Because of course they are. Fucking techbros.

Now I’m picturing Captain Planet stepping around a corner and having his flesh melt off and his bones dissolve.

The reasons for today’s large-scale failure in the RuNet are definitely not connected with any exercises on the “sovereignization” of the Internet.

Yeah… that statement makes me a little suspicious.

Oh god, it wasn’t an act. He’s so stupid he actually thinks that foreign companies pay tariffs.

And they can send all the screw-ups and dissidents from their army into the meat grinder.

And a large amount of money and grain.

I’m honestly surprised that things between Russia and China have remained cordial for this long. Russia is obviously over-extended and Xi could be strong-arming or flat out invading bits of Russia at this point.

I bought a cup of plain yogurt for some naan bread. However do to my natural laziness and the yogurt getting pushed to the back of the fridge I ended actually using it over a year past it’s expiration date. The yogurt looked fine, tasted fine (other than being very tangy) and ended up making some tasty naan bread.

They were repeatedly being selected for the people who could handle a slightly colder environment, so by the time the population reached the polar regions, all that was left was people with traits to handle the cold. Any remotely beneficial recessive gene would quickly replace dominant alleles in the population.

Although I’m sure there was some genetic adaptation, I’d argue it was more technological advancement. The northernmost tribe discovers a better make of clothing, or a better housing structure and suddenly the colder winters farther north are now tolerable so people settle there. The new northern tribe refines their technology and knowledge and now that they know how to… ice fish or something they have a winter food source, and now their descendants can settle even farther north.

I’ve said this before but this has been the deal of the century for North Korea. Food, technology, weapons, money, all for some junky antique Cold War equipment and fielding what are probably their worst soldiers.

Just be aware that the Gemini is rather limited in the logic department, even as chat bots go.
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It really says something about the state of the Russian military that they have to buy up the trash that’s too crappy for North Korea’s army.

I think he means it would take six hours of walking to reach his city. I mean I live four miles outside of town (which incidentally I’d need to travel to to reach a railroad) and even though it’s smaller than 3000 people it still calls its self a “city”. Also I’d like to note it’s four miles of hilly terrain, which depending on season may feature hundred degree plus temperatures or foot deep snow.

The groceries in the passenger seat are a nice touch, because of course there’s gonna be no trunk space.

Eh, if it came between dumping some dead guys and getting blown up, I’d chuck the corpses too. Of course, I’m not sure how much of a difference losing 300-600 pounds of weight is going to make for top speed of that truck.

Thanks, fixed.

Fun thing about Chagas, the disease Assassin bugs transmit to gain their bodycount. Trypanosoma cruzi (the protozoa that cause the disease) has developed a nasty little trick where it’ll offload snippets of its DNA into the host organism. This will usually cause a auto-immune disease, both weakening the host and diverting some of the efforts of the immune system.

The interesting thing about this is one of the cells it can offload the DNA into are sex cells which means it becomes a heritable trait and becomes a part of the host genome. So there are naturally GMO humans out there with chunks of protozoa DNA in them… usually to their sorrow since the DNA is geared for causing auto-immune disorders.

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That opens up the possibility of vegan cheese, butter, etc. but as true dairy products.

There actually are vegan dairy-ish products out there. Several startups have inserted the gene for casein (the main protein in milk) into yeast. So you just harvest the casein, add a little bit of some sort of fat and sugar and you have something that’s 99% the same as milk, and can be used in the same sorts of processes.

The only product that I’ve actually tried was some Brave Robot ice cream, which was well… ice cream.

I dunno… When I go for a walk along the local highway in Spring (like now) I’ll usually see a dead bee around every… ten or twenty feet. And the bees are light enough that they get blown around by semi trucks passing, so they probably get blown off the road in short order.

Two things really.

1. Tradition. Alcohol has a long history in European culture and by immigration the United States. It’s common to have a glass of wine or a beer with dinner, the rich will impress their friends with the extravagant alcohol they drink serve, you take a glass of wine at communion… heck at one point weak beers were drunk more than water, because at the time nobody knew what made water safe to drink but everyone could tell if beer smelled rotten.

2. Production. Marijuana is easy to grow, but it takes a lot of time and space to produce. Alcohol on the other hand you need something with sugar and some yeast or starter. It can be fermented in some corner of the basement or even a cupboard. It’s so hard to control the production of alcohol even in prisons there’s usually somebody fermenting pruno somewhere and that’s one of the most controlled and monitored environments. It’s really hard to prevent people from brewing some form of alcohol because it’s about as easy as making bread.

When you combine these two you end up with the disaster that occurred when the United States tried to ban alcohol during prohibition. An easy to produce intoxicant with a large market was suddenly banned, when people started looking for more organized crime stepped in to fill the void.