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throwaway829··on Yi Peng 3 crossed both cables C-Lion 1 and BSC at times matching when they broke
"very, very long time ago", it was two years ago.
throwaway829··on Recreate the cavity-preventing GMO bacteria BCS3-L1 from precursor
"value" not "valuation". It has a value of hundreds of billions, if not trillions, of dollars. It would require enforceable patents to have that value funnel to one company.
throwaway829··on Recreate the cavity-preventing GMO bacteria BCS3-L1 from precursor
Assuming the bacteria story is true, your open source analogy is wrong. Anyone can copy the bacteria (similar to open source) but there's no maintenance needed once the bacteria is released to the public. Anyone in any country can offer to give you the bacteria. It's naive to think that anyone but a non-profit would release something like this.
throwaway829··on California will begin backing intentional burns to control wildfire
No native writing system was known among North American Indians at the time of first European contact.

Please explain the type of evidence you could gather that would tell you American Indians thought intentional burning was a good idea and part of their planned forest management.

From what I'm reading on your link the evidence is evidence of fires burning things down, thus the Indians had an advanced forest management system in place.

throwaway829··on Men who helped run Megaupload sentenced to prison in New Zealand
America has been at perpetual war for decades. Other counties are hated for much less than this.
throwaway829··on AirDrop is now limited to 10 minutes
If that were true, Apple would just add limiting Airdrop to 10 minutes as an additional default option. Removing Always on airdrop was done because it's the only form of community communications that doesn't go through the Censors.
throwaway829··on WikiLeaks is struggling to stay online as millions of documents disappear
judged, sure. Imprisoned, only in banana republics.
throwaway829··on The Crimean Bridge Is on Fire
Why don't you list your non-propaganda media sources? The only one I can think of was WikiLeaks, but your trustworthy, benevolent western governments made sure to destroy it.

At least you have CNN /s

throwaway829··on US quietly urges more use of Russia fertilizer to ease food crisis
In this case, it's not 'quietly' because it's sinister, it's 'quietly' because it's extremely embarrassing. The US used all its political might to force a global boycott of Russia. Now it's telling farmers to buy Russian fertilizer. I'm no expert, but even I know Russia is a (the?) leading source of fertilizer. And to do this when we were already suffering high inflation? It's a blunder at best.
throwaway829··on California 100 percent powered by renewables for first time
I imagine you're referring to the importance of good solar conditions for the production of electricity and I agree that's vital. However these articles give false hope by matching peak solar production to the lowest possible consumption period which is always on the weekends with 70 degree weather. You have close to zero commercial machinery, zero need for climate control, zero lighting (people are either outside or use natural light).
throwaway829··on California 100 percent powered by renewables for first time
And it's always a Sunday when virtually no work is being done, on a day with perfect weather so no AC or Heating and most people have no need for indoor lighting. For most people a black out during this time would go unnoticed.
throwaway829··on UK Government Officials Infected with Pegasus
Expecting any honest reporting on Israel is naive. That hasn't happened for 70+ years.
throwaway829··on As climate fears mount, some are relocating within the US
Bill Gates and Obama are putting their money on coastal properties:

Bill Gate's San Diego beach front home: https://nypost.com/2022/03/23/bill-gates-is-turning-43m-mans...

Obama's home on the coast of Martha's Vineyard (an island in the Atlantic): https://vineyardgazette.com/news/2019/12/04/president-obama-...

throwaway829··on As climate fears mount, some are relocating within the US
Here's just two examples of rich people who recently bought homes on the coast while telling the plebs to fear the rising water levels:

Bill Gate's San Diego beach front home: https://nypost.com/2022/03/23/bill-gates-is-turning-43m-mans...

Obama's home on the coast of Martha's Vineyard (an island in the Atlantic): https://vineyardgazette.com/news/2019/12/04/president-obama-...

throwaway829··on Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack
Ukraine joining Nato is akin to the Cuban missile crisis. Nato is WW3 in the making. It's an idiotic pact that agrees if Russia does anything deemed hostile, they all have to declare war. It's the same stupid type of pact that caused ww1 & ww2. The people pushing it want war with Russia. It will only benefit fat cat oligarchs. You will pay the taxes and you will be doing the dying.
throwaway829··on Laravel 9
The docs push you in the docker direction, but they also have Laravel Valet which "is a development environment for macOS minimalists": https://laravel.com/docs/9.x/valet

A lot of Laravel devs use Valet instead of Docker.

throwaway829··on Spotify says it will remove Neil Young’s music instead of dropping Joe Rogan
> all conveniently have something to sell you He's interviewed: - Elon Musk - Tim Ferriss - Neil DeGrasse Tyson - Sam Harris - Matthew Walker - Mike Tyson - Many more

I guess they all conveniently have something to sell(?) but they also have interesting things to say.

