Carl Ramirez

Views expressed are my own.

[C. Oliver Morton @C_OliverMorton]

'Hantavirus unlikely to spread from human to human' https://t.co/fryAcKsfmn via @YouTube

[Australasian Mycological Society @ausmycsoc]

Save the date!
🗓️ Thu 23 April 12pm (AEST) / 2pm (NZST)

Our April seminar will feature Solomon Maerowitz-McMahan from @westsyduhie on fire and fungi!

@ausplantsoil
@Plant_Pathogens

https://t.co/wXYbsG4udP

[Neil Gow @neil_gow]

50 medical mycologists put their shoulder behind an action plan to mitigate the rising threat of antifungal drug resistance. Check out in Nature Medicine. @MedMycol @Fungaldx @MRCcmm @BritSocMedMyc @GW4AMR @eurconfmedmycol @UKHSA @MRC_Outbreak @NatureMedicine

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

He wasn't masturbating. What actually happened to his body is significantly worse than any joke.

When the fourth pyroclastic surge hit Pompeii, it arrived at 300°C. That's 572°F. The thermal human survival threshold is 200°C. This man died in a fraction of a second. His brain stopped before a single pain signal completed its circuit.

What you're looking at is cadaveric spasm. It's a rare form of instant muscular stiffening that only occurs during sudden violent death by extreme heat. The 300°C surge cooked the proteins in his muscle fibers so fast that his body locked into whatever position it was in at the exact moment of impact. Arms, legs, fingers, toes all contracted simultaneously. 73% of Pompeii's victims were found frozen in "life-like" stances mid-action. Running. Crawling. Shielding children. This man was probably just lying down.

The flexed limb position you're laughing at appears in nearly every Pompeii body. It's called the pugilistic attitude. Heat shrinks tendons faster than bone, curling arms and legs inward. Boxers after a fire look the same way. The position has zero connection to what the person was doing. Pure thermodynamics.

For centuries, archaeologists assumed these people suffocated on ash. A 2010 study proved they were wrong. Researchers heated modern human bone samples to various temperatures, compared them to Pompeii victims, and found the color and cracking patterns matched exposure to 250-300°C. Death was instantaneous. There was "no time to suffocate."

This isn't even his body. It's a plaster cast of the void he left behind. His flesh decomposed inside the hardened volcanic ash. In 1863, Giuseppe Fiorelli poured liquid plaster into the hollow cavity. What you see is the shape of absence.

9.4 million people looked at a man who was incinerated alive in a quarter-second and the main reaction was a punchline. The science of how he actually died is one of the most disturbing findings in modern archaeology.

[Imperator Cat @CatImperator]

In 233 AD, emperor Severus Alexander celebrated a triumph in Rome despite the fact he actually lost a battle with the Sassanid Persia.

History is like poetry, it rhymes...

Oh, two years later, poor Severus was dead. At the hands of his own soldiers.

[Carl Ramirez @TheCarlRamirez]

@MichaelAArouet I prefer looking at the Human Development Index instead: https://t.co/jRCJR8JilF
Not saying this to make the USA look bad, but rather because I don't see the point of being richer if it doesn't improve human development.

[Carl Ramirez @TheCarlRamirez]

@ratherblurkin @rpotter_9 Visit Sydney and it becomes obvious why it's necessary. It might not be as impressive as some countries' public transport but at least the politicians saw a need and took a step in the right direction.

[Carl Ramirez @TheCarlRamirez]

@_PeterRyan @haugejostein Do European or American workers want to be like Chinese workers though? China might end up more successful in the long run, but in the short term, do you want workers to make such a sacrifice?

[Carl Ramirez @TheCarlRamirez]

@AlboMP Not a fan of Putin, but do remember that what Navalny stood for included Russian expansionism into Ukraine: https://t.co/JovwxPZ0Ar

[Carl Ramirez @TheCarlRamirez]

@altamatem_ @Q2Quokka The thing about the hydra is that when you chop a head off, 2 more grow in its place.

[Carl Ramirez @TheCarlRamirez]

@Q2Quokka Imagine how many solar power plants or state housing projects, or drones for Ukraine we can buy with that money though.

[Carl Ramirez @TheCarlRamirez]

@HarmonyHaven_1 Choose different graphics then. The "European" side shows a US citizen, while the "American" side shows a UK citizen.

[Carl Ramirez @TheCarlRamirez]

@fabiodeuxbeer Map doesn't include King Island. Were they going to squeeze all the Tasmanians there?

[Carl Ramirez @TheCarlRamirez]

@samlutd @FToast60 It would be some delicious irony (and from the ALP perspective, a major success story) if they can turn the seat once held by John Howard into that of the ALP leader.

[Carl Ramirez @TheCarlRamirez]

@CogitoEdu Is your next video going to be on Western Sahara and how valid the territorial claims are?

[Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇫🇷🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou]

Neo-Nazis stormed the Aboriginal Camp Sovereignty in Melbourne after the March for Australia rally.

Thuggish criminal behaviour

[Independent Voices @IndyVoices]

Given the presence of 25 global leaders in China, including those of Russia, India, Iran and North Korea for the SCO summit, you might well ask why the West seems to have shown so relatively little interest – or alarm, writes @marydejevsky https://t.co/haMtfpaEg5

[Brad Polumbo @brad_polumbo]

I have been able to identify 5 instances where a transgender-identified person committed a mass shooting.

That is out of several million people who identify as transgender.

It is statistically illiterate and morally reprehensible to condemn all trans people or the entire trans movement for the actions of a few depraved individuals. You would never apply this logic to any other group of people.

But many of you just can't help yourselves.

[Carl Ramirez @TheCarlRamirez]

@Q2Quokka Brazil and South Korea are both currently led by leftist protest organisers (Lula and Lee Jae Myung, respectively).

[Carl Ramirez @TheCarlRamirez]

@DesiKing_ More bordergore than most @CrusaderKings games.