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[gancelin @gancelin]

Trigglypuff just crossed my mind
wonder how it all worked out for that gal

[gancelin @gancelin]

@strelkovW @kausmickey @pensandpoison What a weird response

[gancelin @gancelin]

@annakhachiyan @Steve_Sailer Yeah.
For me it was that Odysseus wasn't Odysseus. A great, great literary character.

[gancelin @gancelin]

@amandafortini Great technical visual artist
Always leaves me cold

[gancelin @gancelin]

@RationalBlonde @esjesjesj @ProjectLiberal This is correct
Anyone who has a smidgen of doubt can read Mao's Great Famine, by Frank Dikotter. That and much, much more. Mao knew and did not care

[gancelin @gancelin]

@CaitlinPacific I'm suspicious of her new translation but what she says here is exactly right. Movie: 10 out of 10 in film making craftsmanship, 3 out of 10 in fidelity to the main character himself. It is a weird turn.

[gancelin @gancelin]

Nemesis is coming

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

I just cloned myself...as a newborn

With this clone, I can:

+ become my own blood boy
+ test therapies on the clone
+ grow organs for transplantation
+ develop new treatments
+ inject young cells

This baby-bryan lives in a petri dish for now.

This may be scary to some people…a dystopian future. But, for others, they will see it as the inevitable future of health.

Clinical trials are already using this technology to restore dopamine neurons for Parkinson's, heart health and eyesight.

The process
> blood draw
> my cells were extracted
> yamanaka factors applied
> reset epigenetic age
> restoring them to an embryonic-like state

Why?
> these cells are now pluripotent
> can be differentiated into hundreds of cell types
> i.e. neurons, cardiomyocytes, retinal cells, etc
> allowing me to rebuild my body
> organ by organ
> repairing lost eyesight or hearing
> restoring kidney, liver or lung function
> repairing skin damage
> there’s no real limitation in imagining
> my body will accept them bc they’re my cells
> foreign cells are at risk of being rejected

As cells age, they accumulate epigenetic errors compounding into dysfunction and disease.

This technology gives us a path to reverse aging.

I mentioned getting diagnosed with an incurable disease is one of the best things that has happened to me in a long time. It’s opened up a frontier of new paths to repair and strengthen the body. This is the first example.

[gancelin @gancelin]

@Ed_Realist @asymmetricinfo Fact check, true
guaranteed contracts paired with a deferred compensation package that is the envy of anyone in the private sector. Ride that train responsibly for 30 years and you will retire a millionaire in your mid to late 50's. Good life

[gancelin @gancelin]

What?

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

I think the best reason to read The Iliad and The Odyssey is to remind ourselves how much progress has been made.

The ancients don't have much to teach us about morality and ethics. Rather, they're a reminder of how much humanity sucked before the Enlightenment.

[gancelin @gancelin]

@DontCutKids @charlescwcooke @MattWalshBlog To complain the Odyssey is "non-linear" is to complain that water is wet. It just is

[gancelin @gancelin]

@DontCutKids @charlescwcooke @MattWalshBlog The entire story is Non-linear. It jumps back and forth in time, mostly from Odysseus retelling what had happened to him and his crew on the way home. It's the how the narrative is structured

[gancelin @gancelin]

@DontCutKids @charlescwcooke @MattWalshBlog Might be time to dust off the Fagles translation from your bookshelf, you're not going to win this one

[John Podhoretz @jpodhoretz]

The key thing about THE ODYSSEY, and why we need it now, is the reminder it provides us that Western culture has presented us with the highest expressions of human greatness from the get-go. It is the first story, it's 2600 years old, and nothing better has come along since.

[gancelin @gancelin]

I don't believe it

[Evan Solomon @EvanLSolomon]

The recent rise in Islamophobic incidents across Canada is deeply disturbing.

Muslim Canadians deserve to live, work, worship, and raise their families free from fear, intimidation, and hate.

There is no place for Islamophobia or anti-Muslim hatred in Canada. We must stand together to protect freedom of religion, reject hatred in all its forms, and build a country where everyone feels safe and belongs.

[gancelin @gancelin]

@eigenrobot @dylanotes It seems that the purpose of lobbying has escaped him.
Poor dear

[gancelin @gancelin]

@scttfrnks To be generous, code switching is often only vaguely conscious, everyone does it. But still, she is annoying.

[gancelin @gancelin]

@SarahTheHaider This reminds me of something I heard Abe Greenwald from Commentary say concerning the internet and niche "communities"
(paraphrasing) Many of "communities" should not nor ever existed
Its returned to my mind often for the better part of a year. Stopped me in my tracks

[gancelin @gancelin]

@amandafortini Bacon King
That's the order

[gancelin @gancelin]

@rawmilkhoney I just learned a new phrase that would work here, "struggle cuddle"

[gancelin @gancelin]

@JonJonk13 @HeerJeet This is the right answer
Bet they only a vague notion. I'd add (posthumously) Walker Percy

[gancelin @gancelin]

This is textbook ‘Presentism’
The correct response is, “compared to what?”

[Craig Marcoux @MichaelMarcou19]

@mtaibbi Who said you can’t own a home?

Aside from your fears of “owning nothing”, what are your thoughts on the historic wealth gap between rich and poor and the absolute wretched misery and death it’s causing millions upon millions of your fellow countrymen?