With a trio of indictments looming overhead, Donald Trump took time to assure his voters that he was focused on what really matters heading into 2024 — his shower's water pressure. During the keynote speech of a GOP dinner in South Carolina on Saturday, Mr Trump told the crowd that modern water pressures just weren't getting the job done. Though Mr Trump has proven in past speeches that he does not need segues — preferring instead to crash from topic to topic without regard for logic or causality — he did lead into his shower rant, sort of, by complaining about regulations. “You know I have this gorgeous head of hair – when I take a shower, I want water to pour down on me. When you go into these new homes with showers, the water drips down slowly, slowly,” Mr Trump told the diners. It is unclear where Mr Trump — whose two main domiciles are a luxury golf resort in Florida and a gilded skyscraper in Manhattan, both of which he owns — is experiencing these shower troubles. “You have suds, beautiful nice wonderful suds, a lot of money, Procter & Gamble, all that crap that they sell they say is good, probably costs ’em about two cents and they sell it for $10," Mr Trump said. "It takes you 10 minutes to wash your hair. You know what you do? You just stay in the shower about 10 times longer than you would have, it’s the same, you probably use more water. I broke all that up.” It's not the first time Mr Trump has complained about his bathroom activities being disrupted by water conservation efforts. In 2019 he made the telling-on-himself admission that Americans had to flush their toilets "10 times, 15 times, as opposed to once," blaming water regulating standards for his apparent need to flush a dozen times per use. “You turn on the faucet and you don’t get any water. They take a shower and water comes dripping out. Just dripping out, very quietly dripping out,” he said at the time. “People are flushing toilets 10 times, 15 times, as opposed to once.” The water issue was one of the few things Mr Trump did while in office that aligned with his early campaign promises; he directed the Department of Energy to ease up water conservation standards for showerheads. The former president may have changed the rules, but it didn't really change the way products were manufactured. Nearly all commercially available showerheads during his presidency adhered to the previous standards. Joe Biden reversed the measure following Mr Trump's presidency. Perhaps the most baffling element of Mr Trump's water gripes is his insistence that easing up regulations would actually save water. “[Americans] end up using more water. So [the] EPA is looking at that very strongly at my suggestion,” Mr Trump said in 2019. And later in 2019: “You go into a new building or a new house or a new home and they have standards only you don’t get water. You can’t wash your hands practically, there’s so little water comes out of the faucet. And the end result is you leave the faucet on and it takes you much longer to wash your hands,” Mr Trump said. He then told his supporters that his administration would be "looking at" the concept of "rain" and "opening that up." It is unclear what he was talking about, but here is what he said. “There may be some areas where we’ll go the other route – desert areas – but for the most part you have many states where they have so much water – it comes down, it’s called rain. They don’t know what to do with it,” he said, laughing at what presumably was a joke. “So we’re going to be looking at opening up that I believe. And we’re looking at changing the standards very soon.” Read More Trump attacks ‘delusional’ Pence over key role in election indictment: ‘Gone to the dark side’ Trump demands Judge Tanya Chutkan be removed from election case after ruling against him DoJ requests protective order after Trump threatens revenge in Truth Social post Trump attacks ‘delusional’ Pence over key role in election indictment Trump demands Judge Tanya Chutkan be removed from election case Vivek Ramaswamy's Hindu faith is front and center in his GOP presidential campaign

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will observe Monday's 60th anniversary of the March on Washington by meeting with organizers of the 1963 gathering and relatives of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The Oval Office meeting will be held 60 years after President John F. Kennedy and King met at the White House on the morning of the march

