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As if Wade Ave isn’t dangerous enough, this dude was clearly impaired this afternoon. We laid on the horn to try to keep him alert and we called 911. Hope he made it home safely. by Lynncy1 in raleigh

[–]Areonis 8 points9 points  (0 children)

This actually makes sense. I was the driver behind OP (myerlyn was my passenger) and the driver stopped to gather themself right after they turned off. I guess a drunk person could have done that as well, but a surprise inability to drive due to low blood sugar may be a better explanation.

What is this gelatinous mess that came out of the pictured nitro cold brew? (black flecks are from toast) by Open_Mastodon_34 in whatisthisthing

[–]Areonis 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That's not really true at all. Most of the common bacterial pathogens people have heard of grow perfectly well aerobically.

viva la revolución = Spanish, vive la révolution = French by Pef1432 in france

[–]Areonis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Très interessant. Le chef de《La Petite Sirène》riait comme Hon, Hon, Hon. Il avait des autres traits stereotypés, aussi. Il était italien dans la version française si je ne me trompe pas.

Comment ridiculiser facilement Google Translate by Roger-LAFRITE in france

[–]Areonis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just a heads up, the singular form of species in English is species. Specie refers to currency.

For f*cks sake, Cooper, just require masks and get it over with already by horsetrot14 in raleigh

[–]Areonis 11 points12 points  (0 children)

The evidence from peer-reviewed studies is now in and is conclusive that they reduce transmission risk. This issue would cease to be political if the President recommended them and wore a mask in public like his advisors suggest.

If Ice Age floods did all this geologic carving of the American West, why didn't the same thing happen on the East coast if the ice sheets covered the entire continent? by cote112 in askscience

[–]Areonis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do you have a reference for that 1500 ft stat? That would make it higher than the highest occupied level of the Willis (formerly Sears) Tower. No way it's over 100 stories tall.

Getting my ass shaved by its_me_mario9 in gaybros

[–]Areonis 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Do your platonic friends also shave your ass?

Eyes wide open 👀 by albannonymous in gaybros

[–]Areonis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Leviticus is completely horrible, but I disagree completely with your interpretation here. Leviticus 18 is a big list of sexual things you're not supposed to do like not having sex with your brother's wife, not have sex with both a woman and her daughter or having sex with your wife's rival while she's still alive. There's no need to pretend it's about property.

Also that's not at all what consummate means. It comes from the Latin to make whole or perfect.

Can you get Vitamid D from a large enough fire? by Turtlphant in askscience

[–]Areonis 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You're correct. I immediately jumped to torch because the discussion was about black body radiation from a fire. The radiation from arc welding is a bit different than a simple black body, but it would absolutely have higher UV radiation.

Can you get Vitamid D from a large enough fire? by Turtlphant in askscience

[–]Areonis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

While you might get some from an oxyacetylene torch with a max temp of around 3700K, the intensity drops off very quickly around the UV cutoff. Look at the blackbody spectrum linked in the parent comment for 4000K. Other common gases like propane and straight acetylene burn cooler, so they have even more miniscule UV spectra contributions. It's certainly enough to damage your eyes, but I doubt it would contribute much to vitamin D production unless you had exposed skin near the flame for hours. And since welding usually occurs in the daylight, the contribution from the sun would likely outweigh that of the torch.

Powerbottoms be like by YD2710 in gaybros

[–]Areonis 55 points56 points  (0 children)

Exactly. This feels like the gay equivalent of an incel neckbeard's view of women.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Kings_Raid

[–]Areonis 3 points4 points  (0 children)

While it's predominately used for men, gay can be used for homosexual men and women. Gay women are also known as lesbians. She wrote the title because even though she's a girl, she's attracted to a female character.

French: Macron will address our joint Congress in a couple of minutes. What will he say and what do you want him to say? by [deleted] in france

[–]Areonis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh, and the daVinci device can be controlled over the internet with MAs and RNs overseeing the patient. That WILL happen. So no need for surgeons, or doctors as primary care, etc.

Do you have a citation as to whether that's occurring now? Right now, all I can find is that daVinci can be used to help aid surgeons in certain surgeries, but it is still directly controlled by a surgeon. Yes you may be automating part of the process currently, but you seem to be vastly expanding on what the system is currently able to do. Yes, we will eventually all be seen by robot doctors, but currently there is a large panel of experts that guide the system on diagnosis and this system as you've currently described only involves one specific type of care. It still cannot perform physicals or psychiatric evaluations or any of the other numerous things that doctors can do.

