This was in 2005 before many people (or at least me and me buddies) didn’t even know his name.
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This can’t be real
When horseshoe crabs come up, I always try to mention that they are harvested (and usually killed) for their blood in the most unethical way possible. They basically pump it directly from their (version of) hearts, and as long as they’re “alive” when they throw them back in the water, it’s counted as ethical harvesting. Usually, they just die a few hours/days later from having their hearts punctured and much less blood available than they’d like.
Also, their blood is wholly unnecessary for medical usage. Medical companies use the amebocyte lysate in their blood to detect endotoxins, but it’s pretty cheap and easy to synthesize amebocyte lysate in a lab without involving crabs. It is only being held back by the FDA because, before we could synthesize it, the blood made harvesters wealthy enough to lobby for the FDA to refuse approval of the synthetic version when it came along so they can keep pumping that blue gold. Feel free to correct me if I got anything wrong. I’m not an expert.
molten@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Pope Francis has died, the Vatican camerlengo, announcesEnglish3·11 days agoI’ve seen this one. Resurrected tomorrow.
Thanks but does anyone have a source for this? ‘Reports’ and ‘reason to believe’ are a little vague and could be fearmongering to hurt turnout. To be clear, I don’t doubt this at all, but I don’t trust anything with all the lies and bait nowadays.
molten@lemmy.worldto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What task would you excel in if you lived in the Stone Age?81·13 days agoHog cranking
molten@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•World's first 3D-texture UV printer for consumers now available for pre-order — prints onto 'nearly any surface'English6·15 days agoDoes this printer also leave a secret little signature with every print that can be traced back to you?
molten@lemmy.worldto A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•Okay, who had Trump loyalty pins for Apocalyptic-Bingo this Sunday? Games just getting started, stay tuned!621·18 days agoYo, please edit this post to specify that this isn’t in any way confirmed. Don’t need to be making me pull my hair out over one guy with a pin.
Give you a tenner for it.
Same vibes but serious. I give a 1 star and uninstall if an ad-supported application sends useless notifications.
molten@lemmy.worldto [Moved to [email protected], check pinned post.] iiiiiiitttttttttttt.@lemmy.world•"Will not charge unless plugged in"1·23 days agoYup. This guy has worked helpdesk.
God. I’m intimately familiar with this shit. The real kicker? The people they’re trying to please don’t have any real feelings about trans people. They have a shitty community, a friend group, that will accept nearly worthless awful people just because they’ll agree to an ideology who’s central tenants are faux masculinity and how the members may seem like they’re broke/sexless/stupid/unmasculine/different but that’s for an outward societal reason. And now they’ll do anything to fix that fake reason and focus elsewhere. They’ll be lying and making excuses at first but community support emboldens you and they will really really begin to believe it. And now, guess what they have that they’ve never had? They’re cool in that community. And now that’s everything to them. They’d die to keep that social status because our old caveman brain says that being accepted by your tribe is important and being rejected is death. The rest explains itself.
Literally my favorite deck.
Hannibal TV show quote. Great show.
A great quote from Hannibal (the show).
molten@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Puzzled CEOs struggle to navigate Trump’s new world4·27 days agoNah, they can just eat shit.
molten@lemmy.worldto /r/50501 Mirror@50501.chat•'I'm not here to say I told you so': Kamala Harris says this is what 'we knew would happen'English394·28 days agoLook. I voted for her. But she needs to either start doing something besides attending summits and “not saying I told you so” or just fade into the background. She’s gonna run again. She needs to actually nut up. Bernie and AOC are doing something. Cory Booker is trying to do something. She really hasn’t.
Need better damn headlines. Begging is maybe only technically correct but doesn’t capture any of the emotion or self righteousness of the situation. He ordered and acted the fool. But it was chastising like “why can’t you just say yes? I’m so nice to you and this is how you return the favor?”