Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes
MD = oMega Dumbass
Submitted 2 days ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Mr_Fish@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
While this may sound reasonable at first glance, it is only true most of the time. Sometimes a minute contains 59 or 61 seconds, even in Africa.
sushibowl@feddit.nl 1 day ago
Never in the history of time has a minute contained only 59 seconds. Even in Africa. And it has been decided that from 2035 onwards, we need to alter time itself in order to eradicate this irregular minute.
We can only hope that before that time, we get to experience one of these magical short minutes. It may happen yet.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
In Africa, height defends on how tall you are
TachyonTele@piefed.social 1 day ago
Savages
Ajen@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Elevation (really the force of gravity) has an effect on time, so that’s technically only true at sea level.
Mr_Fish@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If we’re including time dilation in this, so does velocity. This means that the velocity from earth’s rotation that you gain with elevation counteracts the loss in gravity to some extent (I don’t know what the total is, I can’t be fucked doing the maths). It also means that latitude effects time dilation because the equator is moving faster. This means that 60 seconds in south Africa is not exactly the same as a minute at the equator.
rockerface@lemmy.cafe 2 days ago
Together, we can stop this
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Antibodies are LITERALLY the point. It’s the mechanism by which our immune system identifies pathogens and triggers an immune response to them. If they diminish, your immune system is slower to respond and less effective at doing so. If they’re gone, it’s a of your immune system has never seen the pathogen before and has to adapt from zero again. Vaccines are a way to arm you with those antibodies without as much risk either from genuine infection or your immune system killing you in the attempt to figure out how to kill the new pathogen.
TL;DR: Vaccine=Antibodies=Good
Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
That doesn’t sound scary at all now that you say it that way.
Please make it scary again so I can fear it and believe it.
mycodesucks@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Don’t worry. The people who were really scared never stopped. They didn’t get their vaccinations (education) and are susceptible to all kinds of infections (bullshit).
TachyonTele@piefed.social 1 day ago
You're preaching to the choir, brother.
Midnitte@beehaw.org 1 day ago
Is she actually MD?
…that is scary.
Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 1 day ago
What do you call a med student that got a 1.5 GPA?
Doctor
Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Honestly I think schools these days are a test of patience and a test of playing social games. Not intelligence.
Midnitte@beehaw.org 1 day ago
Think that entirely depends on the school/program
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If you pay a University enough money, they’ll give you any title or degree you want.
Case in point, Trump has an economics degree from Wharton.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
Yeah like where is her degree from? They should be ashamed.
I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 1 day ago
profile.tmb.state.tx.us/PublicProfile.aspx?7471e1…
Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University
pugsnroses77@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
“people who drink water have more hydrogen dioxide molecules in them”
lividweasel@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Bro here drinking HO~2~
lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 days ago
It’s Lemmy, of course we’re going to see radicals.
pugsnroses77@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
guess i mustve because my brain doesnt work 🧚♀️
Chronographs@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Dihydrogen monoxide maybe
Salvo@aussie.zone 2 days ago
Hydronium H~3~O^+^ is the most corrosive acids. Hydroxide OH^-^ is the most corrosive alkaline.
If you mix them together in a solution you get Hydronium Hydroxide; also known and (2)DiHydrogen Monoxide.
ch00f@lemmy.world 2 days ago
incorrect
Asafum@feddit.nl 2 days ago
Bro did you know that just one molecule of H2O has more hydrogen atoms than there are stars in the solar system!? Like woahhhh
burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Look, video may have been responsible for the murder of one, but we still have plenty of them in the solar system.
Cruxifux@feddit.nl 2 days ago
It’s okay. I’m so bad at science I had to reread it like 5 times and type it out to realize why what you said was wrong.
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
There are more hydrogen atoms in a single molecule of water, than there are stars in the solar system
fartographer@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Microplastics are found in significantly larger numbers within the bodies of anyone living today than in people who died hundreds of years ago. Living without microplastics is lethal.
hakunawazo@lemmy.world 2 days ago
More people die by water than by gas.
