Okay - let's discuss. What game is China playing? Then what game is the US playing?

Chang'e, the Chinese Lunar program is moving along recently landing at the lunar South Pole. They have a pretty well thought out mission. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Present plans are to land people in 2030. Planned for 2035 is a moon base with nations China, Russia, South Africa, Belarus, Azerbaijan, Venezuela, Pakistan and Egypt as partners.

This isn't the same game as the 1960's race, this one might have sovereign property declaration involved. There are science implications as well - witness the brouhaha over China's recent landing at the South Pole. There are mineral rights as well - if the pole holds water, it would have an important role in water for drinking and fuel for further space exploration. Seems like a plausible reason for a race to me.

Your thoughts?

Since I'm required to be on that cesspit, and all jokes aside, there are plenty of under 60's there. Surprisingly seems to be as many thirst traps as say, instagram. There are even some proper uses for it.

But yes, social media for kids is terribly toxic. And I'm certain some will get around the ban. But we shouldn't make perfect the enemy of good.

As we fall off this bridge, we really need to attempt to do an assessment of how it affects older people as well. People might remember I'm an amateur researcher in the area of gender relations. Young adults are being harmed as well, especially in the area of relationships.

Things like the Toxic TikTok relationship tests are "testing" relationships by destroying them - loyalty tests, fake breakup tests. Illiterate boyfriend tests. Ignore your boyfriend tests.

And on the other side, since men have learned of these tests, the result is usually an immediate breakup. Because men have their own access to the internet and social media, and are sharing some of this.

A pity, because a lot of relationships that might have gone somewhere have ended over stupid tests.

China! There needs to be a prod to get the US moving. Just as the Apollo Program was in response to Russia's space program, we now have a fire lit under us by China's space effort.

The pieces are in place, so time to roll seriously. Artemis appears to have shaken down okay. Now it’s time to get the mating pieces put together and make certain they work.

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Cognitive dissonance must be painful ...

... birds are really smart ... at being birds.

Dude...you just replied to an apple product.

So... Russia isn't actually gaining anything meaningful. In fact, they've twice had to revise their stupid maps because they didn't get anywhere near the territory gains they claimed to.

Every city they've claimed to capture in the last four years has been nothing more than a pile of rubble. A useless pile of rubble that you literally spent tens of thousands of cold Russian bodies to get. And you know why you think it's worth it? Because Russians are so fucking incompetent that, in fact, they are worth less than a fucking pile of rubble. So congratulations, you technically have a net gain, though it's still pretty meaningless. But every worthless rubble is important, because that's just how fucking poor and stupid you are.

You know why the loss of these datacenters is so problematic? Because the people you'd need to build more have either fled the country, or they've been traded for a pile of rubble.

I've been saying for years now that you have nothing to gain by staying in Ukraine, but you do have everything to lose. You're already losing it, but like a bad gambler, you're losing even more just to try to chase your losses. You can't regain your losses. Digging the hole deeper doesn't help you get out of it. I shouldn't even need to say that, but you're Russian, so it must be said, and even then you still won't fully understand.

Really the only reason you guys even continue is because you, as a culture, are willing to sacrifice every piece on the board to ensure your tsar lives for another ten seconds. You guys haven't changed a bit since your first tsar sucked off the golden horde.

And yes, subject line typo. Was supposed to start "Then". That completely invalidates my point, of course :D

... badum ching. And hurry up with figuring out geoengineering, going nuclear, figuring out mass carbon sequestration, etc.

Or ... we could just keep bleating and blaming (over a worldwide network of powered computers in data centers, no less, lol).

I know the latter is more emotionally satisfying, but if you really care about the temperature, then I suggest a shift of focus to the former.

It's interesting you mention Iran given they're the ones keeping Hamas and Hezbollah in power, and they in-turn are repeatedly the aggressors that put Lebanon and Gaza at war with Israel, which you guys then blame squarely on Israel, for reasons that I can only conclude relate to antisemitism given no other explanation makes any rational sense, and -- let's face it -- some of you are openly doing that. Arab Muslims who live in Israel certainly aren't using the same rhetoric you do, nor is literally the entire population that lives openly gay in the middle east. But, of course, they're the "good" Israelis, it's just the Jewish ones you don't like. Sound about right?

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It is authorized, but they're breaching their duty of care, which in this case is a professional obligation. Same thing with power of attorney.

He's talking about the literal definition of authorized, dingleberry. Plain as day, but you can't help being a douchebag, adding your condescending two cents that nobody asked for in a vain effort to sound smart. In fact, you're such a raging moron that there's literally nothing you can possibly do to hide it, so for everybody's sake, please don't do that again.

Protein folding isn't about true or false positives. You're not talking about a chatbot. There are millions upon millions of ways of combining aminos. Determining how they're going to fold, under what conditions they'll fold one way or the other, and what can happen later to cause them to fold differently yet again, is pretty hard. Harder than picking fly shit from pepper while wearing boxing gloves. Models are tools, they don't care about anything, let alone your ideology. You verify the result the same way you would without them: Experimentally. Encode, transcript, observe. If you're not doing this, then you're literally doing nothing at all.

Bacteriophage are commonly named that way.

And you're talking about needing a lot of fuel to do that. More fuel begets more weight, which begets more fuel.