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  1. Re:Go for it transhumanists! on Nanotechnology Makes It Possible For Mice To See In Infrared (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 1

    I think it would fun for them to make it so eye glowed like flashlight as that fellow in Ghostbusters II....very handy. Short of that, I go for simply making my eyes glow, I'd be a hit a parties and at Halloween I could scare the kneebiters.

  2. Re:Work WITH collectors, not against them on US Paleontologists Call For a Worldwide Halt To the Sale of Vertebrate Dinosaur Fossils (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Stop spitballing. Paleontology requires that fossils have their surrounding strata scientifically evaluated. The fossil also needs to be very carefully extracted so as not to damage it. Jethro going into them thar hills with a pick axe, hammer, and chisel is probably not going to end well for the fossil. Even Jed and Granny wouldn't be that stupid. Elie has better things to do.

  3. Re:Actually it's red states that are most obese. on PepsiCo Is Laying Off Corporate Employees As the Company Commits To 'Relentlessly Automating' (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Bingo, the southern states in the U.S. have the worst obesity rates in the country. The are also the most opposed to the ACA and Medicare for all. They simply do not equate their lifestyle with their death and health rates, and the Republican pols are not about to inform them of the link.

  4. Re:That's rich. on President Trump Wants US To Win 5G Through Real Competition (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    Again with the Hillary issues...you do realize the election was two years ago but you still seem intent on reliving it. Move on, come up to speed, cook with gas. "Sure my guy is a dolt, but that Hillary...whoa!!".

  5. I do not ever recall consuming an app. Is this something peculiar to social media (I don't use it)?

  6. Re:Will it help? on Pinterest Cracks Down on Anti-Vaxxers, Pressuring Facebook To Follow (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The internet has little to do with objectivity being scorned and subjective truth values. Humans have always been susceptible to these, myths are testament to this. The only cure is education, and it is an incomplete cure. Some kids get indoctrinated by their parents, where is the dividing line between indoctrination and teaching your kids. Your kids are not property to done with as one pleases. This requires discipline to allow kids to find their own voice and not merely parroted ideas from their parents.

  7. Re:Stop asking these questions. on Proposed Bill Would Force Arizonians To Pay $250 To Have Their DNA Added To a Database (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, yes, lets start settling our political disputes with guns. Maybe your neighbors don't agree with you and decide your neighborhood would be better off without you.

  8. Libertarians had a field day....before 2007. Then their principles helped the banks dip the U.S. economy in shit and roll the rest of us. There was nothing the Bush Administration felt needed adult oversight in the banking industry.

  9. The bill hasn't passed and is unlikely to pass. It's about as important as one of Trump's tweets and is going just about as far.

  10. Re:What are they going to do if people refuse? on Proposed Bill Would Force Arizonians To Pay $250 To Have Their DNA Added To a Database (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    They'll just hire new people. Steve Scalise got his ass shot off and yet still found it within himself to promote more guns. Never underestimate a pol's moral depravity.

  11. This gem will be a gift to the Democrats in Arizona...another pol own goal.

  12. Re:Maybe not a bad idea... on Trump Directs Pentagon To Create Space Force Legislation for Congress (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Trump's idea of a Space Force isn't your idea of a Space Force. His is more akin to playing with plastic soldiers.

  13. Re:It was a terrible idea from day 1 on Trump Directs Pentagon To Create Space Force Legislation for Congress (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    The Military Industrial Complex died back in the 1990s and 2000s when those companies realized they could make much more in the private sector. Right now, DoD almost has to beg them to produce stuff that isn't a big boondoggle like the F-35.

  14. Re:Maybe not a bad idea... on Trump Directs Pentagon To Create Space Force Legislation for Congress (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Given the budget deficit and the last tax giveaway and the demographics for SS and Medicare, expect deep cuts in everything. The Democrats are pushing Medicare for all, they'll be lucky to keep Medicare as it is. The only thing that might fund Medicare for all is totally restructuring U.S. medical care. While that isn't a bad idea, it isn't a real idea because no one knows how to do that without a massive disruption and sending the Blue Haired out into the streets. The Me Generation want their pie and they want it now.

