chromosomal fusion as the explanation for the "loss" of a chromosome pair, in humans.

https://www.johnhawks.net/p/when-did-human-chromosome-2-fuse

also , independent confirmation of observations, are gold for research, however needless repetition of effort is not.

thus when someone is prolific,or uncannily mad about a topic it tends to be dominated by that persons submissions, and often any other contributors are on that lead researchers team.

just occured to me, there will be some cohort that gives this the windows treatment, refusing to update, or upgrade versions, and retain present OS.

the next step if this bill passes seems to nessecarily involve excluding holdouts from content rated beyond toddler safe.

so a drone is considered an aircraft, now the gov claims they still have a right to shoot em down.

thats concerning, if the government spreads thier wings on that one, then it extends to, they claim the right to shoot down any domestic, privately owned aircraft that "bothers" ICE.

no its not, the bill also contains "for other purposes"

in present form its more than age verification, technically it could be for any other purposes.

BBS was born, BBS has risen, BBS will come again.

"To require operating system providers to verify the age of any user of an operating system, and for other purposes."

- And For Other Purposes.

am i the only one seeing that?

i see a lot of discussion pro and con age verification, there should be much more concern about the purpose of that phrase for other puposes.

is some one actually trying to sneak a catch all like that into it, or is it a bargaining chip. [see we removed "for other purposes", its all better, now we can pass it]

panem et circenses

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses

when you already pay for the device and a contract, then surprise now that you have skin and flesh in the game, you HAVE TO agree to this EULA or your property is a brick and we keep your money.

that is defined as extortion, but labled as onboarding.

im not sure about allowed. perhaps required may be closer.

why would someone include tech that makes people think twice about using the app, unless it is required if you want to "sell" in a particular venue.

if your developing geolocation based apps, location tracking is a core function.

a calender, absolutely does not require location tracking beyond what side of the prime meridian are you on.

> if your developing geolocation based apps, location tracking is a core function.

But the subsequent sale of that data is not—is the discussion here.

and the reason why that data is available for sale, starts with forced collection of data, if you want to participate in an app store as a developer.

you cant sell what you dont have unless you lie lower than a rug.

fix the data collection problem and a second order effect of no data for sale emerges.

Are you suggesting Android/iOS app developers are forced into data collection somehow? If so, how? I'm genuinely curious.

> why would someone include tech that makes people think twice about using the app, unless it is required if you want to "sell" in a particular venue.

Because the overwhelming majority of people don't think twice about this tech.

I do, and that's why I use a lot of web tools or old-fashioned phone calls, but most people think metadata=unimportant and assume that the purpose of the app is what it does for them rather than to gather their personal information for sale.

we are similar enough to fungi, compared to bacteria, that many antifungal compounds are also toxic to us.