kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

@wolf480pl @cjd

Selection breeding is waiting for a random mutation with the trait you like - e.g. sweeter or larger plant. Then you reinforce the mutation by crossing it with other plants with similar features. Very slow.

Mutation breeding is artificially inducing random mutations with carcirogens or radiation. Out of 1000 irradiated seeds 900 don't sprout, out of the 100 that sprouted you get one with the trait you like, the rest goes to a bin. Much faster.

@cjd

> low-population area

Actually, a coal power plant releases 100x more radioactive elements to the air than a nuclear power power plant. That's because coal contains radioactive elements which are released with fly ash, and it's burned in vast amounts.

Fun fact: this is record from a dosimeter that travelled with a group of students from Paris to defunct Fukushima plant:

@wolf480pl @cjd

Note that "organic plants" are just the same domesticated plants as any other, they just are *planted* in a special way that involves use of some pesticides and herbicides perceived as "natural" but not others.

There's very little difference between say modern GM soyabean and "organic soyabean", the latter meaning an soyabean variety that has been derived using selection or mutation breeding.

Both of which are genetic engineering, just in more random way.

@cjd We will see. But GMO food and bioweapons are just as orthogonal as VVR reactors and nuclear weapons so calling to ban foods just because it somehow facilitates production of weapons (and it doesn't) is a bit like calling to ban nuclear medicine so that nobody builds a bomb (and they will, anyway).

@cjd

So the only party who *could* be theoretically interested in chemical of bio warfare, or dirty bombs, are terrorists because as the story goes they are just crazy and don't care for life.

But they don't and never did, except for one attack with sarin by Japanese sect Aum Shinrikyo. There can be many reasons for that but in general terrorists do have clear friend-or-foe definition so an indiscriminate weapon with "global* potential isn't an option as it would hit their friends.

@cjd

Weapons need to be controllable to win wars, which is why nobody except for Russia and Syria routinely uses chemical weapons - and even that on a small scale.

Nobody uses biological weapons either, probably because they are even more uncontrollable. If you poison your own troops or civilians then you not only suffer losses but actually demoralize your own people.

And because nothing is genetics has sharp boundaries (ethnicity, gender etc) GMO makes a very poor candidate for bioweapon.

@sp6ina

Nie tylko. Signal ma niejasny model biznesowy, podobnie jak Telegram. Niby jest open-source ale równocześnie aktywnie zwalcza wszelkie alternatywne implementacje klienckie i forki swojego kodu. Poza tym jest to kod dobrej jakości i dobrze zaudytowany, więc jak sądzę dla przeciętnego użytkownika jest to o wiele lepsza alternatywa niż np. WhatsApp. Ja cisnę jeszcze Matrixa ale implementacje od strony klienta i serwera pozostawiają jeszcze trochę do życzenia dla osób nietechnicznych.

@feld

# heif-enc

Command 'heif-enc' not found, but can be installed with:

apt install libheif-examples

@cjd

This topic has been discussed a lot, here's a good article:

https://phys.org/news/2017-08-crispr-biological-weapon.html

There are threats which even though they have weapon potential are not used anyway.

There was tons of FUD from Greenpeace about terrorists blowing up nuclear power plant for decades. In reality the only person who ever did that was Green activist idiot, Chaim Nissim, who shot reactor in construction from an RPG to demonstrate the threat is real. He didn't even scratch it, and nobody ever repeated it.

@cjd It's literally like this 😂

@cjd No, I mean genetic doesn't work this way. There are cultured plants - either by selection, mutation breeding or CRISPR - and there are plants that evolved in the wild. The former just don't survive in the wild - not because of some engineered terminator genes, but because they are *not fit.* Potatoes or carrots don't really need these massive roots for themselves, it's *us* who need them, and when you leave them in the wild uncultivated they will regress to feral, or disappear completely.

@cjd

Personally I believe both "capitalism" and "socialism" are meaningless terms today. It's like describing a neural network using say a single integer array index.

https://write.as/arcadian/pragmatism-and-dogmatism-in-economy-capitalism-versus-socialism

@cjd

As explained before, it doesn't work this way.

@workingclasshistory

Oh that's just a stone throw away from my place!

HTTP Do-Not-Track standard *seems* to be working to some extent.

Almost all websites that offer an option to customize your cookies will present already disabled tracking, ads etc when you have DNT enabled in browser.

Is it true that if Texas now gets the Federal money it will be officially enlisted on the official list of Socialist states? 🤔

@feld Not in ImageMagick 6.9.10-23 Q16 x86_64, Ubuntu 20.04