Florida's plan to replace migrant workers with children falls apart
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On the same day this came out, University of Florida scientists announced a possible new treatment for cancer - not a type of cancer, ALL cancers. It works by stimulating the immune system to kill the tumor, and it's based on a treatment for glioblastoma that had highly successful human trials last year. Hard to believe these same two developments both came out of the nutbin of Florida.
You got me for a second there.
I thought you would make a "the onion" joke of florida plan's to send cancer patient to work the fields as a "treatment" for cancer.
I'm surprised (and kinda of relieved?) that your comment is actually about a new scientific discovery.
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Florida's what now?
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The teenage babysitters I know demand a higher hourly rate than Target workers in my locale (at about $18/hr). I don't think the farmers are ready to pay that for young people who are not work hardened and can't keep their phones out of their hands for longer than 5 minutes. It is not like they will starve if they don't pick enough. After all, their parents will be there, helicoptering, handing them bottles of lifewater and snacks and uploading pics and vids on their phones on their social media accounts.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Congratulations. This is the most Boomer-ass comment I have ever read on Lemmy.
Signed,
A 40-Year Old Millenial.
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You got me for a second there.
I thought you would make a "the onion" joke of florida plan's to send cancer patient to work the fields as a "treatment" for cancer.
I'm surprised (and kinda of relieved?) that your comment is actually about a new scientific discovery.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Oh yeah it's very exciting. In 2024 a vaccine that targeted glioblastoma, an especially nasty brain cancer with an almost zero survival rate. The vaccine mimics certain aspects of tumor cells, triggering a fast, vigorous immune response that attacks the actual tumor. Encouraged by the results, they've somehow generalized the vaccine over the past year to stimulate an immune response to cancer cells in general. Immunological therapy is totally different from chemo or radiation, and a generalized approach is vastly different from what the whole field has been doing for decades. Very promising.
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Sounds like a right nightmare ya got goin on there bud
Yeah, it's not great here... Unless you're a billionaire and want to exploit people!
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They are framing it like plucky shirtless college boys might wanna go pick cucumbers for a weekend to make a few bucks for rootbeer floats down at the soda-fountain.
One of the things that infuriates me about our species broadly is how terrible people are at visualizing actual, real systems and their scope and scale.
If you don't know anything about the factory-farming our society requires to survive, you should probably take a short tour of the massive machine we've built and depend on so you understand the scale of the problem and why even the immigrants we have/had now aren't even enough to keep the system running. This is why aging populations are a huge problem, this is a foundational cornerstone of our whole civilization, much like medicine and vaccines, and it's being waved off like something we can just swap out demographics for funsies and to give bro's trying to afford their new baseball mitts and textbooks, all good, right??
I mean, they could work a summer picking produce and have enough money to buy a house, at least that's what the old man down the street told me. And he owns a house, so I bet he would know.
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So let me get this straight. The US needs Migrants so much that we're needing to replace them with teenagers?
Farms have historically used their children as free labor back when they were mostly family owned. That's why most schools here have a three month summer break. Now they want the factory farms to have that same perk, just with other people's children.
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Not surprising. They didn't plan ahead whatsoever and thought "it'll all work out" as if Conservative promises held more weight than the hot air required to speak them.
Well, the reason it didn't work out now is obviously the Democrats somehow.
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So let me get this straight. The US needs Migrants so much that we're needing to replace them with teenagers?
Now that you're saying. Really expected them to use actual 9 year old children for this. But even so, it doesn't look like a bright future if they're forcing adolescents and young adults into slavery.
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On the same day this came out, University of Florida scientists announced a possible new treatment for cancer - not a type of cancer, ALL cancers. It works by stimulating the immune system to kill the tumor, and it's based on a treatment for glioblastoma that had highly successful human trials last year. Hard to believe these same two developments both came out of the nutbin of Florida.
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Brand new sentence???!!!
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That's a fair critique, I made it sound more like US citizens are snobby for rejecting underpaid, dangerous jobs when in reality the US's base infrastructure still entirely relies on a form of slave labor to persist. I should've been more nuanced with my description.
It's not even a critique, really. We're all fed up, angry, and looking to throw around punches at everything. My comments are just as much about venting and getting mad.
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It's telling that they blame the migrants workers for "stealing the jerbs" instead of the businesses that hire migrants workers in order to get around paying a fair wage
Why blame a white capitalist when anyone else can take the fall?
Florida briefly tried to enforce it on this basis and immediately had a labor crisis so afaik they stopped.
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On the same day this came out, University of Florida scientists announced a possible new treatment for cancer - not a type of cancer, ALL cancers. It works by stimulating the immune system to kill the tumor, and it's based on a treatment for glioblastoma that had highly successful human trials last year. Hard to believe these same two developments both came out of the nutbin of Florida.
That happens like all the time, but they never work (yet!). Cancer is so agressive, dividing so fast, and thus adapting through mutations that nothing really works fully.
But maybe it will kill some of them, and let's not stop trying! Fuck cancer.
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See also: the troubled teen industry. Ir parenting is too much work, you can send your kid to torture school.
Every last one of those places needs to be burned down, the staff and investors should be hanged.
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Newsweek states on their own website that this article is unfairly leaning left. What a strange editorial decision.
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In ancent rome there was a law,that went something like "you cannot sell your son into slavery a third time". Americans would see that as a violation of parental rights
Third? The fuck did someone do to cause that?! Was there some dude who sold his son into slavery and then said son got out of slavery at least three times so the Romans had to pass a law to keep that from happening again? Why do I get the feeling Crassus was involved.
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That happens like all the time, but they never work (yet!). Cancer is so agressive, dividing so fast, and thus adapting through mutations that nothing really works fully.
But maybe it will kill some of them, and let's not stop trying! Fuck cancer.
wrote last edited by [email protected]It's mRNA based, if I recall.
This makes it, essentially, endlessly flexible. We can now take a sample, sequence it, find the mutations, simulate what the protein looks like when folded, generate* the correct complimentary protein for that target and write the actual amino acid sequence directly into mRNA and give it to the patient.
This is currently incredibly expensive because it's being done manually by labs full of PhDs. But every part of this process is being rapidly improved and made cheaper.
mRNA based medicines have amazing promise. For example they had the COVID vaccine designed less than 12 hours after sequencing the virus.
*using a diffusion model, like AI image generators but they produce amino acid sequences that generate arbitrarily shaped proteins
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Newsweek states on their own website that this article is unfairly leaning left. What a strange editorial decision.
It's an unfortunately looking vote gauge (it's like a poll where readers decide whether it does lean on either side or not), not their opinion about the article.
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It's an unfortunately looking vote gauge (it's like a poll where readers decide whether it does lean on either side or not), not their opinion about the article.
Its a design decision that is bafflingly stupid. People will use this as evidence of bias.
