article suggests a form of intense immune response, some sugars can trip these immune system tripwires rather easily. (look up meat allergy) the proper question is, how selective it can get and what are side effects

because platinum sucks, and if you want to get real selective, you can tie together antibody and something like diphtheria toxin, but it’s not chemistry anymore, that’s firmly in biology ballpark

no because your liver makes sugars anyway. however there’s a more limited, more targeted way to deplete blood of select aminoacids that some cancers can’t make (asparaginase can be used this way)

it’s one of these things that sound good and doesn’t work. many such cases

techbros graced everyone else with disruptive, innovative methods of money laundering

I read a lot of “back in my day, there weren’t smartphones” comments whenever the post talks about technology and smartphones, and I feel so left out.

reminder that not everyone is a westerner. my home village only had internet (adsl) like in 2008 or so

are vultures okay tho

it’s probably a bad idea for everybody else, as now there’s a captive tiger, that is one that will be around humans forever, that also already are human meat, which is a suboptimal combination

It’s also a reason why there’s Bill Clinton statue in Prishtinë

it’s not funny only if it’s your job to clean up after them

you’re joking, but there are people like Peter Thiel who throw money into transhumanist nonsense specifically because he thinks he’ll live forever thanks to that. cryonics, buckets of supplements, “enhanced games” as a non-FDA testing ground for immortality elixir for new emperor, and a couple of other things that i don’t remember right now, all because he’s so scared of dying

they also tend to learn language and integrate more easily, because, you know, they aren’t far right lunatics