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- Comment on Biotech startup Conception claims to have generated the first early human egg cells derived from stem cells, built entirely from scratch 1 day ago:
Isn’t there a Doctor Seus book about this…?
- Comment on Ofsted drops ‘clumsy’ and ‘offensive’ guidance linking autism and extremism 5 days ago:
What the hell? This was a thing?
- Comment on Keir Starmer tells of 'intensely personal' decision to quit and warns Burnham in first interview since resigning 6 days ago:
I will forever remember the weird trapped look in Keir Starmer’s eyes, like there is a little boy stuck inside a mask screaming “let me out of this monster I have become!”.
- Comment on For First Time, a Cell Built from Scratch Grows and Divides 1 week ago:
came here to post this lol, nice! I love it when somebody has already beat me to posting a fascinating article!
Michael Lynch (opens a new tab), an evolutionary biologist at Arizona State University who was also not involved in the study, agreed. It is “a synthetic biology tour de force,” he said. However, he also cautioned against over-hyping the cell since it’s not yet self-sustaining.
Once the synthetic cells were created, her students and others started calling them Adamala cells — a moniker she hated. She insisted that they name the cells after anything else, jokingly suggesting potatoes. So her students started calling them spudcells. “I’m Polish, I’m mostly made of potatoes, so that’s fine with me,” Adamala said.
- Comment on Left-leaning Americans are driving the U.S. birth decline, new study finds 1 week ago:
Tell that to the rightwing fascists in power not us.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
People became convinced social media equates to cigarettes somehow and they ate that distraction up so they didn’t have to confront how their quality of life collapsing is the real reason they are miserable.
- By 2050, many Sydney apartments built to today's standards could be too hot for weeks at a timephys.org ↗Submitted 1 week ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on 1 week ago:
How much do your union busting consultants cost Delta?
I bet it is a fuckload more than that.
- Comment on Australia secures $250m US package for F/A-18F & EA-18G fleets 1 week ago:
The F18 Growlers are based on an old airframe, this is less of a concern. Plenty of nations fly older US aircraft that the US sold to them at some point who the US is no longer allies with. The F35 is a different question entirely, the US doesn’t even own the copyright to that jet and it is one problem after another and in general I think what you are pointing out becomes more and more true the newer the aircraft is.
I understand the hesitation though, but from US perspective I am happy there is another nation with this expertise, not just the US.
I don’t think you understand until you see a flight of these go by like sharks while you consider they are entire surveillance, electronic warfare and intelligence suites somehow shoved into a jet. Sure, go with an alternative aircraft from a different country when it becomes available, maybe join the fighter aircraft program Canada just expressed interest in, but for now? I feel more safe knowing it isn’t just my country that possesses these.
Between these and AH64Es, Australia has an extremely solid air defense network and it is inevitable that given Australia’s massive size and numerous littoral environments that Australia will become one of the most powerful militaries on earth, if not in number than certainly in expertise and doctrine. Sure, Australia has a lot of problems but it is a much more functional democracy than the US, so yeah… I am not going to say you are wrong just consider that side of things. Consider that it is dangerous to only let the US possess tools like these…
You have to understand pretty much every other equivalent tool in the world is a big, slow business jet platform. An electronic warfare Gripen exists but it is an order of magnitude less capable and it has no such established history of iteration and refinement over decades of real world use.
- Comment on Australia secures $250m US package for F/A-18F & EA-18G fleets 1 week ago:
Sure don’t buy the F35 and kick the US out, but the way I see it Growlers are too dominant for only the US to possess, this is a move towards multipolarity.
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- Comment on How Nigel Farage Twists the Facts About White Boys in Schools to Manufacture Racial Tension 2 weeks ago:
What a worthless dumpster of hate.
- Comment on DuckDuckGo’s AI Feature Is Telling Users That Trump Died of Rabies Earlier This Month 2 weeks ago:
DuckDuckStop
- Comment on We have brownouts in the summer and Kevin O'Leary wants a Data Center built here. 2 weeks ago:
How many billionaires can the power grid handle?
- Comment on Ez gg 2 weeks ago:
Why? Water temperature
- Comment on Enzymes be like 3 weeks ago:
I have never seen a human body dismantled by physical violence in front of me, that does not mean I haven’t seen absolutely brutal forms of violence.
