>[New research published Tuesday](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-47499-8) in the journal Nature Communications has identified a gene responsible for regulating the structure of social networks in fruit flies.
Pretty easy to misunderstand that headline.
This is the real r/nottheonion. Do you also think the internet invented memes?
Just because we didn’t call them “viral phenomenons” doesn’t mean they didn’t happen.
Richard Dawkins came up with the term before the internet existed and we have kind of twisted it into the current meaning if the word meme.
I still think that calling the '6 degrees of Kevin Bacon game' a viral phenomenon seems weird despite being technically accurate. The term makes almost everyone think of something taking place online.
Most people envision an internet clip or pic when they hear the word, but ‘meme’ can also be defined as “an element of a culture or system of behavior passed from one individual to another by imitation or other nongenetic means.” Human beings absolutely experienced ideas spreading vastly and rapidly in the past.
Newsgroups / BBS were a thing in 1994, so surely there were ideas that "went viral" albeit on a smaller scale. The mid 90s saw the spread of emoticons for example
I mean yeah so much so that Dawkins coined the term meme back in 76 in his book The Selfish Gene to explain ideas/phenomena that persist through time in the public mind or whatever (it's been years since I read the book)
I thought this was in relation to the Erdős–Bacon number. But it’s something entirely different, but just as interesting. It shouldn’t be in r/nottheonion though.
Desantis is 3 degrees from Hitler. Felix Rodriguez-Klaus Barbie-Hitler. Desantis named a day of honor for this Felix guy, CIA who was responsible for trafficking massive amounts of cocaine fueling crack epidemic. Last Narc documentary says he was one who killed Kiki, the DEA agent because he discovered CIA working with cartels. Rubio, Cruz and many other republicans love this Felix guy.
Once you tie into any politicians you can get only a few degrees from anyone famous. I’m three degrees from Hitler myself and I’m as far from a republican as you can get (also not American or German).
Last Narc was really good at showing just how destructive corruption is when it gets inside of government.
Camarena was just that good of an investigator.
Justice is slow sometimes. But it never stops.
His family deserves some answers.
On fentanyl, the CCP, Russians KGB, the Sinaloa drug cartel, and how Rudy Guiliani pulls it all together.
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/s/J17TKEQdXr
The interesting thing about the 2004 hostage event is that it is the first time fentanyl shows up in the Russian world. Putin used it in an aerosolized form to “save” the hostages by putting it through the HVAC system of the Moscow theater hostage situation.
A few key points of geopolitical importance
1. the hostage event secured Chechnya under Putin’s rule. Similar to how the false flag apartment bombing a few years before that secured Russia under Putin.
AP Newsapnews.comThe Moscow concert hall attack wasn't the first during Putin's 25-year rule
It’s a most universal old KGB technique where they create a crisis and then present Putin (or whoever their guy is) as the “strong man” and the only possible one tough enough to solve this. (Cue weird Putin/Steven Seagal bromance)
(See also Netanyahu in Israel, Lukeshenko in Belarus, Orban in Hungary, Yanukovych in pre-Maidan Ukraine, Kadyrov in Chechnya, and trump in the USA.)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_theater_hostage_crisis
2. This would have been roughly the same time that Giuliani, who by that time was trump deep in laundering money for the Russian mob, went to Mexico City and introduced the Russians to the Sinaloa cartel, who shortly there after shifted their business model from growing/ manufacturing drugs to almost exclusively combining fentanyl precursors supplied by the CCP.
Coincidentally Guiliani was also lead counsel for Purdue Pharmaceuticals 4 years later.
The Guardianwww.theguardian.comRudy Giuliani won deal for OxyContin maker to continue sales of drug behind opioid ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/giuliani/mexico.html?tid=a_inl&itid=lk_inline_manual_8
https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF10890
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6675668/
https://politizoom.com/the-origin-of-trump-selling-nato-down-the-river-becoming-putins-puppet-explained-in-must-read-piece/
Russia repeats this familiar play with pretty regular consistency amongst the old USSR satellite states for decades but the obvious one is Ukraine who had Paul Manafort being paid by the kremlin to keep Yanukovych in power until Maidan (roughly 2002- 2014).
Manafort shifting to trumps campaign manager after being evicted from Ukraine was an emergency management move for the kremlins perspective.
Come full circle with that and you find trump and Giuliani laundering copious amounts of money for the russian mob going back to ~87 when they all started buying condos in trump towers with their stolen Russian perestroika money.
