One of the things that made it tough to cheat was the ability to detect it, tests could be developed to detect anomalies, sporting passports, etc., etc..
It's not going to stay like that, the genome is huge and Darwinian, you won't be able to discern a natural shift from an engineered change, and adding to that they can now identify the advantageous changes like the universe has delivered them a user manual. It's a nexus between two technologies, CRISPR and AI.
Discussing peptides with @Lods in the track and field thread reminded me of a discussion I recently had with a researcher.
Do you know the fledgling ability to vaccinate against certain strains of dementia existed almost two decades ago, about 30% of cases being potentially resolved? I had to ask why it's never been developed, the answer is the recurring stain on society, capitalism.
For the vaccine to work it has to be administered early, with Alzheimer's that means long long before symptoms appear. But children are not affected, and it seems the big profit follows fear, most won't be diagnosed with the early stages until 40 or 50 and by then it's too late for the vaccine. No disease, no fear, no profit, a vaccine kills the market for the capitalist. The real profit lies with the promise of a cure for people already having the income to spend and who have developed symptoms. So instead the capitalists develop pills that delay or stall the disease development, at thousand$ per dose, that you have to buy again next month, or next year, over and over again until your bank account runs dry!
I wish I had your confidence, but I fear Trump is likely to make someone like JKF Jr the Tsar with Hegseth his deputy, these are people who think winning cost always defeats how you win as long as you win.
Peptides a plenty!
btw., There is no high ground, only a level playing field surrounding a pit of peril.
The reason China jailed that CRISPR babies scientist was for the release of secrets, not for being immoral. (Of course the immoral stance is also a perspective, because gene modified babies resistant to AIDS might actually be the moral decision) A decade from now things are going to be very different in sport, because all the big player countries aren't that different in reality. In the USA it's just the privatised version of China's state run enterprise.
It's being accelerated right now, driven by the AI LLMs, they are providing solutions to problems that would normally take decades to resolve. Just 7 years ago we got Ozempic after a full 20 years of R&D, next year you'll be taking a tablet for the same, a development that historically would have taken decades is now a couple of years. Technically, if safety protocols are abandoned, a couple of months. Do you think the sort of people inclined to do this are going to be slowed by safety?
BYD got caught flogging 2025 EV and hybrid vehicles as 2026 MY and they have now raised their compensation offer from $1100 to $3500. Given that EVs can lose 15% to 25% of their value in the first year, I'd be holding out for more.
Yes, for EV cars I think the new Mazda 6e might be the pick of the bunch.
No Tesla Tax, no stupid performance over range, an established brand, building on inhouse technology not just assembling, and they are not going to evaporate overnight like the clones.
The only thing I wish they had was a traditional sedan over the hatchback design, I've never been a big fan of hatchbacks.
@Lods, do you think a USA team will be clean under a Trump lead regime?
I realise testing is "independant", and that is really the key word, because under influence from political pressure it's failed dramatically in the past.
Like Flynn Riley, Reidy's a work in progress and getting thrown to the wolves as he was on Saturday (and as Riley was the week before) could help his development or shatter his confidence.
At the moment we have the best coach to manage this situation, you can't ask for better.
A lot of Carlton fans must live on a diet of instant soup, they can't wait for anything substantial, and they are obviously childless having thrown the baby out with the bath water!
I think how our F50 setups really depends on what happens with Hewett, if Hewett gets up Cripps will spend more time floating forward, if not we'll probably go the opposite and setup smaller.
Hayward plays quite tall, he's a bonus as a forward because he's out marking most opponents yet is ground level agile.
I've got a problem with Campo's lads, when they arrived they looked pacey relative to our existing jar of treacle, but it's only taken a coule of newbies to show some leg and now they look a bit off the pace.
With their run of injuries I'd be giving them more VFL time, they don't look ready to me, they look VFL dominant but not AFL competitve as silly as that sounds.
Brave footbllers, smart footballers, but what is their AFL trick, can they survive on brains alone? Will they displace Smith or Wilson?
Excluding the big names this season so far Wilson is a win, Byrne a future, Evans gets everything he can out of himself.
Rangers became the options because alternatively you were paying 10k more for a vehicle that had less. Thats an expensice badge the toyota were selling.
I think the Landcruisers are still the performance leader, but the price is the killer as @Gointocarlton points out, I think it's about a 30% premium. The new Landcruiser hybrid claims greater performance and load capacity than the traditional, this is typically the reverse of most hybrid models, so I'll be keen to see a genuine independant review.
You can build a car to ace any industry standard test, as Volkswagon proved!
In our area Tritons have become increasingly more popular with tradies, I see them on job sites everywhere. Rangers are now popular with the weekend warriors, they seem to have replaced the Landcruisers and Patrols as the weekend vehicle of choice.
I have been happy with Fraser in that respect. Despite pushing towards a wildcard he has kept the youngsters in the side. His main goal to leave Carlton a better place at season's end and may well do that.
So you agree he's leaving?
I won't argue with you, I think it's the most likely occurrence too!
Personally, I think the end of 2026 is going to see a lot of coaching changes, perhaps the most ever in a season.
I've had 12 Cruisers, Prados and Hiluxes over the years, the 08 Prado was the pick of them by far, but the Everest I'm currently driving is a far better vehicle - drives like a car, economical and still pulls a trailer and fords rivers.
Yep, those Prados, in the years when they were almost indistinguishable from the full Landcruiser, they are bullet proof.
The only dodgy thing was the half-ar5ed emissions controls, I remember a few years worth of those models being recalled because of the faulty system that dumped a load of soot at traffic lights! I was told by design it was supposed to open at highway speeds to diffuse solids, but some design fault caused it to open as you accelerated from a full stop.
To be honest, with a torn meniscus H shouldn't be playing this weekend.
There are people playing a career with a tear or even with a meniscus removed, they usually wear a brace?
But it's not ideal for a jumping / marking target, usually it's rucks who play with a damaged meniscus and they don't jump. I thought as much about Reidy at the weekend who wasn't jumping.
