Comment So we get Terminator or benevolent AI (Score 1) 50
Comment late capitalism (Score 1) 161
This video answers all the most common objections to Marxism, e.g. doesn't it always fail?
Comment geopolitics trumps climate (Score 0, Troll) 98
Comment Trump - intelligence, the dissonance hurts! (Score 1) 260
Comment Re:Just the way the hawks like it (Score 1) 104
The report, according to one of the sources, was “entirely false.” But it also “almost started a war,” the source said. Any US operation against a Chinese vessel could have risked spiraling into an armed conflict between the two nations.
Then even if a human analyst concluded it was nuclear materials why would you risk it? You'd carefully watch the ship unload with spy satellites.
Comment What a time to be alive! (Score 1) 128
Comment Are you gig drivers voting DSA? (Score -1, Troll) 122
Comment New post format: include a music video (Score 1) 36
The big question is who got fooled here Matt or the Board? Will they get fooled again? https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Comment Re:None of the studies matter (Score 1) 170
Comment How the US can compete again (Score 5, Insightful) 504
1) Republican zone - let the Republicans go wild in this zone just require that Fox news broadcasters live in this zone.
2) Democrat zone - let the Democrats have free reign here.
3) Bernie Sanders zone - follows everything Bernie says.
4) Libertarian zone - full libertarian ideology.
5) Tech Bro zone - tech bros in control here, maybe restrict them to an island like part of Puerto Rico.
6) Free Trade zone - no tariffs or restrictions on trade period, including trade with Cuba, NK, Iran, Russia.
Comment Good News! (Score 2) 34
According to this image, Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan, Libya, Cuba, North Korea, Iran, Syria, and Venezuela were the only countries without a central bank controlled by the family's [Rothschild ] well-known financial and banking groups that year.
but it is a false rumor: https://factcheck.afp.com/doc....
Submission + - Xylitol Linked to Strokes and Heart Attacks, Study Finds (theguardian.com)
In the largest study of its kind, researchers found high blood levels of xylitol were associated with an increased risk of major adverse cardiovascular events. The findings were presented in Munich at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) annual congress, the world’s largest heart conference. Researchers looked at 17,710 people and compared the 25% with the highest levels of xylitol in their blood against the 25% with the lowest. Those who had the highest amount were 57% more likely to die or suffer a heart attack or stroke, than those with the least, within six years. Even after 30 years, they were still 18% more likely to have suffered one of these cardiac events.
Taken with data from the middle quartiles, the results from both cohorts suggested a dose-dependent relationship: the higher the xylitol blood levels, the higher the cardiovascular event rate. Furthermore, the researchers showed that there was consistent increase in cardiovascular events with xylitol irrespective of baseline characteristics, such as age and sex. The researchers also highlighted that the association was independent of underlying factors such as body mass index, hypertension, diabetes and lipid levels, which might predispose people to low-calorie products.
Submission + - President Trump signs order to create US Space Academy (space.com) 1
President Donald Trump today signed an executive order creating the U.S. Space Academy, an institution of higher learning that will train students for a career studying, exploring, exploiting or helping to protect the final frontier.
"It'll serve both the United States Space Force as well as NASA and the civilian spaceflight industry, and it'll attract, train and graduate the very very best of our nation," Trump said today during a ceremony at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, at which he awarded the Artemis II moon astronauts the nation's highest space honor.
Within the next 120 days, the commission will submit a report "with recommendations on governance framework, service obligations for graduates, physical location of the academy, legislative requirements and more," NASA officials wrote in today's statement.
It's a shame the name Starfleet Academy is sullied.