- Ukraine is building an advanced army of drones. For now, pilots improvise with duct tape and bombs The Associated Press
- A video appearing to show a Russian Lancet drone striking a Ukrainian MiG-29 fighter at its base suggests the small drones can now hit targets far further away Yahoo News
- Ukraine Launches Drone Attacks on Russia’s Kursk, Belgorod – Local Governors U.S. News & World Report
- Cheap drones help Ukraine evade Russian air defenses. The New York Times
- Russia claims drones shot down over Kursk, Bryansk oblasts Yahoo News
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Lori Vallow’s son had date-rape drug in his body when he was choked to death with plastic bag, duct tape over his mouth: doctor – New York Post
- Lori Vallow’s son had date-rape drug in his body when he was choked to death with plastic bag, duct tape over his mouth: doctor New York Post
- Experts: Blood, flesh, fingerprints provide evidence of what happened to Daybell’s children KSL.com
- Experts in Lori Vallow Daybell trial say Tylee Ryan’s DNA was found on a pickaxe KTVB
- Lori Vallow Daybell’s Brother’s Fingerprints Found on Plastic Recovered with Her Son J.J.’s Remains PEOPLE
- Lori Vallow trial: Hear ‘cult mom’ and her sister speak after Vallow’s children found dead Fox News
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Lori Vallow’s son had date-rape drug in his body when he was choked to death with plastic bag, duct tape over his mouth: doctor – New York Post
- Lori Vallow’s son had date-rape drug in his body when he was choked to death with plastic bag, duct tape over his mouth: doctor New York Post
- Blood and flesh found on tools from Chad Daybell’s property, forensic biologist testifies KSL.com
- Lori Vallow Daybell’s Brother’s Fingerprints Found on Plastic Recovered with Her Son J.J.’s Remains PEOPLE
- Lori Vallow trial: Hear ‘cult mom’ and her sister speak after Vallow’s children found dead Fox News
- Disturbing details in death of ‘Doomsday mom’s’ teen daughter revealed New York Post
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Destiny 2 Feels Like It’s Held Together With Duct Tape Lately
Free-to-play online MMO looter shooter Destiny 2, released in 2017, is one of my favorite video games. I play it all the time. I have multiple characters. I own all the recent seasons. It’s fantastic. But I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t concerned for the game’s future, as with each passing season, it seems to become more prone to breaking. In fact, as I write this very paragraph at around 4:00 p.m. on January 24, the game remains offline as Bungie continues to investigate the latest problem. Meanwhile, many players are hoping for a brand-new engine and game, likely in the form of Destiny 3. But things are never that simple.
Earlier today, Destiny 2 was taken offline across all platforms as Bungie investigated players losing progress on triumphs and seals, which operate like in-game achievements and challenges. It’s not the end of the world, sure, but just last week a few players reported losing their characters along with all their progress and items. And before that, it was a new mission not updating properly for players. And before that it was something else. In 2023, after years of updates, expansions, and more, it feels like Destiny 2 is starting to buckle under its own weight.
Taking a peek at Bungie’s official support account on Twitter—which often updates frequently to let players know about upcoming patches, server issues, and other vital info about Destiny 2—you can find a lot of tweets that amount to Bungie going “Welp, this isn’t working. We are trying to fix it. More info later.” Online games not working every day isn’t new and it’s not a problem exclusive to Destiny 2. But is starting to become a more prevalent issue with the aging shooter. Looking at that support account, a lot of the tweets about bugs or broken missions don’t have weeks between them, but just a few days or less.
Anecdotally, my time playing Destiny 2 lately has been buggier than ever. This new season brought with it both cool new heist missions and weird lag that I’ve never seen before. I still run into the problem of the game not counting every PvP match, making us play more to finish challenges and weekly quests. And I’ve just accepted that in-game bounties tied to kills, missions, or other activities won’t always update as they should. In fact, the more I think about it, the more I realize that I and other players I know have just gotten used to Destiny 2 not being reliable. And it seems to be getting worse, not better, as the game expands and adds more layers and systems.
