About time. On that note: required viewing: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/plastic-wars/ enlightening…

Futurists look to reach the singularity and Evangelists look to invoke the rapture. Not everything any group looks to do is actually practical.

That’s actually kinda funny coming from him. Maybe he has given in to the violence now?

First gender affirming surgery was 1930 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-forgotten-history-of-the-worlds-first-trans-clinic/ A little more than a few years ago…

Hmmm, can anyone guess what they will call Windows after Windows 12 comes out?

It’s about Swift and not one of the richest people in the world who lives in the kleptocracy that passed this legislation and historically has made a big fuss over this issue?

Now I’m even less likely to watch the video. Panned over to 12:38. That is a pretty egregious error. Either they are incompetent and their opinions aren’t too valuable, or intentionally trying to mislead the now over 1.4million people who have watched that video. This seems like they tried to cherry pick a stat that bodes in favour of their argument and biffed it. Lots of people are still immigrating to Canada, so definitely far more than “no one” wants to live in Canada. https://www.statista.com/topics/2917/immigration-in-canada/

I see no citations in the video description and I’m not too interested in listening to their argument if they can’t provide those citations up front. The only measure they seem to be appealing to in order to support their claim that “no one wants to live in Canada” is that Canada has lowered in happiness index. But, by that measure Canada is 15th in the world and USA is 23rd. So, if that’s the main reason to think people don’t want to live in Canada, then people really don’t want to live in the USA. On its face, that strikes me as exceptionally untrue.

Cool! Thanks. It’s kind of a poetic comic. Not exactly what I expected from a comic.

Wow. Thats nut.

I can’t find a copy of “I Accept the Challenge” anywhere. Does anyone know where it can be found?

https://archive.ph/2024.04.17-011857/https://www.thedailybeast.com/nicole-shanahan-rfk-jrs-running-mate-sets-new-low-for-anti-vax-misinformation

It’s impossible to know exactly what we don’t know. This is a big issue, but there are people taking it seriously. It seems likely new antibiotics which will work are going to be developed. For example: this new class that was discovered a couple months ago using AI.

How’s this for a plan:

1. build high speed rail
2. build more housing (especially single dwelling) that is not corporate owned
3. tax more heavily income from real estate conglomerates to fund 1 and 2

ELI5?

Welp. I guess we better buckle up as it’s about to get much much worse considering the new text-to-video AI capabilities coming https://openai.com/sora Very worriesome

https://archive.is/PnB5R

Dang, I was just planning on a trip to Alaska to get scratched by stray cats. I guess I’ll have to cancel now that this newfangled Alaskapox has popped up.

Here’s a transcript to peruse if anyone is interested. Then you can search for keywords to see if they were mentioned, quickly flick through Putin’s rambling and you avoid providing Tucker with a click. Here’s also an archive link if anyone prefers that.

Also Honeypot Ants. Recently listened to a podcast episode about the antimicrobial and antifungal activity of honeypot ant honey: https://www.3cr.org.au/lostinscience/episode/summer-series-antimicrobial-ants-gene-therapy

I was completely naive to 3D printing 6 months ago, got a Prusa mini, got printing. Pretty simple. Great explainers on the prusa website. Easy installation and intuitive software. I recommend it.