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Cockroaches wouldn't exist without humans. We helped them become one of the world's worst pests, according to a new study.

BUSINESS INSIDER
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Lloyd Lee
May 27, 2024

If you ever saw a cockroach scuttling across your kitchen floor or a restaurant wall, chances are it was a German cockroach. The German roach is the most common of the 70 different cockroach species in the US.

For 250 years, scientists didn't know where it came from and how it managed to spread to every continent on Earth except Antarctica. Now that mystery has been solved, and the answer is that it's largely our fault.

The German cockroach is "a creation of human-made environments," Edward Vargo, an entomology professor at Texas A&M University and co-author of a new study identifying the roach's origins, told The Washington Post.

The German cockroach can't survive in "temperate winters outdoors" and all species of cockroaches "prefer warm, moist places where they can feed on human and pet foods, decaying and fermenting matter, and a variety of other items," according to the Illinois Department of Public Health.

That's why it's pretty safe to say that if human-built establishments like houses, stores, restaurants, and other buildings didn't exist, neither would these pesky pests.

The researchers published their results last week in the peer-reviewed journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Where did the German roach come from?

Scientists have long understood that the species thrive indoors, but their origins remained a mystery.

Through DNA analysis, Vargo and his colleagues found that the species' closest relative is the Asian cockroach.

The German roach evolved from its Asian cousin about 2,100 years ago to adapt to "human settlements in India or Myanmar," the researchers reported in their paper.

With advancements in transportation and "temperature-controlled housing," the German cockroach made its relatively recent global spread, the researchers said in their report.

How the German cockroach took over

The German cockroach's adaption to warm environments, ability to rapidly breed, and unique resistance to insecticides make them a frustratingly common presence in households.

For example, in a lifetime, one adult female German roach can produce four to eight egg capsules containing up to 48 eggs each, according to Penn State's Department of Entomology. Do the math and that's between 192 to 384 roaches, if every egg survives to adulthood.

But German roaches didn't migrate thousands of miles across oceans and continents on their tiny insect legs. Their global spread coincides with advancements in human travel and housing, according to the study.

In particular, the researchers determined that the German cockroach's spread began along two routes, west and east of its origin in India or Myanmar.

The roach's westward spread likely occurred during times of increasing "commercial and military activities of the Islamic Umayyad or Abbasid Caliphates" about 1,200 years ago, the researchers reported. Meanwhile, the pest's eastward spread about 390 years ago was likely caused by "European colonial commercial activities between South and Southeast Asia."

Understanding the German cockroaches' origins could help other scientists understand how the species evolved to become so resilient against common insecticides. One study found that they're resistant to five types of common household insecticides.

"If we can know the origin of the species, we can try to identify the mechanism of this rapid evolution of insecticide resistance," Qian Tang, a research associate at Rowland Institute at Harvard who led the new study told the Post.

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Pepsi's Long Reign as America's No. 2 Soda Just Ended

The Western Journal
msn.com
Story by Jack Davis
June 5, 2024

A taste of Texas has come a long way and has now shoved Pepsi aside to be the No. 2 soda in America.

According to Beverage Digest data, Dr Pepper has inched its way into the second-place spot long held by Pepsi, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday.

The giant of the industry remains Coke, which had a 19.18 percent market share in 2023, according to the report. But Dr Pepper had an 8.34 percent market share, edging Pepsi's 8.31 percent.

Sprite was third at 8.09 percent, followed by Diet Coke at 7.82.

Dr Pepper came into being in 1885 when Charles Alderton, a pharmacist and soda fountain operator, created a drink that replicated the smell of the drugstore in Waco, Texas, where he worked, according to the Journal.

The combination blended 23 flavors, including cherry, vanilla, and multiple fruits and spices.

The Dr Pepper website says the drug store's owner, Wade Morrison, named the beverage after Charles Pepper, a Virginia doctor whose daughter Morrison had admired.

It was the first of today’s sodas created. Coca-Cola was born in 1886 and Pepsi-Cola in the 1890s.

Dr Pepper was long a fixture in Southern states as Coke gained a national foothold that went largely unchallenged until Pepsi began aggressive marketing in the 1960s.

Now the beverage born in Waco has topped the Coke rival.

