I remember my mother once getting an unfavorable decision in court (civil trial) and faked crying in court to attempt to reverse the decision.

That’s called a “pity ploy” or “pity play” and is commonly used by narcissists and sociopaths to manipulate people to get their own way.

thanks!

I installed it and did the setup and it worked great for many months. Then, in the last few days, something changed, though I made no changes to my browser or ublock. Today it works fine. Yesterday I was getting the nag. I didn’t make any changes from yesterday to today.

For some reason I’ve been getting the “ad blockers violate the terms of service” nag lately on my firefox browser with ublock origin. My Brave browser doesn’t get it though. Any ideas?

It used to be that phone technology improved relatively quickly, and a 2 year old phone was significantly worse than the latest and greatest. Now, not so much. I use a Pixel 6 Pro running Graphene OS, and I don’t feel like I’m missing out on the latest tech. The camera is great, certainly more than good enough for me, and the phone is responsive and does everything I need it to do, and it’s 3+ generations old. I see no need to spend $1000+ on a new phone.

While I appreciate the sentiment, it really isn’t possible or even desired. What we know about genetics is like the volume of water in the Great Lakes, and what we don’t know is comparable to the volume of water in the world’s oceans. While it seems like we know a lot, we really know very little, almost nothing in comparison to what we don’t know.

Take sickle cell anemia. The disease is a recessive trait, and both parents have to be a carrier in order for the disease to occur. It is believed that carrying one gene for the trait improved resistance to certain parasites, and thus an evolutionary advantage, allowing the gene to spread. To eradicate the disease with crispr, you’d have to eradicate it from all of the carriers, which could have the potential for negative consequences.

In addition, in order to eradicate all genetic diseases, you’d have to genetically test everyone, even those who don’t want to be tested because they are reasonably concerned about their privacy. Moreover, what if a sickle cell (or other disease) carrier, who is perfectly healthy, doesn’t want to have their genome edited? Do we force it on them, or just sterilize them so that they cannot breed? Obviously there are some serious ethical considerations.

Further, crispr is not perfect. There can be off-target effects. The use of it may be warranted when an infant is going to die anyway, but what about scenarios where the issue isn’t fatal? There is always a risk of introducing an unintended genetic defect, and widespread use greatly increases that risk.

Again, reducing devastating disease is a laudable goal, but we’re just hairless apes tinkering around with the building blocks of life, and don’t know near enough to eradicate genetic disease.

Rare iceberg off the coast of Labrador? They should retrieve it.

How many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop?

It looks like you’re right.

An interesting point made in the article:

The NHTSA’s autonomous car regulators suffered layoffs after the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency cuts targeted that team, the Washington Post reported.

What could possibly go wrong?

Are the Tesla robo-taxis using the same camera-based technology as the production cars?

He is fully functional…

Will no one think of the billionaires?

Nice. I knew it was nowhere I’ve seen.

That’s Trump’s organization.

Someone “shooting the pier” on a surfboard. I wonder if anyone here recognizes where it’s at?

What kind of music do they play? Their album cover is fire!

You love to see it!

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