The tech bros are selling, but it's the VCs that are fueling this whole thing. They're grasping for the next big thing. Mostly they don't care if any of it actually works, as long as they can pump share value and then sell before it collapses.

lolwhat

"It looks like you're trying to write vulnerable code!"
"Do you want help?"

Better to put them on show than put them to use, but also yes there's something vulgar in celebrating weapons.

Fine weapons of war augur evil.
Even things seem to hate them.
Therefore, a man of Tao does not set his heart upon them.

Tao The Ching #31

What another has taught let me repeat:
"A man of violence will come to a violent end."
Whoever said this can be my teacher and my father.

Tao The Ching #42

The article is a bit sensationalized (as with a lot of science journalism). Nothing has really been "discovered" - an analysis of current data on Martian environmental conditions suggests that there might be a narrow window in which photosynthesizing organisms could live. The title of the paper is literally Potential for photosynthesis on Mars within snow and ice.

The potential is highly conditional:

Our analysis shows that despite higher surface ultraviolet radiation levels on Mars than on Earth, it is possible for terrestrial photosynthetic organisms to find locations within exposed ice on Mars with favourable solar radiative conditions. However, terrestrial microbes also require temperatures greater than 255 K for cell division to occur, and photosynthesis requires the presence of liquid water. While martian polar ice deposits are too cold for melting to occur at these depths, and ice present within soil pores is unlikely to melt, numerical models developed specifically for martian snow suggest that small amounts of melt and runoff (up to 0.33 mm per day for ~50 days each martian year) can be produced within exposed mid-latitude martian snowpacks containing ~0.1% dust, centimetres below the surface.

Seriously this is so narrow:

The predicted amounts of melt and runoff are very sensitive to the ice grain size and dust content. The grain size of exposed ice in the martian mid-latitudes is currently unknown, [...]

Still, though:

The results presented here indicate that radiatively habitable zones exist within exposed mid-latitude ice on Mars at depths ranging from a few centimetres for ice with 0.01–0.1% dust, and up to a few metres within cleaner ice.

The paper mentions terrestrial cyanobacteria which survive in similar conditions, so it's possible that if life ever developed on Mars it could exist there.

I think the most interesting conclusion here is that there might be suitable conditions for living organisms on Mars right now, where most of the research has been looking for signs that life existed there millions of years ago. We really do need to investigate these possibilities further before any humans (giant sacks of bacteria) go and contaminate the environment.

Cody just released a video about exactly this: Maybe humans should not go to Mars yet

Has he had the proper safe food handling training to be doing this?

Make him sit through 8 hours of CBT and pass a certification test!

For all your horizontal defilade fire needs.

Aha, Snopes rates it as "True", therefore nobody wants to work anymore!

"Internet shopping is just a fad!"

Oh please, you can't just decide that a term falls under a theory you disagree with and then disregard it out of hand.

The term "authoritarian" might be used in horseshoe theory but it is not defined by horseshoe theory. The term has its own meaning independent of horseshoe theory.

You're just playing Calvinball to redefine and then exclude words you don't like.

Selling specific, verifiable biometric identification information to governments and other organizations interested in identifying and tracking individuals, more reliable than fingerprinting. "Buy our eye scanner and be able to instantly identify any person you have in custody!"

It's about control, it's about power, it's about police state.

poor Tim

"US bad, mmm'kay"

See the funny thing is, I can point out that you're kissing autocrat ass without having to lick any imperial Western boots or whatever.

All I have go do is recognize that you're kissing autocrat ass. I don't have to take any position beyond pointing out that you're kissing autocrat ass.

You should do less kissing autocrat ass.

Which empire am I defending?

Ah yes, gotta lick those authoritarian dictator boots. So cool, so cool.

Um, huh?... vaccines are how you stop viruses... It's as if you said "scientists rushing to stop COVID because Americans refuse to try to stop COVID", which is just silly.

SW: Knights of the Old Republic and SW: Knights of the Old Republic II are available for Android and iOS. These are complete ports of the original games, not knock-offs, and Aspyr did a pretty good job retooling the UI for mobile screens. I think they're totally worth the price.

Are bees tortured to get honey?