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Horn of Gabriel

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  1. Everything you write here would be relevant if China were not a dictatorship, which they are. This is the same country that during the Great Leap Forward allowed some 50M+ people to starve to death, and tortured and killed another 2-3M people to keep the population in line. And that was on a population base much smaller than now. Will things be different now? Maybe? Their government is not afraid of their people, the other way around. Xi is gonna do what Xi wants. His bigger fear is trying for Taiwan and losing, because that's how dictators get deposed or killed. He'll go if he feels like he can get it, and doesn't give 2 fucks about the losses.
  2. We can detect them. We just never regarded it as a threat because of a combination of: We assumed they could get equal to better intelligence out of satellite surveillance so why care The public wasn't awake to the threat so nbd We lack a symmetrical response...we just spent around $2M shooting down a $100K ballon. We can afford it so whatever but before the public cared I'm sure that no general wants to get dragged in front of the HASC to answer questions about "herp derp ballon" We lacked imagination about the threat...these are a serious problem, they could be a delivery vehicle for an EMP. This isn't Clancy-novel level shit, it would be an easy, non-attributable way to fuck the US in the ass if you put a ballon with a EMP-tuned low yield nuke device at 150K ft over the Eastern seaboard. We'd lose multiple millions of lives in the ensuing chaos and power outages. Now imagine 5000 of these balloons launched in the span of a few days and you have to shoot them all down...while China is making their crossing to Taiwan. Now that we're awake to this we'll plan for it better...and China will find another vector we're unconscious about. Hopefully we have some smart people in the intel community sitting around gaming all this out to protect us, because the current news doesn't exactly make me brim with confidence.
  3. What do you think we're doing by leaving the Big12? I'd say that has some bite for those remaining. Texas doesn't have the power here with regard to the schedule. Until we're out of the conference, we play by the conference's rules. Or I guess just forfeit because we're sad and stuff, which is a great look to our new conference mates in the SEC.
  4. Sounds good and is fun to think about but this is on the same level of thinking of people who say "let's just nuke Iran and turn the middle east to GLASS!!!!!1!" The repetitional and media hit we'd take for forfeiting a game b/c Houston was incompetent in setting up their stadium 20 years ago would be massive and lasting. It would give yet another excuse for the national media who already want to shit on Texas to do so, and the ensuing pile on from other fanbases about "cowardly" Texas, regardless of the real reasons. Thankfully our admin are adults. "The best revenge is living well." Go play at Houston, beat them by 4 TDs at their place. Stomp the rest of the Big12 and win the title on our way out with middle fingers held high. That's the plan.
  5. Fuck Fox. Get us out of this goddamn conference already!
  6. JFC that's depressing
  7. Set aside COVID for a sec, as hard as that is. Also set aside the origin discussion of lab leak vs. wet market vs. natural. Why do GoF? This is literally creating killer viruses in the lab that don't exist in nature. Some of these are relatively benign flu-like stuff, and some of them would make COVID look like a sniffle. We are basically trusting the future of humanity (not an exaggeration at this point) to the security of largely unregulated labs and disinterested governments around the world. It's like nuclear weapons, only worse, because there are only a few countries that could create nuclear devastation. There are at least dozens of countries capable of GoF now. We're one finger prick, one broken slide, or one mis-configured BSL lab from an extinction-level event. It came out that the Wuhan lab was supposed to be doing research at BSL-4 but was actually at BSL-3 or -2. This is scary, scary stuff and we're getting by on luck and voluntary regulation. It's beyond playing with fire, it's incredibly irresponsible because we're basically putting the nuclear football and big red button in every lab doing this research around the world. As pointed out above, our virological research and understanding has progressed independently of GoF research. We don't need it, it doesn't provide demonstrable value commensurate with the risks it poses and it should be banned WW. We've managed it with with human cloning - even China is onboard, and jailed the mad scientist that was going that direction. Any country that makes supportive moves of scientists trying human cloning would turn into a world pariah. We need to treat GoF the same.
  8. GMO carrots don't kill millions of people. Engineered viruses can.
  9. Fauci/not Fauci, China lab/not China lab IDGAF. The better question is EVEN IF the China lab didn't accidentally/intentionally release this, and EVEN IF Fauci/CDC/Whoever didn't realize what they were financing, why in the FUCK would we or anyone do gain-of-function research? That research is literally trying to create killer viruses that don't exist today, specifically the kind that can infect humans! Like, WTF! WHY?!?!?! I've seen Fauci and that British fucktard spinning bullshit about how GAF "helps us understand how viruses evolve in the wild so that we can better respond to them when they occur." Sorry, but that's bullshit. I have yet to see how 30 years of GOF research Pfizer and Moderna create their vaccine. Or any other evidence that the bullshit benefit outweighs the absolutely 100% certain and currently demonstrable risks of an outbreak like COVID. Or worse! COVID is actually mild compared some of the other shit they've cooked up that hasn't escaped. What if they created an airborne transmissible version of something like Ebola...imagination runs wild. The arrogance of the Fauci's and the Peter Daszak's of the world playing word games with "gain of function" to try to say the research Wuhan was doing wasn't actually GOF in his political fight w/ Rand Paul is astounding. Then basically saying "Well you normal people just aren't smart enough to understand what we're doing here" smacks of narcissists playing God in a lab. Yeah, we're not PhD virologists but we don't have to be to understand that gain of function "...aim to increase the ability of infectious agents to cause disease by enhancing its pathogenicity or by increasing its transmissibility." If someone can make the argument that GOF benefits outweigh the risks, I'd love to hear it.
  10. Type 2 pre-diabetic? Welcome to being an American! In one way you're lucky in that you can manage it with diet. You have the right plan. Just focus on filling up w/ protein, fiber, and fat and minimizing carbs. That's bad news for the lasagna, which is very carb heavy like most italian meals. Once in a while maybe but rarely. The workouts will really help. I'm Type 1 but notice a 24 hour effect when I workout where my body is more insulin sensitive. I walk about 3 miles every day now both to get my steps in but also provide some extra light cardio - that's on top of whatever workout I'm doing. Plus it feels good to get the fresh air.
  11. According to my endocrinologist, even black coffee (all I drink) can set off a response in your liver that causes your body to dump excess sugar it's carrying into the blood. Same reason for the "morning effect" where BG goes up for many, me included, in the waking hours even if I'm fasting.
  12. Remember those days way back six months ago when this board melted down over not getting Ochaun Mathis? He had such a great year at Nebraska, what a EPIC miss!
  13. WTF are you even talking about, and why so salty? Geez, the guy wants to play, what an asshole! Purdue isn't world beater but they are Power 2 conference team and he will probably start there. They've knocked off some big boys over the past few years and I can't blame him for making the move when his other option is to be the 2nd or maybe even 3rd stringer at Texas depending on how MM pans out.
  14. Just crazy to think that this is our best collection of talent in 10+ years, AND Georgia and Alabama stack guys at this level 2 and sometimes 3 deep. That's what it's going to take now that they're literally conference foes.
  15. Please allow me to translate CTJ to GIF:
  16. Why does the girl in the middle have 4 arms?
  17. Has there been any reporting on if the $10M UCLA -> Cal subsidy is a 1-time deal or an every-year deal?
  18. The longer this goes, the lower the chances of firing Beard have to be, right?
  19. Actually it won't really matter if he coaches here again or not, we'll see those pics for awhile.
  20. Thanks. Utah looked pretty good last night, sooo win confirmed!
  21. Full disclosure: I’m a soccer dumbass. I know Netherlands is more highly ranked than US but put this into context: is the Alabama vs Ole Miss? Or Bama vs Old Dominion?
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