roguetrick

Mild psychosis, based on comments.

Windows?

She’s on a pretty severe incline. Look at the outline of her real neck.

They’re instituting this for the generation that grew up with Vpns so they could watch pirate streaming sites on their school Wi-Fi? Good fucking luck.

He’s got his hand on her real shoulder, that should give your brain enough context.

This was the turning point that convinced tuvok to stop combing the desert for the Spaceballs and join Starfleet.

Always an impressive operation they have one peering point in San Francisco and their data centers historically consist of a church and shipping containers.

https://www.theregister.com/2017/11/16/head_like_a_memory_hole/

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It’s the note that really did it for me.

I do nothing but shit post and nobody’s banned me yet. A whole lot of folks have blocked me though.

Edit: I take it back, I was banned from shower thoughts it seems, yesterday, but not a lemmy.world site ban. The admins didn’t like kbin doing something it seems. Strange.

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reason: This account is currently sending large amounts of unusual activities to Lemmy.World. This community ban is an attempt to mitigiate the issue without blocking kbin.social entirely. The issue needs to be addressed on kbin.social prior to us being able to lift this community ban.

We don’t get messages on kbin so I wasn’t notified.

Bring me back to the warm sweet embrace of the algorithm, daddy.

precious hamburgers?

There’s a whole lot of bullshit going on around this story. People are acting like she violated national security interests, but they can’t articulate how. Like she shipped ebola to wuhan, but she wasn’t fired for that because cooperation with high level labs is kind of important (and I’m sure wuhan already HAD a sample of ebola before she even shipped it). The findings she shared would’ve been shared eventually(and the reason it started a kerfluffle is because China shared them and included her in as a co-author in a paper and included her in patents for ebolavirus treatments). You can still say she was working “against Canada” if you really want to twist it, but that’s not really what happened. She violated policy and got fired, then said the firing was unjust. The potential damage to Canada comes from intellectual property interests but there’s not much money in treating Ebola in the first place.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/ebola-henipah-china-1.5232674

Researchers working at the National Microbiology Lab on cutting-edge, high-containment research are not allowed to send anything to other countries or labs without the intellectual property office negotiating and having a material transfer agreement in place, in case the material sent leads to a notable discovery.

I sure hope people are sharing this research with Zimbabwe. They’ve got endemic marburg virus to deal with. The frank truth is, for something like Ebola, sequencing it isn’t going to change how you weaponize it. You weaponize it by breeding it and then blowing it up at low heat so it spreads over a large area. Any contact with it leads to infection, it’s a nasty bug.

This is different, than say, anthrax weaponization. You can go to cattle farms, dig in the dirt, and culture it, and you will eventually isolate anthrax. That strain, however, won’t really go into spore form well and won’t be super pathogenic. You’ll need to infect a bunch of sheep with it and try to get a better strain, like they did in my hometown at Ft. Detrick. Then you use specific drying methods to make it turn into weapons grade spores. That’s why specific strains are important with anthrax and you could theoretically use something like CRISPR to make your own that’s better than what you can find digging in the dirt.

I seriously cannot parse these two statements

The document show the service had a more rosy initial assessment of Qiu’s motivation, noting in spring of 2020 that she could be “susceptible … based on the belief in the power of science to help humanity.”

But as the investigation went deeper, CSIS’s concerns deepened. A few months later, CSIS wrote Qiu was using the level 4 lab in Canada “as a base to assist China to improve its capability to fight highly-pathogenic pathogens” and “achieved brilliant results.”

They’re the same picture

Like I get it, you want to secure medical research. And she was likely inappropriately sharing unpublished data against lab policy. But the tone shift they’re trying to make doesn’t connect for me.

I just noticed he said I robot was dystopian. Asimov was absolutely Utopian and so were the stories in that book. I wouldn’t call the movie a faithful adaptation.

Babylon 5 was almost a Manichaeist religious allegory. Of course so was DS9.

I’m already in the network… Wait…

Utopian sci fi is popular in literature, but rarely in movies or shows. We’ll get a series about the Culture one of these days though. Special Circumstances can get up to things that puts turning into a lizard and raising babies with your captain to shame.

Edit: I also think some more of Kim Stanley Robinson’s books will get turned into series someday. They’re generally about the progress to a Utopia. Years of Rice and Salt is particularly interesting because it tracks that progress all the way from the dark ages to a Utopia while the characters keep reincarnating and making the same exact mistakes over and over.

Still the most uncomfortable looking outfit to me. More pressure points than a bra and no support. Take it off and she’d just have two big red triangles on her chest.