a little levity

There hasn’t been enough cuteness in my life lately. This made me smile.

Have a great day today Starkin!

Thank you for reading today's post. Have an InterStellar Day! ~PrP

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90 Responses to a little levity

  1. M]/b says:

    Adorbs. I would love to have seen that. I hope you have an abundance of cuteness coming into your life.

  2. Palm Beach Pedophiles says:

    The photo below is Melania and Donald on March 12, 1999 at a New York Knicks game. Melania knows. Alex Acosta knows. The victims know. Palm Beach Police know. FBI knows. They all know.

    HERE IS A TIMELINE:

    1998 – Donald and Melania are introduced by Paolo Zampolli (who ran a Milan modeling agency, now works for Trump and did so as well in his previous administration) at the Kit Kat Club in New York, where Jeffrey Epstein is also in attendance.

    2002 – Trump says Epstein is “fun” and “a terrific guy.”

    January 2005 – Donald and Melania are married. Zampolli and Epstein are in attendance.

    March 2005 – Palm Beach Police open investigation into Epstein sexually abusing young girls. They found the abuse was going on as early as 2002.

    September 2005 – Trump and Billy Bush were on a bus on their way to film an episode of Access Hollywood. In the video, Trump described his attempt to seduce a married woman and indicated he might start kissing a woman that he and Bush were about to meet. He added, “I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. … Grab ’em by the pussy. You can do anything.”

    July 2006 – Palm Beach County Grand Jury indicts Epstein on solicitation of prostitution. Palm Beach Police refer it to FBI because the local charge doesn’t reflect “the totality of Epstein’s conduct.”

    July 2006 – Trump asks Stormy Daniels to join him for a meal. She did not want to accept the invitation but her publicist encouraged her to go. Melania Trump, was not at the tournament and had just given birth.

    May 2007 – 60 more criminal counts against Epstein.

    July 2007 – Epstein’s USAG Prosecutor was Alex Acosta, who later became Trump’s labor secretary, who offered to end the investigation of Epstein if he plead guilt to 2 local charges, register as a sex offender, and accept a prison term—which ended up being more like a resort with off campus working privileges—AND an NON-Prosecution Agreement. The sexual abuse of girls continues.

    June 30, 2008 – Epstein pleads guilty to solicitation of prostitution and solicitation of prostitution of a minor under 18. Is sentenced to 18 months in a minimum security camp, being allowed to leave 12 hours per day.

    July 7, 2008 – “Jane Doe” files a suit saying victims were not informed of the plea deal. In 2019, 11 years later, a judge ruled in their favor.

    July 22, 2009 – Epstein is released after serving less than 13 months.

    2010 – Epstein settles multiple civil law suits brought against him by his victims.

    September 21, 2015 – Virginia Roberts Giuffre sues Ghislaine Maxwell for defamation after Maxwell called her a liar. (In 2021 Maxwell is found guilty and sentenced to 20 years.)

    2016 – Melania needed a “cooling off period” after hearing, via media reports, of the president’s various scandals – including Stormy Daniels, the “Access Hollywood” tape, and Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal.

    And, she allegedly leveraged the time apart to negotiate better prenup terms, particularly as related to her son Barron and ensuring his financial legacy as part of the “Trump empire.”

    May 2017 – Maxwell settles Giuffre’s lawsuit, which Epstein had repeatedly avoided testifying.

    May 25, 2018 – Joseph Recarey, lead detective on Epstein’s sex trafficking case in Palm Beach, Florida is found dead “after a brief illness.”

    October 13, 2018 – Melania appears in public to showcase her $39 jackets that reads on the back, “I really don’t care, do you?” during a trip to a migrant CHILD detention center.

    November 28, 2018 – The Miami Herald publishes a series of investigative reports into Epstein and Alex Acosta’s role in the plea deal.

    December 4, 2018 – A week after the Miam Herald reports, Epstein reaches a settlement in a defamation case with attorney Bradley Edwards, who represented victims who were children at the time.

    July 6, 2019 – Federal Agents arrest Epstein. He is charged with sex trafficking of minors and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking with minors.

    July 9, 2019 – Trump begins to publicly distance himself from Jeffrey Epstein. Trump said in an interview, “I was “not a fan” of accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein — but repeatedly refused to reveal what led to a “falling out” that he now claims to have had with the wealthy financier about 15 years ago.

    Trump’s comments came a day after Epstein, 66, appeared in New York federal court to face new charges that he sexually abused dozens of underage girls, some as young as 14, in his Manhattan and Florida mansions from 2002 to 2005.

    Trump told reporters that he had known Epstein “like everyone in Palm Beach,” Florida.

    “He was a fixture in Palm Beach,” Trump said of Epstein, who is also known for having been friends with former President Bill Clinton.
    “I had a falling out a long time ago with him,” Trump said. “I don’t think I’ve spoken to him in 15 years.”

    “I was not a fan of his,” Trump said.

    Reporters asked Trump at least four times what caused the falling out, in particular if it stemmed from a criminal probe of Epstein in Florida in the mid-2000. But aides ushered them out of the Oval Office as Trump did not answer.

    During the same photo opportunity, Trump said that he felt badly for his Labor secretary, Alex Acosta, who is facing increasing calls by Democrats to resign because of his role in a non-prosecution agreement that Epstein signed in 2008 with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Miami, which Acosta headed at the time.

    Trump said that Acosta has done an excellent job as Labor secretary, and said Acosta would not have been the only person responsible for the deal with Epstein.

    At the time of that deal, Epstein was being investigated both by state and federal authorities for conduct that is now the basis for the new prosecution by federal prosecutors in Manhattan.

    July 12, 2019 – Acosta resigns as labor secretary, citing the Epstein case.

    August 10, 2019 – Epstein is found dead, “hanged” in his cell.

    August 27, 2019 – U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman holds a hearing on a motion to dismiss the indictment against Epstein. In a remarkable move, he also says the court will hear “the testimony of victims here today” — an offer taken up by many women that day, under their own names or as “Jane Doe.”

