We don't make drugs by giving patients some leaves to munch on. The point of the research was to develop a platform for producing any of a wide variety of common psychoactive drugs in a crop plant. They demonstrated its flexibility by producing compounds from three different kingdoms of life. If you were going to do it for real production you could engineer exactly what you wanted into their system. You might well go for more than one compound because you've got to purify them anyway so separating two or more is no big deal, and you get multiple pharmaceuticals with each harvest.

I can't tell if this is parody or not.

Are they?

This century Russia has engaged in a offensive wars against Ukraine and Georgia, put down a couple of internal rebellions and fucked around intervening in five or six conflicts in their neighbourhood and Africa.

Iran has maintained a few proxy militia groups to counter Israel.

China has... done nothing. Specifically refused to engage in any international military action. Not since Vietnam, actually.

Wikipedia's list of wars involving the US is split into multiple pages, despite the US only existing for a few hundred years. The one for 2001 to present is long, I'm not going to count them. Some of them are anti-pirate operations, mostly legal anti-terrorist actions and a UN sanctioned international actions. There are also some illegal offensive wars, a couple of them massive. Betrayal of allies, torture, lots of war crimes.

Domestically, yeah, the US is a better place to live than Iran, especially if you're a woman, although the US is working hard to change that. Probably better than China or Russia too depending on what you value. Internationally none of them hold a candle to the US of A.

To be fair, this is an example of the CIA on good behaviour. No ACTUAL assassinations, probably, not a whiff of torture, not a single government overthrown.

Looks interesting, I'll take a look when I get back in to work.

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They might have launghed then, but they're not laughing now.

Driver response time doesn't increase at all. The rest of stopping distance is determined by physics and doesn't increase much, at least not in good conditions where any old tire and any sufficiently strong brake is going to perform about the same. It CAN decrease a lot in bad conditions, whcih is also where most of the technology is useful, but most speed limits are set for good conditions with a law that says you should decrease your speed appropriately. Driving around at the speed that's reasonable for the worst possible conditions would really drive people nuts.

Not murdering people isn't a law either. It's a general characteristic of a social species (with a legal basis, because people are dumb and cannot take advice).

Probably the metadata is in UTC, and they forgot to convert it for Americans.

Interesting. I've never seen this claim made before; do you have a reference?

It's easy enough to go the other way. Pickups and SUVs are the most popular vehicles among American boomers, generation X and millennials. The Zs seem to like smaller cars, but they're also 14-29 so we'll see if that commitment hangs on when most of them have been bending over to stick kids in car seats for a while.

boomers have all the power right now in the U.S.

You guys insist on forgetting you're a democracy, for a little longer anyway. You don't command 49% of the vote by only appealing to a single generation, particularly when it's the second smallest one.

Blaming dead people is completely unproductive.

Blaming people is unproductive. Almost as unproductive as just blaming people who aren't you. Human beings have an enormous capacity to ignore big remote problems in favour of their small proximate problems. When you were born doesn't have much to do with that. Solutions have to recognize and address that basic fact. "Oh woe is me, the boomers are awful, if only poor us who are 80% of the eligble voters weren't so dominated by them" doesn't do anything but piss off the old flower power hippies driving around in their Cadillacs.

If it works in both Pythons and mice then that suggests it's an awfully old mechanism that's got a good chance of being active in humans too. A much better chance than if it was only seen in mice.

Just switch to dark mode.

You know Biden and Trump are the same generation, right? So are Obama (although he's on the edge), Bush Jr and Clinton.

Solar panels are mostly made out of silicon and glass, which are in turn made out of stuff that's everywhere. It gets everywhere too. You also need a conductor, which isn't as common but you've got a few choices and between them they're pretty well distributed.