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What do you think of artificial plants?

Guys, biggest fan ever here.

What do you think of artificial plants? The question is for you both. No goof. I'd really like to know. Thanks so much!

About 6 months ago Sarah Fortune and Eric Rubin from Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health did an AMA here. They were very concerned with antibiotic resistance. This is something I have been interested in for a long time and I got to ask them something that I have long been curious about:

Shouldn't there be an evolutionary cost associated with antibiotic resistance to an organism that develops it? Since antibiotics and antimicrobials can have very different mechanisms, is there not any potential to "overwhelm" an organism and make it less fit, less capable overall by targeting it relentlessly with compounds that basically harry and harass it? Also is there a cost to decreased antibiotic use? I hear a lot about of concern about how overuse of antibiotics may lead to resistance, but very little about how an "underuse" could allow increased spread of disease. It's often easy to ignore the opportunity cost in a completely hypothetical world.

They were kind enough to answer me (here). I would love to hear your takes on this question too. And should your answer be in line with theirs enough for it to make sense, I would love to ask you guys my follow up question that didn't make it to them:

Doesn't the fact that livestock grows so much better mean that there are communicable diseases that are being fought off or prevented? Is there not going to be any danger from increased disease in livestock? Traditionally livestock have been big incubators for human disease, right? We worry about things like swine flu and bird flu. Some people claim animal husbandry in general is a big turning point in the history of communicable human disease. So is the deal that the cost of this has been thoroughly considered and measured against the cost of drug resistance? It's pretty plain to a layman that inefficacy of antibiotics on very dangerous, deadly diseases is a huge problem and that is clearly happening. But what's not so clear to a layman is how all these relative threats stack up against each other and why.

Thank you for coming here and doing this today!

That place is a nest of vipers where Devilmen are everywhere. We need proof I can feel in my brain's heart in line with Dr. Tingle's teachings.

Mods, is there proof this is him?

Hi Dr. Tingle I am an aspiring writer that sometimes feels soft and distanced from his buds. I write about artificial plants because whenever I thought a lot and that was the think around me that was the best. In my book I asked asked all my buds all over earth what they thought of them but not in a weird way. My question is can things that don't seem HARD actually prove that love is real?

And before you selfpublished were you scared at all about the consequences of how the world would change?

And what do you think of artificial plants like that?