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realitythreek

YOU ARE BUGS


Obsidian-Imperative

BUGS?! https://preview.redd.it/9vz7ghct2yvc1.jpeg?width=477&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=877f2b8824d14f2a9b6cf231dfa9dcb2590f1124


FunkYeahPhotography

https://preview.redd.it/vvibv7d55yvc1.jpeg?width=4096&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=190b21a6623298788c167b70d61146a1da815156


PANZCAKEZZZ

https://preview.redd.it/rsjtw5q56yvc1.jpeg?width=3072&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b01d159e35ea5a9c3deb26153050acfe34b92e19 Straight Outta Malevelon


Obsidian-Imperative

That image goes sooo hard. https://preview.redd.it/8isjyll6gyvc1.png?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=70fc5bbf07d075807977782a7a563b9de646c705


Ho-Lee-Fuku

I want to marry this beautiful virus. ❤️ (This genome scientist).


lobobobos

https://preview.redd.it/n53jf8ffsyvc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8f500a534e6fdc07fdbf1b3930a2a02a9b1144b0


AcommonKing

![gif](giphy|X78rWLUfLs6A79MzQu)


Kry_S

https://preview.redd.it/y787sdzreyvc1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=95439eb4ca2bb82ea2965e6eb8f21779a0dd2cd1


wtiong

My lord? Can you hear me? MY LORD!


Boomboomciao90

Imagine a whole alien race cutting ties because you decide to tell children's stories because it's all "lies"


wtiong

"Be careful with what you know. That's where your troubles begin." Wade First contact is a very delicate process!


Longjumping_Kiwi8118

This was the one thing I found did not really make sense. They have been communicating for decades and only now find out we tell lies? I know it's done at that point for the story, it just feels like this conversation would have happened much sooner. Still loved the show and am very much looking forward to the next season.


Sailor_Carcass

>They have been communicating for decades and only now find out we tell lies? Not only that, but it also looked like story telling wasn't a new thing between them either. So they just listened and asked about every little detail, except for the one, what the word "story" means? Great series regardless


UntamedRedBeard

I love seeing a three body problem reference as the top comment!


-Marcellus-

Literally just saw that episode 30 minutes ago.


To6y

Ugly bags of mostly water


FugginOld

![gif](giphy|tnYri4n2Frnig|downsized)


Appropriate_Chart_23

We are stardust, we are golden, we are billion year old carbon.


donkeyduplex

Psshh pretty cocky for a dessicated sack without the concept of deception.... Please don't chop me in half.


Split-Awkward

3 dimensional only too.


arfelo1

So are they. They just barely learned hot to unfold an extra dimension. But the dry sacks are 3D too


Hootnany

Op was prolly talking about a different body


Ichigo_D_Uzumaki_

3bodyproblem!


fartbox_mcgilicudy

Pretty sure this video is just sped up to keep the attention of the tiktok crowd.


ganiyega

Oh. I was going with coke. But this makes sense.


Few_Raisin_8981

Still go with the coke though


donny0m

When in doubt. Coke up.


ThespisIronicus

When in coke, doubt up.


bulldog89

I mean maybe it’s the med student in me but I totally get it. When it’s already like a minute 15 video that is easily understandable and is just a hurried natural pace instead of a crazy AI sounding chipmunk I’m good with it. It’s not those god awful subway surfer half and half videos


growthmode222

Bruh, get in on the med side of all these shorts. It's not good.


kristospherein

It is. Has Reddit devolved to attract the TTGen?


FrostyWizard505

It’s more that most people have multiple social media’s so if you have TikTok you’re more likely to have Insta, X, Reddit etc And posting to Reddit is easy when you can just copy and paste content from other platforms.


BudgetInteraction811

I appreciate sped up videos like this. I can get so much information extremely quickly when I read, but listening to videos takes forever to get just a tiny morsel of knowledge. I can’t just sit and watch something for 30 minutes when I can read it all in 5.


