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@JohnJasniewski @Rainmaker1973 You're not too smart are you? Keep your data center you AI loving bitch.

@Rainmaker1973 Why would an 86 year olds decision be significant... like i keep seeing stories about old people already secure for life refusing to sell land to data centers, if you want a story, find a 20 year old that does the same... even if said 20 year old just inherited the land.

An 86 year old Pennsylvania farmer turned down a 15 million dollar offer from AI data center developers in order to preserve his family land. For more than 60 years Mervin Raudabaugh has worked his 261 acre farm in Cumberland County Pennsylvania. The property is where he raised his family and maintained a thriving wildlife habitat. When developers approached him with an offer of more than 60 000 dollars per acre totaling over 15 million dollars he chose to reject it. I was not interested in destroying my farms Raudabaugh said. Instead he sold his development rights to a land preservation program for just under 1.9 million dollars. This decision permanently protects the farmland woodlands and wetlands from future development. His choice reflects a growing conflict across rural America as tech companies seek land for large scale AI data centers. These projects demand vast amounts of space electricity and water often leading to local resistance over the loss of agricultural land and environmental impacts. While the financial incentives are substantial for many farming families Raudabaugh hopes his example encourages others to safeguard Americas farmland. For him protecting the land where future generations can live and enjoy its natural beauty was far more valuable than any monetary offer.

@Kyrios0314 @Rainmaker1973 Shut the hell up you ignorant pissant. I haven't seen one bad comment yet that goes against this generational man not wanting to give up his land for any amount of money to a bullshit AI data center that takes even more of our natural resources here we so desperately need.

@Rainmaker1973 The comments in here have a lot to say. Id bitch slap the fuck out of all of you for less than what he was offered. Shut the fuck up. It's his land. And he stood on business.

@Chad_EH @Pirat_Nation Um you should actually play dark ages revelations because the music is amazing and metal , without the dumb dubstep

@Pirat_Nation id was time... time to trim the fat [blue-hairs] a good thing they could do is get Mick Gordon for the next one and pay him 1.5x his normal rate

Recent reports claimed that the deep layoffs at id Software had reduced the studio to little more than a support team. However, journalist Tom Warren says that’s not the case. According to Warren, despite the major cuts, id Software has not been turned into a support studio. Instead, he says the team is already in the early stages of developing a new DOOM game. Tom Warren has a solid track record when it comes to Microsoft and Xbox reporting.

@SnakeSorcerer @Pirat_Nation Piss off with that dumb comment. The vast majority of people loved the dark ages. If you wanted eternal 2.0 then that's your fault for wanting the same game again. Dark ages was fun as hell and the dlc is excellent. You might want to look at the majority of great reviews

@Pirat_Nation The problem is if the same people responsible for Dark Ages are still there

@BleacherReport @ShamsCharania That kind of money for a damn sports player is absurd. No athlete should be making this amount of cash just to have people on TV watch them for an hour, give or take.

Victor Wembanyama signs a 5-year, $252M max rookie-scale extension with the Spurs, per @ShamsCharania 💰💰💰 Wemby decided to take a 25% max instead of the 30% supermax escalators to $303M

@VGC_News To hell with this diversity hire who absolutely put the last nail in Xbox coffin. RIP idtech. Everyone miss phil spencer yet?

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has been named as an advisor to the US Federal Reserve on 'Productivity and Jobs'. videogameschronicle.com/news/xbox-ceo-…

@Pirat_Nation This country is so fucked under trump and AI. Way to destroy id software and Xbox, and now they want her to fucking oversee the federal reserve? Jesus Christ, help us now.

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has been appointed as an adviser to the U.S. Federal Reserve’s “Productivity and Jobs task force”the same week Microsoft announced major layoffs The task force will study how technologies like AI are changing jobs helping the Federal Reserve better understand their long-term impact. Sharma is one of three advisers on the task force and the only active CEO serving across the Federal Reserve’s five new advisory groups.

@FoulTerritoryTV What a crock of shit. Sit down boy has nothing to do with race. Anyone can say it to anyone at anytime. Today's society is ridiculous and needs a reality check big time. All these whiny bitches need to sit down.

