These mirror organisms would be dangerous in living and dead form, as they’d be chuck full of mirror proteins and biological molescules, any of which could trigger an environmental disaster if released by accident
where are you getting this from? dead bacteria don't come back to life
UV or heat, or ethylene oxide and a number of other things still would kill wrong chirality bacteria, these are not prions, where are you people are getting this from
why the fuck would it be mentioned. thalidomide is synthetic, article is about wrong enantiomer of natural compounds working in a living organism that has unnatural chirality. that teratogenic effect of thalidomide was figured out and is now used in anticancer treatments. it's a tool, and if you use it right it can be useful. that thing in article is highly speculative as of now and making any component would be hideously expensive anyway
well it's still not broken down in environment so it doesn't accumulate in people but it accumulates in seawater in general, so it's probably not good even if it's not very toxic
TFA is not usually considered PFAS because while it technically is, it doesn't accumulate and doesn't exhibit the kinds of toxicity that longer-chain PFAS do, like endocrine disruption https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36800005/
the point of prions is that there's a naturally occurring protein in metastable state, and when contacted by a protein in more stable state it can transition to that more stable state. this way it's infective without being alive. there's nothing like this in nature, let alone commonly occurring
i think you have it backwards, jet fuel and diesel are easier to make and gasoline requires heavier, more energy-intensive processing (like reforming or cracking). jet fuel up to fuel oils are just desulfurized distillates
but you can make it work with either, it just means yield is smaller. rearranging refinery so that it can take different source of crude is a long and expensive process tho
so crude is imported but propane, diesel and greases exported. some crude is exported to friendly countries that have no oil but have well developed chemical industries, like south korea or netherlands
the crude you are exporting is not the same kind of crude that you're importing, and depending on what refineries take they can make different products with more or less problems
that's just the old prime minister kept in place so that whatever underfunded state apparatus was there keeps running, to not worsen humanitarian situation. they don't have anything agreed last time i've checked
(literally writing this from lab) i'm not calling him a techbro because i have some kind of disdain for tech workers, i'm calling him a techbro because he's chasing unviable or harmful ideas or tech from old scifi that his cult (or at least was influenced by ideas typically associated with that cult) adopted as a part of doctrine. things like cryonics, some sketchy supplements that are supposed to give extreme life extension, or AI and quantum computing (because they think simulation = actual thing, and they hope to achieve immortality with AI). you might start to think that i'm batshit crazy just by explaining it, but i assure you it's them, and these people will be part of american government really soon. start there https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/LessWrong
in no place i'm saying "technology bad", i'm saying there's plenty of harmful tech being pushed for profit and Luigi went full in in that sector. other than healthcare, that is
this is because he's an "effective altruist" which is an ideology cooked specifically to justify current day greed with future charity. also includes bad scifi and cult of AI
if you're relying on people like luigi, who also had atlas shrugged on goodreads reading list, for healthcare change, don't get surprised if you get what you'll get
where are you getting this from? dead bacteria don't come back to life