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  • I think this statement makes more sense with more context.

    Dr Jonathan Stoye, a retrovirologist and emeritus scientist at the Francis Crick Institute, who was not involved in the study, said the approach taken by the Melbourne team appeared be a major advance on existing strategies to force the virus out of hiding, but further studies would be needed to determine how best to kill it after that.

    He added: “Ultimately, one big unknown remains. Do you need to eliminate the entire reservoir for success or just the major part? If just 10% of the latent reservoir survives will that be sufficient to seed new infection? Only time will tell.

    “However, that does not detract from the significance of the current study, which represents a major potential advance in delivery of mRNA for therapeutic purposes to blood cells.”

    Prof Tomáš Hanke of the Jenner Institute, University of Oxford, disputed the idea that getting RNA into white blood cells had been a significant challenge. He said the hope that all cells in the body where HIV was hiding could be reached in this way was “merely a dream”.

    Essentially Hanke and the other scientist Stoye believe the issue is that it will be impossible to eliminate 100% of the infection.

    The current research team believes the white blood cell delivery method they developed will allow a large enough portion of the virus to be reached enough so for a cure. Stoye believes it will eliminate a majority of viral reservoirs, but is unsure if that's effective. Hanke staunchly believes viral elimination must be total for a cure.

    I think the research is quite promising and as the other commentor said may eliminate other viral infections that hide as well.

    Lots of unknowns and lots of potential. Who knows it may take some cocktail of 3 or 4 different methods to bring about a cure, but this MRNA research is a strong contender

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  • I mean you can say you love me and you're not abusive, but then if you go and vote for someone that causes near daily harm to me from their policy actions and you continue to support that politician; why would I want anything to do with you?

  • I can critize and dislike the US involvement in Korea, the ongoing genocide in Gaza, AND the Tiananmen Square massacre.

    I can rank which ones killed more people, but no one should be committing any crimes against humanity like these regardless of scale

  • And then there's my dad. He worked for one of the country's larger businesses for decades and constantly repeats all their anti-union training.

    He actually believes that all a union wants to do is take your money via dues and provide the worker with nothing. It's the dumbest shit I've ever heard. It's not even like his job paid the bills either, we were poor growing up and he's poor now.

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  • Maybe it would be wise for an instance to incorporate as a non-profit of some kind. I believe a designation exists for "social clubs".

    That way there's less pressure on admins and less worry of facing personal consequences if someone posts something illegal on their instance since then the LLC or local equivalent would be liable.

    I doubt an instance would ever have the funds but it could even theoretically allow for a paid admin.

    I know it sounds like we're reinventing the "big" internet again, but i don't see it being an issue. I don't see a world where lemmy could generate that level of profit. In this case an LLC would be about gaining legal protections only

  • Anyone have suggestions for similar instances?

    I assume my user account will also go down? I'm new to the lemmy community so I don't know how this would interfere with me being able to comment and post on other instances from this account

  • Is it a good price though? The average wage for a commoner is 2 sp per day. The equivalent to 100 days wages for a unskilled worker.

    Skilled workers earn about 2 gp per day. So this represents 10 days wages. A better bargain for sure.

    Adventurers are always loaded with money, so as players our view is skewed.

  • It's kinda a game flaw. Combat is usually encouraged by most modules, and fleeing is typically a bad option mechanically. So what else do players do?

    The only solution is to make running the painfully obvious choice