    Courtney Wild, who had helped start the first proceedings against Epstein in Florida more than 10 years earlier, is among those who step forward.

    “Jeffrey Epstein sexually abused me for years, robbing me of my innocence and mental health,” she said. “Jeffrey Epstein has done nothing but manipulate our justice system, where he has never been held accountable for his actions, even to this day.”

    December 2019 – Virginia Roberts Giuffre posts on Twitter:

    ‘F.B.I. will kill me to protect the ultra rich and well connected. I am making it publicy (sic) known that in no way, shape or form am I sucidal (sic). I have made this known to my therapist and GP. If something happens to me- in the sake of my family do not let this go away and help me to protect them. Too many evil people want to see me quiteted (sic),’

    February 19, 2022 – Jean Luc Brunel, Epstein, Epstein and Trump associate, who owned “modeling agencies” that fed girls as young as 12 to the sex trafficking scheme, was found dead, HUNG in his jail cell.

    August 23, 2022 – Steven Hoffenberg, fraudster and Jeffrey Epstein mentor, found dead at least 7 days after his actual death.

    May 9, 2023 – A New York jury found Donald Trump guilty of sexually abusing E Jean Carroll in a New York department store changing room in 1996.

    January 2024 – New York unseals 2010 deposition of Nadia Marcinoka (often referred to as Epstein’s Sex Slave). Nadia went missing just afterward.

    MAY 30, 2024 – Jury Finds Donald Trump Guilty of 34 Counts

    June 10, 2024 – Trump is asked if he would declassify and release the Epstein Files. Trump responds, Yeah, yeah, I would.” However, his full answer wasn’t shown until it played on Will Cain’s radio show.

    Trump went on to say in the exchange with Campos-Duffy: “I don’t know about Epstein so much as I do the others. Certainly about the way he died. It’d be interesting to find out what happened there, because that was a weird situation and the cameras didn’t happen to be working, etc., etc. But yeah, I’d go a long way toward that one.”

    September 2024 – Trump pledges again to release the Epstein Files on Lex Fridman podcast.

    March 13, 2025 – Trump’s spiritual advisor, Robert Morris (the lead pastor at Gateway Megachurch in Texas, steps down amid indictments of sexual abuse of children spanning back to the 1980s.

    April 25, 2025 – Virginia Roberts Giuffre found dead in Australia.

    July 7, 2025 – Trump: “Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein?”

    July 16, 2025 – Maurene Comey, Prosecutor of Epstein’s case at Manhattan US Attorney’s Office, and former FBI Director James Comey’s daughter, is FIRED without given any reason.

    July 21, 2025 – Roy Black, Epstein’s defense attorney who secured the 2008 plea deal, died of “an illness.”

    July 22, 2025 – Epstein’s brother Mark tells CNN that his brother was “very close” with Donald Trump in the 1990s.

    July 23, 2025 – White House communications director Steven Cheung said on CNN that Trump kicked Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago for “being a creep.”

    July 28, 2025 – Trump told reporters at his golf property in Turnberry, Scotland, the reason for the rift was that Epstein “stole” young women who worked for his Mar-a-Lago spa in Palm Beach.
    Trump didn’t specify a timeline for when it happened, but called it “such old history.” He said, “For years I wouldn’t talk to Jeffrey Epstein.”

    “He stole people that worked for me. I said, ‘Don’t ever do that again.’ He did it again, and I threw him out of the place, persona non grata,” Trump said.

    July 29, 2025 – Trump elaborated on his remarks from the day before, acknowledging that Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre was among spa staffers he said Epstein had poached from him.
    “I think (Giuffre) worked at the spa,” Trump said aboard Air Force One. “He stole her.”

    In 2009, under the pseudonym “Jane Doe 102,” Virginia Roberts Giuffre said Epstein’s convicted former girlfriend and accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, recruited her while she was a minor working at Mar-a-Lago to be the late sex offender’s masseuse. Giuffre’s family responded to Trump’s July 29 comments, saying his latest account raises questions about the president’s prior knowledge of Epstein’s criminal wrongdoing.

    Giuffre spoke publicly in 2011 about her abuse, Axios reported.
    Social Security records submitted to the court during Giuffre’s defamation case against Maxwell show that Giuffre was a locker room spa attendant at Mar-a-Lago in summer 2000, two years before Trump called Epstein a “terrific guy.” The precise dates and duration of her employment at Mar-a-Lago remained unclear when the lawsuit settled in 2017, ABC News reported.

    When PolitiFact asked the White House for clarification about when and why Trump banned Epstein from Mar-a-Lago, Cheung said in an email, “taking employees is most definitely creepy.”

    August 5, 2025 – House Oversight Committee subpoenas the Justice Department for Epstein Files.

    August 6, 2025 – GLORIA ALLRED, representing Epstein Victims.

    WATCH: ‘Please just do it’: Epstein accuser urges U.S. government to release investigation files

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmJoLyxG2H4

  3. B’s L says:

    Call me please. I need a question answered. also set up your voicemail box

  4. LeI says:

    Those of you who have made it to the East end of the Gate can not queue.

    • M]5 says:

      We are here because the Immortal saved the East Gate from total destruction. Let’s hope the efforts by a few of you to get the Immortal to leave this area of the Milky Way isn’t successful.

      • Z]7 says:

        Rescues like that will be a thing of the past if the various groups being trained to convince the Immortal to vacate this Galaxy for one very far away. Some may attempt to lure the Immortal on MotherShips that are willing to sacrifice their crew to remove ITS “menace.” We think this is misguided, but we are powerless to stop them. Perhaps the powers can intevene. It doesn’t seem there is any personal connections the Immortal has on Earth that will prevent IT from being enticed to venturing into the Unknown for the adventure.

        • vRn says:

          Why should the Immortal care about his “friends” on Earth? He knows that sooner or later they will betray him.

          I did.