Ban water!Jolteon@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
That’s definitely false. Only a small percentage of people globally die while in water, while nearly everybody dies in a gas.
Plus, you are ignoring the addictive properties of gasses. While withdrawal symptoms of moderately addictive water take days to get serious, the withdrawal symptoms of much more addictive gases occur within only a couple minutes.
vaionko@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
I’m not sure if that’s gaseous matter or gasoline, but I imagine both are true
wuffah@lemmy.world 2 days ago
As a professional fartographer, is that your official fartographical ANALysis?
fartographer@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Peer reviews of my research accuse my paper of circling the subject area. Once grant funding was removed and I was pushed out, I had to shit or get off the pot, so you may find my data sets complete even though I wasn’t able to fully finish identifying correlation/causation. It’s not exactly inconclusive; it’s more that the overall analysis was open but whole.
So, the research does support my claims, even though some have accused me of being full of crap.
~poop~
barnaclebutt@lemmy.world 2 days ago
How does a medical association allow this person to keep her license?
D_C@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Tricky, I’m no doctor but I think she’s not exactly incorrect. It isn’t ‘normal’ for us to have vaccines, etc, as vaccines are a -relatively- new thing for humans.
(However, it is better to have them than not.)
This is a “welllllll…she’s technically correct” situation. The problem I have is how she’s framing the issue and if I was her boss, or whatever, I would definitely be on to her to get an explanation of why she’s framing it in an apparently negative way.
girsaysdoom@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
They were new in the 1700s. They are not a new thing for humans today. If you don’t use vaccines you are an outlier to modern society.
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Devils Advocate here…
Hypothetically she is right. Making elevated levels of antibodies long after a vaccination or exposure may not be normal…
Now on the flip side, other things that aren’t normal. Air conditioning, 99% of children surviving past their first birthday, solar panels. Just because something isn’t “normal” doesn’t mean that it is bad.
It could also be that we’re being constantly exposed to COVID in 2025 since we failed to contain or eradicate it, and the population never got up to herd-immunity level vaccination rates. Which would explain why the immune system is still making spike protein antigens.
I’m also doubtful about the levels of spike protein antibodies she is claiming, I’d bet that there isn’t a peer reviewed article that supports that claim.
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
I came up with an analogy for vaccines that I’m thinking might actually penetrate the think skulls of some of these motherfuckers. If you agree, please feel free to use it… It goes like this:
When soldiers are preparing for their life in the service, what do they do? Stand around with their thumbs in their asses waiting for an enemy to attack? No. They train. They train day and night. They train until they have all of the maneuvers and tactics burned into their brains.
They use guns and tanks to defend.
So for defense, most would agree that the soldiers doing the fighting need two main things: training and equipment.
This is the same for your immune system. The equipment that your body needs to mount a good defence comes in the form of vitamins, minerals, and most importantly, calories to keep everything operating as good as it can.
Vaccines are the other side of that equation. They’re the training regimen for your immune system. It’s the practice run before going into a live-fire situation.
Vaccines, in and of themselves, can’t do shit to stop you from getting an infection, or a disease. That’s not what vaccines do. They only train the soldiers of your immune system to recognize and effectively attack the enemy. Without them, your immune system soldiers will take longer to react to a threat because it will simply take longer to recognise it and attack/eliminate it.
That’s it.
Zozano@aussie.zone 1 day ago
The problem isn’t with the understanding of how vaccines work, the reason idiots don’t want vaccines is they dont trust what you’re telling them is the case.
In their mind, these soldiers you’re training are better off being naturally fit and learning how to fight intuitively.
And this “training” you’re giving your soldiers, is actually just an Al-Qaeda’s communist lgbtqia+/? agenda being pushed by Joe Biden and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (in their mind).
Here’s the thing: you can’t use logic to reason someone out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into.
petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Yeah.
