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kirk781 discuss.tchncs.de kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de
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Marshezezz lemmy.blahaj.zone Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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flamingo_pinyata sopuli.xyz flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz
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Is only salmon acceptable? I have a cheaper source from another animal, also cladistically a fish.

Asking for a friend ...

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NeedyPlatter lemmy.ca NeedyPlatter@lemmy.ca
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I follow a lot of skincare communities online and whenever I see a product with PDRN, I cringe. Who even thought of making skincare products with it? What company approved the idea? How on Earth did any marketing team convince anyone to buy it is beyond me.

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OrteilGenou lemmy.world OrteilGenou@lemmy.world
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Salmon here, you guys are gross

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mangaskahn lemmy.world mangaskahn@lemmy.world
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Is only salmon acceptable? I have a cheaper source from another animal, also cladistically a fish. Asking for a friend ...

And here we're afforded a rare treat, to observe the elusive trouser trout in its native habitat.

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Devolution lemmy.world devolution@lemmy.world
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This has Gwenyth Paltrow written all over it.

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AlmightyDoorman kbin.earth AlmightyDoorman@kbin.earth
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Funfact: sperm contains protamin, the antidote for heparin which is used for anti coagulatory properties in medicine. During cardio vascular surgery you get a shit ton of heparin so they can perform the open heart surgery (so the heart lung machine doesn't get clogged). After the surgery you get protamin so you do not bleed to death. This protamin is often sourced from salmon sperm. If you have strong fish allergies you could theoretically react on it but it's not very likely.

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hector lemmy.today hector@lemmy.today
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A trick they learned from old Sea Men no doubt. These johnny cum latelies are pretending like they just invented this.

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hector lemmy.today hector@lemmy.today
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Funfact: sperm contains protamin, the antidote for heparin which is used for anti coagulatory properties in medicine. During cardio vascular surgery you get a shit ton of heparin so they can perform the open heart surgery (so the heart lung machine doesn't get clogged). After the surgery you get protamin so you do not bleed to death. This protamin is often sourced from salmon sperm. If you have...

Fun fact the best invisible ink has traditionally been semen. British intelligence switched to other stuff after their tabloids started making fun of them for it at one point, 20th century sometime idk. Lemon juice sort of works too, put a letter on a radiator and the invisible ink becomes visible.

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blackn1ght feddit.uk blackn1ght@feddit.uk
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Salmon wanker!

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kambusha sh.itjust.works kambusha@sh.itjust.works
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Just regular sperm then?

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apfelwoiSchoppen lemmy.world apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world
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Is only salmon acceptable? I have a cheaper source from another animal, also cladistically a fish. Asking for a friend ...

I need to make a"cladistically a fish" shirt.

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runner_g piefed.blahaj.zone runner_g@piefed.blahaj.zone
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Fun fact: DNA sticks to plastic really easily, so it is common practice to put "carrier DNA" in biotech products that are only DNA. This carrier DNA is at a much higher concentration than your DNA of interest and fills up the plastic so the DNA we care about doesn't. Salmon sperm extract is a common carrier DNA.

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runner_g piefed.blahaj.zone runner_g@piefed.blahaj.zone
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I need to make a"cladistically a fish" shirt.

Hank Green would like to know your location

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TrackinDaKraken lemmy.world DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world
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This is "not the onion", so it's true. Ordering now!

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apfelwoiSchoppen lemmy.world apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world
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Hank Green would like to know your location

Biologists have been saying it far longer than him!

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Didntdoit71 feddit.online Didntdoit71@feddit.online
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Sounds fishy... smells...eww.

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6️⃣9️⃣4️⃣2️⃣0️⃣ lemmy.world 69420@lemmy.world
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Salmon here, you guys are gross

You have to admit it's probably the best part of being a salmon.

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ServantOfRa lemmy.blahaj.zone ServantOfRa@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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Fun fact the best invisible ink has traditionally been semen. British intelligence switched to other stuff after their tabloids started making fun of them for it at one point, 20th century sometime idk. Lemon juice sort of works too, put a letter on a radiator and the invisible ink becomes visible.

Genetically signed correspondence, neat!

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SaveTheTuaHawk lemmy.ca SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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Fun fact: DNA sticks to plastic really easily, so it is common practice to put "carrier DNA" in biotech products that are only DNA. This carrier DNA is at a much higher concentration than your DNA of interest and fills up the plastic so the DNA we care about doesn't. Salmon sperm extract is a common carrier DNA.

