GreyEyedGhost

I know, just closing all the loopholes for the Olympic-class deniers.

Which is definitely a problem, and could be a reason to not buy newer vehicles, but is a silly reason to not buy EVs.

That’s a fair point, and I was aware of your overall intent. I do think it’s important to word things carefully, particularly in this area, because there are those who will twist your words to claim that even progressives thought it was a big deal that Obama wore a tan suit.

People certainly talked about it, though.

They only reasons anyone cared about the color of the suit, the type of mustard being used, or his preferred lettuce was because of the color of his skin or the letter behind his name. I’ve also only heard of a terrorist fist-bump in the context of him, but I saw a whole lot of athletes and celebrities doing that for years before his presidential campaign.

Don’t legitimize racism and blatant partisan behavior.

He doesn’t really need to. With the notwithstanding clause, he can just say, “That’s really nice, but we’re still going to do it.” It’s worth noting that it’s only been used 5 times, never at the federal level, and always controversial.

In 1990, they started to sequence the human genome. About a decade later, the shotgun sequencing technique was advanced enough to be used on the human genome. A few years later, it was declared complete. In 2022, it was considered to be gapless, almost 2 decades later.

All of this, plus some other discoveries, led to CRISPR and the ability to edit genes in fully formed beings rather than just a few cells. After decades of research in a number of fields.

One of the things DNA does is make protein. (If you want to look at it a certain way, all it does is determine where and when to make protein.) Part of what makes protein do the thing it does is the shape it takes. (For instance, prions are misfolded proteins that cause other proteins to misfold, and then other weird things happen, like holes in your brain.)

So we have this massively complicated process that makes slightly less complicated things that behave in a variety of ways depending on their shape, which is dependent on the myriad ways they can fold, at the molecular level. And you wonder why they haven’t done a lot when we’re still to a large degree in the data-collecting and validation portion of this massive undertaking. As for what it can lead to, I expect it will be no less revolutionary than CRISPR is and will be, but that could still be decades away.

There’s an old joke about that to piss off Texans. If Alaska was split in half, Texas would be the third largest state.

I believe one of France’s kings had aluminum dinnerware back when it was still hard to make. Fun times.

I only do phone calls when I’m in a situation where I can’t look at a screen, such as driving. Otherwise, if it’s not in person, it’s text or video. And, given my personality, it’s usually text for most people.

I honestly don’t put it past Samsung. Their TVs already do. I have an old monitor, and I’m currently using what will probably be my last smartphone from them. They make good hardware, but I’m tired of them insisting on knowing everything I do to use it.