Aiee!
This photo, carried by the North’s Korean Central News Agency on Aug. 14, 2023, shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (C) visiting Anbyon County, Kangwon Province, which suffered damage from Typhoon Khanun. (For Use Only in the Republic of Korea. No Redistribution) (Yonhap)© Provided by Yonhap News English
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First of all, why no redistribution outside of North Korea? Second of all, how did I see it? Third of all, what’s going to happen to us now that we’ve seen it?
Before there were motion pictures, there were lantern slide shows at theaters.
The following images were intentionally made to accompany a popular song called “Hello Central, Give Me Heaven.”
They would be shown in the theater while the song was played and sung.
If that doesn’t qualify as the first music “video,” I don’t know what should.
At any rate, it beat Jim Croce’s “Operator” by a few years.
Question: why is “squalor” in quotation marks?
San Francisco Doom Loop Tour Charges $30 To See City’s “Squalor”
The San Francisco Standard | 08/08/2023 | Joel UmanzorLater this month, . . . a walking tour aims to bring attention to the “squalor” on San Francisco streets.
Set to take place on Aug. 26, the tour plans to lead participants from City Hall to SoMa, the organizer, SF Anonymous Insider, said on Eventbrite.
There is a charge of $30 for general admission to the tour. San Francisco Doom Loop Tour: Competing Walk To Show Tenderloin’s Best
“The tour will start at City Hall, and continue through Mid-Market, the Tenderloin, and Union Square,” the webpage for the event says. “We will view the open-air drug markets, the abandoned tech offices, the outposts of the non-profit industrial complex, and the deserted department stores.”
Niger Military To Prosecute Mohamed Bazoum for “High Treason”
Aljazeera | 8/14/23Niger’s military says it will prosecute deposed President Mohamed Bazoum for treason. . .
In a statement read out on national television late on Sunday, a spokesman for Niger’s military laid out the charges against Bazoum as “high treason and undermining the internal and external security” of the country.
Sounds vaguely familiar.
(I really find the can-of-beer graphic hilarious, and IMAO-worthy)
Female ejaculation is when a female’s urethra expels fluid during sex. It can happen during arousal, but there is not necessarily an association with having an orgasm.
Scientists do not fully understand female ejaculation [Not yet??], and there is limited research on how it works and its purpose. [After all these years??] Female ejaculation is normal, although researchers remain divided on how many people experience it.
In this article, we look at the current thinking on the mechanisms, purpose, and frequency of female ejaculation.
Female ejaculation refers to the expulsion of fluid from a female’s urethra during orgasm or sexual arousal. The urethra is the duct that carries urine from the bladder to the outside of the body.
There are two different types of female ejaculate:
This type more closely resembles male semen. It is typically thick and appears milky. The paraurethral glands produce this fluid. Other names for these glands include Skene’s glands, Garter’s duct, and female prostate.
Analysis has shown that the fluid contains prostatic acid phosphatase (PSA). PSA is an enzyme present in male semen that helps sperm motility.
In addition, female ejaculate usually contains fructose, a form of sugar. Fructose is also generally present in male semen, where it acts as an energy source for sperm.
This fluid is usually colorless and odorless. It originates in the bladder and is similar in composition to urine. This fluid can sometimes contain PSA, and a person typically expels this fluid in greater quantities than ejaculate.
Researchers have confirmed the existence and origin of both female ejaculate fluid and squirting fluid. A 2020 review concluded that there is “sufficient evidence” to support the existence of female ejaculation, but further research is necessary to assess its chemical composition.
Other studies have also confirmed the physical origin of squirting fluid and its ties with physical arousal,
A small 2022 study involved doctors injecting a colored dye into the bladder of several participants before providing sexual stimulation. It was confirmed that the expelled fluid in squirting contained the dye administered.
In a 2014 study researchers used ultrasound to monitor women during self-stimulation. The study found that all the women started with an empty bladder, which began to fill during arousal. The post-ejaculation scans revealed that the participants’ bladders were empty again.
The secretion of fluids during arousal and stimulation is normal. People may produce different volumes of different fluids depending on circumstance and stimulus.
The authors of a 2013 review estimated that 10-54% of women experience female ejaculation. However, it is difficult to fully assess the rate at which people experience it.
Some people may secrete fluid during arousal without noticing. It is possible that they are not aware of it because the fluid can flow backward into the bladder rather than leaving the body.
What is known is that the experience of female ejaculation, including the feeling, triggers, and amount of ejaculation, varies considerably from person to person.
There is no evidence that female ejaculation has any health benefits. However, research has found sex itself to offer several benefits.
During orgasm, the body releases pain-relieving hormones that can help with back and leg pain, headaches, and menstrual cramps.
Immediately after climaxing, the body releases hormones that promote restful sleep. These hormones include prolactin and oxytocin.