“Dr Pepper has been gaining, [Pepsi] has been declining, and they’re meeting in the middle,” Duane Stanford, editor of Beverage Digest, said, according to CNN.

Stanford said Pepsi is part of a massive corporation with multiple marketing priorities and is pushing its zero-sugar products.

The Journal noted that Pepsi had been second in almost every year since 1985 except for a three-year stretch when Diet Coke was second.

Dr Pepper's efforts to grow a national name began in the 1970s, CNN reported.

The brand is owned by Keurig Dr Pepper.

The firm’s chief marketing officer, Andrew Springate, told the Journal that as of 2004, Dr Pepper was tied for sixth place with Sprite, and since then it has been aggressive in marketing -- particularly to college football fans -- and in securing placements in soda fountains.

In yet another way-too-early pre-season poll, Fansville is favored as the #1 tv-drama-themed-college-football-marketing-campaign for the 5th year in a row.

It also has been experimenting with new flavors, such as its Dr Pepper Strawberries & Cream that was introduced last year, CNN reported.

Dr Pepper devotee Daryl Allen of Seattle experiments with ways to improve the flavor, such as adding either hot peppers or pickles, the Journal reported.

He was thrilled his soda was now No. 2.

“That’s awesome!” Allen said. “It’s such an underdog story.”

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Porn Sites Battle to Hire Edmonton Oilers Fan Who Flashed Jumbotron at NHL Playoff Game

USWeekly
yahoo.com
Russell Steinberg
June 5, 2024

http://youtube.com/shorts/oImag...?feature=share

One Edmonton Oilers fan has more to celebrate than just her team in the Stanley Cup Finals for the first time since 1990.

Porn sites are competing to earn the services of a still-unidentified fan who flashed the jumbotron at Rogers Place, the Oilers’ home arena, during the Western Conference Finals.

It happened during a game in the Oilers’ series against the Dallas Stars, when the camera caught her cheering in the crowd. She then lifted her Oilers jersey and shook from side to side while a fan a couple seats away from her began recording on her phone. Most other fans in the area seemed unbothered by the sudden reveal, reveling in playoff hockey instead.

After a few seconds, the fan dropped her shirt and looked directly at the camera, bursting into laughter. The moment soon went viral when user Gerry39464526 posted it on X.

A spokesperson for PornDudeCasting, an adult site that draws 61 million viewers a month, according to TMZ, told the outlet that the woman’s boobs “were made for porn” and the site would like to offer her a role on their set.

But PornDudeCasting has some competition.

Porn site CamSoda told TMZ it was offering the woman $100,000 to "show off her chest just as she did the other night" on their streams. OnlyFans has also encouraged her to create an account.

If social media is any indication, the mystery fan already has a decent following. Hockey and non-hockey fans alike jumped into the comments via X to show their support. One commented on the video, “The only good thing we have seen in an Oilers jersey.”

"I'm suddenly an Oilers fan,” wrote another.

Observant fans also noticed that while the video was racking up the “likes,” it had almost as many bookmarks so that post could be revisited.

This Oilers supporter is far from the first to shock sports fans with a NSFW moment. Most notably, Jake Paul’s ex Julia Rose and friend Lauren Summer flashed the cameras during the 2019 World Series between the Houston Astros and Washington Nationals.

The stunt earned the two a ban from Nationals Park, but that didn’t stop Rose from doing the same thing outside the ballpark, promoting her magazine, SHAGMAG, and encouraging donations to breast cancer research.

The Oilers’ next home game will be on June 13 in Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Finals. If the fan still hasn’t been found by then, all eyes will be on the jumbotron for a potential encore performance.

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China Humiliated as Tourist Discovers Country's Renowned Waterfall Comes from a Hidden Pipe

msn.com
Story by Allison Anton
June 7, 2024

http://youtu.be/HP6ltRxOhjk

China has earned something of an international reputation as the world leader in shoddy frauds.

Online retailers such as Wish and Temu are known for selling knockoffs and counterfeit products that originated there.

But, though its consumer goods might not be wholly genuine, one would think that China's national landmarks, at least, would be the real thing.

Well, apparently not, as a tourist found out when scaling Asia's highest waterfall.

In a video shared by the South China Morning Post on Thursday, a hiker climbed to the top of the Yuntai Mountain waterfall in China's Hunan province, which is more than 1,000 feet tall.

