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Pirate Radar posted:turning people’s abdomens into “take a penny, leave a penny” dishes That sounds like an offal idea.
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Outrail posted:'Organs for organ doners' would be a good first step. “I’m being discriminated against for being a sociopath!” —Sociopaths, probably
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Oct 26, 2018 02:41
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Pirate Radar posted:turning people’s abdomens into “take a penny, leave a penny” dishes I already have sooooo many pennies in my abdomen Because of pica
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Oct 26, 2018 02:42
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https://twitter.com/ChristiesInc/status/1055479790361370624
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Oct 26, 2018 03:28
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*consumes a roll of pennies like Lifesavers*
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Oct 26, 2018 03:33
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So, say you're watching an XFL game and a player on your favorite team makes a ridiculous, "highlight reel" worthy touchdown catch. You would be able to hop on Venmo and "tip" him, so to speak. For those who don't know, Venmo is a money-sharing app owned by PayPal. So imagine watching the XFL and your favorite defensive player just sacked the QB off a sweet spin-move. Job well-done here's a fiver! Just won the game on a walk-off tuddy? Let me hook you up with a couple of Jackson's, you earned it.
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Oct 26, 2018 03:49
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Do rich people not know this has been a thing for literally decades or something
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Oct 26, 2018 03:55
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the fine art market is an enormous tax dodge fyi
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Oct 26, 2018 04:06
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wow fat white pasty men yelling in defense of their favorite consumerism practice is really insufferable
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Oct 26, 2018 04:23
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:the fine art market is an enormous tax dodge fyi you see, I bought this painting for $500,000 and now it has been appraised for $1.5MM so I donated it to my charity to be hung in my office's executive shitter and saved a butt load on my taxes
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Oct 26, 2018 04:26
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Shame Boy posted:Do rich people not know this has been a thing for literally decades or something it's really good to bilk rich idiots out of money imo
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Siljmonster posted:wow fat white pasty men yelling in defense of their favorite consumerism practice is really insufferable 
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Oct 26, 2018 04:39
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i goto the gamer throne of the gamer god and break him over his own controller
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Oct 26, 2018 05:27
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Outrail posted:'Organs for organ doners' would be a good first step. Some people that need organs would be bad or ineligible deceased donor candidates. But even if that were implemented it wouldn't do much. Having opt in be the default is good.
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Oct 26, 2018 06:00
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actionjackson posted:Some people that need organs would be bad or ineligible deceased donor candidates. I'm pretty sure he's not advocating "you give up your kidney to get that liver you need", but instead the whole donor list you sign up for at the dmv where if your brain meats die the rest of your cadaver can be used to save lives.
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Oct 26, 2018 06:19
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Platystemon posted:Describe “a little monastic”. everyone has to live like a buddhist monk in tang dynasty china. everyone.
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Oct 26, 2018 06:37
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Coolness Averted posted:I'm pretty sure he's not advocating "you give up your kidney to get that liver you need", but instead the whole donor list you sign up for at the dmv where if your brain meats die the rest of your cadaver can be used to save lives. The guy you're replying to means, it would be pretty lovely to go "no otherwise healthy 25-year-old with herpes or well-managed juvenile diabetes or a  habit, you can't have that liver and another 60 years of life because we don't consider you a valid donor".
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Oct 26, 2018 06:42
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A person can still put themselves on the list even if their organs aren’t likely to be suitable for transplant. If there is a blood drive with an incentive, anyone who shows up gets that even if their blood is never drawn because of their history or health. It’s bad policy to encourage people to fake the system.
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Oct 26, 2018 07:42
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:opt-out instead of opt-in organ donation would make a huge difference all by itself A few European countries have this.
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Oct 26, 2018 08:07
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Art is unique. When you are mega rich status symbols are more important than liquid value.
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Oct 26, 2018 08:12
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qkkl posted:Art is unique. When you are mega rich status symbols are more important than liquid value. The disgusting bit is the new art which is sold for millions but literally brings nothing to the artists themselves, because of brokering.
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Oct 26, 2018 08:15
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Tashilicious posted:The disgusting bit is the new art which is sold for millions but literally brings nothing to the artists themselves, because of brokering. Remember, most of the value of the art comes from how good it makes rich people feel about themselves for buying it. The artist isn't the one who provides that value, but rather the promoters of the art who use fancy words to make rich people want to pay a lot of money for the piece.
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Oct 26, 2018 09:00
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Tashilicious posted:The disgusting bit is the new art which is sold for millions but literally brings nothing to the artists themselves, because of brokering. A lot of artists are broken and feel nothing, it's true.
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Oct 26, 2018 09:59
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I took a class on Abstract Expressionism and never heard anything about it being a manufactured movement to de-radicalize art. That's an interesting angle. Not sure how true that is... Jackson Pollock was a lefty and outspoken critic of fascism and wall street... IIRC Mark Rothko was a marxist who frequently got in trouble for his politics. Giving those guys gov't subsidies to stick it to the ruskies seems a bit unintuitive... But it's not totally unbelievable.