Other health benefits include:
Learn more about the health benefits of sexual intercourse here.
New Pandemic Vaccine for ‘Disease X’ in the Works
American Military News | 8/7/23 | Timothy FruddIn the shadow of the recent global Covid-19 pandemic, scientists in the United Kingdom are already taking proactive steps to shield humanity from the next viral threat.
According to the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), the new Vaccine Development and Evaluation Centre (VDEC) is working to develop “life-saving new vaccines” to combat a number of illnesses, including the mysteriously-labeled “Disease X.”
“Preparing to tackle ‘Disease X’,” the agency said in a press release. “VDEC scientists have developed immunological assays or tests through which they can measure the effectiveness of vaccines against bacterial infections. These assays are being evaluated for use to combat similar, more threatening pathogens with a pandemic potential.”
Yay Free People!
Parents Pull Daughters From Sports Team Over Safety Concerns After Boy Deemed Allowed To Compete
Daily Caller News Foundation | August 11, 2023 | Reagan ReeseParents are planning on pulling their daughters off a Wisconsin high school sports team after a male has been allowed to compete..
About 50 parents and athletes within Green Bay Area Public School District met with officials Thursday who told them that a male would be allowed to compete on a high school sports team and potentially use locker rooms on the basis of gender identity rather than biological sex
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With tryouts starting Monday, some girls do not plan to attend over concerns for their physical safety.
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“The girls are just kind of fed up hearing that your safety is our top concern from all these people and they’re really doing nothing about it,” Ryan Gusick, a parent with a daughter on the sports team..
The name of the school and the sport is not being named by local outlets reporting the story for safety concerns.
Gee whiz, they wouldn’t do that if it was trans activists making the protest.
In the meeting, the district told the parents that the male student would be allowed to compete on the team if the student meets Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association regulations, which requires male-to-female transgender athletes take testosterone suppression therapy for at least one year, NBC 26 reported. The school district’s transgender policy states that students should not be kept from participating in sports and that students looking to compete on the basis of gender identity will be addressed on a case-by-case basis.
“The Green Bay Area Public School District cares about the well-being of every student,” the school district said in a statement to the outlet. “All decisions regarding a student’s ability to participate in co-curricular athletics/activities are made in accordance with Title IX law, Board policy, and WIAA regulations.”
Throughout the country, parents, school boards and lawmakers are debating …
… without being named, apparently
… whether sports teams should be separated on the basis of biological sex rather than gender identity; in Virginia, the high school sports authority announced that it will reject recent state guidance which requires sports teams to be separated on the basis of biological sex rather than gender identity. Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed a bill that prevents men from competing on women’s sports teams in college.
“I think it really reaffirmed the fact that they’re just not going to play,” Gusick told NBC 26 following the meeting with the district. “They’re too concerned mostly about the locker room situation in itself, and the safety concern.”
I like the high school girls sports locker room situation. Sue me.
Related news — [and, I might add, by a liberal site]:
Female Volleyball Player Testifies to Physical, Mental Trauma Since Injury by Trans Athlete
MSN | 4-20-23 | Caroline DowneyA female high school volleyball player who was injured while competing against a male player last year testified Tuesday to the mental and physical trauma she’s dealt with since the incident.
Speaking during a committee hearing of the North Carolina legislature, Payton McNabb, a senior at Hiwassee Dam High School in the state, recounted the lingering injuries she’s suffered from since she was struck in the face by a ball that was spiked by a male competitor in a match last September.
“I suffered a concussion and neck injury that to this day I’m still recovering from,” she said. Other injuries she’s still living with include impaired vision and partial paralysis on the right side of her body, she said. McNabb has also experienced anxiety and depression.
On Wednesday, North Carolina lawmakers passed the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act, which would prohibit male athletes from competing in the female division of school sports. Transgender students can still participate in co-ed sports or those that match the sex they were assigned at birth.
“I was unable to play the rest of my last volleyball season, and although I am currently playing softball, I was not able to perform as well as I have in the past because of the injury,” McNabb said.
She spoke alongside former University of Kentucky star swimmer Riley Gaines, who faced and tied with Lia Thomas — a biological male — at the NCAA championship women’s race.
I just like saying “Demon particle” and “plasmon.” Impresses topless hotties in bars.The “Demon Particle”: Have Scientists Discovered the Impossible? – Study
Jerusalem Post | 8/13/23Physicists have discovered a transparent, massless, and neutral “demon” particle that could help scientists understand superconductors better, according to a new study by researchers from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
The study, published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, focused on the search for a particle first theorized by physicist David Pines in 1956.
In solids, electrons act erratically, combining into collective units. If enough energy is input, the electrons can form plasmons – waves that act somewhat like a particle (also known as a quasiparticle) – if enough energy is input, although usually, the mass of solids is too large for plasmons (units of plasma, also theorized by Pines along with David Bohm in 1952) to form at room temperature.
