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[X-Files]

7 hours ago, Leo Niehorster said:

I've been molested by a rabid beaver ...

Better see a Doctor, then.

America's STD explosion laid bare: As Houston records unprecedented rise in syphilis, DailyMail.com's interactive maps show how infections are soaring across the board | Daily Mail Online

[Ivanhoe]

Behind a paywall;

https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/cases-of-severe-tropical-disease-exploding-with-no-end-in-sight-who-5421165

 

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The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that cases of dengue fever could reach record highs this year.

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Argentina, which has faced one of its worst outbreaks of dengue in recent years, is sterilizing mosquitoes using radiation that alters their DNA before releasing them into the wild.

What are they thinking?

We all saw what happened when an iguana got irradiated in the south Pacific.

 

[Der Zeitgeist]

Woke ticks are turning the Americans g̵a̵y̵ vegan.

[X-Files]

Gay Manatee Buttsex

Florida manatee dies after 'high-intensity' sex with brother (nypost.com)

[NickM]

4 hours ago, X-Files said:

Gay Manatee Buttsex

Florida manatee dies after 'high-intensity' sex with brother (nypost.com)

Florida Man-atee?

[X-Files]

15 hours ago, NickM said:

Florida Man-atee?

YARN | Oh, man, they were fags. | Heathers (1989) | Video clips by quotes | c1c00310 | 紗 (getyarn.io)

[X-Files]

File under "Extraordinarily Bad Idea"

 

A worm has been revived after 46,000 years in the Siberian permafrost | CNN

[Ivanhoe]

5 hours ago, X-Files said:

File under "Extraordinarily Bad Idea"

 

A worm has been revived after 46,000 years in the Siberian permafrost | CNN

How can this be a bad idea? Biolabs have BSL ratings, thus there's no risk. 

 

[TrustMe]

I wish I had a swimming pool in my back garden  

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-66349101

[Ssnake]

1 hour ago, Ivanhoe said:

How can this be a bad idea?

[Rick]

18 hours ago, TrustMe said:

I wish I had a swimming pool in my back garden  

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-66349101

From the same article, rather amusing https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-wales-66335477

[Ssnake]

Yeah, Tom Jones lifts spirits, as shown in the documentaries.

 

[sunday]

https://nypost.com/2023/07/31/vegan-influencer-starved-to-death-friends/

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Vegan influencer Zhanna Samsonova has reportedly “died of starvation” after subsisting exclusively off a diet of exotic fruit in Malaysia, according to her friends and family.

She was 39.

The Russian national — who frequently promoted raw foods on social media where she was known to her millions of viewers on TikTok, Facebook and Instagram as Zhanna D’Art — reportedly died July 21 after finally seeking medical treatment during a tour in Southeast Asia, according to local media outlet reports.

 

[Ivanhoe]

 

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23811682/ai-neanderthal-antibiotics-extinction

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That’s what scientists have just achieved at the University of Pennsylvania’s Machine Biology Group. They’ve resurrected molecules with antibiotic properties found in extinct organisms — specifically, our close relatives, the Neanderthals and Denisovans. (Neanderthals went extinct 40,000 years ago, while Denisovans might have survived until 15,000-30,000 years ago.) The breakthrough throws open the doors to a brave new world of “molecular de-extinction,” which holds promise for drug discovery.

The researchers started by gathering the sequenced genome data of Neanderthals and Denisovans, which is publicly available thanks to paleontologists who have painstakingly collected and analyzed ancient DNA from bones and artifacts.

Then they trained an AI model to make predictions about which molecules might make effective antibiotics for modern humans. After the algorithm identified the strongest candidates, the researchers created those molecules in the lab and tested them in infected mice. Some of the molecules effectively fought off bacterial infections, according to a new study published in the journal Cell Host & Microbe.

 

 

[lucklucky]

Weird News from XIX Century

https://boingboing.net/2023/07/21/unbelievable-tale-of-a-gentlemans-unfortunate-bottle-encounter.html

[urbanoid]

They found the TMFINR lady, 38, marketing executive living in Dallas. 12/10, would put a ring on her finger, first-rate schizo waifu.

Original TMFINR video:

 

[sunday]

Free service for those short of memory.

[bojan]

3 hours ago, urbanoid said:

... 38, marketing executive living in Dallas. 12/10, would put a ring on her finger, first-rate schizo waifu.

For from craziest I have seen. Also far from best looking.

 

[urbanoid]

17 hours ago, bojan said:

For from craziest I have seen. Also far from best looking.

 

Doesn't matter. Me on the right.

[sunday]

Polish temerity could be a good thing when one is a Hussar going down the Kahlenberg in 1683.

But here, it looks like more recklessness than boldness, IMHO.

Also:

 

Edited August 10, 2023 by sunday

[urbanoid]

12 minutes ago, sunday said:

Polish temerity could be a good thing when one is a Hussar going down the Kahlenberg in 1683.

But here, it looks like more recklessness than boldness, IMHO.

Also:

 

Yeah, looks like Wyborcza didn't make up that particular story, they like to do so sometimes, in between encouraging Polish women to be whores and saying how bad Polish men are. Or saying that patriotism is like racism.

There's a stereotype that Ukrainian women are mostly more feminine, family-oriented etc. - honestly I have no idea whether it's true, but I suppose not. If I were to bet I'd guess there's as much truth in it as in Western European opinions that women from Central Europe are "trad".

 

[bojan]

1 hour ago, urbanoid said:

...There's a stereotype that Ukrainian women are mostly more feminine, family-oriented etc...

Comes with a lot of caveats - there is a saying in ex-USSR "Money she earns is her money, money you earn is a family budget".

[Ivanhoe]

7 minutes ago, bojan said:

Comes with a lot of caveats - there is a saying in ex-USSR "Money she earns is her money, money you earn is a family budget".

An American saying is "What's hers is hers, what's yours is ours."

[sunday]

1 hour ago, urbanoid said:

If I were to bet I'd guess there's as much truth in it as in Western European opinions that women from Central Europe are "trad".

Compared with the average of the local variety, ladies from the Visegrad group are TRAD.

[urbanoid]

18 minutes ago, sunday said:

Compared with the average of the local variety, ladies from the Visegrad group are TRAD.

Then it must be... really fucking bad out there.