Umbrias @ Umbrias @beehaw.org

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So exactly what I said. Balance it with other salts and you're fine. Most water doesn't have enough salts to balance your system anyway, that's called saline, and you would notice if you drank it.

Pure water is fine and will have no significant difference to any given generally safe tap water.

Practically, we would try to predict this for each enzyme we introduce, and wed get it wrong sometimes and right other times, some plastics might prove to be very tasty others might not. But in general I'd lean towards most plastic probably not getting natural decomposers, personally, but maybe!

I mean, unless I'm missing something it should be fine as long as you get salts another way.

Uranium - it makes things safer!

there's no reason to think there would be no pressure to evolve to eat the monomers once they're there and to adapt the gene for the enzymes from 'professional use' to 'personal use' by the bugs.

I directly address this evolutionary pressure and why there are, in fact, reasons to think it won't behave like lignin digestion in the very comment youre responding to friend.

Lignin digestion is at the end of the day just a random set of mutations that stuck because they were useful. If they weren't useful, to an individual organisms survival, they likely wouldn't stick around, as might be the case with plastic digestion, and would be different fur every single plastic. The same exact method would be used for adding enzymes to their genome in yeasts as you mention or in various organisms for plastic digestion.

In a practical sense there are lots of things here that run in the face of this. Plastics aren't necessarily a good source of energy, for example, so whether plastivore bacteria could ever practically decay plastics in the way you're imagining self sufficiently is dubious. The main purpose of the wild modifications is to provide a means to digest, but that comes at the cost of energy in the enzymes being produced to do that. We see an overall economic benefit, but it may mutate out rapidly if it's not actually providing a singular benefit to the organism.

Plastic generally already corrodes outdoors very readily. That's the primary source of micro plastic is that exact corrosion. Those that don't would be equivalently hard to digest.

Well I recommended modification of wild biota anyway so yeah, that's the idea.

I live in a 70 year old wood framed house with a 20 year old wooden desk, walk on 30 year old wooden floors, have 15 year old wooden doors...

Meanwhile I'd easily wager 80% or more of plastics have a dwell time once deployed of a few days.

In reality, without being in relatively harsh conditions, it's unlikely for plastics to degrade very quickly even with highly effective digestion.

Nice yeah. Not surprising, different mushrooms have different capacities to digest plastics as well, since mushrooms just kind if have all sorts of crazy stuff going on to let them do that.

Ill go ahead and snail mail my boss lol.

I'm not assuming that people would think they always gave spots. My point is specifically that I'm happy when people wouldn't assume that about something they don't know.

What? It's the sociological definition of technology. A cultural tool which is used by a community for making a task xyz, easier, faster, more efficient.

Efficiency is an extremely broad term.

What's your counter definition of technology and efficiency that is leading you to disagree?

That was easy.

All atoms in the biosphere cycle regularly aside from some very longstanding ones.

If you identify the chemical makeup of the monomer (corroded plastic, micro plastic, whatever you want to call it), there's nothing stopping you from hypothetically finding or creating enzymes which can digest it. The only reason it hasn't happened naturally yet is due to a lack of evolutionary pressure to digest the weird compounds we've been making up until now.

Set up farms of modified mycelium or bacteria to scrub the plastics, and stop using many or set up required end of life treatment for plastic manufacturers, and you'll very rapidly make a dent in plastic spread.

Further, modify wild biota, such as mushrooms, bacteria, etc to have the ability to produce the same enzymes for assisting in cleanup.

Big project, yes, but technically feasible. We've done more extreme things.

In fairness to most people, it's actually brazen to assume one knows with certainty that a giraffe must always have spots, especially as a relatively newborn giraffe.

Without looking it up, do you know for certain that cheetahs always have spots? Robins a red breast? That no kangaroos have spots? It's just best practices to be curious and intellectually humble in the face of unknowns.

Improving human efficiency is essentially the purpose of technology after all. Any new invention will generally have this effect.

Alternatively therapists focus on the individual because that's not only clinically the best way to help someone get where they want to he, but it's trivially true that dooming about the state of the world is not really the point of therapy, which can only serve to coach individuals in treating their own mental health and tending their internal space. Therapists don't even often ignore external factors, but they ate principally focused with exercising your mental wellbeing and abilities. Going to the gym and hiring a trainer, only to complain about the fact that they aren't addressing the sugar availability in grocery store shelves, but are instead focusing on your choices about your diet makes very little sense. They are there for you, it's you who has the most ability to directly influence your mind and body, in spite of external factors.

You can be completely healthy, fully aware of the state of the world, and live a happy life to the best of your ability. Your internal state is the thing you personally have the most influence over, unlike the world at large which progresses incrementally through the efforts of us all.

What's more, happy and mentally stable people are more likely to spark change and be more pro active about demanding and working towards change. Disorganized, stressed, depressed, people, and crushed morale, are all very good ways to keep someone from bettering their life in any meaningful way.

For sure. And who knows, much of that could be guerrilla marketing to stoke the hype.

Expecting cp2077 to be anything like GTA is just silly. They are entirely different games.

And the RPG elements are fine, it's already very linear, and plays like you're the focus character of a cyberpunk campaign. They did just fine on that front, so I don't really understand your critique there.

I'm not saying they didn't lie, there are many of features which were at best skeletons of the features that were expected. But I'm just saying a lot of the hype around the game was so out of control you had people on the sub reddit talking about how cool the car customization will be, or how they can't wait to play, what would've amounted to essentially, gtav but with arasaka. Talking any l about features which actively were never even slightly implied to exist.

To be honest, half the stuff people claim they lied about was always entirely speculation hype that never had any backing.

Otherwise, for some people the game worked just fine. For others the game was nearly or entirely unplayable, and everything in between. Cdpr certainly lied and should have delayed their game's release, probably upwards of a couple years, but the situation is rarely portrayed accurately.

Blood is also red due to iron for the sane reasons rust is red. Rust isn't very vibrant on metal for other reasons, I'd assume mostly because it's mixed with something not clear.