Fun fact: DNA sticks to plastic really easily,

Fun fact: no it does not. It sticks to glass well, but it only slightly adheres to polypropylene after spinning over 10,000g of force. That's why you add salt to DNA precipitation. Know every reagent in your protocol and why it is there.

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SaveTheTuaHawk lemmy.ca SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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Is only salmon acceptable? I have a cheaper source from another animal, also cladistically a fish. Asking for a friend ...

The active ingredient is DNA, which they could get from any plant far easier without smelling like Gwyneth Paltrow's vagine.

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SaveTheTuaHawk lemmy.ca SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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This is "not the onion", so it's true. Ordering now!

you can make DNA from an onion.

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JeeBaiChow lemmy.world JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world
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Is only salmon acceptable? I have a cheaper source from another animal, also cladistically a fish. Asking for a friend ...

If your friend waits a few hours, it should smell kinda like salmon....

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runner_g piefed.blahaj.zone runner_g@piefed.blahaj.zone
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Fun fact: DNA sticks to plastic really easily, Fun fact: no it does not. It sticks to glass well, but it only slightly adheres to polypropylene after spinning over 10,000g of force. That's why you add salt to DNA precipitation. Know every reagent in your protocol and why it is there.

it literally does, and here's data from Promega testing a eppendorf lo-bind tubes to oxygen tubes. https://worldwide.promega.com/-/media/files/resources/conference-proceedings/ishi-23/poster-abstracts/53-poster.pdf?rev=62368fd4fbb44e95a6d760af2b0cfa5d

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scytale piefed.zip scytale@piefed.zip
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You have to admit it's probably the best part of being a salmon.

Depends on how it’s extracted.

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brokenwing discuss.tchncs.de brokenwing@discuss.tchncs.de
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Fun fact the best invisible ink has traditionally been semen. British intelligence switched to other stuff after their tabloids started making fun of them for it at one point, 20th century sometime idk. Lemon juice sort of works too, put a letter on a radiator and the invisible ink becomes visible.

I would like to know how they found it out in the first place

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village604 adultswim.fan village604@adultswim.fan
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I follow a lot of skincare communities online and whenever I see a product with PDRN, I cringe. Who even thought of making skincare products with it? What company approved the idea? How on Earth did any marketing team convince anyone to buy it is beyond me.

I mean, bat shit is a common ingredient in make-up and whale barf is used in high end perfumes. The cosmetic industry uses a lot of gross products.

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witty_username feddit.nl witty_username@feddit.nl
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Injected even

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fartographer lemmy.world fartographer@lemmy.world
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I would like to know how they found it out in the first place

Teens trying to burn their overused socks, which briefly revealed phantom hieroglyphics

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bss03 infosec.pub bss03@infosec.pub
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Hank Green would like to know your location

The shirt: https://store.dftba.com/products/hank-green-we-never-left-the-water-shirt ?

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southsamurai (he/him/pronoun agnostic) sh.itjust.works southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
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Hi, my name is salmon, and I'll be doing your skin care today

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Noxy pawb.social noxypaws@pawb.social
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Is only salmon acceptable? I have a cheaper source from another animal, also cladistically a fish. Asking for a friend ...

shark??

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wolframhydroxide sh.itjust.works wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works
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I mean, bat shit is a common ingredient in make-up and whale barf is used in high end perfumes. The cosmetic industry uses a lot of gross products.

To be fair, they didn't know that ambergris was an excretion of the whale until long after they started using it for these purposes. It was just "that waxy thing we find floating in the ocean." Also, it's apparently not vomited, but defecated.

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Tomtits lemmy.dbzer0.com blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Pretty much everyone was booting off at the image of the cows getting artificially inseminated the other day.

Saying it's rape and animal torture and that.

Yet wiping salmon spaff all over your face in the name of vanity is apparently totally fine

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scutiger lemmy.world scutiger@lemmy.world
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So we all agree that some guy got caught blowing a salmon and made this up as an excuse, right?

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Regrettable_incident lemmy.world Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world
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So we all agree that some guy got caught blowing a salmon and made this up as an excuse, right?

I wonder how one goes about blowing a fish. . .

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diabetic_porcupine lemmy.world diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world
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FISH CUM

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