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A community poll has revealed what people considered to be the best map from the two weekends of the Battlefield 6 Open Beta.
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When is SOMEONE Going to take out Ukraine???
I'm Waiting!
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Trump Administration Helped Netanyahu’s Cyber Chief After His Las Vegas Arrest for Child Sex Crimes
Caught in a U.S. child predator sting, Netanyahu’s cyber chief was charged and jailed — until Trump’s White House intervened to make sure he got back to Israel safely.
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Battlefield 6 Open Betas Have Driven Steam Pre-Orders to 800,000 Copies – Analyst
Rhys Elliot of Alinea Analytics believes that pre-order numbers can even cross a million if EA can maintain its marketing until launch.
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“It is up to you to decide whether or not you’re ready to be free, really free. This pertains to your relationship as well as your activities in the world. You are limitless, if you choose that! Your freedom comes from letting go. Freedom means empowerment to be, do, go, feel, whatever your heart tells you. Only you have kept yourself from having this freedom out of some misunderstanding of what your responsibilities really are. Your responsibilities are to your Self.…
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US government wants to ally with India in new cold war against China. Donald Trump tariffs backfired, improving relations, helping BRICS.Ben Norton (Geopolitical Economy Report)
china fire has erupted near beijing as a massive china wildfire scorches forests, destroys farms, and damages power lines. this extreme weather disaster adds...YouTube
Search continues for 150 people missing in Pakistan's northwest following devastating floods
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Wall Street is quiet in premarket trading ahead of Trump's meeting with Ukraine's Zelenskyy
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Bolivia heads to a presidential runoff as 2 decades of left-wing dominance ends
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Hijacked satellites and orbiting space weapons: In the 21st century, space is the new battlefield
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Dear God!!!!!!!! A missile kills a little girl on video… and the only reaction is ‘raising concerns.’
We are beyond dehumanization
#Gaza #Palestine #Syria #iran #lebanon #Genocide #geopolitics
@palestine @lebanon @yemen #SettlerColonialism
#AntiImperialism #tiktok #cdnpoli
#antiPalestinianracism #canada #usa #yemen
@blackmastodon #freePalestine #GazaGenocide #IsraelTerroristState #StopGenocide
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(Reuters) -Germany said on Monday that the United States would have to follow through on agreed lower tariffs on Europe-made cars before a wider agreement onUnited Kingdom
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Borderlands 4 Won't Have Splitscreen Co-op On Switch 2
Just like Baldur's Gate 3 on the Xbox Series S at launch, Borderlands 4 will not have splitscreen co-op on Switch 2.
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Just like Baldur's Gate 3 on the Xbox Series S at launch, Borderlands 4 will not have splitscreen co-op on Switch 2.Josh Coulson (TheGamer)
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~ Preamble To The United States Constitution
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5 people who should never eat papaya: Health risks you should know
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Papaya, while nutritious, poses risks for specific groups. Pregnant women should avoid unripe papaya due to potential uterine contractions. IndividualTOI Lifestyle Desk (The Times Of India)
Cartels THREATEN TRUMP After Navy Sinks Narco Sub | Military Footage LEAKSTensions are rising as cartels issue threats against Donald Trump following a bold ...YouTube
TURQUIE. 97 % des Kurdes veulent un enseignement dans leur langue maternelle
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"TURQUIE / KURDISTAN – Selon les résultats d’une récente enquête, environ 40 % des Kurdes ont déclaré que leurs enfants parlaient turc avec eux. Une enquête menée auprès de locuteurs natifs du kurde dans différentes régions de Turquie a révélé que plus de 97 % des participants soutiennent le kurde
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Samsung's excellent 4TB 990 Pro returns to low price not seen since November 2023 — $249 deal ends at midnight
Samsung's 990 Pro SSD is down to a price we haven't seen since November 2023.
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Christopher Biggins latest celebrity to confirm he is using weight loss jabs
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Actor and television personality Biggins, 76, is taking Eli Lilly jab MounjaroJenny Garnsworthy (The Independent)
news: "Gen alpha is shunning commercial platforms and hosting their own websites based on older tech"
me, from the time the internet wasn't (as) shit: HAHAHA YES YES YES!
This gives me hope for the future
I'm not gen alpha but members of my family who are do consider all commercial platform's except tiktok and discord to be for old people so I'm not surprised at the rise of proper websites as a reaction to that
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Belarusian agricultural producers are approaching the 7-million-tonne mark in grain harvest, BelTA informs citing the CTV television channel.Belarusian Telegraph Agency
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A momentous day for SSD storage pricesStephen Warwick (Tom's Hardware)
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Live Updates: Zelensky Heads Back to White House, Facing Hard Choice From Trump
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PUTIN GIFTS ALASKAN MAN A MOTORCYCLE DURING TRUMP SUMMIT
At the U.S.-Russia summit in Anchorage, a local named Mark Warren walked away with a brand-new Ural motorcycle - a “personal gift” from Putin.
