Tags: politics, covid, coronavirus, science, lab leak, pandemic, zerohedge, biden, china, conspiracy

Well now, this doesn't surprise me.
When Trump was president he was pushing the idea of a Wuhan lab leak that caused the pandemic. People thought he was just trying to blame China and said he was being racist. You know, the usual story about Trump.

Here's a report from ZeroHedge. It is ZeroHedge so take it with a grain of salt because it's "uncorroborated" and unnamed sources, but apparently others are confirming this.



I don't know why people are so against the idea of a lab leak. I figure this kind of shit happens all the time and we just don't know or the media doesn't report it. People are acting strange when it comes to this kind of idea. I personally think it was leaked, possibly man made, maybe not genetically modified or enhanced but rather steered in the right direction by scientists so to speak.

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Tags: coral reefs, coral, Caribbean, studies, science, protecting the oceans, invasive species, humans, COVID

Check this out, it's pretty cool. They'll be studying 6 locations around the Caribbean and the effects humans have had on the waters surrounding those locations. COVID has provided a very unique opportunity, basically with tourism dead all over the world the coast lines are reverting back to their normal state.

There have been stories all over the world about fish and mammals being seen in places that haven't seen aquatic life in recent memory because the waters are too polluted. Now with tourism dead, boats and pleasure craft aren't as active and water ways are getting cleaned of oil and refuse. It's really quite something.

It's just a shame that the corals aren't responding the same. Seems like our hunger for dirty energy, quick and easy manufacturing and all these chemicals we like pumping into ourselves and subsequently the environment aren't helping the situation. So while tourism is dead, a lot of the damage we're doing here in the Caribbean seems to be in displacing run off and pumping our byproduct of sewage treatment into the oceans.



I've gone on a handful of these expeditions to collect algae samples and help with beach studies and some other things. I've learned a lot. Ecosystems that I thought were thriving have been dead or dying this whole time, and area's I thought dead or just rocks have small signs of life.

I always expected the reefs to look like that of the Pacific or Indian Oceans because of what is shown in the magazines and travel blogs, but the Caribbean just doesn't offer that wide a variety of ocean flora or fauna. It's still amazing to recognize what we do though. Pretty much every time I go out now, I learn about new things in the water. It's amazing.

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Tags: Demeo, gameplay, vr, D&D, StarTrek, multiplayer

I've been on the fence about the whole VR thing. I've tested it out with multiple setups and while fun I don't think I can justify the price for the 1 or two games I would use it for.
The biggest problem with fps games is that you don't really move around, you end up just warping from place to place and shooting stuff. There are some games which allow free movement, but then the motion sickness is for real unless you're physically sitting down. I think this would be different if I could afford the whole walking setup that JS posted years back, but alas, that's not feasible.

The other thing is most games are just mini games or party games. They aren't really very deep games yet.

One area where VR excels though is multiplayer stationary games - games where you don't walk around but rather are looking over troops, or maybe you're sitting down at a kiosk like in StarTrek. These games focus more on the community aspect rather than the limited gameplay. They look tremendously fun, especially the StarTrek game.

Enter Demeo. It's a D&D simulation with action figures and enemies. Where the players are trying to get to the bottom of a dungeon for something. Really quite brilliant because you're not really moving around but there's the whole community aspect to the multiplayer.

Check it out:

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Tags: Disney, Pixar, Wall-E, Axiom, VR, fat humans

Remember that ship of lazy fat humans from Wall-E? Now you can check out the ship in all it's glory.

I wish this had VR support. I think that'd make it that much better.

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