Yes, the vaccines are… Are you feeding that baby unpasteurized milk?!? What the fuck, guys?
Scientific unprogress...
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themeatbridge@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
Tbf, breastmilk isn’t normally pasteurized
ramble81@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
And it’s immediately consumed usually, or is frozen and its composition differs from cows milk and is designed for human consumption.
Don’t know why you brought that up, unless it’s to point out how stupid people are thinking unpasteurized cows milk is drinkable because human milk doesn’t need to be.
Vorticity@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
It typically is pasteurized if it comes from a woman other than the baby’s own mother. If it is donated milk, for example.
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Poe’s law, my dude. There are definitely dipshits who make the argument that milk doesn’t need to be pasteurized because breast milk isn’t pasteurized.
SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 hours ago
A joke doesn’t work when it’s indistinguishable from the stuff that people actually say
You are on a written medium, where there is no tone, body language, or otherwise wider context. What do you expect to happen? People can’t read your mind
Zephorah@discuss.online 17 hours ago
I lol’d.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
No we’re feeding the baby unpasteurized goats.
billwashere@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Also scientists today: Vaccines do not cause autism and actually work.
nialv7@lemmy.world 11 minutes ago
Yeah but it was 90s scientist who said vaccines caused autism though. Which just invalidates the point this tweet was trying to make.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
That was last year.
Now it’s… Tylenol?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I mean if it gets physicians to stop overprescrecribing medicines with it
ngwoo@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Sorry but due to new government policy it is illegal to study or even acknowledge weather
T156@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
You mentioned diverse weather conditions in your grant application, and we can’t have that.
Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
It took republicans a while to full dismantle everything. Their almost done now so, yay?
Tattorack@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Well, while I agree that things are pretty shit and regressive, let’s not downplay the achievements we’ve had in the past 10 years:
- Completion of The Standard Model of Physics with the detection of the Higgs Boson.
- mRNA technology, which is now a serious candidate for curing HIV, and is potentially capable of being used against most viral diseases.
- Imaging a black hole. Doing it again. Providing more proof of general relativity.
- Measuring gravity waves. Doing it as a normal measurement now.
- Salt batteries are finally reaching the market, which will eventually end the destructive mining and refinement of lithium.
- The James Webb Space Telescope, which was already making breakthroughs and creating new questions within the first 3 months of activation.
- Solar power becoming incredibly cost effective.
- Cybernetic limbs for the physically disabled. Yes, cybernetic limbs.
- Though overused; medication that effectively combats eating disorders.
These are just the ones I know from the top of my head.
mrbutterscotch@feddit.org 1 hour ago
Thank you. With all the awfull stuff going on the atm I tend to forget all the amazing things we humans still achieve.
Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Don’t forget CRISPR/Cas9 allowing reliable and effective gene editing in living organisms.
Thorry@feddit.org 13 hours ago
One of the most important ones that a lot of people use every day are the huge advancements that have been made in creating modern chips. It might not be something new and exciting, but it actually involves very groundbreaking work and huge breakthroughs. Not just the crazy machines that ASML makes, thought to be breaking the laws of physics just years ago. But also advancements in manufacturing, being able to create super advanced 3D structures and large scale manufacturing at a very high level, yet with a surprising consistency in quality and low cost. Not just for ever bigger, more efficient and faster chips, but also things like MEMS at tiny sizes and low cost.
Often it’s taken for granted what we have. People saying stuff to the sentiment that this isn’t the future, everything is boring, we haven’t got flying cars or people living on Mars. But the fact we all got this ultra powerful computer, with a high resolution high framerate self emitting screen, no active cooling, a bunch of sensors, lots of memory and storage and hyper connected to all sorts of networks, all powered by a high capacity high power low wear battery should be mind blowing. And not just that, but it fits in our pockets and they are so cheap everyone has at least one. Just because we’ve chosen to spec our tech tree into the small stuff instead of the large stuff, doesn’t mean we haven’t come a long way.
I think people look at the past at new “inventions” and think that’s the way progress is. New revolutionary stuff. It’s why people often invest in crowd funding of obvious scam products. They want something that changes the game. In reality it’s a lot of little steps that create a big change over time. And imho this has always been the case. We always hear about the Wright brothers “inventing” the airplane. Like they had some magic sauce and thought of something nobody else thought of before. Then made it and bam the world was changed. In reality they didn’t invent anything, they developed it. They made prototypes and iterative refinements. And they were far from the only ones working on the exact same concept. If they didn’t finish first, someone else would have within the same time frame. But the romantic story of two American blokes with the right stuff changing the world all on their own just sounds good.
So let’s also celebrate the thousands of smaller breakthroughs that got us where we are today.
