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I've seen your photo. Now I'm picturing you with a meat cleaver and covered in blood. Seriously, we're talking about a couple of decades. Do you see yourself butchering or being replaced by a machine that can do most of that butchering for you?

You're probably more apt to catch a food borne illness or parasite from the meat you buy at the store than you would something produced in a lab that's just replicating the animal cells.

Well, you should follow that up with "because ...." Anyway, it's in the same vein as that food replicator technology on Star Trek. Are you saying you don't want food replicators?

Link: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/vaccines-cancer-treatment-could-be-next-big-advancement/

That's already something that's being worked on: It comes from this interesting article about being able to customize the meat that's grown: https://modernfarmer.com/2022/02/custom-cell-grown-meat/

I think we're probably still at least decade away from it being upscaled to a point where we can find it in the hot dog aisle at Walmart, but I'm pretty sure we'll get there within 20. The biggest obstacle aside from upscaling production is the various meat lobbies who are already coming out in full force against it. But, really, I think it would be a benefit for many farmers since they'd probably switch from breeding a lot of cows to focusing on breeding quality meat with fewer cows. Plus, the environmental impact, particularly on land usage and water pollution, would win out the debate in the end. I'd love to see most of that land used for animal agriculture be rewilded and human free, allowing wildlife to expand again. I don't have any love for western ranchers or southern chicken growers, the latter managing to stink up whole neighborhoods because they're given free reign to throw up their shit factories.

It'd be hard to do it through contamination because it would require a fetus. I think on the most part, the stigma of wanting to eat people will keep there from being a serious push for human meat. I'm sure there'd be a regulation put in place way before hand to prevent it, with the full support of the cultured meat companies because they don't want that stink attached to them.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lab-grown-meat-approved-for-sale-what-you-need-to-know/

I don't remember. Probably some shallow philosophical post that I was keen on in those rather lonely days.

China is more about the show than anything else. Most of its effort as a government is spent thought policing its own people. It's such an extensive effort that I'm sure they're worried that anything could shatter it, particularly a military effort that doesn't go well.

Liberal democracies don't need anti-Russian propaganda. Putin's own actions and words have been enough. Russia only managed to gain the support of six countries, almost all authoritarian regimes ... plus Donald Trump, when it came to a vote on the Ukraine situation at the UN. More than 140 voted against Russia. Russia dug it's own PR grave. I'm actually very curious as to what all this destruction Biden caused abroad. Can you give some examples of what country Biden has directed an invasion of during his presidency?

I'm sure you'd turn heel after the fact and start going "why didn't we defend South Korea" after they started firing missiles into Japan and probably started the largest known refugee crisis known to mankind to this point. The U.S. military isn't in these places to sit around with their dicks in hand, they're there to keep the region stable, which in turn benefits peace via economic growth and trade.

I remember the Wrestlemania gimmick battle royal he won in 2000 or 2001 because he was in no shape to be thrown over the rope. I think they were afraid they'd either injure him badly or kill him.

I literally never said such a thing. I don't even think I've replied to you before. Sorry my comment triggered you. I'd recommend playing City Skylines or watching Camping with Steve if you're mired in negativity.

At this point Lucasfilm is pretty much a zombie that they're trying to find some sort of life in. They've somehow managed to take something like Star Wars and make it feel like less of an event than the next season of the Kardashians. Someone there thought that there was a big audience for Willow, a movie with an extended universe that encompassed only three novels if I remember correctly. The new Indiana Jones film's trailers feel like they have no idea who they're trying to appeal to and just hoping for more nostalgia audiences. I just don't think teenagers and 20-somethings are going to turn out for a movie headlined by an 80-something year old and a late-30s British woman. The people of the age demographic who would be interested don't really go to theaters and are content to wait months for movies to show up on a streaming service or Red Box. After Indiana Jones, I have no idea what's left of Lucasfilm. New management maybe?

At this point they've got plenty of their own properties that have long been canceled to dump in that slot. I'm sure someone would watch Stroker and Hoop at 5 a.m.

What catastrophic failure? Afghanistan and inflation were legacies of Trump's policies Biden was stuck with, so don't bother with those. I can't really think of anything that Biden did to make my life harder. On the other hand, the GOP members of the Senate, House and Supreme Court have been pretty good at stifling policies that would benefit a lot of Americans and doing their best to prevent Biden from having a functional government. On the other hand, what's the GOP offering? Less social spending, unhelpful narratives, weaponizing education and gutting American intelligence services is all I see. At least the Democrats are a coalition party where the moderates keep the more ideological people in check. The GOP doesn't have that all.

He'd better avoid windows and crosswalks.

Well, I guess that leaves them the option of being bad at their job and getting fired. This doesn't sound like something that's going to improve performance. Nothing says "enhancing talent" as much as forcing a bunch of anxious, burnt out and fearful people to do high-level work. The power struggle after Putin inevitably exits the scene will be both interesting and terrifying to watch.

I expect them to do what Warner does and just license a lot of their less-watched shows to other streamers. Tbui, Freevee and Roku Channel will probably be the biggest winners in that. Honestly, there's so much stuff on Disney+, I've given up trying to find anything on it. I feel like I'm spending more time looking than I am watching.

Gonna bomb hard. This is going to be like the Willow series in that Disney is just desperately revitalizing franchises there is just no real demand for.

Bluey and the St. Louis Cardinals 2023 season.

I don't go to theaters anymore. They're made for teenagers and nerds who want tentpole movies. I've been looking forward to "Killers of the Flower Moon" but I'm going to wait till it's streaming. If it's on Apple+, I probably won't see it at all. I'm not going to subscribe to a streaming service for one movie. With the way HBO Max and Disney are going, I'm expecting to see most stuff eventually go on free subscription services that use advertising like Tubi, Freevee or Pluto after they do their year on the premium services. Yeah, I'm sure Apple will eventually do a free subscription service as well.

Well, vodka is probably the biggest killer of Russians since the USSR died. It's pretty obvious why Ukrainians would see it as an ally.