Greenland is fine, for now.

But... but... but... Europe must have a bubble too! Because otherwise, where are they going to find another excuse to burn more fossil fuels?

Sorry I have to explain the joke here. An Xstation is a graphical terminal device from the 80s. It features a monitor, keyboard, mouse, network card and graphical card. It existed because in that days hardware was expensive, and sharing RAM and processor time between multiple users was a wise idea. When Elon Musk bought twitter, the new logo closely resembled the old X logo from the Xstations. The graphical protocol is now called X11 because, well, time has moved on. X11 is now slowly replaced with Wayland on some systems. The whole X protocol is the reason that unix machines can be graphically connected to over, for example, an SSH tunnel, without any trouble.

Given that this is called an Xstation, I would suspect Elon Musk would have come up with the idea.

Even then, there are too many state actors who would want to disrupt internet connectivity in Europe. Keep It Simple and Stupid is actually a good strategy. Off course, it is also nice that no institution monitors everything you pay for, and can deny payments at any time.

Oh, come on. People who are referred to as bombshell even look like they are made of plastic.

If you follow some lessons in immunology (like this one), you will learn that B cells will recombine and change a selective part of their own DNA to come up with antibodies against formerly unknown substances.

I heard about manure before, but not as the name of a company.

As Slicher Bath remarks in his book about the agricultural history of Western Europe, "Starving people do not eat less. On the contrary." They eat anything they can. It is the nutritional value that is the problem.

No wonder Slashdot readers are such pussies. All the funny remarks translate to "Make love!" "Yes!". That is no swearing.

Non-Disclosure Agreements are a giant red flag.Any politician who signs one must be prosecuted immediately for undermining democracy, violating transparency laws and corruption. If someone asks you to sign an NDA, you know something extremely fishy is going on.

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The main difference between banks and other financial institutions is that when they go bankrupt, government will take the losses. After the worst of the last crisis, it was already painfully clear that a next crisis would be an impossible burden, so be careful what you seem to care less about. This is asking, no, begging for an ugly crisis with enormous consequences.

Well yes. Scientists never thought it was a purely genetic disease. As explained by professor Sapolsky, there were a lot of ancient descriptions of all sorts of diseases, but not Parkinson's. That one has emerged since the industrial revolution and the use of pesticides. There may be a genetic component in how well you can survive the poisons causing it, but poisons were always the culprit.

Actually, some of it just might be going on.

First, "Genetics" is a bit of an undefined term. There are Genes, which code for actions (in fact proteins to be made which perform actions), and transcription factors which guide when these genes are read and therefore activated.

For example, polar bears might make more stress hormones due to the heat, which might activate some genes which would otherwise not be active.

Apart from that, re-shuffling DNA does occur in some cases. In humans, this is one of the things that enable the immune system to react to new hazardous substances.

If you are interested, Professor Robert Sapolsky has a great introduction to genetics (part 4 and 5) as part of his college in behavioural biology.