• Soapbox@lemmy.zip
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    8 hours ago

    This made me think of the Altered Carbon books, where some people intentionally get diseases for fun.

  • surph_ninja@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    It’s concerning for so many people in a science community to be acting like bioweapon labs are a conspiracy theory. They are, in fact, very real and spread across the globe.

    • Zron@lemmy.world
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      11 hours ago

      It’s one of those things where everyone just assumes it’s illegal and that their government wouldn’t do illegal shit.

      Protip: governments only care if you follow their laws, cause what are you gonna do about it?

      • surph_ninja@lemmy.world
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        2 hours ago

        There’s a reason the US builds their biolabs abroad. Supposedly, Obama established some in Ukraine, and that’s one of the main points that fueled initial escalations.

  • FauxPseudo @lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    You can’t fight them without making them. It’s a key step in the process be it for gain of function research, attenuated variants or antibody research. Unless you’re researching tuberculosis these things don’t live very long so you always need to create more.

  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 day ago

    This is 100% something I would say as a joke in a message on a dating app lol…

    Would probably need to add a delayed “lol” or something just so its clear

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      20 hours ago

      We used to have a pizzeria, a Mongolian grill, a bakery and a key and shoe repair shop in this town. Now - boom - everything’s a disease lab.

    • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
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      1 day ago

      I used to work at a botanical lab, but after it got infected, it turned into a disease lab too. I hope we managed to isolate it in time.

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      Wrong again. This person is a vet and has encountered a cryptid which is the source of all infectious disease, which takes the form of a Labrador.

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    1 day ago

    Allowing people to work for 11 hours is an infectious disease by itself.

    • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      I believe I read that those kinds of hours (and worse) are pervasive throughout the medical industry because the father of modern medicine used cocaine to stay alert and was wired nearly 24/7, and successive generations kept his insane schedule because it resulted in better outcomes (for everyone except the one working).

    • cRazi_man@europe.pub
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      1 day ago

      I look forward to my 12.5 hour shift later this week… With a full week of normal working days before and after.

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        1 day ago

        Keep up the status quo my friend.

        Why not look forward to a normal working day with normal working days before and after?

      • doingthestuff@lemy.lol
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        1 day ago

        Well that wasn’t my family. We’re introverted but we worked way more than ever thru covid. We funded some major home repairs.

    • doingthestuff@lemy.lol
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      Always has been. When they started this kind of research they knew diseases they were weaponizing could get out and they determined it was an acceptable risk.

      The elite are determined to do the “good work” of depopulating the planet and they don’t really care about the methods.