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Oct 26, 2018 14:03
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Tashilicious posted:I hate how this is a real thing. Its so backasswards. I reckon if it wasn't a thing people in charge of the budgets would be like 'Oh hey we only spent about 10% of our budget this financial term, the financial department deserves a bonus!'
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Oct 26, 2018 14:16
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Platystemon posted:A person can still put themselves on the list even if their organs aren’t likely to be suitable for transplant. I can check but I'm guessing most recipients are opted in to deceased organ donation themselves.
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Oct 26, 2018 14:46
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the transgenic yeast guy is also breeding worms that eat styrofoam
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Oct 26, 2018 18:41
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SniperWoreConverse posted:the transgenic yeast guy is also breeding worms that eat styrofoam its gonna be hilarious when all these wonder materials like plastics and polystyrenes are just as unreliable as traditional organic materials for shipping and packaging because we bred pollution eating bugs 
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Oct 27, 2018 00:52
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maybe we'll get our steel playground equipment back
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Oct 27, 2018 00:52
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Former DILF posted:its gonna be hilarious when all these wonder materials like plastics and polystyrenes are just as unreliable as traditional organic materials for shipping and packaging because we bred pollution eating bugs We'll start using silicones and making the same mistakes again, because thread title.
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Apparently some mealworms have gut flora that can deal with styrofoam so he has a colony that he only feeds foam and nothing else, I guess he's breeding them to turn garbage into compost or something. According to 2 seconds on google this gut bacteria evolved naturally and the bacteria can decompose styrofoam by itself, but the combo of the worm chewing it up and the bacteria giving nutrients to the worm is far more effective. He also has been working on the silk yeast and needs to recalibrate his equipment because the DNA gets smeared or something, and he built some kinda fluorescent microscope to look at tissue samples
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Oct 27, 2018 01:16
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Former DILF posted:its gonna be hilarious when all these wonder materials like plastics and polystyrenes are just as unreliable as traditional organic materials for shipping and packaging because we bred pollution eating bugs Plastics is a pretty broad category though, it would depend on enzymes being broad enough to handle a whole bunch of different catalytic states, or humans to be dumb enough and committed enough to engineer enzymes for every different type of polymer that has been used in packaging. The dumbness I buy, but not the commitment e: https://twitter.com/M_Osborne1/status/1055970621862096904 Failed Imagineer has issued a correction as of 01:29 on Oct 27, 2018 |
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SniperWoreConverse posted:Apparently some mealworms have gut flora that can deal with styrofoam so he has a colony that he only feeds foam and nothing else, I guess he's breeding them to turn garbage into compost or something. Yeah we've known about bacteria that eat plastic for a while, both in the gut of those worms and also because something is consuming the plastic in several parts of the ocean. Plastic's got a ton of chemical energy locked up in it so any bacteria that figures out how to eat that poo poo efficiently is gonna have a big advantage, I'm surprised it hasn't happened faster tbh.
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Failed Imagineer posted:The dumbness I buy, but not the commitment so you're telling me there's a chance
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Shame Boy posted:Yeah we've known about bacteria that eat plastic for a while, both in the gut of those worms and also because something is consuming the plastic in several parts of the ocean. Plastic's got a ton of chemical energy locked up in it so any bacteria that figures out how to eat that poo poo efficiently is gonna have a big advantage, I'm surprised it hasn't happened faster tbh. wow that's fascinating, if you have a link on this? i'd like to know more e: bacteria have another thing that makes them strong, they can pass around snippets of DNA and immunize or otherwise empower anything that can use the genes they emit like, all the time. Former DILF has issued a correction as of 01:51 on Oct 27, 2018 |
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Oct 27, 2018 01:44
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Former DILF posted:wow that's fascinating, if you have a link on this? i'd like to know more If you think about it, it's not so crazy. We all rely on our gut flora to help us digest things. If humans don't have any gut bacteria you basically can't extract calories from your food very efficiently and you suck. That's when you need to get someone else's poo poo shoved into a capsule and cram it up your hole
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Oct 27, 2018 01:48
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I will finally metamorphose into the ultimate trash man and survive by eating literal garbage instead of grade D meat approximate substance The greenest way
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Oct 27, 2018 01:58
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Failed Imagineer posted:Plastics is a pretty broad category though, it would depend on enzymes being broad enough to handle a whole bunch of different catalytic states, or humans to be dumb enough and committed enough to engineer enzymes for every different type of polymer that has been used in packaging. The dumbness I buy, but not the commitment lol The Autoblow A.I. is loaded with a lot of math, and the sweat, tears, and potential carpal tunnel syndrome sacrifices of many people. But at the end of the day, despite all the statistics and machine learning, it’s still just a plastic can with a silicone sleeve that goes up and down on your dick.
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Oct 27, 2018 02:01
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drat automation is finally coming for my job, i can only hope to go down as the john henry of sucking dick
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etalian posted:lol loving machines made with free labor
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