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[–] 141 points 1 year ago (31 children)

Yes, the vaccines are... Are you feeding that baby unpasteurized milk?!? What the fuck, guys?

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  • [+] -38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (28 children)

    Tbf, breastmilk isn't normally pasteurized

    EDIT: If you can't figure out that this comment is humour, you seriously need to go outside and touch grass

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  • [–] 93 points 1 year ago (19 children)

    And it’s immediately consumed usually, or is frozen and its composition differs from cows milk and is designed for human consumption.

    Don’t know why you brought that up, unless it’s to point out how stupid people are thinking unpasteurized cows milk is drinkable because human milk doesn’t need to be.

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  • [–] 56 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Also, unlike cows, humans generally tend to give lots of outside signals of having listeriosis.

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  • [–] 45 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    They're less likely to have shit on them, too.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I hear thats a good way to determine if some one is King as well.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    I think it was a joke. A little levity in the midst of all this chaos and intentional hardship.

    Yes, the deal with dairy farmers drinking the unpasteurized milk from their cows daily is that it’s consumed within 24hrs and then replaced with the next days milk.

    RFK is a dipshit and MAGA is likely running with him for two reasons. Cutting FDA regs, insurance policing, fluoride, and vaccines save money. (Put another way, it keeps “their” money where it belongs, away from the working class.) It also thins the herd in the continuing decline of available resources while the planet fails.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago* (10 children)

    Don’t know why you brought that up

    It's called humour. And some people in the comments actually got the joke.

    It's obvious that "unpasteurized milk" is referring to cow's milk. Don't get pissed at me when you can't understand humour.

    And before you say anything, we're in a memes community. It shouldn't be a surprise that people are trying to make jokes here

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    From those two numbers I think you need to work on your comedy routine. It was a bit…. curdled

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

    It could possibly be from your clueless comment making me out to be satan.

    It was a bit…. curdled

    Your sense of comedy is far, far worse than mine.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    A joke doesn't work when it's indistinguishable from the stuff that people actually say

    You are on a written medium, where there is no tone, body language, or otherwise wider context. What do you expect to happen? People can't read your mind

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  • [–] 48 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    Also scientists today: Vaccines do not cause autism and actually work.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Yeah but it was 90s scientist who said vaccines caused autism though. Which just invalidates the point this tweet was trying to make.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It was one "scientist" who by all accounts was a massive fraud and anyone with any semblance of smarts recognised that almost immediately. That the world is full of idiots is the problem.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    Wakefield did manage to fool peer reviewers and got his paper published in Lancet, a top-tier medical journal (and it took them 12 years to fully retract that paper). So I wouldn't say people recognized that immediately.

    (And I just kinda hate "things were better in the past" type of arguments, in general. Things were shit back then, and things are shit now.)

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    One single comment by one shitty doctor in a magazine. He didn't even say that. He basically said 'some parent thought that maybe their child started to exhibit autism-like symptoms shortly after receiving a vaccine'.

    I am not fucking kidding you. That was it! No study, no control groups, no sample size. Nothing. Just one stray comment that is shorter than this one I am writing now and it is the foundation of their entire theory.

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

    Uh. No. It was a published paper in The Lancet, which they did not retract for 12 years. MDs have a lot of blame here.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    What is the blame we should place on them? The whole point of science is that shitty theories and great theories live in the same space. They're then evaluated by the collective body of scientists based upon the results of their tests. Eventually the shitty hypotheses dies off. No one is ever supposed to rely upon one study or even a few studies. It should take years and many studies before the results or conclusions should be relied upon by non-scientists.

    So the blame is likely borne by a combination of the education system (explaining the importance of repeated scientific evaluation), the pervasiveness of lay "scientists" and *philosophers relying upon social media and other unreliable sources for their data, and the greater access that a random non-scientists have to studies that would normally be buried by time. Then you have people reaching their own conclusion and just finding a random study that supports that conclusion. That's the exact opposite of what the scientific method requires. The push by conservatives over the last few decades to erode scientific education (i.e creationism) is probably more likely to blame than any one scientist, doctor or certainly the medical/scientific community.

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  • [–] 44 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Sorry but due to new government policy it is illegal to study or even acknowledge weather

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  • [–] 69 points 1 year ago (18 children)

    Well, while I agree that things are pretty shit and regressive, let's not downplay the achievements we've had in the past 10 years:

    • Completion of The Standard Model of Physics with the detection of the Higgs Boson.
    • mRNA technology, which is now a serious candidate for curing HIV, and is potentially capable of being used against most viral diseases.
    • Imaging a black hole. Doing it again. Providing more proof of general relativity.
    • Measuring gravity waves. Doing it as a normal measurement now.
    • Salt batteries are finally reaching the market, which will eventually end the destructive mining and refinement of lithium.
    • The James Webb Space Telescope, which was already making breakthroughs and creating new questions within the first 3 months of activation.
    • Solar power becoming incredibly cost effective.
    • Cybernetic limbs for the physically disabled. Yes, cybernetic limbs.
    • Though overused; medication that effectively combats eating disorders.

