An alleged scientist should know better than to equate correlation with causation. Especially when the other side of their mouth is saying "We don't know the cause."

Perhaps people with poor health are more prone to eating UPFs, either from some craving caused by their poor health, or because their poor health leaves them having to buy the cheapest food possible (which will be UPFs).

Did they make any attempt to distinguish between correlation and causation? Or even acknowledge that they aren't the same thing?

Their mantra is "GIVE US MONEY OR YOU'LL DIE!!! AND SOMEONE WILL MOLEST YOUR CHILDREN AND KILL YOUR DOG!!1"

Doesn't much matter what the subject is, it's a dire threat to human civilization and the only possible way to survive is to give the hysterical pearl clutchers all your money.

Sweden (and most of Europe) has more trust in their own government than those of us in the US. And certainly more trust in their own government than in any other government. And quite possibly more trust in a rabid dog playing fetch with a hand grenade with the pin pulled than in the Chinese government.

But this isn't about the fire department, or the bus company, doing so. It's about the manufacturer - literally halfway around the world - doing so with zero information about the crash.

(And the fire department has their own way of cutting out the batter, that involves bolt cutters and clearly marked access points on the outside of the vehicle.)

So you don't care if the next car has the same flaw, and catches fire in your garage and burns down your house in the process? Even though that flaw could have been - possibly quite easily - identified and fixed if those logs had been available?

Or that the same thing might happen to your neighbor, whose burning house might also burn yours down? While you're in it?

Or that your insurance company might double or triple your rates because your car is designed to be unsafe? If they're cover it at all?

Or that the guy who just rear ended you (and his car caught fire) might be uninsured for those reasons?

I'll bet you run with scissors, too.

2/3 - not bad. Soy sauce is super-processed by bacteria over a year, I believe.

A raw carrot
Pringles
Soy sauce

Are all foods for sale tested before they can go on sale? I don't think so but how about this is introduced? Manufacturers of things intended to be ingested (let's not go so far as to say 'food') could pay a nominal fee which is a function of the number and quality of ingredients.

Then, on some random schedule, a random selection of foods is collected from random sales locations and a random proportion of those tested by a party other than the one collecting the items - to ensure against an emissionsgate-type scam (i.e. quality is good on submission for testing but reverts back to shady-low-quality ingredients for everyone else) or collaboration between the collector and the producer.

Voila! Food manufacturers are incentivised to provide good-quality food.

Valid point. That's actually what I did with the previous tower. Created a then-supercomputer at relatively low cost. Used it for a year like that, upgraded things like the graphics card, ran linux on it because Apple didn't support the hardware anymore. But then I got tired of debugging linux audio problems and bought the Mac Studio, which was way more powerful and had zero issues to troubleshoot.
I am complaining about being in that hardware transition phase where a really powerful Intel machine looks like a toaster compared to a mid-range Apple silicon chip with fewer cores. I mean the Mac Studio is idling at super low buffer size/latency where the supercomputer struggled even with 4-5x the buffer size and more latency/time to process.

Obviously, he's a tout.

unless you've been in a coma for the last 50 years? I mean, seriously, their entire economy has been a house of cards for at least that long.

Lincoln was a Free Soiler. He may have had a moral aversion to slavery, but it was secondary to his economic concerns. He believed that slavery could continue in the South but should not be extended into the western territories, primarily because it limited economic opportunities for white laborers, who would otherwise have to compete with enslaved workers.

From an economic perspective, he was right. The Southern slave system enriched a small aristocratic elite—roughly 5% of whites—while offering poor whites very limited upward mobility.

The politics of the era were far more complicated than the simplified narrative of a uniformly radical abolitionist North confronting a uniformly pro-secession South. This oversimplification is largely an artifact of neo-Confederate historical revisionism. In reality, the North was deeply racist by modern standards, support for Southern secession was far from universal, and many secession conventions were marked by severe democratic irregularities, including voter intimidation.

The current coalescence of anti-science attitudes and neo-Confederate interpretations of the Civil War is not accidental. Both reflect a willingness to supplant scholarship with narratives that are more “correct” ideologically. This tendency is universal—everyone does it to some degree—but in these cases, it is profoundly anti-intellectual: inconvenient evidence is simply ignored or dismissed. As in the antebellum South, this lack of critical thought is being exploited to entrench an economic elite. It keeps people focused on fears over vaccinations or immigrant labor while policies serving elite interests are quietly enacted.

...officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed to state health departments that the ongoing measles outbreak at the border of Arizona and Utah is a continuation of the explosive outbreak in West Texas...

