Heh, well I can make it worse, prepare to be judged!

Soda is for suckers. It’s just extremely overpriced sugar water and it’s basically a direct route to diabetes town. Also enjoy all the extra dental work you’ll require.

Weirdly, I’m not against alcohol. While drinking a lot isn’t a great idea either, I do understand the appeal of alcohol. I still try not to buy it in bars or restaurants though, the 5x mark up has always felt unreasonable.

Uh… If you insist, then four space indent. There is no “two space” indent.

But just use tab. Ugh… Monsters…

I’ve got a couple of 23 year old homeless people living with me now. They just need a couple months to find a place for themselves, that’s what they said a year and a half ago when they moved in. I’m trying to help them out, but they really can’t stay here forever.

Also one of them is my daughter.

Let me know when the governor develops a technology to crack down on deepfakes. Using legislation to address the problem is… adorable.

I’m waiting for all the inevitable news headlines “Diddy didn’t he?”.

And through neglect, hundreds more in crashes.

Doesn’t bode well for them…

You know, along with all the other news about Boeing in the last 5 years…

Honestly, I think it’s time to throw in the towel. Maybe go into support and service mode for all their existing products, and just not develop anything new.

There’s a lot to unpack there…

Well that sounds frustrating as hell. And hey, I know a rando on the Internet has no business commenting on your relationship with parents, but all the same, I’m sorry man, that sucks. I hope he can find a way to change.

There’s a lot we don’t know about ocean ecosystems in general, that’s very true. Saving the coral is a very hard problem. But to be honest, we’re human, hard problems are our bread and butter. Often, we prefer them to easy problems.

PS: Let me make this clear: I don’t give a shit about what China does unless it involves actual ethnic cleansing and mass rape. If we don’t give a shit about the latter, we shouldn’t “get involved” in the former.

Funny you should bring that up… You should ask the Uyghurs in China about that.

Also, the world watched them impose their rule over Hong Kong, we watched their military murder their way through protesting civilians. We know what to expect from China, we’ve seen their playbook.

But Taiwan is an ally of the USA, Japan is an ally of the USA, and we will stand by them. There are many other sovereign nations in the waters of the South China Sea, China does not own all that territory.

It would be in China’s best interest to back the fuck off.

Well, I’m convinced!

Btw, if you get a raise or like a bonus or something for convincing an American, can I get a piece of that?

Oh hi China.

I wish people in this thread would pay less attention to the bible study and more attention to the violent crime repeat offender recently out of prison who clearly never got the psychiatric help he needed (cause that dude be cray cray).

So yeah, a well intentioned woman thought she could fix him (with the help of the Lord) and decided to tie the knot with an unstable convinced felon. That’s… misguided, but a mistake that has been made a great many times before by a great many people. But truthfully, religion is barely a part of this story. Mostly this is a story about how many Americans aren’t encouraged to get the mental help they need, about one of the many ways in which our correctional system doesn’t work, and about how you really shouldn’t try to “fix” that bad boy that I’m sure has a heart of gold deep down. That last part is just so dangerous… please don’t do it.

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Wild species are extremely good at adapting to evolving conditions. Their ability in this is many more times more powerful than any developments these searchers will produce.

Evolution is famously slow though. And there is a deadline here, so to speak… Human technological advancement on the other hand is famously fast, and constantly accelerates.

In other words, even if this is an overly optimistic plan today, it wouldn’t be overly optimistic in 5 years or so. And if it would be feasible in five years, then now is a great time to start working on it.

This reminds me of the human genome project, the effort to sequence the entire human genome. This was an international program started in 1984, sequencing really started in earnest in 1990, and by 1999, after fifteen years, they had only 10% of the genome sequenced. But just four years later they declared the project “complete” with 92% of the genome sequenced. Comparing those final four years to the previous nine years, you get a 1800% increase in speed.

I have to say, I do wonder if reefs will just gradually shift to higher latitudes.

It may just be that the water temperature is increasing faster than the reefs can migrate. But if that’s the case, we can work with that. There has been remarkable success growing reefs by putting starter structures on the seafloor and then seeding them with coral. If we start doing that in places we previously thought to be to cold for coral, that has potential to work…

Oh I know! It turns out space suits are just really tricky. I was hoping to see some innovation and improvements in mobility from SpaceX, but, not so much apparently. I guess we’ll have to wait for NASA’s xEMU for any real improvement.

Oh man, movement in those suits seems… shall we say, more than a little restricted. Pressurized, they look as rigid as a zeppelin.

Well, that’s really an attempt at saving money. And it’s a strategy that actually works with some of their contractors. (Not so much with Boeing and ULA)

The problem is that they really need more budget. There’s absolutely no reason they couldn’t have five times the funding they have now. The US military had a budget of 820 billion last year, NASA used 200 million. Meaning, that you could quintuple NASA’s budget with an additional 800 million by shifting 0.1% of military funding their way.

Personally, I think NASA is more than 0.1% as important as our military, but that’s just me.

And the cycle will be complete…