Hey thanks! I gave up Facebook, Twitter, and the like many years ago. I browsed Reddit endlessly until the API fiasco, switched to kbin for a bit, then gave it all up for a few months. Got bored one day and found my kbin link was dead, so I switched to Lemmy and just realized I’ve been getting hooked again - thus experiencing this same vicious circle.

Time to give it up again and get back to real life, my morning routine has definitely been slacking. Maybe I’ll find a podcast to keep up on the latest while working out.

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HeLa immortal cell line

TIL, thanks!

fetal bovine serum (FBS)… is derived from the blood of calf fetuses after their pregnant mothers are slaughtered by the meat or dairy industry.

I did not know this… and after reading the wiki, I found it rather disturbing…

The first stage of the production process for FBS is the harvesting of blood from the bovine fetus after the fetus is removed from the slaughtered cow. The fetus dies from the lack of oxygen by remaining in the protective environment of the uterus for a minimum of 15–20 minutes after the cow is dead…

You should seriously look into that, that guy could have killed you and might kill someone else.