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Not careful enough

Why deal with problem systems when we can punish someone we caught?

That is your thought process?


Is it possible that grocery stores are reducing positions to save money? Is it not possible that it is a feedback loop? Why are we blaming the grocery store for replacing labor with machines? Why don't we decry the grocery that hires only 2 people instead of 3?

And since when is stealing a prank?


It's entirely possible that both can be wrong. Shoplifting is bad, but "big corporations pocketing the saved money after understaffing and passing their labor off to the customer" is also bad. We should decry the grocery that hires 2 people instead of 3 just to profit more.

It sounds like you've never done a prank or been hungry, so I can't imagine what standing you feel you have to weigh in on this.

Funny how the “pranks” are always “ring steak as bananas” and never “ring bananas as steaks”?

This is a fun-to-think-about variant HN comment thread, thanks Dan.

Sibling comments seem motivated to misreading parent here.

DNA is a molecule, not a microorganism or virus.


No need to wonder if you study the lymphatic system.

> No need to wonder if you study the lymphatic system.

Does it mean yes or no? I think "no", but IANAMD; IANAB, ... I think it only identify proteins, glycoproteins, and other stuff that is in the surface of the cells/virus but not the DNA/RNA.


Maybe so, but also maybe not quite my point, unless you know something I don't about it.

Sure, some samples will be off to antigen presentation, but does that inform more than this is an encountered foreign substance and this is how to bind to it for neutralization ? Seems like in principle you could take the overview picture and have something like olfaction, but for things that hadn't been sufficiently cracked open when they passed the olfactory epithelium. Maybe it's starting to be sorted out, but I'm not up to date on what the neural feedback from the immune system carries.


If the quantities are too low for the nose to pick them up I think nature has converged on "too noisy to bother with".

Are the quantities too small though? Really foul-smelling small molecules can be sensed at least down to ppb concentrations. And the recent technical use of "eDNA" demonstrates there's signal to be had.

There already is a parallel system of justice.

Its name is The Department of Justice.


Which really should be named The Department Of The Legal System, as justice is a rare byproduct of their workings.

Please kill me first

Lol everywhere there are manicured lawns?

Some did not get the joke.

I’m old enough to tell you I’m old enough.

Wait…what happened?

Now I’m not old enough to tell you I’m old enough.


“Are you familiar with the Stone Tape Theory?”

(Post Malone’s response in a Joe Rogan interview when asked about McKenna’s Stoned Ape Theory)


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