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myQconcerns 0 points ago +1 / -1

You know that American users have used DeepSeek and can report on it, right?

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myQconcerns -4 points ago +3 / -7

Scott Ritter is a pro-Putin stooge and was convicted of unlawful conduct with a minor.

Russia did everything possible to prevent this war???

You sure have that buddy? Because you know they could have simply not invaded. That's a step they could have taken. And Russia would be far, far better off for it.

Putin and Russia would both be in much better shape if the invasion didn't happen.

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myQconcerns 2 points ago +2 / -0

The Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund is from a law passed by Congress.

Presidents CANNOT just seize money and spend it how they want. The Republicans talked about repealing this law but they have not yet

They will have to pass a new law. Trump can FREEZE. Not Seize the money and it seems like he has done so. My guess is they will try to pass a new law within 90 days

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myQconcerns 3 points ago +3 / -0

Presidents can't seize money.

That's banana Republic type shit.

The US never passed the Green New deal

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myQconcerns 1 point ago +1 / -0

I just came across this. Wasn't even looking at this topic.

There’s been no rain for 154 consecutive days in Phoenix - the second longest dry spell on record (160 days in 1972) - as drought conditions persist across Arizona.

So it seems to me that insurance companies are trying to get ahead of what's going on in California.

Not that there's anything planned.

If you have conditions like this, the longer they persist, the more likely you have a big fire.

So the bet is what comes first, rain or big fire.

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myQconcerns 1 point ago +1 / -0

The reality CIA does not have information that the virus was in a lab.

This is all still inferences not direct evidence.

There said this new assessment is not based on any new information.

Others in the Intel community disagree with them.

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myQconcerns 2 points ago +2 / -0

There are several sites that track/predict fire risk. There does seem to be a red flag warning for AZ now

https://x.com/azstateforestry?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Eembeddedtimeline%7Ctwterm%5Escreen-name%3Aazstateforestry%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c1****

AZ Dept. Forestry and Fire Management @azstateforestry · Jan 25 High fire danger 🔥

The NWS has issued a Red Flag Warning for most of S/SE AZ along w/parts of Northern AZ.

Under RFWs, high winds & low RH can lead to quick ignitions & rapid fire spread.

***Do not burn or use tools that may spark.

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myQconcerns 1 point ago +1 / -0

What's the evidence?

My understanding is that with all we know about the virus now, it has so many things about that we're not known in 2019 that you simply couldn't take a virus so some CRISPR stuff and get COVID.

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myQconcerns 1 point ago +1 / -0

This is not the virus that causes COVID-19. This is not SARS-COV-2.

This not a bat virus like SARS-COV-2.

This is a bird flu.

It's a "strain of avian coronavirus previously known as infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) is the only coronavirus that infects chickens."

"IBV belongs to the Coronaviridae family, genus Gammacoronavirus "

SARS-COV-2 is not a gammacoronavirus. It is a betacoronavirus

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myQconcerns 1 point ago +1 / -0

Because it's never going to happen.

Russia is never ever going to ask for it.

And it would never rise to the level of an actual extradition. It was made up by folks on the Internet. It's not a real thing.

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myQconcerns 1 point ago +1 / -0

I remember this being a giant concern early on. In fact, I think a Noble Prize winner said this was a smoking gun, but then he walked it back when other scientists pointed that coronviruses have furin cleavage sites and this does happen in nature.

And since then as more and more scientists studied SARSCOV2 we found an FCS by itself it not enough to infect humans.

Scientists call the ability to infect and cause disease "pathogenesis."

We now know that multiple elements are needed.

An FCS (this was known before 2019)

The length of the loops of the spike on the FCS (NOT known in 2019 and I believe unique to SARS-COV-2.)

Another feature upstream and separate from the FCS that affects glycosylation which how carbohydrates bond to proteins (NOT known in 2019.)

This study demonstrates that in addition to the furin cleavage site (FCS), both the length/composition of the exterior loop and glycosylation of the QTQTN motif are necessary for efficient SARS-CoV-2 infection and pathogenesis. Disruption of any of these three elements reduces SARS-CoV-2 replication, alters entry pathway utilization, and attenuates in vivo disease. Together, the work highlights the complexity of spike activation beyond just the presence of an FCS

https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2205690119

Essentially this means putting a FCS into another virus is not enough

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myQconcerns 1 point ago +1 / -0

There still no evidence the virus was in the lab before the pandemic.

This is crucial thing. For a lab leak to happen, the virus needs to be in lab in the first place.

And it's pretty clear the CIA has not got anything new on this front.

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