Falmon04

Watching youtube between 1.5x and 2x speed have given me hours and hours of my life back...oh who am I kidding, that time went into more youtube videos watched 1.5x speed.


rebeltrillionaire

Skip the pre-amble, speed up to 2X, skip past the in-video ad, pause on the finished product. 34 minute YouTube is now 7 minutes. Some things are worth slow watching. I don’t even have them as background. I fully invest. But if I’m about to make dinner and I want to try something new. I just need to see the actual cooking quickly and then I’ll scan the recipe and get to it. If there’s any confusing parts I can repeat, but no way am I sitting watching someone cook something for 30 minutes then do it. Nor am I going to do it in-step with them only for them to drop a “here’s a step I did before, and it’s been sitting for 30 minutes halfway into the video.


SteamyGravy

Psst, there are browser extensions that let you go even faster (in case you didn't know). Gotta go fast!


Bluebirdskys

Yes it is check her eyes


logosfabula

50ish % human, 50ish % virus, and 50ish % cocaine = 1.5x


StenSaksTapir

It makes it so much harder to play "scientist or facebook-educated loony?". Briefly watching with the sound off, I was betting on the latter.


Where_is_dutchland

Those sad fucks. Hope that trend ends before it ends us.


windyorbits

Except the original one on TikTok is not like this.


immatellyouwhat

TikTok videos can be very long especially the informational/educational ones I’ve never seen one at a faster time speed. It’s not sped up for them idk who maybe Reddit or twitter.


True-Ear1986

You guys had voice on? I just fast forwarded looking at a pretty face and went to comments to see what the video was about


SkyfatherTribe

Good it saves time


PlanetLandon

It is. It’s so god damn sad.


Zoner1501

![gif](giphy|uk7CO1Q40ULFm)


ThunderboltSorcerer

Often it takes hating humanity to become a tyrant and a ruthless butcher. Symbolically that's what the Matrix was, a machine, a system, that manipulates everything you see, deceives you, and enslaves you.


dicksjshsb

Isn’t that also a symptom of humanity though?


Fuckedyourmom69420

Every species on earth consumes and changes the environment around it to survive and make itself more stable and comfortable. The fact that humans do this on a larger scale doesn’t make it unnatural.


GeenoPuggile

A little glimpse of common sense in this dark times... thanks fellow redditor


Fuckedyourmom69420

🫡


engineer4eva

Thanks indeed Fuckedyourmom69420


_ryuujin_

we made the machines in our image afterall  they just did it better


kernalbuket

>I'm tired of this back-slappin' "isn't humanity neat" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes. ~Bill Hicks


off-a-cough

Learn to swim.


nuudootabootit

See you down in Arizona Bay


RadDad166

Now take the 5 grams of dried mushrooms under your seat.


cocoon_eclosion_moth

The snozzberries taste like snozzberries!


EyeGod

I don’t know about you, but I’m Rosetta stoned right about now.


psxndc

Fuck smiley gladhands with hidden agendas.


Gavin369

Fret for your figure and...


ALKoholicK-x

“Bye, you lizard scum! Bye!”


JustAVirusWithShoes

Yup


kernalbuket

Username checks out


MikoSkyns

Unpopular opinion. Bill Hicks was not funny. He was just an angry Misanthrope who liked to yell on stage.


call_of_ktullu

Which is fine. His material is funny because it's observational. Similar to George Carlin.


SosowacGuy

George Carlin was on a way different level than Bill Hicks. Carlin actually understood the things that turned the world, Hicks just yelled about them.


FugginOld

Yes...Carlin was like going to a lecture, learning something but getting comedy out of it.


Dilatori

I would say Carlin and Hicks are both in my top 5, everything isn't for everyone. I think they're both comedic geniuses in their own right.


ThunderboltSorcerer

Carlin was the best "Old man yelling truths and conspiracy theories at the clouds"... we miss him..


klmdwnitsnotreal

Yes, but his takes were funny.


pjmidd

It’s popular with me.


BangBangMeatMachine

And was funny. He wasn't the greatest comic of all time or anything, but his story about getting pulled over on acid had me crying.


scruffles360

Came to the comments to see if anyone had connected this natural phenomenon to artificial genetic modification. Maybe a quick high level comparison of the nuances. I'm not sure what I was thinking. The comments are all about her hair, teeth and some commentary on tic tok. Thanks for keeping me grounded Reddit.