I think it’s important to give explanations like Mystik’s loudly and often, and maybe a bit quipier if it’s too long, because constant exposure to talk radio and other conservative propaganda is partly why they fell into this trap in the first place.
But if they’re not listening, you just gotta call them stupid weirdos and make them feel uncomfortable in public. Make their friends laugh at them, make it seem like your side is having more fun. The fear of being excluded will eventually pull them over, willingly or not.
Unless it doesn’t. In which case, we’re talking about a breakdown of the social order that is… I don’t even know, man. That might be beyond fixing.
Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Just show them this comic
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
Not bad. Grabbing them right by their military worship.
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
This is exactly what I’m thinking.
Thank you.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I tried using analogies to explain that I need antidepressants just like people need medicine for diabetes or blood pressure and my mother said I need just need to wear some necklace to fights the evil spirits and that chemicals are bad blahh blahh I just… 🤦♂️
You can’t fight conservatives with logic, and when there are crazies using mainstream media to amplify their craziness, conspiracy theories and spiritualism seems even more legitimte to them, they think that science and spirialtualisn are on equal footing and each is equally valid. 🤦♂️🤷♂️ (yea I used the facepalm emoji twice in one comment, because emphasis is needed)
SinAdjetivos@lemmy.world 1 day ago
No analogy will get through to them because you don’t understand the problem.
It’s not about a lack of understanding on how vaccines work or the basic physics/biology/etc. behind it. It’s about a not unfounded mistrust of media and medicine.
To use a medical analogy; you’re providing a vaccine after they’ve gone into sepsis and are surprised that it’s not curative.
yarr@feddit.nl 1 day ago
Are you trying to say my immune system has guns? Now I feel even more American!
JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
It’s more like giving the army steroids. Hm, seems like something right wingers would support. Wonder why?
Honytawk@feddit.nl 1 day ago
Yeah the normality would require us dying
I’ll take the antibodies every time.
Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Oh yeah? Today there are more people dying from dihydrogen monoxide than in the past.
Fedizen@lemmy.world 2 days ago
You want spike protein antibodies. That’s the point!
iAvicenna@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I somehow suspect she is not even using data conditioned by infection history and looking at a mix including individuals that might be recently infected with covid.
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
Years after? That would be great news.
I thought the protection period was way shorter, on the order of one year?
iAvicenna@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yea starts waning after a year but there is a phenomenon called back boost is that if you get reinfected a year later with another variant, this still boosts antibodies to the variant of infection. I suspect she might not have conditioned to select individuals with no recent infections. I hope she is not in some serious capacity for making healthcare decisions.
PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah, I didn’t know that. I’m glad I’m protected for longer. Thanks modern medicine!
Valmond@lemmy.world 1 day ago
& thank you Moderna medicine 😁 !
bollybing@lemmynsfw.com 1 day ago
One year is more like the protection is so good that you probably won’t even get sick.
I think it also depends a lot on the vaccine though. Something like meningitis or the MMR seem to be much much longer lasting, when you’ve had your shots you don’t need them again.
AbeilleVegane@beehaw.org 1 day ago
I think it depends on what you’re trying to prevent. Flu vaccines have to adapt to rapidly evolving new strains every year, but you would still be immune to the specific strain in the vaccine for a long period.
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Devil’s advocate, is she trying to say compared to those unvaccinated but still exposed to/have had the virus? Or people who were never exposed? Because that could maybe change the context. You would think antibodies from a vaccine would stay around the same length of time as those exposed to the live virus directly.
If she is talking about people never exposed than I have no idea what she is talking about.
dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
Added context: you are wrong, and uneducated.
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Snore doctor thinks she knows how the human body works.
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
People with hip replacements can walk again for years afterwards. This is not normal.
DragonSidedD@monero.town 2 days ago
Naturally , people die before age 45 and a hell of a lot of women and children do not survive the agony of childbirth