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[Berzerker]

Wasn't that based on Russia taking kids from the Donbas? From what I understand the parents wanted to get their kids away from the warzone, at least for a few weeks. They'd prefer anonymity lest they be killed for 'collaboration' or abducted to serve on the front line.

[Berzerker]

There's a scene in The Patriot where Mel Gibson's character asked why he should trade one tyrant 3000 miles away for 3000 tyrants 1 mile away.

[SlowwHand]

I saw this on the news. Very cool.

[BeBMan]

A paralysed man has been able to walk simply by thinking about it thanks to electronic brain implants, a medical first he says has changed his life.


Gert-Jan Oskam, a 40-year-old Dutch man, was paralysed in a cycling accident 12 years ago.

The electronic implants wirelessly transmit his thoughts to his legs and feet via a second implant on his spine.

The system is still at an experimental stage but a leading UK spinal charity called it "very encouraging".

"I feel like a toddler, learning to walk again," Mr Oskam told the BBC. He can also now stand and climb stairs.

"It has been a long journey, but now I can stand up and have a beer with my friend. It's a pleasure that many people don't realise."

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https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-65689580

Science

Soon they'll also test something that lets presidents declassify stuff by thinking about it...

[Berzerker]

Budweiser has come out with 2 new cans, a camo can and Harley Davidson

[BeBMan]

Also this:

Kurt Cobain: Guitar smashed by Nirvana frontman sells for nearly $600,000​

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65664330

I plan to buy several old guitars and smash them to get rich.

[BeBMan]

[Dauphin]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65661251

The ICC said at the time there were reasonable grounds to believe both Mr Putin and Ms Lvova-Belova bore individual criminal responsibility.

The Kremlin's investigative committee in turn announced this week that it would begin an investigation into Mr Khan for the "criminal prosecution of a person known to be innocent"
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[Uncle Sparky]

So much for those memes about 2000 year old Roman roads still being in pristine condition.

[BeBMan]

And now to something competely different...and lighter:

Italian man fined nearly €900 for filling in pothole hits out at ‘injustice’

Claudio Trenta, 72, has triggered a national debate after deciding to fix 30cm hole himself in Lombardy

Not only did they fine him for fixing the pothole himself, also:

Trenta has been ordered to restore the hole to its original state.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/15/italy-man-fined-for-filling-in-pothole

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[Proteus_MST]

Thanks

[BeBMan]

My condolences to you as well. Sounds similar to what my dad experienced, but pre-Covid (it ended a few years ago)

[Proteus_MST]

Tuberski's dad passed this morning.

My concolences to Tuberski.

My dad also passed away this year ... in march ​
(it didn't come as a surprise however he became more and more demented during 2022, then became immobile after a CoViD infection he contracted in Hospital and had to get to a nursery home ... after 3 weeks there he contracted pulmonia of which he succumbed 2 weeks after he was taken to hospital again. It was a slow decline (and for my mother and myself a long phase of saying goodbye to him))

[Dauphin]

I never follow polls. I follow the betting odds.

[N35t0r]

Yes indeed. What is interesting is that he out performed the poll numbers. That raises some questions.

After 2016, you guys should be less trusting of polls