Nah, they’ll just add a “for entertainment purposes only” disclaimer to the government itself.

“I’ve already bought one justice system, yes. But what about second justice system?”

It’s not like he went bad as a result of serving too many terms—he was a corrupt neoliberal from day one. Term limits aren’t a cure for that.

So he’d have deported Einstein, then?

The original “lingua franca” was actually a mix of dialects from Italian sailors—in the middle ages and the renaissance, most people in the rest of the world referred to all western Europeans as “Franks”.

I can’t see how Lamarck’s theories can be seen as aligned with more “dynamic” theories like the extended evolutionary synthesis. The idea that an organism’s evolutionary potential is completely embodied by its current traits (even including epigenetically-transmitted traits like niche construction) renders it purely reactive: inert clay whose every change is dictated by the external pressures of natural selection.

A separately-transmitted genome with some components hidden from selection is the only way for organisms to evolve dynamic strategies for reacting to selection in ways not completely determined by their expressed traits.

Pope Leo leads most public figures in the US in approval ratings.

In theory, could the Pope run for president (given that he’s a U.S. citizen by birth, etc.)?

It doesn’t take much to boost the price of a stock by 400% if the stock is already practically worthless.

Now see, strokes are a different matter. Studies from China (where naturally-occurring fluoride levels in some places can range from 1.2 to 4.5 mg/L, far exceeding the U.S. recommended level of 0.7 mg/L) have indeed found a correlation between very high fluoride exposure and stroke risk.

To fight forces like big oil, we need to be able to focus our efforts appropriately. Indiscriminately attributing everything to big oil serves their purposes as much as complacency does.

Those kinds of issues would come into play if they were trying to establish a correlation between two things—it’s notoriously hard to eliminate confounding variables, spurious coincidences, etc.

But it’s far more straightforward to establish a lack of correlation, which is what this study does.

I wouldn’t say it’s not bad because of a study and “experts.”

While there are always biased studies, the data in this case comes from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, a broad health and social sciences study conducted by the University of Wisconsin that’s been ongoing since 1957. You can access the data yourself here.

Everyone is dumb as shit now

That wouldn’t implicate fluoride, because not everyone was exposed to it. And the study indicates that fluoride exposure (on a community level, which would take into account soil and food) doesn’t make a difference.

Just need to replace the eagles with vultures.

All cardinalities equal to or greater than that of the natural numbers.

I think machines have replaced the role of the chorus in classical Greek tragedies. Everyone knows they’re not supposed to represent individual people—they’re just the personification of social expectations and unconscious norms.

Top: the aurora australis.

Or 5/9 of the Supreme Court.

The title suggests that the government is pushing OpenClaw specifically, but the text says the opposite:

Yet as more ordinary Chinese get hooked, the government is pulling back. Chinese authorities have stepped up warnings of security and data risks and instructed government agencies and companies in sensitive sectors such as banking to curb OpenClaw’s use.

Yeah—but in theory you only need to train once, while inference costs are ongoing and scale up with usage.

I guess it’s ultimately a business decision by AI companies to weigh how often retraining is worth the cost.