roguetrick

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[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Musk isn't pulling that service from it's debt load no matter what he does.

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

With how much you post, I'd imagine it'd be a problem for you. Posting something only for it to show up on their new feeds 3 hours later with zero votes will likely result in your stuff not being seen. Also makes it hard for @PugJesus modding.

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

He's going to die without figuring out English so I understand why that scares him.

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Right now she's got first call on his assets. Once he dies/gets imprisoned and all his loans come due, bankrupcy/estate/orphan's court won't act as favorably.

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

They shouldn't blame the AI for this. This was obviously the humans not recreating the AI's artistic vision.

"Audience members engage with interactive flowers, offering compliments, to which the flowers respond with pre-recorded, whimsical thank-yous," the script reads.

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Older nurses do, I can say. It's not just an age group thing, but also relates to personal interests. The people interested in what lemmy's got won't really get anything of value from tiktok.

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

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.

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

He got more done than he said. He likely went in for syncope (since he's a doctor and that's one of the few things that might scare them) and they did an ECG and possibly something else (particularly if he requested it). That said, 5k is still ridiculous.

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I swear to god, theological debates about how many angels dance on a pinhead make more sense. Quickening as being more than a clump of cells made more sense and those motherfuckers came up with that nonsense when they didn't even have a microscope.

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Five felony counts? Jesus christ, that boy's going to prison. I mean, the parents kind of explain it, but christ can't you learn to cash in on your mom's political idiocy instead of stealing cars? (Not that she's going to get re-elected. She's sunk. She's going to lose this primary and it wouldn't surprise me if her son's charges are part of small town cops suddenly deciding to not turn a blind eye at JUST the right time.)

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