Facebook users have shared images of cartoon characters wielding weapons, naked celebrities, and child soldiers – all created using the app’s new AI-generated sticker feature. Parent company Meta unveiled the new feature last week, allowing Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and Instagram users to generate stickers with artificial intelligence by writing prompts. “I don’t think anyone involved has thought anything through,” 3D artist and illustrator Pier-Olivier Desbiens wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, who used the tool to create stickers with the prompts ‘Waluigi rifle’, ‘child soldier’, ‘Karl Marx large breasts’ and ‘Trudeau buttocks’. “We really do live in the stupidest future imaginable,” he wrote. Another user shared an AI-generated sticker of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones kissing a dog. “It’s completely unhinged,” they wrote. The Independent has reached out to Meta for comment. The new AI stickers are currently only available to a limited number of English-language users, with Meta yet to confirm whether a wider roll out is planned. “Using technology from Llama 2 and our foundational model for image generation called Emu, our AI tool turns your text prompts into multiple unique, high-quality stickers in seconds,” Meta announced in a blog post last week. “This new feature... provides infinitely more options to convey how you’re feeling at any moment.” Meta claims that billions of stickers are sent by Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp users each month, having first introduced the feature in 2013. Other AI-generated image tools, such as OpenAI’s DALL-E 3, have limits in place to prevent misuse. Users are unable to generate images featuring violent content or real people, though other generative AI platforms exist that do not place limitations on the ways content can be generated. In its blog post announcing the new feature, Meta noted that there was a chance that AI tools could be misused, which is why their introduction is being done on a “step by step” basis. “In keeping with our commitment to responsible AI, we also stress test our products to improve safety performance and regularly collaborate with policymakers, experts in academia and civil society, and others in our industry to advance the responsible use of this technology,” the post stated. “We’ll continue to iterate on and improve these features as the technologies evolve and we see how people use them in their daily lives.” Read More Pixel 8: Google unveils ‘AI-centred’ iPhone rival Facebook and Instagram users face monthly fee for ad-free version Zuckerberg says Metaverse can bring back the dead – virtually Meta just took a step towards its dream of the metaverse

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The world is home to some uniquely bizarre behaviours and habits that are sometimes dangerous or even life-threatening. Enter, TLC's My Strange Addiction. The American show premiered back in 2010 and has been going strong ever since, with its extreme obsessions with random objects, food and alternative lifestyles. From being an adult baby to eating cat hair to being in a long-term relationship with a car, here are eight of our all-time favourites – for all of the wrong reasons: Obsessed with sniffing tuna Tuna-loving man Tyler confessed to being addicted to the tinned fish, sniffing and drinking the brine at every given opportunity. He even demonstrated to his date how he sometimes uses it as an aftershave on his neck. This Man Is Addicted to Smelling Tuna! | My Strange Addiction: Still Addicted? | TLC www.youtube.com Adult baby who still wears nappies and sleeps in a cot Riley from Buffalo, lives her life as a full-grown baby. She wears nappies, sleeps in a cot with a dummy and plays with teddies. "It helps me wash away the stress of the big, tough world," she said. Addicted To Living As An Adult Baby | My Strange Addiction www.youtube.com Man romantically involved with his car Nathanial got candid about his romantic relationship with his "handsome man," AKA Chase the car. He told TLC it was "love at first sight," after seeing the car's "body, his interior and everything just together that seemed to fit." Sex With My Car | My Strange Addiction www.youtube.com Addicted to eating dirty nappies Keyshia from Queens, who was expecting her first child, opened up about one very unique obsession: chewing dirty nappies. "It has to have pee in it," she said. "The heavier ones that have more pee, smell better." My Strange Addiction Chews Dirty Diapers Season 5, Episode 5 www.youtube.com Woman who licks cats Lisa candidly shared how she was addicted to "eating cat hair."She described the sensation as "relaxing" and "comforting," before comparing the texture to "cotton candy". Woman Grooms Cat With Her Own Tongue And Eats The Hair | My Strange Addiction www.youtube.com Obsessed with bee stings Margaret can't get enough of stinging herself with bees all over her body, with 15-20 stings in her left hip during one single sitting. Addicted to Bee Stings | My Strange Addiction www.youtube.com Sexually attracted to balloons Julius opened up to My Strange Addiction about his love for balloons, which he described as "beautiful, soft, smooth, delicate". He acknowledged that while he is aware they are not alive, that his love for them brings them alive. Meet The Man Who Is Sexually Attracted To Balloons | My Strange Addiction www.youtube.com Eating sand 'for the crunch' Brea's favourite snack is sand... She likes to season her food with grains but her favourite combination is chewing gum mixed with sand. "I Just Love The Crunch" Young Woman Is Addicted To Eating Sand | My Strange Addiction www.youtube.com Sign up for our free Indy100 weekly newsletter Have your say in our news democracy. Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings.

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