Rhaedas

Art of the kill

Thanks for clarifying what your definition is. Pretty much includes any form of government throughout history. Is this an anarchist’s pov?

If you’re going to try to narrow the definition that way, then most countries are fascists. Why don’t you visit the Wikipedia page on fascism and help them simplify what they classify as a very complex definition.

Which would make it far worse. Lower than WWII Nazis.

America wasn’t fascist then. I don’t think it is now (yet), but the leadership in power sure is.

The rhetoric, absolutely. The difference is that this idiot has a big, loaded gun that works.

Totally not a threat on on the life of another country’s official. Nope.

We need like a united nations organization to help push back on the aggressor. Like a league of nations or something.

Oh, god. We won because we were good at memes.

One thing I read once suggested that Homo Sapiens might have been better at communication and strategy against the stronger Neanderthals, so when there was conflict they’d tend to win and claim victory (and the women, which is why we have some Neanderthal genes). And maybe that also gave better adaptation traits when climate and other changes happened.

Kokoro was the one I was going to mention. I played around with it a bit, was very impressed with the speed and quality. And then I realized I had been using it in CPU mode. GPU is incredible.

Right. I actually don’t have an issue with them not having a transponder on. That was the least of the problems. But not being aware of standard traffic around an airport… come on.

That’s comforting that they could be that way and be running silent from ATC and other aircraft anywhere. What could go wrong?

Nothing will happen because it’s US military, but shame on those pilots because you know THEY saw the JetBlue coming their way, knew the route they’d take, and didn’t give a shit. They didn’t even have to say anything, just change course.

Of course they would adapt to changing times. Who goes around opening chests anymore?

Now I want to see an evolutionary tree of mimic adaptation.

That has its own slope of discrimination from data due to being able to pay or not. If we determine a certain thing is okay ethically to screen for, anyone should be able to get it. Bad enough to have one gray area, we don’t need a gradient of gray everywhere.

My first question was, why is this a target? This is terrorism and outside war rules (insane that we have rules for war instead of just not having it). Laws are only as good as their enforcement though.

From a science pov it makes sense that it’s something to pursue, even as just a renewable biofuel. Algae grows fast, it’s where oil comes from, it’s a biological “fix”. It’s perfect. Except it didn’t work nearly as well as hoped.

I looked into it a long time ago as a “solution” to how to best pull carbon of out the air and sequester it. Algae farms over deep water areas, grown and culled and the dead carbon sunk deep to stay out of the loop. Sounds perfect, doesn’t it?

But in both scenarios there are so many costs and variables to consider that are left out when proponents are selling it. Some are just the “forgotten” costs of running a process that pollutes on their own and take energy (that requires emissions too). Some are effects outside the process that damage the environment in other ways. And the costs and effects of feeding the algae itself, it just won’t grow in a vat of water alone. So many things that change the net result. And with the case for fuel (which doesn’t lock the carbon away so it’s not a help to existing carbon in the air) assuming the fuel percentage per weight would be high enough to justify the rest of the costs. Which Exxon figured out it was not, while selling it as a miracle.

Climate Town just did a video on that topic. Exxon is apparently still running the PR commercials they made for it, but that project is all but dead because it wasn’t going anywhere. Turns out doubling the output of not much doesn’t get much.

Like the others have always been labeled afterwards.