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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • Shown Furcotte taking it up the ice.

    He passes to McSriff.

    Oh, a big hit by Bobson Dugnutt! He collects the puck and sends it on to Dandleton.

    Dandleton now with the puck. Across to Sweeney - But it’s picked off by Smorin!

    He finds Noginly on the breakaway! Noginly - He Scores!

    Noginly hits the brakes at the last second to slip it past the bumper of goaltender Mike Truk!
    And the Jonsonbill Nailers take a 2-1 lead, with 3 minutes remaining in the second period.



  • What’s not clear to me is whether these edits will be passed on to future generations of trees. I think that’s usually not the case with CRISPR, but this article is talking about “breeding”, so maybe it is the case here. The phrase “building a better forest” is particularly disturbing as well.

    My concern here is basically that we don’t want to be replacing wild forests with genetically engineered monoculture. Replacing millions of years of evolution and biodiversity with 1 or 2 “optimal” genetic lines leaves the population vulnerable to things like disease and environmental changes. A diverse population is much more resilient against these dangers, since the differences in individuals may allow some to survive where others couldn’t.

    So as long as the usage is limited to specific tree farms, it’s probably no worse than other modern agricultural practices. I just hope they don’t want to replace wild forests with CRISPR trees.


  • To add a bit more about Shadow Tactics, it is a top-down 3D game where you control a crew of characters with different abilities (ninja, samurai, sharpshooter, etc.)

    It is real time but you can plan actions to happen simultaneously, so it feels really cool to solve the stealth puzzles by combining the characters’ different abilities.

    Also good atmosphere, voices, story, etc. Just a very good game.