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Too bad "Vermintide" is already copyrighted.

It's dangerous to go in alone. Here, wear this:

China's ambassador to Russia claims that a vaccine is in trial stages and the outbreak will be eliminated within a month https://ria.ru/20200224/1565135523.html

It's an advice for the ages!

No winged landing, eh? *angry mob of Soviets with pitchforks appears*

That's exactly a hundred times the legally mandated minimum for an LLC, though )

Starting Thursday, Rospotrebnadzor has began to snatch anyone Asian-looking off the streets of Moscow for an (indeterminately thorough) medical check. https://www.newsru.com/russia/20feb2020/moscow_china.html That's barely a week after they got in hot water for doing health checks on minors without parental consent. Similarly, public transport drivers have been ordered to request a police squad to detain any suspected Chinese nationals at the nearest stop. https://www.newsru.com/russia/19feb2020/mosgortrans.html Mosgortrans tried flat-out denial about the order, before caving in several hours later. A reminder that as of today, there are 0 cases in Russia, and two Russian nationals have been infected abroad.

Talk about extreme NIMBY. 65 Ukrainians evacuated from Wuhan greeted with a barrage of rocks as they are being transported into quarantine. https://www.unian.net/society/10883921-evakuirovannyh-iz-kitaya-ukraincev-privezli-v-novye-sanzhary-avtobusy-zabrosali-kamnyami-video.html

Not in IAEA's experience. Apparently the trefoil doesn't even slightly deter third-world scrap metal dealers from dismantling radiography gear with Co-60 and Sr-137. And cracking the isotope capsule. And then eating the glowing stuff... (OK, strike that last one for now, it might be me misremembering the girl in the Goiana incident who smeared herself with the cesium powder and ate a cesium-dusted sandwich... 6 Gy, fatal)

Actually a few months after she was let loose in 2013, her water-activated emergency transmitter started chirping rather close to the Irish coast, prompting the initial wave of publications.

Seven years after MV Lyubov Orlova was lost in the middle of the Atlantic and probably sunk, and six years after everyone ridiculed The Sun for the same exact headline, this happens: How do they get away with it, you ask? Well, it's OK if they use weasel words and reference other people!

Reminds me of Bank of Russia's regulation on handling of radioactively contaminated banknotes - usually because the police is very generous on radioactive iodine when they want to mark the cash. Instruction 131-I.

From above, too. Which is why I didn't see it through the visor of my cap.

...and not without outside help. Facebook experimented with rigging their users' feeds with uplifting or depressive content years ago 'for science', and other platforms are equally prone to manipulation.

@VoidSquid, that is a boon as well as a curse. While the media has always thrived on inciting partisanship and outrage, the new hyper-connected world amplifies it to a degree hitherto unseen.

I headbutted a traffic light yesterday.

Did someone say "Ro-Ro"?

It is... and it's not. Look at how France has overtaken Britain and even Germany. They may be climbing out of the supposed final stage of demographic transition. A related argument is that 'frontier' populations always had higher birthrates due to the sheer surplus of space. Basically... yes and no. Ultimately the biggest bottleneck is women - and standard astronaut selection criteria of today are not in favour of wannabe housewives. Outside of patriarchal societies, intelligence ends up a dysgenic trait.

That is not exactly the case. There was a period when having many kids was required regardless of social stratum, and that period is over; now, children are a costly investment. So, how many children do people have? Only as many as they want, minus about half a kid. That's because non-mechanized farming is on its way out either way. But getting back to my original point from a year ago, there is a subpopulation that is still rather fecund - and dysfunctional, ensuring its permanent impoverishment: Tangentially related: cognitive impairments are the most heritable of all medical conditions. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/01/researchers-able-to-determine-the-effects-of-genes-and-environment-in-560-common-conditions/?fbclid=IwAR3ZFIccwj6DBoznYPz7GirtaTJv_g_e1VDNjCDd8c6y1euacJDwc0lAHfs n=45,000,000, this is one of the largest studies ever conducted Let me throw in a few more links: https://blog.insito.me/the-genetics-of-education-63c6f1a3f0a3 https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24032041-900-exclusive-a-new-test-can-predict-ivf-embryos-risk-of-having-a-low-iq/ There are well over a thousand known genes associated with IQ. This is not an obstacle - Genome-Wide Association Studies allow us to very reliably tackle polygenic traits. There's also the Wilson effect to consider. Environmental factors decline with age.

Closer with every Genome-Wide Association Study, yeah. I'm shocked to see my one-year-old comment resurface.

You forgot "grinding it down and throwing it into the fuel tank". This post was brought to you by the Tsander Gang

...how did he get hired for the role of the Doctor, again? I'd say it's downright unremarkable; NASA and ULA recognize the logistical utility of the belly-landers. This is back from the 1990s LUNOX proposal... back when instead of the SLS, NASA thought it could have Energiya...

Bonus: @MatterBeam is also in the comments.

No-one is using SLS for LEO missions. If Commercial Crew fails, with Ares I gone there is only one option: Anyway, back to @The Blazer. SLS is worth it if, and only if, Starship fails, full stop. BO's bid is not entirely credible at this point - plus they are far more likely to shoot themselves in the foot to avoid compromising the ULA. Bezos isn't going to risk his relationship with the Alphabet Gang.

To the point where the Hispanic flu was far, far deadlier to young men than anyone else, yes.