When he arrived there, he found that most of the water for the falls was provided by a series of rusty pipes, which almost no effort had been made to disguise.

The U.K.'s Independent reported that the video exposing this deception was originally posted on the Chinese social media platform Douyin, where it garnered more than 48,000 views.

In response, the park posted an apology and explanation for the deception, with a statement written in the voice of the waterfall.

"In order to enrich your visiting experience and make your visit worthwhile, I made a small enhancement during the dry season, just to meet you in a better posture," it said.

Responses to this deception from users on Douyin and another Chinese platform Weibo, were pretty divided, according to The Independent.

Some decried the shoddiness of the deception.

"The main thing is that the water pipe is so crudely installed, others at least disguise it in a superior way," one user said.

Others took a more moral stance: "The move does not respect the laws of nature nor the visitors."

Another group of users found the blatant deception mostly harmless.

One said that "it is better than seeing no water at all" for the 7 million tourists every year who come to see the waterfall.

Perhaps, but this embarrassing discovery was very much in character for the Chinese government and Chinese industry.

After all, only last month a Chinese zoo was busted for painting Chow Chow dogs and presenting them as "pandas."

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First Neuralink Patient Says Implant Has Given Him Incredible Gaming Skills

Futurism
yahoo.com
Victor Tangermann
June 25, 2024

Earlier this year, Noland Arbaugh became the first patient to receive a brain-computer chip implanted by Elon Musk's startup Neuralink.

The 29-year-old lost control over his limbs after a diving accident eight years ago, but has since gained the ability to move a cursor with his mind alone thanks to the coin battery-sized device implanted in his skull and brain.

The tech isn't without its perils, but it also has the potential to profoundly impact the lives of people like Arbaugh, giving them novel ways to live enriched and independent lives.

At the same, according to his latest media appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience — where else, given that Musk is a frequent flyer on the show? — the upgrade is giving Arbaugh sick new gaming skills.

"I basically have an aimbot in my head," he told the controversial podcaster, referring to bots that automatically lock onto their opponents in video games, giving cheating players seemingly superhuman reflexes. "They’ll probably have different leagues for people like me because it’s just not fair."

"Wow, is it that accurate?" Rogan replied.

"It’s that accurate and it’s faster," Arbaugh dished. "Sometimes, it's so good that it’s moving before I even, like, think it to move. If you think about moving your hand, the signal is basically already being sent before you move your hand."

While games like Call of Duty are still "too far out of reach for the Neuralink at this point," according to Arbaugh, he has successfully played plenty of other games, including Civilization VI and Mario Kart.

"In the next few years, I think I’ll be able to play anything anyone else plays," Arbaugh told Rogan, adding that he hopes to play Halo someday.

Despite the plentiful gaming applications, his experience with the brain-computer interface hasn't been entirely smooth sailing.

Earlier this year, he "started losing control of the cursor," as he told Bloomberg at the time. Neuralink found that some of the threads inserted into his motor cortex had started to retract over time, possibly due to air trapped in his skull following the surgery.

As a result, the company is now hoping to dig the wires, each of which is thinner than a human hair, deeper into the second subject's brain, as the Wall Street Journal reported last month.

Apart from playing video games with almost superhuman reflexes, Arbaugh also reflected on the downsides of having hardware installed in his brain during his chat with Rogan.

"I mean people ask me all the time if this thing can be hacked, and the short answer is yes," he said. "But at this point, at least hacking this wouldn't really do much... You might be able to control my cursor on my screen and make me look at weird stuff."

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Students Target Teachers in Group TikTok Attack, Shaking Their School

New York Times
yahoo.com
Natasha Singer
July 7, 2024

MALVERN, Pa. — In February, Patrice Motz, a veteran Spanish teacher at Great Valley Middle School in Malvern, Pennsylvania, was warned by another teacher that trouble was brewing.

Some eighth graders at her public school had set up TikTok accounts impersonating teachers. Motz, who had never used TikTok, created an account.

She found a fake profile for @patrice.motz, which had posted a real photo of her at the beach with her husband and their young children. “Do you like to touch kids?” a text in Spanish over the family vacation photo asked. “Answer: Sí.”

