Someone finally decided to grow up

Quote:Nun who wowed The Voice of Italy becomes a waitress in Spain, wears high heels and has a piercing

Sister Cristina Scuccia, from Sicily, shocked judges, including the late Raffaella Carrà, during her blind audition for the show in 2014, giving a rapturous performance of the Alicia Keys’ hit song No One.

A nun who became a singing sensation after winning Italy’s version of The Voice has stunned TV viewers again after announcing that she has kicked the habit and is now a waitress in Spain.

She later produced an album, which she gave to Pope Francis, that included a cover version of Madonna’s Like a Virgin.

Dressed in high heels and a red trouser suit, with a pierced nose and long dark hair flowing freely, she told the Verissimo programme: “I believe that you need to listen to your heart with courage. Change is a sign of evolution, but it is always scary because it is easier to anchor oneself to one’s certainties rather than questioning oneself. Is there a right or wrong?”

Scuccia said she now lived “with a smile” in Spain, where she works as a waitress.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/n...na-scuccia

She recorded her version of Madonna’s Like a Virgin and sent it to the pope?! What, did she think he would invite her on an imaginary date? Shish, these people are childish.

The original principal of the high school I attended was a Catholic monk....a brother.

About halfway through my high school years he left the order and married a woman who was a former nun. She wasn't from a local convent so not sure how that little romance came about. Lots of people were upset by it. How dare they? A bride of Christ marrying a member of clergy. Funny, he was seldom mentioned with relation to the school after a time while the nun who helped him get it running was nearly sainted by people around town.

I liked Br. Michael. Hope his life turned out well.

When you send your own rendition of the "Like a Virgin" song to the pope and you are waiting in your cell for the postal service to deliver it to him.

Embrace what may be the most important green technology ever. It could save us all

Precision fermentation is a refined form of brewing, a means of multiplying microbes to create specific products. It has been used for many years to produce drugs and food additives. But now, in several labs and a few factories, scientists are developing what could be a new generation of staple foods.

The developments I find most interesting use no agricultural feedstocks. The microbes they breed feed on hydrogen or methanol – which can be made with renewable electricity – combined with water, carbon dioxide and a very small amount of fertiliser. They produce a flour that contains roughly 60% protein, a much higher concentration than any major crop can achieve (soy beans contain 37%, chick peas, 20%). When they are bred to produce specific proteins and fats, they can create much better replacements than plant products for meat, fish, milk and eggs. And they have the potential to do two astonishing things.

The first is to shrink to a remarkable degree the footprint of food production. One paper estimates that precision fermentation using methanol needs 1,700 times less land than the most efficient agricultural means of producing protein: soy grown in the US. This suggests it might use, respectively, 138,000 and 157,000 times less land than the least efficient means: beef and lamb production. Depending on the electricity source and recycling rates, it can also enable radical reductions in water use and greenhouse gas emissions. Because the process is contained, it avoids the spillover of waste and chemicals into the wider world caused by farming.

If livestock production is replaced by this technology, it creates what could be the last major opportunity to prevent Earth systems collapse, namely ecological restoration on a massive scale. By rewilding the vast tracts now occupied by livestock (by far the greatest of all human land uses) or by the crops used to feed them – as well as the seas being trawled or gill-netted to destruction – and restoring forests, wetlands, savannahs, natural grasslands, mangroves, reefs and sea floors, we could both stop the sixth great extinction and draw down much of the carbon we have released into the atmosphere.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...on-farming

Donald Trump has lashed out at Manhattan prosecutors via his Truth Social platform, demanding that they 'Give me freedom or give me death!'

Careful what you wish for, Don.

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For those still looking for a place to live



https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...there.html

Wow, imagine being so stupid that you produce a new phone and new OS and go into the phone market wanting to convince billions of people to ditch their phones and buy yours solely to distribute one app (Twitter), instead of simply creating a website where people can download your app. This is how dumb Elon Musk is.

Quote:Elon Musk said he will make a phone if there is no other option. Apple and Google should be careful not to remove Twitter from their phone app stores.

https://www.torquenews.com/14335/elon-mu...ast-resort

So, trawling TVTropes' non-film So Bad It's Horrible pages, I remembered reading about this:



It was called the TwitterPeek, and it cost $200 (in 2009 dollars) and had the features of being able to access Twitter... and do fuck-all else. Also, after six months (not that anyone was using it for long), you had to pay a subscription fee to do even that.

If he actually follows through with this plan, it looks like this could basically be a slightly higher-tech version of this dumbass idea.

Also, FM, I don't know about Google OS, but for iPhone users, once Twitter's deleted from the App Store, that's it, unless you want to jailbreak your phone, which is difficult, and fucking dangerous because it opens up the ability of viruses to get through to your iPhone.