Yeah I imagine it could depend on lots of things, like the composition of biome that is already there, environment, lifestyle or diet.

Interesting anecdote. Maybe that is the point of all those cleanses or fasting stuff, to sort of “reset” an out of balance gut biome.

Yeah there would be serious dangers to creating a synthetic biome, but theoretically it should be possible to vastly improve through actual engineering instead of natural selection. And it should be easier than doing any genetic engineering on a human genome, because you could create a more simple model for a single celled biome with specific input and output chemicals. I imagine LLMs could help with creating the map of inputs and outputs, then generate candidates to refine. But I understand we still don’t even have a scientific model for a single cell.

Like produce everything a human needs just from sugars, fats and some minerals. That’s not the way to do it but in an extreme case you could. Maybe we could even engineer to digest cellulose.

Of course you’d want a quick and easy killswitch and be able to replace a synthetic gut biome it with a natural gut biome again. And you’d want some kind of “predator species” that kills any foreign bacteria, like in any biome.

Your question is an infohazard

Are there efforts to genetically engineer superior gut biomes? Like a set of microbes that digest better, more efficient, filter out more toxins, produce vitamins, ignore too much carbs or fat, destroy harmful foreign bacteria or microbes etc?

It seems a relatively easy way to genetically improve homo sapiens. Can we do stuff like that already with the advances in AI for e.g. protein folding?

The problem with your take is that you’re still applying liberal values to foreign policy that the USA has ignored for decades - they have been fascists in regards to other shithole countries, even Obama. So what do you think would be wrong with this? Why would anyone with half a brain object to this?

Imagine it was Hitler in 1940 Germany. How many countries are defacto at war with the US, as the US defines war, e.g. sanctions are an act of war. Is Trump and his regime not a fascist regime that should be removed from power? Same with Netanjaho of course.

A malicious tumor should be excised. I do not have the money to buy the laws for this, but it’s still the morally correct answer, no matter if you’re in favor of a utilitarian, principles or kantian ethics.

False equivalency and a fascist talking point

Nice! I want to build a rack too but want to fit a regular ATX board to fit older / cheaper hardware. So it has to be at least 304mm wide, probably 400mm

Hey, next time you go to a protest just glue your government ID card to your forehead. See how secure that feels lol

The thing is that capitalism is incredibly INEFFICIENT in providing value to society. In a planned economy you could (theoretically) have rational though to maximize benefit for all - in capitalism it’s just grow grow grow. That is why we’re digging so many superfluous ditches. How many roads, how many ditches could be spared if we just build less idiotic sprawling suburbs? If we had a rational, democratic and semi-planned economy?

There is this study that we’d only need 30% of the energy and resources we currently use to provide decent standards of living for every single person on earth.

Of course you’re right, just “doing socialism” won’t get us there easily either.

Fascism is capitalism in decay. It’s what you can sell right now. A modern definition is “moral belief in inequality based on identity (race / gender)”. This is what is selling right now because the dream of prosperity with liberalism is over. Shit’s bad. So that is what the propaganda channels have been churning out, on on fox, on social media, on youtube for younger audiences. Ultimately the reason is greed for money / priviledge by people without scruples.

Check out What Is Fascism? An Excerpt From “Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It” | Truthout

It’s only going to get worse from now on.

Obviously not. Think about supply and demand. Because a toxic product is being hailed as secure there isn’t enough demand for an actually anonymous and private messenger. So calling signal “secure” is just helping state security.

If you actually want to message about revolutionary (illegal, “terrorist”) activity and don’t want to be traced immediately by an agent of state security or an informant, Signal offers nothing (unless you use criminal activity like identity theft). In such a case a warrant will obviously be granted and they can immediately find and arrest you.

Can you see the logic how Signal isn’t secure at all for an actual dissident?

Just let it happen

Thanks. I’d already be happy with updating/mutable v2 torrents for browsing static websites via hashkey.

A regular captain of industry for whom the automatic searchers of his zero-privacy messenger is one step too far lol

And they are pro Gaddafi too, that old socialist terrorist, going on about his “red book” when he clearly was just a fascist! How can they be against killing scum like that?

There can be no security without privacy and a central server that can be extorted. But keep lying if you like.

plans in the EU to allow messengers to have backdoors to enable automatic searches for criminal content

Tankies bad

Try to think a bit before you post