Rhaedas

I don’t often boot into WIndows anymore, but when I do I’m reminded why I finally pushed over to Linux. Not the first time, I’ve dabbled in Linux off and on for years, never could settle in, but this time worked well and I feel… comfortable now.

“For national security reasons.”

“You should participate, we’re a family here.”

“A dysfunctional one.”

This is why right here. Had hospitals and makeshift medical areas been swarmed with patients, nurses would have responded and been praised for it, as they should. But there weren’t survivors, which highlighted how bad it was.

So they only use algae-only oil. Still doesn’t change the point.

This is shifting blame. Fossil fuels are vegan in the sense of origin, however the harm done to the biosphere in using them is not vegan. Therefore a vegan using fossil fuels in a dependent society is to blame.

Sure. It’s not the much higher percentage of people participating in this, it’s the vegans. At least they’re making attempts to change, unlike the rest of us.

I don’t know if it’s still a thing as generations move on, but I remember when people objected to putting their credit card info into a web form even if it was HTTPS, yet they’d gladly read their card number over the phone.

In some aspects this results in situations that the original Star Trek 3-D chess has with its movable platforms. The issue with chess variants is always how it adds while not unbalancing the game, and that’s a difficult thing to test since chess by itself is complex even with its simple rules.

A double vote means its appeal held up past one view.

Another Mandrake user off and on user back then. Was my first Linux, mainly because the install was very easy to do. Since it was based on Red Hat, I guess I started at the right end of the curve and worked my way back to Ubuntu.

So like early Reddit.

Figured from the expression.

Very automated. I’ve been having regular calls for a while now from all sorts of different state area codes, same exact script about a loan offer almost complete and just lacking some income info. I let any unknown number go to voice mail, and find it entertaining to see which AI voice I get this time. For a while there it was a friendly woman that had a convincing tone, but the one guy’s voice they tried sounded like he needed a vacation and was over his job.

“It’s the same picture.”

Always has been. The only difference is what they’re selling.

True, the implied was “if you can”.

Also, retire early. You can’t buy more time, and you definitely can’t buy the energy and health you had.

A rare good cop in the wild. Gave you what you wanted, and made it so it would fail in court.

We know how that ended up. Yikes.

But since we’re talking about early life forming (actually chemical replicators, much simpler than a virus) let’s use the card shuffling odds, but decks of cards are being shuffled in billions or trillions of places on early Earth every second for millions of years. Even a very low odds of finding a working sequence of molecules will be found geologically quickly given the amount of times done over area and time. We’re pretty sure now that life began very soon once the Earth cooled down enough to allow it. What took much longer was the more complex forms of life like viruses and single cells, then even longer for multicellular.

I haven’t had to link this in a long time. Here is the link to the relevant FAQ topic about abiogenesis from the talk.origins Usenet compilation. If you’re honestly curious about the real statistics, that’s a start. The cited works are obviously old but the science hasn’t changed, if anything we’ve learned more.

Usually the strawman against abiogenesis is that a simple bacterium or virus can’t just appear from nowhere, which of course is true but isn’t what the science of the beginnings of life even remotely suggests. The opposite is actually true, in a world where there are no higher life forms to compete with we’d probably see all sorts of complex combinations of chemicals that eventually run across a replication process. This is the answer to OP’s question, once higher life develops, the basic chemical replicators can’t compete anymore. Or get absorbed into a symbiosis, as what seems to be the case with the mitochondria.

With the right conditions on other worlds (not necessarily only what Earth was like) simple life forms may be very common. We certainly now know just from recent sampling that there are planets everywhere.