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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 points 47 minutes ago

Just throwing shit at the wall. Faces. Social connection. Walking. What a bunch of bullshit.

[–] Dave2@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 hours ago

I can't claim that they mean this (for I have no who that is) but "mitochondrial challenge" reminds me of oxidative stress which does cause physical symptoms.

For some reason the thumbnail looked like a picture of a muppet. Could we please replace RFKJR with a muppet?

[–] jmsy@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

I'm not a scientist. What is a mitochondrial challenge?

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 57 minutes ago

Everything RFK tries to understand is buried in a grain of truth. Yes, poor diets and sedentary lifestyles lead to younger and younger people with inflammatory diseases, which used to be a thing in obese elderly people. Inflammation is the result of release of reactive oxygen from immune cells, which is coming from mitochondria. No, mitochondria are not the cause, and in fact keep us all alive and free of disease.

[–] eugene171@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

Looks like the pseudoscience and supplement-selling name for a real set of medical conditions.

Mitochondrial Dysfunction Is a Bit of a Fad | Office for Science and Society - McGill University https://share.google/edU4WAzh8so9rAU2d

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 6 points 6 hours ago

so hes a jedi now?

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 16 points 8 hours ago

The mitochondial challenges are the powerhouse of the prison cell!

[–] Mr_WorldlyWiseman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

The worm demands kids with more ATP!

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 56 minutes ago

Shai hulud!

[–] turdburglar@sh.itjust.works 13 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

seems more likely he’s just seeing the utter despair of young humans realizing what kind of world they have been born into.

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Tbf, the earth is still quite beautiful, its the homo sapiens, particularly the homo sapiens with other homo sapiens obeying their every command (politicians... military/police)

[–] turdburglar@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

sure but i just read an article about the atlantic jet stream coming to a halt in the next 50-100 years, so i guess smoke em while you got em or some such phrase.

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (2 children)

You read too much news. The news is designed by the ruling powers to make people lose hope and thus make people more easy to subjugate.

If you lived in WW2 or the US-Soviet Cold War, you would've thought the world was ending.

Hey you know that the Earth is eventually gonna get sucked into the sun (or flung out into space, not quite sure which is which) and everything here dies, right.

Everything is temporary.

One of the leading theories of the universe says everything will end in "heat death". So, with knowledge of this, do you just decide to give up since "everything is meaningless"?

Fuck that lol. We shouldn't be alive, the odda s arent even in out favor, but we are. So, TAKE THAT, STUPID UNIVERSE.

I'm alive and being alive is a rebellion, its rebellion against the universe.

P.S. I was born under the Once Child Policy of mainland China. I wasn't even supposed to be born, since my parents already had a child (aka: my older brother). But guess what, I'm alive. So, take that, CCP. Sometimes, I have existential thoughts about the "what if"s, like "what if I was never born". But you know what, fuck that. On this timeline, I'm alive. My life is inherently a rebellion against authoritarians, its a direct contradiction to the CCP's policies. I shouldn't be worrying about a timeline that never happened, and similarly, we have to stop resigning ourselves to a failure that hasn't happened yet, its never too late to try to fix it.

For some pespective, even if the all the polar ice caps melt and we detonated all nukes on earth, Earth would still be more habitable than, say, Mars.

So, do what you can to stop climate change, don't be too sad about it, everything eventually dies, just try your best. Be a rebel against the universe, be a rebel against authoritarians.

Do yourself a favor, and live long enough to see the demise of tyrants, and then keep on living to piss on their graves :D

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[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

One of the leading theories of the universe says everything will end in “heat death”. So, with knowledge of this, do you just decide to give up since “everything is meaningless”?

Tbh, that argument doesn't really hold. Human lives are short and our experienced history is also incredibly short. "The past" as in the part of the past that we can actually experience as human beings is less than 100 years. We can't fathom how freaking long 1000 years is, even though it's just 40 generations, let alone something that might happen in 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 years (that's 106 zeroes).

Climate change related disasters are happening right now and will intensify a lot during the next 50-100 years. I likely live long enough to watch the climate keeling over, and my kids and my grandkids will live right through the worst of it. That's something entirely different than saying that the universe will suffer the heat death in a time frame so long that we can't even understand the number in any relevant context.

[–] turdburglar@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 hours ago

i mean a girl can hope.

[–] thecoffeehobbit@sopuli.xyz 3 points 6 hours ago

So he's hinting that he has now discovered where autism comes from, conveniently passed from the mother's side? Checks out..

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I'd say that he's the one with obvious "mitochondrial challenges."

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

It's likely keto/carrnivore diet talk. Wouldn't be surprised, if the meat industry paid him to ban vegetarian diets in schools, alongside implementing a primarily animal based diet as baseline recommendation.

[–] EldenLord@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago

Full on tweaking from the head of a government body. What an embarassing shitshow!

[–] hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 19 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

I think he means midichlorians.

[–] TheKingBombOmbKiller@lemmy.zip 5 points 6 hours ago

I'm not weak in the force, I'm just midichlorianly challenged.

[–] liuther9@feddit.nl 2 points 8 hours ago

Mandalorians. Sith just hate mandalorians

[–] TomAwsm@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

Man, if I wasn't midichlorianly challenged, I would teach this guy a serious lesson.

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 hours ago

Oh my gosh. He's developed super powers!! /s

Go eat more roadkill you weirdo

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 3 points 8 hours ago

What's he gonna do? Send all those kids straight to the Pedo in the oval office?

[–] Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works 27 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

RFK had a book published some time back in which he reveals he doesn't believe in germ theory. Germ theory. This should have automatically disqualified him from doing anything that gives him decision making powers dealing with health, and medicine.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 54 minutes ago

Also why he swims in sewage. And, no one has called it germ "theory" in 200 years. It's like evolution is not a theory, labs use it every day.

[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 8 points 11 hours ago

Dude is back on the H

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 12 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I like that he thinks airports are somehow a place you’ll see social connection and not just loads of tired bored people waiting.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 5 hours ago

hes mad he couldnt see the worms in people.

[–] Alaik@lemmy.zip 6 points 11 hours ago

Part of me wonders if this isnt another attack on women given mitochondrial DNA is passed solely through the mother....

Then again, I doubt anyone has a high school level understanding of biology in this administration. Or the attention span to parrot what some billionare Thiel think tank told them to say if it was longer than 5 minutes prior.

[–] P1k1e@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago

Insane "Goblin"

[–] serenissi@lemmy.world 16 points 15 hours ago

the only person who didn't learn mitochondria is the powerhouse of a cell in high school

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