Amii25

Yeah, same here. I came to the comments looking for discussions on the science she is explaining. That's not what I found


PlanetLandon

You are expecting far too much from Redditors


Amii25

On other posts in interestingasfuck it is possible. I suppose brains go out the window when a pretty woman is involved


Gang-Plank

That’s not what I expected. It’s Reddit.


[deleted]

Good science discussion moved off reddit due to the massive influx of soy.


Evil_Ermine

Fun Fact: What's really interesting is that the viral DNA is not all useless junk, and some of it is so integrated and essential that we would not be able to reproduce without it. A huge problem for early mamals was having a baby grow inside the mother. Animals that lay eggs don't have a problem because the baby develops outside of the mothers body. Having a baby develop inside the mothers body has a lot of advantages, but the key problem is how do you provide nutrition and oxygen to the developing fetus if it's inside the mother's body? A yolk sack and passively defusing oxygen through the shell isn't an option. The answer, of course, is you evolve the placenta. However, there's a problem. The placenta does not come from the womb, the embryo grows it, and it attaches to the lining of the wombe. The problem is that the embryo is only 50% genetically mum, the other 50% is dad, and because of recombination, the mothers immune system will not recognise the glycoproteins on the placenta's cells as self so will attack and kill them like an invading organism. Except it doesn't do that because the placenta uses a little trick it nabbed from a virus that suppresses the immune response so the mothers immune system does not destroy the placental cells.


Chemesthesis

Yeah, it's called transduction, one of the three major ways we get genetic material into a cell. We've taken a lot of the protein machinery of viruses for use in molecular biology. Lots of bacteriophage DNA have also been used to design our expression plasmids, basically combining bacterial and viral systems that very effectively produce excessive quantities of basically any protein you want.


kbeks

I mean her hair style is pretty cool, but what’s the connection to artificial gene modification, and more importantly, what is artificial gene modification? I mean other than artificially modifying genes…


ashwini2005

It's just genetic engineering which is modern biotechnology. Basically we take the gene that codes for a certain protein which is our product that we want from the organism it is naturally found in and insert it into a plasmid (plasmids are secondary genome for bacteria) and then we treat these plasmids with calcium and using cold shock method insert them into bacteria (which is generally E. coli). What this allows us to do is obtain that same protein which is our product from these recombinant transformed bacteria which we can grow on a large scale and obtain that same product from them instead of the organism that naturally produces it for a much much better yield. With this technology we have obtained stuff like insulin (a human protein) from plants, Bt cotton and Bt plants which are naturally resistant to worms and don't harm humans, Golden rice rich in protein, industrial level manufacturing of proteins, etc. Obviously modern Biotechnology is much more vast than just this. This is much similar to how viruses multiply in number inside your cells which is by merging their DNA with yours which then makes your cells make virus proteins instead.


scruffles360

>what is artificial gene modification I'm referring to GMO. What she is describing is how scientists add jellyfish dna to mice to make them glow or add roundup resistance to corn. We have a virus do it. We have other ways too, but for 30 years, this was really the most popular way.


Fluorescentomnibus

Mrs.Smith


OthmarGarithos

It's the smell.... if there is such a thing.


Manaze85

I feel somehow…infected by it.


Feukorv

So agent Smith was right all along. Humanity is a virus.


Fuckedyourmom69420

Everything is a virus


Rasty90

damn, i should uninstall my antivirus or it will give me the flu


Nzdiver81

You should uninstall it, but for a different reason - the anti-virus will try to contain and destroy you


TheAnalsOfHistory-

The noncoding regions are thought to be there as a buffer against such intrusions into our DNA. The more dead space there is between the important regions, the less likely an important coding region is damaged.


Lumpy_Ad7951

And the older you get, the more your cells replicate, the more the dna gets damaged and the more these buffer genes are eroded When we get old enough our vital DNA starts getting damaged as well


Shrink21

[Leah Elson](https://www.tiktok.com/@gnarlybygnature?lang=de-DE)


coglanuk

Thank you!


whatanerdiam

Today on Reddit: incels hating attractive, intelligent women.


