Director Detection at SecureBio in Boston. Speaking for myself unless I say otherwise.
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And then today with:
A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. …
This reads to me as very clearly a threat against the civilian population.
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It doesn’t have an eggy flavor, no. That’s a plus for some things, a minus for others.
He followed up yesterday in a briefing with:
every bridge in Iran will be decimated by 12 o’clock tomorrow night, where every power plant in Iran will be out of business — burning, exploding and never to be used again. I mean, complete demolition by 12 o’clock.
It seems extremely unlikely to me that every power plant and bridge are sufficiently key to Iran’s military that they merit destruction, while a threat to destroy all of them is very consistent with economic coercion.
It should work fine for omelets, with the usual downsides of egg-white omelets and with less eggy flavor.
While you could add the powder to cooked pasta or rice it’s expensive as protein powders go and if you’re not trying to use it for its physical properties I doubt it’s worth it?
A genetically modified yeast makes the ovalbumin, which is then purified such that it no longer contains any of the yeast. That means the ovalbumin you’re buying is technically not GMO. There’s a note about this on the back, and I agree it’s loopholeish.
Destruction of Infrastructure for the Impact on Civilians is Manifestly Illegal
Sometimes I add extracts, but usually not? I mostly like it the way it is.
If I did want it to be raspberry flavored I would use freeze dried raspberry powder; it is absolutely fantastic.
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Hmm, I’d been approximating particles from distilled water as ~0, but it sounds like it’s not that. I didn’t check pm2.5, sorry!
I’m really pretty sure this is wrong. See https://www.reddit.com/r/Canadiancitizenship/comments/1s6y1rn/updated_common_citizenship_by_descent_questions/
More, and More Extensive, Supply Chain Attacks
Came across this post on the art side of the demoscene: The Curious Case of Retro Demo Scene Graphics :
Farting around with Amigas in 2026 means actively choosing to make things harder for the sake of making things harder. Making that choice and still outsourcing the bulk of the craft and creative process is like claiming to be a passionate hobby cook while serving professionally catered dinners and pretending they’re your own concoctions.
There’s not much to be done about it, because the scene has no governing body or court of appeals—and I dearly hope it stays that way. I just can’t wrap my head around the point of using AI in this setting: It feels antithetical to a culture that so adamantly celebrates creativity, technical limitations, extremely specialized skills, and anti-commercial sharing of art and software.
This post was prompted in part by conversations with a financially responsible person whose only debt was a 30y fixed mortgage below 4%. They are very religious, and their community is really bought into Ramsey, so they’re working hard to pay their mortgage down as quickly as possible.
They’re pretty informed: they agreed with me that the math of paying it off quickly didn’t really make financial sense for them in particular, but they insisted that it was really socially valuable for their whole community to be following the Ramsey approach. I don’t fully disagree with them!
feasible to measure in an objective way
If you were trying to turn this into law, I think the normal way would be to encode the principle into statute, and then delegate the rulemaking. For the law, you’d define it like:
The term “Net Extractable Quantity” means the weight or volume of a covered product that a consumer can reasonably be expected to extract from its original packaging during ordinary and customary use, without resorting to destructive, dilutive, or extraordinary measures.
Then you’d direct the FTC to make regulations defining standardized testing procedures. Things like, it should sit for 24hr, in the retail orientation, at room temperature / fridge temperature as the packaging specifies for storage after opening; pumps are to be operated with force X until the marginal depression puts out less than Y% of a serving; etc. We do this kind of rulemaking for many products, so I think it could be done here without too much cost.
Thank you for sharing your notes! Massive public service.
That’s pretty different: it’s a conventional egg substitute, and not a precision fermented product.