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Economics: the famously apolitical field that examines the distribution and creation of wealth, also a famously apolitical concept.

Ironically this whole exchange is an example of just how cooked American political discourse is. The culture war is so all-consuming that anything outside of that gets largely excised from political action entirely. Then when someone from outside the US tries to point out that basically unrestricted corporate looting and blatant violations of various human rights could be regulated or otherwise countered by political processes, people act like they’re speaking Martian.

At best you end up with the Gunther Hermann story from Deus Ex, forced into retirement and made disposable when last generation’s top-of-the-line becomes this generation’s unusable trash.

Ironically the trolley problem meme here is a great example of the objection: the same set up that puts him in the position to pull the lever also requires that people be tied to the track.

I read this as shrimp warfare and while I’m not sure about WW3, the fifth or sixth world war will be fought between the shrimp and the crows over rulership of the earth.

I am deeply hurt by this post. I thought we were friends here. (/s)

Isn’t this the women that conservatives tried to say was so attractive that her success was somehow anti-woke?

I’m definitely out of my depth here, but how exactly does a lefty organism bypass immune responses and still interact with the body? Seems like if it has a way to mess up healthy cells then it should have something that antibodies can connect to, mirrored or not. Not that I’m arguing we shouldn’t be careful about creating novel pathogens, but other than being a more flashy sci-fi premise I’m not really seeing how it’s more dangerous than the right-handed version.

Also I think this opens up a beautiful world of new scientific naming conventions:

• Southpaw Paramecium
• Lefty Naegleria
• Sinister Influenza

Shout out to the 4-handed man in the background holding either a camera or a cat.

Investors as a general class are usually pretty terrible at staying in their lane and not listening when actual subject matter experts disagree with the guy with a good story. I think the only reason they have any reputation otherwise (compared to e.g. physicists’ disease) is survivorship bias.

One of these days we’ll get the quantum bogosort working.