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Pretty sad, the weak reaction to this man.

Says more than the actual action, or the man.

Did anybody watch the admin's shtick? You're not gonna ask me to post a Twitter link, are you? Besides, it could be a deep fake... You know the routine, can't trust anything.

But to tell the truth, I found the utter insanity and incompetence absolutely incredible. Very close to true idiocracy.... If the video is for real.

Rejected submission due to Lameness filter: No Spam Please! by RandomFactor at 2019-06-22 01:24:28 from the bundling agreement with Pfizer in 3...2...1..... dept.

On Friday, the Food and Drug Administration approved sales of the peptide bremelanotide (brandname 'Vyleesi'), a shot intended to enhance sexual desire in premenopausal women. Bremelanotide acts as an agonist for the melanocortin receptors which are believed to affect mood and desire.

This should not be confused with the previous poorly received attempt at a 'female viagra' flibanserin (brandname 'Addyi') which required taking a daily pill for up to four weeks to start seeing effects and had warnings about being taken in conjunction with alcohol. The bremelanotide shot does not restrict alcohol use and can be self administered by autoinjector as needed ~45 minutes before anticipated intimacy.

"There are women who, for no known reason, have reduced sexual desire that causes marked distress, and who can benefit from safe and effective pharmacologic treatment," Hylton Joffe, director of the FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research's Division of Bone, Reproductive and Urologic Products, said in a statement.

"Today's approval provides women with another treatment option for this condition. As part of the FDA's commitment to protect and advance the health of women, we'll continue to support the development of safe and effective treatments for female sexual dysfunction."

Side effects of the drug are mild and consist primarily of nausea in some women, with even that disappearing after a few doses.

Analysts have estimated potential sales of a drug that "safely and effectively treats loss of sexual desire in women" could amount to sales of about $1 billion annually.

The drug was developed by Palatin Technologies (+42.6%) with AMAG Pharmaceuticals (+11.5%) holding exclusive North America sales rights. Both rose sharply Friday on the news.

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Senators receive classified briefing on UFO sightings

A group of US senators, including the vice chair of the Senate Intelligence committee, received a classified briefing Wednesday about a series of reported encounters by the US Navy with unidentified aircraft, according to a congressional aide.

"If pilots at Oceana or elsewhere are reporting flight hazards that interfere with training or put them at risk, then Senator Warner wants answers. It doesn't matter if it's weather balloons, little green men, or something else entirely — we can't ask our pilots to put their lives at risk unnecessarily," Rachel Cohen, the spokeswoman for Democratic Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, told CNN.

The briefing was first reported by Politico.

President Donald Trump recently confirmed that he was also briefed on reports of Navy pilots spotting unidentified flying objects. "I did have one very brief meeting on it," Trump told ABC News in an interview that aired Sunday. "But people are saying they're seeing UFO's, do I believe it? Not particularly."

‘We’re watching’: Trump stokes UFO rumors during ABC News interview

Asked if he would be told if extraterrestrial life was found, Trump said: “We’re watching, and you’ll be the first to know.”

[...] On Thursday, UFO speculation hit Kansas City after several people said two mysterious, white, hazy and elongated “orbs” had appeared above the city’s airport. A local TV station tweeted a series of photographs of the purported mysterious objects. “We’ve taken several calls in our newsroom about these two orbs spotted in the Kansas City sky tonight,” KMBC said. “This picture was taken near KCI Airport.”

The National Weather Service declared itself flummoxed. “We honestly have no explanation for the floating objects over Kansas City,” it wrote.

get off me... get out of my flat

get off my fucking laptop

You just don’t care for anything because you’re spoilt. You have no care for money or anything.

Navy SEAL War Crimes Witness Says He Was the Killer

In stunning testimony that may upend the war crimes trial of Chief Edward Gallagher of the Navy SEALs, a SEAL medic told the court on Thursday that he — not the chief — had killed a wounded captive in Iraq.

The medic, Special Operator First Class Corey Scott, testified that he watched Chief Gallagher stab the prisoner, a teenage ISIS fighter, in the neck, but that the stab wound did not appear to be life-threatening. After the chief walked away, Special Operator Scott told the court, he pressed his thumb over the captive’s breathing tube until he died.

“I knew he was going to die anyway, and wanted to save him from waking up to whatever would have happened to him,” Special Operator Scott said, adding that he had seen other captives tortured and killed by Iraqi forces.

He testified after being granted immunity from criminal prosecution for the events and actions that he would discuss on the stand. A Navy official said that he could still face nonjudicial punishment, including being dropped from the SEALs or discharged from the Navy entirely.

Did he do it, or is he just exploiting immunity to try to be a lightly punished fall guy?

Never heard of it, but I'm still in favor of that same-sex marriage deal.
Then it's settled.
We'll legalize gay money-- I mean, uh, gay marriage.

Let's have Refugee Chic...

Und Der Migrant

Damn! Are we gassing and incinerating 2000 people every hour down there?

AMD’s “special binning” the 16-core Ryzen 3950X to make it “your best gaming part”

It would be interesting to see an 8-core, 2 chiplet Ryzen. 4 working cores on each, up to 4 completely broken. Select the 4 best cores, pump up the clocks. Gamers will probably prefer that over 12 or 16 cores.

AMD EPYC Rome Specs Leak: From 8 Cores Up to 64 Cores

Supposedly, Intel's Ice Lake (mobile) will own AMD:

Intel Ice Lake benchmarked - i7 performs better with lower TDP than Ryzen 7 3750H-APU

Intel Core i7-1065G7 – 10nm Ice Lake Incoming, Surpasses AMD’s 12nm Picasso Ryzen 7 3750H in Latest CPU Benchmarks

Warren emerges as potential compromise nominee

I've predicted that Warren will be the 2020 Democratic candidate for some time now. But now it's going to require Biden shoving his foot in his mouth or otherwise getting heavily attacked (and there's a lot of inconvenient stuff in his long political career). The meat grinder debates on June 26th and 27th (Wednesday and Thursday) should help with that.

Some potential good news for Warren:

1. She is in the first debate night.
2. Biden, Sanders, Kamala Harris, and Buttigieg are in the second group. Warren's closest competition is Beta O'Joke. The two groups were randomly selected.
3. She will literally be center stage, along with Beto, Cory Booker, and Amy Klobuchar. Position is based on polling.

Maybe I'm wrong and being separated from Biden and Sanders will mean lower viewership and less chances to directly confront her top opponents. What do you think?

Biden/Sanders, Warren/O'Rourke to be center stage at first debate

The event is hosted by NBC News, MSNBC and Telemundo, and will air live across all three from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. ET both nights. The debate will stream online for free on NBC News' digital platforms, including NBCNews.com, MSNBC.com, the NBC News Mobile App and OTT apps, in addition to Telemundo's digital platforms.

Savannah Guthrie, Lester Holt, Chuck Todd, Rachel Maddow and José Diaz-Balart will moderate the debate, NBC announced last week.

This was just target practice, right?

Because if they were shooting at Russia, they could use some!