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6 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

And with all the swarms in California lately ya just never know. 

I hadn't seen any news of swarms?  Have that had a lot lately?  That's not really what they need on top of the fires and the smugness.

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Earthquake-swarm-California-Imperial-Brawley-15612222.php

A swarm of earthquakes, the largest a magnitude-4.9, rattled Southern California near the Mexico border Wednesday evening into Thursday morning.  No damage or injuries were reported.

More than 100 quakes of magnitude 2.5 and above have struck the remote Imperial County since 9 a.m. Thursday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

 

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Not ironically....Rayne, La, one of the places hit hard...is known as “Frogtown, USA.”

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If you didn’t want to have to fuck a frog to be queen, you should have read the pageant application more closely.
3 hours ago, Bookman said:

What the fuck

 

That’s a felony in Texas (assault/abuse of an elderly person). 
Nothing to see here though.

That’s a felony in Texas (assault/abuse of an elderly person). 
Nothing to see here though.

In mitigation, he DOES love NY.
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27 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Al Roker has prostrate cancer.   

Fuck you, 2020. Just go away.

Who had "processing plant for beloved smoked turkeys blows up, causing cancellation of all Thanksgiving and Christmas turkey orders" on their 2020 bingo card?

https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2020/11/09/greenberg-turkeys-refund-orders-fire-explosion-texas-plant/?fbclid=IwAR1zICt-t2jh7GX1tiUd-9t0k_Nr57XOQAP0xro5LxVIxq3ll-vOzOj3Xoc

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TYLER, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) — Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner for thousands of people will have to change after a fire at the Greenberg Smoked Turkeys meat processing plant in Texas.

It was on the evening of November 6 when emergency crews were called out to the shipping facility in Tyler, a city about 100 miles southeast of Dallas.

When Tyler Fire Department firefighters got to the scene they found debris in the roadway, fire in several commercial buildings and smoke in the air. The area hardest hit was a building used largely for storage and according to first-responders contained a number of large freezer units.

The blast and fire was so intense that the company has had to cease production. In a social media post Saturday the company said, “We have temporarily suspended customer orders due to a fire at our facility and we appreciate your patience as we continue evaluating the situation.”

 

Yeah, maybe the simulation is trying to tell us that mass holiday gatherings aren't a great idea.  Hope nobody was injured.  What a weird fucking year.   

1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

Who had "processing plant for beloved smoked turkeys blows up, causing cancellation of all Thanksgiving and Christmas turkey orders" on their 2020 bingo card?

https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2020/11/09/greenberg-turkeys-refund-orders-fire-explosion-texas-plant/?fbclid=IwAR1zICt-t2jh7GX1tiUd-9t0k_Nr57XOQAP0xro5LxVIxq3ll-vOzOj3Xoc

 

We get one from our client every year the week before Thanksgiving and I make turkey gumbo with it.  Just got the postcard saying when I could expect delivery lol.

If you live close enough to the plant it may have already been delivered.

If you live close enough to the plant it may have already been delivered.


There were some at Central Market on Midway in Dallas tonight. Once they’re gone, they’re gone.

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12 hours ago, Parliament said:

Are we sure James Bond didn't blow it up?

That end level on 007 difficulty was freakin impossible.

21 hours ago, Hate said:

If you live close enough to the plant it may have already been delivered.

Is it possible to retroactively brine ordnance-based fowl or poultry?

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Hey, I said I didn’t want to jinx it.

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Just in time for New Years fornication.

Doctors are now warning of the increasing spread of the antibiotic-resistant strain of STI, and they’re blaming the coronavirus pandemic for helping it gain momentum.
According to a report from The Sun, the problem has gotten so bad that the World Health Organization has taken notice. The issue is that as the coronavirus pandemic was ongoing, many clinics and hospitals used antibiotics in the treatment of patients and to prevent the cross-infection of hospitalized individuals.

https://bgr.com/2020/12/23/super-gonorrhea-coronavirus-antibiotic-spread/

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The thawing of ancient permafrost due to climate change may pose a new threat to humans, according to researchers who revived nearly two dozen viruses – including one frozen under a lake more than 48,500 years ago. 

European researchers examined ancient samples collected from permafrost in the Siberia region of Russia. They revived and characterized 13 new pathogens, what they termed “zombie viruses,” and found that they remained infectious despite spending many millennia trapped in the frozen ground.

Scientists have long warned that the thawing of permafrost due to atmospheric warming will worsen climate change by freeing previously trapped greenhouse gases like methane. But its effect on dormant pathogens is less well understood.

