The long hard road
from fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz on 22 Jul 12:39
https://mander.xyz/post/34463407

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OpenStars@piefed.social on 22 Jul 14:10 next collapse

Both wrong. The disease lab itself is infectious.

StarMerchant938@lemmy.world on 22 Jul 15:28 next collapse

Infectious with diseases you ask? NO! Infectious with laughter and positive energy.

apotheotic@beehaw.org on 22 Jul 16:37 next collapse

Wrong again. This person is a vet and has encountered a cryptid which is the source of all infectious disease, which takes the form of a Labrador.

Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works on 22 Jul 20:35 next collapse

I used to work at a botanical lab, but after it got infected, it turned into a disease lab too. I hope we managed to isolate it in time.

wieson@feddit.org on 23 Jul 06:13 collapse

We used to have a pizzeria, a Mongolian grill, a bakery and a key and shoe repair shop in this town. Now - boom - everything’s a disease lab.

dwemthy@lemmy.world on 22 Jul 14:25 next collapse

There should be an infectious ease lab, develop some ease that spreads like plague

match@pawb.social on 22 Jul 17:29 collapse

everyone who took time off during the pandemic and introverted

doingthestuff@lemy.lol on 22 Jul 18:06 collapse

Well that wasn’t my family. We’re introverted but we worked way more than ever thru covid. We funded some major home repairs.

propter_hog@hexbear.net on 22 Jul 14:25 next collapse

A little of both

doingthestuff@lemy.lol on 22 Jul 18:02 collapse

Always has been. When they started this kind of research they knew diseases they were weaponizing could get out and they determined it was an acceptable risk.

The elite are determined to do the “good work” of depopulating the planet and they don’t really care about the methods.

x00z@lemmy.world on 22 Jul 15:10 next collapse

Allowing people to work for 11 hours is an infectious disease by itself.

cRazi_man@europe.pub on 22 Jul 17:49 next collapse

I look forward to my 12.5 hour shift later this week… With a full week of normal working days before and after.

x00z@lemmy.world on 22 Jul 18:28 collapse

Keep up the status quo my friend.

Why not look forward to a normal working day with normal working days before and after?

Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world on 22 Jul 18:27 collapse

I believe I read that those kinds of hours (and worse) are pervasive throughout the medical industry because the father of modern medicine used cocaine to stay alert and was wired nearly 24/7, and successive generations kept his insane schedule because it resulted in better outcomes (for everyone except the one working).

Patches@ttrpg.network on 23 Jul 14:27 collapse

Who is this “Father of medicine”?

I would like to learn more

Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world on 24 Jul 16:08 collapse

It’s probably more accurate to refer to him as the father of modern surgery, but I was thinking of William Harsted, who - alongside many other innovations (such as championing anesthetics and sterile surgical environments, both of which are alarmingly recent inventions) - created the residency system that’s still used for training hospital staff today.

He demanded insane hours of his staff, which he was easily able to handle himself due to his cocaine habit, and which have been kept to this day (a law was passed attempting to cap it at 80 hours a week, but it’s widely ignored) because studies show that shortening medical shifts results in worse patient outcomes.

It turns out minimizing shift changes is critical - the doctors/nurses who’ve been observing the patient are more aware of what’s going on and can spot any changes in behavior or subtle warning signs of danger, whereas their replacements can only go by what’s on a patient’s medical chart and what they’re told during handover.

obsoleteacct@lemmy.zip on 22 Jul 16:11 next collapse

Just say you make bat soup. Don’t try to make it sound fancy.

captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works on 22 Jul 16:20 next collapse

Disease factory, isn’t that just a Texan elementary school?

Riffraffintheroom@hexbear.net on 22 Jul 17:11 next collapse

Clocking in for my shift at the ol disease factory. The scabbed, tumour-riddled lab rat who uses his teeth to bite down on my punch card shrugs and says “Eh… it’s a livin’”

Smeagol666@mander.xyz on 25 Jul 16:25 collapse

Goddam, I remember this from the Flintstones, but I think it was a beaver.

Edit: nope, it was a croc that was the punch card puncher, the beavers were the stoplights.

ClathrateG@hexbear.net on 22 Jul 17:58 next collapse

Remember when the world learned about gain of function research?

keepcarrot@hexbear.net on 22 Jul 18:28 next collapse

Every time the Cancer Council gets mentioned

Booboofinget@lemmy.world on 22 Jul 19:40 next collapse

" I’m against them, but I have to pay rent."

prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 22 Jul 20:08 next collapse

This is 100% something I would say as a joke in a message on a dating app lol…

Would probably need to add a delayed “lol” or something just so its clear

Klear@lemmy.world on 22 Jul 20:16 collapse

Klear@lemmy.world on 22 Jul 20:16 collapse

lol

msage@programming.dev on 23 Jul 06:43 collapse

He said ‘clear’ not ‘klear’

Alexstarfire@lemmy.world on 23 Jul 04:53 next collapse

You think all those flu variants make themselves? Do your own research.

FauxPseudo@lemmy.world on 23 Jul 07:29 next collapse

You can’t fight them without making them. It’s a key step in the process be it for gain of function research, attenuated variants or antibody research. Unless you’re researching tuberculosis these things don’t live very long so you always need to create more.

ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world on 23 Jul 13:57 next collapse

Average Wuhan resident be like:

surph_ninja@lemmy.world on 23 Jul 14:08 next collapse

It’s concerning for so many people in a science community to be acting like bioweapon labs are a conspiracy theory. They are, in fact, very real and spread across the globe.

Zron@lemmy.world on 23 Jul 15:05 collapse

It’s one of those things where everyone just assumes it’s illegal and that their government wouldn’t do illegal shit.

Protip: governments only care if you follow their laws, cause what are you gonna do about it?

surph_ninja@lemmy.world on 24 Jul 00:12 collapse

There’s a reason the US builds their biolabs abroad. Supposedly, Obama established some in Ukraine, and that’s one of the main points that fueled initial escalations.

Soapbox@lemmy.zip on 23 Jul 17:37 next collapse

This made me think of the Altered Carbon books, where some people intentionally get diseases for fun.

oftheair@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 24 Jul 01:53 next collapse

The Culture series did it first 😉

hopesdead@startrek.website on 24 Jul 02:30 next collapse

I can’t recall the name but I recall a European movie (I saw it on cable television) where celebrities sell their skin to be grown in labs to be sold as meat for people to eat. The main character would go around finding sick celebrities, stealing their DNA and infecting themselves with the same illness.

Smeagol666@mander.xyz on 25 Jul 16:18 collapse

I’m currently re-reading the Altered Carbon books! I liked the series, some of the ideas were actually better, but I like noticing the differences too. The cartoon spin-off was hot garbage though.

Soapbox@lemmy.zip on 25 Jul 16:30 collapse

I really enjoyed the show. Wish it got more seasons. I watched it long before reading the books. Yeah, I think the hotel as “poe” in the show was better than in the books.

Smeagol666@mander.xyz on 31 Jul 10:06 collapse

I liked how they developed Poe’s character.

Smeagol666@mander.xyz on 25 Jul 16:20 collapse

I got to be the 666th updoot, hail Satan!