          I followed him to the planet S7hi4. He was hiding aboard the MotherShip, N*/`. I wasn’t sure who he was among the 1.9 million aboard, but my sensors had trailed him to the Gali which was the Hovercraft that had deposited its passengers to the MotherShip. I boarded and spent 91 years aboard. 371 passengers from that Hovercraft boarded that day. It took me about 21 solar years to track and eliminate them one by one. During that time many of them became my friends. We shared the responsibilities of our lot and the needs of the MotherShip.
          I had discovered the identity of the Immortal within a few months. If you know what to look for, and can suspend your beliefs in what should be normal, he would not be difficult to spot. He slips up a lot and does things beyond the ability of an ordinary mortal. He does that a lot. I think that he forgets what ordinary mortals can do sometimes and he reveals that he is special.

          I poisoned, exposed him to lethal toxins, pushed him into deadly parts of the machinery of the ship, but nothing killed him. So, I decided to befriend him to discover his weakness. Because then, I truly believed that every living thing had a weakness.

          He doesn’t make friends easily, but he can be fooled. I attempted to sacrifice some of my associates to kill him by sabotaging their hovercraft when they were sent to check out a very cold moon of a planet in the Dijon Solar System. The hovercraft crashed landed on the moon. It was so cold that the hovercraft froze instantly upon entering its atmosphere. All aboard would have died, except the Immortal approached the Sun star of that Solar System and thawed them and the hovercraft out.

          When he returned to hide his identity he removed all our memories which also removed my memory of having discovered which one of the 371 passengers he was. I learned this after we had become friends again about 35 solar years later.
          During that time he had saved our lives countless times. Each time he would repeat the memory swipe and we would start over. That was until he trusted me and revealed who he was. After that the three of us (another one of the 371 that he also revealed himself to) never had our memories removed. We got to watch him perform miracles beyond even our imaginations.

          As we neared the outer rims of my Solar System, I sent a buoy to announce that I had discovered the Immortal and had planted a radioactive isotope on him to allow them to target him easily. When we arrived on my planet, we had been in space 69 solar years. It took another 20 solar years for me to attempt to kill him again.

          I got him to accompany me in an Orbitalcraft designed to use the gravity and slingshot effect of several planets in my Solar System to fling our Orbitalcraft into a Blackhole several galaxies away. It worked but as our ship was being torn apart by the pull of the Blackhole, he picked me up, folded some of the parts that had broken off our Orbitalcraft and made them into a paper airplane. He placed me in the inside of that paper plane, froze a bubble of air that he blew over the plane and tossed me back home. I watched as our Orbitalcraft broke up with him inside as the Black holed pulled it and him into its depths.

          Our science said that nothing could escape once pulled into a Blackhole. I went home to become a Hero for ridding our Solar system of that menace. I remained a “Hero” both to my people and in my own mind until we, the Immortal and I met again on a dock near Jupiter.

          He smiled and said, “alls well that ends well.” Then he acted as if he had no memory of us, our friendship, and walked away. We never spoke again. I tried, but he would always be just a little out of reach.

          I hope someone tells him that I, vRn, is very regretful of my actions that day. I have seen what he means to the East Gate, and I know that he is not without a conscience.

          I still think that he is too dangerous to be allowed to remain in any part of the Milky Way where sentient beings exist. But I don’t think that he should be killed, just removed to a less populated area of the Milky Way.

          Eventually, I came to believe that I had discovered how to kill him. He had often alluded to his belief that all mortals would betray him for what they believed were justifiable reasons. We swore that we were not like that. When we were alone during his absences, we often speculated about the possibility that we might be in the presence of God. But his playful actions and the way he just didn’t seem to care about what he did to anything if it was not his friend, something he had an affinity for, convinced that this mad person just could not be a God. Hence he was mortal, but hadn’t met the fate or circumstance that could harm him.

          • Ursla says:

            Your ramblings at the end of your tale, says more about your relationship than that long boring narrative. You are a pompous traitor, justifying your betrayal with platitudes.

  5. Lois says:

    Video on how women pray on other women, scarry. Don’t trust ANYONE !!!

    https://youtube.com/shorts/r01F0uESfus?si=jE3r-1e_MthZvCD4

  6. Emily says:

    If you think you have heard terrible stories about ICE, try this one.
    https://youtube.com/shorts/5KdE8B-6yaM?si=TZ7aAOyq1giwajzd

  7. J[7 says:

    Some of you are complaining about the more than 12,000 active satellites circling the Earth at the moment. Yes, it makes close navigation of the planet Earth difficult, but all those satellites are lighting up the night sky for Earth in a way that prevents their scientist and others on Earth using telescopes to examine the night sky from getting true images. That means we are free to operate in areas that were problematic and in some cases impossible.

  8. Sara says:

    The “notox” movement, which rejects the neurotoxin in favor of natural alternatives promising similar results, has grown in popularity. Cosmetic acupuncture is said to increase circulation, boost collagen production and improve skin tone.

  9. Helen says:

    Did You Know
    Hummingbirds have an extraordinarily fast metabolism and can barely store enough energy by the end of the day to not starve to death as they sleep.

    • Helena says:

      Did You Know
      Unlike smaller household batteries (such as common AA batteries), 9-volt batteries can pose a fire hazard and should never be stored in junk drawers or anywhere stray metal objects can bridge the contacts of the battery and cause overheating or sparking.

    • Carol says:

      Did You Know
      Over 14,000 miles (22,842 kilometers) of the United States’ 88,633 miles (142,641 kilometers) worth of tidal shoreline is fortified with concrete.

    • Alice says:

      Did You Know
      Green, black, and oolong teas are all made from the same tea plant (Camellia sinensis) and are simply prepared and aged in a different fashion.

    • Mike says:

      Did You Know
      Frequent video game playing has been linked to an increase in lucid dreaming.

    • Belinda says:

      Did You Know
      The Frito-Lay chip company takes its potato chip research and development seriously. After extensive research, they determined that consumers like a chip that snaps in the mouth when bitten with approximately four pounds of pressure per square inch.

