My policy with alien life is “I’ll believe it when it’s proven beyond reasonable doubt.” All this is interesting but I don’t think most pepople are rushing to the conclusion that alien life exist just because of this.

“What’s my purpose?”

“You seal bowels shut”

“Oh my god”

Their legacy lasted all these billions of years only to be destroyed by nosy humans. I get the scientific benefit of discovering things like this and support the research efforts in general, but the very act of studying something ancient like this irrecoverably alters it, and that still makes an irrational part of me really sad.

If science journalists can stop dumbing down the titles to the point of being misleading that’d be great.

A study found that the sea anemone, a member of the Cnidarian phylum, uses bilaterian-like techniques to form its body.

This suggests that these techniques likely evolved before these two phyla separated evolutionarily some 600 to 700 million years ago, though it can’t be ruled out that these techniques evolved independently.

Ok, so say that in the title. A blueprint implies instructions for making a human, which is not what they found.

So it’s surprising that this species in the phylum Cnidarians (along with jellyfish, corals, and other sea creatures) contains an ancient blueprint for bilaterians, of which Homo sapiens are a card-carrying member.

Again, this is not a “blueprint.” Just say they use the same mechanism as us to accomplish a similar task, it’s surprising enough on its own without needing to reach for a comparison to a human construct.

How about “Cnidarians like sea anemones have been found to use the same molecular mechanisms as bilaterians like mammals”

Speak for your own instance.

Reject shingles embrace green roof

This assumes a very narrow definition of “simulation” based on our current computational theories and technology. Nothing about the simulated universe theory says the thing being used to simulate us has to be anything resembling a game engine or virtual machine like we have today, or even something that runs on anything we would recognize as a computer. In the same way a peasant from the middle ages would not even be able to fathom a virtual machine from today due to missing entire categories of context and background knowledge, us thinking we can extrapolate our technology and simulation techniques to beings that would be literal gods to us and their technology is extremely presumptuous and vastly overestimates what we know.

You deserve it by grossly understating what Nazis deserve. /s

Wonder how many more dumbass men will give their partners STIs when this hits the market. There are so many men who see male contraceptive as the key to being able to “raw dog” it, and that’s literally the only reason they care about its development.

“It’s okay babe, we’re both taking birth control, no need for a condom.”

The only reason we think this is so we can justify doing horrific things to animals. Most of these theories, at least in the West, originated from the Christian doctrine that humans are created in God’s image and animals are just mindless NPCs.

There are more than 15,000 cattle and hog feeding operations in the United States. These operations rear 70% of the country’s cattle and 98% of its hogs.

Is this the new sanitized corporate term for factory farm? I doubt they’re just feeding the animals and letting them go afterward.

Based on the unhinged, totally nonsensical dreams I usually get, my brain isn’t doing a great job of that.

I’m kind of envious of the people who claim to be able to dream a consistent narrative on multiple separate sleeps.

That’s exactly why they’re trying to ban it.

I live in Vancouver and the difference between transit oriented and car oriented communities is huge. One feels like an actual city and the other feels desolate even if it’s in the middle of the city.

If you have no qualms about pretending to be a sexual assault survivor, trauma counselor, and/or a Black man opposed to Black Lives Matter, you meet the dictionary definition of a sociopath.

Freedom is not “being able to drive anywhere.” Freedom is being able to go anywhere with just your own body without a giant metal cage around it.

We laugh at the people of the past for putting lead in their wine, arsenic on their walls, mercury on their skin, and deadly nightshade in their eyes. The people of the future will have plenty to laugh at us for. The chemicals we use now will be named in shocking factoids of how foolish and ignorant we were, just as we do for chemicals people used before us.

And just as we might think the people of the past did not know any better, they absolutely did, just as we do for the chemicals we use now. Discontinuation of using a chemical comes long, LONG after science has rigorously documented its grave dangers, if it ever happens at all. People will continue to use it, and more importantly, businesses fight tooth and nail to continue peddling it, for far too long after we find out it’s deadly. Lead was known to be lethal even in small amounts as early as the Roman republic, yet the vast majority of cities today still have a non-trivial amount of lead pipes in their potable water infrastructure just like the Romans did, houses built just a few decades ago houses still used lead paint, small piston aircraft use leaded fuel to this day, and don’t forget that whole thing with lead solder being used in Stanley Cups, you know, water receptacles for drinking, because it’s ever so slightly cheaper (and some electronics enthusiasts vehemently swear by lead solder and absolutely hate how “everything is switching to lead-free nowadays and it’s slightly harder to get it to stick to the pins being soldered”).

Basically, don’t hold your breath that we’ll get rid of any of these chemicals just because we found out they’re lethal or crippling to human health or whatever. That has never once happened in the history of humans using chemicals.

Because hosting it in a place with all the necessary infrastructure already in place would have made too much sense. Like, oh I don’t know, that one Brazilian city that recently hosted the World Cup and then the Olympics, both with many orders of magnitude more people attending than a climate conference. No gotta spend a fortune building brand new shit for a once in decades thing.

How much you want to bet this is just an excuse to funnel public money into a private construction firm?

Found the real life Feng Huang!

Rich people tend not be good people in general