A cranky biologist who means well. My hobbies include long walks off short piers and anything science related.
Yes that’s the idea, but perhaps it’s not actually a good idea.
I think the plummeting market price per pound of cannabis in Colorado is an interesting case. It has become so cheap that the cost of goods for indoor grown cannabis is higher than the market price. The outdoor growers are the only ones with a favorable balance of costs and product price for the long run.
Anyone want to buy some used lights?
The purpose of a system is what it does, after all.
You don’t have to get a smart tv at all. TVs do not need to be smart. If you search ‘business monitor’, you will find large quality displays such as used for corporate signage. The one issue is they often have only a few inputs, but that is easily addressed and worth it to avoid the completely unnecessary hassle of a TV too smart for your own good.
My two cents
Mr Vonnegut, may I offer this as an intro into that exact subject from an early 20th century Japanese design perspective?
Tina Belcher is my spiritual guide on this issue. Nothing wrong with a little erotic friend-fiction becoming reality.
Like tears in the rain…
None of us know where any of this is going. That’s why we have this game of ‘dueling truisms’ here in the comments.
Keep sharing the tapes.
It is so true. As a gay man I had to leave the Mormon cult but it meant committing complete social suicide. It’s not an easy thing, by far the most difficult part of coming out.
Back when Perl was the language of choice for bioinformatics, I found a huge performance boost pre-processing large (~1Tb) text files using built in unix tools like sed and awk with regex. So while it might take me a full hour to peck out the correct incantation, the task would then run in an hour, compared to four hours or more for the same task using Perl.
So many pipes…
Not quite. I think you may be referring to their genome transplant. They used a natural cell and completely replaced the original genome with synthesized DNA. Whereas this project did not rely on existing cellular machinery.
This is why I may never be able to fully repair my relationship with my religious father after my own journey out, because I love him too much to undermine the belief that sustains him as an 87 year old.
My own journey out has been incredibly painful and challenging but that is MY life path, not his. He stuck with my mother for 25 years to the very end after her Parkinsons diagnosis and he got to watch her choke to death on some food at the end.
I really believe my father doesn’t need the religion to be that good and faithful, because he is just basically made of good stuff. But I will never attack his faith even though in my heart of hearts I find the foundations of that faith to be risible. What would be gained? What would it say about me if I did?
Socialism: it’s a party™!
It is pretty obviously Research and Development of a commercial product in many cases. Not fair use.
We live in a moribund neoliberal society and I will vote to preserve it because the alternative makes my immediate and foreseeable future significantly less cool.
Kurt V said maturity is a bitter disappointment for which there is no remedy, that’s my voting vibe.
I’m involved in party politics exclusively for local networking. Societal breakdown does not require social breakdown and I’m meeting the kind of people I want in my personal zombie movie.
Voting takes like maybe 2 hours of my time in a given year to maintain registration, scan an information pamphlet and the actual act of delivering a ballot. I do have circumstances such that voting access is easy for me. I realize it is not so universally, but there is still an untapped ‘market’ of people who could easily vote, but don’t.
Like it or not, elections do have consequences. Even so, I agree shaming is likely ineffective as a motivational tool. Yes, i feel personally that people should vote strategically becuse in general it is a low cost activity with outsized consequences. Do a million other things too, because you have time.
Ok lets use your rule: no shaming.
What then are the more effective tools for uniting people to work in the same general direction? Successful movements seem to unite people in common cause without making it an explicit alliance between sects.
I don’t have a lot of solid answers but I would claim this is a good place to start a discussion.
Yards of plastic when a wad of paper would do. I think we need to use natural biopolymers like cellulose and chitin much more. Packaging waste alone justifies the research cost needed to figure out the best way to make that work.
Go! Go!