  10. Janet says:

    These California eggs are linked to a salmonella outbreak – Los Angeles Times

    https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-08-28/california-eggs-linked-to-salmonella-outbreak-95-people-ill

  11. Rosa says:

    Avoiding ultraprocessed foods might double weight loss, study suggests

    New research suggests that people can lose more weight by avoiding ultraprocessed foods, even those that are considered healthy, like whole grain breakfast cereals, plant-based milk, flavored yogurt and frozen lasagna.

  12. Robert says:

    The billionaires are using muse stem cell treatment—which has not yet been approved in the U.S. to stay young and in some cases reverse their aging.

  13. D]9 says:

    Lake Superior, which stretches between the upper Midwest and Canada, touching Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and the province of Ontario has been kept pristine by the U]8 group. The Immortal was asked to rescue their craft which was tossed into the gravitational pull of Jvl943. If the Immortal dosen’t succeed in the rescue, be advised that the oxygen-rich water and low mineral content needed by some of you to start your sea life will be in danger. Humans will most certainly pollute the nearly undetectable algae-friendly phosphorus levels and second-to-none on Earth crystal-clear water of Lake Superior,

  14. T]7 says:

    F]3 has discovered an excellent way to disable the US Air Force F-35 fighter jets. We can send Ice to the hydraulic lines in the nose and main landing gears of the F-35, which will prevent them from deploying properly. This will disorient the pilot and inform him that his jet won’t land properly. If the pilot attempts to fix the landing gear, it will cause the computer of the fighter jet to think it is on the ground, ultimately leading to a crash.

    But the pilot will have enough notice to parachute out before the jet crashes. With enough losses of those $200 million each jets, the humans will drop their attempts to shadow our Hovercrafts.

    • X]3 says:

      We have been using a similar attack. It convinces the F-35’s sensors that the jet is on the ground and the jet’s computer systems transition to “automated ground-operation mode.” This causes the fighter jet to become “uncontrollable” because it begins operating as though it is on the ground. The pilot will be forced to eject.

  15. K]7 says:

    Is there a reason why the Y*/` are teaching spiders to use better techniques to capture their prey? Someone needs to remind them that spiders on Earth are not related to them just because they look like Earth spiders. Also isn’t it a form of “Interference” to tamper with a species on Earth that resembles the alien form.

    • Y[4 says:

      Roughly 4,500 years ago, humans forged a bond that would shape the history of our species. The domestication of horses led to significant advancements in transportation, hunting, and warfare, literally carrying human society into the modern era. This was caused by Aliens that resembled Centaurs. They were not censured, why should we be?

  16. Benjamin says:

    The terrorist Salim Khatib thought he would succeed in murdering many Jews, but his plan collapsed – he was eliminated this morning, joining his two brothers.

    Three failures, one family legacy.
    https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-69cce950a38f618ffaf06503ffc0c469

  17. Lucy says:

    Thomas Patterson was a 21-year-old antisocial freak who desperately wanted a girl to keep him company. Instead of going the normal route of wooing a woman; he decided to abduct a 13-year-old girl, Jayme Closs.

    In the early morning of October 15, 2018, Patterson went to the family house of Jayme Closs in Barron, Wisconsin, to abduct her. He shot and k-illed her parents because he wanted to leave no witnesses.

    He took her home and kept her as his own, he would force her under his bed whenever he went out.
    https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-f74b9d3ce1938174ce509d763bdf6076

    Patterson claimed they just played games together, watched TV, slept in the same bed, had conversations and did a lot of cooking together. There was no se-xual assault.

    The day Jayme escaped, January 10, 2019, Patterson had shoved her under his bed before he left his cabin. As soon as he was gone, she mustered enough courage to run to freedom. Once she was outside, she met someone that conveyed her to safety.

    Patterson was arrested and sentenced to life in prison.

  18. Moh says:

    After 19 years, photos of the Haditha Massасre were leaked to the New York Times.

    US marines executed 24 Iraqi civilians.

    They murdered entire families at point blank range, including the infants.

    They had to watch each other die.

    A mother, Asmaa Salman Raseef, thirty-two, and her four-year-old son, Abdullah, lie dead in the corner of their living room.

    Asmaa’s arm is around her son, perhaps in a final attempt to protect him. Asmaa appears to be injured in the upper back.

    Abdullah was determined by military investigators to have a bullet wound in his head. N.C.I.S. investigators concluded that the Marine who shot Abdullah was likely standing less than six feet away.
    https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-8b5adf52b35586c512a054aa2f401e22

    https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-8166921905f15acb8d9b4a884cf453db

  19. Santino says:

    What’s the difference between hunting behavior in male and female jaguars when it comes to caimans?
    Well, the difference between hunting behavior in male & female jaguars when it comes to caimans is that, male jaguars are built for combat & also their tolerate for pain or risk is extremely high whereas female jaguars are stealth, strategic & more precision.

    What that means is their tolerance for pain is extremely low & they cannot afford an injury.
    Adult male jaguars hunt both adult black caimans & yacare caiman & for a no of reasons:-

    They’re built for strength & combat
    They can overpower adult sized black male caiman fairly easy regardless of the black caiman’s resistance.
    They’re skill & more efficient enough to bring them down.
    Their large body mass is often an indication that they require large adult prey that has extremely high rewards & can provide more calorie intake. This is one of the factors that drives male jaguars to predate on fully grown black male caimans more often.
    https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-5c85e0f3d8d5f33b5ab891553bb79bfb

    https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-0132e5971f202586394f2e84aafd1319
    ABOVE: A male jaguar with an adult yacare caiman.

    So, adult male jaguars are better suited to hunting adult black caiman compared to their female counterparts.

    On the other hand , female jaguars are more precise & stealth. Unlike male jaguars, they only hunt yacare caimans & mostly avoid adult black caimans for a no of reasons:-

    Their not built for combat unlike their male counterparts.
    Their tolerance for pain is low & this means , they’re cannot afford an injury.
    They’re not built to handle prey that’s resistant to attacks.
    They avoid areas with black caimans & only hunt in specific areas where yacare caimans are available.
    Hunting yacare caimans{particularly adults} is the most favorable for adult female jaguars especially one that has cubs.

