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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • That’s the next step. Once we agree that someone is right and someone is wrong, then we can start talking about the definition of “moral good”. And that is a very difficult and complicated discussion. But just because it’s hard to define doesn’t necessarily mean it’s not real.





  • Shown Furcotte taking it up the ice.

    He passes to McSriff.

    Oh, a big hit by Bobson Dugnutt! He collects the puck and sends it on to Dandleton.

    Dandleton now with the puck. Across to Sweeney - But it’s picked off by Smorin!

    He finds Noginly on the breakaway! Noginly - He Scores!

    Noginly hits the brakes at the last second to slip it past the bumper of goaltender Mike Truk!
    And the Jonsonbill Nailers take a 2-1 lead, with 3 minutes remaining in the second period.




  • What’s not clear to me is whether these edits will be passed on to future generations of trees. I think that’s usually not the case with CRISPR, but this article is talking about “breeding”, so maybe it is the case here. The phrase “building a better forest” is particularly disturbing as well.

    My concern here is basically that we don’t want to be replacing wild forests with genetically engineered monoculture. Replacing millions of years of evolution and biodiversity with 1 or 2 “optimal” genetic lines leaves the population vulnerable to things like disease and environmental changes. A diverse population is much more resilient against these dangers, since the differences in individuals may allow some to survive where others couldn’t.

    So as long as the usage is limited to specific tree farms, it’s probably no worse than other modern agricultural practices. I just hope they don’t want to replace wild forests with CRISPR trees.



  • There’s a “Communities” button at the top of the page (or in the top menu on mobile) that shows all communities on your current instance.

    I’m not sure for your search question. It looks like they tried to implement that function in the general search tool (magnifier icon at the top/menu), but filtering by a specific community doesn’t seem to work for me. There are still some bugs to work out on the site in general.