LOLTox

Thoughts, musings, and random tidbits from a Molecular Toxicologist with too much time for talking, singing, Disney, recreational reading, thinking, and of course, the internet.

[bakorrra2]

[dark-sappho]

"defend your thesis" why are you attacking my thesis

[omgchomps]

[petr1kov]

a glimpse into the darkest timeline

[girlblocker]

get vaccinated so we never have to see CNN talk about an omega variant

[kikokuso]

An omega variant would be one of the last covid variants and the trend is that covid is slowly becoming more infectious and less severe with each mutation. This would mean that the omega variant would spread and multiply extremely easily, but would also be weak and mild in symptoms.

Therefore we can consider the omega variant submissive and breedable.

[girlblocker]

op here. i want a lobotomy

[greenapplepunch]

THE WAY IT CUTS OFF AT THE END IS SENDING ME

[jkl-fff]

This. THIS. This encapsulates EVERYTHING that makes the prequel trilogy bad storytelling ...    but also, basically, a really funny shitpost in movie format.

[jaywings]

This is funny but we gotta give credit where credit’s due guys

This is this guy’s youtube channel

I don’t agree with all of his takes but I’ve enjoyed a lot of his videos

[baelonthebrave]

biologists will be like this is a very simplified diagram of a mammalian cell

chemists will be like this is a molecule

[blackwoolncrown]

okay but this is what the best render of a human cell looks like

They are not kidding

[cipheramnesia]

I’m full of these little guys? No wonder I’m fucked up.

[naswoop]

Reaffirming messages with the squad

[guerrillatech]

[redshift-13]

Prediction:

1. 30 countries will move toward this within the next 5 years.

2. It won’t even enter American political discourse for 5, 10 or 15 years from now.

3. If it’s proposed it will incite a moral panic, as the usual suspects raise the alarm about the specter of communism, a lazy labor force, etc.

4. Measures of lifespan, health-span and well-being will increase in the countries that adopt it.  These same measures will fall in the U.S. and virtually no one will notice.

5. The usual rhetoric about American exceptionalism and USA #1 will carry on as usual.

[northernlib]

I would say your prediction is dead-on.

[clonetrobed]

- A luxury you can’t live without? - A luxury I can’t live without? Coffee. I really like good coffee. - That’s not a luxury, you can get it anywhere. - …I like nice socks?

[aesopquarriman]

[id: gifs of larry king interviewing danny pudi. larry says, “that’s not a luxury, though. coffee and socks are not a luxury. danny says, “alright, give me a luxury. which - … what luxury should i have?“larry says, “a private plane.” danny says, a bit incredulously, “…. larry, i’m on ducktales.” end id]

[hearthburn]

Bear witness to the disconnect between a Boomer’s idea of luxury and a Millennial’s.

[ekjohnston]

“Larry, I’m on DuckTales” is something I enjoy saying when I suddenly find perspective.

[liberalsarecool]

💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

[naanviolent]

They could also call it "essential labor" since that's what it is, but they choose not to

[vivapinatafanfiction-deactivate]

sick burn

[whalebiology]

I’VE BEEN TRYING TO FIND THIS VIDEO FOR MONTHS

[millenniumtinnyrod]

I AM LITERALLY WHEEZING OVER HERE

[mikhi]

[harpsona]

Song fit for a Queen 🍷🔋

[knittinggiantbeanies]

[knittinggiantbeanies]

[narvalitus]

Why Do You Need To Do This

[knittinggiantbeanies]

[domonoadamu]

STOP THIS.

[knittinggiantbeanies]

[chongoblog]

Judy there are limits

[zomi-hime-deactivated20201001]

@lifeisdetermination

[officialfist]

@princessdawnauroreon

[lofibeatstogoferalto]

Here are my contributions

[joshuadduarte]

[taciturnaberration]

[liquid-geodes]

I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS PICTURE FOR MONTHS

[trashdorito]

THERES MORE

[pixelartpeach]

[grackky]

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post

[no-longer-another-bondi-blonde]

[goredanimal]

if i might add

[24ozsteak]

thinking about that WoW epidemic

[24ozsteak]

[swampgallows]

i was telling my dad, ever the skeptic, about corrupted blood back in March at the start of lockdown, and how the cdc studied it. how it can be used as a model for what to do and how people might act in the event of an unpredicted pandemic, and how people were playing out the same behavior during covid.

he said “so they fixed it, right? how did they fix it in the game?” and i told him the truth: they didn’t. they couldn’t control it. they had to reset the servers and roll them back to the time before the ZG encounter.

a CNN article recently referenced another “viral” event in world of warcraft: leeroy jenkins facepulling as a metaphor for the expedited reopening of businesses. what it fails to mention however is how the video ends. everyone who charges in with leeroy dies. he wipes the raid.

it really feels like that meme where it’s like “wow, cool video game reference!” and the point soaring over their head says THE DAMAGE WAS IRREVERSIBLE. THE THREAT SPREAD TOO RAPIDLY AND EVERYONE DIED.

[wheel-skellington]

weird reframing of the corrupted blood incident to make it seem, for some reason, like it was all selfish actions that people said was unrealistic because real people would help others. in fact its literally the opposite, it was used as real world data specifically because of the player driven efforts to fix it

[the-jellyfish-galaxy]

The reason this plague in the game was a good model is because we had all walks of life type people reacting in different ways.

Those with healing magic would go into infected areas to see if they could save the infected or at least keep them alive through the disease. Those that couldn’t do that tried to warn players before they entered infected areas. NPC could be infected and have “no symptoms”; they could be asymptomatic carriers and pass it to nearby players.

The best part though was by the time Blizzard had finally come out and said “if you are infected, try to quarantine yourself so you don’t spread it!!” the player base was ALREADY DOING SO. The players had recognized the problem and worked together in myriad ways to fix it.

They also had negative reactions as well, another reason this was such a good example of a real outbreak. They had a couple people report healers or alchemists who were claiming to sell cures/treatments to the disease that ultimately would do nothing. They had a group of players that would hide in the mountains near cities and just pass the disease back and forth between themselves and then raid cities to infect them all over again. They had higher level players start rebelling on the servers. Saying it was an overreaction and if you get it you’ll just die and you can come back and be fine, etc. Since they could get the disease and survive, ie it didn’t do enough damage to them since they were higher level, they felt it unnecessary to care about whether they got it or not. They complained about not getting to play like normal just because this plague could kill lower level players.

ALL of these reactions, good and bad, were real enough to what we assumed a real life epidemic would play out that people started to use it as a model. And now look, we have proof that it was accurate.

However, what we needed to learn from it was primarily that it wasn’t reversible. The bad reactions and lack of care from the few players that weren’t cooperating made it impossible in the end to contain. The only reason it was fixed at all is the game had to reverse time, literally just delete their entire game log a few weeks and time travel weeks into the past to before the plague even began.

Think about that.

The reason no one believed it was a valid model is that it was a video game and thus the consequences weren’t permanent. “No one would act like that in real life.” But look at how we are handling this outbreak. Is it not eerily similar?

And we can’t time travel.

[adobe-outdesign]

[i-wear-the-cheese]

“They complained about not getting to play like normal just because this plague could kill lower level players.”

This is the most terrifying one. This is how the rich and healthy are acting about the poor and disabled.