Serious: a Google data scientist has legitimately written a book on this topic lol. Everybody Lies by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz (see his Wikipedia page)

The book didn’t age super well because they got the causation direction wrong; in terms of real-world implementation Google Trends turned out to be pretty bad at actually predicting flu

Yupppp, which is what IMO made this whole thing extra tragic. The disease wasn’t even that bad to begin with… definitely didn’t necessitate literally doing the very first in-brain gene editing (which is why they needed much higher viral dose… which caused the death)

I have no clue where the family coughed up the $800K though. They don’t seem to be the particularly rich type based on what the news report was saying, but maybe the parents did hide some information…?

25-26. I’m not joking; several ppl I follow on Mastodon are openly Autistic, which is when I started suspecting… I would have been diagnosed much, much earlier had my home country have a better psych support system though

Not much. Reason… is exactly as the meme suggested, why worry about something that is largely out of my control?

OK I do worry about it just a little bit when looking for jobs but that’s it

No clue, but… maybe they are easy to catch?? From the video it seems like the bats kinda just sit there and do nothing

Eating one is a terrible idea though, bats host way too many pathogens… which I guess is what makes this research interesting and disturbing