Beryl

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[–] Beryl 1 points 3 months ago

I stand corrected

[–] Beryl -2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

That's doesn't even look like parmesan.

[–] Beryl 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Your first link is from Hard Drive, which is quite obviously a parodic website, kinda like the Onion but for tech. That being said, Wikia/Fandom is a parasitic growth on the internet that leeches on the free work of countless enthusiasts, and alternative fan-run wikis should be used instead.

[–] Beryl 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

It's a bit ridiculous to say the only obstacle between us and "monstrous behemoths created in labs" is some sports regulations ^^'. Luckily there are already laws that severely restrict what you're allowed to do with genetic engineering, so don't you worry.

But coming back to your "monstrous behemoths", wouldn't some basketball players for example already fall in that category ? How tall is too tall? When it's about basketball, you could be 8 feet 1 (2.46 m for my metric brethren) and no-one would try to have you banned from the game, they would probably congratulate you on your lucky genetics instead. Similarly, I've never heard of any suggestion of, say, enforcing a minimum resting heart rate for endurance based sports.

Yet if you're a woman and too muscular for some obscure regulatory body's liking, you face the risk of being ostracized and banned from competing. The same genetic lottery winning ticket would in this case be considered an unfair advantage. This goes to show that unfairness is not rooted in any hard, undeniable, mesurable quantity, but is at its root a cultural phenomenon. Fairness is in the eye of the beholder, there can be no objective measure for it, -which is why I'm say it simply doesn't truly exist in sports.

[–] Beryl 54 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

The people clamoring against the inclusion of biological outliers are operating under the false -and frankly poorly thought out- idea that sports are fair and that it's only by training the hardest that you can and will achieve victory, shonen style.

Ultimately the only completely fair-ish competition is the one where you try to outdo your previous best performance and beat your own records. Otherwise, there are so many other variables you'd have to correct for to level the playing field (and testosterone levels is not a great pick for that anyway) that you might as well have single athlete categories.

[–] Beryl 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Sorry but the "dot ai" branding is enough to make me highly suspicious of any claim that company might make.

[–] Beryl 1 points 3 months ago

And a C-level exec his golden parachute

[–] Beryl 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's a french 'Poilu', a WW1 soldier. I'm pretty sure he would strangle you with his sausages if he heard you call him Hans.

[–] Beryl 130 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

It's a well established historical fact that the last supper is the only time in history that people gathered around a table !

[–] Beryl 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Both Ground News and Media Bias are tuned to a very US-centric vision of what is left or right, which means that thanks to this right biased Overton window, anything they classify as left would probably be considered center in Europe. Unfortunately, said window is also slinding to the right in Europe under the influence of European right leaders calling anything left of center "far-left", see for example : Macron.

[–] Beryl 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

As long as it's the sperm of your enemies that's fine by be. Might take a bit longer to harvest though.

[–] Beryl 28 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Deoxyribose is the 'D' in DNA. Just use the blood of your enemies.

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