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  • Here's the thing. Even if this isn't bad (which I would argue having to resort to asking armed criminals to police your streets certainly isn't good), that doesn't make it "upliftingnews."

    It has the same vibe as a "Trump gets cancer" headline. Would a lot of people be super happy about that? Sure. But it's not "upliftingnews."

  • A 2020 law banning plastic bags in Vermont has nearly eliminated their use in the state

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  • I'd happily pay $1/paper bag with handles, just for the convenience. That's about what it's worth to me.

    I'm absentminded as all hell, and I'm not gonna remember to bring an armful of bags into the grocery store with me. And then, if I'm not using a cart, I gotta carry them around? Nah.

    I mean, it's a super first world problem, and not a big deal at all in the grand scheme of things. But in all honesty I'd rather just pay $1/paper bag than have to deal with it.

  • A 2020 law banning plastic bags in Vermont has nearly eliminated their use in the state

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  • I mean, feasible in an objective sense? Yes. I don't want to though, lol. I really like the convenience of bags at the till.

    Very much a first world problem though, I'm aware.

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  • That was the implication I got from what she said, but I suppose it's possible she was telling the "cholos" to "defend their block from the biggest rival street gang" in a peaceful way. (Her words, not mine.)

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  • I mean, you're right, I didn't.

    I did just read it, and you're right, the article is pretty "that thing she did was bad."

    But then an article that's saying "politician did a bad thing," still doesn't feel like "upliftingnews" to me.

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  • This feels like this breaks the no schadenfreude rule...

    I wouldn't call it exactly "uplifting" that an elected official is asking gangs to attack cops.

  • A 2020 law banning plastic bags in Vermont has nearly eliminated their use in the state

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  • I just wish more places put handles on the paper bags.

    I don't mind a paper bag, but I hate having to, like, roll the top to carry it. Just give me some handles. Even a reinforced hole cut in the bag. Anything.

  • What word dk you think could be spelled different?

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  • I just wish we would consolidate on 5 letter words ending with EL and LE as to what the order should be.

    Why is it "table" and "label"? They're basically the same word minus the first letter, but the spellings are different. I hate it.

  • I ain't no fortunate son

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  • This is satire. It even says "Fox Mews" in the bottom left, lol.

  • Melon-chicken-Aspic

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  • I mean, it kinda just looks like boiled chicken, so it's probably fine? Probably not tasty, but not raw by a long shot.

  • An Alabama City Recommends Changing Its Laws to Accommodate One of the Country’s Largest Proposed Data Centers

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  • 100 acres is less than a sixth of a square mile, and Bessemer City doesn't use a ton of electricity, being as rural as it is.

    The endangered species is more concerning, but feels solvable if they use environmentally conscious design practices with regards to the waterway.

    Idk, I think that new data centers are something of a "necessary evil" in our modern society, and they have to be built somewhere.

  • CRISPR used to remove extra chromosomes in Down syndrome and restore cell function

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  • I think it's presumptuous that only a certain income level is going to have access to this. It very much depends on the scalability of the treatment. Nearly everyone in the entire nation got the COVID vaccine, and those that didn't weren't due to lack of financial means. Just because you assert this will be reserved for the ultra wealthy doesn't make it so.

    The rest of what you said is borderline unintelligible, but I'll give it a shot.

    Sure, it would probably be difficult to "un-black" a baby or something, as there are a ton of genetic markers that inform what we think of as "blackness." But just because it's hard, doesn't mean it can't be done.

    And you say that Eugenics "is a vocal minority," which I presume to mean that most people are anti-eugenics. But, as you say, we live in a capitalist hellscape. It would be entirely possible for a billionaire to run a "un-black your baby for a chance to win a million dollars" campaign (a'la the Elon Musk voting drive), and have that take off in a big way.

    And all that assumes that people wouldn't be driven to it by simple desire for conformity. It's easy to justify a lot of things under the "my child would have a much better life if they just weren't... fill in the blank." In the modern climate as an example, there would probably be a lot of Hispanic people saying things like, "my child probably wouldn't get abducted by ICE if they just were more white passing." And that's terrible, obviously, but I guarantee it would happen. Not every mother. Not even a majority. But a good number would.

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  • But what does bodily autonomy mean when this will almost certainly be primarily used in utero? Should I be able to use CRISPR to keep my baby from being born with Downs?

    Should I be able to use it to make my baby less prone to other diseases? Make them taller?Change their race? Add interesting modifications that I think would be cool, like an extra set of arms or gills or something?

    What does bodily autonomy mean for a fetus?

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  • I mean, sure, if you ignore all of history. What if I was using CRISPR to prevent a child from being born black or brown?

    Hell, what if I used it to keep a kid from being born deaf? The deaf community is one that's very outspoken about exactly that kind of treatment as a form of eugenics, as it is a potential existential threat to their culture.

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  • I mean, this will be used in utero waaaaay before it's applied to a full adult human. Far easier to change the cells when there are only a few, and they haven't already started to effect development.

    But it's hard to get informed consent in utero.

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  • Probably sriracha.

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  • It really really isn't.

    One county in a deep red part of New York had 0 votes for Kamala. That same county had 0 votes for Biden last election. In a state that Kamala won.

    This has very, "how come there were 30 points swings in the polls in under an hour" energy that MAGA had when mail-in ballots got processed in Pennsylvania and Arizona in 2020.

    But this doesn't even pass the smell test. Even if it was fraud, why? They just decided to do it in a suspicious way in a state they were never gonna win in the first place? What's the end game? Why make it zero votes at all? Why do it in New York?

  • Has AI sped up the development in the medical field?

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  • Depends on how you define AI to some degree, but yeah. Protein folding has basically been solved in the past few years with neural-network based AI systems.

  • People are throwing about "Embrace Extend Extinguish" with Meta's Threads without knowing what it means. i don't think it's possible.

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  • I think you're thinking too short term.

    If they went for 15yrs before they Extinguish, and they're able to capture 99% of the newcomers to the space, a lot of the current users will have moved on for various other reasons. So the expectation that things would reset to how they are now is false.

    Many, if not most, of the people who are here now likely won't be in 15+ years just due to generalized attrition.