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Not if it's just microbial life. Anyway it's just one case or another. We knowing what's the case doesn't change it. If the news never break it would be just as bad, perhaps even s…

Likely we don't need to replicate. We just need to get a sample of life with completely independent origin to our kind of life here on Earth, to study. This way we would be able to…

> Or perhaps there is a risk that the wearer will absorb harmful chemicals secreted by the mycelium via contact with the wearer's skin? Or just getting a bad itch.

Reminds me of this comic: https://badspacecomics.com/scour-copy-copy

> There is also a layer of friction between doing the computations and then analysing the logs that comp chemistry programs spit out. If you want to visualise orbitals or look at t…

Echoes of the bicameral mind[1]? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicameral_mentality

Related: https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/xbox/brazilian-cour...

> Courts elsewhere have gone the other way. Chinese courts have recognized game accounts as inheritable property, while U.S. rulings generally treat games as revocable licenses Pre…

> The researchers took account of factors such as people’s age, sex and education, but cautioned that they could not rule out the potential influence of other factors that may have…

I wonder if lost productivity from sick leave days is offset by preserved productivity of all coworkers that were not infected by people that felt obliged to show up sick with flu …

That's scary if confirmed. It took 500 million years for complex life to find the right mix of atmospheric O2/CO2 to foster intelligent lifeforms. Then we are undoing it in mere ce…

> At least within the precision limits of the Perseverance’s instruments, the material roughly matches terrestrial kerogen. Using the word “kerogen,” though, was a no-go, the resea…

> Actually raising a child costs more than $1.2M - just $20K/year invested in S&P500 over the last 20 years would have grown to more than $1.2M. The future markets of a shrinking w…

> If you don't have children to inherit your fortune to, you can retire with full exhaustion of capital - that will yield way more than 4k$/month. As a lone elderly person you're l…

> ppl are now having better options than raising a baby. It gets me beffudled people actually think addiction to the virtual crack of social media is a better option.

Reminds me of this: https://badspacecomics.com/in-the-flesh-copy

> Or, indeed, WhatsApp and Signal. You can use Shelter from FDroid to create a separate work profile in the phone, with separate accounts, and then pause it after office hours.

> We should be wary of bringing Martian microbes back to Earth, because they may find our environment too hospitable and end up invasive species. They could even already have invad…

Lots of tech companies involved in this genocide[1]. Unfortunately tech has bad antecedents, as IBM also supported genocide in WWII[2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_co…

> highest entity that could apply leverage What is the lowest entity that can apply leverage? Regardless of what US or UN does or doesn't, you can start boycotting today.