Doesn’t the Congress and Election College have final say? The rest of it could be a sham, but what they say goes.

More or less. It varies a bit, but it extends a tiny bit along the shoulders and down the spine.

The brown fat is basically a metabolic heater, so insulating it will help warm things up.

Google Play is separate from Android. Google likely updates it through that route, rather than relying on manufacturers.

Who did the retraction is also important. An author voluntarily retracting their own paper is different from the journal retracting the paper.

Socialism as in Norway, not Stalin.

It should be pointed out that Norway is not socialist. It’s a social democracy/capitalist country.

On the bright side, the camera/Switch doesn’t use a proprietary connector, so you can plug a lot of cameras into the thing, and it will generally work.

It’s not like the DS days, where if you wanted to plug a microphone in in addition to your headphones, they had a special connector for the mic part.

Exactly, scientists have been saying this forever but evil oversized bipedal crocs sell.

It honestly feels like a marketing issue more than anything. A non-zero amount of people think modern dinosaurs are “boring” because they don’t look like Jurassic Park.

Compared to big fluffy unicorn pigeons that eat each other.

Like people would happily be swooped by a magpie if given the chance.

A knee-high raptor who will happily leap up and bite chunks off of larger prey whilst they’re still alive and kicking seems like it would retain much of the terror.

Didn’t Google replace the normal Google Assistant with Gemini on newer phones?

YouTube also defaults to it, so if you open it, and the video you want is already there, no need to jump to another page to load the exact same video.

Could it be used on someone who is a 7 year old to rid them of this?

No. Gene editing works in this case since they’re just working with a few cells. But a whole human is way more cells. Not only that, but the cells have already developed into structures that are much harder to access, and difficult to change. Any gene therapy may only affect a few cells.

On top of that, there’s also a bunch of ethical issues around altering a human when they’ve already formed, and we don’t really know if it would be possible to do so, or if it would make things worse.

How exactly does one suck a fuck?

With consent, of course.

Does it matter if it is weird? Everyone is weird in some way.

There’s no weirdness warden who will whack you into gaol for being weird.

Maybe if you gave him a wet food diet, like a cat or something.

Eventually we’ll hit it with phones, and then it’s just a matter of time till a solid “base” with swapable components come out. There’s been a couple already, but they still require a sacrifice of size or speed/power.

I’d honestly argue that we’ve more or less hit it already, since a lot of phones over the past few years haven’t really changed from the template of being a black glass rectangle with some buttons on it.

for being violet

But what if it was chartreuse?

No. Because any advanced civilisation capable of sending a colony ship across light-years to another planet is already so far outside of our current technological ability that it matters precious little.

We would be easy to colonise either way. Doubly so if they have some form of FTL technology to make that trip in reasonable time.

But there’s also an argument that anyone who can do so would have a much easier time not dealing with all of that and just colonising an uninhabited planet, or outright using materials to make a thing to colonise instead.

Depending on how they do it, not having to deal with hydrogen infrastructure might be nice, if they keep along with the plan to use refillable cartridges. Hydrogen is a bit more fiddly.

Although this seems much more reliant on humidity compared to a hydrogen fuel cell, which seems like a huge hole if the thing just won’t work if it’s a dry day/environment.

The censorship only exists on the version they host, which is fair enough. If they’re running it themselves in China, they can’t just break the law.

If you run it yourself, the censorship isn’t there.

It’s also much easier to implement.

Not really. Why censor more than you have to? That takes time and effort, and it’s almost certainly easier to do it using something else. The law isn’t that particular, as long as you follow it.

You also don’t risk causing the model to go wrong, like trying to censor bits of the model has a habit of doing.