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  • CRISPR used to remove extra chromosomes in Down syndrome and restore cell function

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  • I mean, sure, if you ignore all of history. What if I was using CRISPR to prevent a child from being born black or brown?

    Hell, what if I used it to keep a kid from being born deaf? The deaf community is one that's very outspoken about exactly that kind of treatment as a form of eugenics, as it is a potential existential threat to their culture.

  • CRISPR used to remove extra chromosomes in Down syndrome and restore cell function

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  • I mean, this will be used in utero waaaaay before it's applied to a full adult human. Far easier to change the cells when there are only a few, and they haven't already started to effect development.

    But it's hard to get informed consent in utero.

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  • It really really isn't.

    One county in a deep red part of New York had 0 votes for Kamala. That same county had 0 votes for Biden last election. In a state that Kamala won.

    This has very, "how come there were 30 points swings in the polls in under an hour" energy that MAGA had when mail-in ballots got processed in Pennsylvania and Arizona in 2020.

    But this doesn't even pass the smell test. Even if it was fraud, why? They just decided to do it in a suspicious way in a state they were never gonna win in the first place? What's the end game? Why make it zero votes at all? Why do it in New York?

  • Has AI sped up the development in the medical field?

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  • Depends on how you define AI to some degree, but yeah. Protein folding has basically been solved in the past few years with neural-network based AI systems.

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    Jury finds MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell liable for defamation, orders him to pay $2.3M in damages

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  • My immediate reaction as well.

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    What are your thoughts on people who call others transphobic for saying that transracial (eg a white person identifying as black) isn't a thing?

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  • While I don't disagree that this point is almost exclusively made by trolls, the way you've phrased this implies you think they're correct in pointing out that it's a contradiction to no support trans-racial people.

    Trans-racial people clearly exist to some small degree (Rachel Dolozov being the famous example). Should people be defending her choice to identify as black, since race is just a social construct?

  • Dairy farmer's lawsuit claims Trump is discriminating against whites

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  • As an example, the lawsuit alleged that Faust and other white, male farmers are charged a $100 "administration fee" to participate in one program that exempts women and minority farmers from paying the same fee. In another example, Faust "participates in a USDA program that guarantees 90% of the value of loans to white farmers, but 95% to women and racial minorities," according to the report.

    While I'm not exactly sympathetic to the "plight of the white man," it is a little weird (if true) that the USDA can have a "white men only fee" for some programs.

    My understanding was that most DEI initiatives were built around breaking up old-boys-clubs by requiring preference for minority businesses when all other factors are considered equal. The above doesn't really feel like that.

  • [Video] Missiles barrage hits Tel Aviv

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  • Woah, that's nuts. I feel like most missiles don't reach target in Israel. Maybe that's cause most are aimed at Jerusalem and the Iron Dome though?

  • Millions across US turn out for ‘No Kings’ protests against Donald Trump

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  • I mean, "matter"? I guess it doesn't.

    But you were saying things would have been different if they hadn't all voted for Trump. I was just pointing out that they probably didn't for the most part.

  • Millions across US turn out for ‘No Kings’ protests against Donald Trump

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  • What percentage of these people do you think voted for Trump in the first place?

  • With all the scientific breakthroughs involving drugs tested on mice, it's a wonder we haven't had a Planet of the Mice type situation yet

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  • Nah, I read Mrs Frisby. They mostly just go chill on a farm when you make genetic super intelligent rats.

  • Eating shit is for alphas, am I rite guise

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  • This is satire.

  • 'Something much much bigger': Ex-Trump insider warns of 'chilling' new plan

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  • This kinda reads like a Q post.

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    Taekwondo player alleges gang-rape by priest, others inside Kanpur ashram. A national-level Taekwondo player has alleged that she was gang-raped inside an ashram located right next to a police station

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  • All posted by the same guy, to be fair.

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    Jewish Activist Arrested in Berlin for “Hamas Triangle in Star of David" on Protest Sign

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  • Other countries don't enshrine freedom of speech the way the US does. In many countries certain types of political speech are outlawed.

  • Uh oh, somebody's not following best practices, that's a paddlin

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  • Seems like a great way for me to harvest a bunch of hashes to pull down to my GPU rig and crack offline.

  • Ah yes the "enlightened" democracies

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  • If comey can be investigated by the secret service for an Instagram post what is stopping elon from taking hold of politicians/reporters accounts on x and making posts that will get them investigated?

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  • Sure, I agree that it's a stupid idea from an effort vs reward perspective. It's at best unnecessary.

    But your initial position was that it couldn't be done without being easy to prove that it was a fabrication, and I think you're wrong about that.

    I think that they are more than capable of doing it in such a way that it's wholly word-vs-word, with no forensic evidence pointing to it being doctored. And the idea that they would do that is outlandish enough that most reasonable people would assume the post was legitimate and that the "offender" was lying about it to try and deflect blame.

    It's the classic, "No, I didn't post that list of porn search terms to my Twitter! I was hacked!! Totally somebody hacked me and did that. Wasn't me at all!!” But in this case it'd be something that was a pretext for the government to arrest them.

  • If comey can be investigated by the secret service for an Instagram post what is stopping elon from taking hold of politicians/reporters accounts on x and making posts that will get them investigated?

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  • Sure, but then it's a question of narrative not proof, right?

    Because the response from X would just be, "we aren't sure why Mr so-and-so didn't/couldn't immediately delete the post, but we froze it in short order because we believe the fact he would post such a thing is a matter of public interest, and we refuse to let him sweep it under the rug."

    Yeah, he could say that he posted something completely different and X changed it, but how do you prove it? Everyone would just assume it to be a lie trying to cover their ass after posting something terrible.

    Not saying this is at all likely. Just that it's possible.

    And this assumes they notice it was doctored immediately anyway. Most people don't verify that the post is correct after hitting "submit." A good 90+% of people would probably never notice if the text was changed post upload.