He was found in other people’s garden about 20 minutes away from our house. When we brought him home he immediately started purring and was very cuddly (even though he never was a super cuddly cat)
The things he must’ve seen…
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A number of things seem so off about this photo. The shadows cast from the playset itself are odd. The quality of the image looks to have been lowered not quite dramatically but to the point where if I showed this to people as a painting, I feel like people would be like wow, I can barely tell but yeah that’s a painting. So much about it doesn’t make sense.
For one, the way the photo was taken seems so deliberate. This is uncommon for proof of delivery photographs. It literally just needs to be a photo of the asset on location, ideally with other things on the property within the photograph. So either, we have an aspiring photographer/delivery driver or this photo was deliberately manipulated. The moodiness of it is actually impressive. I wish it were real, but I am not convinced. The striping, the spottiness, the resolution, the curious perspective on different parts of the photograph… I need to know what you guys think. Apparently, this has become an increasingly common problem with the dealers whom we buy contracts from for the financing on these assets. We’ve had customers use AI to show assets on fire, forge fire reports to corroborate the event, etc. We expect it from customers. But dealers fabricating delivery photos is bizarre. To what end, I asked myself, however coworkers have said that we potentially won’t buy the contracts until we have proof assets have delivered and customers are happy. Effectively, they’re fabricating deliveries to receive money from us, meaning they’re also forging contracts to send along with them.
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This past Monday marked the 99th birthday of Harold Bray, the very last living survivor of the USS Indianapolis tragedy. The birthday itself has passed, but we’re keeping the celebration going!
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What is this thing buried in my back garden? The exposed part is about the size of my hand. I think it’s made of plastic. Assume it’s some sort of marker but would like to know if I can remove it as the grass around it dies. East Anglia, UK.
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🔥I showed everyone at work this picture fig’d I would share it with the masses
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The approach to fighting viruses just shifted entirely. For years, the model was one strain, one shot. Now, the NIH is building a universal platform. It doesn’t just target one virus. It targets whole families of them, including influenza and coronaviruses. The delivery method is changing, too. One intranasal candidate is designed to block transmission directly at the point of entry, rather than just preventing severe illness down the line. The science is incredibly ambitious. But the biggest hurdle has nothing to do with the lab. It is the collapse of public trust. A technological leap means nothing if millions refuse it on principle. The next era of pandemic response will not just test our medicine. It will test our society.
