In the '80s when gene splicing was first becoming something that could work reliably the Soviet Union biowarfare labs created a chimera of Marburg (an ebola variant) and (smallpox? Cowpox? Mousepox? I forget which), which was nicknamed 'Blackpox'. A researcher was accidentally infected, immediately quarantined, and his decline and death recorded and played back for the Kremlin leadership. They were so horrified they cancelled the research and ordered all samples and documentation destroyed and shut down most of their biowarfare program.

Ken Alibek defected to the US bringing his research notes and stolen documentation copies. The Pentagram found the data so valuable that they had Congress vote to give him immediate citizenship, and he spent the rest of his life working for them.

It never ceases to amaze me how people point at Venezuela or Cuba and say, "See? That's what happens when you allow socialists to take over!" It displays
1) Their ignorance of what life was like for the majority before the change in government, and
2) Their deliberate ignoring of decades of constant financial attacks by the most powerful economy on the planet.

They'll tie themselves in knots pretending that the US is in no way responsible for their economic issues, while at the same time insisting that the economic warfare continues. It would be amusing if it weren't so infuriating.

You're thinking of Promise Robotics.

https://promiserobotics.com/

There are a lot of companies out there who are pioneering the revolution of the construction industry.

https://underthehardhat.org/ai...

The coolest, to me, is the drywaller machine. (I hate doing drywall, and I rather suck at finishing it.)

That will work about as well as banning cloning will. Anyone wanting access to an AI will just go to a district where it's allowed, and when your region collapses into poverty and irrelevance they'll take you over.

Blue collar trades are the first jobs that are being phased out, and it's already started. One of the largest coal mines in China is almost completely automated (and electric) through the combination of AI, robotics, and 5/6G technologies. AI-controlled robots are pouring concrete, running excavators, walking security guard patrols, monitoring oil platforms, washing dishes, and much, much more. There are a lot more blue collar workers than white collar ones, and our stupid system of "work or starve" is ensuring that the elites have two choices coming down the pike. Either hungry workers pick up torches and pitchforks and the elites fund UBI, or the population has to be dramatically reduced.

Thinking of 'math errors', last year the most anti-science administration in the history of the US attempted to eliminate one of the two LIGO sites, reducing sensitivity and eliminating its directionality. The attempt failed this time, but likely will reappear.

It's the entire suite of scents your body puts off. Sweat makes some of them more volatile.

What works for some people, like myself, is high doses of B vitamins, start taking them a few weeks before mosquito season starts. It changes the scent of your body, probably eliminating some of the chemicals mentioned in TFA. Doesn't work for everyone, depends on your genetic makeup.

You really should ignore Israeli propaganda, I don't think their government is capable of telling the truth even if it were in their own interest.

Remember the "standoff" at the Cliven Bundy ranch? Do you know why it suddenly broke off? Someone started a rumor that the Pentagram had dispatched a couple of Predator drones and they scattered like rabbits.

Oh, carp. Posting to undo bad mod.

OK, come back when you've graduated high school and maybe we'll talk. Until then attempt to learn a little bit about history, economics, trade, and if it's not too much to comprehend maybe take a look at other cultures. It will serve you in the future.

Indeed.

As though scientists in the MIC would never have contemplated such a thing. I remember this research being under way in the '80s, and have trouble believing it doesn't continue.

The stupid is strong in this one . . .

How frelling long have you had your head in the sand?

When Israel started its project the US shipped (according to the IDF) over 25,000 tons of weapons just in the first six months, most of it at US taxpayer expense. Yes, your tax dollars and mine helped Israel kill tens or hundreds of thousands of children and those of us who complained about being made party to a genocide were derided as 'antisemitic'. The shipment of free weapons to slaughter civilians continues, by the way.

So the US imposing a blockade on Cuba and causing widespread hunger is somehow "not our doing"? I'm not really clear how that is supposed to work, care to explain?

"This one" disrupted the flow of 20% of the world oil supply because:
1) Iran controls the sea lanes necessary for its transport
2) Iran said that if it were attacked then it would close the Strait of Hormuz
3) The US/Israel gratuitously attacked Iran
4) Twenty percent of world petroleum and natural gas was bottled up in the Persian Gulf and remains there

Is that clear enough for you? Yeesh.