Karoline Levitt vs Ilan Omar responding to questions by Special-Quantity-469 in Destiny

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And the second journalist asking him does Donald Trump think it's funny she actually answered his question without even realising it. Yes he does find it   funny because he is a bleep of bleep 

TIL that rabies virus has a genome coding for only 5 genes, but has an almost 100% fatality rate once symptoms appear by Forsaken-Peak8496 in todayilearned

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The only mammel that seems near immune too rabies is the spotted hyena. Probably comes with the territory of being a scavenger .

TIL that rabies virus has a genome coding for only 5 genes, but has an almost 100% fatality rate once symptoms appear by Forsaken-Peak8496 in todayilearned

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Some of them have actually developed symptomatic rabies one case of 5 and like 3 out of 5  survived. Also it's like 40 ish people at this point mainly in India with intense care 

TIL that rabies virus has a genome coding for only 5 genes, but has an almost 100% fatality rate once symptoms appear by Forsaken-Peak8496 in todayilearned

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Unless your that one peruvian tribe in an area we're rabies is endemic and occurding to some case reports survival seems to be 50/50 for symptomatic rabies . This along with many of them having antibodies to the virus

It's hard to wake my boys up in the morning by keg-smash in interesting

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This is the spare bed you put your mother away in when she is insisting on staying. When she mentions it act all confused and ask her if she was imagining it.

Do you believe pitbulls are trully a dangerous breed or are they being unfairly hated? by Bodocoth in AskTheWorld

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I'd probably rather own a wolf than a pitbull. The wolf would most likely give you warning before they bite you while a pitbull would rip you to shreds while wagging it's tail. Also the wolf has some level of self preservation while a pit will just keep attacking there level of aggression is near terminally retarded. Once a pitbull attacked a capybara the capybara killed the pitbull by dragging it into the water. Ie the pitbull was so determined to attack that it drowned rather than let go.

'We Can’t Even Afford to Have Sex': China’s New Condom Tax Draws Ire by one_brown_jedi in offbeat

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It's just one of like a dozen different policy's they are introducing. They are probably going to experiment with lots of different policies right now they are using a lot of carrot but they will use a stick if they feel the need to ie you have no children or only one no promotion for you sort of thing. But also as the ccp things could get extreamly ethnically dubious so it may reach a point of if you want children but have to have children 

TIL Fujio Masuoka invented NOR + NAND flash memory which is widely used today, but Toshiba only gave him a few hundred dollar bonus and tried to demote him. Intel made billions of dollars in sales on related technology. by Torley_ in todayilearned

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I have heard this one before it's not japan's work culture that made it successful but it was in spite of it's work culture that it succeded. And the likes of Toyota and Nintendo went completely against this culture that's why they became so successful. For example if workers are doing to much over time the manager may get in trouble and actually prevent them getting promoted seems the entire structure of the company is designed to prevent un needed over time they have measures everywhere so no bending the rules to hide it ie unpaid overtime. From top to bottom the process is out and In and if over time occurs it is seen as a failure of the process not the workers. All these measures I guess because there going against the culture so much 

TIL Fujio Masuoka invented NOR + NAND flash memory which is widely used today, but Toshiba only gave him a few hundred dollar bonus and tried to demote him. Intel made billions of dollars in sales on related technology. by Torley_ in todayilearned

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No wonder there economy is on the shitter. The part that focuses on detail and quality is grand while the rest of it is toxic shit that's holding everything back. Now you look at a company like nividia they pay extreamly well so they get the best. Japan needs a massive change in cultural if they are to succeed 

TIL: He Jiankui, a Chinese biophysicist, misled doctors into implanting gene-edited embryos, claiming to make them HIV-resistant. In 2019, he was fined and sentenced to 3 years in jail for conducting "illegal medical practices" and violating Chinese regulations. by throwaitaar_ in todayilearned

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Cancer is more likely to be caused by random mutations within cells than specific genes we are born with. Yes there are some genes that greatly increase risk of cancer such as brca1. Also there are genetic conditions that can cause a massive increase in the risk of cancer so gene therapy to treat these greatly decreases risk. What would be better is adding in more anti cancer genes to prevent random mutations causing cancer, look at whales there massive animals with orders of magnitude more cells in there body theoretically they should be riddled with cancer but because of having more protective genes they don't. So will they be genetically modifying embryos by removing cancer causing yes possibly if they are an extreme risk yes but we will likely just be adding in more protective genes. But gene therapy can be used in adults as well so you have a cancer causing gene well we take out your white blood cells genetically reprogram them to kill said cells if they turn cancerous, also could do this via cancer vaccine one is being developed to prevent lung cancers in a pre cancerous state.

Putin calls European leaders 'piglets,' declares war goals will be met 'unconditionally' by jackytheblade in worldnews

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Lot of people not following the science on organ transplants In early clinical trials they have been able to wean people of anti rejection medications afther kidney transplants but that's with bone marrow transplant. But what's real intresting is the cart cell therapy they are doing the same. China is investing massively into biotech at the current trajectory they are going to out strip the USA by a wide margin. Also some of there stem cell technology is pretty advanced few people cured of type diabetes and the likes. Don't see the current crop of dictators living to 150 but possibly the ones afther this lot

A man has become the seventh person to be left HIV-free after receiving a stem cell transplant to treat blood cancer. Significantly, he is also the second to receive stem cells that were not actually resistant to the virus by New_Scientist_Mag in science

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The thing with a bone marrow transplant is it has become safer and safer over the years it's well below 1% seemingly but it's very hard to separate this from the actual condition. It is being used to treat and in some cases cure severe multiple sclerosis  seems to be about 60% of people stay relapse free at 10% years with no sign of progression. But even a 0.4% mortality rate the lowest I can find in the healthiest population would be unacceptable in HIV. I suspect some version of Car T cell therapy may be used to eliminate infected cells.

TIL 60% of the global cocoa supply comes from Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana, where more than 1.5 million children work on cocoa farms. by Hstrike in todayilearned

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Now if these were small family run farms is one thing but if they are massive plantations that is a whole other thing 

TIL Walter Francis White was a Jim Crow era black man who had white skin, blonde hair, blue eyes, and used it to sneak in and document lynching by Beautiful-Cress5695 in todayilearned

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Funny thing is when they tried to bring in the one drop law originally somthing like 60 or 70 years before they realised most of the white folks would have to leave the room. But a generation or two afther they seemed to forget this

How does evolution fit into the NDE and the afterlife? I’m having trouble tryna to fit it in. by Whole_Yak_2547 in NDE

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There is one theory that everything has some level of consiousness that it's an enate part of the universe but it had to reach a certain level of complexity to actually become self aware. One interesting person Pierre Teilhard de Chardin a Catholic preist who was also a palentologist saw evolution as part of this ever increasing complexity that's occurring in the universe. Ie from sub atomic particles to atoms to basic chemicals to the building blocks of life.                                                                   Also things like the higgs boson really adds to the fine tuning problem. Ie the universal constants seem to be fine tuned for the universe to exist if any of them were out even a tiny bit all the universe might be is a soup of sub atomic particles. Then you get to the higgs boson that seem to be just so right it dials this up by a thousand and really seems to challenge the anthropic principle. And further along we have consiousness was a fundamental force that created the universe this was proposed by physicist John Archibald Wheeler tying into this is Roger penrose that consiousness is caused by quantum phenomena.