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  • Tryptaminev@lemm.eetoScience Memes@mander.xyzMathematicians
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    1 month ago

    This kind of reductionism is hilariously unscientific.

    Many theories were only able to advance after we had the tools to experimentally review them and quite frankly often weed the bad ones out. Modern tools like computing enable the development of theories that before were unimaginable, leaving aside the necessity of modern communication to grow and share knowledge.

    Or in other words: Nobody who now writes his theories on chalkboard would have done so with charcoal on a cave wall after hunting mammoths during the day.




  • How is loosing territories some 5.000-10.000 km away an “existential threat”? Even if they wanted to, Japan had no means of successfully invading main land US.

    The US justifies dropping the Nukes with it preventing an extraordinary loss of life if they had to stage an amphibious invasion of main land Japan. But at least the US could stage much closer to Japan, than Japan could to the US.

    In the same wake the Britains loosing their empire was not an existential threat to the US just as much as the genocide against China was not an existential threat for the US just as the Holocaust and the genocides in eastern Europe weren’t an existential threat to the US.





  • Tryptaminev@lemm.eetoScience Memes@mander.xyzCWD
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    2 months ago

    Prions are gone rogue, by being shaped a different way. They are uniquely different from their original protein. At the end of the day Viruses are also just normal DNA that went rogue and changed over time. The difference is that viruses can spread and mutate much more easily, so they could adapt under evolutionary mechanisms.


  • Tryptaminev@lemm.eetoScience Memes@mander.xyzCWD
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    2 months ago

    Well, viruses aren’t alive either. I would say they are very similar to Prions in the aspect, that it is just a rogue biological building block, able to get itself reproduced, to the dismay of the body.

    Also there is no reason, why you couldn’t develop vaccines against Prions. It could be even simpler, because they have to be shaped very specifically to cause the harm they do, and it should be easy to break that specific shape with something attaching to it.


  • Well, if you open up Tiktok, Instagram, Twitter and co. you can see the destruction, you can see Palestinians searching through the rubble to find survivors and recover the dead. You can see children starving and you can see crying people holding the bodies of their loved ones. And then you can also see IDF soldiers bragging about the people they killed, filming themselves looting, burning down houses and desecrating peoples belongings. You can see them filming themselves torturing and abusing prisoners and laughing about it all.

    When you are exposed to the stream of more or less raw information, it doesn’t take much to understand the situation as what it is. Yes there is bias in there. But when the supposedly “good guys” from the IDF are showing themselves proudly committing atrocities, then the only people to not consider it a genocide are completely brainwashed. And unfortunately that audience exists too, cheering on the atrocities committed in their name.