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Heard a claim yesterday that energy price increases, which fall hardest on lower income consumers, are primarily due to carbon taxes.
No.
By far the largest cause of increases in costs for all consumers is the increase in the cost of fossil fuels.
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Dumping the warp core never ends well.
Here is a nice take from the producers' side on the economic failure of DNA synthesis screening.
TL;DR screening just costs too damn much.
This is different from my analysis that screening is a perverse incentive for cheating and thus creates insecurity.
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So much speculation about why this might be.
But the explanation is obvious: humans are predominantly spin up.
Humans prefer to walk anticlockwise, scientists find – but reason is unclear
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
WE DON’T NEED A FUCKING TREATMENT WE HAVE A VACCINE THAT IS 97% EFFECTIVE AND COULD ERADICATE THE DISEASE IF WE DIDN’T HAVE ANTIVAX GRIFTERS LEADING US 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/w...
Blocking new solar and wind development could cost the U.S. an additional $121.2 billion in electricity and natural gas from 2027 through 2033.
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5 days left now to apply for the postdoc opportunity in my lab at Imperial in London 🇬🇧 - there’s a chance that we can hire 2 people into the team on this synthetic biology and materials theme. Application link is here - www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
