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• coyootje@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Lol I love how it says "considered one of the more humane ways to sacrifice laboratory rodents. Who are they sacrificing them to? The great God of science?

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  • Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s what it’s called when it’s inhumane to let them live after an experiment.

    Certain rats have incredibly elevated chances of growing tumors, for example. Letting them grow old is basically torture, so…

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    • Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Still wouldn’t call that a sacrifice… That’s a mercy killing.

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      • Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s archaic euphemistic jargon, and that’s why you generally don’t see it used outside of the niche.

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      • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        At first I thought it was a bad translation but the site says they’re HQed in Chicago so that seems a little unlikely (but not impossible). I wondered if it was the technical term (similar to how “spontaneous abortion” is actually a technical term for a miscarriage, shockingly), but I didn’t immediately find anything, but I also didn’t look super hard.

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    • lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Still feels icky to make that decision for another creature. I know people have to do it for pets all the time and I’ve had to do so myself but I still second guess that all the time… I wish there was a way to communicate with them to find out what they want.

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  • Hadriscus@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I instinctively read “considered one of the more humane ways to sacrifice laboratory students”

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    • anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes, for mild winters and plentiful harvests

      Bastards, we need harsher winters over here. Otherwise the moskitos and invasive species get even more numerous.

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    • Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      For Reviewer B to accidentally to misclick and lose all their notes.

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  • phdepressed@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, because it’s fast and little pain can be felt before its dead. Guillotines were developed to be a more humane execution for people.

    “Physical methods” (Guillotine, cardiac puncture, thoracotomy, etc) are usually a secondary confirmation of death after lethal ketamine/xylazine cocktail injection, isofluorane, or CO2 inhalation.

    And yeah we’re sacrificing them to the science god to try and make new discoveries and new therapies. We’re also trying to develop ways to avoid using organisms such as organ on a chip or multiple organ on a chip systems but thats expensive af and not yet sufficient quality to replace organism testing.

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    • SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I put my organ on a chip all the time, but I think you might not be talking about pringles here

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      • phdepressed@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Think like a microchip but for cells. These organ on a chip contain various cells to emulate the function and response of an organ.

        I recommend finding a different hobby as salt up your urethra sounds unpleasant. But I mean if your partner is into it whatever.

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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I was going to say, I have a similar madame guillotine at home but mine is for the paper.

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