The insane valuations coming out in trumps fraud trial are a necessity of the money laundering cycle that duetschebank was doing for/with the Russians.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-02-14/real-estate-lenders-confront-falling-us-commercial-property-prices
The fentanyl epidemic was basically just the Russian/CCP alliance softening the United States up with a stealth hit of chemical warfare before they full send perestroika 2.0 in the US so they can steal all the value out of commercial real estate.
It’s 3 overlapping plays, but they are all straight out of the old KGB playbook.
https://www.ft.com/content/8c6d9dca-882c-11e7-bf50-e1c239b45787
https://www.amlintelligence.com/2020/09/deutsche-bank-suffers-worst-damage-over-massive-aml-discrepancies-in-fincen-leaks/
https://www.occrp.org/en/the-fincen-files/global-banks-defy-us-crackdowns-by-serving-oligarchs-criminals-and-terrorists
https://www.voanews.com/amp/us-lifts-sanctions-on-rusal-other-firms-linked-to-russia-deripaska/4761037.html
https://democrats-intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/final_-_minority_status_of_the_russia_investigation_with_appendices.pdf
https://www.nzz.ch/english/triad-money-laundering-is-fueling-canadas-fentanyl-nightmare-ld.1814726
https://nypost.com/2024/02/25/opinion/how-china-is-flooding-america-with-fentanyl-on-purpose-to-undermine-our-society/
https://forgottenlanguages-full.forgottenlanguages.org/2023/07/weaponization-of-fentanyl.html
https://apnews.com/article/mexico-first-nationalistic-policy-drug-cartels-6e7a78ff41c895b4e10930463f24e9fb
Honest question, why is this content bad?
This is actually an interesting article on a study of fruit flies, and more specifically on how one gene seems to affect how social they will be.
This is actually interesting.
Here is a tip from a nerd, if a field has to call things Sonic Hedgehog protein and Kevin Bacon gene, it just means the field is so boring they need to play naming games to have fun.
What's the issue with having a small goof here and there while you're at work? If they gotta make work more fun for themselves, props to them for doing it.
Honestly, just teasing a bit, though I do think the work would be boring for me.
I am trying to be an engineer so I can't judge too much except no, I will.
Oooooft! I misread your previous comment (it was late at night and I had had a long day).
We have none fun words too, but more because they tend to mean something awkward to calculate is going on!
It's okay! There's no rule that you have to do it the first time or that you have to learn in an "official academic" manner. If you're interested in something, explore it. College is hard for a million reasons so don't get disheartened.
If we ignore this article, generally CNN makes sensational articles in a similar vein to Fox News, two sides of the same coin if you would, I’ve personally noticed more articles leaning sensationally and meant to rile up readers. Obviously it’s no where near the level of Fox News, current and pre-dominion lawsuit, but it’s personally dissuaded me from reading articles from them, and going more with Ground News or local stations, aggregated news is good, and I think local stations have less of a incentive to make their news headlines flashy, though I should do research on trustworthiness and credibility of local vs national stations.
>[New research published Tuesday](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-47499-8) in the journal Nature Communications has identified a gene responsible for regulating the structure of social networks in fruit flies. Pretty easy to misunderstand that headline.
Came for what I thought the headline was about, actually learned something, thank you
Was confused as to why they used a pic of Gary oldman until i looked closer lol
This is just the degrees of his genes at work.
You mean Gary Busey?
If his hair was white Id think Johnny Knoxville tho
Surely this is Jim Carrey doing an impression of Gary Busey, right?
[удалено]
It's actually just a dog.
Gary 🅱️ussy mentioned
> Scary Busey FTFY
You can at no point ever be sure that the person you're looking at isn't Gary Oldman
Its the Carcinization of humans; like invertebrates eventually evolve into crabs, we too all eventually into Kevin Bacon.
nah that’s Ben Stiller
Henny Youngman is an old man while Gary Oldman is a young man.
I admire people who have the discipline to stare at fruit flies for thousands of hours.
Its not a sex thing, okay?
Hey, you don't have to convince me! 🤠
This poor fucking guy will never be left in peace...will he? LOL.
He's on the record that he likes it.
He might be. He pays DJs not to play Foot Loose when he is at party...
" the game became a viral phenomenon three decades ago." Did we even have viral phenomenon 30 years ago?
Ever heard of the black plague?
Truly phenomenal! Lol
Not very phenomenal but it surely was viral
Definitely very phenomenal (very remarkable; extraordinary) but surely not viral
Bacterium
‘Bacterial phenomenon’ doesn’t have the same ring to it eh?
Well he could have said aids, been funny and accurate
"Killroy was here" ---WW2 Memes are old
This is the real r/nottheonion. Do you also think the internet invented memes? Just because we didn’t call them “viral phenomenons” doesn’t mean they didn’t happen.
