Morning Ed: Nature {2016.12.15.Th}

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1. I was thinking, “This looks mildly fun”, until the bull showed up…Report

2. Only in the PacNW.Report

3. The better question is whether Artificial Intelligences have souls.Report

   1. Of course not, Kim. Souls don’t exist.Report

      1. Of course, Kim, bodies don’t exist.Report

         1. Marchmaine,
            Didn’t anyone ever tell you?
            Don’t feed the trolls.
            Particularly when they’re right.
            (Also, Neil’s been listening to my friend the physicist again.)

            This universe only makes parsimonious sense from a particular perspective that lends itself very well to being a computer simulation.Report

            1. Trolls don’t exist, they are just bits of mostly nothing kept apart by electromagnetic forces.Report

               1. Award you one DogeCoin for this insightful statement.
                  **Dogecoin is the internet currency for sarcasm.
                  Also a tool for trolls to get bitcoin enthusiasts to RAGE!Report

                  1. Nice, up on the mantle it goes.Report

         2. Bodies mostly don’t exist.

            It’s all just bits of mostly nothing kept apart by electromagnetic forces.Report

4. Re the sheep, my question is “Why are they all wearing knee pads?”Report

   1. What happens between a shepherd and his herd is nobody’s business.Report

      1. What happens in The Pasture, stays in The Pasture.Report

5. Speaking of arguments that I don’t want people laughing at and saying “Yeah! You tell him!”

   Seriously when your contribution to the world is Faberge eggs, autocracy and pogroms, no one should much care what you think.— Tim Wise (@timjacobwise) December 15, 2016

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   1. Faberge eggs are some of the most beautiful things ever made by man. A Faberge egg can excuse a lot ( not pogroms, but several other things)Report

   2. In all fairness to Tim Wise… If your entire knowledge of Russian culture, literature, music, art, history, and philosophy came from watching episodes of 24 that featured Russian villains, I can actually see where you might reach this conclusion.Report

      1. I just realized, there was another troublesome Republican president who was very cozy with the RepublicansRussians: Charles Logan.Report

         1. Republican presidents cozy with the Republicans is so aughts.Report

6. The author of the anti-goose screed can only assert that Canada geese aren’t good to eat because he hasn’t eaten any.

   Also the photo editor seems to have missed the fact that it was an article about Canada geese when selecting the accompanying illustration.Report

7. Dylann Roof Found Guilty in Church-Shooting Trial

   http://www.wsj.com/articles/dylann-roof-found-guilty-in-church-shooting-trial-1481833767

   I’m surprised it took two hours. Now we can move on to the sentencing phase. Sadly he’ll probable be on death row the rest of his life.Report

   1. Well he’ll definitely be in prison the rest of his life. The question is how long that is, whether the state of South Carolina does anything to move up the timeline, and how many lawyers get paid while we wait.Report

      1. I had forgotten until looking at it just now that the just completed trial is the federal one, the state can (I think) try him on straight up capital murder charges whenever the Fed process is complete, no matter how it shakes out.Report

         1. Right. Oops. Thanks for the correction.Report

            1. I thought that’s what you were saying with South Carolina ‘moving up the timeline’Report

               1. And you thought correctly! I had assumed he was being tried in state court and never bothered to look it up.Report

   2. I don’t mean this to be to snarky, even though we disagree on the death penalty. I was just a little amused by the phrasing of your complaint. And man, if we’re going to have a death penalty at all, Roof certainly seems like the sort of guy that ought to receive it.Report

   3. “Sadly he’ll probable[sic] be on death row the rest of his life.”

      Well…of course he will be, unless he escapes or is pardoned.Report

      1. It’s right there in the name!Report

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