When you damage functional DNA, the most common result is death rather than spider powers or hulk.

I think of DNA as instructions on how to do things and if you change the instructions for most things, it just dies.

Heart, lung, intenstines, veins, pancrease, etc. all matter a lot. Not to mention forgetting how to make bones, muscles, tendons, etc.

Yes, there is a 1 in a 100 case where you get a slow, drawn out death. And a 1 in a 1,000 where the change is minor enough to simply weaken you. And of course a 1 in 10,000 chance of a merely cosmetic difference and a 1 in 100,000 chance of minor improvement.

But all the other times, what you get is death.

Evolution is a cruel mistress. She makes the honey badger look empathetic.

Yes, I get that it is new(ish) idea, but so what.

Phone numbers are extremely private information that sane people should not be giving to corporations. There are these things called spam calls - often robocalls but sometimes even human telemarketing.

There are reasons why beautiful women do not just give their phone number out - they do not want their time to be wasted on 'losers'.

Giving out your phone number to someone you do not know is incredibly stupid.

Phone numbers are personal, private information that should be protected.

So why in the world is it legal for businesses to download other peoples list of phone numbers?

We should just make it illegal to even ask to upload your list of friends' phone numbers.

Change the pollution laws so that large vehicles have to meet the same standards as small vehicles did in 2025.

The 2025 rules encourage large vehicles that pollute more. This encouraged larger vehicles that cost more money (and polluted more) AND also prevented their sale outside of the US where nobody wanted large, expensive, polluting vehicles.

Trump is trying to just eliminate the rules/raise the limits on pollution. This will not help sales outside the US.

We need to return to the time where Japan, Sweden, Germany bought American cars. Ceeding those markets because we would rather just pollute more and make expensive cars is stupid.

I always thought this quote was self-contradictory.

Disease are just other life forms. The only creatures that dislike them are the creatures they attack. This is not an insult.

Its little different than saying:

"Dogs are a plague upon fire hydrants."

That is not an insult, it is a description of a predatory relationship. If someone were to hunt down and kill all dogs because of what they do to fire hydrants, we would jail him for being psychotic.

I was going to say that might make sense for short term needs. If you need a better PC for a 6 month job, do this.

But they dissallow the only sensible use for the customer, requiring a year long minimum.

It also illustrates total ignorance of how these kinds of rentals make a profit - people think they want it for 6 months, but end up keeping it for 5 years.

How many people actually end subscriptions when they stop needing them?

Ever since the rise of Silicon Valley, programmers developed a Workaholic attitude. People quickly realized that the normal every day workers got nowhere, while those that put in the hard work often ended up as C level employees at huge firms - or started their own firm and become the CEO and Founder. This mainly was a reflection of the fact that you absolutely need good ideas to create a new business, it still needs a TON of scut work to actually make a new business successful.

This culture does not work well with AI in large part because AI is now doing the hard work that is necessary to fulfill the creative vision. So these people are now trying to apply the workaholic philosophy on creating good ideas.

That does not work. Good ideas are good because they cannot be created merely by working long hours. Creativity is not made in a factory, they are discovered in the wild.

Working hard trying to be creative creates burnout.

This did not destroy it's brand, it reinforced it. All while using a sweet, wholesome version of the fallacious "You need to give up your privacy to help us do police work." argument.

There are few things in life that are 100% evil. The fact that Al Capone opened a soup kitchen, Saddam Hussein instituted free education, and Jim Jones hated racism, does not excuse the murders they committed.

Good deeds do not make up for crimes.

This is practically a stereotypical AI use - look for associations in a massive database, inducing a formula from that data and then reversing the process to deduce a conclusion based on new data.

It is rather obvious that bone structure should both affect one's voice and also be observable via a picture, but at the same time involve such massive calculations that humans would be surprised by it.

According to this website:
https://www.theglobalstatistic...

In Fiscal year 2024, Biden did 271,484 deportations.
In Fiscal year 2025, Trump did 207,000 deportations.

This only refers to full legal deportations - people sent to Immigration court and ordered out of the country by an special Inquire Officer (a direct employee of the DOJ that works as a 'judge'). It does not include people that after being sent to an immigration holding facility agree to leave the country without contesting it.

The truth is Trump is not actually processing more people. Instead he is doing everything possible to scare the crap out of every human being in America, thereby causing people to self-deport - preferably before ICE shows up.

In other words, the vile, despicable actions are not there because they are necessary, but are there because they are vile, despicable actions.

I found with sports betting that people tend to over-react and this makes for opportunities in Pari-Mutuel Betting. In Pari-Mutuel Betting odds maker are not reviewing capabilities, but instead on how many people bet on each side. So often just taking the underdog is a good deal in the long run - particularly in one on one cases.

That is, A) the professional all think the real odds of Sylvester vs Arnold are 3 to 8. but B) but everyone knows Arnold is a much better boxer, so C) so everyone is betting on Arnold.

The house knows this (they see all the bets). So instead of offering 3 to 8, they have to offer 3 to 12, just to get anybody to bet on Sylvester. Otherwise they are taking a huge risk. Which means betting on Arnold is a bad idea while betting on Sylvester will give you a higher profit than you really deserve.

Note, the House knows this and that is often where their profit comes from. They know that 3 to 12 will get SOME people to bet on Sylvester, but not enough to 'equalize' their profit. They could have offered 3 to 13, but choose to offer 3 to 12.

Most of the time real problems are caused because people combine multiple questionable issues.

The housing crisis in 2008 was often caused by the Liar Loan. This was when a bank lied to the customer about how interest rate changes could affect their payments while also letting the customer lie to them about how much money they made. If either one of them told the truth, the problems would have been much less. But because both the banks and the customers used questionable methods, the problems compounded and made things a hundred times worse.

Similarly it is a bad idea to use payment in kind loans in a field where there is already incredible risk.

Every once in a while you see a story about a 'poor' man making $200k+ and not saving anything.

There are two main reasons for their fiscal incompetence (plus a bonus one):

1) They look at their neighbors - the guy to the right has a boat, the guy across the street has a ski house, and the guy to the left has a beach house. They buy one of each. Or they pick one and pay twice as much for it.

2) They do something similar with kids. Often they will buy a great house in a good neighborhood/suburb 'for the kids' and then send them to private school. The entire point of the house in the right location is that it has a good SCHOOL. If you are sending your kids to private school you should be living in a much cheaper house. Just because you have kids does not mean you should spend all your money on them.

Bonus reason: Total and complete fiscal stupidity buying worthless crap. Prime example is Time Shares. [ Even if one makes sense now, ten years later your financial situation will change. Either it will be too expensive or too cheap - and you will not use it. Even point systems are just later regrets]

The second a measuring method becomes officially used, it drops in accuracy.

When something is not official, no one tries to game the system. You get more honest answers and nobody is spending millions/billions of dollars to get the 'right' answer.