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We live in an age of miracles and wonders, my friends.

Human 'washing machine' uses AI to hose down your filthy body -- because people are now too lazy to shower

Thought the Japanese toilet was advanced?

Japanese showerhead firm Science Co. has put the "pod" in "Tide pod" after inventing an AI-powered "washing machine of the future" that is purported to give people the ultimate bath.

"We're about 70% there," said company Chairman Yasuaki Aoyama while discussing when the device will be available at a lecture at the Osaka Healthcare Pavilion in late October, Japanese publication Ashahi Shimbun reported.

Dubbed the "Mirai Ningen Sentakuki," the cutting-edge shower capsule is completely enclosed like a hygiene-based cryogenic chamber and takes just 15 minutes to wash and dry the user.

"It made me excited, thinking about what kind of future there would be," declared Science Co. Chairman Yasuaki Aoyama while discussing the invention (pictured).

After the user steps into the center seat, the transparent cockpit-like contraption fills partway with water, as demonstrated in a viral YouTube video.

Sensors embedded in the seat then measure the person's pulse and other biological metrics to make sure the user is bathed at the ideal temperature.

They're then blasted by highspeed water jets harboring 3-micrometer-wide air bubbles, the Daily Mail reported.

When those pop, they produce a small but powerful pressure wave that scours grime from the skin -- the same process used to clean electrical components that can't be washed with chemicals.

Just like so many things nowadays from smartphones to restaurants, the wash pod offers far more than its primary function.

In this case, an innovative artificial intelligence system AI analyzes the aforementioned biomarkers to see if the customer is calm or excited and then projects a specially chosen video onto the plastic pod's interior to calm their nerves.

"Some people are simply too obese and weak to stand in a conventional shower and need mechanical assistance to maintain basic hygiene," said Jonah Goldberg's doctor.

I may have added a line to that article.

A New Yorker taken hostage by Hamas is admitted to be a murder victim.

A New Yorker who was kidnapped by Hamas on Oct. 7 was confirmed dead on Monday, according to the Israeli military.

Omer Neutra, 21, had long been assumed to be alive, but was actually killed during the terrorist attack, with his body taken to the Gaza Strip by Hamas, the Israel Defense Forces said.

Neutra, of Plainview, Long Island, had been serving as an IDF tank commander.

Flooding struck the English county where Ellen DeGeneres fled after the Trump election. Unfortunately, early reports that her mansion was flooded are being denied by the abusive former talk-show host.

Ellen DeGeneres is setting the record straight about the status of her new U.K. home amid severe storms that devastated parts of the U.K.

After reports circulated over the weekend that the former talk show host's farmhouse in England's idyllic Cotswolds region had been flooded, DeGeneres, 66, spoke out on Instagram. At the end of a post toasting her wife, retired actress Portia de Rossi, 51, on their 20th anniversary, DeGeneres added a postscript: "P.S. for those of you concerned, our UK farmhouse did NOT flood," she wrote.

Others in the area were not so lucky. Multiple days of heavy rainfall and strong winds led to at least five deaths, as well as severe damage to homes, roads and rail networks in the U.K., the BBC reports.

Ho-hum: Angry femcel writing for the New York Times blames Trump's huge victory on the "manosphere" and incels who are just angry that they can't date all of these strong and empowered gross unfuckable women.

A New York Times op-ed attributed President-elect Donald Trump's success in the 2024 election to resentful young men and their creation of a "manosphere," which, according to the writer, "reinforces the male breadwinner norm."

The piece, written by playwright Sarah Bernstein, argued that "our cultural narratives still reflect the idea that a woman's status can be elevated by marrying a more successful man -- and a man's diminished by pairing with a more successful woman."

The op-ed, titled, "How Our Messed-Up Dating Culture Leads to Loneliness, Anger and Donald Trump," noted that men's and women's fortunes were trending in opposite directions. After Trump was declared the winner over Vice President Kamala Harris, many have blamed his victory on sexism, misogyny and racism.

"Now that women are pulling ahead, the fairy tale has become increasingly unattainable. This development is causing both men and women to backslide to old gender stereotypes and creating a hostile division between them that provides fuel for the exploding manosphere. With so much turmoil in our collective love lives, it's little wonder Americans are experiencing surging loneliness, declining birthrates and -- as evidenced by Donald Trump's popularity with young men -- a cascade of resentment that threatens to reshape our democracy," Bernstein argued.

