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Bird flu originated in China and its ability to jump species, as well as its lethality, was well documented there too.

Turns out Covid was just round 1 of international pandemics from China.

Edit: yes, technically it was round 4 (SARS, bird flu, swine flu, Covid, now Bird Flu: this time its personal)

Trump is supposedly banned from selling it for six months. Do I think he has a way around that, yes.

We dont have the stuff yet. Dont call it good

I'm simply saying what happens. For good or for ill.

Yeah but things get popular here, we tell our family and friends, they go out and tell people...

That makes it worse.

The western Brotherhood of Steel, at the start of new Vegas, is reduced to One Chapter holed up in One tiny bunker with no vertibirds, no supplies, no manufacturing. They have to send lone scavengers out in the cover of night just to steal enough food to survive.

The battle of Helios One ended the brotherhood as a major player in any capacity. They threw everything they had at the NCR and lost badly.

I know what they are.

Trick is it directly counteracts the games. In the year the show happens is the same year new vegas happens. This is after the brotherhood was reduced to cowering in a hidden bunker with zero force projection capability.

The show is great, but its Bethesda fallout, not Fallout.

Its a great show and Im enjoying it despite the massive, glaring world consistency issues.
Like what the hell happened to the NCR?

Or, you know, the lore of all of the games outside of Fallout 3 and 4.

Its painfully clear that Todd is salty that the worst two games in the fallout series are 3 and 4. So he's erasing the pre bethesda games and the best game(that respects the original lore), New Vegas.

Because the inherent design of modern AIs is not deterministic.

Adding a progressively bigger model cannot fix that. We need an entirely new approach to AI to do that.

Im sure Bibi is angling to find a way to make them.

Also, wasnt the message yesterday that the US was opposed to Israeli count-counter attack?

Now its just: we'll still sell you things, but we won't use our own shit to help you attack.

Hold on, you can sell made up pokemon that are slightly edited for $84 a pop?

What?

When you hear food engineering, think of things like how Pringles chips give a huge burst of flavour then shatter in your mouth with a nice crunch, but leave nothing to chew.

Or how fast food burgers like Mcdonalds and Wendy's similarly give lots of flavour but nothing to chew.

Both are examples of engineered foods. In both cases, designed to leave you wanting more.

They work on two principles.

1. The brain wants flavour and crunch.
2. It cheats on immediate fulness by counting bites/chews.

You can counteract their food design with smaller bites and chewing more.

This was from a CBC Radio special on the science of fast food I recall from far too long ago.

It raises the question of how the Borg shield adaptation technology works. Its always shown as previously highly effective shots suddenly having "no effect."

The fights we see with the federation have them constantly modifying their phaser output frequencies to work around that, but even then its a losing game, as the borg adapt to their modification formula.

Even the future Janeway's super torpedoes run into this. And they were specifically designed to work around the adaptation mechanic.

I think it blows up one cube, damages a second, then no effect from then on.

8472's entire thing was organic modulation, making it impossible to adapt to.

The death star laser is based on the resonating frequency of a crystal. So it will always be the same. Easy for the borg to adapt to.

Question is can you overpower shields in Star Trek? I would postulate a "maybe" given that the Cardassians use a giant phaser on the front of their ships to break things, and they're noted as being technologically inferior to the federation.

Oddly enough it seems the same is true for Mansa's trip. Except that as regent, he gave himself the funding, twice.

However, as wikipedia notes: ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_voyage_of_the_predecessor_of_Mansa_Musa )

1. No african artifacts have ever been discovered in South or Central America.
2. Only one of the ships returned, and it only reported the existence of the "Canary Current" which that ship did not enter.

In addition. The dark skin of some South Americans is genetically distant to modern Africans, but has ties to the same markers in some asian cultures, implying its addition was prehistoric and happened in the old world.

The Haida and other native groups of coastal BC have no record of Zheng He's voyage.

And because his ships weren't capable of handling the open ocean, the only way he'd be able to do such a trip is by hugging the coast, so they'd have absolutely seen them.

Black tea: some of my black teas are outright best with milk Otherwise: as is.
Also drink: Rooibos, white and green teas. All loose leaf, steeped the expected duration for each tea.

It's explained in the movie that is a device for killing livestock.