Thanks, anti-vax idiots.
Day: August 13, 2021, 4:09 PM
A Sex U All
I really miss my German co-worker from a previous job who would always tell sex jokes and complain about how prudish Americans were when no one laughed (except me).
She was fun. She was very much not American.
Detext
‘Everyone else knew weeks before we did’: readers who fell in love with their best friend.
Liberals: this is automatic harassment and was really the pretext of friendship. And also somehow racism.
Contralunar
This faith is what I call "modernism" in my book, and it's the thing I've come to admire the most about mid-century figures I'm otherwise quite critical of. They believed huge, complex things could be understood and organized, and did it. https://t.co/Y6bCxTo3l3
— David Sessions (@davidsess) August 12, 2021
We could do those things again but we probably won’t.
I really liked the scene in Interstellar where the accepted scholarly wisdom was that the moon landing was in fact faked, because no one then could even imagine a civlization could do such a thing. I could totally see that happening and exactly how it would, too.
Victory Assured
Apple’s child protection features spark concern within its own ranks -sources.
But Apple/FBI/NSA have already won if the press is framing it as a “child protection feature” rather than what it is, which is the final offensive in the push to wrest all privacy and security away from one’s personal devices and life.
It’s all over except the ubiquitious surveillance and innocent/framed people going to jail. But Apple will sell a lot of iPhones in China, and that’s what matters to them.
CorpYou
According to modern libs, “sexualizing” someone is believing they have a body.
Equipment
We cobbled together all the parts to built our own microinjection system for around $2500 so we can start engineering embryos. We did tests on Zebrafish eggs and we were able to successfully do a test injection.
The future is here it's just not equally distributed… yet pic.twitter.com/csh2Jv1Otr
— Josiah Zayner (@4LOVofScience) August 12, 2021
Yep. I did this as an intellectual exercise a few months ago, but I figured out that if you bought used equipment and weren’t attempting to make massive quantities, for $200,000 or so you could build your own vaccination pipeline, making mRNA vaccines. A smart person could get up to speed on this in six months to a year.
It’s amazing there has not been more bioterrorism because this stuff is getting very cheap and easy.
It’d Be The Pits
Be glad I am not galactic overlord!
All you anti-vaxxers would be working in my open-pit lithium mines — on another planet.