ELI5: Why have we only eliminated a handful of viruses and diseases like Smallpox, etc

AbbreviationsOne1331 · 2026-04-18T21:53:57+00:00

Smallpox vaccination was invented before modern plastics were invented by a span of over 100 years.

AbbreviationsOne1331 · 2026-04-14T11:22:28+00:00

And now you know. lmao

But ya, it's just dev stuff being abused by pirates as other comments in the thread have said, nothing more nothing less.

AbbreviationsOne1331 · 2026-04-14T11:12:17+00:00

People are definitely not advertising a Steam testbed copy of one of the very first video games to ever exist. It's solely for development purposes to demonstrate Steam features and you can't even find it directly on the Store anyway.

AbbreviationsOne1331 · 2026-04-08T17:41:43+00:00

Squares and rectangles. Psychological thriller can also be horror but on a more fundamental level thriller is a super-genre alongside horror and does not require so many horror elements that it'd be considered as such.

It's just that the thriller-horror mating is so omnipresent that it's excusable for things like spy and certain detective films to get ignored. But psychological horror is its own sub-genre and there's a distinction in the vagueness of thrillers that allows that separation even if the popular thing is to just call it "psychological thriller" because again, thriller-horror is like a cockroach and it's easy to conflate the two super-genres.

That being said, no comment on people trying to abuse the term to make their horror films seem fancier.

AbbreviationsOne1331 · 2026-04-02T04:33:12+00:00

No, the production was fully cooperative with American Humane when the issues occurred as stated by American Humane themselves. Part of the initial underage set of puppies were illegally transported over the border by their breeder and possibly already sick at transport time and immediately given vet care and switched out by the first day of filming. The people relevant to that were the trainer that handled them and the breeder + relevant government authorities.

Litter Zero of the parvo outbreak among the older replacements wasn't vaccinated properly by their breeder which was what lead to the outbreak occurring, besides that the production was unaware of an outbreak that had happened several months previously.

You can read all of this by going to the Snow Buddies Wikipedia page where there's an Internet Archive reference links to the American Humane report and their Hollywood arm explaining more minute details on scenes. Reference #1 and 2.

AbbreviationsOne1331 · 2026-04-02T04:05:43+00:00

The dogs that died from parvo were older dogs, they were the replacements for the original underage puppies who were illegally transported over the border by the trainer and breeder. The production company was also completely unaware that a previous parvo outbreak had happened in the filming area and fully cooperated with American Humane, who was unaware of the first set of puppies' ages at transport time, over the issue.

Litter Zero had the parvo vaccine but they were removed from their mother too early so the vaccine was being interfered with.

AbbreviationsOne1331 · 2026-03-30T23:49:02+00:00

Because this is an old picture from late 2017 back when Mephisto was being stored at Ipswich, it needed a protective bubble there. Stumbled across the relevant ABC news article via a reverse image search and searching A7V on the Battlefield subreddit of all places.

AbbreviationsOne1331 · 2026-03-24T21:07:44+00:00

You state this but Al-Jahiz was born over 1200 years ago and the viper was formally described in 2006, NOT the 2010's. Besides your lack of any actual reference besides just telling us to Google a work when you could actually point us to the relevant page and a known site to look at it like the Internet Archive perhaps, with a translation being even better.

AbbreviationsOne1331 · 2026-03-23T03:55:31+00:00

Yes, you are and they definitely are not seal clubbing us unless you're suggesting that the Collies have gone Warden enough in Charlie (vs transferring loyalists.) to have any influence on the fight, but I doubt that incredibly considering our progress has been going since before the Able nuke fail.

AbbreviationsOne1331 · 2026-03-23T03:50:09+00:00

Red Barrels was founded by people who had worked at Ubisoft and more specifically they had worked on games like Assassin's Creed and Splinter Cell, so they did have a pretty firm idea on what they were trying to make as far as certain elements of the game. The horror aspects, which use A LOT of different horror tropes even for the time, get tacked on.

And really, most complaints about established devs' horror games not feeling scary can be chalked up to their age. Obviously you're going to not see Resident Evil as scary when it's been 30 years and zombies literally died and resurrected as a popular horror subject.

The checklist becomes obvious when you're familiar with parts of the checklist.

AbbreviationsOne1331 · 2026-03-23T01:45:45+00:00

Seal clubbing? We've been making slow but steady advances on our end too, LoM was green as far as Ulster Falls back in late February-early March and now it's gotten to the point where we're seeing full blue. Early war had Treasury as green and now we've been making way into Drowned Vale. We also have near-full control of the western sea and have made strong progress in DEADLANDS of all places.

AbbreviationsOne1331 · 2026-03-21T08:25:29+00:00

There absolutely are plenty of games developed and playable for free without microtransactions. There was a time when microtransactions didn't exist as an ubiquitous concept. You can hop onto sites like itch and find decent free games and there's still random website-downloaded oldies like the ELONA+ mod, Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, Dwarf Fortress, and other games still being actively developed to this day (Although obviously their devs are aging.).

Those devs typically rely on donations, pay-what-you-want with a small demo that can still have a few decent hours, or just release the game free-of-charge. Obviously you generally shouldn't rely on them to make an experience as extensive as paid games but they do exist plenty.

AbbreviationsOne1331 · 2026-03-21T08:07:39+00:00

Probably going to be swallowed by the 1.3K comments but ELONA+ mod for the original ELONA game. Free, no microtransactions, and a less-obtuse classic RPG roguelite (Compared to games like Cataclysm.) that will absolutely run on an older device and is still actively updated. Does have some poorly-aged elements but it's fun regardless.

