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Comment Re: IMPERSONATING ME AGAIN? apk (Score 1) 346

With all the AI that is now blossoming everywhere, why is it that websites can't monitor and ban spam and offensive behavior?

Although in the US we have a first amendment, there is nothing in that tells every website that it must serve as a platform for the most egregious and time wasting bs.

Comment At this rate (Score 2) 421

At this rate, worrying about terrorists attempting to overthrow the government hardly seems necessary. The Trump administration appears to be doing just fine destroying what government we have left all by themselves without intervention of any outsiders, whether foreign or domestic.

No doubt allowing Trump to determine who is and who is not a US citizen by decree will fix everything. After all, who needs a Constitution when "only he can fix it"?

Comment Re:There isn't a global solution (Score 1) 303

More likely they will simply align themselves with other nations that will put their own interests before those of the USA. That the Brazilian and Argentinian soybean farmers are actually shifting to supply the bulk of Chinese soybean consumption is a perfect example. Once these markets are established, US farmers will suffer a permanent injury. If the US insists on goading the Chinese and others into an arms race, its not going to end well for the US. They can readily field armies of hundreds of millions and will soon have weapons technology that will rival our own. Is this really the kind of world the US wants to create? If we put our efforts into that global warming will be ignored until only bacteria, fungi, cockroaches and ants will be the only winners.

Comment Re:There isn't a global solution (Score 1) 303

"Anyone who actually cares about the environment would be in favor of basically ending immigration."

I guess that means starting an effort to return the Statue of Liberty to the French.

Ending immigration will soon be impossible. As the Earth continues to warm and more and more regions are either underwater or have soils to hot and dry to support agriculture, there will be more and more mass migrations, of organisms of all kinds. If you actually want to prevent immigration, you should actively start doing something to stop global warming induced as the result of carbon dioxide pollution.

Comment Re: the web of life, billions of years in the maki (Score 1) 303

What your simple-minded reasoning fails to appreciate is that that 99% figure is for all species over 3.5 billion years of evolution. Extinction rates currently are now thousands of times faster than one sees in the historical record. Total extinctions over a 3.5 billion year period is hardly relevant to the issue of modern day extinction rates.

Comment Re: And as usual (Score 1) 303

Sadly, only in the minds of those ignorant of biology. For example, presently we are witnessing the rise of oxygen-deficient zones in the Eastern Pacific from Washington to California. This results in mass mortality of benthic organisms, many of which form multi-billion dollar fisheries. At the current rate of warming, which is changing ocean stratification and associated mixing, we may witness mass extinctions of crab and fish populations in as little as 50-100 years. Considering that humans extract nearly 50% of all protein they consume from the oceans, this will put an increasing strain on human food sources.

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