As a non-shitpost tid bit, this picture is depicting Edward Jenner, who made the first vaccine by inoculating people (first milkmaids, then anyone) against cowpox. Basically just took a scalpel and took some material from the sore on a cow with cowpox and scraped it on people.
Turned out pretty effective - and down the line we have vaccines
I imagine he might not be the first person who did, the rest are just lost to history due to lack of observable / recorded results.
Earlier generations of people tended to have kind of a general, observation based understanding of that kind of thing where cause and effect was generally observed but people didn’t understand the why of it. People even very early on knew that if you caught a disease once you were less likely to catch it severely again, and they knew that if you quarantined a group of people the disease would eventually “die out”, but they had no real idea as to why in either case.
People have always been able to understand patterns like that, it’s just really hard to develop germ theory without microscopes, and they need a lot of supporting technology before you can make them.
Variolation (introducing the smallpox virus through the skin, not respiratory tract as its natural spread would be, usually leading to a milder infection and subsequent immunity) had been around for a while. Jenner’s accomplishment was successfully using the related cowpox virus to grant immunity to the smallpox virus, based on observations that people working with cattle rarely caught smallpox. This eliminated many of the downsides of variolation (eg. risk of breakthrough disease, and variolated individuals being infectious for smallpox for a while).
That’s the future liberals want for our country! Didn’t you wonder why a so called “global pandemic” happened in election year? What’s the global catastrophe of this election? Climate crisis happening during election season? Wake up! #awakebutnotwoke
How can you not? Although white males are currently and most (all?) of human history have been top of the power pyramid and have been complete assholes to others with that power. And should be rightly called out on their abuse to others. That doesn’t exclude others from being shitbags when they get or have power over others.
The only logical conclusion is the ALL humans are generally shits bags when they have the power to be. (Taking into account your normal exceptions and outliers to the rule of course.)
Such a sad person, that’s all you got from my comment. Try thinking next time. Nothing I said, indicates I believe in “all lives matter” quite the opposite in fact.
kiiiiinda…but there’s a not insignificant number of women actually won’t either, probably more related to the “6 foot mininum” you see on tinder profiles a lot.
The good news is that he’s really careful with his toys. It’s rare that he destroys one, and even then it’s more from wear and tear, not outright shredding it like many dogs. So the fish might still work!
Yeah. These are actually lithium rechargeable too. There is a molded housing and built in servo with like 20% range on a small arm that goes in the tail. I haven’t taken one apart but it is triggered off of impact like I would expect from a spring tilt/impact switch, though it could be some kind of MEMS chip.
No clue where they came from. This monster can’t stand them, or anything that makes noise. The kitten loves them, which is awesome if I ever get around to making some cat toys with servo motors again.
Yeah, if you’re on probation or parole you’re not allowed to drink (or use marijuana, or any other illicit substance). The cops in PA will randomly raid bars looking for probationers and parolees. That shit was annoying for those of us that were trying to have a good time at Karaoke
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