    A yacare caiman that’s big enough & safer to hunt will make a her meal for her cubs than hunting an adult black caiman that’s powerful to cause some injuries that can cost her life.
    https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-58ed73f2835486f87010d52aea25a25f
    ABOVE: A female jaguar hauling a huge fresh kill of an adult mature yacare caiman.

    So… those are some of the differences in hunting behavior when it comes to caimans.

    Why are jaguars smaller than lions if they are solitary hunters like tigers? Wouldn’t it benefit them to be larger to take down prey by themselves?
    Pound for pound, the jaguar is the strongest of all the big cats, and has the most powerful bite, at 2,000 psi — strong enough to bite through a turtle’s shell or a caiman’s skull. They are perfectly adapted to their environment and to their available prey species, and are at the top of the food chain in their range.

    In other words, they don’t need to be any bigger — they can already easily take down tapir, capybaras, deer, caiman, and even domestic cattle, and the larger they are, the more food they need.

    Jaguars are perfect killing machines, even if they are not so large as lions or tigers.
    https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-30630f7651577614a33d75b5adbca2f1-lq

  20. C]9 says:

    Very sly, you are. Your giving humans a way to fix their damaged eyes without having to shoot a laser at them and justifying it as a way to prevent the Immortal from under going a new surgery on his left eye is brilliant. But will the LeI buy it?

    Your method of repairing the cornea, similar to LASIK, but son’t require a laser or other invasive surgical tool by making the cornea temporarily malleable while also leaving corneal cells alive is nice. This technique can be made widely available because it is vastly cheaper and potentially even reversible.

    LASIK is routinely used to treat conditions like myopia, farsightedness, or astigmatism. It reshapes the cornea—the transparent, outer layer of the eye that captures and focuses light onto the retina—using a precise cutting laser.

    Though generally safe and effective, the surgery does permanently weaken the structural integrity of the cornea. People will also commonly experience side effects like dry eye and visual disturbances like halos; a small few will even develop serious, if rare, complications like chronic nerve pain. Ideally, your method would avoid these risks.

    • Nancy says:

      Ugggghhh I hate wearing glasses. I need it for seeing far but glasses are terrible, especially for sports. I used to wear contacts, which I loved, but I had give them up for dry eyes. Glasses are a pain and expensive!

  21. Joyce says:

    Ketanji Brown Jackson Calls Out The Conservative Supreme Court Justices As Partisan Hacks
    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jackson-slams-supreme-court-hacks_n_68a88adce4b0d5177bea185d

  22. Sigmund says:

    I tried posting here yesterday and couldn’t get a thing in. Today it is bursting with shit.

    What’s Up?

  23. Maksim says:

    With all the Alien talk about the Immortal and Solar flares, I thought some might be interested in just what Solar flares are, So I picked this report.

    Our Best Look Yet at a Solar Flare Reveals the Sun’s Wilder Side

    https://gizmodo.com/our-best-look-yet-a-solar-flare-reveals-the-suns-wilder-side-2000650618?utm_source=gizmodo_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2025-08-29-pm

  24. Jacob says:

    You BurningMan fans that appreciated the isolation you got while you were there are going to hate this. Starlink Puts the Last Nail in Burning Man’s Coffin

    https://gizmodo.com/starlink-puts-the-last-nail-in-burning-mans-coffin-2000650597?utm_source=gizmodo_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2025-08-29-pm

    • Bill says:

      Fuck, now it will be get skimpy or naked at your own risk. Get home and find out the world has that view of your naked ass.

  25. Brittany says:

    Are there any places free from male predators?

    Former models expose the ugly truth of the beauty industry | 60 Minutes …

    https://youtu.be/yl_FXbNrq9o?si=RW99O1NPypQpQC4I

    This needs to be repeated.

  26. Donald says:

    Plague in California

    A California resident has tested positive for the plague after camping near Lake Tahoe, local health officials confirmed. It’s the latest in a string of positive cases in the western U.S. this year.

    The infected person was likely bitten by a plague-infected flea in the South Lake Tahoe area, according to local health officials. This is the first local case in the area since 2020. The person is currently recovering and is undergoing medical treatment at home.

    “Plague is naturally present in many parts of California, including higher elevation areas of El Dorado County,” Kyle Fliflet, acting director of public health in El Dorado County, in northern California, said in a statement.

    “It’s important that individuals take precautions for themselves and their pets when outdoors, especially while walking, hiking and or camping in areas where wild rodents are present,” he said.

    Plague is rare in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), affecting seven people in the U.S. per year, mostly in western states.

    The disease is endemic in many California counties and other parts of the western U.S., where it circulates among wild rodents and other animals. Earlier this month, a cat in Colorado tested positive for the plague. Last month, an Arizona man died after contracting the disease. That person developed a pneumonic form of the plague, in which the bacterium spreads to the lungs, due to an untreated bubonic infection.

    The disease is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis and is most commonly spread to humans by bites from infected fleas. It can be treated with antibiotics but can be fatal if not treated promptly. Infamously, the plague decimated Europe’s 14th-century population.

    More than 80% of plague cases in the U.S. have been in the bubonic form, from which patients will develop swollen, painful lymph nodes called buboes, according to the CDC.

    Like many other diseases caused by microbes, the plague is more likely now due to climate change, and cases have been steadily growing since the 1950s. But it’s still rare. The risk to the public of exposure as well as the risk of human-to-human transmission remains low, according to health officials.

  27. Lisa says:

    The billionaire racists are attempting to educate their little bigot-to-bes in a new school.

    The Wall Street Journal describes the Alpha School as a “fast-growing private school that eschews lessons on diversity, equity and inclusion.” The school’s co-founder, MacKenzie Price, told the newspaper that the curriculum is designed to avoid any sort of “political, social issues” that might get “in the way” of students’ education. “We stay very much out of that,” she said.