  15. Re:Maybe not a bad idea... on Trump Directs Pentagon To Create Space Force Legislation for Congress (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm sure they could grab up those unused Star Wars storm trooper uniforms.

  16. Re:I can't stay mad at him. on New York Mayor Says Amazon Headquarters Debacle Was 'an Abuse of Corporate Power' (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Those are on hold as Pecker is convulsing over having his plea deal abrogated by the Feds for being involved in a blackmail effort. And Nat. Enq. doesn't really care about the pictures, they only wanted to stop the Wash. Post's (Bezos owns it) investigation into the corruption between Saudi Arabia and the Nat. Enq. They also wanted to make Agent Orange happy.

    The blackmail is how the Nat. Enq. and Agent Orange view the world, they assumed Bezos was open to blackmail and that he was somehow directing the Wash. Post's investigations. It's straight out of Hollywood's version of how the Mafia works. That's the depth of their understanding about how to influence. Bezos turned the tables on them and now they look like the childish schoolyard bullies they are. Bezos turned their pictures into worthless trash.

  17. Re: Maybe they'll build it in Wisconsin instead on New York Mayor Says Amazon Headquarters Debacle Was 'an Abuse of Corporate Power' (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, politics should be covered locally. However, the news industry is consolidating around a few large left-right-wing-nut companies. Those companies won't be covering local news without infected it with national politics.

  18. Re:Maybe they'll build it in Wisconsin instead on New York Mayor Says Amazon Headquarters Debacle Was 'an Abuse of Corporate Power' (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    The rednecks already have 47 genders, but they also have an unwritten agreement never to talk about them.

  19. Re:Why stop at dollar stores? on Why Some US Cities are Fighting 'Dollar Stores' (eastbaytimes.com) · · Score: 0

    Yeah, 'cause the increased health costs due to poor, cheap nutrition are always accounted for in the free market. And you'll be happy to pay for those costs too because you are smart enough to pay for good nutrition and do not mind paying for the poor people's health costs just because they were free to get suckered into buying the cheap food.

  20. Re:Why fight them? on Why Some US Cities are Fighting 'Dollar Stores' (eastbaytimes.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yah! If the people want to choose unhealthy shit, then they have also chosen increased health costs. Of course, those costs don't show up until later years, and then they have the rest of us to pay for them. MAGA.

  21. Re:common knowledge on Huge Study Finds Professors' Attitudes Affect Students' Grades (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Really? What evidence do you have a G-d choosing anything? Don't hold back, lay it on us.

  22. Re:Bull on Huge Study Finds Professors' Attitudes Affect Students' Grades (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I've taught logic in graduate school. The worst thing you can do as a teacher is determine that smartness is baked in. The best thing you can do is assume every student is a budding Einstein if you could just help them along a bit to discover how to learn. By the way, Einstein was no Einstein in school, and not really a very good mathematician.

    Jeezus, I hope you never get near students.

  23. Scalise on Man With 3-D-Printed Gun Had Hit List of Lawmakers, US Says (nytimes.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You'd think Scalise would be a poster-boy for new gun restrictions, instead he's a gun-eunuch who thinks getting butt-shot is okay since he didn't die. Too bad he got shot in the brain.

  24. Re:Phrase it differently... on Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    If Bezos was determined to build something in NYS, Buffalo, Syracuse, or Rochester would have been a better fit. Cost of living is lower, there's land available and they are connected to the interstate system.

  25. Re:Alleged? on Man With 3-D-Printed Gun Had Hit List of Lawmakers, US Says (nytimes.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    it is worse than that, Scalise got his ass shot off (nearly) but is still out there promoting guns for everyone...not the brightest bulb on the tree. It will take a congress-critter getting losing their life to a gun-nut before the laws get changed.