I’m curious about the hobby itself. What are you learning and enjoying? I mean that genuinely as a question, not sarcasm or trolling. This is fascinating to my 8 year old self who got a microscope for christmas and always wanted to explore more
replyProbably a good thing overall in my opinion, even though it obviously has impacts.
replyI got into this hobby briefly (pre-LLMs) before realising how much of a loaded gun it is, and that I’m just not qualified to safely muck around with this stuff.
I suppose you might have to go back to bathtub explosives as a safer alternative.
replyYeah me too. Using Clorox on my toilet seat kills always 99.99% germs. The fun is with the 0.01% that's left
replyThe 0.01% might survive, even develop some resistence. But when put again in the mix with wild non-resistent individuals in a non-clorox environment, the selection acts against them: having resistence might have costs, have no use, and if the mechanism is lost for whatever reason the new individuals survive anyway.
replySomething like this is suspected to have happened to us humans: the black plague has been pressuring/selecting individuals with more active and strong immune systems. Today the plague isn't so active or deadly to humans, but stronger immune systems are probably behind auto-immune illnesses (https://aihep.org/post/the-bubonic-plague-and-autoimmune-dis...).
Similar with sickle cell & malaria
replyYou can actually do real biology at home if you set up a Petri dish tray with a concentration gradient of Clorox across it, then put some random germs at the low concentration and.
replyYeah, or antibiotics maybe. But still, I could just put bare wires in my bathtub, no need for such effort :wink:
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