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Who are the heroes of our time? Who is driving us to a better future? And who is inspiring and guiding us?

Anything goes: famous people, people in your own life, fictional people who represent something to your culture, groups of people working behind the scenes etc.

The only rule is they must be current.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

EMS ; chronically underpaid and overstressed.

When a cop complains about the terrible things they see on their job, they are talking about the stuff the saw watching EMS work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Open source software maintainers, thanklessly (and often without pay) maintaining infrastructure without which the global economy would collapse immediately

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Raymond Hill, the uBlock Origin guy

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I’ll also throw VLC guy in there too

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

That's the real hero

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman.

They noticed that naively adding test tube synthesized mRNA elicited immflamatory responses from immune cells, while mRNA derived from cells did not. They figured out that chemical modifications to mRNAs were responsible for avoiding these immune reactions to the mRNAs.

These results would open the path for development of mRNA-based vaccines, like the vaccines repsonsible for limiting the damage of the COVID-19 pandemic.

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2023/press-release/