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@SpaceKoala

Space memes, fusion schemes, and x-fundie dreams Recurrent laryngeal nerve's #1 defender

Magacommunism reeducation camp Katılım Ağustos 2011
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Space Koala
Space Koala@SpaceKoala·
I will tolerate recurrent laryngeal nerve slander no longer! It's actually the result of several elegant solutions to difficult problems in embryology, and the length is a non-issue. A 🧵 1/13
Peyman Milanfar@docmilanfar

My meager education in biology and evolution gave me the mistaken impression that evolution optimized everything. But it didn't. One example is the recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN). It goes from behind your ear, loops down below your aorta, and then back up to the voice-box 1/2

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Space Koala@SpaceKoala·
Man I need another Starship launch to watch.
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Space Koala@SpaceKoala·
@PaulFDietz @pham_alam Yeah, that's about the size of it. It's the unstated desires of government spending that value the process over science results. Unfortunately unless you have the potential to make money off the results soon they wind up the science funder you gotta go with.
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Paul F. Dietz@PaulFDietz·
@pham_alam @SpaceKoala I suggest the problem is public efforts have bad incentives. The real goals there aren't the ostensible ones. The researchers want safe, long careers; the politicians want the perception that something will be delivered later. Actually delivering real value? No.
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Space Koala@SpaceKoala·
@hakflo "Here's a wild potential new fruit that AI has hypothesized might exist. We can't experimentally verify it though because we spent the money on the AI data center"
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Håkon Fløystad@hakflo·
@SpaceKoala If you pick real fruit, you need tall ladders once the low hanging fruits have all been picked. If you're like a painter or someone else from the arts, you can create as many non-real fruits as you like.
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Space Koala
Space Koala@SpaceKoala·
You're reading this wrong. The oil loss is so big, he HAS to pull out the military win. Because if he capitulates to Iranian demands, it's seen as a defeat at home, and still doesn't magically bring the oil infrastructure back online instantly.
Rory Johnston@Rory_Johnston

I still think Trump will TACO—because he *has* to TACO. Oil loss it too big, too politically untenable. While the damage is already extensive and recovery will already be a months-long ordeal, it can get so, so much worse and this is fundamentally a crisis of lost time. People will push back and say it isn't up to Trump anymore. But while there are two other major parties in this war, Trump remains the 1) most important, and 2) most movable by external pressures (like, say, oil prices), so it's gotta be him.

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Space Koala@SpaceKoala·
You really think plucking out a leader that was replaced by the system then committing to a massive war in the Middle East that would pull resources away from any attempt to enforce massive structural changes to Venezuela is a good way to build a business environment conducive for hundred billion dollar investments with 20+ year recoupment time?
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American Imperialist
American Imperialist@crownhuntsman·
@SpaceKoala The Maduro abduction, more than anything, was a signal from the US government to the oil industry that they're willing and able to compel cooperation from the Venezuelan government.
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Iam Morbius
Iam Morbius@MorbiusIam2023·
@SpaceKoala Apparently the tall ladders are not helping pick any more fruit or than the short ladders.
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Space Koala@SpaceKoala·
@crownhuntsman High oil prices don't fix the fundamental uninvestability of a country whose oil is heavy and sour and whose government hasn't fundamentally changed. The oil companies do not want to invest because Venezuela has a bad history of nationalizing their investments.
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American Imperialist@crownhuntsman·
The high oil prices aren't a "consequence" so much as they are part of the strategy. They allow more rapid buildout of Venezuelan oilfield infrastructure and accompanying domestic refinery modifications. It's a mistake, however, to attribute this strategy to Trump or any administration in particular. These plans were roughed out probably 20 years ago or more in MIC/intel agency backrooms. The President, whoever they may be, gets marching orders and carries them out. That's been the case for 60 years.
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Space Koala
Space Koala@SpaceKoala·
@powerbottomdad1 >"they turned off all their nuclear" >shows picture of leader whose country gets most of its power from nuclear. There's plenty to slander the French for, but German stupidity is not it. Gotta go with their special brand of French stupidity.
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Andrew A.Abbott@realAAAbbott·
@StealthQE4 Highest price ever for WTI was $147 back in 2008, or $221 in current dollars. Things were fine. Gain perspective.
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Battle Beagle@HarmlessYardDog·
We're talking weeks, not months, of floating oil storage before it all hits the fan. The clock is ticking.
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Space Koala@SpaceKoala·
My lineage as far back as I know is of people never staying in one spot for more than a generation. My soul is not rooted in one particular patch of dirt, but chasing opportunity is what runs deep in my blood. And I pray that dreaming will carry my descendents to the stars.
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Violet@VioletFlame23

Both sides of this debate are tedious "I'm a reactionary because my ancestors were manly warriors" "I'm a communist because my ancestors were poor oppressed peasants" My ancestors were merchants who journeyed around the Mediterranean trading, I support commerce and exploration

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Space Koala@SpaceKoala·
I like that we figured out how to how enable people of every bracket able to save the ability to pick and choose which parts of private industry they want to own a slice of, or even bet on the whole of our public sector. Government bonds are grabbing a portion of the national debt for yourself, basically betting that society and the government won't collapse. For all that communists talk about seizing the means of production, stocks and bonds are stakes in private and public society for sale to those willing and able to invest.
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the thicc husband & father@lukeisamazing

yeah, people should make fun of you for liking the stock market, what the hell is your problem

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Space Koala@SpaceKoala·
@poppy_haze @ASHSPACEE I don't see how that doesn't end with Iran basically the de facto power controlling access to Hormuz, and using it to massively tax their neighbors. For Iran, penalizing their neighbors while simultaneously boosting their own revenue is a massive boon.
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