In the days that followed, some 20 educators — about one-quarter of the school’s faculty — discovered they were victims of fake teacher accounts rife with pedophilia innuendo, racist memes, homophobia and made-up sexual hookups among teachers. Hundreds of students soon viewed, followed or commented on the fraudulent accounts.

In the aftermath, the school district briefly suspended several students, teachers said. The principal during one lunch period chastised the eighth grade class for its behavior.

The biggest fallout has been for teachers like Motz, who said she felt “kicked in the stomach” that students would so casually savage teachers’ families. The online harassment has left some teachers worried that social media platforms are helping to stunt the growth of empathy in students. Some teachers are now hesitant to call out pupils who act up in class. Others said it had been challenging to keep teaching.

“It was so deflating,” said Motz, who has taught at the school, in a wealthy Philadelphia suburb, for 14 years. “I can’t believe I still get up and do this every day.”

The Great Valley incident is the first known group TikTok attack of its kind by middle schoolers on their teachers in the United States. It’s a significant escalation in how middle and high school students impersonate, troll and harass educators on social media. Before this year, students largely impersonated one teacher or principal at a time.

The middle schoolers’ attack also reflects broader concerns in schools about how students’ use, and abuse, of popular online tools is intruding on the classroom. Some states and districts have recently restricted or banned student cellphone use in schools, in part to limit peer harassment and cyberbullying on Instagram, Snap, TikTok and other apps.

Now social media has helped normalize anonymous aggressive posts and memes, leading some children to weaponize them against adults.

“We didn’t have to deal with teacher-targeting at this scale before,” said Becky Pringle, president of the National Education Association, the largest U.S. teachers union. “It’s not only demoralizing. It could push educators to question, ‘Why would I continue in this profession if students are doing this?’”

In a statement, the Great Valley School District said it had taken steps to address “22 fictitious TikTok accounts” impersonating teachers at the middle school. It described the incident as “a gross misuse of social media that profoundly impacted our staff.”

Last month, two female students at the school publicly posted an “apology” video on a TikTok account using the name of a seventh grade teacher as a handle. The pair, who did not disclose their names, described the impostor videos as a joke and said teachers had blown the situation out of proportion.

“We never meant for it to get this far, obviously,” one of the students said in the video. “I never wanted to get suspended.”

“Move on. Learn to joke,” the other student said about a teacher. “I am 13 years old,” she added, using an expletive for emphasis, “and you’re like 40 going on 50.”

In an email to The New York Times, one of the students said that the fake teacher accounts were intended as obvious jokes, but that some students had taken the impersonations too far.

A TikTok spokesperson said the platform’s guidelines prohibit misleading behavior, including accounts that pose as real people without disclosing that they are parodies or fan accounts. TikTok said a U.S.-based security team validated ID information — such as driver’s licenses — in impersonation cases and then deleted the data.

Great Valley Middle School, known locally as a close-knit community, serves about 1,100 students in a modern brick complex surrounded by a sea of bright green sports fields.

The impostor TikToks disrupted the school’s equilibrium, according to interviews with seven Great Valley teachers, four of whom requested anonymity for privacy reasons. Some teachers already used Instagram or Facebook but not TikTok.

The morning after Motz, the Spanish teacher, discovered her impersonator, the disparaging TikToks were already an open secret among students.

“There was this undercurrent conversation throughout the hallway,” said Shawn Whitelock, a longtime social studies teacher. “I noticed a group of students holding a cellphone up in front of a teacher and saying, ‘TikTok.’”

Students took images from the school’s website, copied family photos that teachers had posted in their classrooms and found others online. They made memes by cropping, cutting and pasting photos, then superimposing text.

The low-tech “cheapfake” images differ from recent incidents in schools where students used artificial intelligence apps to generate real-looking, digitally altered images known as “deepfakes.”

While some of the Great Valley teacher impostor posts seemed jokey and benign — like “Memorize your states, students!” — other posts were sexualized. One fake teacher account posted a collaged photo with the heads of two male teachers pasted onto a man and woman partially naked in bed.

Fake teacher accounts also followed and hit on other fake teachers.

“It very much became a distraction,” Bettina Scibilia, an eighth grade English teacher who has worked at the school for 19 years, said of the TikToks.

Students also targeted Whitelock, who was the faculty adviser for the school’s student council for years.