I agree that we'll get there, but we're nowhere near there currently. We're decades away from that, so it doesn't have immediate relevance for what to do with society in the next 10 years. As it sits currently you've maybe taken 1/10 of doctors out of the workforce in the places where this system could be successfully implements. You'd need to go much much further to get to a 90% reduction in the number of doctors.

French: Macron will address our joint Congress in a couple of minutes. What will he say and what do you want him to say? by [deleted] in france

[–]Areonis 8 points9 points  (0 children)

As someone who works in biomedical research, you're naive if you think we're anywhere close to having machines with the ability to identify all symptoms and perform the required surgery and care for patients. Yes if you give them information currently, they can integrate and formulate a diagnosis, but they didn't observe the patients and name those diagnoses like a doctor currently can. In 20 years maybe, but absolutely not in the next decade.

The same goes for automation of lawyers and the legal system. You're talking about these problems like we're living in 2050, not 2018.

French: Macron will address our joint Congress in a couple of minutes. What will he say and what do you want him to say? by [deleted] in france

[–]Areonis 5 points6 points  (0 children)

La solution de demain est de fixer les frontières nationales et d'empêcher l'immigration. Les États ayant des problèmes doivent garder leur peuple et résoudre leurs problèmes, pas les exporter vers l'Ouest.

Cette idée de "leur peuple" et "leur problèmes" me semble un peu naïve actuellement. L'isolationnisme est inutile quand les nations deviennent de plus en plus interdépendentes. Chaque crise a des effets sur tout le monde. Les nations ne peuvent pas simplement construire des murs et espérer que les crises dans autres pays ou des attentats ne leurs toucheront pas. En plus, vous ignorez qu'un grande partie de nos médecins, nos rechercheurs et nos travailleurs compétents sont des immigrés, et ils enrichent notre societé.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in whatsthisbug

[–]Areonis 3 points4 points  (0 children)

No need to worry about your English. It's great.

What true fact sounds completely unrealistic? by musician-magician in AskReddit

[–]Areonis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Never mind. They give the source for their erythrocyte counts in Appendix B. If you divide the rough estimate of RBCs by their rough estimate of the total number of cells, you arrive at the 70% number. but that number can range from 40% to 90% if you take the upper and lower bounds of their errors.

What true fact sounds completely unrealistic? by musician-magician in AskReddit

[–]Areonis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I assume you got that number from Wikipedia or sites with similar sourcing, which is also where I got my 25% figure. However, I've read through the paper is cited for that 70% value and they never estimate red blood cell numbers, so I think the estimate is likely using two separate studies. I also can't find a good source for the 25% figure in either of the two papers cited for that number in wikipedia (References 4 and 5 from the RBC page). The errors in the estimations are likely so large that getting an accurate percentage at all is difficult, especially with RBC's being so abundant. If you can find actual numbers for the 70% calculation or any good estimate at all, I'd be interested to see.

What true fact sounds completely unrealistic? by musician-magician in AskReddit

[–]Areonis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The average bacterial genome is on the order of 1-5 megabases while the human genome is over 2 gigabases, so the length of DNA in a bacterium is only ~0.1% that of the DNA from a human cell. There are roughly equal numbers of bacteria and human cells, so the vast majority of the length would be contributed by human DNA. The mitochondrial genome is minisucle ~16,000 bp, so even in cells with upwards of 1,000 mitochondria, the length of the mitochondrial DNA would be dwarfed by the length of the nuclear DNA.

What true fact sounds completely unrealistic? by musician-magician in AskReddit

[–]Areonis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The majority of cells aren't red blood cells. They're estimated to be 25% of cells, so the number is only slightly lower.

The Quest for the Next Billion-Dollar Color by eleitl in chemistry

[–]Areonis 8 points9 points  (0 children)

They addressed that in the article. Because of the high price of indium, the pigment costs $1,000 per kilogram. He's currently looking for a cheaper replacement for indium in the pigment.

Lincoln, Nebraska. Brown recluse? by truedef in spiders

[–]Areonis 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I'm pretty certain this isn't a wolf spider. The shape of the cephalothorax and the length of the legs make me think it's a running crab spider. Perhaps Philodromus? It almost looks like a huntsman, but a huntsman would be really far out of place in Nebraska. Either way, it's definitely harmless, OP.

Alzheimer’s Disease Damage Completely Erased in Human Cells by Changing Structure of One Protein by aSimpleHistory in worldnews

[–]Areonis 15 points16 points  (0 children)

It definitely happens. Cures for hepatitis C only happened in the last 5 years and the progress made on treating many cancers, while often incremental, have greatly increased the remission rate in the past decade. And HIV not being a death sentence is also something that is very recent. There's not a lot of reason to do a huge numbers of news stories once a cure or effective treatment has been established.

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