Experts aren’t yet sure why colorectal cancer has risen in younger people, but Siegel said it’s an example of the “birth cohort effect”. That people born after the 1950s face heightened risk “tells us that there was some exposure, some risk factor that was introduced in the middle of the 20th century that’s increasing our risk of this disease”, Siegel said, “and it’s increasing the risk more and more with every subsequent generation.”
This blood thirsty guy doesn’t care about murdering people, but cares about photos that are not flattering enough? Jesus Christ.
So Iran is perfectly rational in trying to build nuclear weapons.
“We have a plan that I think is going to be fantastic. It’s going to be released fairly soon.”
- Trump discussing his health care plan in 2017
I joined the Democratic Party in 2016 so I could vote for Bernie Sanders in the primary. I’m still waiting for the day I showed up and cast my vote for! 😅
Most hydrogen is currently produced from methane, meaning natural gas. It’s a huge source of carbon dioxide.
We don’t even know what it is. How can we lose?
I think the observation is that this is a short term market panic and not any true change in the cost of gas.
This is amazing. Thank you!
They could pass a law making it clear that there is no emergency power that would allow the President to interfere with elections.
The President would veto the law.
Congress could then overturn the veto
Fun fact: Bill Clinton, George Bush Jr., and Trump were all born in the same year.
The article, by Anonymous, does not mention posting, does it? I’m not sure what you’re talking about.
Well that’s disappointing to hear. Although it makes me glad that I am too cheap to buy one. 😅
I mean, there are Purism phones. Super expensive, but they keep selling out so I guess they are reasonable.
I am a seasoned traveller and that would scare me.
Keep in mind that the book is very old, published in 1931. DNA hadn’t been mapped, information technology was limited, and so on.
In the book, people are born in factories. Working class people are born in from split cells, as quintuples if I remember correctly. Your role in life is largely determined by your genes - workers don’t have the psychology for anything but labor.
In spite of that, it’s not an especially oppressive society. There is a “perfect” drug, soma, which is sort of like a non-addictive, non-physically harmful heroin that can be delivered by gas. When there is unrest, security forces come in and get everyone high until they chill the fuck out.
Sex is open and easy, but always completely voluntary by everyone involved. When people are turned down they are sometimes surprised but never upset or aggressive.
Entertainment is presented as vacuous, but the people seem to enjoy it. There are movies, TV, and so on. Sports are engineered to require people take trains out of town to stadiums, and require deliberately-complicated equipment to play, in order to create demand for production.
So… is that a dystopia? There is no discussion of environmental damage, but overall it seems sustainable, not predicated on infinite growth. People are stuck in the role they were born to, but it seems like there are no artificial barriers to advancement… just that not everyone can be good at everything.
Definitely. A world where people are happy and healthy and live basically fulfilling lives. There are a few fanatics who opt out, and they’re unhappy. Go figure.
I don’t find Brave New World to be especially dystopian. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Or ask your work to give you a phone?
My company insists on spyware for my phone, so I insist they give me a phone for work stuff. I leave it off in a drawer at home when I’m not on call.
One alert daily reporting that there are no alerts is probably good for a home lab…