SoleInvictus @ SoleInvictus @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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Seriously, he gives me major whiplash. Like 90% of his opinions are pure bullshit, but I often agree with the remainder.

Haha, I wondered!

The American Republican Party and CDC would like to have a word with you about that.

AKA many in the West only believe their governments when they say what they want to hear.

Back when I started beekeeping, none of us wore any PPE and we kept getting stung. We started wearing PPE and it was better, but recently I've been stung a few times so I'm just going to do back to raw dogging it.

Yeahhhhhh.

Oh shit, sorry! My attention to detail yesterday... It was not good.

You can't transfer (to the best of my knowledge), so you just start a new name on a different instance. I used to be on .world but hopped to Blåhaj for various reasons. When I want to reduce my internet drama for a bit, I block .world temporarily. It's great.

I personally haven't seen you stir all that much shit, and sometimes the shit needs a good stirring anyhow.

My wife and I, very early in our relationship, bought cheap tungsten carbide rings to prank my parents by telling them we had eloped. When we actually did get married, we decided to use those same rings. I like her.

This goes beyond "show you sources" to "you need classes in genetics, microbiology, organic evolution, and maybe statistics". For what it's worth, I'm an educated and experienced microbiologist with experience in public health. I'm not sure how to cite what's effectively a semester of college education and four textbooks into one comment. I can explain the basics and you can verify details if you'd like. I am more than happy to answer questions and point you towards where you might find more information on specific topics but citations for all of this would be a huge endeavor.

There are two main reasons H5N1 isn't human-to-human: specificity and, by its effect, low transmission. I'll try to keep this super high level.

Regarding specificity, viruses don't infect cells at random. Instead, there's basically a "lock and key" effect where the virus attaches to an external component (receptor) of the soon-to-be infected cell, then it releases its genetic payload. Much like how it's pretty easy to pick most locks, it doesn't need to be a perfect match, just close enough to get the job done.

This is how you get some splash over between species, as there's variation in both the virus and potential receptors due to mutation, and through random chance you might get a good enough match. The more exposure a virus has to potential receptors, the more likely it is that this will happen. If it happens, the particular mutation making this possible will be selected for in that individual or population, creating many more copies of a mutation that otherwise may have just died out. This is exactly what happens when a human gets infected with a zoonotic virus.

Next we have transmission. Not all cells in the human body have the same receptors, so viruses can infect different parts of the body. This is partly why people get "head colds" and "stomach bugs" - that's the region with the most cells with the target receptor. H5N1 isn't particularly good at infecting human airway cells, so infected humans are fairly well dead ends as this blocks airborne transmission, its primary mode of spread.

Currently, H5N1 is one point mutation, vastly the most common type of mutation, away from switching specificity to humans and infecting our airways. This is incredibly small and viruses churn out point mutations like crazy. Every time some dingus swills down raw milk, we're rolling evolution's random chance mutation dice. If just one virion has that single mutation and successfully infects that moron's airway, it's game on for a potential new pandemic. Evolution is just a numbers game and the more chances you give it, the more likely it is to happen.

They're not only making the poor unhappy, the chaos they sow disproportionally affects the working class, the majority of the population. The more fragmented the majority, the better for the leech ruling-class minority. Chaos provides opportunity for those with power to consolidate further power - financial, social, and political.

We just call it frost now. At this rate, Glacier National Park will just be National Park in the next few decades.

My wife has serious ADHD, this is every drawer.

Exactly. A large portion of the .world user base is from North America and doesn't realize .world isn't based on the United States.

I lost entire weeks of my childhood playing at being an ant.

Now that I've typed that out, bug big chunks of my childhood suddenly make more sense.

Edit: dammit. I'm leaving that typo because it's perfect.

Just hop to another instance that doesn't have the same difficulties as .world. Reddit 2.0 on Lemmy requires us to be compliant.

Here's a great video that addresses US vs German prisons:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CmB0InEf2GM

It's a miracle drug but only if you're a lizard person. You need that zeta reticulan biology for it to work.

I'm seeing $1900, but guessing $2500+ once the scalpers get to scalping. I don't intend to buy one, but I hope those assholes get fucked over.

That's what you get for not setting up system recovery.