Yeah - I don’t really know much about the ultimate goals of the group that was behind it, but it doesn’t seem like a bad idea to plan for what happens after an apocalypse, considering that we’ve been on the verge of an apocalypse since the 60s.
The whole thing was pretty weird, tbh. The person who fronted the cash for the project went by a pseudonym, “Robert Christian”. The person who was approached to carve the stones for the monument said that he didn’t really want to do it, so he quoted a ridiculous price, to which “Christian” immediately agreed. According to the front man, the group he represented believed that humans would eventually bomb ourselves back to the stone age, and so they wanted to provide a guide post for rebuilding civilization. To that end, they designed it to function as a compass, calendar, and a clock, in addition to a moral guide. They inscribed the same text in several different languages on it that included such commandments as keep the human population to a maximum of 500 million to stay in concert with nature, unite humanity with a new living language, don’t elect petty people to public office, etc.
Anyway - he donated the monument and the land it’s on to the county, so the destruction of it in 2022 was considered destruction of public property, which carries a minimum sentence of 20 years, provided they ever find out who did it.
What’s crazy is that a month after she sent this tweet, someone blew up the guidestones, and the authorities still have no idea who did it. No idea if they questioned her about it, but that’s where I’d start if I was part of the investigation.
I think you vastly underestimate people. There are 10s of millions of them who are different combinations of both stupid and evil.
Insert the Pam from “The Office” “same picture” meme here.
I… yes. :(
Hey! I resemble that remark!
You don’t understand; concentration camps only come from the Concentraçòn region. Everything else is just sparkling detainment centers.
Marx would be a Marxist!!!
This one always gets me. He very famously said “If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.”
Police released an image of the primary suspect in this case today.
At this point, the only reasonable assumption is that the Justice Department is lying about everything. It is certainly possible that they have told one or two truths throughout this entire affair, but the sheer volume of lies they’ve told nullifies any prospect of giving them the benefit of the doubt on anything.
Shit - you know what? You’re right. It’s been a while since I saw the video, and I had it mixed up in my mind with a similar video I saw of a guy doing a fecal transplant to fix his lactose intolerance. I went back to check the Thought Emporium video, and yeah - he used a retrovirus to introduce the E. coli lacZ gene into his small intestine’s brush border cells. That’s my bad; sorry about the misinfo. You’re also right that I could have easily looked it up, but I went from memory instead, and it was… unreliable.
Love that Garrison knows that Trump’s sensitive about the size of his hands, so he drew him like Uncle Jack.
What is the lie about Ukraine? The only one I can think of is Trump’s dogged insistence that they started the war by existing.
No - this was a targeted therapy that introduced new islet cells into the patient’s pancreas. If he had damaged or non-functioning insulin receptors, this therapy would not have benefitted him.
This is a different matter entirely. The person who runs that channel (I love that channel, btw) does not have functional genes to produce lactase (the enzyme that lyses the bonds in lactose). Either he can’t make any lactase, or he can only make insufficient quantities of it.
What he did was introduce lactase producing bacteria into his small intestine. This required him to kill off most of his gut flora and then repopulate it with compatible species, including some lactase producers. So it’s not exactly correct to say that he cured himself of lactose intolerance; he just got something to create lactase for him. He had to repeat the therapy years later because his gut flora changed over time (likely due to shifts in his diet), and the quantity of little lactase producing bacterial buddies living in his intestines declined.
This experiment was done on a type 2 diabetes patient. Type 2 diabetes is characterized by damaged islet cells due to a diet high in glucose / carbohydrates. Changing the diet won’t undo the damage, it will just not cause further damage. This patient had enteric neuronal stem cells (nerve tissue from the gut) extracted, and those extracted cells were induced to differentiate into pancreatic islet cells in vitro (in a lab). Once differentiated, they were transplanted back into the patient, and they were able to successfully implant into his pancreas and repair some of the damage his diet had caused.
If the patient had type 1 diabetes, this would not be an effective therapy, as the issue in type 1 diabetes is that the body’s own immune system attacks the cells. A similar approach has been tested for type 1 diabetes, and it has seen some success when combined with immune suppressant drugs to limit the damage caused by the autoimmune disorder.
Since this patient had type 2, however, theoretically he should not need additional therapy as long as he does not go back to a destructive diet or suffer trauma to his pancreas due to accidents.
Welp. I was not expecting the eugenics angle, but in retrospect, I absolutely should have been. I mean, it was the 80s in fucking rural Georgia, of all places. Obviously, it was commissioned by a David Duke fan.
That does, however, make the whole Satanic Panic thing pretty god damned hilarious. I mean, the people freaking out about it are the same people who would have been 100% on-board with the group who commissioned it’s politics. Guess they’re just miffed they weren’t consulted 10 years before they were born.
Edit: I think the thing that threw me off the eugenics scent in the first place was just that it was translated into several different languages, including Arabic, Hindi, Swahili, Hebrew, and Chinese. It doesn’t seem like the type of thing that David Duke fans would think to do.