elbucho

elbucho , 8 months ago to funny in I should start randomly messaging people this

I could probably take my cat in a fight. There would be significant casualties on my side, to be sure, but I believe I could emerge victorious in the end.

elbucho , 8 months ago to news in Mike Johnson elected House speaker with broad Republican support

This whole thing gives off strong Gilead vibes. :(

elbucho , 8 months ago to news in Alex Jones must pay $1.1 billion of Sandy Hook damages despite bankruptcy - court

Ha Ha

elbucho , 8 months ago to nottheonion in North Carolina groundskeeper mows around dead body after mistaking it for prop, police and family say

and it was just the random construction worker who found the guy that called them ‘defensive wounds’

Yes, but that just goes to demonstrate my point: the police did jack shit to investigate. Why the hell is the family getting more information from some guy that found their brother / son than from the police?

elbucho , 8 months ago to nottheonion in North Carolina groundskeeper mows around dead body after mistaking it for prop, police and family say

So the guy is found on the grass in front of a property that according to his family, he’s never been to before, wearing only his underwear, and with potential defensive wounds on his arms. And this is just a few hours after he had a friend pick him up. And the police didn’t treat it as a homicide. Didn’t even cordon off the scene to prevent contamination. And the house this guy was found in front of is routinely used for police training.

Am I just being paranoid in assuming he was murdered by one or more cops? I mean… why else would they not investigate? Other than malicious incompetence, of course.

elbucho , 8 months ago to technology in Antibiotic identified by AI

Ooh - very cool. A. baumanii is a really nasty little fucker. It’s the A in ESKAPE, a list comprised of the 6 most virulent and antibiotic resistant pathogens out there. A. baumanii is also sometimes referred to as https://medschool.ucsd.edu/som/pediatrics/divisions/host-microbe-systems/charm/challenge/pages/acineto.aspx because of its prevalence in US military personnel returning from Iraq. It’s a soil-borne bacteria that was local to the middle east, but has now been spread around the world by hitchhiking in people. One of the main reasons why it’s so difficult to kill is that it is gram negative, which means that it has both an outer and inner membrane, which makes it difficult for existing classes of antibiotics to penetrate into the cell. Some of the other notable gram negative bacteria are E. coli, Y. pestis (the bacteria responsible for the black plague), and C. trachomatis, the bacteria responsible for chlamydia.

This study is pretty significant because, in addition to targeting a nasty little fucker, it’s possible that the approach used could be repurposed to target a number of that nasty little fucker’s nasty little family, too.

elbucho , 8 months ago to lemmyshitpost in The news did it first

Thanks for that; I’m way too old for TikTok, so had absolutely no idea what I was looking at here.