The Parker Solar Probe flew through the kinds of streamers that are visible during a solar eclipse.

https://twitter.com/coreyspowell/status/...4456145926

Dr. James Giordano: The Brain is the Battlefield of the Future

Dr. James Giordano, Chief of the Neuroethics Studies Program and Scholar-in-Residence in the Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics at Georgetown University, speaks to cadets and faculty about how advancements in neuroscience and neurotechnology will impact the future of war. This event was hosted by the Modern War Institute at West Point.

https://youtu.be/N02SK9yd60s

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Pretty good painter for a dog!

 

https://youtu.be/PiF_pmLCtQM
 
https://youtu.be/PiF_pmLCtQM
 
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Look at that tail go...
 
 
 
 

Federal Judge Rules That Worshipping a Flying Spaghetti Monster Is Not a Real Religion
 

 
A federal judge in Nebraska has ruled that the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSMism) is not a real religion, delivering a setback to practicing Pastafarians around the country.
 
http://www.mediaite.com/online/federal-j...-religion/
 
The spaghetti strings will ever fly in the face of giant meatballs filled with cheese. 
 
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Why is India building the longest Border Wall in the World ?
 
https://youtu.be/mlTFOQoq0iw
 
https://youtu.be/mlTFOQoq0iw
 
Though a border is usually defined as a physical or a sketched line separating two areas; the definition changes when it is being defined between two countries, having not-so-good relationship history. For India and any of its neighbouring country, border is the control of line between the two places where no personnel from the two countries is allowed except when they have a special permission to do so. This is why India has been on the road to build the largest border wall in the world.
 
https://storiesofworld.com/the-story-beh...-building/
 

 

Talk about bad actors in a movie. This is amazing!

Ask yourself a question.... Who doesn't run with shots fired in a subway?

Apparently dozens of people who only want to look at their phones

https://www.bitchute.com/video/NPDG2YKIZ3mr/

California’s shipping backlog is, in part, caused by a “California Truck Ban which says all trucks must be 2011 or newer and a law called AB 5 which prohibits Owner Operators.”

California’s trucking regulations may have had an impact on port backups, but there’s more to it

"The NEWS says the California port situation is caused by a driver shortage," one viral post on Facebook said. "Not so fast: It is in part caused by a California Truck Ban, which says all trucks must be 2011 or newer, and a law called AB 5, which prohibits Owner Operators."

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/20...-had-impa/

California Is Single-Handedly Making The Supply Chain Crisis Even Worse

    California introduced new regulations for the trucking industry that would worsen supply chain issues and hurt industry workers, experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
 
    “We in the industry know that if you think there was a supply chain problem over the last year, wait until you take this many trucks out of the marketplace that are not replaceable,” Joe Rajkovacz, director of Governmental Affairs and Communications at the Western States Trucking Association, told the DCNF.

    “I’m stressing, do I downsize my company to two drivers at the end of the year because I only have two trucks, or do I have four drivers and switch them out?” Bill Aboudi, the owner of AB Trucking in Oakland, told the DCNF.

    “For months, Californians and families across the country have been dealing with supply chain issues that mean empty shelves and skyrocketing prices,” Republican California Rep. Michelle Steel, told the DCNF. “This is the result of bad policies from Washington and Sacramento that are restricting the trucking industry and contributing to the congestion felt at our ports.”

https://dailycallernewsfoundation.org/20...ven-worse/

Reporters met with OBL long before 9/11:

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=131512

This guest contribution by the team at Reedsy explores ways to subvert character clichés for a less predictable story.

Here are five easy ways to inject life into familiar character types:
1. Subvert archetypes to avoid character clichés

To subvert your own characters:

    Identify a list of character clichés usually associated with their type (e.g. ‘warrior’ equals ‘strong’).
    Think of how stock character types (such as “mentors”) have typical behavioural features. Dumbledore or Charlotte the Spider will always be wise and cautious.
    Then create a character to fit that mold perfectly… before revealing that, say, their “wisdom” is just stolen from a book of idioms. Subversion such as these add surprise complexity to your characters and story.

2. Parody the clichéd character archetype

Every archetype has a set of recognizable traits. That, naturally, is what makes them archetypal. Subverting them means ignoring expected traits, even though your audience may expect them. To parody them is to exaggerate those traits to their absolute extremes.

3. Deconstruct the archetype

Deconstructing a stock character gives your story emotional depth and style. It does require a lot of critical thought to pull off well. To nail it, try these three steps:

    Identify the attributes of a character type — say, the likable and frivolous Comic Relief character.
    Explain them in a surprising way — perhaps they’re not just a class clown, but use humor as a coping mechanism.
    Reveal something deeper and true about the character and archetype — (e.g. that clowns are often sad behind the joker mask). Make readers wonder if they’ve misjudged the archetype you’re portraying.

4. Lampshade the archetype

lampshading is the technique of countering your reader’s disbelief in a character’s ‘reality’ by acknowledging how blatantly they fit a cliché.

5. Imply the archetype

If a bit player only appears in a scene, they don’t have to be a deep deconstruction of every similar character ever. Instead, you can imply depth, and leave it to the reader to fill in the blanks.

https://www.nownovel.com/blog/subverting...r-cliches/

Character Writing Hub

On paper, Antony and Cleopatra seemed assured to win the war, given their combined resources and experience with military strategies and campaigns. Yet Octavian ultimately prevailed. According to Strauss, it was Octavian's reliance on Roman General Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, who successfully waged a naval campaign to cut off supply lines to Antony's army, giving Octavian the upper hand. That campaign included the seizure of the city of Methone, a strategically significant port in an obscure corner of southern Greece.

"Actium was a great battle, but it did not stand alone," Strauss writes in his introduction. "It was the climax of a six-month campaign of engagements on land and sea. Nor were all of the operations military. The war between Antony and Octavian involved diplomacy, information warfare—from propaganda to what we now call fake news—economic and financial competition, as well as all of the human emotions: love, hate, and jealousy, not least among them."

Ars spoke with Strauss to learn more.

Ars Technica: You went to great lengths to reconstruct the actual battle. But you also spent considerable effort examining the role of Agrippa, arguing that Octavian gained a strategic advantage by waging war from the sea.

Barry Strauss: Yes. I was particularly interested in this event that took place about six months before the Battle of Actium: the Seizure of Methone. It's pretty clear that was a major turning point because it cut Antony and Cleopatra's supply lifeline. We know that Agrippa took the place from the sea, but we don't really have any details, and we know that it's difficult to take places from the sea. It's not easy in modern times, and it was very difficult in ancient times—especially because he was coming from Southern Italy. He had to cross the Ionian Sea and get to Greece undetected.

So I wondered, "Well, how did he do it?" I interrogated the ancient sources and read as much as I possibly could about war from the sea and naval sieges. Then I talked to Navy SEALs and other modern military people who engage in amphibious warfare.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/04/a...cleopatra/