MLB announced suspensions for Tuesday's benches-clearing incident between the Red Sox and Nationals. • Willson Contreras (Seven games) • Cade Cavalli (Seven games) • Miles Mikolas (Five games) • Nate Eaton (Three games)

@Blahqvab @hothambell @FoulTerritoryTV Yep that baby boy needs to sit down and eat shit !

@hothambell @FoulTerritoryTV 🤣 triggered. Mission accomplished.

@hothambell @Blahqvab @FoulTerritoryTV Actually yea it is because you're so damn insecure you think everything is racist. Sit down boy.

@Blahqvab @FoulTerritoryTV Honestly not even remotely funny. Eat shit.

@Blahqvab @FoulTerritoryTV Haha

@FoulTerritoryTV Boy gets to sit down only seven games. That boy should have gotten more games. Boy needs to sit down more.

@jenandoso05 @FoulTerritoryTV Racists? Wtf are you talking about? Get a grip. That word is incredibly overused today to give you an excuse for your insecurity.

@FoulTerritoryTV I don't agree. Contreras shouldn't be suspended that long. Maybe 1-3 games max. Honestly,people NEED to start beating the shit out of these racists. They are never going to learn otherwise. not letting kids beat bullies ass's in school is really starting to show now.

@MLGecko627 @GermanStrands Yes it will be as most physical console games do require the disc to play them.

@GermanStrands It isn’t even playable from disc, is it?

Looks like Halo: Campaign Evolved is going to be the first and last Halo game to get a physical disc release on PlayStation.

@GermanStrands Sony just killed themselves , and they even said the majority prefer digital only games. What? That's a giant crock of shit, Sony. Fuck Sony for this news. Not even going to consider buying a severely overpriced console called the ps6. No physical copies for trading? Nope!!

@DikCrainium @Z8124210990 @Rainmaker1973 Reading the entire post has nothing to do with reading comprehension. You just learned something new!

@Z8124210990 @Rainmaker1973 Read the entire post.... she drew up the idea and plans and an engineering firm produced the prototype.... reading comprehension elementary school concept......

Twelve-year-old Rebecca Young was named one of TIME Magazine's "Girls of the Year" for inventing a solar-powered, wearable heated blanket designed to protect homeless individuals from freezing temperatures. The invention, developed with engineering support from Thales, utilizes flexible solar panels and a battery-powered heating system, with prototypes currently undergoing testing by local charities. The young innovator from Kelvinside Academy came up with the idea at age 11 after seeing rough sleepers struggling through freezing winters in her hometown. Her portable invention, which folds directly into a backpack, collects solar energy during the day using small flexible panels and stores it in a compact battery pack. At night, this stored energy powers internal copper wiring to provide up to eight hours of emission-free warmth without requiring access to mains electricity. The design initially won the prestigious MacRobert Commendation Medal in the UK Primary Engineer Leaders Award competition, standing out among more than 70,000 entries. Impressed by the concept, the global engineering firm Thales turned her school drawing into a fully functional, waterproof, and flame-retardant prototype. The first batch of functional blankets has already been distributed to local charities, including Homeless Project Scotland, to help vulnerable individuals stay warm during extreme weather.

@Z8124210990 @Rainmaker1973 Exactly.

@Rainmaker1973 I don't understand where kids get the knowledge, the capital, are to cut through red tape, and whatever else so they can invent things. I can't even afford to miss a day of work yet a 12 yr old somehow has millions to invent something??? No way

@Rainmaker1973 And who is paying for those for the homeless? They would be expensive as heck. Oh, taxpayers will pay... No thanks.

@historyinmemes And musk wants to colonize ? He can stay there and never come back.

Mars is home to Olympus Mons, a volcano so gigantic that Mount Everest would stand less than halfway up its slopes. Olympus Mons is the largest known volcano in the Solar System, rising about 21.9 kilometers (13.6 miles) above the Martian surface. At more than twice the height of Mount Everest, which stands 8,849 meters (29,032 feet) above sea level, it is the tallest volcano ever discovered. Its immense size extends beyond its height. Olympus Mons stretches roughly 600 kilometers (370 miles) across, and its slopes are so gradual—averaging only about a 5% incline—that someone standing nearby on Mars might not even realize they were looking at a mountain. Scientists believe it reached these extraordinary dimensions because Mars lacks active plate tectonics, allowing lava to erupt from the same hotspot for millions of years. At its peak lies a vast caldera complex nearly 80 kilometers (50 miles) wide, large enough to encompass many major cities on Earth.