Why are there still competent people at CDC who are able to do this? Anyone who knows anything about anything, was supposed to have been fired months ago and replaced by incompetent flunkies.

Commander Putin's orders have been very clear about completely disarming all American capability, whether it's in our health systems, military, or infrastructure. Who is the pro-American traitor in our midst, disobeying orders to destroy the USA?

If we're going to disobey Putin's orders, then won't he kill or embarrass our president? That must not be allowed to happen!!

He's betting on becoming immortal through science, having his wife thawed, cured and brought back to life also with the immortality fix applied. But he knows that's way off in the future. I'm sure he's planning to be iced until the technology exists to make all that happen. They'll both wake up to a very different world and be happy of course because love is infinite.. But until such time as he's ready for the freezer, he needs a romantic partner to continue living his best life...
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"a severe gout attack which left him unable to move for two days began to change his mind about the benefits of living alone."
"the love was only "utilitarian" and that she hadn't "entered" his heart

WTF dating app is this guy using. Profile:
"I'm looking for a utilitarian relationship because my gout is terrible, and I want a nurse with benefits who I can do as I wish with"

Yeah he's a wealthy and unhealthy person with a terrible lifestyle who needs a nurse that he can get handsy with. I'm disgusted.
Maybe do something about the gout, like having something other than scotch and steak stuffed lobster for dinner.
The trans-humanists will likely be the worst kinds of people by the average standards of good and bad.

I suspect that a more fundamental problem is what you would need to preserve.

Embryos are clearly the easier case, being small and impressively good at using some sort of contextual cue system to elaborate an entire body plan from a little cell glob(including more or less graceful handling of cases like identical twins, where physical separation of the cell blob changes requirements dramatically and abruptly); but they are also the case that faces looser constraints. If an embryo manages to grow a brain that falls within expectations for humans it's mission successful. People may have preferences; but a fairly wide range of outcomes counts as normal. If you discard or damage too much the embryo simply won't work anymore; or you'll get ghastly malformations; but there are uncounted billions of hypothetical babies that would count as 'correct' results if you perturb the embryo just slightly.

If you are freezing an adult; you presumably want more. You want the rebuilt result to fall within the realm of being them. That appears to not require an exact copy(people have at least limited ability to handle cell death and replacement or knock a few synapses around without radical personality change most of the time; and a certain amount of forgetting is considered normal); but it is going to require some amount of fidelity that quite possibly wont' be available(depending on what killed them and how, and how quickly and successfully you froze them); and which cannot, in principle, be reconstructed if lost.

Essentially the (much harder because it's all fiddly biotech) equivalent of getting someone to go out and paint a landscape for you vs. getting someone to paint the picture that was damaged when your house burned down. The first task isn't trivial; but it's without theoretical issues and getting someone who can do it to do it is easy enough. The second isn't possible, full stop, in principle, even if you are building the thing atom by atom the information regarding what you want has been partially lost; though it is, potentially, something you could more or less convincingly/inoffensively fake; the way people do photoshop 'restoration' of damaged photos where the result is a lie; but a plausible one that looks better than the damage does.

The fraught ethics of neurally engineering someone until your client says that their personality, memories, and behavior 'seem right' is, of course, left as an exercise to the reader; along with the requisite neuropsychology.

This is will only make all the people that know you not able to contact you (well, you might consider that a feature, but let's say this isn't what you're going for). First you'll have to contact each of them and go through the whole "who are you?" dance, that is if you don't fall into one of the many options that makes them ignore unknown numbers in the first place, and even if they see your chat or call don't take one of the other deny/ignore/report whatever option, especially after the scary "be careful with unknown numbers like this" message. And then after you iron out who you are with each and every person you might want to chat in the future with 90% won't even save your "alternate" to their address book, and from the remaining 10% if they don't contact you often enough to be at the top it'll be 50/50 chance next time when they try to do something to be on the right number (as it's not a special address book, but the one that's shared for everything, including regular calls and SMS).

Wouldn't it be easier in the first place to not post your status like "I'm off to Maldives with my secretary, losers" and a similar profile picture (switched to "visible to everyone") if you don't want that info to be public?

Also what has anything to do with the tablets? You can have a second (and a third, and a fourth) "linked" device beside the main one. These can be other phones, tablets, desktop apps, or logged in browsers. That changes nothing, it's the same account, with the same things visible (or not), etc. If you meant to take even ONE MORE number for the tablet that's bad, for the reasons above.