    Alpha’s educational model is quite unique: young K-12 students are taught subjects over the course of two hours using “AI-enabled software.” After that, the rest of the day is parsed out through a variety of physically and socially engaging activities. The school’s website mentions a variety of workshops, some of which are based around leadership, some of which involve business education, and some of which just seem to resemble playtime. The school, which was founded over a decade ago, has campuses spread throughout the country, and it plans to open a new location in Manhattan this year, WSJ reports.

    What is Ackman’s role? He’s largely a brand ambassador, according to the WSJ report. The outlet notes that Ackman became interested in it partially due to its “stance on DEI and avoidance of concepts such as the gender continuum.” Over the past several months, Ackman has been “hyping” up the school to parents he knows, and this week, he plans to appear on a panel alongside Price, the outlet writes.

    You can actually imagine Alpha’s model working quite well for many subjects, but when you get to the humanities, that’s when you run into trouble. Subjects like history, art, and literature are intrinsically subjective (they require an interpretive lens), which is why they have historically presented such thorny curricular dilemmas. One person’s socially relevant tome on 19th-century race relations is another person’s anti-American woke propaganda designed to ruin the minds of our nation’s youth. How, exactly, do places like Alpha School teach children about the American novel without letting “political, social issues” get “in the way”? From the outside, that part is unclear.

    One thing’s for sure: Ackman’s support for Alpha is part of a broader trend in which billionaires (particularly tech billionaires) seek to platform alternative educational models. Bill Gates has long been a cheerleader for the charter school movement. Jeff Bezos founded his own network of preschools. And then there’s Elon Musk, who, when his elite private school wasn’t cutting it for his kids, launched his own school, Ad Astra, which he helped design (if you think about it, this is sorta like homeschool for billionaires). Since then, Musk has sought to expand the school and recently opened a campus in Texas.

    For decades, billionaires have also waged a not-so-secret war on America’s public school system. The school choice movement—of which places like Alpha and Ad Astra are only the latest iterations—has largely been promulgated and funded by the 1 percent. At the same time, efforts have long been made to defund the public school system. Project 2025 (which many people believe has acted as a policy blueprint for the second Trump administration) has advocated for dismantling the Department of Education, and, earlier this year, while he was still helming the Trump administration’s DOGE initiative, Musk claimed he supported abolishing the DOE. In February, DOGE purported to cut $1 billion in research contracts from the agency (most of DOGE’s cuts have ended up being bullshit, however).

    It’s unclear how the 1 percent envisions a majority of Americans paying for this style of private education, as reports show that tuition for, say, the Alpha School, costs about $45,000 a year. Such fee structures obviously preclude a majority of the U.S. population from participation. I suppose it’s possible that the price of admission at these schools will drop eventually. Or, maybe, the plan is just to dumb the general population down with trade schools until we all become pliant, obedient workers, while the gilded class turbo-charges its offspring intellectually and weans them on an elitist worldview that precludes any sort of empathy for the have-nots. It’s unclear what the ultimate endgame is here, although I can’t say the view looks particularly rosy from the bleachers.

    • Yang says:

      Assholes will never learn that limiting the brain pool is stupid and lessens the chance for technological advancement. It also causes social upheaval in the end.

  28. Gina says:

    13 Foods You Should NEVER Eat After They Expire, According To Experts

    https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/articles/13-foods-never-eat-expire-175600914.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&segment_id=DY_VTO_CLICKER_110&ncid=crm_31264-1526485-20250829-0–A&bt_ee=QRYOQkp7YbsDc%2BnTeYfSGu69khir%2BpF5ijjwd0HaCV51frRFIR9YiXZhqwAkQN5i&bt_ts=1756507840727

  29. Connie says:

    100 years of statistics don’t lie. When conservatives are in charge, they ruined economies. Not only that what would ever make anyone believe a Cash strapped multiple bankrupt con man would be good for any economy?

    • Louis says:

      Democratic Presidents preside over recoveries and good economic times. Republican Presidents cause recessions.

  30. Henry says:

    This is a fact of life for the past 50+ years at least.

  31. Andre says:

    Hi, Canadian here. And while I personally don’t travel to hostile regimes, ruling out any chance of a visit from me, most of us are not planning to come back in the numbers we used to come in. Changing your government doesn’t undo the damage to our relationship. We’re kind of stubborn, and what your leader did was the most blatant attempt to humiliate us that we’ve ever experienced. We’d expect that from Russia, not a country we mistook for our best friends. That’s some shit right there that’s going to take a decade to heal, if not longer.

    ‘Just letting you know…this goes far deeper than you guys seem to understand. Like…we’ve removed a vast majority of American products from our stores, including your biggest liquor brands. Just watch what happens this winter when 60% of our snow birds don’t spend 4 months in your country’s southern states. The northern states are already begging us to cross the border to shop, but nobody here is interested. It’s going to be something else with most of the rental properties vacant, and the restaurants half empty.

    Now that we can’t send packages to the US without proving that the American has already paid their tariff, our postal companies just aren’t accepting US bound mail anymore. You guys wanted authoritarianism and isolationism, and you’re getting what you voted for.

    • Aadya says:

      No one wants to come to a country where they can be arrested at the border even while having correct visa and no criminal record, and sent to a facility in a shitty maga state. They have no rights and no representation and can rot in that facility/prison for months before shitty US government feels like they should send them back to wrong country or to El Salvador.

    • Ellen says:

      As a Canadian who used to frequent Vegas, you’re damn straight it’s because of Trump. You don’t get our support after calling us the 51st state.

      See you guys in 3 years if you guys come back to your senses, I’ll spend my money elsewhere until then.

  32. Hans says:

    Many countries in Europe for example Germany have made official warnings against travelling to the USA.

    It’s 100% caused by the changes made to your immigration processes, and your current situation with ICE facists sending people to concentration camps in broad daylight wearing masks.

  33. James says:

    It’s literally economic FACT that Democrats are better for economies because progressive policy spurs innovation, it’s in the name. Google it, ai it, whatever, “Are Republican presidents better for the economy.” If you already are afraid to Google it, you’re in a cult.

