ofTheFountain

So parents should be forced to donate blood and organs to their children if needed?

True with the Xbox, bat at least imo MS is slitty more trustworthy with my data than Samsung. The tv was doing more network requests than the xbox and a few Apple devices combined.

I have one of the earlier mid range 4k Samsungs. About two years in they gave it an update that added a Lote of bloatware, some of their own TV streaming channels full of Samsung ads. And for a bit I had Adguard home on my router and Samsung endpoints where the biggest thing blocked by far, and it was the only Samsung device in he house.

Now I have the internet disabled on it and just use an Xbox for smart stuff, will probably get an Apple TV next time they upgrade it.

I would presume so, though I don't have any numbers on me right now. Myocarditis was not the biggest risk from covid, lung damage/blood clots/strokes where iirc.

Only having 2 Pfizer/mRNA vaccines are'n enough to greatly reduce symptomatic covid infection. A booster (or previous covid infection) looks like it is needed.

Though this is only looking at the drop in vaccine efficacy with respect to symptomatic infections, two shots of an mRNA still might give decent protection against severe disease; don't know if there is a change with this.

The categorisation isn't fully biological though, it's far heavier in the cultural camp. And even when it is biological, it's mainly phenotypic, which isn't adequate for genetic research.

Yea as a biologists who's done some genetic research this isn't about wokeness (though I don't think that's necessarily bad anyway).

Race is a cultural term, not scientific. No one doing this research thinks there's no difference in genetic makeup between groups, it's that how we use and thinK about the word race doesn't line up with those groups and differences.

It's just not accurate for scientific publications, not just the cultural and historical baggage it has. Like down anyone thing that white, black, or asian describe narrowly defined genetic groupings?

It's less that the galaxy is quite that's disturbing, as like you said it's possible EM based communication is only used for a relatively short amount t of time.

The fact that the universe seems to be totally natural, without any intelligent interference is more concerning. No megastructures or evidence that our solar system has been visited.

>The potentially worrying question is: have we passed the Great Filter?

As a biologist I'd love it if they found life (that was totally seperate from Earth life) somewhere else in the solar system, but if we do it's one less great filter.