BakerBagel @ BakerBagel @midwest.social

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I love the Expanse. I think it is a very realistic depiction of the future 400 years from now on the path we are on. The power struggles between the Earth and Mars and the Belters caught in the cross fire who are barely considered human. Everything is run ny corporations that only care about profits and will grind down anything that is in the path.

The Democrats have fought nationalized healthcare tooth and as well

And did you read the second half of the BBC article about how relations are still incredibly tense between the two? China and India are about as friendly today as the US and Russia were before the annexation of Crimea

"BRICS" isn't any sort of actual alliance. South Africa is rapidly approaching failed state territory while China and India have ramped up hostilities across their borders.

They are using LLM's because the companies are run by tech bros who bet big on "AI" and now have to justify that.

I have to use USD to pay my taxes, and if I don't pay my taxes i go to jail. Cryptocurrencies aren't used for anything other than financial speculation

We had that last year in Ohio when Householder was sentanced to 20 years prison for his roll in the bribery scandal. He cried about hard that was going to be on his family and the judge told him "you should have thought about that before accepting those bribes."

I doubt they lost any sleep knowing their dad killed thousands by denying them coverage. Why would i lose sleep for them? Hell, they are probably looking at a juicy life insurance payout, which is more than any of us will get when United kills our loved ones.

If he chucked them into a public garbage can then they won't be able to get anything useful from the items. They'll be so contaminated that you can't get a clean sample.

"If you actually lived on Father Daniel's compound, you would see that it isn't a cult!"

It's not, and i am not going to keep arguing in circles with people who want to contradict basic and agreed upon biology.

Viruses make the simplest prokaryotes look complicated. A bacteria has ribosomes to read nucleic acids to make proteins and enzymes. That's the cellular metabolism that a virus actually lacks. It's not a matter of calling a person a living thing while their cheek cells aren't. You can take human tissue sampes and culture them indefinitely if you wanted to, because those cells are still undergoing cellular metabolism, taking in resources and excreting waste products. A virus doesn't even have the ability to read it's own genetic material. It's a hostile instruction manual.

Consuming resources is a definitive characteristic of living things. Scienctists had to define what life is and viruses just don't click enough boxes. It's the same as astronomers determining what is a planet vs a dwarf planet vs an asteroid or mathematicians deciding that 1 isn't a prime number. There has to be a hard cutoff at some point.

Viruses are rogue genetic material that insert themselves into a host cell and hijack all it's processes and metabolism. Calling them a living thing is like calling malware a computer, or a joke between friends a movie.

This virus on it's own is absolutely useless and can't adjust to it's environment at all. A parasitic wasp is still a seperate entity that has it's own cells and genetic material that covers all basic function of a living thing. A virus is literally just a protein coat protecting a bit of genetic material. A parasitic organism is still doing cellular metabolism even if it isn't in a host organism, but a virus isn't.

Because not all of us are pussies that can't handle a bit of weather.

I'm in the Western Basin, and there os honestly no where i would rather be. Lake Erie may be a trash lake, but it's a beautiful trash lake that makes me appreciate life. There's a beauty here that speaks to me in a way only other Great Lakers can really understand.

I was 17 and had never even seen $1,000 before, never had an actual job, and had no concept of what it could mean to lose a job. I was paying everything i owed plus extra until 2022, then i could only afford the massive minimum payments, then i lost my job this year and couldn't afford that anymore. I can either put all my money into payments that ultimately do nothing for me, or i can put what little i have left into rent and food. If you can't understand that, then you are very fortunate and i hope you never have to face down these sorts of choices because it is a truly terrible way to live.

I cant afford it either way. Before the pandemic there was more student loan debt in the US than credit card debt. It's the 2008 housing bubble all over again, only this time there aren't even millions of worthless homes to compensate lenders.

The state referenced in the OP. It's Thanksgiving week, which means The Game is on Saturday. I hate those bastards up north like an Arsenal fan hates the Hot Spurs.

Yeah dude, this is hate week. I don't want to see any posts about that state up north.