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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 50 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 41 minutes ago

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.

[–] nekbardrun@lemmy.world 20 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 7 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

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.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Capitalist rule: If you can't exploit people, just find people who are more exploitable.

[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

Brand new sentence???!!!

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 41 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 68 points 21 hours ago (6 children)

So let me get this straight. The US needs Migrants so much that we're needing to replace them with teenagers?

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 7 points 10 hours ago

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.

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 14 points 13 hours ago

This country has, throughout its entire history, relied heavily on immigrants to make up the shortfalls in its labor force. A full stoppage of immigration is going to collapse the United States economy. Sooner than later.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 48 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

I mean, that's one way to look at it.

The more accurate way to look at is that the American right hates migrants and people of color so much that they would force their children into hard labor just to make sure nobody who sounds or looks different receives any kind of benefit.

[–] Poojabber@lemmy.world 31 points 18 hours ago

Not their children.... other peoples children. You know... the poors... those kids can work long hours for low pay and since they are poor, they will be stupid enough to be happy about it. The people voting for this do not need to worry about it affecting their kids... or think they dont....

[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 20 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

the American right hates migrants and people of color so much that they would force ~~their~~ other people's children

[–] sleen@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 hours ago

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.

[–] JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

Yes, if we remove our migrant population then we literally lose the majority of our food production workers. I think it'll also impact our construction work force, much of our factory workforce, our waitstaff, and various other jobs US citizens turn their noses up at - because those jobs literally would not sustain them and would destroy their bodies over time. Most of these jobs are sustained entirely by the desperation of immigrants trying to escape their prior circumstances.

Edit- added more detail in bold to make it clearer the the issue lies in how these jobs are conducted rather than being with US citizens.

[–] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

jobs US citizens turn their noses up at

Jobs that typically don't pay enough for the cost to your body, health, and mental sanity. The overlords love the illegal immigrant stuff because it lets them put the thumbscrews to the workers, both in terms of downward pressure to the wages paid out, and in terms of desperation so the people without other options are forced to work in horrible conditions for terrible pay.

[–] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 7 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

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?

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Florida briefly tried to enforce it on this basis and immediately had a labor crisis so afaik they stopped.

[–] JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 hours ago

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.

[–] RedPostItNote@lemmy.world 15 points 19 hours ago

Whoa whoa whoa, teenager is already a bit old and commands more hourly

[–] _AutumnMoon_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 12 hours ago

Florida's what now?

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 17 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

There's I think a dollop on the brassero program that details a past program where they'd ship high schoolers to farms for the summer in an attempt to reduce migratory workers. The program failed immediately. Conservatives are insane in the literal definition of the word.

[–] vinceman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 15 hours ago

I haven't listened to the dollop in a minute but I'm pretty sure that same episode is literally about the first wave of illegal immigration propaganda in the US, talks about how the borders changed in the 1930s.

[–] SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 18 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Why did the children keep falling apart? Were they made of wet cardboard?

[–] abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world 15 points 20 hours ago

The front fell off

[–] teamevil@lemmy.world 9 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I can't wait to be out of Florida

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[–] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 61 points 1 day ago (2 children)

what's the news here? They are basically using the same arguments the US used to not ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Minors being the parents property is still an almost uncontroversial position in the US even if people don't phrase it like that.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago (1 children)

See also: the troubled teen industry. Ir parenting is too much work, you can send your kid to torture school.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 minutes ago

Every last one of those places needs to be burned down, the staff and investors should be hanged.

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