After Trump was declared the winner over Harris, many have blamed his victory on sexism, misogyny and racism.

Bernstein argued that modern romantic comedies promote the idea that women should have a successful career "and also a husband who is doing just a little better than she is."

Disgusting:

She's Chief Resident of Yale's Child Psychiatry Program. She Also Says Her Husband Can't Have White Friends 'Unless They Meet Me First.' Dr. Amanda Calhoun says psychiatry 'is rooted in anti-Black racism'

Ahead of the holiday season, Amanda Calhoun appeared on MSNBC's The ReidOut to deliver a message to its liberal viewers: It's okay to cut off your conservative relatives.

"So, if you are going into a situation where you have family members, where you have close friends who you know have voted in ways that are against you," Calhoun told Joy Reid earlier this month, "it's completely fine to not be around those people and to tell them why. I think you should very much be entitled to do so, and I think it may be essential for your mental health."

While such sentiments may be common enough among the resistance left, Calhoun is no average liberal activist. She's a psychiatrist who serves as chief resident of Yale's prestigious Albert J. Solnit Integrated Adult/Child Psychiatry program--and she's not shy about her far-left activism and racial biases.

A Saint Louis University graduate, Calhoun began her Yale residency in June 2019, according to her LinkedIn page. One year later, she was the keynote speaker at Yale Medical School's "White Coats for Black Lives," a demonstration held in the wake of George Floyd's death in which "around 300 doctors took a knee in front of the Yale School of Medicine to demonstrate their solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement."

"Before I was a doctor, I was a black person in America, and this white coat does not protect me," Calhoun told attendees. Her website touts similar rhetoric, including Calhoun's belief that "all doctors should be activists."

On X, meanwhile, Calhoun routinely laments what she views as systemic racism in psychiatry, arguing that the field as a whole "is rooted in anti-Black racism." Black children, according to Calhoun, are less likely to go to therapy not because of "access" issues, but rather because of "racist therapists."

The "racial gap in breastfeeding," she argued in a June 2022 Washington Post op-ed, "reflects white supremacy." And black men "don't get to enjoy old age" because "racism affects our longevity, literally shortens our lives," Calhoun wrote last year.

Calhoun's most controversial statements, however, involve her white colleagues, friends, and acquaintances.

Though Calhoun is married to a white man, she is openly hesitant toward Caucasians and gatekeeps her husband's white acquaintances. In a 2022 X thread, she said she and her husband "left our hometown" because "white neighbors would meet my husband and I together, and then straight up ignore me when I greeted them if I was alone." As a result, Calhoun wrote, she requires her husband's white acquaintances to meet her first before befriending them.

"My husband dropped a lot of white friends and acquaintances. He doesn't befriend white folks now unless they meet me first and respect me."

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Reached for comment, Calhoun said she would "LOVE" to speak to the Free Beacon but "unfortunately, because of how viral my MSNBC interview went, my department at Yale is barring me from speaking with the media or press in any way."

"I do NOT agree with their decision at all," Calhoun wrote in an email, "but as I am a child psychiatry fellow, as you know, completing my final year of training, I have to comply with their rules, no matter how much I disagree.

I mentioned this disgusting story on Friday -- a son asking if he should disown his mother, who moved close to him so that she could see him and raise his kids for him -- because she won't say if she did or didn't vote for Trump in November.

But in case you missed it:

Lefties are fighting over wokeness:

Maher also sparred with the demented lunatic Jane Fonda. Fonda denied that California was overtaxed or overregulated, denied the far left had gone too far, and, when asked if she agrees with the far left that men can become pregnant, claimed she'd never heard a single person making that claim so it must be a "minuscule" position."

She is extremely stupid and always has been, so it's possible she's telling the truth about never having read about this extremely common claim. I know an older woman who watches nothing but CNN and is always claiming that the left is not pushing transgenderism on kids or fake pronouns. "Those are Fox News stories," she sniffs, dismissing them as false. As Maher says, CNN makes sure that its older, Boomer partisan Democrats never hear about what the real Democrat Party is up to.

Joy Reid continues to spiral more deeply into full psychosis:

She shouldn't have deleted her X account, as she did one week after the election. That very light, digital contact with reality and sanity was the only thing mooring her.

posted by Ace at 05:41 PM

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