The theory is that it can alter the phenotype of people!
Finally I could become a beautiful Asian woman with blonde hair and blue eyes!
No, wait! Purple hair, one eye yellow, the other green, blue or purple depending on my mood.
And huge knockers. Enough to make sexy cyborg’s jaw drop.
Oh wait, hold on a minute! I didn’t mean it! I was just kidding guys! Stop touching me! C’mon that’s rape! Stop thinking about being inside me and fulfilling every disgusting offensive desire of yours!
No! See I’m just another 200lb guy with a tiny penis! See! I’m cool! Your cool. I’m Cool if you’re cool, are you cool? Cuz I’m cool. Let’s all forget this episode.
Oh who am I kidding! C’mon, big guys let’s get this done. Let’s see if we can all get our tensions out in the open and work them to a relaxing tone. That’s it. All good. Relax. Breath.
Ok so i presume they controlled for this but given
sexually transmitted parasites, such as T. gondii
and the more attractive people had a
higher number of sexual partners
Weren’t they more likely to get it anyway? Especially if they self-select amongst the similarly attractive sexual partners?
I didn’t see anything in the article that suggested controlling for that. I’m not familiar with this particular publication, but I’m pretty accustomed to science publications sensationalizing the studies they’re reporting on.
Gimme the parasite that makes me irresistible to everyone! 🥺
I knew it was going to be Toxoplasma gondii.
Wasn’t that also the case for Syphilis?
Good try RFK’s brainworm.
I mean I thought Baldurs Gate 3 was excellent too.
Praise the Absolute.
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I am experiencing reverse effluviums and an aversion to revision. What are my chances?
Moonwalking sounds like a feature, not a bug.
Camaro envy? Nope. Nothing is worth that.
Okay, for moonwalking you should talk to your agent/promoter. For Camaro envy, even your therapist doesn’t want to hear about that.
Is there a cat free version? Or maybe just reduced cats? The rest is fine.
I’m thinking of doing a startup that processes used kitty litter. I think our end result needs some more work but looks promising
Did the parasite also give humankind the ability to speak languages?
“It is possible that the apparently non-pathological and potentially beneficial interactions between T. gondii and some of its intermediate hosts, such as rats and humans, are the result of co-evolutionary strategies that benefit, or at least do not harm, the fitness of both the parasite and the host,” the researchers write.
I’m looking forward to reports of infection parties.
That’s the plot of a lower decks episode
spoiler
This guy gets Boimler a girlfriend
It’s also the plot of a Futurama episode
These guys made Fry attractive to Leela
And Red Dwarf with the luck virus and sexual magnetism virus.
Resident Evil 4 confirmed
Resident CUTIE
Isnt it 7?
Or is 7
Spoilers ahead
The CIA Experiment?
Always kinda thought about it that way, since its 7 and 8 when they were going all in on body horror via the hands, and I distinctally remember a very heavy focus on maggots and other parasites
Spoilers for RE 4, 7, and 8.
Tap for spoiler
Resident Evil 4 is the brain worm thingy parasite while 7 and 8 is parasitic mold.
So it may actually be a mind-altering symbiote?
Scientifically it’s called mutualism, and it happens all the time in nature, including in humans. The bacteria in your gut require you to live, and for you to live requires having those bacteria in your gut. And the bacteria in your gut effect your mind, including the decisions you make
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutualism_(biology)
effectaffectSorry, I appreciate your post.
Thanks for the info but I purposely only ever use effect. The difference conveys no additional information, and it’s already close to an archaic usage
“Affect” is nowhere close to an archaic usage, if that’s what you mean. But of course you are welcome to spell it however you like.
Oh, interesting, I thought that was the definition of symbiosis!
(Also, don’t forget to escape the parenthesis in your Wikipedia link.)
You were very close, mutualism is a type of symbiosis.
When i click on my links they all seem to work. Maybe my lemmy instance autocorrects it?
is it really a parasite if you dont really lose anything and get something positive from it?
Parasites need their host to live. I don’t think the impact to the host is considered by the definition.
Parasite does mean it causes some form of harm to the host. That’s what makes it parasitism vs mutualism
But that harm can be very mild.
guess its time for me to drink some pond water
