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Just for posterity in case this follows us here, there is a genocide going on in Palestine. Feels like a mantra at this point.

As your annoying communist I'll also point out that if you're a scientist developing novel methods to detect endotoxins your grant funding is currently being eviscerated by the US federal government and you're likely to find a much more lucrative career path working for a pharmaceutical company that lacks your research ethics. And if you make it up to the admin level you can go lobby the government too!

Did anybody find the transcript for this second leak? The first one was so cringe and I'd love to read this one as well.

McGill professors love warning about red lines from their safe space in a city that's "just more European". It's a gradient, and the US is in between cherry and crimson right now.

So now we'll have a whole plethora of social networks for everyone to isolate into their own bubbles essentially because our global leadership is comprised of children who can't play nicely with each other. Sounds good, sign me up for TurkmeniNet.

We don't hate America. We hate you.

Look, you can do the same thing with any religious document. See for instance Jeremy England's Every Life is on Fire in which he equates passages in the Torah about Moses to the thermodynamical necessity of the emergence of life as an autocatalytic process. The metaphor is tortured and the whole enterprise comes off as awkward and unnecessary. Scientific principles are entirely nihilistic; it's our interpretations of them that make them magical. And those interpretations aren't captured by any holy document.

Manhattan has gridlock that prevents this. There's no space to move into.

Because I'm not 85 years old. If I was I'd sign up for the first available suicide mission against the oligarchy.

Realizing we're the generation "socialism or barbarism" applies to, but I'd rather not get killed.

Although several people in the replies have pointed out the actual truth behind this post, (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energetically_Autonomous_Tactical_Robot)

I do think this qualifies as misinformation. Given what happened on most other social networks, I can't help feeling uneasy even though it's a stupid joke post.

Sao Paolo did this in 2006.

Under the cult of the "Invisible Hand of the Free Market", the prevailing ideology of neoclassical economics and the modern global economy, advertising is not necessary. Why should a firm have to convince me to buy anything if the market dictates prices and the flow of commodities? Yet here we are.

The fungi take over for a few hundred thousand years, tops. There are some global climate swings during this period but eventually the balance is restored and the next set of animals asserts hegemony. Just because this is the first mass extinction caused by animals (arguably) doesn't mean it won't play out like the others.

He'll be a scammer till the day he dies.

I love how you're getting downvoted. Kind of says it all

Ok, I'll bite. I tried Ubuntu a few months ago. Logging into Eduroam was a bit of a process, but eventually I figured it out and it worked. Then one day the internet didn't work and I had no idea why. Something to do with the network drivers. Then I was trying to use OpenOffice (or LibreOffice? The one that came with the OS), and I use Zotero for references. The Zotero plugin had a bunch of glitches that made me not trust it. The Internet (back on Windows) assured me that it worked fine, but it was way glitchier than the Windows version.

The bottom line is that I just need this stuff to work because I don't have time to debug. I love the idea though; maybe I was using the wrong distro.

They're remilitarizing, just like everyone else. Another completely pointless and avoidable cycle of violence, just like the last time.

It will even agree that AIs shouldn't controlled by oligarchic tech monopolies and should instead be distributed freely and fairly for the public good, but the international system of nation states competing against each other militarily and economically prevents this. But maybe it will agree to the opposite of that too, I didn't try asking.

It's unfortunate that we've configured our world like this, with rival nation states and militaries vying for supremacy. In reality, the conflict is between humans and militarism. Militarism will kill us all, in one way or another.

Real quick the appendix might have an evolutionary function. When you have a gut infection and your intestine flushes out everything (good and bad bacteria), the appendix might be a cache for good bacteria that avoids both the infection and flushing. The good bacteria then repopulate your gut from your appendix.