Otakat

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[–] Otakat@reddthat.com 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It would be the same for any self replicating thing. Bacteria, viruses, fungi, and prions, but they replicate. I will grant you a single large parasite could do this, but at that point, we're talking about tigers and such as a technicality as well.

None of the things you've listed here are single molecules except for the prion. A single cell, even for simple organisms, is made up of millions of proteins. Viruses come close, but are still made up of the nucleus and the capsid.

[–] Otakat@reddthat.com 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No it isn't. Reporting on allegations and other newsworthy topics is literally the joirnalists' jobs. They aren't liable for libel or slander as long as they are reporting in good faith. And almost by definition reporting on something someone else said is in good faith as long as you think that they think it's true.

[–] Otakat@reddthat.com 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even that wouldn't stop a stubborn narcissist.

[–] Otakat@reddthat.com 3 points 1 year ago

That's.... Just not true. People have benign carcinomas all the time and we don't consider them to "have cancer." It's a bit of a sliding scale but to have cancer generally implies some sort of malignancy or at least the threat of future malignancy.

[–] Otakat@reddthat.com 8 points 1 year ago

This is, quite frankly, a very poor assumption depending on where you are getting your drugs from. For example, Dr. Reddy in India is the equivalent of buying a "Channel" knock off purse from China. It looks like the real thing, it might even somewhat function like the real thing. But it some serious flaws.

European drugs, alternatively, are often literally the exact same drug for cheaper because the EMA is much stricter about pricing. But there are also laws that prevent exporting it from EU countries just as there are laws preventing importing into the US. Because international trade is not open.

Source: I work in Pharma.

[–] Otakat@reddthat.com 3 points 1 year ago

Not sure if it's just a typo or a fun play on words, but just in case, a billionth of a second is is a nanosecond.

[–] Otakat@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

I don't agree with the idea of wholesale copying all of reddit, but I really do like the idea of creating an instance and copying all the subreddits as empty communities, and then each of these communities can point people to the Lemmy equivalents (and block all other content).

The question is who would do this and how would it be curated?