alt Hacker NewsThis might impact me and a small handful of other people who have messing around with microbes in their apartment as a hobby. We'll see what happens.
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Probably a good thing overall in my opinion, even though it obviously has impacts.
I got into this hobby briefly (pre-LLMs) before realising how much of a loaded gun it is, and that I’m just not qualified to safely muck around with this stuff.
I suppose you might have to go back to bathtub explosives as a safer alternative.
Yeah me too. Using Clorox on my toilet seat kills always 99.99% germs. The fun is with the 0.01% that's left
I was messing around with microbes in my apartment, as would a hobbit, until yesterday when I re-read the label where it says “If Symptoms Persist After Seven Days, Stop And Consult A Physician” which definitely impacted me! So I went back to my morning bowl of yogurt to think about new strategies!
I’m curious about the hobby itself. What are you learning and enjoying? I mean that genuinely as a question, not sarcasm or trolling. This is fascinating to my 8 year old self who got a microscope for christmas and always wanted to explore more