CanadaPlus

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[–] CanadaPlus 37 points 10 months ago

I really, really hope AfD gets banned. Germany has strong anti-hate protections, but enforcement on small groups is avoided because they're too small and not worth the trouble/attention, and enforcement on large groups is avoided because they're too large and powerful, so it's barely useful.

Canada often does the same thing.

[–] CanadaPlus 7 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Technically, but I think I and a lot of other readers thought it was talking about original content from AIs, as opposed to translated.

I have noticed those sites with answers to commonly searched questions, which look very convincing and have AI generated "authors" as well as a topic-specific URL, but then sometimes lose the plot of the question half way through. I almost fall for them, and I'm a crusty internet person, so I can only imagine how many people are just totally swallowing the info.

[–] CanadaPlus 4 points 10 months ago

Social science is often slippery like that. This is still pretty suggestive, though.

[–] CanadaPlus 0 points 10 months ago (8 children)

No. That is not an a known issue with anarchism, for example.

[–] CanadaPlus 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Antivirals only prevent replication, too. Virus capsids don't respire and have to be physically destroyed to neutralise them. Which is hard when you're trying to keep the delicate organ around them alive. Maybe you could use magical nanobots, but then why do you need an animal organ anyway?

The actual research is more centered around stopping it from happening in the first place, and then screening for any contamination. The critters might be raised in completely sterile conditions, and have already been genetically modified to remove any included ancient viral sequences in published work. Of course, all the producers have to actually follow the regimen everywhere in the world...

[–] CanadaPlus 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

"Reactionary" specifically means trying to go back to a (often imagined) previous state.

reactionary <-> conservative <-> progressive

[–] CanadaPlus 8 points 10 months ago

Ooh, a new cynical one-liner. I'm unironically excited about this.

[–] CanadaPlus 25 points 10 months ago

Good. The whispers are so loud they barely even count as whispers.

[–] CanadaPlus 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I mean, that was my kneejerk reaction too. There's more than just animal welfare at stake, though. Putting human organs in a critter has the potential to act like a bridge if we're not careful, and essentially spawn new covids.

[–] CanadaPlus 1 points 10 months ago

The US is pretty safe. They can support Israel until the region burns to the ground with everyone inside, and it would be mostly business as usual.

If a wider war starts, everyone says move 1 would be Iran leveling the Gulf states. Europe gets it's gas from two places, mostly, and one is already tied up in a war.

[–] CanadaPlus 6 points 10 months ago

There probably should be a carveout for that.

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