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    From the Patreon:

     

    What's going on with us?

    Hi, everyone. Before we get into anything else, there's one thing we should clarify: We did not intend to charge you for the Patreon campaign this month. We've been putting the campaign on hold each month, but we must have missed December somehow, for which we apologize. Since we haven't been putting out content, you shouldn't be getting charged.

    Once we realized our error, we contacted Patreon to see if we could refund all of this month's money. Unfortunately, they let us know that's not possible, so we'll have to refund everyone individually. We'll get that done as soon as we can. You don't need to contact us to request a refund; we're just going to do everyone.

    Beyond that, you're probably wondering what exactly is going on with this whole "podcasting" thing.

    Well, so are we.

    As you may know, our lives have all changed pretty considerably. All three of us have moved out of the Bay Area, and Jake and Chris took new jobs in Seattle, which meant we had to uproot our personal and professional lives. It also meant we left our recording studio behind—and the frictionless access to group recording and regular routine that came with it. Honestly, we still haven't adjusted to the change enough to make room for podcasting, but we want to.  We've been discussing ways to dip our toes back into the (frankly very gross) waters of Important If True, and we have some ideas, but nothing concrete to report yet.

    Sorry that we don't have anything more to tell you at this point—we didn't mean to go this long without any word. It snowballed before we even realized it'd happened. Thanks to everyone who's stuck around, and hopefully we'll have more to say soon!

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    https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/humanoids/the-importance-of-teaching-robots-to-hug

     

    "Based on a survey of the 30 participants, each of whom got to experience 12 hugs from HuggieBot (I’m so jealous), the researchers found that people generally preferred the soft and warm hugs, which were perceived to be both more comforting as well as safer. People also said that they liked “really tight hugs” the best, and that people particularly liked to be “slightly squeezed” by the robot. Hug duration was very important too: People really don’t like hugs that go on too long, and expect a hug to end when they start to let go."

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    Ripped cows, you say?

     

    df6a88f706ce4ab8b9ae88aef2d85194--belgia

     

    The Belgian Blue has a natural mutation in the myostatin gene which codes for the protein, myostatin ("myo" meaning muscle and "statin" meaning stop).[5] Myostatin is a protein that inhibits muscle development. This mutation also interferes with fat deposition, resulting in very lean meat.[5] The truncated myostatin gene is unable to function in its normal capacity, resulting in accelerated lean muscle growth. Muscle growth is due primarily to physiological changes in the animal's muscle cells (fibers) from hypertrophy to a hyperplasia mode of growth. This particular type of growth is seen early in the fetus of a pregnant dam, which results in a calf that is born with two times the number of muscle fibers at birth than a calf with no myostatin gene mutation.[5] In addition, a newborn double-muscled calf’s birth weight is significantly greater than that of a normal calf .[4]

     

    Note: The guy that injected a CRISPR system into himself is likely trying to eliminate the myostatin gene in his cells. How effective it's going to be - unknown. Risk of increased chance for CRISPR hitting other genes and potentially causing cancer - unknown. Welcome to the new ripped brain organoid cyberage.

     

    Here's a report of the myostatin gene mutation naturally arising in humans (jacked babies): http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa040933#iid=f01

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    Very happy with Destiny 2 so far, it's a solid iteration on the previous game. If they add small content every few weeks and large content every 3 months, this will be a good ride.

     

    A few tips:

    1) Do Lost Sectors/Public Events/Adventures/Strikes and get your Power (Light) level to 260-265 before collecting weekly Powerful Engrams from Milestones since the powerful engrams have a much higher power cap.

    2) Use the Eververse Vanguard 4 hour drop buff coins before you start a long farming session; dismantle Bright Engram drops into Bright dust to buy more Vanguard 4 hour drop buff coins. Repeat.

    3) Glimmer sinks: You'll max out at 100,000 Glimmer. Spend them on A) Cayde-6's treasure maps/Scout Maps and B ) The Gunsmith's blue engram mods. You will be able to trade in blue engram mods for Purple engram mods at Power/Light level 280.

    4) Some Sparrows have mods that are very useful; especially the ones that let you mount instantly (Fast Transmat) or ones that reload your weapons for you. Check them.