Nah, not GMT. UTC. It’s the more accurate successor, and all computers already use it.

Not to mention, everyone will always know what time you are talking about anywhere in the world, and based on your own experience, you know if it will be during the day or not.

Timezones will no longer matter, making software handling time so much easier.

Is it 0? No?

Have a ways to go then.

See I didn’t know that, cool thanks

Yes, it cannot be created naturally.

The concern is that if one of the mirror proteins is able to be cloned naturally, then we would have a problem on our hands.

However, those mirror cells would need a supply of “mirror food” such as “mirror sugar” in order to survive their natural lifespan. And then they would need to break apart into the mirror proteins that can be cloned. Racemic drugs like Thalidomide do not behave the way they are talking about in the article.

I have my doubts that this is an actual concern. It’s not even similar to prions - prions are misfolded proteins that have the same chemical make up, but the natural enzymes end up cloning those over the natural ones because they are easier to make.

Correct. It’s also a much simpler organic molecule than any of the proteins they are talking about creating.

I know I just responded, but I read the article, and the drug page, and discovered the thing we’re talking about. Racemic organic molecules are not the same thing here.

These are specifically proteins used for cellular life. These are significantly more complex, as there are no natural bindings between the two. To note this from Wikipedia:

Examples include thalidomide, ibuprofen, cetirizine and salbutamol. A well known drug that has different effects depending on its ratio of enantiomers is amphetamine. Adderall is an unequal mixture of both amphetamine enantiomers. A single Adderall dose combines the neutral sulfate salts of dextroamphetamine and amphetamine, with the dextro isomer of amphetamine saccharate and D/L-amphetamine aspartate monohydrate. The original Benzedrine was a racemic mixture, and isolated dextroamphetamine was later introduced to the market as Dexedrine. The prescription analgesic tramadol is also a racemate.

We know that those drugs aren’t great in pregnancy, but Adderall specifically does not cause birth defects. Again, these molecules are significantly less complex than any protein they would talk about here.

Well that answers my question if mirror cells need mirror molecules.

They just die and break apart turning into mirror molecules. Oh well.

Heads up divers, these guys do not fuck around.

They ain’t mindless bugs, or robots, they are squids. They are intelligent, they have the technology, and I don’t understand how their armor and shields work at all. And they fly and shoot. And throw grenades, and swarm. And have flying saucers.

It’s wicked fun

It’s a 4 man warthog. Has a heavy machine gun mounted on top with 4 clips.

I’m being honest with you, I don’t think I’ve seen him outside before.

Interesting to note, they mentioned the Florida woman’s name, but not the judge’s.

Interesting, interesting, interesting.

I take it that was the the information they could get.

I wonder what people will do about that.

Nothing? Or cheer?

What’s crazy is that some of the people I talk to, I expected to say something like “yeah, but he didn’t get a trial.”

It’s been “yeah, he’s been on trial for 3 years at UHC, and 20 before that. And he was declared guilty.”

It’s sort of funny. All they are going to do is isolate the bastards into doing even more corrupt shit.

They really refuse to believe that the first part of finding out, is fucking around.

The more they fuck around and put profit ahead of everything, the more finding out I imagine is going to occur.

“forcing leaders to ask themselves uncomfortable questions about their own preparedness for a threat landscape that appears far more serious than many realized just a week ago.”

It’s probably even more serious than they think it is right now too.

In fact, all I see are talks of securing these executives. And as the article points out, security is a sunk cost. There is no financial gain. That means as security gets more expensive, they will have to weigh how to afford it versus the problems they cause.

Fear isn’t the word I think we want though, fear seems too normal. Terror sounds closer to what they likely need to feel before things get better.

Wait hold on

That makes too much sense get out of here

Well, I was sort of hoping for a happier ending than that, but they didn’t call it the reign of terror for not beheading 16,000 people.

Iirc they never actually pay the reward in almost every reward poster for one reason or another.

Not really. Concerts really aren’t entertaining, and while I like restaurants, busy ones mean waiting so I don’t typically go out of my way to go to them.

It really has to do with the amount of stuff going on all around me. The more happening, the greater my anxiety. Casinos I’ve been to are a great example of this. They aren’t packed to the brim with people, and when they are it’s old people. It the amount of different flashing lights and celebration sounds of many different games and all that crap.

But like a bowling league to me is fun, because while there’s a lot going on at the same time, and there’s a bunch of people, they are ALL bowling and for example the sounds are bowling related.

I imagine the children with these things are emotionally disregulated in some way shape or form. A small group of children sometimes don’t learn to self soothe when they are very young, others in ASD struggle with it for a lifetime. Some with ADHD have a very difficult time when their medicine wears off and their emotions kick back in to overdrive.

For all those groups I mentioned, the whole concept of this thing was almost brilliant. Something that they can go to knowing it will be able to help them guide through emotions while mom and dad are doing something necessary like cooking or fixing something outside, or in the bathroom.

If you haven’t had to deal with a child that has emotional regulation problems, then it is hard to explain the difficulty that the failure of this device will make. It is true that they will adapt it, they always do, that’s how things work. The problem is that the emotional disregulation leads to broken things at home, aggressive behaviors with peers, getting kicked out of preschool and day care, etc.

It truly is a nightmare scenario. The parents have to prepare for all of these things and a new way to help their child through the limited existing means.