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Look online and you’ll quickly see players suggesting that Bungie needs to move on to a theoretical Destiny 3, a game that likely will happen—and is maybe in development already—but which hasn’t been confirmed. During today’s extended downtime, Destiny 3 was trending on Twitter as players argued over the shooter’s future and stability. For some, the idea of a new engine and fresh slate felt promising, giving hope it would solve many of Destiny 2’s problems. Others pointed out that a brand-new game isn’t easy to make or simple to launch, and would likely be missing features or content at release. Plus, there’s no guarantee it would fix all of the emerging problems.
Personally, I think a new Destiny would likely be a good move to eventually make. It could allow the devs to make something more flexible and able to handle the type of events they’ve spent years crafting and perfecting. But I also am not naive enough to believe it would fix everything or be easy to create. Still, I get the frustration players are feeling as Destiny 2 remains consistently inconsistent.
Like an old PC or blender, Destiny 2 mostly works, but it’s covered in duct tape, dents, and dirt. And every so often you have to kick it or mess with the cord to get it to start. Sure, it still rumbles to life for now, but you’ll probably need to replace it one day. And with Destiny 2, I get the feeling Bungie will be slapping on the tape for as long as it takes for Destiny 2 to survive through the end of its planned roadmap, which will likely see the final season arriving in 2024. Past that, well, I don’t know. Hopefully by then, the game will at least feel more stable and reliable, not worse.
Pregnant Woman Diagnosed With a Clogged Milk Duct, but It Was Cancer.
- Lindsey Gritton said she was misdiagnosed with a clogged milk duct when she was 34 weeks pregnant.
- After requesting an ultrasound, Gritton said she was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer.
- She said she wants other young women to know the importance of advocating for themselves.
Lindsey Gritton said she was 34 weeks pregnant with her second daughter when she began to experience a burning sensation in her right armpit and the outside of her right breast in April. The burning would come and go, she said, but it persisted for about a week. Shortly after, the 29-year-old said she discovered a lump on the outer right side of her breast, the size of a small marble.
Gritton said the lump felt similar to a clogged milk duct she had in her first pregnancy, but this one was a little different because she couldn’t unclog it herself, and the pain was persistent. She scheduled an appointment with her ob-gyn, who told her it was most likely a clogged milk duct causing mastitis, an inflammation of the breast tissue. The doctor prescribed her antibiotics, but Gritton said she still felt skeptical.
Gritton recalled her doctor saying: “I’ve seen this a thousand times. I have so many people with this problem when they’re pregnant.”
“And I just knew what a clogged duct felt like,” Gritton said. “And so in the back of my head, I knew that it wasn’t that.”
Gritton said she insisted on getting an ultrasound, even after her doctor told her she was too young for it to be cancer. “She didn’t even want to do an ultrasound. I had to just keep asking for it. I was like, ‘I really need to get an ultrasound because I’m really worried about it,'” she said.
Gritton said that when she went in for her appointment a few days later, she knew from looking at the ultrasound technician’s face that something was wrong.
“She kept going over it with her little wand thing, and she kept looking at the screen. They’re not allowed to say anything to you, but I could just tell by that look on her face that it just wasn’t good,” she said.
She said her ultrasound results indicated a high likelihood of cancer, and a biopsy a week later confirmed that she had invasive ductal carcinoma. She said doctors told her the cancer had likely already spread because of the size of the tumor. They couldn’t know for sure, though, until they took a PET scan, which wasn’t possible while Gritton was pregnant because of the radioactive tracers used in the scan, which can expose unborn children to radiation.
Gritton’s pregnancy was induced a week later, she said, three weeks before her original due date. After she gave birth, she said the PET scan confirmed that she had stage 4 cancer that had spread to her liver. She started chemotherapy two weeks later.
Gritton is hopeful, despite her diagnosis
Gritton said she’s been undergoing chemotherapy for four months and goes in for treatments every three weeks. She said she feels lucky to live close to her husband’s family in Gainesville, Georgia, who take care of the kids from time to time.
Lindsey Gritton
Gritton said she’s hopeful that chemotherapy can eliminate most of her cancer. Her most recent scans showed that 80% of it is gone, she said.
Advocating for herself saved her life
Gritton said she wants to let women know the importance of advocating for themselves when they’re worried about their health.
“If I wouldn’t have advocated for myself, I don’t even think I’d be here today. Because from what they told me with my blood work and everything, my liver was already failing,” she said.
Young women should also get screened for breast cancer regularly, especially when they’re pregnant, she said.