China is now banning "effeminate" actors from t.v. thinking this will rejuvenate the population somehow? Maybe he's thinking he needs to make his young men tough and callous for his Taiwan invasion force.

"China’s government banned effeminate men on TV and told broadcasters Thursday to promote "revolutionary culture," broadening a campaign to tighten control over business and society and enforce official morality.

President Xi Jinping has called for a "national rejuvenation," with tighter Communist Party control of business, education, culture and religion. Companies and the public are under increasing pressure to align with its vision for a more powerful China and healthier society.

The party has reduced children's access to online games and is trying to discourage what it sees as unhealthy attention to celebrities.

China's government banned effeminate men on TV and told broadcasters Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021 to promote "revolutionary culture," broadening a campaign to tighten control over business and society and enforce official morality.

Broadcasters must "resolutely put an end to sissy men and other abnormal esthetics," the TV regulator said, using an insulting slang term for effeminate men — "niang pao," or literally, "girlie guns."

That reflects official concern that Chinese pop stars, influenced by the sleek, girlish look of some South Korean and Japanese singers and actors, are failing to encourage China's young men to be masculine enough.

Broadcasters should avoid promoting "vulgar internet celebrities" and admiration of wealth and celebrity, the regulator said. Instead, programs should "vigorously promote excellent Chinese traditional culture, revolutionary culture and advanced socialist culture."

https://www.foxnews.com/world/china-bans-effeminate-men-from-being-on-television

 

A new farm toy has arrived, the laser weeder. It kills 100,000 weeds per hour and knows the difference between a weed and a crop. I don't know if it just kills the top of the weed or actually *kills* it, but if the latter will be a big boon to farmers, and no herbicides in the water runoff or soil, plus the thing knows where it's supposed to weed and can drive itself around and presumably work 24 hours a day.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/oth...der-zaps-without-poison/ar-AAObIWX?li=BBnb7Kz

 

Of course. You know how common it is for babies to have "accidents" that result in broken bones.

 

Probably. I'm sure that thing is pricey though, I'd bet it's good at knowing where it is. OTOH, who knows? One night you might wake up with that thing crashing through your living room wall and blasting your houseplants.

 

?? What I meant was that there aren't many babies with broken bones and it wouldn't surprise me it the guy who was using his baby as a human shield wasn't a child abuser as well.

 

Wouldn't that be something, or if it could go around your flower beds or garden and just get the weeds?

The other neat one I read about awhile ago was an experimental laser system that measured the wingbeat frequency of mosquitos and could zap them and leave other bugs alone. I'd buy one of THEM in a heartbeat!

 

So this Sheriff... I'd probably vote for him. Push come to shove, I agree more with his attitude than the ones saying, "oh, this man must have been the victim of something, let's give him a nice, hot meal and put him back on the streets without asking for something discriminatory like bail.

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After allegedly killing four strangers — including a 3-month-old baby — and getting into multiple shootouts with law enforcement officers this weekend, a former Marine came out of a Florida home with his hands up. But the sheriff said he wishes the alleged gunman had not surrendered — so his deputies could have killed him.


“It would’ve been nice if he’d have come out with a gun and then we’d have been able to read a newspaper through him,” Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said on Sunday. He added, “If he’d have given us the opportunity, we’d have shot him up a lot.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crim...y-would-have-killed-him/ar-AAOdkRd?li=BBnb7Kz

 

So this is apparently the new trend in N. Carolina, raising the front and lowering the rear of a pickup truck. It's gotten that so many people are doing this they have passed a law against it secondary to decreased visibility and handling, etc. LOL, I can't believe anyone would do this to their poor truck that must be dying of embarrassment being seen like that. Not to mention there's a FREE way to achieve the same effect, that is by actually USING the pickup to haul things like it was made for.



https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/new...lina-squat-pickup-truck/ar-AAOcnI8?li=BBnbfcL

 

Denmark is becoming tired of people immigrating to their country, not learning their language, and then sitting around collecting welfare for years. Strange that would upset them, but there you go.

"Some migrants in Denmark will now be required to work 37 hours a week in order to receive welfare benefits.

It will be a requirement for those who have been on benefits for three to four years, and who have not reached a certain level of proficiency in Danish.

Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said the rules were directly aimed at women from "non-Western backgrounds" living on benefits.

Denmark has repeatedly tightened its immigration policies in recent years.

It now has some of the toughest rules in Europe, and has set a target of zero asylum applications.

The government said the new plan was designed to help migrants assimilate into Danish society, but some have said the rules are misguided and unfair.

"We want to introduce a new work logic where people have a duty to contribute and be useful, and if they can't find a regular job, they have to work for their allowance," Ms Frederiksen told reporters.

"For too many years we have done a disservice to a lot of people by not demanding anything of them," she said.

The prime minister said that the rules were aimed at migrant women. The government says six out of 10 women from the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey are not in work.

"It is basically a problem when we have such a strong economy, where the business community demands labour, that we then have a large group, primarily women with non-Western backgrounds, who are not part of the labour market," she said.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-58484953

 

An interesting, if dangerous, thing on the science front. Researchers have developed genes that when put in to the dna of an organism will cut out the normal copy of dna opposite them and the body then replicates the artificial dna copy as the authentic one on the other strand, so that *both*copies of dna carry the mutant instead of just one.

This will allow them to rapidly spread mutations throughout a population. One might ask why they couldn't just replace both copies of the dna with mutations, and they could, but if they did that then during reproduction one copy of the mutated gene would come from one parent, and the other normal parent would contribute a normal gene, with the children having one copy of both, and 1/2 of their children would pass on normal genes, which is bad if you want to introduce a mutant through the population.

With this system, you introduce a gene in to one strand of the dna, it replaces the other strand's dna with the mutant. At reproduction, it will always pass a copy of the mutant, and the offspring will initially have one mutant copy and one normal copy ... but then the gene will edit out the normal copy to be replaced by the mutant as well, and the child will go on to do the same thing to the next generation and the next.

They're thinking of using it on malaria-carrying mosquitos, which sounds great, but... I dunno... it sounds like a recipe for something *bad* happening.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02087-5