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Straight Line of the Day: Physicists Claim To Have Bent Time and Created a Brand-New Phase of Matter. What Would Either of These Things Do For You?

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Physicists Bend Time Inside a Diamond, Creating a Brand-New Phase of Matter
SciTech Daily | March 18, 2025 | Chris Woolston

A novel discovery has introduced “time crystals” and “time quasicrystals,” which operate on perpetual motion and could potentially transform quantum computing and precision measurements.

Physicists at Washington University have forged ahead in the field of quantum mechanics by creating a new phase of matter known as “time crystals” and the even more advanced “time quasicrystals.”

These groundbreaking materials defy traditional physics by maintaining perpetual motion and could revolutionize quantum computing and precision timekeeping by providing a stable, energy-conserving method of measuring time and storing quantum information.

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Straight Line of the Day: What To Do If You Encounter Someone Who Identifies as a Turtle: …

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Mental health advisory board member’s bizarre pronoun stuns meeting
Daily Mail UK | March 13, 2025 | Samantha Rutt

A member of Oregon’s Health Authority (OHA) on best practices and policies in mental health said they identify as a ‘turtle’ during a state panel meeting.

JD Holt, who also goes by ‘JD Terrapin’ on Facebook, announced that they use ‘they, them and turtle’ for their preferred pronouns during a December meeting.

‘Hello everybody, it’s JD. I use they, them and turtle for my pronouns. I’m in the Springfield-Eugene area and I get to be part of the council,’ Holt said during a virtual advisory council meeting.

Holt is one of roughly two dozen ‘consumers’ on the OHA’s Consumer Advisory Council.

The council, established by administrative statute, is appointed by OHA Director Sejal Hathi, who was appointed by the state’s Democratic Governor, Tina Kotek.

According to a website that documents the ongoing list of non-binary genders, Gender Wiki, ‘turtlegender,’ sometimes called ‘tortoisegender,’ is ‘a xenogender identity in which one feels a gendered connection to turtles.’

‘One may feel their gender is replaced by a “turtle,” or their gender is best described with the use of turtles,’ the site reads.

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Peculiar behavior is not uncommon at the OHA as at an earlier meeting another member was also heard using unexpected pronouns, introducing themselves as ‘Luke A Shooting Star.’

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I’m Getting a Contact High From Listening To This Gibberish

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Kamala Harris mocked over bizarre Doritos word salad during speech about AI: ‘Three wines deep’
NY Post ^ | 3/11/25 | Anthony Blair

The failed 2024 Democratic presidential candidate went off on a bizarre (and nacho cheese-flavored) tangent while trying to make a point about DoorDash and affordable housing during her headline slot at the HumanX conference at the Fontainebleau Las Vegas on Sunday.

Harris, 60, left many baffled during her conversation with Nuno Sebastiao, CEO of data science company Feedzai, as she recounted ordering food on DoorDash to keep her going while watching last week’s Oscars.

“We did DoorDash ’cause I wanted Doritos. And the red carpet part was about to start and nobody wanted to leave to go to the grocery store. So it was DoorDash … So I was willing to give up whatever might be the tracking of Kamala Harris’ particular fondness for nacho cheese Doritos for the sake of getting a big bag of Doritos as I watched the Oscars,” she burbled.

Her actions were described as “consumer behavior” by a game Sebastiao in response.

“And that’s right. But here’s the thing: At what point do we also uplift and highlight the consumer’s right to also expect — and you can debate with me if it should be a right — I think it should,” Harris rambled on.

“To expect that the innovation would also be weighted in terms of solving their everyday problems, which are beyond my craving for Doritos, but about whatever — and I know the work is happening — around, you know, scientific discoveries, for example, to cure longstanding diseases.

“But I’m going to throw out another one,” she added, changing the subject almost completely. “I would love it if there would be an investment of resources in solving the affordable housing issue in America. Like, help me with that. Help me with that.”

Straight Line of the Day: Other Notable False Promises By Politicians: …

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More Fake Promises: Former British PM Sunak Regrets ‘Stop the Boats’ Migration Pledge
Breitbart | 03/07/2025 | Kurt Zindulka

Former British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has admitted that his government was not in a position to actually fulfil his promise to the public of ending the illegal migrant crisis in the English Channel while expressing regret over the “stop the boats” slogan.

In yet another admission from the so-called Conservative Party of misleading the public on promises to cut immigration, former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak admitted this week that his “stop the boats” pledge was “too stark” and that it couldn’t actually be delivered.

Democrats Are Stupid, Too

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Heh.

Dem Rep. McClellan: ‘Only Way’ to Ban Biological Men from Women’s Sports Is to Pull Down Pants
Breitbart ^ | 3/8/25 | Ian Hanchett

On Friday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “On Balance,” Rep. Jennifer McClellan (D-VA) claimed that the “only way” to enforce bans on biological men in women’s sports is for “people in schools to pull children’s pants down to determine what sex they are.”

Host Leland Vittert asked how Democrats can say they’re a big tent who are in touch with America when no Democrats in the Senate voted to ban biological men from women’s sports.

McClellan answered, “I don’t think that the American people want school professionals pulling their children’s pants down to determine what sports team they should play on.”