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  • Mercival@lemm.eetoMemes@lemmy.mlCommunist Filth/Capitalist Filth
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    8 months ago

    I have a whole fucking family, who lived through the USSR. Not a single one of them misses it. Being spied on every step you take, my grandma has the “you never know who’s watching” mentality to this day.

    That’s not to say they don’t hate the current regime, but it’s nothing compared to the absolute atrocities of the USSR’s secret police.


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    Well, I’m from a post-USSR country and a substantial part of this was the criminalization of homelessness. Can’t have homeless people, if you lock them up (be it in a prison or asylum).

    Then again, just about anyone, who did not conform to the party’s message got locked up. Getting your place bugged at the slightest hint you might be up to something disagreeable and all that good stuff. The secret police could disappear and or beat you up without any real justification.

    I hate late-stage capitalism as much as you, but coming from a country that’s been through this, I am extremely reluctant to give the rotten and frankly repugnant USSR regime any credit.


  • Conflating Israel’s actions with Judaism as a whole is extremely antisemitic in its own right.

    Israel’s regime does casually murder children on a regular basis, it is not antisemitic to say that.

    If you’re suggesting ignoring the fact, just because “Neo-nazis might like it”, I can’t stand with you.






  • Horseshoe crabs are not crusteceans, they are early chelicerates.

    They have an open circulatory system, where the blood (heamolymph) freely spills out of the arteries into surrounding tissues, so a small clot probably wouldn’t cause issues. Think of it like a cyst, sometimes if an infection can’t be removed by the immune system, your body will just enclose it in a capsule, so it can’t spread.


  • Sadly a lot of the companies harvesting them will just kill and sell them for bait anyways.

    Of those that are released, about a third die. Not to say about the decrease in overall fitness, which can lead to them falling prey more easily.

    It’s obviously a traumatic experience for the animal in the best case scenario and that is going to reflect on their ability to survive in the wild.


  • It is not an anticoagulant, quite the opposite actually. The blood (limulus amoebocyte lysate) will coagulate at the slightest hint of gram-negative bacteria and their endotoxins.

    It’s most likely a defense mechanism against bacterial infections.

    It’s widely used in medicine to check for bacterial contamination of injectable pharmaceuticals.