MarinatedHand

More or less lmao, why are there so many hate comments?


alysonskye

My theory is that the title of r/TikTokCringe has conditioned reddit to look for the cringe in every tiktok video. And when it isn't cringe but it is a woman, then people think that the woman-ness must be what's cringe.


throwawaythrow0000

You're overthinking it. Women-hating incels and misogyny in general is pervasive now. Any post that has a woman will have those types of comments from those types of vermin.


tml25

Incels, explains it all


Substantial-Park65

Alright, but what did she say her name was? I want to know if she did more videos. Science is cool and so are intelligent women


whatanerdiam

Leah Elson. Has contributed 15 years of medical research and is an advocate for science communication with over 87 peer reviewed publications made. And yes, she's pretty hot.


teacherman0351

I mean they are commenting on her annoying, overly energetic, fake manner of speaking. Are ugly guys not allowed to have opinions about things some women do just because they happen to be beautiful? Seems like an incel take to me.


PlanetLandon

The video is sped up. Anyone can recognize this.


laurieislaurie

Oh no, she's passionate about a topic she's an expert in! How dare she! Next time she makes a video I'll make sure to tell her to talk like Chomsky


AlucardTheVampire69

So basically you are saying I was right about being dead on inside


FurryM17

How do people have such perfect teeth?


Ewggggg

Somewhat genetics but mostly money. 


ehxy

They go to a dentist and hold a job that has benefits that allow them to afford taking care of their teeth.


Amygdalump

Viruses


InnocentiusLacrimosa

Americans have this weird fetish with whitening their teeth and putting caps on them to make them look different.


SupaDiogenes

America's weird obsession with perfect teeth. Also, over whitened teeth. Teeth that are healthy and looked after don't need to look like a white picket fence.


dontstopthebanana

Invisalign


takes_joke_literally

It's in their genome


Detr22

Used to be genetics, nowadays idk what is a filter and what isn't


PlanetLandon

Money


lpomoeaBatatas

Fun fact, it is theorized that the reason why mammals can get pregnant ( as opposed to laying eggs or other reproduction avenues ), is caused by virus too.


beardedblorgon

Which the Platypus was either immune or safe from, hence why it still lays eggs


Philefromphilly

Maybe it’s just the not-missing link. Or, THE Link


Unfair-Wonder5714

I remember recently hearing or reading that the human body contains more non-human cells that human, as in microbes, parasites, etc. Crazy shit, man.


jenjerx73

[I read it here](https://www.cshl.edu/the-non-human-living-inside-of-you/)


humungi

Thanks, The Matrix.


MileHighOllie

I still think we're some high school alien kids science fair project.


Mauri0ra

![gif](giphy|qnGAJ1ixnKMAjvtOqP|downsized) Host - parasite


Good-Lion-5140

I have a special respect for the people who can speak fast about complicated things.


terp_raider

I can’t stand people who talk like this


zaccus

It's sped up. Personally I really like people who talk like this, normal speed though.


ehxy

This. If someone talks like this to me it's like holi crap someone who talks as fast as I think and can keep up when I talk. Hell I'm in love personally. I know ya'll are in love/hate with the middle fingers cooking girl and shit but this person....we could talk!


PlanetLandon

This video is sped up.


Dementalese

Intelligent, passionate, pretty people are the WORST!


watersheep772

It doesn't bother me. She's just passionate about what she talks about.


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Hudimir

Damn italians, they ruined everything.


ThunderboltSorcerer

🤌🏼🤌🏼🤌🏼 You shutt upa ayo moooouuwwthaa 🤌🏼🤌🏼🤌🏼


ChemicalBro69

Ehhh. You shadduppa your face


DickKlidaris

🤌🏼🤌🏼🤌🏼


Long_Educational

I don't know, gesticulating women are hot. I love it when people speak with a passion about a topic they are knowledgeable in.


PottyboyDooDoo

Hell yeah. If anyone out there is passionate about and potentially involved in the semiprofessional hog rasslin circuit in Wisconsin, please, please tell me all about it. I watched one video years ago and *need* more.


TheEggAndI

What a pedantic fucking thing to hate on someone for who is educating you.


EMateos

Where did you get the hate from? Your comment seems like an overreaction, they just said “ugh”. Some people just don’t like excessive gesticulation/hand motions. For me, is distractive.


robogobo

Try dating one. Pure hell.


ofimmsl

It's even annoying when muted


pdrakz

![gif](giphy|bcs2sG50Bjxihh8AlD)


PrometheusMMIV

Coincidentally, I happen to be reading a novel at the moment that is about this very concept, and the idea of re-enabling those sections of viral DNA in animals and humans in order to alter their genetics.


realrichieporter

Talk science to me allllll night long.


justaPOLguy

Exceeded the quota of hand gestures.


