If we date British lockdown to 23 March, it seems to have taken all of four weeks before video meetings were identified as the cause of “Zoom face”, a sort of reverse Narcissus experience whereby contemplation of your own face leads only to dissatisfaction and despair. On the other hand, a happy ending – facial repair work – is possible.

It may be superfluous to add that sufferers from this syndrome are, predominantly, women. “Are you suffering from Zoom face?” Grazia asked. “Looking at ourselves on video-conferencing calls is taking a toll on our faces and our minds.” While carefree male users were still chewing gum in glistening close-up, it emerged that women, including very young women, were experiencing agonies of self-consciousness in meetings via laptop, which were only exacerbated by the lockdown ban on hair and skin treatments.

“I just look tired. Droopy, jowly, tired,” one Zoom face sufferer told Grazia’s Polly Vernon. “I’m literally always frowning,” another told Glamour magazine, where the writer concluded: “Just keep reminding yourself that as soon as lockdown is over, you can book in for as much Botox as you want. Just kidding.”

Although it may sound similar to “bitchy resting face”, first diagnosed in 2013, Zoom face differs in not having being invented by a US comedian in order to satirise the ineradicable social expectation that women’s features be, at all times, cheerful and pleasant to look upon. On the other hand, since the entirely made-up bitchy resting face was promptly adopted by aesthetic clinics as a brilliant way to flog facial work to not ancient but still inadequately benign-looking women, maybe it hardly signifies. Both could be sorted with treatment.

Reopened clinics are reporting a surge in inquiries. By last week, this Zoom-fuelled phenomenon had featured on Radio 4’s Today programme, one of whose male presenters sounded strikingly keen to normalise Botox for “the Zoom [young] generation”. His interviewee, 29-year-old Rebecca Reid, had sought treatment, persuaded by the sight of her own face in meetings. It was, she said, “seeing myself from all sorts of angles and realising I was starting to look older than I actually am”.

Listeners will have gathered, even without the evidence, that Botox did the trick – at least until it needs topping up.

 

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/30/ladies-dont-worry-about-zoom-face-the-rapacious-beauty-industry-is-here-to-help

 

Your computer tells you "you look shit"... while your brain isn't in gear yet. Welcome to Covido-isolation and a home slippers situation that start to permeate your whole persona and change you into a worm... You need an Elon Musk brain implant to do the trick... Just turn up the volume on the computerised positive beauty impressions: your skill at plucking your eyebrows improves 1000 per cent, etc. Ask Gertrude, she knows...

You feel like a traitor to de-mo-cra-cy because you're going to vote for Trump again. Turn that guilt setting to nil — and drink a gin and tonic laced with hydroxychloroquine. You are looking better than Biden and Hillary combined...

Your implant is secretly connected to "Pollstung" firms that now tell Trump he is leading 48 to 44... But Trump does not know that the popular vote does not count... Like Hillary, he could suffer a College vote disaster... Biden can't place his feet on the pedals of his tricycle. Meanwhile the US military tells us that Taiwan has been surrounded by China —and one of them (China or the USA) is about to do something stupid (see us military youtube...) ... But you look a million dollars...

Elon Musk Stresses Mars Colonists Will Probably Die, But Says Expedition Will Be Glorious

The billionaire earlier said that SpaceX is planning to start the assembly of a prototype for the massive Super Heavy rocket booster this week. It will have more than twice the thrust of the Saturn V, which carried Apollo to the Moon and three times the thrust of the Falcon Heavy.

Elon Musk said he hopes to see the Starship perform its first orbital flight test in 2021, also warning that the Red Planet colony project might be a one-way ticket for the participants.

"I want to emphasise that this is a very hard and dangerous, difficult thing, not for the faint of heart", he stated. "Good chance you'll die, it's going to be tough going, but it will be pretty glorious if it works out".

During a "Humans to Mars" video conference, he claimed the company is making good progress, noting that "the thing that really impedes progress on Starship is the production system". However, according to Musk, the main problem not the journey itself, but keeping people alive on the barren planet.

"Getting to Mars, I think, is not the fundamental issue. The fundamental issue is building a base, building a city on Mars that is self-sustaining. We're going to build a propellant plant, an initial Mars base – Mars Base Alpha – and then get it to the point where it's self-sustaining".

The Starship is designed to be large enough to carry up to 100 passengers, and at the moment the company is testing its ability to reach Earth's orbit and return safely. After that, the next stage in the project will be to establish a launch facility on the Moon, and the ultimate goal is a Mars colony.

 

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https://sputniknews.com/science/202009041080362797-elon-musk-stresses-mars-colonists-will-probably-die-but-says-expedition-will-be-glorious/

 

It should be obvious by now that Elon wants to send some smart chip-implanted pigs to Mars. Sent as piglet, when arriving there a couple of robots can build a prefab pigpen castle with all facilities. The pigs would not have to do much, except watch sunrises and sunsets — and sleep in between, getting paid for this in refined food, as long as they follow instructions and wear a dinner jacket for supper. They would make sure the robots humped and multiplied to dig for minerals and water, leaving the empty holes as latrines. 

 

Animal Farm on Mars...

 

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The Bay of Pigs was the location of a failed invasion by Cuban exiles supported by the US who were opposed to Fidel Castro's revolution. While there is no award named after this 1961 event, Trump nonetheless received an endorsement from the Bay of Pigs Veterans association.

US President Donald Trump on Sunday boasted that he had received the "highly honored Bay of Pigs Award" from Miami Cubans, while describing his Democratic presidential rival Joe Biden as "being terrible to Hispanics".

"Sleepy Joe Biden has spent 47 years in politics being terrible to Hispanics. Now he is relying on Castro lover Bernie Sanders to help him out. That won’t work! Remember, Miami Cubans gave me the highly honored Bay of Pigs Award for all I have done for our great Cuban Population!", Trump tweeted Sunday.

Trump appears to have invented the award, however, as netizens immediately pointed out that there is no such prize as "Bay of Pigs Award". What Trump did receive was an endorsement from the Bay of Pigs Veterans association in 2016. The Bay of Pigs is the location of an ill-fated, US-backed invasion by Cuban exiles that unsuccessfully took place against Fidel Castro government.

 

 

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https://sputniknews.com/viral/202009131080448340-highly-honored-bay-of-pigs-award-trump-brags-about-receiving-non-existent-prize/

 

One could think that to lead the biggest (in muscle) and most important (in self-adulation) nation on planet earth, one needs a sense of humour or that of the absurd. It's a toss... But being too serious could lead to malfunctions and confrontation in the self-importance department. So instead of waging war, one accepts a self-given fictitious award with a smile... Isn't this better?...

 

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A worldwide outage has hit Tesla’s app and website, leaving many drivers locked out of their own vehicles. Helpless customers vented their anger online while the system was down for several hours

Hundreds of Tesla owners around the world reported having trouble logging into the automaker’s app and website on Wednesday.   

Frustrated customers flocked to Downdetector, which tracks outages of online services in real time, lamenting about missed appointments and berating the Elon Musk-owned company for taking its time to resolve the issue.

 

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https://www.rt.com/news/501540-tesla-outage-trump-lawsuit/