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moop_moopon Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei Dies

“Virgin female prisoners should be raped before execution so that they do not go to heaven.” -Ayatollah Khomeini

Couldn't have happened to a better guy. Good luck to the Iranian people.

moop_moopon The Physics of Ideas: Reality as a Coordination Problem

The article is trying hard to sound clever but comes across as pseudo-science techobabble. Another poster called it "AI moralityaslop" and that resonates.

The article pulls a (not very good) slight of hand where it switches between the interpretation of mechanics for physical phenomena such as gravity, to the interpretation of "feels".

Scaffolding requires a firm foundation to rest on. Physical reality may be a form foundation but opinions about morality are not firm.

This is "Moralityaslop" indeed.

moop_moopon Find a pub that needs you

The services have certainly not got better in the last 5 years. This Government is fiscally illiterate and has hit the top of the Laffer curve and is now trying to go down the other side.

moop_moopon The UK is shaping a future of precrime and dissent management (2025)

Grooming gangs are not a conspiracy.

moop_moopon Why do autoimmune disorders afflict women more than men?

From summary in article:

Autoimmune diseases disproportionately affect females.

The XX sex chromosome complement is strongly associated with susceptibility to autoimmunity. Females are XX, males are XY. XXY males (Klinefelter Syndrome) are more likely to have autoimmune disease than XY males.

Xist (pronounced Ex-ist: short video, 0:00 – 4:15) long non-coding RNA (lncRNA; i.e., a long RNA molecule distinct from mRNAs that code for proteins, as in COVID-19 vaccines) is expressed only in females to randomly inactivate one of the two X chromosomes in each cell. This gene dosage compensation is essential, because only one sex chromosome should be active in any cell. X-inactivation is also called Lyonization after the geneticist Mary Lyon;