Mad_Aeric
Mad_Aeric t1_j9j1j0a wrote
Reply to comment by FranticAudi in Scientists Say They Gene Hacked Mice to Double Remaining Lifespan by Ok-Prior-8856
Rats too. Anyone who's had pet rats will tell you that the worst part is how short lived they are.
Mad_Aeric t1_j2a7w3h wrote
Reply to comment by BudgetMattDamon in Does Don Winslow introduce endless female characters just to write explicitly about their bodies and sex lives? by hammnbubbly
Given that his other works are much better about that issue, I think it's mainly just Harry. Though what he's done with Butters definitely invokes an exasperated sigh from me.
Mad_Aeric t1_ix3vahq wrote
Reply to comment by SublightMonster in TIL: raccoons are native to North America, having been introduced elsewhere only in the 20th century. by acequark
I always wonder what the hell these people were thinking. Rascal established that racoons are terrible pets.
Mad_Aeric t1_ivrefqx wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in A study found that people perceive that robots are replacing human jobs at a greater rate than they actually are. Only 14% of workers say they’ve had their job replaced by a robot. Workers who had been supplanted by a robot estimated that 47% of all jobs have been lost to robots. by Brave_Cycle_8745
Pretty much, yeah. The luddites were all about wrecking industrial looms and threshing machines back in the 1700s. The first clothing factory to use sewing machines was burned down in 1830. Hell, stockingers were taking issue with knitting frames all the way back in the 1500s for automating away their jobs.
Don't even get me started on grist mills. There's politics in there.
Mad_Aeric t1_ir7qacg wrote
Reply to Zipline drones will deliver medicine to communities in Utah | It can only do deliveries in the Salt Lake Valley area for now, but it will expand its coverage over the next five years. by chrisdh79
Wendover did a great video a while back about their operations in Africa. I'm generally sceptical about drone deliveries, but this is one of the use cases that makes sense.
Mad_Aeric t1_jeamyey wrote
Reply to comment by EverydayVelociraptor in TIL that tularemia is an infectious disease that can be contracted by “inhaling particles from an infected rabbit ground up [by] a lawnmower”. by krisalyssa
That's been on my reading list for ages, I'm always coming across excerpts from it. Mainly the bit about fluorine trichloride.