That the current Russian administration lies about everything. It is unfortunate that Putin is destroying the country, so sad for the millions of people who live there.

Gates is still doing more for global health than your own government. So there is that.

You can be pretty sure that he only changed his mind because some money will be allocated to doing that.

I do not think you understand what having a Supreme Court run by fanatical evangelicals will do to America. Basically you are the Taliban from this point on. How are those abortion rights going? When do the crazies get permission to throw gay people off tall buildings, it will not be long I am sure.

This is just another amazing step towards the technology of this century - the manipulation of genetic material to create desired characteristics in living organisms. Be it fixing genes that cause Alzheimers or designing a fungus that grows biofuel using atmospheric CO2. Last century was the century of electronics, this century is the century of biology, just in time too probably given the wreckage that climate change is going to cause. Try reading the Wikipedia page on Perturb-seq linked to, it may as well be written in Martian for all I understood. Time to go back to class.

Get back to me when Facebook has facilitated the take over of the West by Putin's army and then promptly outlaws Facebook. Of course our propaganda supports our continued existence. We might be morons for allowing Facebook to attack us from within but we are not stupid enough to destroy Main Stream Media entirely. Wait.. oh...

Just a quick note to point out that "Gain of Function" genetic research is how all research into biology, medicine, manufacture of biological materials using living organisms, discovery of anti viral mechanisms, determination of pathways of viral damage etc is done. So the cute joke about gain of function research creating SARS-Cov-2 is either the product of ignorance or a piece of propaganda put in your head by enemies of the society you live in. Enemies who want herds of ill informed voters taking up arms and killing doctors and scientists and politicians involved in the evil "Gain of Function" research.

NFT are so obviously not worth anything that I cannot be bothered to type more than one sentence about them.

Completely agree, its time may come but for now it it all hype. We hardly have any VR games. The metaverse is pants.

lol, quite.
"Tulip mania (Dutch: tulpenmanie) was a period during the Dutch Golden Age when contract prices for some bulbs of the recently introduced and fashionable tulip reached extraordinarily high levels, with the major acceleration starting in 1634 and then dramatically collapsing in February 1637 It is generally considered to have been the first recorded speculative bubble or asset bubble in history. Formal futures markets appeared in the Dutch Republic during the 17th century. Among the most notable centered on the tulip market, at the height of tulip mania. At the peak of tulip mania, in February 1637, some single tulip bulbs sold for more than 10 times the annual income of a skilled artisan."

Goodness, what a surprise. An anonymous coward posts Russki Mir death cult propaganda on Slashdot. The West has you Nazi vermin figured out after we saw the handcuffed dead bodies on the streets of Bucha and the basements where the fingernails were pulled out. I have seen many bad things in my long life but the lies coming out of the Russian administration about the things they are doing in Ukraine are the most disgusting I have heard in decades. It is not peoples politics that I hate, it is the lies they tell you to justify them. Russia is lying in our faces all the time, all of it. It is not just Putin who will rot in hell for all eternity is is the enablers like this propaganda troll who will burn in those flames.

I note that the cost of adjusting web pages once to pop up a notice about cookies is probably about as much as Amazon spends on headquarters potted plants each year.
In the UK bricks and mortar businesses pay something called business rates on their buildings. These are huge and are the consequence of the natural law of taxation that all financial activity is taxed. In the last few years large numbers of these businesses have shut down as they cannot compete with Amazon. Amazon does not pay these taxes and this is a clear violation of the rule that financial activity is taxed. The people who pay to make up for the missing business rates are home owners who pay a rapidly increasing property tax. The people being f*cked over by these property taxes are the elderly on fixed incomes and the poor who pay irrespective of their income. This is not working because financial activity is not being taxed as it should be. You always tax the people with the money first otherwise you end up with a dogshit society where the poor pay all the taxation.

Don't forget the East German contingent. I believe the internal name for the project is "Stasi".

Quite right.

Whatever your personal hopes or views on Ivermectin, this is the only person on this page who is actually doing science. Where is the paper? Otherwise we are just making internet "content" with zero actual content.

Whilst newspaper articles on pay-walled sites are all great fun I cannot find the preprint that should be responsible for all this orgasmic discussion. I have just spent twenty minutes looking for it and it is not there. So actually everything on this page is horseshit.