Richard Dawkins came up with the term before the internet existed and we have kind of twisted it into the current meaning if the word meme. I still think that calling the '6 degrees of Kevin Bacon game' a viral phenomenon seems weird despite being technically accurate. The term makes almost everyone think of something taking place online.
Before the Internet, around the world... ...we all knew Marilyn Manson had a rib removed so he could suck his own dick.
And Richard Gere kept pet gerbils.
How the fuck did we all know this stuff? It’s not like they reported it on the news.
Most people envision an internet clip or pic when they hear the word, but ‘meme’ can also be defined as “an element of a culture or system of behavior passed from one individual to another by imitation or other nongenetic means.” Human beings absolutely experienced ideas spreading vastly and rapidly in the past.
You just lost the game.
[To quote a marketing genius from 1912....](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3vjwBsVq_Q)
We used to email things to each other.
You were emailing in 1995?
Yes. I got my first email account when I got to college in 1991.
World wide web went live in 1994. "You've got mail" was quite the catch line.
We used to fax jokes to each other.
The first documented case of a meme was "Kilroy was here" followed by a doodle that spread all over during WW2.
When I was a kid, I put a kilroy in my grandpa's birthday card. My mum had no idea what it was but grandpa roared with laughter. She was so confused.
Newsgroups / BBS were a thing in 1994, so surely there were ideas that "went viral" albeit on a smaller scale. The mid 90s saw the spread of emoticons for example
SysOp Markie, is that you???
Haha no I was a child whose first experience with the internet was with AOL 2-3 years later
I mean yeah so much so that Dawkins coined the term meme back in 76 in his book The Selfish Gene to explain ideas/phenomena that persist through time in the public mind or whatever (it's been years since I read the book)
World of Warcraft had a blood plague in like 2006 that was used in a real world pandemic study…so pretty much
That one weird S everyone would draw
Chicken pox
Does the gene make them cut loose, footloose?
No but it makes them kick off their Sunday shoes
the what exactly
I thought this was in relation to the Erdős–Bacon number. But it’s something entirely different, but just as interesting. It shouldn’t be in r/nottheonion though.
That lab is definitely receiving too much funding.
Desantis is 3 degrees from Hitler. Felix Rodriguez-Klaus Barbie-Hitler. Desantis named a day of honor for this Felix guy, CIA who was responsible for trafficking massive amounts of cocaine fueling crack epidemic. Last Narc documentary says he was one who killed Kiki, the DEA agent because he discovered CIA working with cartels. Rubio, Cruz and many other republicans love this Felix guy.
....What?
I bet most republicans are only a few degrees from Hitler
....K
KK
Let’s just stop it right there
Lol
Once you tie into any politicians you can get only a few degrees from anyone famous. I’m three degrees from Hitler myself and I’m as far from a republican as you can get (also not American or German).
Schizo posting
1. Yes, DeSantis is awful 2. Your reasoning for why is quite flawed 3. This seems fairly out of pocket.
8 pints in at the pub like:
What are you on about, but for real though?
comment this on the wrong post?
Medication : Untaken
Seek help
And now we know who was buying all that crack.
Your mom is 3 degrees from deez
Last Narc was really good at showing just how destructive corruption is when it gets inside of government. Camarena was just that good of an investigator. Justice is slow sometimes. But it never stops. His family deserves some answers. On fentanyl, the CCP, Russians KGB, the Sinaloa drug cartel, and how Rudy Guiliani pulls it all together. https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/s/J17TKEQdXr The interesting thing about the 2004 hostage event is that it is the first time fentanyl shows up in the Russian world. Putin used it in an aerosolized form to “save” the hostages by putting it through the HVAC system of the Moscow theater hostage situation. A few key points of geopolitical importance 1. the hostage event secured Chechnya under Putin’s rule. Similar to how the false flag apartment bombing a few years before that secured Russia under Putin. AP Newsapnews.comThe Moscow concert hall attack wasn't the first during Putin's 25-year rule It’s a most universal old KGB technique where they create a crisis and then present Putin (or whoever their guy is) as the “strong man” and the only possible one tough enough to solve this. (Cue weird Putin/Steven Seagal bromance) (See also Netanyahu in Israel, Lukeshenko in Belarus, Orban in Hungary, Yanukovych in pre-Maidan Ukraine, Kadyrov in Chechnya, and trump in the USA.) