2022 also has plenty of WTF?!?!? moments.

[RichVR]

@scottagibson

I’m sure it is not deliberate

I am not so sure.

[HideousRex]

I think we’ve figured out what’s causing the Great Mustard Shortage of 2022:

French's unveils mustard donuts ahead of National Mustard Day

Honestly, I’d like to try one…

[scottagibson]

That’s just wrong.

[WhollySchmidt]

I would never have made that connection, I think this is silly. It’s unmistakably a version of the stylized L in the LIV logo:

Anyone trying to spin this as some kind of faux pas is just trying to get some clicks.

[scottagibson]

@WhollySchmidt

Anyone trying to spin this as some kind of faux pas is just trying to get some clicks.

I don’t think it’s deliberate. I do think it’s a blunder.

[Tortilla]

@scottagibson

I don’t think it’s deliberate. I do think it’s a blunder.

I’m not even convinced it was a blunder. I don’t think that’s sort of visual coincidence that one notices without deliberately going looking. This looks like a smear attempt to me.

[GreenWeej]

Either way it looks like wreckage lol.

[TheWombat]

@Tortilla

This looks like a smear attempt to me.

Well any smear attempt on the Saudis is fine by me. They deserve every bit of smear anyone can throw at them.

[ShivaX]

I’m not sure you can even smear the Saudis at this point.

[RichVR]

@TheWombat

Well any smear attempt on the Saudis is fine by me. They deserve every bit of smear anyone can throw at them.

@ShivaX

I’m not sure you can even smear the Saudis at this point.

ITT smart people.

[Dejin]

Very creepy. Yale scientist revive pig organs 1 hour after death. They are hoping this technology can be used to keep organs viable for donation longer.

The pigs had been lying dead in the lab for an hour — no blood was circulating in their bodies, their hearts were still, their brain waves flat. Then a group of Yale scientists pumped a custom-made solution into the dead pigs’ bodies with a device similar to a heart-lung machine.

What happened next adds questions to what science considers the wall between life and death. Although the pigs were not considered conscious in any way, their seemingly dead cells revived. Their hearts began to beat as the solution, which the scientists called OrganEx, circulated in veins and arteries. Cells in their organs, including the heart, liver, kidneys and brain, were functioning again, and the animals never got stiff like a typical dead pig.

Gift Link:

A ‘Reversible’ Form of Death? Scientists Revive Cells in Dead Pigs’ Organs.

[sillhouette]

The “Frankenswine” headline writer had a good day.

Frankenswine: Scientists at Yale were able to partially revive the organs of...

[ShivaX]

It’s fine.

[Destarius]

I have to admit, zombie apocalpse was not on my Bingo card for 2022.

[TheWombat]

@Destarius

I have to admit, zombie apocalpse was not on my Bingo card for 2022.

That’s zombie pig apocalypse to you!

[BloodyBattleBrain]

I think I have heard of this, or something similar before, involving a saline solution and almost freezing the dead animal.

I think it was:

1. Animal suffers trauma, and “dies”;
2. Animals blood is drained and replaced with saline solution;
3. Animal is frozen;
4. Trauma is healed (stitched up);
5. Animal is thawed and new blood is pumped in;
6. Animal lives.

With potential applications on otherwise fatal Human trauma, specifically knife and gunshot wounds.

Edit:

It was this I think:

Doctors Put a Patient in Suspended Animation for the First Time | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine

[scottagibson]

@Dejin

Yale scientist revive pig organs 1 hour after death.

Next up: Peter Thiel buys Yale.

[Mark_Asher]

@scottagibson

Next up: Peter Thiel buys Yale.

Ha ha – he’s exactly who I thought of when I read this news. He expects to live to be 120. All the evil he wants to do can’t be done overnight!

[Thrag]

Joseph Stalin has been arrested.

Concerns as Sri Lanka arrests top protest leader Joseph Stalin

[sillhouette]

Any word on Generalissimo Franco?