> be me
> lymphoma cell
> produce lots of protein called Cdk9 that activates genes that make me divide
> cells like me normally die from apoptosis tho (programmed cell death)
> okay then
> also produce lots of protein called Bcl6 that deactivates genes that make me die from apoptosis
> no apoptosis now
> researcher gives drug
> drug glues together my Cdk9 with my Bcl6
> when Bcl6 visits a gene to deactivate it, Cdk9 activates it instead
> apoptosis.jpg

So if one calls a country “Roman Empire” that means they were there before and have a right over the entire Mediterranean?

So, Russia is effectively endorsing Trump? Or just trying to destabilize as much as possible?

If imperialist war a conflict between monopolistic empires that manifests as war between countries… Wouldn’t then every capitalist country, Russia included, be part of some imperial bloc, dominant or not? Socialists of course must take a favorable side in every struggle anyways, so siding with Russia does make sense for China… Do I understand it right?

Nah I’m sure my delusions will find a way around that limitation if the time comes :)

Oh boy… New megalomanic delusion just dropped…

Countries anger and provoke each others’ populations by pointing out the bad stuff, and defend against that by censoring or otherwise cracking down on dissent. Articles like this are just attacks against us in this process, true, but I think specific ones like this are still useful, when critically understood, to help us realize that not only the countries we don’t like use those authoritarian tricks, but more or less every one (and those countries that don’t are couped by one or another who does).

I don’t really think the Russian economy is any real bottleneck here; they have abundant natural resources, a densely-knit industry and even now still many trading partners. Ultimately the only realistic way to stop the war is a peace agreement, which is why people voted for Zelenskyy in the first place.

I guess Putin believes there will be a WW3, and would rather fight Ukraine before they actually join NATO and build up military infrastructure. Pulling out now would be a blunder under that viewpoint.

There’s this post of mine, also this article gives some background on the application of PIR to anonymous messaging. Basically, I’m trying to do a basic version of that, but using a state-of-the-art PIR protocol introduced in this article. It’s still not great performance-wise, but it’s enough to be practical (as stated, many thousands of users given enough resources).