Heart cells get renewed extremely slowly. For those with severe damage, it seems that in a recent study of people with LCD implants, they were regenerating at a 6x faster rate. So it's more fair to say that the rate of regeneration is very slow but correlates with how heavy of a contraction load it's dealing with.

Anyway, damage enough to notice is generally a relatively rare side effect of either the vaccine or illness but totally dependent on your specific immune system so it's hard to predict in advance.

Your pictures are from a case study of an old man with Parkinson's and a history of chronic myocarditis. The conclusion that the pictures are proof of the mild acute myocarditis is a bit silly.

And yes, the Stanford article goes into great length on how the overactive immune response develops. It skips over why the immune response concentrates in the heart and lungs in the first place. That's because of the ACE2 receptor. This study at least acknowledges that the risk is vastly higher with COVID infection vs the vaccine. But because of how the process develops, subunit and other vaccine types can do the same. And even though it's just macrophages being exposed directly to mRNA, it sort of ignores the fact that macrophages have protein machinery and will produce spike proteins. That's why it doesn't prove that it's mRNA causing the response.

That's actually what makes the mRNA tech safer. Instead of using the whole virus that has cellular mimics to make your body believe it's legitimate, you use the distinct part that's least likely to activate on healthy cells.

The fact that the protein is produced inside of cells isn't as much of a big deal. That isn't likely to cause them to be targeted for immune activation.

That would get the spike proteins into the blood in greater numbers at once, but I think the fact that these proteins bind to the ACE2 receptor is way more relevant than it just being a foreign protein circulating. Something that wouldn't be true of a flu vaccine.

Not pure nonsense, just extremely unlikely. Horizontal gene transfer from reverse transcription is real. However, it's way more likely to have gene transfer via viral infection. The mechanisms just aren't there to readily make mRNA jump into DNA. Already being sick with a viral infection might make mRNA reverse transcription more likely to happen but it's improbable enough to either call impossible or at least nothing to worry about.

Myocarditis is a side effect of viral proteins binding to an ACE2 receptor, similar to blood clots.

Influenza does not bind there. It really isn't an argument for or against mRNA, as even traditional vaccine types like Novavax is associated with myocarditis.

Probably way closer to "mechanically separated beef" (a.k.a. bone scrapings). Except without as much cellular diversity (e.g. fats). Even ground beef isn't ground that much. A solid block of this stuff would be really unappetizing but technically possible.

The problem isn't superbugs. It doesn't need the ability to innovate. It just has to enable a complete idiot to do something they couldn't figure out on their own. There are plenty of scientifically trivial things that are very dangerous in the wrong hands. I also don't think censorship is the answer, yet that is also not quite what this is.

The one thing they never teach you about the Trolley problem is what if the driver jumps off and makes it somebody else's problem first.

It's actually kind of impressive that they are holding out and not shipping something that doesn't work. Shipping non-functional hype is the industry standard. We'll ignore that Siri sort of already doesn't work. They are refusing to make it worse.

It's a terrible deal. The only thing worse is buying a lemon of a gaming laptop and being stuck dealing with the normal short term warranty. Otherwise, if you even financed at 10-20% interest you would probably be better off.

I hope they at least cover accidental damage.

Team! Team, team, team, team, team. I even love saying the word ‘team’. You probably think this is a picture of my family? No! It’s a picture of The A-Team.

FTFY

Even so, Google is on both sides of this one. Making promises to both. Potentially charging both.

Do they let it past their own reCAPTCHA, knowing without a doubt that it is not a human? Do they still charge for these attempts for users that aren't on their free tier of reCAPTCHA, despite knowing they intentionally failed their customers?