voracitude @ voracitude @lemmy.world

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Read the ingredients of this liquid. It's probably just a bacteriostatic, meaning it's simple chemicals designed to keep bacterial populations low between scheduled cleanings.

You can probably make your own by buying the ingredients and mixing them yourself. One of the most important is citric acid which you can get in the kitchen section of any supermarket; dump some in water and it makes a really good cleaning solution, and a few grains goes nice in a drink of water too (just a few grains though, it's pretty strong stuff).

That is simply not correct in any way, shape, or form.

https://www.nature.com/articles/ni.3069

In addition to housing an extensive retinue of cells of the adaptive immune system, the lungs have other critical defensive abilities provided by the respiratory epithelial cells. Whitsett and Alenghat describe how the respiratory epithelium juggles its role as the surface of gaseous exchange with its ability to actively combat infectious agents and harmful particulate matter. On its most basic level, the epithelium represents a physical barrier that produces mucus, which entangles and sweeps away damaging agents via the action of the mucus 'escalator'. However, even surfactant proteins, which are involved mainly in diminishing surface tension, 'moonlight' as antimicrobial molecules and are able to opsonise bacteria. The respiratory epithelium is also able to directly sense pathogens and respond via the release of antimicrobial peptides or signal escalation of the immune response through their production of the cytokines TSLP, IL-25 and IL-33. Collectively, these innate processes are usually able to maintain near-sterility of the lungs without the intervention of 'conventional' cells of the immune system.

It's not necessarily "more dangerous" to breathe pathogens than consume them, the issue with evaporative humidifiers is that they don't get cleaned as much as they should so the bacteria keep growing and growing and spraying more and more into the air until they overwhelm your immune system and make you sick. By contrast, you eat something bad and it's one and done and out of your system (usually, assuming it's not really nasty).

Are people that dumb?

Man, you might wanna sit down for this one...

I know you said it's the ice cream mate but I'm still pretty sure this is a trick question

It does, doesn't it.

In revenge for reminding me of Frontpage I will also mention Dreamweaver

Small business owners learning about word2html.net for the first time...

I'm just saying, this is an arms race and nobody will win.

I gotcha. That's rough, I'm sorry to hear he was such a shitty husband. It's probably true that a job would be more demanding and take more time from your studies, so all up it sounds like you could be in a worse spot, and at least this is family and you care about him. It's good of you to help him like this; working all day often gets overlooked as a source of major fatigue. I can't say I don't relate to some degree, I just order delivery when I'm tired instead of demanding my wife do the cooking.

Still, this is hardly anyone's dream life. I hope your studies go well and you're able to get out on your own soon!

I can see why your mum left. Is this something you want to change, or is it something you're willing to put up with? Do you work as well? If you do, is it feasible to split the cost of a maid or similar?

If you genuinely thought they were confused, you could have led with that, but then that just makes your sarcastic cap-off comment even worse. That's how you speak to people you believe are confused? I don't buy it.

I'm disappointed this is how our interactions end. I think I'm upset with myself that I thought better of you, as well. Time for some self-reflection.

So then why did you feel justified in responding like that?

Oh, you weren't being hostile to me, I was just expecting it to come because I made comment. Here's the hostility:

Do you honestly think someone was or is trying to attack you here? That someone deliberately misreading part of a line you wrote, so they could make an incest joke, was malicious? I genuinely don't understand.

A pun is a play on words. They were trying to play on your words. But ok, you're not receptive to the idea nobody was trying to do you harm and that it was just a joke. They definitely deserved your hostility, as do I. Please continue.

Assad's fall is starting to look like it has a lot in common with an Austrian motorcade...

Man, the stress of moving and the world in general must be really getting to you. They were just making a pun based on what you said. It might not have been a very good one , that's subjective, but the intent was clearly not malicious. It's pretty hard to give you the benefit of the doubt here, responding so pettily and meanly to something so innocuous. They even explained it for you. I'd probably have responded with a Wikipedia article on puns before blocking you entirely.

I hope things improve for you once you're in the UK.

They pull this shit in the US too. Back up your postal workers, Canada. A reliable nationwide mail system is key to a healthy country and it's your right as a citizen to boot; don't let anyone ever tell you otherwise. Get mad if someone says it's not needed.

It's not meant to stop you getting caught, it's to distribute information. But it works sometimes, when people forget to look, and copies are easy to make and distribute.

My wife, but she's the best thing to happen to me every year ♥️

On a completely unrelated note, I think it's important to take some time every now and then to remember important historical data security techniques such as steganography: https://hackeracademy.org/steganography-hiding-secret-files/