Jim

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Robert, Then American sorghum farmers can sell their crops to American ranchers and we can all have cheaper prime rib for the first time in a long while. It’s quite simple. Foreign aid is a needless grift that subsidizes rich people both at home and abroad at the expense of poor taxpayers at home. Oh, and it’s not and nev…

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TheEncogitationer wrote:
an oppressed class in need of coddling and reparation

What coddling? What reparations?

Robert,

I agree, accidents happen, but let’s chew on this latest pronouncement for a while.

Trump announces “Anti-Christian Bias Task Force” during the National Prayer Breakfast to “eradicate anti-Christian bias” within the federal government and end the “religious persecution” of Christians in the United States.

Now here is where all Ame…[Read more]

It seems we have stumbled on drugs that have been repurposed. By accident as opposed to the targeting of drugs that address other medical issues that AI can achieve. And i assume it is the same with the advantages AI has in radiology as a result of the aforementioned speedy pattern recognition. And apparently there is a new AI assisted medical…[Read more]

Jake,

I don’t know if machine learning was involved, but Doctors have discovered that Metformin not only reduces blood sugar, but also has anti-carcinogenic properties and may even be anti-aging.

Anything that can identify multiple genetic interactions or multiple uses for a drug and do it at computing speed would do more to make drugs better…[Read more]

@jakelafort…… But the point is as much as we may dread the unknowns associated with AI there is also reason for optimism. 

Speedy pattern recognition is a trait of high intelligence. It is seeing the patterns and associations in large data sets that make A.I. what it is. Improved underlying algorithms  and more processing power will make it e…[Read more]

Robert,

Then American sorghum farmers can sell their crops to American ranchers and we can all have cheaper prime rib for the first time in a long while.

It’s quite simple. Foreign aid is a needless grift that subsidizes rich people both at home and abroad at the expense of poor taxpayers at home. Oh, and it’s not and never has been a…[Read more]

Agreed Reg.

Imagine hospice and despair followed by resignation. And then…!

I posted an article about a start up in Israel. The founder has a kid with autism and there were so few medications developed in last few decades he took matters into own hands in what sounds like sci fi.

Ultimately urine cells are converted into neurons on a chip…[Read more]

I now have “a mind-bending virus” if I don’t agree that Israel should “defend” itself by a program of eradicating and ethnically cleansing Palestinians(?).

I don’t disagree that Israel is entitled to respond to Hamas, but their response seems only vaguely aimed at just Hamas.

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That A.I. medical story is going to be the first of many. This kind of drug repurposing will be a game-changer for rare diseases with limited treatment options.

Robert, i did not skim. Read it. Understood it.

Only took issue with the notion that trans agenda had egalitarian motives. Superficially? Definitely.

Probably true of some other related movements as well. It is not authentic egalitarianism when villifying an oppressed group by another oppressed group. It is not authentic when one quarter of the…[Read more]

Orange Man isn’t the only bad thing in the world and might occasionally do the right thing despite himself.

I agree, accidents happen, but let’s chew on this latest pronouncement for a while.

Trump announces “Anti-Christian Bias Task Force” during the National Prayer Breakfast to “eradicate anti-Christian bias” within the federal government and e…

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Jake, don’t know what you are going on about, LOL because it has nothing to do with my post. That’s what happens when you skim carelessly.

Enco this amazing story is a preview of the sci fi medicine that is coming our way.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/02/250205170906.htm

Egalitarian motives?

Really?

How much smarter than a vervet monkey does one have to be to know that protecting Islam against criticism and allowing it to infiltrate our media, our institutions and our nations is the way to insure the exact opposite occurs?

How much smarter than a vervet does one have to be to know that the hyper focus on…[Read more]

Yeah, you can look at foreign aid through a small scope of things, but if we are not there, China and Russia will be. And then, of course, then they have a pro-China dictator installed. An ounce of prevention. And if resistant TB runs rampant and jumps the pond, who is sorry now?

If we can’t see three moves ahead, as the previous American leaders…[Read more]

Some USAID programs might be viewed as a waste of American tax dollars and a poke in the eye to people with socially conservative values. They ask how do programs such as these benefit the United States?

USAID’s Transgender ProgramsTransgender Opera in Colombia: USAID allocated $47,000 for a transgender opera in Colombia, aimed at promoting…[Read more]

Robert,

You mean that without USAID, US farmers couldn’t, I dunno, sell their bumper crops to Americans who could use more plentiful and cheaper food?

And you mean that Third World Kleptocrat dictators don’t already play all ends against the middle on foreign aid? Do you mean that these dictators have any good will to gain with foreign…[Read more]

PopeBeanie wrote:

Unseen wrote:
The strategy is one of overloading the defenses along the lines drone swarm attacks.

You guys beat me to post this insightful video. I’ll just add, Scientology cult creator L Ron Hubbard taught “The best defense is an offense”.

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Reg and Simon,

What a real-life ‘trolley problem’ reveals about morality.

To me, it shows that Euro types have a misplaced love for Late Eighteenth Century modes of transportation (and their timing and itenerary) even unto the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century

The individually-owned automobile is not the irredeemable boogeyman that Eco Wac…[Read more]