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 11 hours ago
You’re right, I try to remind myself to marvel at the incredibly cool science we wield every single day.
But I’m also pained because I understand where the “boring future” folks come from too:
Where would we be if all this incredible technology was actually designed for humanity and not simply for profits at all cost? If optimizing for humanity was the target instead of exploiting it?
Smartphones, for instance. Small, networked computers! In your pocket! Wow! I’ve always wanted a pocket laptop! But they sure don’t feel like it. They’re designed to be content (mainly ad) delivery devices and data miners first, and useful machines second.
(There are some tiny niche actual-computer palmtops now which are pretty cool.)
I think that’s the part that gets people kinda depressive about modern science breakthroughs. The coolest stuff, the working folk don’t even get to tangibly feel much benefit from.
Discovery is locked behind paywall research journals and implementation is marketed in the interests of capital and used against us to make us work harder for longer hours for less pay.
What’s happening to space is a VERY stark illustration of all this. NASA unifying humanity and working globally on projects like the ISS was INSPIRING.
Now it’s all about private interests and their stupid desires, like space hotels for the elite.
I bet we’d marvel at technology designed for human beings, and not sheer exploitation.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
But the fact we all got this ultra powerful computer, with a high resolution high framerate self emitting screen, no active cooling, a bunch of sensors, lots of memory and storage and hyper connected to all sorts of networks, all powered by a high capacity high power low wear battery should be mind blowing.
I think it is still mindblowing in the gaming/simulation realm.
This is something that gets a lot of human passion poured in and (to an extent) gets hardware utilized quite efficiently. It’s also a miracle for number-crunching researchers, or those who’s only hope of investigating something is simulation, heh.
But yeah, it feels like other aspects got drowned in eshittification. My phone would be able to host the whole old internet, pretty much! There should be so much collaboration, but manpower is instead poured into reinventing corporate infrastructure like 100,000 times over?
Valmond@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Extreme longevity shows serious advancements (but in mice only).
Common let’s pile up some more good stuff!
infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 13 hours ago
Though overused; medication that effectively combats eating disorders.
I’d argue underused / inappropriately prescribed by social class. There are millions who could benefit from them who have poor access, while if you have money the Rx just gets thrown readily at your feet.
humanspiral@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
These are monetizable inventions, that are allowed, when big money backs them. Climate fuckery threatens incumbent big money, even when it threatens the little people’s property values and cost of living.
nBodyProblem@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Also, it’s engineers who land robots on other planets, not scientists
Sl00k@programming.dev 6 hours ago
No reason to pin two bad bitches against each other.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I’m not sure I mentioned anything about landing on other planets… However, engineering and science are closely related.
magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 18 hours ago
Internet was a mistake. It gave all the anti science people and crackpots a platform for their ideas.
ms_lane@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Making it easy was the mistake, the internet was great when knowing what tcp/ip actually is was a barrier to entry.
Gatekeeping isn’t a dirty word.
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
This also exposed just how many stupid people are out there. We all assumed that making infinite knowledge available would be the rising tide which lifts all boats; instead, the rising tide is a tsunami of idiocy and willful ignorance.
Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
Can we please just make network that has a higher barrier to entry than spending 1000 dollars on an iPhone but through a 4 year loans?
black_flag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 hours ago
I mean, a lotta fucking Nazis knew what TCP/IP was back in the 80s, too.
shneancy@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
this would would only help our sanity, the stupid people would still be stupid, just not as loudly
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 11 hours ago
In this regard, I absolutely have come to agree.
I always say: “The Internet should be for anyone! But it shouldn’t have been for everyone .”
godlessworm@hexbear.net 18 hours ago
the internet isn’t to be blamed. capitalism is. capitalists have weaponized the internet against the population and created these people because when people are uninformed they’re easier to exploit and manipulate
the internet is an incredible tool. it’s controlled by the worst pieces of shit satan could have ever imagined tho
CleverOleg@hexbear.net 17 hours ago
Right I understand and sympathize with OP’s point, but there’s probably zero chance I’d be a commie without the internet.
lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 hours ago
Tbf, the same was said about the printing press back then
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
Only a rich crackpot could distribute pamphlets claiming colloidal silver cures cancer, and then they’d still only reach people in walking distance.
Now, any moron can reach literally the entire world at no cost or effort.
magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 17 hours ago
Carving symbols on stone tablets was a mistake
1984@lemmy.today 18 hours ago
Its not anti science to not blindly trust science. Its actual science to try and verify observations. Sure, most people dont have those skills to properly know what they are observing, but I think its good if people try to learn.
I learned tons of stuff about the common pitfalls about measuring the curvature of the earth by looking at flat earth arguments and seeing what science says about them.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
Using lasers to track earth curvature across a big lake for example, absolutely fascinating to see why it doesnt work as you may expect.
