As an EATER of food what is the benefit of CRISPR/GMO?
There answer after a good 40 minutes of searching is... nothing.
It's a technology 100% in service of being lazier/sloppier for industrial scale food production and in service of IP restricting the food supply in favor of shareholder X or Y.
"but we can make tasteless US tomatoes on even more inappropriate cropland!"
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Great for my stock portfolio to screw over developing countries but useless for me as a first world eater of food.
They mythos of the genius is riding on the long coat tails of the post-worldwar research/coldwar researchers, where there were hard, cold result deadlines.
Todays genius produces "papers" about how "all the low hanging fruits are gone" - as if what was archieved back then was easy because its today served in easy to diggest pedagogic pieces. Then the whole research caste is now in "optimizing tasks" that basically rearrange the economy in a ever belt tightening to exclude the average joe, instead of driving developments, that increase the overall cake for society. How to say it without hurting feelings, but nothing of value was lost...
The only thing that is genuinely weird is having four different certificate stores on a system, each with different trusted roots, because the cabals of man-children that control the WebPKI can't set aside their petty disagreements and reach consensus on anything.
Which makes sense, because that would require them all to relinquish some power to their little corner of the Internet, which they are all unwilling to do.
This fuckery started with Google, dissatisfied with not having total control over the entire Internet, deciding they're going to rewrite the book for certificate trust in Chrome only (turns out after having captured the majority browser market share and having a de-facto monopoly, you can do whatever you want).
I don't blame Mozilla having their own roots because that is probably just incompetence on their part. It's more likely they traded figuring out interfacing with OS crypto APIs for upkeep on 30 year old Netscape cruft. Anyone who has had to maintain large scale deployments of Firefox understands this lament and knows what a pain in the ass it is.
WebPKI is a maze of fiefdoms controlled by a small group of power tripping little Napoleons.
Certificate trust really should be centralized at the OS level (like it used to be) and not every browser having its own, incompatible trusted roots. It's arrogance at its worst and it helps nobody.
> I since found out it was funded from inception by inqtel, the CIA's venture capital arm.
It just occurred to me - it's almost a too stupid theory to be true, but you should never underestimate this kind of corporate stupidity - the name change to Alphabet, maybe that was part of telling the actual alphabet agencies, "We're on your side"? One thing is sure, Schmidt really, really wanted to have a good relationship with Obama's state department.
So, the hype, the free canteen, etc was all just spin to move people from a more messy handmade internet, into a corporate one. A way to dominate and intercept everyone's actions online when searching. And you have to say, it was a good strategy! Do the younger generation even know that there are pages outside of the corporate held companies?
There answer after a good 40 minutes of searching is... nothing.
It's a technology 100% in service of being lazier/sloppier for industrial scale food production and in service of IP restricting the food supply in favor of shareholder X or Y.
"but we can make tasteless US tomatoes on even more inappropriate cropland!"
...
Great for my stock portfolio to screw over developing countries but useless for me as a first world eater of food.
No proof of existence of a benefit.