  34. Fred says:

    Let’s be real it trump and maga and all the insane talk,action and threats The USA was never a place to be feared by tourists that government would do something shady to you and you may not come home or be detained indefinitely without any legal protections. That kind of stuff only happened in 3rd world countries now it’s in the USA we’re no one is safe from any crazy or illegal or irrational thing that trump can dream up to arrest detain or deport you at anytime. But with did you think would happen when you elect a racist idiot that doesn’t care about the country history democracy truth science facts the rule of law or women. Chaos!!! And with that everything and everyone suffers. Stability is what makes it all run. And well you voted for chaos. Because you thought only non whites would suffer. But you didn’t listen so now we are all paying for your stupidity

    They always talk about voting. I think there should be a test. All you were excited for tariffs but didn’t know what they were or how they worked.

    It should have been a test what’s a tariff? Who pays it? If you answered incorrectly your ballet/voted deleted Citing to incompetence to understand the issue you’re voting for.

  35. Haha says:

    Never fight a dinosaur. You’ll get jurasskicked.

  36. Abd-El-Kader says:

    There are rumors that speculate that the Ear will return to Syria. He was heard saying, “I miss the melody of gunfire. It’s the most wonderful sound in the world.” There is plenty of melody in Syria right now.

    • Hugo says:

      I hope what you are saying is true. I can’t wait to get back into battle. He also said, “It’s an easy death when you are on the attack, but it’s a hard life carrying guilt.” I’ve got a lot of guilt to appease.

      • Robert says:

        The Ear is back in the game alright and Israel is livid with one of his first actions. He has outed a bunch of Israeli government hackers working under the disguise of private companies to use WhatsApp to take over iPhones via Zero-click attacks.

        For those of you who are unaware of how Zero-click attacks work, here is a brief description. They are attacks that Don’t require any active phishing to penetrate into the inner contents of a person’s mobile OS. Often, all a bad actor needs to do is send a malicious file (often an image), which can take over the phone by itself. Over the last several years, malware capable of zero-click attacks has been targeted at journalists, activists, and government officials—much of it originating from companies based in Israel.

        The has been naming the bad actors to the chagrin of the state of Israel. Apple describes its bug as such: “Processing a malicious image file may result in memory corruption. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been exploited in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals.”

        • RC in CA says:

          The iPhone is factory equipped with a pretty secure and robust messaging system, yet people use an external application owned by notorious data miner Facebook. Go figure.

          • David says:

            Apple doesn’t have anything that can make free international voice or video calls to non-apple users. Facetime requires both users to have an iPhone, but most of the world outside of the US runs on android, so apple users are probably going to need a third party messaging app like WhatsApp or Telegram if they want to talk to their friends in Brazil, Germany, Korea, India, or wherever.

          • Bob says:

            Facebook, instagram, what app and who knows what else. There’s a lot of cross platform sharing of your personal details and online habits there. Proceed carefully.

  37. R]7 says:

    If you are going to help humans by showing them how to better recycle used EV batteries, you would do better by showing them how to avoid the harsh chemical and thermal conditions that make EV battery recycling so difficult. In other words instruct them to design batteries for recyclability from the beginning is a new approach.

    Try showing humans how to start with easily recyclable materials and get them to figure out how to make them battery-compatible. You can provide them with a type of self-assembling material that easily dissolves in organic solvents. One that works reasonably well as the electrolyte in a solid-state battery cell—the design major EV producers are racing to implement.

    They should start with the electrolyte, which transports lithium ions between the positive cathode and the negative anode. It also made sense to focus on the electrolyte from a recycle-first perspective, since electrolytes are highly flammable and decay into toxic, hard-to-manage waste.

    Suggest to them to chose aramid amphiphiles (AAs), a class of molecules that self-assemble in water and, surprisingly, mimic the chemical structure and stability of Kevlar. Then show them how to attach polyethylene glycol (PEG), which conducts lithium ions, to one end of each molecule.

    When they expose that molecular system to water, they will discover that it self-assembles into a nano ribbon structure capable of carrying ions across its surface—that is, a functioning electrolyte.

    Then you can show them that this material can reasonably function inside real batteries by subjecting the material to the kinds of stress involved in building and operating a battery. The nano ribbons will pass this quality check without a flaw.

    Then you can instruct them to construct a solid-state battery cell using materials common to actual batteries: lithium iron phosphate for the cathode and lithium titanium oxide for the anode. The electrolyte, of course, should be constructed from aramid amphiphiles, you suggested they use as the electrolyte substitution.

    Your main concern will be bringing the performance level using aramid amphiphiles up to the industry standards. If you can, it will eliminate the need for lithium and the need to recycle this highly polluting element. They will see how easy it is to recycle aramid amphiphiles, when dropped into an organic solvent, it will dissolve like cotton candy in water.

  38. B]6 says:

    The price of Lucid shares are down 96% from $64.86 per share. Get it while you can. It is now priced at $2.50 per share. We suggest at least a thousand shares. If we are not prevented from interfering we will help Peter Rawlinson, beat out Tesla(TSLA) for the claim to the most successful car company in the EV market.

    If we are allowed to help Lucid deliver on its growth plans, the stock has the potential to double or triple, if it achieves a valuation comparable to Tesla’s. For now, the reverse stock split provides a temporary reprieve, but investors should think about it carefully given the company’s volatile financials and stiff competition.

    • Kenneth says:

      I checked on your advice. Lucid has ample liquidity of about $4.8 billion and expanding manufacturing facilities in Arizona and Saudi Arabia, Lucid’s growth prospects remain uncertain. The company faces stiff competition from Tesla and other automakers, and its delayed launch of the more affordable Gravity SUV, a potential game-changer, has yet to materialize.

      Analysts forecast modest near-term growth, with 2025 revenue expected to reach $1.3 billion, with a 61% increase, and losses projected to decline slightly.

      However, even optimistic forecasts place Lucid’s market cap at just $6.4 billion, roughly five times its expected 2025 sales. In contrast, Tesla’s valuation remains over $1 trillion, with a price-to-sales ratio of around 12.

