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  To recap H5N1 bird flu has a 58% mortality rate (Covid-19 has a 1%) and it has evolved into mammal to mammal transmission (but not human to human ... yet). It wiped out twice as many seals off the coast...
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  Speaking of THMT... what could be a better way to promote unwanted pregnancy than to keep girls ignorant of how their bodies function? https://apnews.com/article/florida-ban-girls-period-talk-elementary-schools-7e2e5843d296dc9d8fbf82d55fe8cc70 Florida may ban girls’ period talk in elementary grades Legislation moving in the Florida House would...
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  Post 300 comment This is the exact scenario in "A Handmaid's Tale" https://www.mountsinai.org/about/newsroom/2023/exposure-to-chemicals-found-in-everyday-products-is-linked-to-significantly-reduced-fertility Exposure to Chemicals Found in Everyday Products Is Linked to Significantly Reduced Fertility Exposure to chemicals commonly found in drinking water and everyday household products may result...
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  "Branes and branes, what is branes!?"...
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  "outside each other" Darn it, I have to stop typing before I've had coffee....
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  And therefore completely incapable of interfering in this space-time continuum Two universes in the multi-verse lie completely outside eat other, yet can interact along their brane....
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  As I get closer to retirement I get ever more appreciative of how lucky I am to be where I am in life. And so I look to give something back by joining groups like "Engineers Without Borders" https://www.ewb-usa.org/ They...
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  Now that the SVB debacle has show us who is in charge we know that: 1) The world will continue to get hotter, more poisoned and more devoid of life because protecting the planet will cost the rich and powerful...
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  Zero likelihood if the perps are rich and powerful....
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  A few more SVB notes: 1) SBVB had more than 50% of all accounts greater than what the FDIC will cover (Roku alone had a single checking account in SVB of $487 million) 2) This was because they did not...
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  A post 300 comment post: According to the Telegraph, Scotland is becoming "sinister" https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/09/scotland-has-become-deeply-sinister-country/ Scotland has become a deeply sinister country An SNP report recommends incarcerating men who boast of sexual conquests. This is unsurprising from a party set on...
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  What you all aren't getting about YEC and other fundies is that (to them) "science" is not a different thing than faith. Science isn't something based on logic, evidence, data, testing, etc. instead of inspiration and belief. To them such...
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  I once informed a YEC that if the Earth was only 60000 years old then we would not see anything more than 6,000 light years away - certainly not the light from galaxies millions of light years away. He respond...
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  P.S. While we await the development of human to human transmission, H5N1 is devastation wildlife: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/02/avian-bird-flu-virus-outbreak-epidemic/673058/ Eagles Are Falling, Bears Are Going Blind Bird flu is already a tragedy. A human epidemic, though, remains a gloomy forecast that may not...
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  A post 300 comment observation. 3,500 seals just suddenly died from H5N1 bird flu on the coast of Peru: https://bnonews.com/index.php/2023/03/nearly-3500-sea-lions-in-peru-die-of-h5n1-bird-flu/ “The high mortality observed was worrisome; for instance, up to 100 dead individuals floating together in the sea – an...
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  "The Omphalos hypothesis is one attempt to reconcile the scientific evidence that the Earth is billions of years old with a literal interpretation of the Genesis creation narrative, which implies that the Earth is only a few thousand years old.[1]...
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  Speaking of advanced aircraft designs like the tiltrotor, what would it take to create the ornithopters seen in Dune, the dragonfly-like craft shown in the recent movie? Herbert was trying to combine the agility of attack helicopters (bein used concurrently...
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  And speaking of amess of their own making... East Palestine, Ohio is in Columbiana County. Trump won 68% of the vote in Columbiana County in 2016, a massive landslide https://www.columbiana.boe.ohio.gov/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Columbiana-Official-Canvass.htm President Obama had instituted regulations mandating safe breaking systems for...
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  Speaking of immigrants, Canada wants 100 million Canadians by 2100. https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2023/01/plan-for-100-million-canadians-by-2100-is-on-track.html The Century Initiative is a Canadian charity that aims to increase Canada’s population to 100 million by 2100. The USA is on track to having population increase from 330...
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  Is this new chat AI essentially a Delphi polling mechanism? "Delphi operates on the principle that several heads are better than one in making subjective conjectures about the future...and that experts will make conjectures based upon rational judgement rather than...
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  Pittsburgh hits 70 degrees yesterday, breaking highest temperature record for Feb. 9. Would this be a good place and time to discuss cli-fi? The classic "The Sheep Look Up" by John Brunner HBO's "Years and Years" "The Water Knife" by...
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  "Could the UK have defeated the Third Reich without the USA and USSR on the same side?" Yes. Operation Gomorrah. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-43546839 But Gomorrah in July 1943 would be on a new and terrible scale - unmatched by any other single...
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  Can ChatGPT write music? "ChatGPT, finish the complete works of every famous musician that died young starting with Mozart, Jimi Handrix and John Lennon."...
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  Are there any famous novels, stories, serials, etc. that were actually (or rumored to be) written by a committee of hack writers publishing under a pseudonym?...
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  Does ChatGPT have access to - and accessible memory of - every page on every book in Google Books, as well as every recorded newspaper, magazine, old time radio show script, TV show, comedian's act and monologue, song lyric, stage...
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  The Senate is deliberately designed to be undemocratic (the Founding Fathers equated democracy with mob rule - given the state of most social media they may not have been wrong.) However, we can repeal the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929,...
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  I'll see your fission fragment rocket and raise you Antimatter-catalyzed nuclear pulse propulsion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimatter-catalyzed_nuclear_pulse_propulsion...
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  "There is a near insatiable market for generating natural looking graphical representations of sex and violence against women" Internet? Have you never watched murder shows like L&O SVU or Criminal Minds? Actor Mandy Patakin left CM after one year in...
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  "It was a common nightmare in John Barnes' 'Giraut' series: waking up and realizing that you are the original (which means you're going to die, even though your copy will live)." It is the unspoken nightmare of Star Trek transporter...
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  "Then the possibility of an uploaded dying human in a hubot body arises..." Just remember that uploading a human mind is "copy and paste" not "cut and paste"....