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@thespcicifcocean

Actually, measles may be a *cause* of MS or other autoimmune problems. Measles antibodies are higher in such patients, indicating a possible lingering infection.
One possible reason is that your body doesn't just train itself to recognize invaders, it also puts a lot of effort into identifying *itself*. Killer cells go through a training phase and those that don't pass get destroyed before they are ever released to the rest of the body.
Watch the anime Cells At Work if you can. It's actually pretty informative.

@Melatonin

Humans invented meaninglessness. Things, by default, can be considered to mean themselves. An ant looks at a rock - what does it mean? A rock. It doesn't need to mean anything else.
(Proto-)Humans decided one day that 'A' (or some other symbol/sound/etc) does not mean itself, but is a reference. That means that 'A' can now be meaninglessness.
This was a fantastic invention, perhaps our greatest! It would be difficult to talk if A could only ever mean the funny lines that make up A.

But this invention came with downsides: now humans could declare they themselves were meaningless, or their enemies were meaningless, and kill someone with this invention as justification. They could also declare one human meant more than another human, or that some ideal meant more than food and water and healthy kids.
This also led to logic paradoxes where A could point to B which pointed to A.

Now, a different question is: why are so many humans wired to want a purpose? Because we're social

@Squizzy
Lots of other people have addressed this, so I won't repeat the whole thing. You can absolutely do disassembly work, it's just a pain in the rear.
But it's actually been done for Mario, since you brought it up:
https://github.com/IsoFrieze/SMWDisX
And also Pokemon.

@hungryphrog
That's a difficult one. On one hand if I went to the early/mid Victorian era, it'd be pretty easy to re-invent some shit, and I wouldn't have to worry about having to re-learn reading in the local language, but on the other hand it's... the Victorian era.
Antibiotics isn't as simple as simply getting a fungus to grow in a medium (such as penicillin in cantelope): there can be bad byproducts that also need to be removed, and scaling up the growth to significant quantities can be a big problem. What miiight be easier actually is using viruses to kill bacteria, but you need access to good quality meshes. And industrialization also isn't as easy as some books make it seem.
I think I'd take one for the team and go back to some ancient mostly egalitarian (but still some excess goods to support specialists) queer friendly society guaranteed to not immediately get wiped out, and get them started on the scientific method early, and hope to butterfly/forewarn the worst shit away.

@ickplant
Neat! I love federation.

@ickplant
@Alteon
@ThatWeirdGuy1001
His 'hand' there is actually a cute wittle foot. Bat 'hands' are just wings, only the final finger is unwebbed.
(I tried hard to get mastodon to display the other comments to directly respond to them... didn't quite work as only the thread starter showed. So I have no idea how this will display in lemmy.)

@NightOwl
To the people and bots with zero reading comprehension: it literately says "the company’s machines were struggling to match the safety performance of even an average human"
The cars are not better than an average driver.

@Dariusmiles2123 @dantheclamman
You are leaving tires everywhere. One recent study found tire dust pollution was the number one microplastic in the ocean. A different older study found it was number #2, which is still pretty bad. You almost certainly have tire dust floating around inside your body too. If they made tires purely out of rubber this wouldn't be such a problem, but they don't.

(the double @'s are because I'm on mastodon, that's just what it does.)