bruceleroy99

bruceleroy99 OP t1_izb8uig wrote

Reply to comment by BetterLivingThru in Have living things always had an immune system? How did they survive / evolve to deal with diseases, and how does that compare to modern immune systems? by bruceleroy99

ooooh got it, that makes a lot more sense! extremely informative, too, thanks! I assume it isn't known at what point viruses / bacteria developed alongside everything? e.g. if single-celled organisms are 1000s x bigger than viruses, how big were things when viruses first started forming?

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bruceleroy99 OP t1_izapkus wrote

Reply to comment by jellyfixh in Have living things always had an immune system? How did they survive / evolve to deal with diseases, and how does that compare to modern immune systems? by bruceleroy99

oh, ha, wasn't expecting that! I assumed viruses wouldn't be a thing until it was more "valuable", as it were, to attack another life - seems almost counterintuitive that it basically started off as a single cell attacking another single cell (this coming from someone that did very poorly in bio class XD). I would've thought it would be less efficient to attack another cell instead of just growing oneself.

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bruceleroy99 OP t1_iudvu2i wrote

Reply to comment by WeDriftEternal in when did commercial breaks get so long?! by bruceleroy99

lol my math is off because I'm angry? that's.... not how it works.

> 44-46 for an hour long

well the recording is 1h9m, so that would be about 25m of commercials assuming it's an average of 45m. I was watching eps 3-6 at the time, so looking at the wiki the episode lengths are 46, 44, 50, and 44 the the bare minimum there is ~20m of ad time (assuming that 50m ep recording wasn't actually 1h15m or more).

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bruceleroy99 OP t1_iudoquf wrote

Reply to comment by FandomMenace in when did commercial breaks get so long?! by bruceleroy99

> The real takeaway here is that if you watch TV regularly, ads are wasting a few years of your life. Cable should be free when you calculate the opportunity cost of that x 3 (24 hours in a day, not 8) x your salary.

This is the real kicker - I can't imagine how much time people that actually watch TV on the regular spend watching ads. The funny thing is I probably wouldn't have noticed as quickly but I was hitting the +30s button repeatedly and being confused that I hadn't missed the start of the show after hitting it 7-8 times lol.

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