Untitled attachment

Notices where this attachment appears

1. Embed this notice
   That Would Be Telling (thatwouldbetelling@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 19-Apr-2025 10:13:38 JST That Would Be Telling

   in reply to

   @BowsacNoodle @Zardoz @Shadowman311 The poliovirus, having a hard crunchy protein shell on the outside instead of being an enveloped virus (outside is fragile cell membrane stolen from the host cell, with proteins sticking out), does survive in water for extended periods of time, per a Brave AI search 75 or more, but declining rapidly by the end of that period.

   So not forever, water is kinda hostile in various ways (extremely hostile if it's totally pure, will grab atoms from most anything it's stored in, this is a real problem for certain scientists). And drinking water is treated with chlorine or chlorine compounds, which keep killing all the way to the faucet, important for suppressing cholera.

   While the story was suppressed or is strongly denied for the obvious reasons, the Greens convinced Peru to stop chlorinating the water in Lima (the Greens actually want to completely outlaw that vital atom (really)), and that gave them a cholera epidemic in 1991....

   Bacteria vs. virus, but chlorine is mighty effective. Still need to add UV to get Giardia which is a protozoa and thus much more sophisticated than a bacteria.

   So I submit that if we don't see any polio cases for a decade in the whole world, we'll be able to stop vaccination like we did for smallpox and rinderpest. If we can fucking do the latter even in Darkest Africa, which has a zillion alleles (genes) for lactose tolerance vs. one for the rest of the world....

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rinderpest

2. Embed this notice
   Rocketman (slothrop@chaos.social)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 08:17:28 JST Rocketman

   in reply to

   @cwebber You have given me - and all of us - an excellent exploration of ActivityPub and Bluesky. For me, it’s the best one I’ve read on here, period.

   So no, you haven’t “missed a day of work”. Quite to the content, you’ve done a good day’s work, and then some.

3. Embed this notice
   miffyhelen (miffyhelen@mastodon.world)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jul-2024 23:33:49 JST miffyhelen

   One of my colleagues said his 13yo daughter started her period yesterday for the first time in her life.

   My other colleague (45m) was horrified and didn't like hearing the word period.

   So I talked about periods. And asked about periods. And explained about periods. And used the word period 7 or 8 times. This dude's got young daughters as well... Anyway.

   Then we talked about Shark Week.
   #periods