day, Observed annually on June 14th, Own Your Share of America Day, Pause for the Pledge Day, Pop Goes The Weasel Day, World Blood Donor Day, and World Pet Memorial Day
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Comments, tweets and observations:
If you don't think Donald Trump will end up in prison, remember, nobody
thought he would end up in the White House either.
-Middle Age Riot
If Trump was arrested, and led away in cuffs, and it was televised by
the US Gov't., live on Pay Per View, it's possible we could eliminate
the National Debt.
-Duty to Warn
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