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Everyone wants subscription these days. Recurring income, and they don’t have to do a thing for it. Lawsuits over tractor-makers for not allowing farmers to fix their own tractors,

Soylent pink?

This week, U.K. Health Secretary Matt Hancock pledged that all British newborns will be able to have their genomes sequenced at birth. The babies don't get much of a say, but mums and dads can opt in. By receiving this genetic information, families could get advanced warning of heightened disease risks and plan for personalized treatment. 
In the U.S., doctors used Crispr to snip the genes of cancer patients (a first in the country). The technology is quickly advancing: Last month, researchers announced a more precise, flexible version called "prime editing." The new genome-editing tool lets researchers ctrl-alt-delete or ctrl-v DNA with less collateral damage. 
Zoom out: It took 13 years and nearly $3 billion to sequence the first genome. Now, a country wants to offer it to all newborns. Gene-editing tech is moving quickly, too.
But...centrally compiling human DNA could be a security risk and a privacy challenge. And some uses of DNA sequencing and Crispr are quite controversial. Get ready for a whole range of new ethical dilemmas. 

A few weeks ago, I mentioned to my wife and kids that I found a person on craigslist selling a $900 Celestron 6SE telescope for $400-something and I offered him $300 to see what he might say.  He said he couldn't get the motorized finder and computerized mechanism to work, but that the lens/mirror/scope/accessories were in perfect shape and never really used. He sent pictures and agreed on $350.
Then I was embarrassed, and actually not that happy that I had to drop the deal because my 3 kids all quickly pitched in and got me a new one from B&H Photo. 
Well, it got its space debut tonight since it's clear, not too cold, and all my kids and two grand-kids were over at the house. It was an easy setup, even though it's a lot heavier than anything we've had before. (What we had before was a`cheap model we got for the kids when they were actually kids. And that cheap one was like one I had when I was a kid 50-some years ago.)
So this one was quite a different experience for me. If I had taken the time I could have aligned it with just 3 sky objects and I could then punch in names or coordinates of up to 40,000 stars and galaxies and it would automatically point me right to them and keep them tracked as the earth turns and they move across the sky. But the grand-kids couldn't stay up too late and I figured it would be quicker to just manually aim with the side-scope and go. Turns out that the thing is too big to move around manually at small sky objects when the tripod is on soft ground and grass.
Long story short, I'm no longer angry that they spent extra to get a new, fully-working, automated telescope. Even though I didn't set up the automation yet, I was still able to use the remote for easy manual movement up, down, left, and right in small increments. This made it a breeze to point at something big like the moon and then use the remote to slowly scan the sky for new starts and planets.
We started this at only 8:30pm when the sky was still bluish instead of black and we also have some street-lights that can make visibility in the telescope less than idea. But it was still picking up thousands of stars we couldn't see with our unaided eyes.
The moon was bright and gorgeous, and I was happily satisfied that everyone got a chance to see the craters and hills so clearly. But then I maneuvered with the remote quite a distance to the right and Jupiter with 4 moons were as clear as day. Then about half that distance again to the right and down a bit we saw Saturn and you could distinguish the separation in the rings. Perfect stargazing night, and we didn't need to stay out past 9:30.
Next time, I'll hook it up for some clusters, galaxies, nebulae, etc.

This page will not be shared....
But I'll post anyway.... for @Pudgy
 

Looks like the person who started the reddit got censored with a lock.
That being said, this below is of someone form the community:
 

Why would future people take civilization building advice from people who failed at maintaining a civilization?

FYI: SpaceX won FCC approval to provide its Starlink satellite internet service to planes, boats, and trucks in motion.

How many babies in the US were fed this way you think?

...and now ... we return you to your regular scheduled programming ....
Evil laugh Hillary Clinton.mp4

You know, this is helpful. It really is. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve grabbed a jar on the store shelf hastily only to be disappointed back home because what I really wanted was another derivative of the stuff.

Jelly is gelled fruit juice.
Jam is gelled fruit juice + pulp/puree
Preserves are gelled fruit juice + actual chunks of fruit.
 

the term carbon footprint was introduced by BP in a campaign that was blaming you for their pollution.
https://www.thecapture.club/post/the-term-carbon-footprint

The officers posted outside Robb Elementary either lacked the training, skill or courage needed when it was needed most.
or as another commenter I just saw said: 
"Look up the "Ferguson Effect". Real impact of BLM." (which if true is bone-chilling)

https://cairnsnews.org/2022/04/09/who-ihr-treaty-will-override-constitutions-of-australia-and-america/

Interesting point. The entire world has become super sensitive and laws are written to protect those “sensitive” people slowly turning us into some dystopian future novel.  

For example we've been recently admonished via scripture to "not hurry ourselves to become offended" and in the same admonishment hear the words "someone hurt our feelings".
Do you see how the former suggests the locus of control is internal, that becoming offended is an act of the will on our part, whereas the latter is an external locus of control and lacking in free will, but rather a reaction to an external act?
 
The latter, in my view is more along the lines of "I didn't like what you said" vs "you hurt my feelings" as if ones "feelings" was some naked worm crawling along the sidewalk defenseless against being stepped on.
 

Physically impossible …. A tsunami means the ocean floor has changed elevation. Even a 200 megaton H-Bomb pales in significance to an earthquake sufficient to make a wave 1/4 of a mile tall. An H-Bomb explosion is point source radial from the center of a sphere, and in an underwater explosion creates mostly steam, and the force of the explosion is mostly up, and the remaining horizontal force is divided into 360 degrees, and a coastline is perhaps 45 degrees of that.
In time of war, the first casualty, is truth.