Various interesting stuff

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/vladimir-putin-set-state-union-speech-election-looms-n852211

https://futurism.com/4-things-russias-new-weapons/

"Just coincidentally, the sample target in Putin’s video demonstration was President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort."

It's almost as if he was trying to send some sort of message.

Russia's technological superiority has already been proven, they have been switching u.s. ships off here and there.

Putin shows off again, the US caught by surprise again... It is almost a pattern by now.

What the US policymakers were expecting pushing Russia into a corner is beyond me. Do they want a Metro 2033 to happen in reality?

RED PRESIDENT CONTINUES TO BE BEST PRESIDENT

https://futurism.com/world-food-supplies-threatened-by-sixth-mass-extinction/

Dragatus wrote:

https://futurism.com/world-food-supplies-threatened-by-sixth-mass-extinction/

Well, on the other hand it creates a lot of critical (so well paid) work for people like me in the future...

But seriously, civilizations have fallen like that in the past. Sumer and over dependence on irrigated barley comes to mind. Nowadays it is mostly a problem of big corporations that prefer to make one pesticide for all, as it is cheaper. So all incompatible varieties go out of cultivation. Herbicides work that way too. Then there is a high yield fetish, thanks to which we have few varieties of tasteless, poorly nutritional apples of high crop per hectare and long shelf life. All the local varieties that are unsuitable for long transport/storage went out too, even if they were nutritionally better.
The list goes on...
There is also the problem of various officials. It is easier to regulate 5 varieties and one herbicide than 500 varieties and 20 herbicides. Less paper, more eco friendly. Except it is not. But office workers are not overworked.

At least, there is some change in the mindset and the problem is being studied:

https://www.bioversityinternational.org/fileadmin/user_upload/research/research_portfolio/Conservation_of_crop_diversity/Economics_of_Agrobiodiversity_Conservation_and_Use_Bibliographic_Database.pdf

This one is on livestock, but problems are the same in agriculture as in animal husbandry.

To think we eat circa 10 vegetables in any quantities nowadays in Europe, while in 1850s it was 250 species... This is not quite the progress in agriculture.

Feral wrote:

Well, on the other hand it creates a lot of critical (so well paid) work for people like me in the future...

Spoken like a true Jew.

Dragatus wrote:

Feral wrote:

Well, on the other hand it creates a lot of critical (so well paid) work for people like me in the future...

Spoken like a true Jew.

I'm proud, Draggy. Never thought you had it in you

ThePhilosopher wrote:

Dragatus wrote:

Feral wrote:

Well, on the other hand it creates a lot of critical (so well paid) work for people like me in the future...

Spoken like a true Jew.

I'm proud, Draggy. Never thought you had it in you

Aj waj! An antisemite! Vej is mir, what to do now!?
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I know my audience.

Dragatus wrote:

I know my audience.

Fuck you

https://futurism.com/we-just-created-an-artificial-synapse-that-can-learn-autonomously/

Wow. Much wow. But it could lead to an AI that is sufficiently better than humans to be dangerous...

Nevertheless, I would have exchanged some of my students for it.

Bring on the Cybernetics.

Karavolos wrote:

Bring on the Cybernetics.

Sure thing, I almost finished assembling T800 in my basement.

Czech mad scientists have made glowing chicken by fondling cock's balls.

Best sentence ever.

Jad.3 wrote:

Czech mad scientists have made glowing chicken by fondling cock's balls.

Best sentence ever.

Wait what...?

I wasn't able to find english article. Birds' DNA is harder to alter, one reason being they come out of the body in an egg quite developed. You can't get stem cells or something, and can't get them back. Success rate of 1%. Czechos sterilized a cock, gave his nuts altered cells and let him have fun. 50% success rate. Glowing chicken etc.

Enjoy deciphering what I just said.

Jad.3 wrote:

I wasn't able to find english article. Birds' DNA is harder to alter, one reason being they come out of the body in an egg quite developed. You can't get stem cells or something, and can't get them back. Success rate of 1%. Czechos sterilized a cock, gave his nuts altered cells and let him have fun. 50% success rate. Glowing chicken etc.

Enjoy deciphering what I just said.

Well, I get it now, although the previous version gave me more funny images in my head...

Dark matter filaments in an area which is 500 million light years across.

Yeah, I saw that. Are you telling me someone proved existence of the dark matter?

Jad.3 wrote:

Yeah, I saw that. Are you telling me someone proved existence of the dark matter?

Not really, but conjecture and indirect evidence is stronger than that about virginity of Justin Bieber.

Selena Gomez admitted they had sex three times.
I hate knowing that.

Jad.3 wrote:

Selena Gomez admitted they had sex three times.
I hate knowing that.

I am unsure which had the worst taste in this...

Admit it, you're just saying that because Justin had sex with a woman instead of with you.