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[–] 102 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

I always felt so bad for him in that scene. Worked so hard on the chili only to spill it across the ground. Really hits hard when he tries to scoop it back into the pot. I know it's all just a show, but damn it hit hard.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    I always felt bad for his character. He seemed like a chill if slightly dumb dude who just wants to make a paycheck and go home, and he was just around as someone to get lightly picked on and put down. I wished they would have done more character development with Kevin, I felt like there was potential there.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

    This is one of the reasons why everyone wants the embezzlement theory to be true

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  • [–] 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    The trick is to undercook the onions virus.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    You'd think researches with dangerous materials would wear a hazmat suit just in case something breaks. Either they're really careless or something much worse happened.

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  • [–] 38 points 1 month ago (7 children)

    The plague isn't a virus, it's caused by a bacterium.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 month ago* (5 children)

    Right, but where do you see "the plague"?

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  • [–] 18 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    In the headlines that this meme is about

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  • [+] -16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    This meme could just be general commentary on the typical sciencing and engineering in the RF of today

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago

    Tandy has entered the chat.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Good to know Russian authorities treat this seriously and are cooperative. Remember Covid-19 and how information was very fuzzy for weeks when in broke out in late 2019? Probably not because it wasn't really reported on. Remember how China denies it came from the Wuhan lab and often even the city or China at all? Remember how that got completely out of control before it even left the country because authorities simply denied anything was going on?

    I'm sort of relieved to hear about this incident and how it's being handled so far. They already tested people in the victim's close proximity and are monitoring them closely but all they found so far were minor cases of guess what? Covid-19! Also kudos for researching that shit in Siberia instead of a major global port city like Wuhan.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Wuhan centre of plague studies

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Wuhan Center for Oops, All Plague! Studies.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Who knows where the virus came from (narrator: they knew)

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago (8 children)

    The plague never went away. Globally there's 1-3 cases each year. Luckily it treated with common antibiotics.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 month ago* (5 children)

    Far more than that. We average just over 4 per year in Colorado alone. https://cdphe.colorado.gov/colorado-plague-data

    72 total human cases from 2005-2021 in Colorado, 11 of those fatal. That's 4.23 cases per year. There have also been 431 animal cases in Colorado over the same period.

    WHO reports ~600-750 cases of plague per year globally with 3% being pneumonic, 10% being septicemic, and the other 87% being bubonic.

    It's why there are warnings to not pick up ground squirrels and prairie dogs in Colorado, especially dead ones.

    Luckily, it's almost entirely bubonic plague, which is the most treatable form of plague.

    The one the Russians accidentally released is pneumonic plague, which is the most severe form. Incubation period can be as short as just a few hours, and the early signs are the same as pretty much a minor cold but it rapidly intensifies and can lead to death within as little as a day from initial contraction. If not caught and treated within a few hours, it's nearly 100% fatal.

    This one is a much, MUCH bigger deal. Pneumonic plague is terrifying.

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  • [+] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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    We probably will never truly know and they are denying anything is even happening.

    There’s conflicting reports about what happened, and if it was even plague. One Russian report is that she contracted something in Thailand and then got sick when she was back in Russia. Another is that she accidentally broke a test tube with y. pestis cultures.

    If it’s the latter, I’d imagine she hid the accident for fear of punishment until it was too late, and now the Russian government is covering it up.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago

    Pneumonic plague is the exact same bacteria, just infecting the lungs instead of lymph nodes. It's less common because the bacteria doesn't aerosolize very easily so it's not easy to get it into your lungs.

    It's also really not that big of a deal, because it's still not particularly contagious. It's not that uncommon either; there's been several outbreaks just in the past 20-30 years. It is of course a very serious disease but it's fairly easy to contain.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    that happens a lot more often than you think. it's not even the first time it happened this year.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (8 children)

    Let's keep in mind the US found some smallpox vials in some philadelphia lab just sitting around during the last pandemic.

    Maybe it was just one of the scientist's drug stash though idk. Would be a wicked safe way of storing them.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago* (7 children)

    "Smallpox scabs, do not smoke"

    That'll keep Dennis away from my sweet, sweet smallpox scabs!

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  • [+] -8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (6 children)

    Edit: This is true, and fun information, and everyone downvoting here is either a fucking sheep, or grinding an axe. End edit.

    One of the original prventatives for smallpox, the type of variolation that reached Europe from Asia and Africa, was to crush old blisters into a powder, and sniff up a line of it.

    Variolation is giving a small dose to allow the immune system time to get trained on it before it gets critical.

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  • [–] -4 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Did you downvote me despite not knowing shit?

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Lol. No, I was not among the 8 people that originally downvoted you, but that will change now. How you go from my appreciative comment to "you don't know shit" is beyond me. Have a good life, if at all possible with a skin so thin like yours.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    You are ignorant. But, as they tell me, never underestimate the power of stupid people in numbers.

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