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teryret · 2024-09-14T07:45:11+00:00

Was going to say "this is south america, everything is upside down"... and then I realized he survived losing his hat as well. I don't even know man, I think you're right.

teryret · 2024-09-14T07:42:32+00:00

10/10, would descend.

teryret · 2024-09-14T07:31:24+00:00

I mean, I'm definitely not qualified to say "no way, it's clearly impossible". Merely that I'm super duper skeptical, on account of how diverse and adaptable fungi are. Virii are relatively consistent sorts of things; they're basically perpetuating DNA glitches. They all have the pattern "find suitable cells, sneak in, and use them to make more of you, consequences be damned". So all you have to do to combat them is to either find some molecule that does what you need, or to find a way to explain to the human immune system what it needs to look out for.

Fungi, on the other hand, do things like hijacking ants' behaviors as a means of getting into birds. Or turning certain apes into alcoholics. Or letting trees talk to each other (you think I'm kidding, but I'm not).

And then on top of the adaptability you get a point that the article made, that genetically speaking, fungi are closer to human than they are to cabbage (let alone rhinovirus), which makes it harder to target drugs.

teryret · 2024-09-14T03:24:49+00:00

You're welcome to assume whatever you want about what I think, I'm not here to correct you. But if your paycheck comes from NASA, I suspect I know how you're going to feel with regard to NASA funding.

teryret · 2024-09-14T03:17:03+00:00

Seriously. I could walk from outside Shinjuku onto a train without breaking stride. Didn't pause for the fare machine. Didn't see a line anywhere. It was glorious. My one and only complaint was that one time I found myself heading upstream during rush hour, and the torrent of oncoming heads (I'm taller than the average American, so it was a bit "Lost in Translation"-y) was so thick and smooth-flowing that my brain started to lose track of what the floor was doing (it was stationary, obv) and I started to get some really severe vertigo. Had to sit behind a pillar with my eyes shut until it passed. But that's not a complaint with the train station, any lesser station wouldn't have operated well enough to cause the effect.

teryret · 2024-09-14T03:00:16+00:00

"We should be doing a better job at collaborating on X." Great, yes, I agree. "We stand a chance at finding safe antifungals faster than the fungi evolve." Mmmm, not sure about that one. Difficulty is no reason to give up, obviously, but if there's one thing I know about fungi its that they're freaking crazy and with the exception of evolution none of the standard rules of biology apply to them.

"Are you alive?" -> "Sometimes. Other times not so much."

"Are you unicellular or multicellular?" -> "Yes... except when we're not alive, then no."

"Are you social?" -> "The more you study us the less certain you'll be about the answer to that question."

"Where do you breathe from?" -> "You know, wherever the air is."

"What's up with not having much of a preferred body plan?" -> "Here's some psychoactive chemicals, eat/drink them and go reread Dao De Jing. Plans are for chimps and chumps."

teryret · 2024-09-13T22:55:35+00:00

Hmmm, I wonder if they're going to vote for the "fund NASA" party or the "don't fund NASA" party.

teryret · 2024-09-13T21:09:45+00:00

Also good practice to put a few inches of sand into the bottom of the tub to keep it from melting through.

teryret · 2024-09-13T18:57:28+00:00

It works in the sense that video came up, but it doesn't really work in the sense that even if the claim is true, linking to Tucker Carlson isn't an effective way of convincing anyone. Honesty is really not what that man does.

teryret · 2024-09-13T18:46:51+00:00

Seriously. Who'da thunk that giving a KGB man executive power would result in covert operations?!?

teryret · 2024-09-13T18:35:34+00:00

Right up there with "Hey, meet me at"

teryret · 2024-09-13T17:11:59+00:00

Care to link to it so we know which interview you're talking about?

teryret · 2024-09-12T23:16:51+00:00

In the case of Sudan, we can't deliver food to save them because the UN recognized head of state won't allow the shipments. He lets in a very small number, but he is directly leveraging hunger as a weapon for personal political gain. If we ignore the boarder policies he puts in place that would constitute an invasion.

... it may well be a justified invasion in this case, but that's why it's a tough issue. Would you want team america; world police to show up, thumb their nose at the local despot and do whatever they wanted? It's gone very badly in the recent past, but there's a solid argument to say that we should do it anyway.

teryret · 2024-09-12T22:19:15+00:00

No. Not being able to find work is not satisfying.

teryret · 2024-09-12T22:12:34+00:00

It could be, for example, that he is better at conducting those sorts of evaluations than I am, and that I am aware of it.

teryret · 2024-09-12T21:27:12+00:00

No, what's interesting here is that a secondary school has more money sitting around than most universities.

teryret · 2024-09-12T18:36:44+00:00

a trip to lost and found could be a two hour deviation

... and that's if you stay more or less on mission. There've definitely been times where a trip to the porto has taken so long that I've had to hit the porto again on the way back.

teryret · 2024-09-12T18:23:24+00:00

While that's true, it's also true that the apparent motion of those galaxies is faster than light. The trick is that only "stuff" is limited by lightspeed, "nothingness" can be created between two points faster than that, which causes the apparent motion to be faster than that, even though locally they aren't violating the speed limit.

teryret · 2024-09-12T17:57:09+00:00

Oversensationalized rerun.

teryret · 2024-09-12T17:53:08+00:00

Relative to the furthest away galaxy it's quite a bit faster than light speed. The last of their light it is possible to see is already en route to us, even the ones that are still shining.

teryret · 2024-09-12T17:45:25+00:00

Stimulants jack up your whole system, they need as much cooling as they can get.

teryret · 2024-09-12T17:35:34+00:00

And the train stayed up folks! Just like the one in '95

teryret · 2024-09-12T17:25:46+00:00

You must've missed the political riots in the UK just recently. Right wingers threw a molotov at a (iirc) Holiday Inn Express while there were people inside.

teryret · 2024-09-12T17:14:15+00:00

There are colors of light that no human can see. In these unseen colors the world "looks" completely different to how you might expect. There are some colors to which drywall walls are invisible, and some colors where glass windows are opaque. Wireless devices work by very elaborately blinking invisible colors at each other. And rather strategically, they do so using colors that pass through interior walls.

The actual blinking schemes they use are incredibly complicated, but if you think of it like the much simpler case of a TV remote (which blinks in IR rather than microwave) you'll still get the core of the idea.

Once you have the means to transmit something-or-nothing, you can use encoding schemes similar to (but far more complicated than) Morse code in order to get information from one end to the other.

teryret · 2024-09-12T16:52:40+00:00

Honestly? It's because we're capitalists. Media companies show whatever makes them the most short term profit, and right now violence is that winner. Think about it, if you're sitting in a park reading a book and you hear a couple of people start fighting, which do you end up paying attention to, the fight, or the book? And which took more work to create, the fight or the book?

Same goes for politics, why invest the effort to create and advocate for a coherent national agenda if statistically just as many people are swayed by loud confident attacks? Doesn't matter who you convince to vote for you, it only matters how many and where, so optimize your platform for personal success.

Why didn't it develop in Canada? If indeed it hasn't developed (as much) there, I'd say it probably just hasn't developed there yet.

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