You make it sound like "certain viruses can cause cancer" is hidden knowledge that is being actively suppressed by 'the establishment' for some nefarious reason.

The first virus found to cause cancer was Rous Sarcoma virus in 1911, in chicken. Since then, several cancer inducing viruses (oncoviruses) have been discovered.

They are all covered in virology textbooks. If you have the time, watch the Virology course of Dr. Vincent Racaniello of Columbia University. It is well covered there.

Viruses like Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) causes cervical cancer in women. Others like Hepatitis B and C cause liver cancer. Other common ones are Kaposi sarcoma, HIV, and Epstein-Barr.

All in all, viruses cause around 12% of cancer cases. So they are just one factor, not THE only factor.

There is no conspiracy here.

Counterpoint: look at how computers ended up being ubiquitous. And cars. And TVs. And flatware. And glass dishware. And aluminum materials. And microwaves. And home refrigeration. And internet.

Let's look at your example, 3d printers? They're down to a couple hundred bucks for the basics. The electronics of these printers continue to plunge in cost. And let's face it, neither resin nor filament printing really solves home manufacturing. The barrier to 3DPrint ubiquity for these seems function, not cost.

I think UBI will help in general:

It'll mitigate unemployment, let folks work on useful but nonprofit things, and (seldom mentioned) will create a cycle: Competition for those UBI sheckels will motivate innovation.

Will Rogers said it a century ago: let the money spend some brief bit of time in a poor man's pocket; it'll end up back in the wealthy's hands swiftly enough.

Somewhat sadly for SpaceX I think any launch in which starship block 2 made it through its ascent burn is a step forward, and therefore "success". Certainly the transition from block 1 to block 2 for starship has been far rockier than expected, but at least it appears they have implemented a solution to the (first) major problem that destroyed two test articles in a row. Unfortunately due to other failures we still don't know if block 2 will behave similarly successfully on re-entry as block 1. That was originally supposed to be the main difference between block 1 and 2, but after 3 flights it is still untested. This continues to make Musk's blaming the government for delays seem like his insanity talking. Success seems to be limited by SpaceX's internal ability develop without excessive regression. Block 1 starship performed a successful reentry on its 4th flight. So far block 2 has done no better, and we will still have to wait to see if it even does the same. It should have taken fewer test flights to get to a reentry test, given that the booster has performed so well.

I don't know either - but I know one thing: they'll be very, very thin and without buttons.

You don't seem to realize that many (most?) people don't even know how to use a calculator properly. We are not talking about people like yourself who maybe can't do long division by hand, but people who don't even know what to do if you ask them to make change for a 20 for something that costs 18.62 and they aren't sitting at a cash register. i.e. they don't even know what subtraction really is or how to use it in a general context.

We're also pretty obviously not talking about using LLMs for "checking" one's writing. We're talking about people losing the ability to even form their thoughts into a coherent paragraph because they think all they are supposed to do is feed a prompt into an LLM. I actually totally agree that LLMs are very much the language equivalent of the calculator. We are still in the process of figuring out how to integrate them into everyday usage in a way that benefits the user more than it hurts them. I would argue it took a while to figure this out for calculators and we still don't get it right at the general education level.

Talk about burying the lede. Paragraph 2 is interminable and begs the question of why, but 3 answers it succinctly: Fusion fuel / waste risks are better.

Anyone else wondering what are in these 18 Petabytes?

Is it Basecamp's HEY email service?
Other than that, it is project management software, chat, ...etc.
Can't imagine how those latter parts add up to 18 PB.

In this day and age, when someone says that they "did their research", they usually mean "did a search". That is the extent of the "research" these days.

That's way too juicy for them to let that drop.

More like âif Trump says the sky is hot pink, weâ(TM)re still gonâ(TM) say heâ(TM)s full of shitâ(TM). Truth, science, the constitution⦠easy counterpoint to whatever mad daft crap pours out of this regime.

We know that Obama outlawed GoF research - so NIH help shift it to China, to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where half the staff had military titles to begin with.

If that research is valuable - why move it outside the US to begin with if not to hide something?

I agree with your assessment.
There are several hard steps that made complex life possible on earth.

First there is photosynthesis that caused oxygen to increase in the atmosphere. A result of that was the Great Oxidation Event.

That oxygen gave rise to aerobic metabolism, which is orders of magnitude more efficient than anaerobic metabolism (the same glucose molecule makes 32 ATP molecules in aerobic metabolism, vs only 2 in an anaerobic environment [numbers may be inaccurate, but ballpark]).

Then there is the emergence of eukaryotes: an archean gobbled up a bacteria that can do aerobic metabolism, and it was not digested. It became the power house of the cell (mitochondria) and passed into the progeny of that combo. The result is endosymbiosis.

Later, a branch of eukaryotes experienced another engulfment event, and that resulted in all the algae and plants that we know. I recall that different branches of plants descent from different engulfment with different bacteria, so that may not be very rare, like the mitochondria event.

Then there is multicellular life, and from that complex life, and then us.

In addition to the above, lookup Dr. Pascal Lee on Youtube (planetary scientist). For example his talk: N ~ 1: Alone in the Milky Way. In it he solves the Drake Equation and comes up with the conclusion, that only one planet per galaxy has intelligent life on it.

#mood

I read this story, and immediately thought: âoeif only we had this invention to use that unobtainium thing which will need these other limitations overcome.â

What you are saying is a false narrative. From article 2 section 3: "he [the president] shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed". The president's authority is to execute the laws passed by the congress (the article 1 body). In fact, the president does not execute the laws his personal self, but is supposed to run an executive organization that executes the law, NOT his will. This is tantamount to the definition of what it means to have a constitutional republic instead of a dictatorship.