It’s a form of investment in the colloquial sense, but the relevant difference is between paying for physical objects that are completely outside of China’s control once they’re delivered to you and paying for shares of a Chinese company which may be fake and which the Chinese government might take away from you at any time.

There’s a tragedy of the commons going on with manufacturing. Moving all US manufacturing to China is a big risk for the entire USA, but moving one company’s manufacturing to China is good for that company (or even required to be competitive). Meanwhile investing in Chinese firms is risky for each individual investor.

I would be a fool if I gave all my money to a charlatan, and I’m no fool. That proves that Jesus IV is the real deal.

I seem to recall that there is a proverb about how doing this is a great idea. Or is it the other way around?

I actually failed my molecular biology course, and I’m still a little salty about that. I understood molecular biology. I didn’t memorize stuff like the order in which subunits bind to assemble the pre-replication complex.

After ORC1-6 bind the origin of replication, Cdc6 is recruited. Cdc6 recruits the licensing factor Cdt1 and MCM2-7. Cdt1 binding and ATP hydrolysis by the ORC and Cdc6 load MCM2-7 onto DNA.

Note that they’re numbered but the numbers aren’t related to the order in which they act. I don’t need to know that. No one who doesn’t do research specifically on the pre-replication complex needs to know that.

(Excuses, excuses…)

I had an organic chemistry class in college where the average grade was a C. I was a chemistry major and I passed with a D. A couple of other would-be chemistry majors dropped the class. The professor actually told us that we were the worst group of students he had ever taught (and it was his last class before retirement).

I don’t think he was a bad teacher, because I certainly was a bad student.

Also he talked about the need to cut down on burning fossil fuels, but less due to environmental concerns and more due to the lost opportunity to make plastics and other interesting substances out of them.

I write my texts like I’m writing a cover letter or a wedding invitation to flex on the less erudite and meticulous.

I get permitting these blogs as part of a commitment to avoid censorship - someone with non-mainstream but far less extreme opinions can look at them and say “If Substack doesn’t censor even these guys, it definitely won’t censor me.” With that said, I’m still surprised that Substack apparently doesn’t manually curate its push notifications.

I’m not necessarily supportive of Thiel - he does some things that I oppose, and also some things that I think are silly. He’s not a very likeable man overall. I’m supportive of transhumanism. The substance of this article is merely that:

Peter Thiel hesitated when asked if he “would prefer the human race to endure.”

The article doesn’t even say what his reply ultimately was, but the implication is that even considering that a transhuman future would be better is somehow horrifying, and that’s the implication I’m surprised to see supported here.

Lemmy as a whole is more seems to attract neo-Luddites but I’m still surprised to see someone so against transhumanism in c/technology.

It’s either you, him, and your girlfriend racing or just him and your girlfriend racing.

Shh, don’t tell OP.

I don’t think he’s bisexual. Presumably he flips a coin before every sexual encounter to determine whether he will be gay or straight, but he’s never attracted to both sexes at once.

If I’m watching a move with someone and I think she got distracted, I rewind. We can’t have her missing anything.

New evidence

Isn’t this old evidence that no one seems to have cared about much until now?

you only need a copy of Death Stranding and a phone

Do you actually need the phone or can you use a screenshot?

Also, if they’re accessing Baldur’s Gate 3 fan fiction, shouldn’t they have used the photo mode from Baldur’s Gate 3? Surely no one is more entitled to read Minthara erotica than Minthara herself.

Are there currently any government contracts put at risk by this? I didn’t think that the feds were major spenders on AI. And is Trump aware that Musk is currently the one man trying to provide the sort of AI that Trump wants?

Everything and nothing.

It is in many ways a tribal signifier, and you’re going to get different stories about what a tribe is like from its members and from its enemies. It’s not that different from “Democrat” or “Republican” in that sense, although at least both Democrats and Republicans usually agree on who is a Democrat and who is a Republican.

I’m not saying he’s innocent.

The truth status of accusations is probably correlated. If 90% of accusations against someone are definitely false, the remaining 10% are likely to be false too.

It’s not unreasonable to simply dismiss what Trump says entirely, but it’s a different matter to assign it a meaning other than the meaning that can be inferred from context. You’re just putting words in his mouth at that point.