Homelessness in the US is an act of mass violence against some of the most vulnerable people in society.
- Comment on Another Xbocalypse begins: Microsoft are reportedly closing or spinning off Double Fine, Ninja Theory and Compulsion 3 weeks ago:
What pisses me off so much about the AI bubble as someone who was trained in science is the basic obvious fact that if you have a magic tool that can “solve any problem” but that takes a nearly impossible amount of energy to do so, taking so much energy that everything else has to be sidelined in order to power this magic problem solving tool… than you are just restating that the tool you have is incapable of problem solving.
Suppose there are two problem solving machines A and B. Problem solving machine A does not work very well but it takes a small amount of energy, problem solving machine B is like AI in that it can tackle “any problem” if given nearly all the electrical power and computer chips that humans can produce.
Both problem solving machine A and B are equally useless even though the owners of problem solving machine B can make grandiose claims about the power of their problem solving machine if they conveniently exclude the “energy required” part, which as someone trained in science ends up seeming pretty damn similar to someone arguing that their perpetual motion machine is capable of perpetual motion so long as we feed all of the electrical power humanity can generate into it…
- Comment on Enzymes be like 3 weeks ago:
This picture was originally was taken to emphasize the violence of antihomeless architecture in public spaces.
The ridiculous costumes emphasize what you would have to wear to be able to lay down comfortably whick kind of does fit the enzyme metaphor.
- Comment on Another Xbocalypse begins: Microsoft are reportedly closing or spinning off Double Fine, Ninja Theory and Compulsion 3 weeks ago:
There was never any other realistic option here, Microslop is too dysfunctional and lost in the fake AI “revolution”.
- Comment on Travelodge Says ‘Free Palestine’ Greeting on TV Screen Was Antisemitic 3 weeks ago:
It is antisemitic as hell to suggest Palestine cannot be free without Jews suffering which is what saying “Free Palestine” equating to antisemitism does as it implies that Judaism is at its core meant to commit this Genocide against Palestinians, which is the most heinous way imaginable to me that you could drag Judaism through the mud.
- Comment on average physics student vs POTUS 47 3 weeks ago:
It isn’t just that Trump is a dumbass, being uneducated and “stupid” aren’t what makes Trump worthy of hatred and endless namecalling.
It is the complete lack of curiosity people like Trump have that I despise more than ignorance, it is violently antithetical to the basic reasons I love science and the pursuit of understanding the world. I am curious, I ask questions I don’t just accept shit that people say because they say it a lot. Trump hates people like me because we can walk all over him on basically any topic, and I hate people like Trump not because they don’t know anything but because they do not desire to have to know anything at all but what they want.
- Comment on UK Introduces Full Social Media Ban For Under 16s - Including Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and X. 3 weeks ago:
My bad, that was actually a great sarcastic comment, it is just that so many older people literally have said almost that exact same thing to me about equally stupid shit that doesn’t effect them and only hurts others but they truly deep down in their hearts wanted that I was unable to realize this was the unicorn moment.
- Comment on UK Introduces Full Social Media Ban For Under 16s - Including Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and X. 3 weeks ago:
Which is why these kinds of bans will always be extremely inconsistent, ineffective and ultimately only harmful to the people who cannot get around the bullshit blocks that the vast majority of kids simply circumvent.
So the kids with tech savy parents get to learn how to access the internet and get all those benefits, but kids who grow up with out techy parents are thrown to the dogs, sounds fair!
- Comment on UK Introduces Full Social Media Ban For Under 16s - Including Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and X. 3 weeks ago:
Right this is all about old people feeling safe, it has NOTHING to do with reality and it is shocking people like you are aggressively willing to endorse the destruction of things just because it gives you good feelings.
- Comment on UK Introduces Full Social Media Ban For Under 16s - Including Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and X. 3 weeks ago:
Wildly undemocratic.
- Comment on UK Introduces Full Social Media Ban For Under 16s - Including Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and X. 3 weeks ago:
Where is your hard evidence?
- Comment on Social media to be banned in UK for under-16s, Starmer announces 3 weeks ago:
Surely stepping on this rake will hurt the UK less than Brexit!
- Comment on Starmer to announce ‘Australia plus’ ban on social media for under-16s 3 weeks ago:
Facepalm plus
- Comment on AI Is Slowing Down 4 weeks ago:
I love you Ed