A fake @shawn.whitelock account posted a photo of Whitelock standing in a church during his wedding, with his wife mostly cropped out. The caption named a member of the school’s student council, implying the teacher had wed him instead. “I’m gonna touch you,” the impostor later commented.

“I spent 27 years building a reputation as a teacher who is dedicated to the profession of teaching,” Whitelock said in an interview. “An impersonator assassinated my character — and slandered me and my family in the process.”

Scibilia said a student had already posted a graphic death threat against her on TikTok earlier in the school year, which she reported to police. The teacher impersonations increased her concern.

“Many of my students spend hours and hours and hours on TikTok, and I think it’s just desensitized them to the fact that we’re real people,” she said. “They didn’t feel what a violation this was to create these accounts and impersonate us and mock our children and mock what we love.”

A few days after learning of the videos, Edward Souders, the principal of Great Valley Middle School, emailed the parents of eighth graders, describing the impostor accounts as portraying “our teachers in a disrespectful manner.”

The school also held an eighth grade assembly on responsible technology use.

But the school district said it had limited options to respond. Courts generally protect students’ rights to off-campus free speech, including parodying or disparaging educators online — unless the students’ posts threaten others or disrupt school.

“While we wish we could do more to hold students accountable, we are legally limited in what action we can take when students communicate off campus during nonschool hours on personal devices,” Daniel Goffredo, the district’s superintendent, said in a statement.

The district said it couldn’t comment on any disciplinary actions, to protect student privacy.

In mid-March, Nikki Salvatico, president of the Great Valley Education Association, a teachers union, warned the school board that the TikToks were disrupting the school’s “safe educational environment.”

“We need the message that this type of behavior is unacceptable,” Salvatico said at a school board meeting March 18.

The next day, Souders sent another email to parents. Some posts contained “offensive content,” he wrote, adding: “I am optimistic that by addressing it together, we can prevent it from happening again.”

While a few accounts disappeared — including those using the names of Motz, Whitelock and Scibilia — others popped up. In May, a second TikTok account impersonating Scibilia posted several new videos mocking her.

She and other Great Valley educators said they had reported the impostor accounts to TikTok, but had not heard back. But several teachers, who felt the videos had violated their privacy, said they did not provide TikTok with a personal ID to verify their identities.

On Wednesday, TikTok removed the account impersonating Scibilia and three other fake Great Valley teacher accounts flagged by a reporter.

Scibilia and other teachers are still processing the incident. Some teachers have stopped posing for and posting photographs, lest students misuse the images. Experts said this type of abuse could harm teachers’ mental health and reputations.

“That would be traumatizing to anyone,” said Susan D. McMahon, a psychology professor at DePaul University in Chicago and chair of the American Psychological Association’s Task Force on Violence Against Educators. She added that verbal student aggression against teachers was increasing.

Now teachers like Scibilia and Motz are pushing schools to educate students on how to use tech responsibly — and bolster policies to better protect teachers.

In the Great Valley students’ “apology” on TikTok last month, the two girls said they planned to post new videos. This time, they said, they would make the posts private so teachers couldn’t find them.

“We’re back, and we’ll be posting again,” one said. “And we are going to private all the videos at the beginning of next school year,” she added, “’cause then they can’t do anything.”

On Friday, after a Times reporter asked the school district to notify parents about this article, the students deleted the “apology” video and removed the teacher’s handle from their account. They also added a disclaimer: “Guys, we’re not acting as our teachers anymore that’s in the past !!”

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Adult Film Star Jesse Jane's Cause of Death Revealed

http://yahoo.com/entertainment/adult-film-star-jesse-janes-134602823.html/

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Police Pull Over Car for Driving on Wrong Side of Road, Startled to Discover It Has No Driver

Futurism
yahoo.com
Victor Tangermann
July 8, 2024

http://youtu.be/7W-VneUv8Gk

Freak Out

The incident highlights just how difficult it can be for law enforcement to ensure driverless vehicles are following the rules of the road.

We've already seen plenty of reported incidents between robotaxis and human drivers. Most notably, a woman was found trapped underneath a self-driving Cruise vehicle last year, leading to owner General Motors shutting down all driverless operations.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is also actively investigating Waymo over 31 incidents involving its vehicles breaking traffic laws, almost half of which occurred in Arizona.

