• Agent641@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Certain temperatures can completely denature viruses like HIV and covid. Anything above 600 degrees should do the trick.

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    Waitaminute. Are you telling me there are stupid people on the internet talking about things they don’t understand?

    The internet is the worst thing we’ve ever done to ourselves. I mean, it was fine at first. But we didn’t have enough cynicism to account for what corporations would do with it and that’s, sadly, our own fault for being too naive.

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      6 days ago

      We also underestimated the number of idiots in the population. Or their ability to find little niches in which to congregate.

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      The internet is still okay, just don’t use any corporate social network and generally ignore everything made by corporations.

    • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
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      We had really high hopes and big dreams for the Internet when it was conceived.

      We ended up with social networks that steal and sell you information without your knowledge, and without any compensation to you, and “AI” slop for chat bots, and forum posts and pictures and even video now…

      This is not what the Internet was made for.

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      I don’t know if it’s true, but it feels like the Internet was better when it was limited to enthusiasts and people in higher education.

      Letting every idiot post every word that comes to mind for the whole world to see was probably a mistake.

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      I mean you clearly demonstrated how stupid you are, “let’s nuke the internet”.

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        6 days ago

        When did I say anything remotely like that? Thanks for calling me stupid for making an observation.

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    7 days ago

    I actually wonder how long it would take to notice if all your mRNA stopped working.

    I don’t think neuron action potentials rely directly on mRNA, so I think you’d be able to keep thinking for a bit, and probably moving your muscles too. The closest comparable thing is people that received massive radiation doses (can’t make new RNA out of shredded DNA) and in those cases it takes a bit before you start melting.

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      I think it would be comparable to situation where all mRNA is suddenly unusable, ie protein synthesis can’t run at all. This would be something like ricin or diphteria toxin poisoning, but instead of being limited to gastrointestinal lining it’s spread all over. I’d guess hours to days before anything visible starts happening (symptoms only start to appear when deficit in new protein synthesis becomes noticeable; all protein already made continues to work for sone time)

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      Transcription + translation response time to stimulus is on the hour scale. So it wouldn’t be instant. But if your other RNA buggered off then I have no idea. The non-mRNA.

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      Doesn’t the death cap mushroom work by destroying your DNA? I would imagine the effect would be similar.

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        So does massive doses of radiation…

        So we could just… Idk, expose people to radiation by way of some airborne delivery system that you could drop from a plane a safe distance away… Kind of like a bomb, but radioactive… An atom bomb, if you will.

    • Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Don’t destroying angel mushrooms basically stop your body from making proteins? That’s roughly the same net effect as RNA stopping working so it should give you a pretty good approximation.

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      I mean killing a major portion of all viruses will stop transmission. So would killing the person. Exactly how drinking bleach kills the virus.

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    7 days ago

    While you’re at it, can you take out all the acid and all the chemicals?

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    First they fixate over protein metrics, and now they don’t want the actual protein synthesis? Having high intake of amino acids was already not doing most of what they claimed, but now we’re just gonna have our body not even use them? What a waste of resources. 0/10 (/s)