    These are just the ones I know from the top of my head.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Though overused; medication that effectively combats eating disorders.

    I'd argue underused / inappropriately prescribed by social class. There are millions who could benefit from them who have poor access, while if you have money the Rx just gets thrown readily at your feet.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Gravity waves detection and cheap solar cells are mind-blowing to me. Gravity waves for just the sensitivity achieved and solar for how rapidly it's improved. It used be a cute technology used in calculators, impossible to match economically turning a generator or directly burning stuff, and now it's the default first choice.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    These are monetizable inventions, that are allowed, when big money backs them. Climate fuckery threatens incumbent big money, even when it threatens the little people's property values and cost of living.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    I don’t want to downplay some of the amazing things in this list but i dint think the standard model of physics as made by humans can ever be completed.

    What did happen is that something like HB must exists in order to make most of other things work. Now that we know HB is verifiably real we tied up a major loose end.

    But there is still many stuff unanswered and a “complete model” would require constant revision.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (6 children)

    The standard model of physics is not implying it has the answer to everything, or that there is nothing new to discover. The standard model of physics is the periodic table for fundamental particles. The bits that make up all the other parts.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    How are you certain there are no undiscovered fundamental particles involved to quantum gravity and dark matter?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    The periodic table is predictive. From a few elements, the rest could be projected and expected, like the Higgs-Boson. The table makes no predictions for things we cannot measure and are in fact theoretical, like dark matter which lacks any empirical evidence. Would be awesome if it did because then it wouldn't be theoretical anymore.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Whats the difference between expecting and predicting here?

    BH was theoretical at first. The new breakthrough was empirical evidence.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Do not mix theory with hypothesis. A theory in science is a very big deal and needs a lot to be true in order to even reach theory status (which is why "string theory" isn't a theory. More like "string idea").

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Also, it’s engineers who land robots on other planets, not scientists

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    [–] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    am I old or does nobody remember the name Dolly?

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago*

    I seem to recall something about her working 9 to 5 and having an arch-nemesis called Jolene.

    EDIT: Wait! Wait! I remembered! There was a sheep called Dolly who was a workaholic who had herself cloned to spend more time with her partner!

    EDIT 2: Ok, I just did a web search. I was way off.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago

    I feel bad for field researchers that have to do studies on critically endangered species

    Imagine trying for days to find a specimen and then end up having to reclassify it as extinct

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    Nice Try NASA, we all know the truth that Earth is a Donut. This is why cops think they own the planet.

    Checkmate, FBI!

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Doughnut

    https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/59b109574cb45

    ...The polar crust is very thin compared to the rest of the world and experiences much more volcanism and geothermal activity. Tectonic plates drifting hubward would shrink in size, usually becoming islands, and grow heading rimward due to the differences between the inner and outer radii. Plates moving rimward would rift and plates moving vice-versa would fold, resulting in mountainous landscapes in the hub. Because of the rapid rotation the surface gravity on the Torus is non-uniform, with the polar regions being 1.1 g, the rim 0.7 g, and the hub 0.8 g, so that the mountains are higher (on average) than those on Earth.

    The iconic shape of the Torus is achieved through its ultra-fast rotational speed, which allows the centrifugal force to balance with its gravity. The high rotation deforms the body of the world, making it oval-shaped with a sharper edge in the hub along with making it oblate. The rotation also causes fast winds in many latitudes, ringed zonal climates, and a weak distribution of heat from the large inner radius, which leads to dramatic changes in temperature in different regions. An intense Coriolis effect is prevalent on The Torus that spawns frequent, but small cyclone and storm systems usually near the poles. The regions with lower gravity would experience higher cloud height and vice-versa for regions with higher gravity.

    The days are very brief, only lasting 3.5 hours, and at the rim they resemble the days on Old Earth, but much shorter. However, due to The Torus's tilt, the poles experience extended periods of day or night for the summer and winter months. The fast rotation results in the home star already rising past the atmosphere on the other side of the Torus that produces a Fall dusk and Spring sunrise showing off very short-lived, vibrant colors. The nights on the hub could be as light as a cloudy day from the reflection of light from the other side of the hub. The hub would also be fairly temperate with Fall and Spring shrouding parts of it in dark during the winter and summer months.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    So this is a Wiki-style fiction set far in the future, with pan-galactic civilizations and super-AIs, made by people with vast knowledge in tech and science, keeping things feasible.

    Intriguing.

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