Fortunately, nobody was hurt in the latest incident. The company has been operating its self-driving car-hailing service since mid-2022 and is planning to expand commercial services into Los Angeles, California.

"You know the construction here?" the officer told a curious passerby. "It was going eastbound in the westbound lanes, which is real bad. So I light it up and it takes off in the intersection."

Dispatch records obtained by AZCentral said that the car ran a red light and "FREAKED OUT" before it pulled over.

The company told The Independent in a statement that the car "encountered inconsistent construction signage and briefly entered an unoccupied oncoming lane of traffic." It was then "blocked from navigating back into the correct lane" for roughly 30 seconds.

In the end, Waymo got away scot-free.

"UNABLE TO ISSUE CITATION TO COMPUTER," the police dispatch records read.

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Chicken wings advertised as 'boneless' can have bones, Ohio Supreme Court decides

Associated Press
msn.com
Story by MICHAEL RUBINKAM
July 24, 2024

Consumers cannot expect boneless chicken wings to actually be free of bones, a divided Ohio Supreme Court ruled Thursday, rejecting claims by a restaurant patron who suffered serious medical complications from getting a bone stuck in his throat.

Michael Berkheimer was dining with his wife and friends at a wing joint in Hamilton, Ohio, and had ordered the usual — boneless wings with parmesan garlic sauce — when he felt a bite-size piece of meat go down the wrong way. Three days later, feverish and unable to keep food down, Berkeimer went to the emergency room, where a doctor discovered a long, thin bone that had torn his esophagus and caused an infection.

Berkheimer sued the restaurant, Wings on Brookwood, saying the restaurant failed to warn him that so-called “boneless wings” — which are, of course, nuggets of boneless, skinless breast meat — could contain bones. The suit also named the supplier and the farm that produced the chicken, claiming all were negligent.

In a 4-3 ruling, the Supreme Court said Thursday that “boneless wings” refers to a cooking style, and that Berkheimer should’ve been on guard against bones since it’s common knowledge that chickens have bones. The high court sided with lower courts that had dismissed Berkheimer’s suit.

“A diner reading ‘boneless wings’ on a menu would no more believe that the restaurant was warranting the absence of bones in the items than believe that the items were made from chicken wings, just as a person eating ‘chicken fingers’ would know that he had not been served fingers,” Justice Joseph T. Deters wrote for the majority.

The dissenting justices called Deters' reasoning “utter jabberwocky,” and said a jury should’ve been allowed to decide whether the restaurant was negligent in serving Berkheimer a piece of chicken that was advertised as boneless.

“The question must be asked: Does anyone really believe that the parents in this country who feed their young children boneless wings or chicken tenders or chicken nuggets or chicken fingers expect bones to be in the chicken? Of course they don’t,” Justice Michael P. Donnelly wrote in dissent. “When they read the word ‘boneless,’ they think that it means ‘without bones,’ as do all sensible people.”

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Fans Say Olympic Pole Vaulter Is in the 'Wrong Competition' After His Manhood Costs Him the Win


Parade
yahoo.com
Carly Silva
August 3, 2024

http://youtu.be/1aK6MLj8gLshttp://

French athlete Anthony Ammirati was getting in his own way at the Summer 2024 Olympics.

The 21-year-old pole vaulter missed out on the chance to win an Olympic medal on Saturday, Aug. 3, after he missed his target height when his crotch got caught on the crossbar.

As seen in the now-viral video circulating on X (formerly Twitter), the bulge in Ammirati's shorts stopped him from making it over the bar, and he fell to the ground in defeat instead.

The unexpected issue caused him to finish in 12th place, disqualifying him for the next round and squashing his chances of competing for a medal.

While the situation is definitely unfortunate for Ammirati, fans still see "big things in his future," and many have already taken to social media to make light of the athlete's well-endowed situation.

"Anthony Ammirati might've lost the #Olympics competition but he already won the genetic lottery…" one user on X posted, while someone else joked, "I mean, is it even a loss? ������."

"bro won the wrong competition," another X user quipped.

"that's gotta be the wildest reason to lose an olympics," another user wrote on Saturday, while others wondered why Ammirati didn't have things more tightly packed.

"Do athletes not wear compression shorts anymore?" someone wondered.

"He's got to learn to pack better before he travels," another user quipped.