@Pirat_Nation All those AI idiots.... Are you happy you can't even afford a console SSD now because of your data mining crap, along with data centers? I didn't think so. Even if I was rich I wouldn't give money to the corporations who charge this absurd price. Build/buy yourself a rig!

SanDisk has announced a new series of officially licensed SSDs designed for the PlayStation 5 and PS5 Pro consoles. The top-end 8TB model is listed at $2959.99, a 20% discount from its $3699.99 MSRP. This price is roughly three times the cost of a current PS5 Pro console. The Optimus GX PRO 850P lineup comes in 1TB, 2TB, 4TB, and 8TB capacities, Current pricing after launch discounts is $379.99 for the 1TB model, $759.99 for 2TB, $1,499.99 for 4TB, and $2,959.99 for the 8TB model.

@DanK1261941 @Rainmaker1973 Forget those idiot trolls who say it's the vaccine. The vaccine has saved many lives, and made Covid systems much more bearable, like when I had Covid. I tested positive and I barely even got sick. Was only a little fatigued for like 3 days. I'm also O positive. #vaxworks

@Rainmaker1973 All the people on here that say it's the vaccine. I didn't catch covid till 2 years ago. I'm o negative which means I have a resistance to it but I have a weakened immune system and caught it now. I have long covid and I've never been vaccinated. JS

A groundbreaking study has pinpointed a microscopic culprit behind the debilitating fatigue, brain fog, and other persistent symptoms of long COVID: abnormal, sticky microclots embedded with neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) in patients' blood. These microclots—tiny aggregates of clotting proteins—are small enough to obstruct the body's tiniest blood vessels (capillaries), restricting oxygen delivery to tissues and organs without triggering obvious large-scale clotting events. In long COVID patients, researchers observed a dramatic ~20-fold increase (median 19.7 times higher) in the number of these microclots compared to healthy controls, with the clots also tending to be larger. What sets this finding apart is the discovery that these microclots are structurally intertwined with NETs—web-like structures of DNA, enzymes (such as myeloperoxidase and neutrophil elastase), and proteins released by neutrophils (a type of white blood cell) to ensnare pathogens. Normally, NETs form temporarily and then dissolve, but in long COVID, they persist and become physically embedded within the microclots, creating highly resistant, "gummy" structures that evade the body's natural clot-breaking processes (fibrinolysis). This creates a chronic thromboinflammatory state, where blocked microcirculation and ongoing low-grade inflammation may sustain symptoms like exhaustion and cognitive impairment. The differences were so pronounced that machine learning models analyzing anonymized blood samples (via fluorescence microscopy for markers like ThT for amyloid-like structures, DNA stains, and MPO for NETs) could distinguish long COVID patients from healthy individuals with 91% accuracy—offering a potential objective biomarker for a condition that has long evaded reliable diagnosis through standard tests (e.g., normal D-dimer, PT/INR, or aPTT levels despite significant microclot burden). This work, led by teams including Prof. Etheresia Pretorius (Stellenbosch University) and Dr. Alain Thierry (Montpellier University), reframes long COVID as a tangible, blood-based disorder driven by dysregulated coagulation and innate immunity rather than vague "post-viral malaise." Targeting NETs or microclots—perhaps with therapies to degrade NETs or prevent their stabilization—could open doors to treating root causes instead of merely alleviating symptoms. [Thierry, A. R., Usher, T., Sanchez, C., Turner, S., Venter, C., Pastor, B., Waters, M., Thompson, A., Mirandola, A., Pisareva, E., Prevostel, C., Laubscher, G. J., Kell, D. B., & Pretorius, E. (2025). Circulating Microclots Are Structurally Associated With Neutrophil Extracellular Traps and Their Amounts Are Elevated in Long COVID Patients. Journal of Medical Virology, 97(10), e70613. DOI: 10.1002/jmv.70613]