“Google plans to appeal the $425 million verdict with a judge who will ‘mysteriously’ buy a mansion after the case”

Well as the article mentioned they haven’t gotten to the gene drive part yet, they were testing a mosquito that would masculinize female mosquitos and would only be passed down through regular Mendelian inheritance.

Just so you know, the truthfulness of Einstein bee quote is rather dubious, and that’s probably why you’re getting down voted.

It’s a little more complicated than that, honey bees are great generalists and there have been a lot of winners among North American plants. But yeah, “capitalism” isn’t far off the mark.

The European honeybee in the Americas is kinda a double edged sword. It’s an invasive species, which both steals resources from and spreads diseases to native bees. However, for better or worse at this point a good portion of agriculture is dependent upon the European honey bee.

… And they produce honey, which I like.

There’s a lot of problems bees (both honey bee and native bees) are facing. There’s varroa mite, a virus spread by mites, pesticides, pollution, habitat loss, monoculture… a lot of stuff. However, healthy bees are more resilient, so healthy hive is much more likely to shrug off a event that could be “the straw that broke the camels back” for a weakened malnourished hive.

If this happens, I urge Zelensky not to drink any tea during this meeting.

Ah, after reading the headline I was like “Again?”

Right but the rich will still have real doctors with real medicine on call (or they can just travel to a country with real medicine).

When Mao Zedong unified thousands of years of quackery and superstition into “Traditional Chinese Medicine” to placate the masses need for healthcare, he kept real doctors on hand, because he knew it was all bunk.

And the sun!

Riiight… Next headline: “Pusher claims that his drugs not the cause sleepless nights and bugs under the skin”

Gotta give those tax dollars to techbro failsons.

Just a few hundred billion more and I’m sure that somebody will figure out a profitable use for AI that isn’t scamming old people.

Crypto is already largely seen as a scam,

It’s more than seen as a scam.

It’s kinda funny how sexualized the aliens in Avatar are when they canonically have no genitalia except for their dreadlocks. It kinda defies the sci-fi trope; a sexy alien species that humans can’t have sex with (unless you get a avatar body with its accompanying penis perm of course).

Look, if we just ignore school shootings and don’t talk about them they’ll go away.

Duh.

At least in my area they’ve decided to walk back the walk back.

They went from “Self checkouts are now only for ten items or less” to “Self checkouts are permanently closed” and now they’ve gone to “Self checkouts can be used for any number of items and also we added four more”.

I don’t recall the first one (I tried it sometime late last year) but the more recent one was from Tomorrow farms. Now that I think about it, I suppose there’s a possibility they both were from the same company with different branding.

The good news is that the bitter sunflower flavor can be drowned out pretty handily using chocolate syrup (and as I mentioned it’s texture is spot on), so despite my dissatisfaction with the milk on it’s own, it makes a great chocolate milk.

I’ve tried two varieties of biotech milk, both had a mouthfeel almost identical to normal milk. Unfortunately, both of the varieties I’ve tried have used sunflower seed oil for the fat and that gives the end product a noticeable raw sunflower seed flavor/bitterness which isn’t very pleasant.