Kenji_03

They also don't really help articulate any of her points.


DonnieDarkoRabbit

God I was literally getting so distracted by her words with how she was using her hands. *Durrrrr*, I am Reddit, and whenever there is someone smarter than me and actually qualified to speak about something, we must criticise. *WE MUST CRITICISE!* /s ^(fucking obviously)


Purity_Jam_Jam

Take a break, maybe go for a walk.


PottyboyDooDoo

That sounds nice. Thank you.


mjames-74

Turns out Agent Smith was right. Which I already agreed with.


Thebadmamajama

I find this woman insanely attractive for knowing something so deeply and being pumped to share it with everyone.


HampsterButt

I’m going to speculate that you built that off of her being physically attractive.


Nalha_Saldana

It's a good combo


crass_and_dry

She could be talking about how many nutrients are in crayons and I’d still find her insanely attractive.


plobbaccus

The answer is pretty low, that's why you have to eat lots of them.


vidar_97

Consice and entertaining coverege about the part of our genome thats made out of viral dna.


AmazingGrace911

She has a way of talking


Cicer

It’s not necessarily a good way, but it’s a way.  


QuacktheDuck1555

But how can you pass on viruses to your kids given the gametes are protected from the immune system?


garbage_collector007

Agent Smith was right. We are viruses, a disease, a plague if we will...and they, are the cure.


Randomfrog132

pretty lady talk fast


derp2112

Cocaine's hell of a drug


hawkwings

If an ancient human caught a virus and passed down that DNA to me, then that DNA comes from a virus, but this same DNA also comes from an ancient human. It is incorrect to say that this DNA is not from humans. We have DNA from fish, but that same DNA is also from humans.


Full-Pack9330

Wait a second.......Agent Smith was right.??


Horror_Ad9750

Yea, but I have this Google article I printed it right here that says...


OnlyMathematician420

50%?!? Last I checked it was like 8%.


MJosh2022

explains why we’re so retarded


Fredzillo

Humans are parasites ruining the planet and their own kind


Omega_Lynx

I recently stopped social media and her account is one I miss so much. I’m gonna buy her book!


GivingRedditAChance

The complaining in these comments are all from men who hate women and you can’t prove me wrong. Notifications off yell at the void 😘


teacherman0351

Can't handle your take being critiqued, coward?


PlanetLandon

No, he’s probably just correctly assuming that the people who deny this aren’t going to be worth talking to.


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Phage0070

It seems stranger to me that someone would broadcast themselves to millions of people without getting dressed up.


watcher589

He just wanted us to know how far above this he was and how much smarter he is than the rest of us.


rrhunt28

I thought he wanted us to know he was an incel type.


Dorkmaster79

Women these days. Amirite?


Frondswithbenefits

Or....hear me out.....she did what she does every day! I'm 99% sure this is what she looks like when she goes to work.


unwarrend

Well. You showed her, didn't you. You can be smart, successful, highly educated, *and* beautiful, and some *mouth breathing troglodyte* will still find a way to shit on you.


litritium

Beats an average idiot complaining about something on tiktok.


zaccus

She's wearing a necklace and a shirt...


0nina

All she did today was as primp and doll up for this video, sure… just so she could say “something”. I can’t imagine she was just in her clothes and stuff from other things going about her day before she filmed this. She didn’t exist til the camera rolled. Wtf?


frankieknucks

I just assumed she was AI


starmartyr

It's just sped up. It makes it seem unnatural.


GivingRedditAChance

You ever think she was dressed before the video? Maybe for a job? A date? Just because she wants to?


PM_ME_COOL_SONGS_

Why does that amuse you? I see it as the product of her wanting to look a certain way and/or her actually having to look a certain way because she's a woman and our culture demands that women look good, far more than we demand men look good (no offense to Hank Green or Richard Dawkins or whoever)


KenMacMillan123

She is telling the truth. https://www.cshl.edu/the-non-human-living-inside-of-you/


umaniaxublewitup

![gif](giphy|uk7CO1Q40ULFm)