I’m going to die a very scary, traumatic death and so are a lot of the people who are closest to my heart—we’re all homeless, and we’re all drug addicts, and I have the special bonus of being (sort of) trans as well. I’m already seeing the ratcheting up of hatred for homeless drug users—I’ll be shot in the head and kicked into a pit, and my only hope is that I’ll be one of the very first so I won’t have to live with the pain of worrying about anyone I care about.

So yeah, while I agree that America’s collapse would be a W for humankind overall, it’s hard to fucking see that silver lining when things are that bleak.

I just want the rest of what’s likely to be a very short life to be chill. I just want things to be normal.

    • fox [comrade/them]
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      6 months ago

      If you make a drug with chemistry, it'll make a 50/50 mix of left-mirrored and right-mirrored molecules. Like your hands, they're mirror images but cannot be flipped to be the other one. Sometimes the mirror of the desired molecule is harmless and sometimes it'll cause massive birth defects or be deadly poison.

      If you program a yeast cell to make that drug molecule it'll only make the desired molecule and not its mirror.