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Bad market for Ukraine defenders, dis one no enter

All this useless British propaganda.
Am surprised nairaland keep sending rubbish posts from silly British blogs to front page.

A victory for freedom of speech

Ride on Elon

Vickyvice:
damn. See military equipments, very solid. Not the chaff wet 911 better pass way Russia dey use

Na for war front we go know whether e strong or not

The Russian-Ukraine conflict has made the US humble.
If na before them go dey talk stupid human rights issues.

Elon musk... A true inspiration

Abuja no fine reach cotonou

See as grandma till fresh, money good oo

Nice one; I admire hard work when I see one

Why do I have this feeling it's not because of Ukraine alone, the west - especially US and Britain - are leveling all this sanctions.

It's like Russia's invasion sent a very clear message that has challenged this guys posture on the world stage.

What will person not hear this year?

Vladimir Putin has signed legislation that will grant former presidents of Russia lifetime immunity once they leave office.

The bill, which was published online on Tuesday, gives former presidents and their families immunity from prosecution for crimes committed during their lifetime.

They will also be exempt from questioning by police or investigators, as well as searches or arrests.

The legislation was part of constitutional amendments approved this summer in a nationwide vote that allow Putin, 68, to remain president until 2036.

Before the bill became law, former presidents were immune to prosecution only for crimes committed while in office.

Now a former president can still be stripped of immunity if accused of treason or other grave crimes and the charges are confirmed by the supreme and constitutional courts.

But the legislation Putin signed on Tuesday will additionally grant former presidents a lifetime seat in the federation council or senate, a position that assures immunity from prosecution upon leaving the presidency.

Last month the pending bills sparked rumours that the longtime Russian leader was planning to step down because of poor health – a claim the Kremlin denied.

On Tuesday the lower house State Duma passed legislation making information about employees of Russia’s judicial system, law enforcement and regulatory and military bodies confidential.

The bill now requires Putin’s signature to become law, a step that is considered a formality.

It comes a day after the opposition figure Alexei Navalny said he telephoned an alleged security agent and tricked him into admitting the Federal Security Service (FSB) tried to kill him in August by poisoning.

Navalny said he had gained access to the security agent’s phone number from leaked logs and travel records.

The Kremlin critic later published the agent’s alleged address and phone number, actions that would become illegal under the newly proposed legislation.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/22/putin-signs-bill-granting-lifetime-immunity-to-former-russian-presidents

A team of researchers at MIT’s Dream Lab, which launched in 2017, are working on an open source wearable device that can track and interact with dreams in a number of ways — including, hopefully, giving you new control over the content of your dreams.

The team’s radical goal is to prove once and for all that dreams aren’t just meaningless gibberish — but can be “hacked, augmented, and swayed” to our benefit, according to OneZero.

Think “Inception,” in other words, but with a Nintendo Power Glove.

“People don’t know that a third of their life is a third where they could change or structure or better themselves,” Adam Horowitz, PhD student at MIT Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces Group and a Dream Lab researcher, told OneZero.

“Whether you’re talking about memory augmentation or creativity augmentation or improving mood the next day or improving test performance, there’s all these things you can do at night that are practically important,” Horowitz added.

A glove-like device called Dormio, developed by the Dream Lab team, is outfitted with a host of sensors that can detect which sleeping state the wearer is in. When the wearer slips into a state between conscious and subconscious, hypnagogia, the glove plays a pre-recorded audio cue, most of the times consisting of a single word.

“Hypnagogic imagery or hallucinations is a normal state of consciousness in the transition from wakefulness to sleep,” Valdas Noreika, a psychologist at Cambridge who is not involved in the research told VICE back in 2018.



Hypnagogia may be different for different people. Some say they’ve woken up from hypnagogia, reporting they experienced strong visual and auditory hallucinations. Others are capable of interacting with somebody in the state.

But the Dream Lab might be on to something with its Dormio glove. For instance, in a 50-person experiment, the speaking glove was able to insert a tiger into people’s sleep by having the glove say a prerecorded message that simply said “tiger.”

The device is meant to democratize the science of tracking sleep. Step-by-step instructions were posted online with biosignal tracking software available on Github, allowing everybody to theoretically make their own Dormio glove.

A similar device built by Dream Lab researcher and PhD candidate Judith Amores relies on smell rather than an audio cue. A preset scent is released by a device when the user reaches the N3 stage of sleep, a regenerative period when the body heals itself and consolidates memory. The idea is to strengthen this consolidation using scents.

They hope to let sleepers take full control of their dreams as well. A 2019 “Dream Engineering” workshop hosted by the Dream Lab discussed the world of “lucid dreaming,” a state in which people realize they’re having a dream while they’re dreaming.

“It’s such an exhilarating feeling to lucid dream,” Tore Nielsen, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Montreal said in an MIT blog post. “You can try flying, singing, having sex — it’s better than VR.”

The problem, however, is that the science behind lucid dreaming is still murky. Only an estimated one percent of people are capable of entering this state regularly, making it difficult to study. The brain state during lucid dreaming is also not understood very well yet.

But other researchers are convinced there’s plenty to gain from learning from our subconscious — rather than commanding it with prerecorded messages or scents.

“The unconscious, it’s another kind of intelligence,” Rubin Naiman, sleep and dream expert at the University of Arizona, told OneZero. “We can learn from it. We can be in dialogue with it rather than dominate it, rather than ‘tap in’ and try to steer it in directions we want.”

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I thought this guy always support the government even when they shit on their body.

The Persian princess...talk about beauty in eyes of the beholder!!

Putin my man

Don't worry, fury, Josh's gonna give you the real thing.

And the Trump era comes to an end

It's like any celeb way come visit ned, go snap picture with dis im wife.This guy don use the girl become popular

Men on point. Money on d walk... Oh God give me dis money.

Fish out sinners....so now na by force to live holy

Lol. Pastors of this days are hard to figure-out.

Congrats bunni. It's like d weed u smoke helps a lot.

Twice as tall, burna on the rock

Love da year