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Phoenix5869 t1_je3gi3f wrote

i’m not an expert so i could be wrong, but i don’t think it works like that. Bacteriophages are specially designed to seek and destroy bacteria, and i don’t think they will work on cells. Could be wrong tho

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Gubekochi t1_je3gbaz wrote

I don't see how your ignorance/google ineptitude really has anything to do with me... and why I should be given homework to compensate for your apparent lazyness... so I'll give you the first result on my google research:

>Article 36 (3) of our Constitution emphasizes the obligation to protect the national health of the nation by stipulating that “all citizens are protected by the state in relation to health.” This means that the right to health as a social fundamental right is the most important aspect of health rights.

That would be S. Korea.

Also, (bonus down the google research) the EU Charter of Fundamental rights has it so Citizens of any European country that recognize that Charter as valid would have a right to health care even if their country doesn't specify it in it's own constitution. So there's that too.

Lastly, it was an intentional use of the meme, but IF I had brain worms, I could get my head checked for free since I don't live in a third world country.

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LakesideTrey t1_je3fmh4 wrote

In order to prevent tornados you would have to be able to regulate air temperature over huge areas. That is much harder than a supercomputer and more advanced than what we have now.

I think the lack of significant investment in geoengineering is simply due to the fact no one with a lot of money wants to "waste it" on a risky investment.

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AdTypical6494 t1_je3fcvs wrote

"We are actually no longer trending for overpopulation. "

In November 2022, more than 8 billion people lived on Earth for the first time, according to the United Nations.

The Effects of Overpopulation
More people means an increased demand for food, water, housing, energy, healthcare, transportation, and more. And all that consumption contributes to ecological degradation, increased conflicts, and a higher risk of large-scale disasters like pandemics.

This are the real problems for mankind.

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Gubekochi t1_je3f1dc wrote

Justice is made up. Good and evil is made up. Those are all concepts that mean different things to different people from different time and culture. It means what it means.

When I say something is a right, it is meant as "in a proper society, it should be treated with the same importance we give to other rights".

Nothing has inherent meaning. Meaning is something we construct to not go insane from a meaningless universe because our brain has evolved to recognize patterns as a way to improve our chances of survival and has gotten too good at it for our own comfort.

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LakesideTrey t1_je3eyu5 wrote

Most first world countries gearing up for a baby bust and possible demographic crisis due to low fertility rates. The U.N predicts the global population will begin reduction by 2086. I doubt we will be hitting 100 billion on earth anytime soon.

Plus, even if your point is right, if something is replaceable that doesn't mean you actively destroy it. If the human population is replaceable that doesn't mean those in power want to destroy it.

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NoSoupForYouRuskie t1_je3e2j4 wrote

Advanced artificial intelligence probably is. Unless they are being completely honest, usually the military copies and reverse engineers stuff like this pretty quickly. Think any chemical ever designed. They are probably worried we will abuse it so it's running around on its own separate internet. We get the downgraded version lol. If that bastards connects to the WWW. Think Diaboromon. Except yknow real.

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DonQuixBalls t1_je3do9x wrote

It's a monumental distinction. Petroleum is energy that was created 66-250 million years ago. 100% of commercial hydrogen was created in your lifetime, but about as likely within the last year.

If you generate electricity and transmit it for use in a car battery, you end up with at least 70-80% of it going to the wheel. With hydrogen, that same electricity results in only 25-30% making it to the wheel.

The only thing that makes that 25-30% improve is by scrapping electrolysis (the only green hydrogen available) in favor of reformed natural gas, which is just fossil fuel with extra steps and less efficiency.

So the alternative to battery electric powertrains is building 3x as many power plants to use hydrogen, or using more fossil fuel. Neither of those are the solution we're looking for.

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DeathGPT t1_je3dm3z wrote

Yes, but they won’t go out of their way to prevent natural disasters as it fuels political discourse even when the technology for super computers is here, pretty sure they could handle tornado and rain but they won’t. There’s many ideas in the scientific community for resolving tornados and other natural disasters but they won’t even attempt it.

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spisHjerner t1_je3devb wrote

> climate change is everywhere

Humans are everywhere, right now. It is that our physical bodies can't survive too much fluctuation. We'll see reduction in food supply as well. We are actually no longer trending for overpopulation. Many countries report a rapid decline. We are not producing offspring like before. And our mortality rate is declining. So, as less places become inhabitable, with less people able and willing to procreate, we're actually going to experience a sudden drop off in human population. This true-human population decline will be accelerated as human-ai hybridization increases.

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NecessaryCelery2 t1_je3ctce wrote

I am not sure, I think several gene therapies in the work and it's worth looking how they target cells. I know the Covid vaccines too were supposed to target some and not other cells.

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