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Re: Frog-derived gut bacterium eradicates tumors in mice

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Post by buellerbueller »

someonebaggy wrote: post #79
jdross wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Socialist Russia was an environmental disaster. https://www.gchumanrights.org/preparedness/the-environmental...

There are many things that are not either capitalism or Russia.

The grandparent of your post, however, blamed capitalism for the destruction of the environment, as though other economic systems would not do the same. So your comment isn't really that relevant if the parent to your post is just offering a counterexample. I get it, you don't like capitalism, but jumping every time capitalism is mentioned--particularly when your point isn't really relevant--doesn't really win others to your side.

Re: Frog-derived gut bacterium eradicates tumors in mice

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Post by 6P58r3MXJSLi »

frellus wrote: post #72

I kid you not, there was a movie with Sean Connery called "Medicine Man" (1992) with this exact same theme. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104839/?ref_=fn_t_1 In it, Connery finds what looks to be a rare natural cure to all cancer in the Rain Forest (spoiler: not a frog, but equally as weird), and is literally battling the nearby deforesting and bulldozers. For a Sean Connery movie it was bizarre (As a young teen, I s…

I've seen the movie several times. In Italian, the title was translated simply as Mato Grosso, which makes it oddly geographically specific. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Connery definitely starred in even weirder movies. Have you seen Zardoz?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070948/

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNmI2NjI2OWYtMzU5NS00...

Re: Frog-derived gut bacterium eradicates tumors in mice

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Post by giwook »

bcjdjsndon wrote: post #90
tclancy wrote: post #85

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Spoken like someone who has never had to rebuild a generator or find out the hard way car wiring is mainly soy-based nowadays.

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"Spoken like" was a phrase before Rick and Morty lol they didn't invent the English language.

Re: Frog-derived gut bacterium eradicates tumors in mice

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Post by ImPostingOnHN »

jdross wrote: post #65
sevenzero wrote: post #61

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Resource exploitation and destruction of ecosystems are direct results of capitalism and greed and neglect. I stopped bringing up arguments against capitalism on here generally due to the sheer amount of people in privileged circumstances that wouldn't change a thing about their ways. Also doesn't help that people in tech often times have no sense of empathy whatsoever, so its no use to argue about this on here.

Socialist Russia was an environmental disaster. https://www.gchumanrights.org/preparedness/the-environmental...

This line from your article really stood out to me: "It was typical to use natural resources extensively without considering the effects on the environment."

Because, per the article, the environmental disasters under "Socialist Russia" seem to match many of the ones in "Capitalist America". The thing in common between the two seems to be rich oligarchs controlling government, and leveraging their power to extract profits, with little regard given to the proles or the environment.

Crazy how much the supposedly "pro-capitalist" right wing mirrors the supposedly "Socialist Russia" sometimes.

Re: Frog-derived gut bacterium eradicates tumors in mice

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Post by inglor_cz »

buellerbueller wrote: post #92
Leonard_of_Q wrote: post #60

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Yeah, sure, capitalism, 1%, etc. Spoken like a 15yo who just saw some DSA- agitprop on TikTok and is now ready to solve the world's problems.

Solving the world's problems is certainly a more laudable goal than the accumulation of wealth, don't you think?

Cannot judge this before knowing what world's problems is that particular person intending to solve.

There are people who fervently believe that the world's problems are caused by something like international Jewry or lack of sufficient religiosity or existence of democracy. I fervently hope that they don't get to succeed in their solutions.

Re: Frog-derived gut bacterium eradicates tumors in mice

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Post by anticorporate »

tclancy wrote: post #85
hootz wrote: post #37

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To be honest, they are pretty cute, they don't deserve cancer.

Spoken like someone who has never had to rebuild a generator or find out the hard way car wiring is mainly soy-based nowadays.

Wrapping your wiring harness in capsaicin tape works pretty well. Unfortunately, this is a discovery I made after multiple annoying and expensive repairs.

Re: Frog-derived gut bacterium eradicates tumors in mice

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Post by giglamesh »

tclancy wrote: post #85
hootz wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be honest, they are pretty cute, they don't deserve cancer.

Spoken like someone who has never had to rebuild a generator or find out the hard way car wiring is mainly soy-based nowadays.

I owned a riding mower once. Mice built nests in the engine, blocking enough of the air cooling to result in overheating and blowing the main seal. After fixing that twice I got in the habit of removing enough of the shroudy bits to expose and remove the nests. That took as long as actually mowing the lawn. After a season of that I gave the mower away and now we pay a neighbor to cut the grass. We did consider trying to mouseproof the shed or the mower itself, but we are either too busy or too lazy, depending on who you ask. My long term (probably fantasy) solution is a robotic mower - but we have not much budget for it, are chronically absentee and the property has a lot of odd strips of discontinuous turf.

EDIT: we did revert about 50% of the lawn to native wetland/prairie and we aim to raise that number over time.

Re: Frog-derived gut bacterium eradicates tumors in mice

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Post by amanaplanacanal »

bcjdjsndon wrote: post #100
romx-cell wrote: post #42

We are destroying ecosystems so fast that there will be no frogs and we will regret it. The same with all the nature

> We are destroying ecosystems so fast Definitely changing, I'm not so sure about destroying. Your house displaced an ecosystem so you could live there but I bet in your ethical system that's fine right? What a surprise

As they say, "there is no ethical consumption." I've done my part by not having any kids.
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