> insane disinformation and obviously reactionary nonsense Put another way, he's a person you disagree with on many issues. So should we cancel him now? I guess the principle of free speech is only important when your ideas are repressed.

throwaway829··on Spotify says it will remove Neil Young’s music instead of dropping Joe Rogan
> never listened to a single episode Then maybe that’s why you don’t understand why people would listen. I only listen to Rogan occasionally but he’s a decent interviewer and does long (3-4 hour) interviews. Many guests are mainstream personalities like Neil deGrasse Tyson but he also invites people the mainstream shuns.
throwaway829··on Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying
I'm planning a similar setup. Cloudflare now as email forwarding in beta and then use my personal Gmail account to send mail as by custom domain. Here's a tutorial on setting up Gmail's "Send Mail As": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEheS8gM4Xs
throwaway829··on Israel police uses NSO’s Pegasus to spy on citizens
They're also our greatest ally (tm). So great Congress must pledge allegiance to them: https://youtu.be/AC8pJvY8Wdo?t=170
throwaway829··on Union Pacific Addresses LA Cargo Thefts; Problem Requires Collective Effort
American is large. Some DA's are soft. Some are hard. LA's is definitely way too soft. It's dropping the standard of living for common working class people.
throwaway829··on Pentagon and CIA shaped thousands of Hollywood movies into effective propaganda
There's nothing magical about it. All that's needed is control of the media your target consumes. "Manufacturing Consent" by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky covers how this works.

The Taliban consume the Koran. They reject most forms of mass media. Thus it's very hard to manipulate them into a western lifestyle. The alternative would be to find their "opinion leaders" and coerce them. Anyway, it's naïve to think these techniques are not used at home and abroad.

throwaway829··on Lab Leak 2.0?
Not sure what you mean by quoting that but there's not much controversy that Delta leaked from a Biosafety Level-3 facility in Taipei.

https://fortune.com/2021/12/10/taiwan-investigates-covid-lab...

https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4371080

https://www.newsweek.com/taiwan-lab-worker-mouse-bite-covid-...

throwaway829··on Show me a 10ft paywall, I’ll show you a 12ft ladder
uBlock Origin + Anti-paywall filter works well.

https://filterlists.com/lists/anti-paywall-filters

throwaway829··on A Safer San Francisco
When CVS said they were closing 6 SF stores primarily because of retail theft Breed said CVS was using that as an excuse for their poor sales performance. She seemed completely disconnected from what's been happening in SF.
throwaway829··on Covid-19 Cases and Deaths by Vaccination Status
CNN/MSNBC have misinformed you about Ivermectin. Do you think the inventors would get a Nobel Prize if it was just for horses? Advil is also used for horses but we don't misinform people and call it pain killer for horses.

The new Pfizer drug, with 89% efficacy, is a protease inhibitor targeting 3CLPro. Ivermectin seems to also work as a protease inhibitor targeting 3CLPro. Repurposing a drug that we know is safe means it came be deployed very rapidly. New and unknown drugs can take years before all side effects are known.

If anyone is interested in hearing an informed opinion on Ivermectin check out Dr. John Campbell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufy2AweXRkc

throwaway829··on An intact slave's room found in Pompeii's ruins
How is that different from slaves like William Ellison in the USA? Pre-Civil War he became one of the wealthiest property owners in South Carolina. Sounds like decent social mobility to me.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ellison

throwaway829··on Private keys used to sign EU Digital Covid Certificate might have been leaked
Imagine comparing compulsory state mandated injections to the Stasi.
throwaway829··on Google had a plan called “Project NERA” to turn the web into a walled garden
Brave Browser, based on Chrome, is another alternative that'll let you keep all your Chrome extensions. Makes the move away from Chrome painless.
throwaway829··on FBI releases 9/11 investigation document that scrutinized Saudis
That article makes no reference to Rumsfeld's 9/10 speech. This is just a generic Trump is bad article.
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