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Nope. Just so that you don’t starve in a crisis. Grass tastes gross. ;)
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Nope. Just so that you don’t starve in a crisis. Grass tastes gross. ;)
Humanitarian crisis for sure.
Tangent. If I was a mad genetic scientist with no ethics, there are a few things I’d do – engineering a virus to deliver a few “software patches” to our DNA. One of those things would be to engineer the production of cellulase as an enzyme in our digestive system – so we can get energy from grass and such in an emergency. Probably the Law of Unintended Consequences will make this worse for humanity somehow (Begun the Grass Wars have!). Mosquitos also get blood sucking removed, in an attempt to make them purely pollinating insects. Vote for Troy as mad scientist!
Won’t help the hungry in Sudan now, though. So I’m open to better ideas. Sadly, I largely have bad ideas. If I’m on the side of full external military intervention, it would be considered “colonial”. It’s hard to propose any solution that isn’t just “send aid” – and you don’t want to do that because it gets seized by the parties involved to support their conflict. Do we just watch it play out and accept refugees? That’s lame – how many millions will die in each of the above scenarios. Fuck.
I’ve heard it phrased: “once is never, twice is always”
No one commenting on your playlist? You’re cathartic music experience is showing :)
A man who has big books… has a big… bookshelf.
My third year thermodynamics course opened with a similar quip by the lecturer. Entropy is actually depressing. You can’t fight it. You can’t not fight it. It just wins.
Not after reading their comment history.
All people who think porn is bad are bad. They are projecting their own unhealthy suppressed sexualities onto others because of the shame they associate with their own sexuality
– DancingBear, 7 days ago
Thus I am concluding you are pro Russian and taking all opportunities to block all porn starring Ukranians. Which will be basically every site on the internet. A pity, since you seem to like it a lot.
NSFW, but the next obvious thing to do is…
Fourth panel. AI trained on all the above, floods it all with generated content rendering the signal-to-noise ratio too terrible to tolerate, even for corporations.
I spent an hour today trying to find a real source for this quote, often misattributed to Churchill. And failed. Found some sources saying it predates Churchill, but no direct references. Seems an adage that is quite old though.
Plot twist. The raccoons are aliens in costume trying to learn about park rangers.
Out of curiosity, how is this ratio relative to some place like North Korea?
Do it with leaves next! Or macaroni!
We called it “Beetle Bump” but same thing.
After the release of the redesign, it sort of stopped. Only really made sense for the classic version.
Easier to infiltrate terrorist networks – networks are, well, networks. Most school shootings are independent actors, even if radicalized online.
Now, if you’re asking about why they haven’t implemented decent gun control laws…
I had a null result for my MSc thesis. My supervisor lost interest immediately, and my funding went away. No interest in publishing a failure on his side, because the premise was flawed and he provided the premise. I dropped out and went to industry rather than be student poor with no funding.
Cryochamber test #42. Patient still dead.
There are many time-loop stories in speculative fiction. Hell, there’s like a thousand episodes of sci fi TV with this premise.
But if you’re looking for a good one, try Hyperion (and Fall of Hyperion). The first book can standalone, but the second book gives you a more satisfying answer to your question. It is told in a Canterbury Tales style, with multiple converging retrospectives. But the principle antagonist is time itself. Very fun read.