The team of researchers from Russia, Germany and France said the biological risk of reanimating the viruses they studied was “totally negligible” due to the strains they targeted, mainly those capable of infecting amoeba microbes. The potential revival of a virus that could infect animals or humans is much more problematic, they said, warning that their work can be extrapolated to show the danger is real.

“It is thus likely that ancient permafrost will release these unknown viruses upon thawing,” they wrote in an article posted to the preprint repository bioRxiv that hasn’t yet been peer-reviewed. “How long these viruses could remain infectious once exposed to outdoor conditions, and how likely they will be to encounter and infect a suitable host in the interval, is yet impossible to estimate.”

"totally negligible"  Riiiggghhhttt

https://fortune.com/2022/11/30/zombie-virus-siberia-russia-lake-revived-scientists/

21 minutes ago, Parliament said:

The thawing of ancient permafrost due to climate change may pose a new threat to humans, according to researchers who revived nearly two dozen viruses – including one frozen under a lake more than 48,500 years ago. 

European researchers examined ancient samples collected from permafrost in the Siberia region of Russia. They revived and characterized 13 new pathogens, what they termed “zombie viruses,” and found that they remained infectious despite spending many millennia trapped in the frozen ground.

Scientists have long warned that the thawing of permafrost due to atmospheric warming will worsen climate change by freeing previously trapped greenhouse gases like methane. But its effect on dormant pathogens is less well understood.

The team of researchers from Russia, Germany and France said the biological risk of reanimating the viruses they studied was “totally negligible” due to the strains they targeted, mainly those capable of infecting amoeba microbes. The potential revival of a virus that could infect animals or humans is much more problematic, they said, warning that their work can be extrapolated to show the danger is real.

“It is thus likely that ancient permafrost will release these unknown viruses upon thawing,” they wrote in an article posted to the preprint repository bioRxiv that hasn’t yet been peer-reviewed. “How long these viruses could remain infectious once exposed to outdoor conditions, and how likely they will be to encounter and infect a suitable host in the interval, is yet impossible to estimate.”

"totally negligible"  Riiiggghhhttt

https://fortune.com/2022/11/30/zombie-virus-siberia-russia-lake-revived-scientists/

we fucked around. we gonna find out.

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Canadian hybrid murderpigs.  Buncha hosers!

 An invasive species of crossbred "super pigs" from Canada could eventually become an issue for the United States and experts are continuously sounding the alarm while monitoring the situation.

Wild pigs have plagued southern states in the U.S. for decades now, according to the Smithsonian Magazine, with the animals destroying crops, killing native species while being a walking petri dish of diseases that can spread to humans.

Those pigs reportedly stick to warmer climates like Florida and Texas but still have managed to cause an estimated $2.1 billion in damages annually, according to Texas Parks and Wildlife.

Now, according to experts, a breed of wild cross-bred "super pigs" threaten northern U.S. states with the same woes.

It's cold in Canada and I have no idea what kinda biological organism can survive up there with basically no fur.

 

https://katv.com/news/nation-world/canadian-super-pigs-threaten-to-invade-the-us-experts-continue-to-warn-wild-feral-hog-canada-north-south-dakota-ryan-brook-powers-usda

1 hour ago, Parliament said:

It's cold in Canada and I have no idea what kinda biological organism can survive up there with basically no fur.

I wouldn't say he has no fur.

Oh wait, you said basically no fur, so he qualifies.

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There's a better thread for this, but I can't find it...

The dreaded rat lungworm—a parasite with a penchant for rats and slugs that occasionally finds itself rambling and writhing in human brains—has firmly established itself in the Southeast US and will likely continue its rapid invasion, a study published this week suggests.

 

When a rat lungworm finds itself in a human, it does what it usually does in rats—it heads to the central nervous system and brain. Sometimes the migration of the worms to the central nervous system is asymptomatic or only causes mild transient symptoms. But, sometimes, they cause severe neurological dysfunction. This can start with nonspecific symptoms like headache, light sensitivity, and insomnia and develop into neck stiffness and pain, tingling or burning of the skin, double vision, bowel or bladder difficulties, and seizures. In severe cases, it can cause nerve damage, paralysis, coma, and even death.

 

Regardless, there's no specific treatment for a rat lungworm infection. No anti-parasitic drugs have proven effective, and, in fact, there's some evidence they can make symptoms worse by spurring more immune responses to dying worms. For now, supportive treatment, pain medications, and steroids are typically the only options.

https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/09/worm-that-jumps-from-rats-to-slugs-to-human-brains-has-invaded-southeast-us/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter

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2 hours ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

So the cure for cancer is to live next to a melted down Russian nuclear reactor?

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We're gonna need a lot of salt.

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