Automated doors are better for germs but not good for patient privacy.

More for patient rooms than main hallways and enhances i think. Rare for those to be automated.

Aside from some comments mentioning how immune reset therapies are in fact a thing through either antibody or chemical depletion of your immune cells. These can show improvement but it is very far from curative and not too much better chances than existing immune suppression stuff.

The danger to an immune “reset” are that you are generally then able to be reinfected with every cold and flu as well. This is dangerous for older or already fragile people. The existing therapies reduce this danger by not entirely wiping memory cells out but that also means they aren’t always curative.

Beyond that autoimmune diseases in general are a mix of genetics and environmental factors (and even gut bacteria by some studies). If the underlying problem isn’t fixed then relapse is a question of when not if. It’s like adding fluid to a container with a leak, eventually you’re going to have to add more again unless you fix the leak first.

So we have to find where the “leaks” are, what they are caused by and fix the cause(s) to have something that is an actual cure. Right now we mostly know where the leaks are and some causes and can patch some up leaks up. However, we don’t have a way to fix the causes yet and we dont know all of them.

*I am a cell bio PhD but not an immunology specialist.

Weren’t there reports of idiots using it for fungal identification and dying? We just make better idiots.

At 22 I didn’t want kids. At 32 I have a kid without regrets. Prior to getting a long-term partner with the same mindset I think it is a bit much unless something or someone has scared you about “baby trapping”.

Vasectomy reversal can usually be done but isn’t always effective.

E:just saw you have a partner in agreement, in which case yeah go for it. Separate concern about how a 17y and 20y started dating but that’s not super relevant unless she’s pushing for this not just supporting the decision.

German=good beer. Woman=sex. Drink German beer, have sex, Das Guud tm* (actually just budlight horsepiss in a different bottle).

Yes, billionaires should not exist.

Can we also agree that school should be free and kids should be fed? Can we agree that roads (and rails) should be made and kept safe? Can we agree that our food should be safe to eat and not full of chalk or worse? Etc etc the most practical way to do those things is for everyone to chip in aka taxes.

One of the biggest problems in America is that since Reagan we’ve stopped truly taxing the rich and with that they’ve bought the government or enough of it to write the rules. Removal of the fairness doctrine, the repeal of glass-steagal, and citizens united are three big ones that come to mind. Where one-side can push their view without pushback or seeing the other side the idea of compromise goes out the window. That random opinions started getting treated same as facts is another thing. That companies could do stock buybacks and effectively manipulate their stock prices and C-suite/board pay meaning they can make money even without actual growth. And of course CU where money became speech and companies gained the benefits of being “people” without any of the detriments.

Honestly, that’s pretty much this entire administration.

Depending on location there’s additional stuff, mostly signage notifying drivers. With great variation in requirements depending on the road.

All the actually short girls (5’3" or less) I know complain as well. Feet too small for shops to have, boobs not accounted for in clothing, etc. Your perspective probably counts average and just below average girls as short.

A lot of scientists are not great communicators. I am much better over text than I am in person… I never shoo anyone away in person but I also understand that in social settings most people only ask what I do out of courtesy rather than genuine interest.

People enjoy the way certain people share their passion. This is a bit overdone for gaming channels focused on kids e.g. pewdiepie but there’s also the dude building a hut with Neolithic tools, or tasting rations, trying new foods, or just reacting to fried rice (uncle roger), gardening, or powerwashing. Nilered shares his passion for chemistry in a way a lot of people enjoy but for better or worse I don’t think it is about understanding Nature as much as it is connecting with a fellow human.

PhDs are philosophy degrees because whether on purpose or not theses are filled with the personal philosophy of the writer wrapped in the paper of whatever research.

Yeah, as with most implants there are issues with biofilm/plaques and immunity. They are also not responsive to loading so don’t allow exercise, affect vasculature weirdly etc.

Communication only needs the brain nowadays, neuralink is shit but there are options for similar brain-machine interface that are workable for paralyzed people.

Survival is harder. Ecmo, parenteral nutrition, and dialysis are organ supplements not replacements. Lacking lungs, GI, or kidneys will kill you. Dialysis supplements kidney function. Ecmo supplements lungs that are reduced capability. Parenteral nutrition supplements reduced GI function. There are mechanical hearts/assitive devices one dude had a mech heart one for years but you still need blood pumping. The liver has no assitive device you die in 24h without.

Scihub if its before the last few years. Otherwise email authors and/or post a link on a science forum asking if anyone has a pdf to share.

Mostly the credit taking I’d gather.

Yes, that’s basically what we did in Iraq. It led to a 20y occupation, thousands of troops killed, hundreds of thousands to millions of civilian deaths, and several new terrorist organizations. It will cost the US alone about 8,000,000,000,000. Basically the entirety of cultural progress and then some was lost in a few months.

https://www.brown.edu/news/2021-09-01/costsofwar

Perfectly? In a language system different than your own. English to French/Spanish doesn’t require these sounds. English to like Thai or Chinese has a lot.

People learn new languages because you can get the ability back with training (hooray neurplasticity) but it is more difficult and takes longer.

Speaking Japanese honestly isn’t too hard. Reading/writing Japanese is more difficult but is easier as you realize the complex Kanji are just combinations of simpler kanji and how those relate to meaning. Most of the sounds are also in English.

You get one experience getting something expensive/cared about stolen and it sticks with you. It’s part of how our brains are wired.

Just a few thieves in one area can quickly change a culture.

When i was a kid no one in the neighborhood locked their house, garages would be left open. Then thefts started happening. Garages were closed, doors started being locked. The thieves were eventually caught (teenagers turned in by their parents) but the garages have stayed shut and houses locked and it’s been a couple decades.

Abortion is explicitly legal in Montana. The parental consent law would have meant that parental approval was required for a minor to get an abortion.

The Dobbs decision overturning Roe v Wade made it state laws that matter on abortion.