Russian TV crew bumped into him before the summit, saw his old Ural, and heard him complain about struggling to get spare parts.
The company pulled all production out of Russia after the Ukraine war and supply chains got messy under sanctions.
Days later, embassy staff showed up at his hotel with a shiny new ride.
Warren was floored, saying it was “night and day” compared to his old bike.
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“huh, i did not know this artist, looks good, this style reminds me of that other artist i can’t remember the name…”
“wait…”
“ok the sets are inconsistent in the details and this person posts every day, like 10 images a day… it’s just AI… sigh”
this is the thing, it doesn’t matter how “good” your ai-gen images are, they have this sheen of fakeness, and when you connect the dots it’s just… not something you’d want to see again, i mean sure, congrats with whatever stack you came up with to generate those, but… you didn’t do anything
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Trump Deploys THOUSANDS of Marines to Mexico and Latin AmericaX: https://x.com/realRJTalksYouTube
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Aegean Boat Report:
Disaster Strikes Again: Two Rescued, Four Found Drowned, Unknown Number Missing South of Lesvos
In the early hours of today, tragedy struck once more in the Aegean. A boat carrying an unknown number of refugees, travelling from Karaburun in Turkey towards the Greek island of Lesvos, capsized south of Lesvos.
The Turkish Coast Guard was alerted and launched a large-scale rescue operation involving a helicopter, a drone, a Coast Guard vessel, and five patrol boats. Several commercial ships were also called in to assist, including the Liberian-registered tanker Kriti Legende, the Portuguese container ship EF Elena, and the Turkish oil tanker T. Kilyos.
So far, two people have been rescued and four bodies recovered. The number of missing remains unknown. Due to the scale of the ongoing search-and-rescue operation, it is feared the death toll will rise.
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At the level of mitochondria, mice and humans are pretty close analogues of eachother.
@JackHadfield14@birdsite
> 🔬New study shows SARS-CoV-2 causes direct damage to heart cell mitochondria - even months after recovery - helping potentially explain Long COVID heart symptoms like chest pain, palpitations & fatigue.
> Been waiting to have time to read this paper. Let’s break it down. 🧵
> Researchers studied 5 people who had COVID-19 weeks or months earlier. They all had new or unusual heart problems, like chest pain, irregular heartbeat, or even cardiac arrest.
> Each patient had a heart biopsy (a sample of heart tissue examined under a
> All 5 patients were diagnosed with myocarditis - inflammation and injury in heart muscle.
> But interestingly, it wasn’t typical myocarditis with large immune cell infiltration. Inflammation was mild.
> The key problem? Structural damage inside the heart muscle cells.
> Using electron microscopes, researchers saw that mitochondria - the energy-producing parts of cells - were swollen, full of holes, and missing their inner structure (cristae).
> This was found in 40-60% of mitochondria in each patient’s heart cells.
> This mitochondrial damage happened even in patients 2-3 months post-COVID, suggesting it can persist long after infection clears.
> Loss of cristae means the cell can’t produce enough energy (ATP), which could explain Long COVID symptoms like fatigue and heart issues.
>- Collagen buildup (fibrosis) in the heart muscle
>- Signs of cell aging (lipofuscin pigment)
> - Myofibril damage (these are structures needed for heart muscle contraction)
> All of this weakens heart function, even without visible scarring on MRI.
> One patient - a healthy 30-year-old man - collapsed during exercise due to cardiac arrest. He had no blocked arteries and no heart disease history.
> Biopsy revealed severe mitochondrial damage and mild myocarditis. He was 5 weeks post-COVID at the time.
> Another patient had chest pain, but normal heart imaging (CMR, echo, ECG). Only the biopsy showed mitochondrial injury and cell damage. This shows subclinical myocarditis is possible even when standard tests look normal.
> To confirm if the virus itself could cause this damage, researchers infected mice with Omicron BA.5.2 and BQ.1.
> 7 days after infection, the mouse heart cells showed the same type of mitochondrial disorganization: swelling, vacuoles, cristae loss.
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Alahednews - Fastnews - The meeting between President Joseph Aoun and US envoys Tom Barrack and Morgan Ortagus began at Baabda Palace.english.alahednews.news
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stunning and brave. Trump may never recover!
“Sure you hate republicans, but do you hate them enough to jam a laser pointer in your butt and wiggle around on stage half naked?!?! Didn’t think so you coward!”
To be a fly on the wall at that meeting...
- "What are we gonna do to protest Drumpf this time?"
- "We'll stick things in our asses"
- "Well, that's a given, but what?"
- "Laser pointers, definitely laser pointers"
- "Brilliant! That'll teach 'em."
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Archaeologists found the body of a medieval knight underneath a tombstone that depicted him in full military regalia.Kristina Killgrove (Live Science)
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