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I mean, it was E. Coli

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Do they allow Russia?

I recommend coconut oil instead

Of course. That’s just garbage

My understanding is that AI has made surprising success in mathematics in novel unsolved problems.

So it does seem apt for this use case

Be here now

I loved it. The ending made me want to watch it again.

Unrelated: I wonder if AI has had any impact in analyzing the data from James Webb

They might be the seeds of present-day supermassive black holes, such as the one at the centre of the Milky Way.

Oh fuck oh fuck

After we’re gone, subsequent species will discover a mustard gas cylinder, and think it’s some advanced sign of civilization.

Then it’ll go off and they’ll hate us as much as we hate ourselves.

Fortunately, there’s a route that’s open to everyone. I have filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for all the data that CBP has on me, from agents’ field notes to any automated system hits. However long it takes for CBP to respond, and however heavily they redact the documents, I’m legally entitled to a response. And so are you.

Good to know

After stamping my wife’s passport around 6:30 a.m., the CBP agent at passport control told me that I had to go “somewhere else.” That meant secondary inspection. I was handed my passport in a locked plastic box with a bright orange lid and pointed toward a seemingly endless corridor. I told my wife to contact the lawyer if it took “too long.”

The waiting room at the end of the corridor was a strange mix of professional courtesy and casual cruelty. I saw agents ask a young man what kind of food they should bring him and reassure an old man that everything will be sorted out. I also saw agents snap at someone who wanted to use the bathroom. “Did you think you could just do that without asking?” an agent shouted as the man walked toward the bathroom door.

This article is the best description I’ve read of what to expect when they flag you

They can’t see the game, so I don’t think it matters. They just experience a stimulation in one area of their clump when a daemon appears on one side of the screen.

For all we know, they see Jesus and their reaction is to say hello, which the scientists translate to “shoot”

I don’t care how much it cost.

How much is that in nitrogen oxides, carbon dioxide, and other greenhouse gasses in carbon dioxide equivalents, and what is that in comparison to the average US American, average earth human, and the required level to avoid climate catastrophe?

Beijing has built up multiple artificial islands as military bases, and has used them to press its territorial claims and confront its neighbors across the nine-dash line, in strict defiance of the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)

Sounds like not a loophole, but just an outright violation

Antelope Reef, or Lingyang Jiao to the Chinese and Đá Hải Sâm to the Vietnamese, is part of the Crescent archipelago in the Paracel Island chain. China has occupied the Paracels since 1974, but the territory is still disputed by Vietnam and Taiwan.

Oof

In less than a year, the PRC dredged more than a million tons of sand to reclaim approximately 1,500 acres of land. The teardrop-shaped island is now 3.7 miles long

That’s insane. I wish big superpowers would do this sort of thing to help island nations that are disappearing due to their historic pollution.

Instead we only do this for the military, which is responsible for enormous emissions causing sea level rise :(

Wait, this was a reef? Like a coral reef? They built a military base by smothering a coral reef?

Uhh, I thought sea levels were rising. What is this paradox?