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That’s called Mongo pushing ;)


Thx for telling


Königsberg!


Oh wow, this opens up a whole new set of pandemic control options like smear or droplet vaccination. Simply apply the vaccine onto surfaces or into air conditioner in public transportation for example.


Never going to happen. Aside from the ethical objections, that would be a great way to injure or kill already immunocompromised people.


Wouldn't that be hazardous for people who can't get due vaccinated due to medical conditions?


not saying there is no value in this initiative, just a reminder, that a camera always hides more than it shows - unknown unnowns etc...


I dont know why this gets downvoted so much. Let me elaborate:

i have witnessed Police brutality first hand. Even here where we dont go through much of the authoritarian training americans are used to, i.e christian churches with heavy influence - here religion is merely a nostalgic thing.

I know also that even here victims of Police brutality basically have No Chance of retaliation.

That beeing said, a video that looks ugly does not necessarily mean the Police acted wrong.

Ok i bite, Link a Video and i will come up with a story that atleast explains the police behaviour, If not justifies it.


Here you go. Video of cop shooting a guy in the back as he ran away, then planting a gun on him. The officer didn't know the event was filmed, and filed a wholly false police report on the subject.

https://youtu.be/XKQqgVlk0NQ


My apologies, the USA seem to be more rotten than i thought they would be...my original statement was also to broad, i cannoz defend that video similarilly to how i cannot defend every Police Action in russia or china.


Does it mean anything to you, anything at all, that you are willing to defend every single video accusation of police misconduct? What a blanket statement to make.

Maybe you should check your biases.

And here you go,

https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/national/judge-releases...

Tell me why this guy deserved to die for losing at a game of Simon Says.


My apologies, the USA seem to be more rotten than i thought they would be...my original statement was also to broad, i cannoz defend that video similarilly to how i cannot defend every Police Action in russia or china.


I know, I'm trying to be careful/selective about what I put on the site. Only clear oversteps should be shown in my opinion


Yeah that's the Problem, what is a clear overstep? Maybe the 'victim' was totally out of His mind before, maybe he was calmed down before an raged again, maybe he was loaded up with drugs and imposed a danger to himself/Others/the Police. It's not that you could judge what is a 'clear overstep' by the immeriate context you see in the video


I completely agree. I would like to set out some defined lines but I have no idea how to go about it. Maybe you can help?

What I can say is that a video was submitted last night of a man who was crawling to a police officer, following his orders, before being shot multiple times and killed. His name was Daniel Shaver. Please look it up and watch the video if you do not believe it is possible to make a judgement as to whether somebody has crossed a line.


Would you be willing to also add an explanation of why you put each video up? This could quite easily be abused with selective editing.


Yes I'd be happy to. I will work on that as soon as I get a chance but might not have the time tonight.


teledildonics made my day!


What if the DNA was frozen?


At these time scales, background radiation is the fundamental killer, and it is omnipresent in the environment.

Using numbers taken from http://news.mit.edu/1994/safe-0105 for napkin-math:

Average background dose/year: 500 millirem

LD50 instantaneous exposure: 450000 millirem

LD100 instantaneous exposure: 600000 millirem

Radiation exposure of our dinoDNA sample: 65 million * 500 = 32.5 billion millirem.

Obviously there's a lot more to it than simple dose adding, but this gives you an idea of just what deep-time DNA recovery is up against.


At least on the ancient DNA projects I've worked on, the main obstacles have been a) deamination, b) fragmentation, and c) environmental contamination. Maybe radiation enters the picture at Jurassic timescales, but the DNA would become completely degraded and worthless tens millions of years before that. Unless they somehow managed to find a dinosaur frozen at about 0K, I'm extremely skeptical of these claims.


Right, but even a small amount of water (and presumably, ice) is amazing at absorbing radiation. Wouldn't something buried in a few meters of ice or more be effectively insulated from radiation?


DNA isn't isotope free.

Like hyperbovine mentioned, there are actually other effects that come in to play far sooner, but radiation puts (an additional) hard cap on things, and is easy to napkin-math.


And flat obviously


It's not flat. When there was lack of food after the comet hit, dinosaurs licked it so it became round.


Life will find a way


The little kid in me got excited for a second seeing the headline


We just take the missing pieces and fill in frog DNA, right?


I have personally experienced that many hosts do not like to rent to young males. Some even restrict this in their description i.e "only for females". I hope this discrimination ends now


As a male (who is not actually young) I accept a hosts preference not to rent males (young or old). It would save a lot of time if they clearly stated such (some don't for obvious reasons).

If they have a lot of reviews it's easy to see but if (as is often the case) they don't then you don't know until they reject your booking. And, even then, it isn't so clear cut.


Usually the reason I reject is to jack up the price...


That's discrimination. Blatantly. If that's in their description they should be reported.


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