Why would it not work as I expect? I’m expecting some beam decoherence, and possible deflecting due to temperature differences over a cold lake.
OmnipotentEntity@beehaw.org 17 hours ago
My brother is a crank because ChatGPT enables him.
Zephorah@discuss.online 16 hours ago
I’m still convinced flat earthers are an internet hoax/troll.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 16 hours ago
I’ve seen a super genius flying with a bubble level.
MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 11 hours ago
am I old or does nobody remember the name Dolly?
SethTaylor@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I seem to recall something about her working 9 to 5 and having an arch-nemesis called Jolene.
MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 16 hours ago
Scientists once again remind you to not swim in shit.
Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
jaybone@lemmy.zip 14 hours ago
The CDC told me it was ok. Polio is good for you because it prevents autism.
Midnitte@beehaw.org 11 hours ago
Polio is good for you because it prevents autism.
I guess that is technically true. Can’t have any autistic children if youre dead.
Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 hours ago
I feel bad for field researchers that have to do studies on critically endangered species
Imagine trying for days to find a specimen and then end up having to reclassify it as extinct
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 16 hours ago
Wrong. Flat Earthers do think the Earth is round.
The rest of us think it’s spherical.
witty_username@feddit.nl 14 hours ago
Latest and greatest flat earth is that Antarctica is a wall that encircles us all. Well, it encircles the land that us normies are allowed to know about. Beyond the Antarctic wall lies a vastness of land that us normies are kept unaware of. I am not sure why. It was something to do with the riches of the secret land. Also, no one knows how far the land stretches. So the earth is flat but we don’t know how far it goes so we don’t know what the shape is really.
Just to be perfectly clear: I am not a flat earther and I don’t believe any of the above. It’s a load of (very entertaining) nonsense. Keep the documentaries coming please!cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 12 hours ago
I have also heard the story, that the earth is in fact a sphere, but the rest of it is covered in ice also known as the antarctica
UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
Oblong spheroid to be pedantic.
I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 14 hours ago
I have an oblong hemorrhoid
EchoCranium@lemmy.zip 10 hours ago
I work with someone who believes the flat earth bullshit. Our company makes pharmaceutical actives, pretty much everyone there has degrees in science. Yet one guy persists with “the earth is flat”. I’m incredulous over the willful ignorance toward reality.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
Nice Try NASA, we all know the truth that Earth is a Donut. This is why cops think the own the planet.
Checkmate, FBI!
Corelli_III@midwest.social 16 hours ago
pretending that generation didn’t hobble science for anti-intellectual cultists is just bullshit
what happened to stem cell research in the USA exactly?
Valmond@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Wasn’t it bush that shut it of to get fanatic religious votes?
Corelli_III@midwest.social 13 hours ago
that it was, Valmod
Lo, I remember mine father watching him announce it on cable news while I wisely played Tekken on ps1 instead
it sucked, my dad explained all the medical research that was going to be impacted
i mained Jack as was the style of the time
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
sad Jesus noises
AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
Scientists of tomorrow: Colloidal silver cures all disease unless you are possessed by demons or a witch.
If witch, please turn your self into authorities for immediate incineration.
If demons, please report to your nearest wellness camp for rehabilitation.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 hours ago
“Scientists”, media, politicians, etc… today: I’ve created an artificial intelligence!!!
Actual scientists: The planet is being destroyed.
People: I don’t know who to believe.
Seriously “science” is so full of grifters that I’m not surprised flat-earthism is flourishing.
magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 14 hours ago
Yeah there’s a problem with how science is portrayed to the general population. Most science is ”boring”. People want to hear about aliens, time travel and parallel universes.
Graphs showing that we should cut down our meat consumption is boring.
Stories about how a secret world state (possibly extradimensional lizards) is hiding a big ice wall from us is exciting.
Valmond@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
And robots. Why are there so few news and stories about robots 😥
Abrinoxus@lemmy.today 16 hours ago
Second part should be “And climatechange is real.”
onslaught545@lemmy.zip 16 hours ago
Third part should be, “We pasteurize milk for a good fucking reason.”
alzymologist@sopuli.xyz 18 hours ago
For the last time?! These “modern scientists” are sure not history researchers then!
ArtVandelay@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
“for the last time…so far”
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Free speech is a double edged sword
betanumerus@lemmy.ca 17 hours ago
Spelling out each decimal of bitcoin instead of using standard notation…
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
is that what your satanic sheep told you?
Una@europe.pub 18 hours ago
mrrrreow
omniman@anarchist.nexus 1 hour ago
Earth is not round it's imperfect circle