Thank you for the explanation. It seems dystopian and horrifying to me that you could be subject to any amount of criminal penalty for an insult (not defamation, that is a separate thing). I'm an American, and we don't punish people for insults--you couldn't survive in this country if your skin was that thin.

Germany punishes you for having an opinion? That's honestly horrifying.

I agree with you that we are undergoing a de globalization, and that it is having, and will have, many negative effects around the world. From the available data I have been able to examine, I believe that the United States (& Canada and Mexico) is best positioned in the world (integrated domestic economy, plentiful fertile land, and huge quantities raw materials) to ride out the coming storm. Note: If anybody would like someone to blame, feel free to point your fingers directly at China and Russia. If they just could have stopped themselves from being belligerents (and thieves, particularly in the case of China), then we wouldn't have to be doing all this decoupling. Their shortsightedness is going to damn a lot of people around the world (look at the growing food crisis because of the war in Ukraine).

Also nobody should die so that some hypothetical future person can breed. I want my personal DNA to survive, not some hypo rando who is owed absolutely nothing by me.

I like him, but I also dislike that he platforms douchebags like Jordan Cries A lot McIncel Peterson and Ben Nazi Lite Shapiro.

There has been rejuvenation of mice. Paper coming out soon. Here's video about it (NBC News) https://youtu.be/DPARs7mL_7Q

We (humans) will be (functionally) immortal. Why not us? Someone has to be the first generation. I think we will be.

This is interesting:

>They’re disproportionately native born. Foreign-born men of every ethnicity and almost every educational attainment are more likely than their counterparts to be in the labor force or at work.

And this:

> you were intimating, there are millions and millions of jobs available for people whose skills are basically to show up on time regularly and sober. Yet, despite all of the bargaining power that job applicants have right now during this Great Resignation that we’re in, these men, and also now women, who are on the sidelines of the economy aren’t being drawn back in.

>What I would say, what I think about this, is that economic systems are pretty good, especially market systems, are pretty good at solving economic or market problems, but I think what we may face in the manpower situation of the moment is something that isn’t entirely an economic problem, isn’t a question of wages not rising rapidly enough or opportunities seeming sufficiently attractive. One of the things which we’ve, unfortunately, noticed over recent decades is that once men fall out of the workforce for some period of time, even if they are in their 20s or 30s, it’s hard to get them back in. That’s not true for people who are unemployed.

>But the huge majority of them, the ones who are neither employed nor in education and training, the NEETs as the Brits call them, the NEETs, they paint a pretty dispiriting picture of their own lives. They report that they basically don’t do civil society. They don’t do much worship or charity or volunteering. They’ve got lots of time on their hands, obviously, but they do surprisingly little help around the home, cleaning, housekeeping chores, or helping with people in the home. What they say that they do is watch. They say they watch screens. Surveys don’t tell us what the screens are. Surveys don’t tell us what they’re watching, what the content is, but 2,000 hours a year, sometimes more, as if this were their full-time job. The same self-reports say they’re getting out of the house less and less.

2000 hours a year? Holy fuck. How does this....

>Who’s paying for this? Well, again, if we look at government numbers, it looks like it’s friends and family, meaning girlfriends, other family members, and Uncle Sam. Disability insurance programs pay some benefits for more than half of these unworking men, it seems. Disability benefits do not provide a princely income, let’s be clear about that, but they do allow for an alternative to life in the working world, which is exactly the opposite of the original, and I think quite noble, intention of disability programs, which is to provide for people who couldn’t take care of themselves, couldn’t work.

It's being paid for with SSDI funds. Hmmm

>the labor force participation for women and the labor force participation for men have been going down in lockstep together. Something has happened for both men and women in the workforce and in the economy and society.

I think that the universe loves each and every last one of us, and I am glad that you feel a connection to God . That's great. I do too. However, we're going on faith-- because there's no evidence for what you believe, or for what I believe. The difference is that I recognize there's no evidence, and so I don't try to shove my beliefs onto anyone else, whereas you are trying to shove your beliefs onto other people, refusing to acknowledge that you have no evidentiary basis for doing so. That's what's objectionable. You cannot force people to believe friend. You can speak your truth, and you can act in such a way in the world that causes other people to want to follow your example. That's it. Anything more is oppressing other people. Barack Obama said it well, "be the change that you want to see in the world." If you understand and know the love of God, then put that love out there into the world. Let that light shine. Be a living example of God's love. Don't berate people for not believing as you do. That is the opposite of what Jesus would want you to do.

ETA: Going round demanding that people read the Bible (or any holy book) is not going to bring anyone closer to God. By doing this you are alienating people, making it less likely that they might come to find comfort through the love of our Creator.

Did you just come here to rant at people? Newsflash, you are in the completely wrong sub for that. But since you dropped by--does not the Bible say that we are made in the image of God? Who are you to say we are doing anything more than being as God made us; as God empowered us to be?

Thanks.

Idk about that. In an endless universe there's endless things to do, though I suppose one could get bored. I wonder if God gets bored..

Probably that, but further, he seems like he's just coming unglued/spiraling out of control. Seems to be a lot of that going around..

Now that there's a space force, expect more money to be funneled into this area.

I hope they can use this for other tendons and on old injuries?

This is great --hopefully their next research stages pan out.

Yes it is :)

Because we didn't understand how the translation was happening, and now we finally do.

Yes, and this is what's going to allow that. Until now we haven't understood the molecular mechanism whereby the ear turns sound vibrations into electrical impulses (that are then transmitted to the auditory nerve into the brain), and now we finally do. Huge advance.

>For the first time and in near-atomic detail, scientists at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) have revealed the structure of the key part of the inner ear responsible for hearing.

>“This is the last sensory system in which that fundamental molecular machinery has remained unknown,” said senior author Eric Gouaux, Ph.D. He is a senior scientist with the OHSU Vollum Institute and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. “The molecular machinery that carries out this absolutely amazing process has been unresolved for decades.”

>Until now.

It won't happen overnight, but it will happen. Tell people about it. I do. Not everybody is able or willing to listen, but some people's eyes just light up when you tell them what's coming. Spread the word friend.

Theoretically could you make a vaccine that could do that? Yes I think. Will these vaccines be able to do that? I don't know. Seems like maybe?

If you're well aware, and you're aware that we're aware, why are you writing comments here? Why waste everyone's time/don't you have anything better to do than troll this sub?

Friend, you apparently you do not realize that you are in a subreddit full of people who are specifically interested in the development of brain computer interface devices and peripherals. We are well aware of what's coming. BTW, there are much more reputable/accurate sources that you should check out if you're interested in knowing how the technology (might, it's not available yet) work. Also, You personally (and anyone else) can elect to forgo any available BCIs and keep carrying around an external phone/device (depending on how things shake out that may in fact be the best course of action, we'll see). I'll recommend starting by picking up a copy of Ray Kurtzwiel's book The Singularity is Near, to get you started with a good overview of all this stuff.