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"F*ck AI!" AI data centre protest now on Granville Bridge, Vancouver BC

Speak English. Fast service. Great drinks. Don’t lobby the government for foreign workers. Tim Hortons is cooked. They’re no longer a Canadian company with Canadian values. All Dunkin’ Donuts needs to do is hire our youth. It was always that simple. Canada First.

PEER-REVIEWED PAPER SAYS GENETICALLY ENGINEERING TICKS TO SPREAD MEAT ALLERGIES IS “MORALLY OBLIGATORY” Western Michigan professors claim that CRISPR-edited ticks should be used to spread alpha-gal syndrome as “moral bioenhancement” to FORCE humans away from eating meat. This sounds like bioterrorism dressed up as bioethics. CDC estimates that as many as 450,000 people in the United States may already be affected by alpha-gal syndrome. Think about what is being proposed here: deliberately developing genetically modified ticks to spread a potentially life-threatening meat allergy that may already affect nearly half a million Americans.

A peer-reviewed paper published last year in the journal Bioethics by two professors at Western Michigan University School of Medicine argues that it is "morally obligatory" to genetically engineer ticks to spread alpha-gal syndrome, a permanent condition that makes you violently allergic to red meat. The paper is called "Beneficial Bloodsucking." Their argument: if eating meat is morally wrong, then preventing the spread of a disease that forces people to stop eating meat is also morally wrong. Scientists should gene-edit lone star ticks to enhance their ability to carry alpha-gal syndrome and expand their range into urban environments to infect more people. They call this a "moral bioenhancer." They frame releasing genetically modified disease-carrying ticks as a "vaccination" that only "infringes" on your bodily autonomy rather than "violating" it. The distinction, apparently, is that a tick bit you instead of a government official holding you down. Alpha-gal syndrome is not mild. The CDC estimates up to 450,000 Americans are already affected. Cases have surged 100-fold in the last decade. Symptoms include anaphylaxis. There is no cure. Alpha-gal cases are exploding across the United States. The lone star tick's range is expanding far beyond its historical territory. And two academics at a medical school published a paper arguing this is a good thing that should be accelerated. At what point do we stop treating papers like this as fringe academic exercises and start asking whether anyone is already acting on them?

🚨Trump is now single handedly responsible for 27.7% of the national debt. This is dramatically more than any President in American history.

Sudbury tent city Canada is unrecognizable

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announces free universal healthcare for 130 million citizens starting next year.