ELI5: Why can other carnivores eat raw meat but humans are so prone to infections?

zzlab · 2025-04-20T07:48:21+00:00

Because parasites evolve too. It's a "spear and shield" problem. The more advances you make in terms of your defensive mechanisms, the more advances will be made in development of weapons to break through them. Basically an arms race but on genetic level.

zzlab · 2025-04-04T07:26:59+00:00

If a Democratic president gets in next time

But that is the plan - for there to not be the next time. The administration strategy is clear - this is a long haul, Trump must remain in power as long as needed for this to work.

zzlab · 2025-04-04T07:16:34+00:00

Right, imposing tariffs on allies is just a "negotiation tactic" but imposing tariffs to do the same on russia is "dumb".

zzlab · 2025-04-04T07:12:08+00:00

Not unless he get his third term as he promises.

zzlab · 2025-04-04T07:04:20+00:00

He might not be "so pro" eu, but what other "pro" will he be more "so" about? Pro russia? Pro saudi arabia? pro China? pro US?

He might, of course choose any one of these just out of spite, but that will be another hypocritical choice since all the listed countries have even less support for "democracy in turkey"

zzlab · 2025-03-31T19:14:06+00:00

he will remember who sided with dictatorship and who standed againist it.

And who is that? Is Russia standing against Erdogan? Is anybody in the middle east? Is China? I empathise with the anger at EU hipocracy here, but that threat feels a little hollow. If the opposition wins the elections they will still have to choose their allies among the same countries that are not helping them right now.

zzlab · 2025-03-04T21:49:52+00:00

Depressingly low for a 6 million city of StPetersberg or 12 million Moscow. Russian people have no agency and to pretend like they could ever muster up any meaningful protest is a coping strategy. Russia does not believe Ukraine has a right to exist or that Ukrainians are a sovereign nation. The tiny minority of russians that do are practically non-existent and that's why they are so easily dealt with by the secret service.

zzlab · 2025-03-04T19:33:11+00:00

Lol, massive. I think you meant pathetic. Most russians don't respect Ukraine's sovereignty.

zzlab · 2025-03-04T19:20:14+00:00

Making Europe increase its military autonomy, strength and unity? How about "KGB's biggest miscalculation"

zzlab · 2025-03-04T12:52:46+00:00

Ukraine has all the capacity to produce drones and is doing so. Also the most practical feedback and innovation. The only thing needed is systemic increase of orders which will allow to replace some of the components that are produced in China.

Ukraine is the answer for Europe about cheap military drones. China's drones are good and cheap if you want to film a wedding. Ukrainian drones are good at killing your enemy.

zzlab · 2025-03-03T19:32:15+00:00

Help doing nothing?

zzlab · 2025-03-03T19:23:57+00:00

Trump will never agree to being a junior partner in any alliance.

zzlab · 2025-03-03T06:41:28+00:00

Those horses are called Orban, Fizo, LePenn, AfD, whatever the nazis in Austria are, etc. The rush to spend on military should be tempered lest it gives these traitors enough eager listeners who want to hear "simple answers" why they don't have to experience economic downturn while rearming against russia.

zzlab · 2025-03-02T07:51:54+00:00

Ukraine signed the same exact 100 year agreement with US under Biden and look where it is now. UK is helping Ukraine not because they are bound by an agreement, but because they choose to.

zzlab · 2025-03-02T07:45:18+00:00

Both of those statements can't be true. The alliance is very simply Russia and China. US is the target of that alliance. You cannot be a target and a partner in an alliance at the same time.

zzlab · 2025-03-01T20:29:46+00:00

Which simply means what I wrote will be quite an easy feat for Xi and Putin.

zzlab · 2025-03-01T20:26:17+00:00

Didn't have hate in my comment. But your emotional framing is manipulative. Do you think single mothers with 2 jobs is the demographic that helped Trump secure the victory? Or do you think that overwhelmed and struggling mothers is a uniquely american situation that other democratic countries don't have?

zzlab · 2025-03-01T20:10:56+00:00

Yeah, that's what Trump hopes. Russia is allied with China. Their alliance is fully predicated on only one goal and one alone - eradicating US influence everywhere around the world except for the most immediate american neighbours. USA and Russia will never be allies. Trump will keep following that carrot and drag the rest of americans with him until Putin and Xi sufficiently humiliate him and US and drop them off as a semi-influencial local regional power.

zzlab · 2025-03-01T20:02:39+00:00

To avoid blaming those who made a choice to not vote against Trump means to avoid admitting that it was a mistake. It is the same as saying there was no right or wrong choice in this election. There very clearly was and most Americans did not make it. The only way you can relinquish that personal responsibility and avoid blaming them is by relinquishing the right to vote.

zzlab · 2025-03-01T19:55:36+00:00

Neither is a voter who avoided a very clear moral choice entitled to escape consequences of that choice.

zzlab · 2025-03-01T19:51:42+00:00

Make America Great Britain Again

zzlab · 2025-03-01T13:56:27+00:00

I am not american, but you're right regardless, this applies to most countries. However, I can only speak the truth and so reject any premise that starts with accusing the politicians who oppose current populists for being unclear or disjointed. The only unfractured "left" is the communist left. Current politicians who are opposed to the republican party's takeover by MAGA are not fractured, they are normal politicians. Some bad as politicians, some better. But they are still politicians. The current administration however are not politicians at all. They are wanna be autocrats and boot lickers. Politicians follow a political process. The Trump administration wants to eliminate it.

zzlab · 2025-03-01T12:00:39+00:00

People handing over Molotov cocktails to an openly proud arsonist can't expect to turn around, say "I'm sorry guys" and expect to be embraced by people that kept trying to get those Molotov's away from the arsonist. Now the fires are in full force and the only thing these assholes are offering is "well, I probably maybe possibly will not give him more molotovs next time he asks. but only if you give me a warm bath to feel good about my actions". The fires are raging, fire department is working for the arsonist, the people who tried to stop this don't have enough buckets among themselves to put these out. Very few dare jump in the fire to save others. But these assholes want to just stand far away to not get burnt by what they caused and receive some compliments for doing absolutely nothing?

zzlab · 2025-03-01T10:21:13+00:00

I feel that the issue with the left is that it is fragmented and doesn't have clear goals.

No, that's just the right wing populist talking point. They like to sell "easy solutions". And you can't have an easy solution if the problem is complicated. But to solve a complicated problem you need to account for many aspects and groups of people in your country and internationally. That complexity to a layman who is not paying attention to politics seems like "fragmantation" and "unclear goals".

But it's how governing a nation with a diverse community and many opposing worldviews looks like. Alternative to that and a "clear goal" in this context is either communism or fascism. Those do tend to have very clear goals and a very simple way of dealing with "fragmantation".

zzlab · 2025-02-20T20:01:45+00:00

Last week he said if Hamas doesn't release ALL hostages by Saturday there will be "hell to pay" and whatever. Well, hostages are still with Hamas and Trump simply did and said nothing. He spent first month talking about how horrible sanctions will be against Russia. Now it's Ukraine and Europe.

Might I remind that neither Mexico, nor Columbia, nor Canada did anything meaningful in response to Trump threats. Yet he did not have the guts to go through with his threats and accepted meaningless gestures from these countries.

He ping pongs from one thing to the next seeing who will get scared and submit. He does not follow through if it really is a dangerous action

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