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Re: How to survive boiling water

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Fascinating post. Why did the author steep the tea at home? "It was at this point I realized I needed a sterile-ish way to transport the steeped tea and tea bags from my house to the lab." Was steeping the tea at home somehow relevant to the experiment?

Probably frowned on to bring in food stuff and make it in a bio lab.

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#92

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I want this mutation. You have little nano-crawlers going up and down your DNA strands fixing problems. It’s like ECC RAM for the essence of YOU. And you’re basically immune to cancer.

> It’s like ECC RAM for the essence of YOU Buddha would like a word with you

So if, say, you were completely irradiated - every atom of your being - and fully repaired, would you still be 'you'?

/Is that a transporter energizing I hear?

Re: How to survive boiling water

#94

Fascinating post. Why did the author steep the tea at home? "It was at this point I realized I needed a sterile-ish way to transport the steeped tea and tea bags from my house to the lab." Was steeping the tea at home somehow relevant to the experiment?

Probably frowned on to bring in food stuff and make it in a bio lab.

This makes sense. Even if you're not going to drink the tea in the office, even the appearance of making food in a lab space might well be enough hassle that it's easier to just bring sampling equipment home.

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> I think people with followings online got a ton of economic benefit from scaring people Yes, it was very upsetting at the time and unfortunately remains a constant. I guess one has to go through that at least once to recognize a grifter. > so even in hindsight, none of the concerns seem to have been legitimate. The point was not only that the vaccines were rushed, it was also that there was a tremendous amount of c…

> There are a few countries that didn't do that (Sweden comes to mind) and they ended up not having a much worse outcome than anyone else. I have no doubt Sweden did better than say sub-saharan africa. But it seems to me that only their neighbors are good comparison and they did worse than all of them. Norway 1,050 deaths / million Denmark 1,696 deaths / million Finland 2,058 deaths / million Sweden 2,812 deaths / mi…

> I mean, the federal government had no mandate. So like were Floridians going to shoot up DeSantis because he didn't make a mandate? Or shoot up the other guy they elected, Trump (Biden not president until Jan 2021). > > And then you don't really expect New Yorkers who elected Coumo to then shoot him up either?

Well, if you are asking for my opinion, the gun stuff in the US is so stupid it could be considered a mental illness. I don't disagree with your points at all

Re: Sweden - according to the article you listed, Sweden is on par with the rest of Europe, worse than other Scandinavian countries, and much better than the Balkans.

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> antibiotics prophylactically Ticks are pretty bad nearby in WPA, I've taken antibiotics prophylactically for them.

What about ivermectin? I've taken ivermectin prophylactically when traveling because I'm afraid of bed bugs. Pretty sure you can do the same with ticks. Just stop by your local farm supply store and pick up some of that nasty apple flavored horse paste. Just make sure you dose it right. Easy to do. Absolutely disgusting.

Depends on where you are- in most of the US, tick concerns are primarily Lyme's disease or Rocky mountain fever, which are a virus and bacterium. Ivermectin works by interfering with nerve and tissues of invertebrate parasites, and generally isn't useful for bacteria or viruses.

Re: How to survive boiling water

#97

Fascinating post. Why did the author steep the tea at home? "It was at this point I realized I needed a sterile-ish way to transport the steeped tea and tea bags from my house to the lab." Was steeping the tea at home somehow relevant to the experiment?

Probably frowned on to bring in food stuff and make it in a bio lab.

Most workplaces have a space to make tea or coffee.

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It is in fact how Deinococcus radiodurans works: Deinococcus radiodurans has a unique quality in which it can repair both single- and double-stranded DNA. When damage is apparent to the cell, it brings the damaged DNA into a compartmental ring-like structure where the DNA is repaired, and then is able to fuse the nucleoids from the outside of the compartment with the damaged DNA.

However, to bring it full circle, Deinococcus radiodurans does not form spores!

That’s fine, I’d be content with having just the DNA repair nanobots, I don’t need to form spores.

Re: How to survive boiling water

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post #69

> about 7 out of 10 people in the U.S. were prescribed antibiotics in 2024 according to . This blew my mind so I double checked the source. It links to https://www.cdc.gov/antibiotic-use/hcp/data-research/antibio... which contains some numbers but not the claim. It links to various reports, the latest one (2024 at the time of writing) https://www.cdc.gov/antibiotic-use/media/pdfs/2024-Annual-Re... says at the top of…

Yes I stopped reading there after checking the source myself and seeing the same discrepancy. I had also noticed earlier in the article she wrote, "This finding was great news for Napoleon. The French were losing money, and perhaps more alarmingly, their reputation, exporting wine to the British – the wine would “spontaneously” go bad during shipping." Pasteur was born after Napoleon was exiled. Maybe she is referrin…

There seems to be some original research in the post as well though. I'm not assuming they faked their test results or anything at all. I think the article is worth the read, just yeah this (if the replies and I are not reading it wrong) seems like a strange error to make so maybe the not-really-relevant background facts are just not as rigorous. And to err is human

Re: How to survive boiling water

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post #69

> about 7 out of 10 people in the U.S. were prescribed antibiotics in 2024 according to . This blew my mind so I double checked the source. It links to https://www.cdc.gov/antibiotic-use/hcp/data-research/antibio... which contains some numbers but not the claim. It links to various reports, the latest one (2024 at the time of writing) https://www.cdc.gov/antibiotic-use/media/pdfs/2024-Annual-Re... says at the top of…

Wait is that individual doses? Like one prescription would commonly be for 20-30 doses.

Can't imagine; then the figure should be much higher. If the source had agreed with the claim, I wouldn't have trouble believing 7 in 10 people in the USA get told to take at least one set of antibiotics a year (ageing population, it's prescribed almost as frequently as water and rest.. one can rationalise it together), but conversely a 25th of 70% would be ~3% which seems on the low side again. I got it prescribed way more than 3% of the years I've been alive and I'm not yet middle aged

It's probably just as the CDC document says: number of prescriptions. If you are told to take it for 3 weeks thrice a day and later in the year a second time, that's two prescriptions (per my non-native understanding of English medical terms anyway)

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