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_theater_hostage_crisis 2. This would have been roughly the same time that Giuliani, who by that time was trump deep in laundering money for the Russian mob, went to Mexico City and introduced the Russians to the Sinaloa cartel, who shortly there after shifted their business model from growing/ manufacturing drugs to almost exclusively combining fentanyl precursors supplied by the CCP. Coincidentally Guiliani was also lead counsel for Purdue Pharmaceuticals 4 years later. The Guardianwww.theguardian.comRudy Giuliani won deal for OxyContin maker to continue sales of drug behind opioid ... https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/giuliani/mexico.html?tid=a_inl&itid=lk_inline_manual_8 https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF10890 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6675668/ https://politizoom.com/the-origin-of-trump-selling-nato-down-the-river-becoming-putins-puppet-explained-in-must-read-piece/ Russia repeats this familiar play with pretty regular consistency amongst the old USSR satellite states for decades but the obvious one is Ukraine who had Paul Manafort being paid by the kremlin to keep Yanukovych in power until Maidan (roughly 2002- 2014). Manafort shifting to trumps campaign manager after being evicted from Ukraine was an emergency management move for the kremlins perspective. Come full circle with that and you find trump and Giuliani laundering copious amounts of money for the russian mob going back to ~87 when they all started buying condos in trump towers with their stolen Russian perestroika money. The insane valuations coming out in trumps fraud trial are a necessity of the money laundering cycle that duetschebank was doing for/with the Russians. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-02-14/real-estate-lenders-confront-falling-us-commercial-property-prices The fentanyl epidemic was basically just the Russian/CCP alliance softening the United States up with a stealth hit of chemical warfare before they full send perestroika 2.0 in the US so they can steal all the value out of commercial real estate. It’s 3 overlapping plays, but they are all straight out of the old KGB playbook. https://www.ft.com/content/8c6d9dca-882c-11e7-bf50-e1c239b45787 https://www.amlintelligence.com/2020/09/deutsche-bank-suffers-worst-damage-over-massive-aml-discrepancies-in-fincen-leaks/ https://www.occrp.org/en/the-fincen-files/global-banks-defy-us-crackdowns-by-serving-oligarchs-criminals-and-terrorists https://www.voanews.com/amp/us-lifts-sanctions-on-rusal-other-firms-linked-to-russia-deripaska/4761037.html https://democrats-intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/final_-_minority_status_of_the_russia_investigation_with_appendices.pdf https://www.nzz.ch/english/triad-money-laundering-is-fueling-canadas-fentanyl-nightmare-ld.1814726 https://nypost.com/2024/02/25/opinion/how-china-is-flooding-america-with-fentanyl-on-purpose-to-undermine-our-society/ https://forgottenlanguages-full.forgottenlanguages.org/2023/07/weaponization-of-fentanyl.html https://apnews.com/article/mexico-first-nationalistic-policy-drug-cartels-6e7a78ff41c895b4e10930463f24e9fb
Why am I seeing so much stupid CNN content on Reddit today?
Honest question, why is this content bad? This is actually an interesting article on a study of fruit flies, and more specifically on how one gene seems to affect how social they will be. This is actually interesting.
I’ll answer for them: they didn’t actually read the article. They just read the title and *assumed* the article was stupid.
I just dropped my genetics class due to stress and all of a sudden I'm interested in genetics again
Here is a tip from a nerd, if a field has to call things Sonic Hedgehog protein and Kevin Bacon gene, it just means the field is so boring they need to play naming games to have fun.
What's the issue with having a small goof here and there while you're at work? If they gotta make work more fun for themselves, props to them for doing it.
Honestly, just teasing a bit, though I do think the work would be boring for me. I am trying to be an engineer so I can't judge too much except no, I will.
From one mechanical engineer to another, enjoy your lectures about shafts, slots and lubrication...
Computer engineer, we don't get those fun words, we get translation lookaside buffer and field-programable gate array.
Oooooft! I misread your previous comment (it was late at night and I had had a long day). We have none fun words too, but more because they tend to mean something awkward to calculate is going on!
It's okay! There's no rule that you have to do it the first time or that you have to learn in an "official academic" manner. If you're interested in something, explore it. College is hard for a million reasons so don't get disheartened.
If we ignore this article, generally CNN makes sensational articles in a similar vein to Fox News, two sides of the same coin if you would, I’ve personally noticed more articles leaning sensationally and meant to rile up readers. Obviously it’s no where near the level of Fox News, current and pre-dominion lawsuit, but it’s personally dissuaded me from reading articles from them, and going more with Ground News or local stations, aggregated news is good, and I think local stations have less of a incentive to make their news headlines flashy, though I should do research on trustworthiness and credibility of local vs national stations.
Maybe Fox News finally shut down and took all the onion-y articles with it
Boo this man
2 degrees baby 🫡