BodyBySisyphus [he/him]

The heck does agreeing to an understanding for a framework actually mean?

Just a spontaneous exothermic reaction, that’s all.

The sheer chutzpah of “Not only are we arresting you for trying to clean up our mess, but it’s not like you brought enough mops anyway.”

Which is ultimately a self-defeating ambition, just a question of how much collateral damage gets done in the process.

“There will be a ChatGPT moment for biotechnology, and if China gets there first, no matter how fast we run, we will never catch up,” the bipartisan Congressional commission said in the report, referring to the transformative chatbot released by U.S.-based OpenAI.

“Our window to act is closing. We need a two-track strategy: make America innovate faster, and slow China down,” the commission said. It recommends that the U.S. government spend at least $15 billion over the next five years to support the domestic biotech sector.

It’s weird how brazen this is - research shouldn’t be a competition, but even if it was this article would read like “we need to do two things to win this race: run faster, and kick all our opponents in the shins.” WE COULD BE COLLABORATING, YOU ASSHATS.

And so you’re going to reduce the military budget and start approaching diplomacy with an eye for mutual benefit and international cooperation, right?

Assuming they ever start collecting the tariff.

Comrade Trump is fighting climate change by reducing demand for fossil fuels?

His language is uncharacteristic of a politician governing on behalf of all Americans irrespective of race, ethnicity, or citizenship status

How would you know in the absence of the counterfactual?

Whoops, fixed!

People’s Temple (the Jonestown folks) moved to Guatemala Guyana. There’s also Colonia Dignidad in Chile and Joao de Dios in Brazil, although he’s homegrown. Then there’s all the Mennonites currently setting up farming communes in the Amazon.

Inquiring minds want to know how the science wing of the center for science and international affairs recruits control groups and conducts experiments.

Preaching to the choir here, but the US has never led on this. Paris was a joke before the ink on the signatures even dried. The bedrock of our economy is fossil fuels and unless someone’s willing to do some percussive maintenance on our ruli- I mean, our economy, we’re stuck.

It kinda amazes me how thoroughly the dems were able to get away with selling the IRA as a climate investment, and, now that Bad Cop is back in charge, they get to pin the failures of the US to genuinely decarbonize on him.

It’s a reference to a genre of tweet that was floating around back when the blockade started. After the US announced that it was deploying a carrier group to the area, some very confident idiots posted “[Ansarallah] is about to find out why Americans don’t have free healthcare.” And they sure did, but probably not in the manner the posters intended.

The reasons for why Americans don’t have healthcare just keep getting dumber.

Hoo boy wait til you see what Zelenskyy was up to.

Without NATO aid, Ukraine will just plainly be taken over by Purine Russia

Ah, I think I’ve found the issue. Here at Hexbear we only support Pyrimidine Russia. We hate fuckin’ cytosine, don’t we folks?

I believe this is yours

Yeah, it’s not what I’d describe as a serious attempt at problem solving.

The Pareto principle is an economics idea - something is considered Pareto efficient if you can make someone better off without making someone else worse off, and you are at a Pareto optimum when you can’t make anyone better off without making someone worse off. Of course, because “better off” and “worse off” are entirely up for interpretation, people argue that taxing the rich to improve the lives of the poor is not Pareto efficient because you’re worse off if you have less money regardless of how much money you have left. So the only Pareto efficient solution is to grow the economy until all the poor people make enough money.