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To all future whistle-blowers: Please ignore comments like this one! What you are doing is a valuable service to society.

True. Although in their native Australia they grew quite straight. It's the introduced trees that grow not so straight and make bad railroad ties.

In areas where they are introduced, they also become quite invasive by practicing something called alelopathy, whereby they introduce toxins into the soil to prevent competing tree species from taking hold.

While I'm at it, Eucalyptus trees have very very dense wood which means the wood burns very hot. This makes it even worse for forest fires where Eucalyptus trees dominate.

(I knew my botany studies would come in handy someday. I just never knew when!)

I would say the Eucalyptus tree, planted all over the world but native to Australia, is quite unusual.

Young Eucalyptus trees have leaves that are rounded and are arranged opposite to one another. However, when mature the leaves of a Eucalyptus are lance-like and are arranged in an alternating fashion. This to me is quite unusual.

Thanks!

Can you include references for the studies you mention?

> Trump notably had much smaller campaign budgets than his opponents in both winning elections

I'm not sure where you're getting this information.

> Fundamentally, it's presidential democracy that is flawed.

No disagreement

That the Citizens United Supreme Court ruling may have been the single worst thing to happen to the US.

This is a serious question. What does IBM, in fact, do? I'm surprised they are still around and apparently relevant. Are they more or less a services and consulting company now?

I believe (s)he is responding to this comment of yours:

> Really drives home the blessing of air travel

It might lead one to surmise that you may have never encountered this before. Just sayin

I think you didn't get the point of the article.

Have you ever seen US GDP go up 5% yearly for several years?

Haha, my bad. Yes, that "George" Hinton!

Fittingly, George Hinton toiled away for years in relative obscurity before finally being recognized for his work. I was always quite impressed by his "tenacity".

So although I don't think he should have won the Nobel Prize because not really physics, I felt his perseverance and hard work should merit something.

I'm wondering if this is because El Capitan is a much more technically difficult climb and thus posing much more risk than Taipei 101.

A Kazakh city in the eastern part of the country, near the border with Xinjiang. That's Almaty, right?

Using your explanation, let me try this on an example, say the extinction event that killed off many dinosaur species.

If some mammalian species were able to survive this extinction event and subsequently flourish, why wouldn't dinosaur species?

Not sure that works for me. I'd put "couldn't".

A few years before Covid, I was driving to work in San Francisco and I stopped at a Philz Coffee in Marin County, as I often did. It was a usual workday morning and everyone was looking down at their phones while waiting for their coffee. We were all preoccupied and eager to get to work.

All of a sudden, some guy who looked to be in his 20s comes in clearly not from the area. He was dressed like a backpacker and he seemed lost. He was studying the coffee menu and saying hi to those around him. His friendliness and being-in-the-moment-ness really touched me, helped to pull me out of myself. When I went to pay for my coffee, I told the cashier that I was going to pay for his coffee as well. While I was still waiting for my coffee, he went to pay and learned that I had already paid for his coffee. I was embarrassed, but I will never forget the look of appreciation on his face.

I feel like the title should read: "If an Meta AI model can read a brain-wide signal, why couldn't the brain?"

"Wouldn't" suggests that the brain is choosing not to. I'm not sure this is the case here.

There's also this couple, each has their own channel, who are filming their walk from England to Vietnam.

https://www.youtube.com/@chubbytrekka

https://www.youtube.com/@SophieTangTravels

A couple of Youtubers who are also round-the-world travelers whom I enjoy watching, one a Dutch motorcyclist and the other a German cyclist.

Noraly, the motorcyclist, has already traveled through South and North America, Africa, and Asia, some multiple times. Currently, I believe she is in Tajikistan about to enter Kyrgystan.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEIs9nkveW9WmYtsOcJBwTg

Max Roving, the cyclist, has already cycled through Afghanistan and he is currently trying to ride Africa north to south. He just completed Algeria and is about to enter Morroco.

https://www.youtube.com/@MaxRoving

If someone didn't know their Star Wars, I'd run the other way too

The non-biological term would be "billionaire".

Do you have another less biased source?

From Wikipedia:

> The Fraser Institute is a conservative Canadian public policy think tank registered as a charity.

This is the first time I am hearing about the mass graves being a hoax.

One hundred percent agree with you. This is a perfect example where what's remembered as history is largely influenced by what was told by the victor.