love to see so many follow packs that aren't about bitcoin

A good piece, thanks for sharing your thoughts. The term "Allied States" is interesting. The "United" in "United States of America" probably contributed to the centralizing and consolidationist trajectory the U.S.A. ended up on. The American states should have always just been an alliance.

I'm opposed to gun control, and I feel like the USA's efforts to prevent nuclear proliferation, aka "arms control", is like gun control on a global scale. At the same time, I don't want to see nuclear proliferation. Every regime (or God forbid, individuals) owning nuclear weapons is probably not the right solution. It would increase the danger in the world by increasing the probability that nukes get used. In the U.S., with guns being as freely available as they are, they do frequently get used improperly, and people die. More nukes spread around the world means this could happen on a larger scale. Is the right solution for the U.S. and Israel to go around the world and bomb other countries to prevent this? That doesn't seem totally right to me, either.

I favor your point #5 regarding the dissolution of the United States government and the emergence of the Allied States of America (if there must still be "states"; Lord hasten the day when people can live freely without coercion!) If such a dissolution were to happen, you spoke about the States purchasing ships, tanks and buildings, etc. from the former Federal Government, but what about the nuclear arsenal? What should happen to them: sell off the nukes, distribute them to the various States, or destroy them?

It took me a second realize you asked specifically about buckeyes and my input doesn't really address that - so my apologies.

But here it is anyway.

I think most chickens are pretty good foragers. Sure, there are a few breeds that are less than ideal, but any active breed would probably be a safe bet.

I would just try to pick a breed you think you'll like and run for it. You're going to find traits you dislike in every bird (they are kind of stupid creatures, after all), just dive in and enjoy the process!

I wish you much success in your future flocking.

I swear these are taking pictures of my while inside the bathroom 😂

Thoughts 💭

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Layout and designs of the zones of the homestead? Or more the broader considerations for the layout and designs?

R can be, still a great place for open source implementations of ML techniques. And strong visualizations of data with ggplot2. Learn all the packages of the ‘tidyverse’. All good if you want a powerful toolkit for data analysis. I have been on data science teams that use R exclusively. I’ve never used power BI.

taking an extracurricular course on PowerBI and R

please tell me it's going to be worthwhile

"CD4+ T cells have primarily been perceived as helper cells for the activation of CD8+ effector T cells36, which kill tumour cells by direct cytolysis. In our work, we showed that CD4+ effector T cells are also able to independently eradicate established tumours as efficiently as CD8+ cytolytic T cells. Using intravital microscopy, we found that CD4+ and CD8+ effector T cells differ fundamentally in their mode and their site of action in tumour tissues. Only very few CD4+ effector T cells, representing 1% of tumour-infiltrating immune cells, locate at the tumour invasive margins where they interact with CD11c+MHC-II+ antigen-presenting immune cells and indirectly eliminate tumours. By contrast, much larger numbers of CD8+ cytolytic T cells infiltrate the tumour centre where they directly target and kill MHC-I-expressing tumour cells.

Further innate immune stimulation boosted the TH1-directed differentiation of CD4+ T cells, increased the recruitment of immature monocytes into the tumour microenvironment and supported their IFN-dependent activation and differentiation towards antigen-presenting and iNOS-expressing tumouricidal effector phenotypes. Together, CD4+ T cells and IFN-activated mononuclear phagocytes initiate an indirect inflammatory tumour cell death process that acts from the ‘outside-in’ and can be abrogated by neutralizing IFNγ. This unique mode of action operates in parallel to and independent of the direct cytolytic activities of NK cells37 and enables the eradication of MHC-deficient and IFN-unresponsive tumours that evade direct recognition and destruction by CD8+ cytolytic T cells"

This posted article says those people who expierenced PVS (post vaccine syndrome) had higher levels of TNF-alpha+ CD8 T cells, which are the ones that fight cancer compared to the control. The controls had higher

“From participants’ blood samples, the researchers looked for immune features that were different between the two groups. They found several differences in immune cell populations; those with PVS had lower levels of effector CD4+ T cells and higher levels of TNF-alpha+ CD8 T cells — both are types of white blood cells — among other differences.”

Most folks don't love security theater & everyone has had a bad time at a screening checkpoint.

So, let's think for a second about hypothetical private-#TSA companies.

I'd expect them to gravitate towards AI-assigned individual risk ratings to minimize the cost of hiring & training people to interact with travelers.

To create ratings, I'd expect them to demand & consolidate invasive pools of our biometrics, web browsing, commenting, purchasing, movements & private lives.

Just don't call it a "social credit score"

You can bet they'll pivot to trying to monetize their data.

2026: We're a terminal security company

2029: We're a person rating company

Would these ratings make their way into other parts of our lives & things we want to visit?

And who exactly would stand up for us when the ratings are wrong? Or our data is shipped to foreign buyers.

Who holds #PrivateTSA companies accountable? The US doesn't have strong #privacy protections...

I'm also not optimistic about private sector security companies' ability to stop breaches. History backs me up here.

But I do expect that private-TSA companies could use lobbying to limit oversight & accountability.

That's been the history of other privacy-invasive tech companies.

So, as an airline security privatization conversation kicks off, remember that it can't just be "current thing is bad" but needs to consider what kind of future we're inviting in.

the continual ebbs and flows of voting every for years for one of two teams, and feeling a sense of accomplishment when you see the other team looking bad and losing power until the pendulum swings and the cycle starts all over again in the opposite direction, keeps you locked into a system that will never change at its root. it provides just enough surface change to keep the preoccupied engaged, and paying into the system.

Steamed actually

Well, I can't count to 15 million & there is a pretty impressive amount of depth to the small amount that is there. There is also like zero way to control how much the slides compress the sample & so estimating the amount I can even view would just be a joke.

Given the treatment of covid & the PCR tests, most establishment science is also a joke, so I am fairly satisfied with my rough examination in this particular instance.