Yeah I think thatโs a good answer. A good amount of work like that could only be accomplished by a species with many things to keep an eye out for that it has created itself in the lionโs part
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Unfortunately, AI research seems to be prioritized over other fields right now.
https://www.science.org/content/article/nsf-officials-break-silence-how-ai-and-quantum-now-drive-agency-grantmaking
And it is even affecting graduate students trying to get fellowships.
https://www.science.org/content/article/nsf-s-flagship-fellowship-program-rejecting-applicants-without-peer-review
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Fortunately the bubble burst may just put an end to all this vileness
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I think itโs time for our yearly political thread proposal polls
Should the hypothetical politics thread be a normal (presumably Not Thrive) thread or a lounge (active and not disapproved users only) thread?
- Normal / Not Thrive
- Lounge
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voters
Should the hypothetical politics thread have a high post cooldown for the users (so that rapid/emotional discussion risk is reduced) or should it have normal (no) cooldown?
- Cooldown
- No Cooldown
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voters
Should semi/pseudo political discussions held elsewhere in the forum be forced to be taken to the hypothetical politics thread instead or should they still be allow to happen in โnormalโ threads?
- Bring the pseudo political discussions to the politics thread
- Let them roam free
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voters
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Interesting review article on RNA methylation regulation in Plants.
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Viruses emerging from the permafrost and ices arenโt just the small onesโฆ
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Let us hope none of these Permafrost viruses end up infecting humans and other animalsโฆ
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If they do emerge we can hopefully fight them with our medicine
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TIL that the island in Hellโs Paradise is Epsteinโs island.
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They are making another Ice Age film?!!
I completely forgot how cute Scrat and Scratteโs biological son Baby Scrat is! I want to give him a hug! 
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If it was in the lounge there would be like max 2 people talking there, maybe 3, but then someone would fall out of the lounge and stop being able to respond.
So if we want to โsoftโ ban politics discussion making it a lounge thread would be the way to do that.
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They are milking a dead cow
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This Ice Age films theory by u/scrat-the-prophet is very interesting!
https://www.reddit.com/r/FanTheories/comments/nqniep/ice_age_why_we_never_see_humans_after_the_first/
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I remember there was a theory centered around how the animal band of the ice age movies appears to progress technologically each movie, apparently ending with them unlocking firework tech
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Why not both? Just have one in each so we can have approved only and free range politics
Did they know what was going on there or did they just choose it randomly
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That would probably violate the remaining forum rules real fast
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I meant free range as in anyone(with an account) can post
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The reason to move it to the lounge is that this way we can prevent users who have not yet proven themselves to be capable of self control (or have proven the lack thereof) from entering the discussions and probably killing the thread not long after.
Also I canโt really imagine the moderators be willing to moderate two politicals threads over one
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Assuming a political thread ever gets createdโฆ
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