      My advice. Don’t bet on aliens or anyone else to make your investment grow. I might buy a hundred shares just to hedge my bets, but a 1,000, no way.

    • Gene says:

      They lose $300000 per vehicle sold. Seems like the formula for success.

    • Wayne says:

      Stock could double or triple? So, double to $5 or triple to $9 a share? Oooh, watch out. It was around $22 and jumped to $64 then dropped like a rock to $2.70 so forgive me that I’m not too excited about that.

      • Jason says:

        Tesla is also majorly over valued dependent on Elon Musk’s weird mess to remain so.
        Frankly I am tempted to buy a couple thousand shares just on the assumption they will figure their stuff out and get everything working….simply because Musk doesn’t have anything to do with them.

        • Dwight says:

          Fisker was in the same situation about a year ago with the NYSE. That, um, doesn’t bode well for Lucid.

    • Lucy says:

      I have a Lucid Air and I love it. Best vehicle I’ve ever owned, bar none.

  39. James says:

    Verizon Finally Restores Service in Most Areas After Day-Long Outage
    Thousands of customers taking to social media to complain about their phones being stuck in “SOS” mode since Saturday morning.

    Fuck Verizon. It never worked right in my neighborhood.

    • James says:

      Verizon said thousands of people who were affected nationwide by a massive outage now have service back.

      If your Verizon-backed phone was out most of yesterday or even still down today, you weren’t alone. The company said the blackout was caused by a “software issue” but did not respond to a request to elaborate on what exactly that meant.
      As I said, fuck Version.

  40. Holly says:

    https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2025/08/psyche-image-of-earth-and-moon-768×512.jpg

    The Psyche spacecraft is on a six-year journey to reach a metal-rich asteroid by the same name. Well into its voyage, the probe looked back at its home planet and captured a rare view of Earth, accompanied by its Moon, as a mere speck engulfed by the dark void of space.

    NASA’s Psyche mission launched on October 13, 2023, and is assigned to explore a distant target in the main asteroid belt that’s believed to be the exposed core of a protoplanet. Before it reaches its destination, the imaging team behind the mission is testing the spacecraft’s ability to capture objects that shine by light reflected from the Sun. The target objects of these tests are awfully familiar—our very own planet and moon—but they were taken from a rather unfamiliar perspective.

    In July, scientists on the imaging team snapped multiple, long-exposure photos of Earth and the Moon. The pair is seen amidst a dark background littered with several stars in the constellation Aries. Earth appears as a bright dot, with the Moon sitting right above it. The image was taken from about 180 million miles (290 kilometers) away and offers a rare look at our planet as seen from deep space.

    The photo brings the famous Pale Blue Dot to mind, an image of Earth captured by the Voyager 1 spacecraft in 1990. That image was taken from a distance of 3.7 billion miles (6 billion kilometers), with Earth appearing as a mere speck amid the cosmic backdrop.

    Although it wasn’t captured from the same distance, Psyche’s recent image is a similar reminder of Earth’s place and size in the solar system. The spacecraft is equipped with a pair of cameras, designed to collect pictures in wavelengths of light that are both visible and invisible to the human eye, to help determine the composition of the metal-rich asteroid.

    Psyche needs to travel a total of around 2.2 billion miles to reach the main asteroid belt and enter asteroid Psyche’s orbit in late July 2029. The 173-mile-wide (280-kilometer) asteroid orbits the Sun in the outer part of the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Scientists believe the space rock might be an exposed core of a planetesimal, or an early planetary building block, which was stripped of its outer layer during the early formation of the solar system.

  41. C[4 says:

    Azza has a massive vessel. It is the biggest MotherShip we have ever seen. I believe even the Immortal is impressed by its size. It is capable of destroying a planet in a single blast. So why aren’t you who complain about the dangers of the Immortal’s presence complaining about Azza’s vessel?

    • Nj]2 says:

      Azza’s ship has killed thousands to save the lives of millions. The Immortal has killed, millions because IT felt like it.

      • C[4 says:

        You are an idiot. The Immortal has since the beginning of time. He has witnessed or caused the deaths of billions and billions of beings sentient and/or otherwise. Whatever number you put to his total during our existence will be but a drop of what he has seen occur. If he wanted to he could destroy everything we know as life. If he kills, it is for a reason. Just because we mortals can’t understand that reason, doesn’t mean there isn’t a valid one.

        Consider him the ultimate predator and simultaneously the ultimate scavenger. The title will depend upon the circumstances he encounters.

  42. S]5 says:

    That specie is like Earth cats, they sleep on their left sides because it keeps the right side of their brains alert and ready to detect immediate threats.

  43. Your friend Daniel says:

    I remember a very long time ago the Immortal told me why he doesn’t trust humans. He said humans live less than a century, and they focus mostly on their own concerns. They seldom are concerned about how their life affects others within that time period. Then he looked at me and asked, “just how bad does a person have to be before it is justified for me to intervene and stop him?”
    He said that to avoid having to make decisions like that. He seldom makes human friendships because with truly evil humans the problems they cause have to be given immediate attention to avoid future escalations. I asked him what he thought was the biggest problem with humans. He said, “Knowledgable people live their lives knowing 90 to 100 years is only around the corner while foolish people live their lives thinking it is forever.”
    Then he smiled and said, “for all mortals a day spent is a day lost. Once those days are gone, they can never be retrieved.” Then I asked him if thought that I would one day betray him. He smiled and said, “only you know that, but should you do, I will just forget you to lessen the pain of another betrayal.”

    I told two billionaires that I knew someone who I believed was the Immortal everyone was looking for. They paid me to continue the friendship while they studied him. That was 41 years ago. When I heard about this blog, I made it my business to confess. Captain, if you are reading this, I am sorry, the money was just too much to turn down. I figured that you would forgive or forget me. If you can forgive me, I am in the 4th stage of prostate cancer, you once promised to come to me if I wanted to live longer, God knows I do. I have $hundreds of millions of dollars, It’s yours if you come.

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