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Nature is a hacker and finds a way. I'll think twice whenever I encounter a sticky plant part from now on. Edit - obligatory: Feed me, Seymour. Feed me all night long.

Overall strategy: Bio CCS to address the carbon surplus. Also, curtail anthropogenic GHG pollution with taxes. GM kelp (M. pyrifera) and phytoplankton to grow even faster, automate…

> Abstaining from sex Okay, I'm definitely not training like an Ancient Greek Olympian. It's the bulk of my cardio: 30-75 minutes per. (I have a delayed response (DE)). More fun th…

I had two, now one because they moved in with their fiancee, neighbors who made more than rent ($1500/month) on OF. The now one isn't very good looking, spent $15k on plastic surge…

So if you have vestibular problems or are drunk and trying to avoid being raped, your car won't start. I definitely want to pay money for that liability feature. /s

"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few." - Spock China controlled it by locking-down quickly. The US let it spread by voluntaryism and conspiracy theories creating a …

War is [often] a racket. - Smedley Butler On the defensive-side: Weakness invites aggression. Prepare for war so you don't have to. MAD is that and has prevented untold world wars …

In the US, ~50% of people flatly refuse to get vaccinated. Most believe Bill Gates is going to microchip their precious bodily fluids because some genius on TV espoused a conspirac…

The unvaccinated pose a danger to us all and must rightly be excluded. They had their chance and made their choice... to be stupid. The vaccinated and the careful shouldn't have to…

With this precedent, there's no stopping Apple Big Mother from policing other areas, i.e., tax evasion, money laundering, prohibition drug crime, crypto, human rights lawyers, jour…

And it's only a fraction of ubiquitous inverted totalitarianism that pervades modern life. If powerful people decide they don't like you, they have the power to exploit your conten…

Honestly, I would wager the critical attribute would likely have been that Neanderthals were more naive than h. s. sapiens. The specific inability to anticipate and mitigate decept…

I'm definitely misunderstood but most humans don't want to understand that. I'm going to try shaking my head and licking my ears less.

I think critical US retail and government buildings should require vaccinations (vaccination cards) and masks until community spread ceases: grocery stores, shopping malls, coffee …

That sucks. I do hope your symptoms improve. From what I understand, LC may actually be caused by destructive tissue damage. COVID, like Lyme disease or Hep C, seems like serious b…

"Nobody" but countless doctors and scientists of the AHA. "The AHA recommendation to reduce salt intake is based on strong science, not just extrapolations or complex math," Sacco …

Death is not inevitable, and there is such thing as agency / locus-of-control Not reducing actual harm, suffering, and deaths where possible is immoral. Inconveniences are the less…

It's "military" when we do it, but "terrorism" when they do it. Terrorist/freedom fighter.

Remember a time when all a virus did was display "Your PC is now Stoned!"?

"Butt in seat" mentality doesn't scale since it ruin morale.

It's a similar scam as academic journals. Gatekeeping knowledge for profit.

AZ should be the booster for mRNA (Pfizer and Moderna) because of its greater apparent efficacy against gamma and lambda. Also, we have to consider the interests of big pharma to s…

Who's "we?" Africans are the most human human. Europeans are an admixure with Neanderthals. East Asians are admixures of Denisovans (twice). My bet is that Neanderthals got absorbe…

I hope he's getting plenty of tush and legs while wearing cheap sunglasses in rock-n-roll heaven.

Most universities are for-profit or money-seeking pedigree- and sheepskin-mills that have long since stopped caring about academic rigor in-depth. Picking easy majors like communic…