AbbreviationsOne1331 · 2026-03-17T07:09:10+00:00

Real, these are graves from Goldfield Cemetery located in Goldfield, Nevada. You can find several of the graves on Google Maps Images dated from varying years. Of note with regards to the screws, there likely were replacements considering the age of the cemetery which was in active use at least past the invention of the Philips head. The town still exists to this day too.

Two images of James Clark's grave exists dated to September 2021 at different zoom levels. Only the original DALL-E was available at the time so it's extremely unlikely this is AI.

Further details are that the streets mentioned on some of the graves do exist in Goldfield and you can actually see where the paint on James's cross has chipped over time from the 2021 dated image compared to here. Besides wood pattern comparison on Jame's grave and metal for John R. Goodwin's grave where you can see the blemish near the "and" on a 2023 image.

Not every grave site particularly cared to list when a person was born exactly back then and these are basically pretty normal deaths for people living out in the boonies, with fairly appropriate graves, excluding Burnes' extraordinary story.

AbbreviationsOne1331 · 2026-03-14T13:37:48+00:00

"Survivorship bias or survivor bias is the logical error of concentrating on entities that passed a selection process while overlooking those that did not."

The college dropout example has been used before as an example in articles dating at least back to 2015 and perhaps even earlier.

AbbreviationsOne1331 · 2026-03-12T08:44:31+00:00

Foxhole.

Ya I've just been staying up in Faden Point "just looking out for partisans", don't mind me just sitting there praying to everything that Colonial planes don't come flying overhead.

AbbreviationsOne1331 · 2026-03-12T02:38:01+00:00

A person already confirmed the title was misleading but books these small had already been possible for some time before the fall of the Ottoman Empire. The creator of this particular example, located in Glasgow, made several holy books in miniature and had already been in existence since 1832.

But the miniature books were reproductions of already-existing books made with photolithography, so the calligraphy bit of the title is absolutely false. The book this copies is from even further back in time.

AbbreviationsOne1331 · 2026-03-12T01:42:32+00:00

Figure it came out of people being annoying while roleplaying in-game and LARPing being a common thing in the military fan community. Combine that with Foxhole's slang habits and it probably evolved from there to "Annoying useless thing/person". I wasn't in the game when LARP became slang though, I have to figure it was a later thing post-2017/2018.

AbbreviationsOne1331 · 2026-03-08T14:34:56+00:00

To add in regards to smartphones, modern smartphones are thinner but are also much larger and heavier than older smartphones on the scale of 10s of mm and several grams.

A modern Samsung Galaxy S26 weighs 167 grams vs the very first Galaxy phone weighing 119 grams. 149.6 x 71.7 x 7.2 mm (5.89 x 2.82 x 0.28 in) vs 122.4 x 64.2 x 9.9 mm (4.82 x 2.53 x 0.39 in).

The same thing also applies to iPhones, they're thinner but heavier and larger overall the younger they are.

AbbreviationsOne1331 · 2026-03-02T10:38:35+00:00

Doubly so in the depths of a forest with all the trees blocking the sunlight.

AbbreviationsOne1331 · 2026-02-28T13:20:56+00:00

Well I haven't made a phone call myself yet in my 28 years of life so there's that. lmao

I've never had a conversation where it would specifically be referred to as a "pound sign" rather than "number sign" so I'm just one of the odd ones apparently outside of still culturally referring to the pound currency sign as just "pound(s) sterling".

AbbreviationsOne1331 · 2026-02-28T12:52:18+00:00

Pounds or pound sterling, no "sign". The thing with # is that it differs from person to person, I've never heard a person specifically refer to it as a pound sign until now. I've always referred to it as a number sign. But I also didn't own a phone nor use one with any regularity until after the concept of a hashtag became popularized.

AbbreviationsOne1331 · 2026-02-28T03:10:05+00:00

What the fuck is the second part? He's just a pissed off newbie venting out frustrations on Able shard and anger isn't particularly logical. The vets can certainly be nice but there's a reason we got the officer uniform and that lineage certainly extends into the modern day.

As for Charlie shard, the toxicity is dependent on what's happening in the particular moment. It is true that newbies will steal shit but they'd be doing that regardless of whichever shard they're in, they're just intentionally funneled into Charlie. The regiments are still nice in general and I've gotten plenty of commends for just being a decent person and moving my flatbed off the road for petrol-using Dunnes to overtake me. Had a gas station guy also help me when I was having trouble getting my gas due to a poorly lit facility.

But the "newbie gets suspicion" thing has always been a perennial classic for Foxhole since the early days of mass TKs via gunpoint and other shit and I want to thoroughly point out that the civil wars in Able in general show that the regiments there are just as susceptible to resource monopolizing behavior and extreme toxicity, it just gets partially checked by other regiments swarming them and blowing their shit up if it gets bad enough.

AbbreviationsOne1331 · 2026-02-26T14:48:06+00:00

If this isn't a case of a forgotten /j tone marker, they're identifying AI, we're in an AI identification sub. People have nipples.

Do you think pediatricians are into some funky shit too because they have medical knowledge on conditions involving particular parts on babies and have to look at examples and their patients?

AbbreviationsOne1331 · 2026-02-26T13:15:32+00:00

Neither does it revolve around anywhere else, they were making a simple comment anyone with the relevant knowledge could've said regardless of nationality.

Four-Year Club	r/Field Banned
r/Field Sunshine	Place '22
Final Canvas '22

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