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Cake day: September 26th, 2025

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  • I’m sure there are bad natured bots, but they certainly aren’t as prevalent as on other platforms. I think lemmy is so much smaller in size and population that it just isn’t as worth the time to deploy a lot of resources. With the lower population, the bots likely stick out a bit more, which makes it a lot easier to block them.

    But that’s just a theory… A bot theory.






  • Per the Wikipedia article on biomedical waste:

    Biomedical waste is often incinerated. An efficient incinerator will destroy pathogens and sharps. Source materials are not recognizable in the resulting ash. Alternative thermal treatment can also include technologies such as gasification[13] and pyrolysis including energy recovery with similar waste volume reductions and pathogen destruction.

    An autoclave may also be used to treat biomedical waste. An autoclave uses steam and pressure to sterilize the waste or reduce its microbiological load to a level at which it may be safely disposed of.

    Microwave disinfection can also be employed for treatment of biomedical wastes. Microwave irradiation is a type of non-contact heating technologies for disinfection. Microwave chemistry is based on efficient heating of materials by microwave dielectric heating effects. When exposed to microwave frequencies, the dipoles of the water molecules present in cells re-align with the applied electric field. As the field oscillates, the dipoles attempts to realign itself with the alternating electric field and in this process, energy is lost in the form of heat through molecular friction and dielectric loss.

    For liquids and small quantities, a 1–10% solution of bleach can be used to disinfect biomedical waste. Solutions of sodium hydroxide and other chemical disinfectants may also be used, depending on the waste’s characteristics.

    Sooooo, burn it, almost burn it with steam, almost burn it with radio waves, or chemically burn it.







  • If it’s any consolation, prion disease occurance is almost entirely genetic. The mad cow scare in the EU in the early 00’s is really the only major case of a threat within the food supply, and it was pretty quickly fixed by changing how animals are handled (especially sick ones). Outside of that, the only other transmission between hosts has been observed in tribal rituals involving eating the brain of a loved one after they die, and improperly sterilized medical instruments used during brain/spinal surgery.

    So don’t eat human brain and make sure that you’re getting your brain surgery done with either new instruments or ones that have been properly autoclaved and you should be good as long as you don’t just randomly get CJD due to genetics. Not much you can do about that, though.

    You’ll probably get done in by heart disease, a car accident, and lightning a couple of dozen times before you need to worry about contracting a prison diseases.



  • Not an expert on the subject by any means, but i do know a little bit. The biggest issues with using prions as a bioterrorism vector are:

    1. Sourcing prions. There isn’t really any reason that anyone would want prions outside of a laboratory environment. They aren’t exactly something you can go pick up at the store or synthesize yourself. Getting enough to poison the food chain would likely be significantly more difficult than something more common and deadly like botulism.

    2. Poisoning. If you wanted to use prions en masse as a poison, you’re going to need to get access to a meat processing plant and figure out a way to actually do the poisoning. This might not be the biggest hangup considering recent revelations (boars head meat). Still, meat is not as easy to adulterate as something like produce, where you can simply spray the food with your poison at virtually any point in the supply chain.

    3. Time. Prions take forever to kill. For mad cow, we’re talking years. For CJD, were talking decades. Terrorists typically like to create terror to make a statement. Are prion diseases scary? Yes, but the fact that you wouldn’t even know about the poisoning for years makes it pretty bad as a tool for terror.

    Essentially, no one uses prions as a weapon because if you’re going to carry out a bioterror attack, there are much easier to acquire and more effective agents. That being said, please do not commit bioterrorism or any other form of terrorism. It’s very mean and unnecessary.





  • Yeah bro after taking a peek at your profile, it’s your attitude. You view women as a means to an end (getting laid) and not as a group of varying individuals. You deflect any valid criticism with ad hominem attacks. You focus on what you can do to be more attractive externally via “not makeup because you’re a male” rather than shifting any focus to the underlying reason that you can only get laid if money is involved.

    Stop viewing women as “females” and acting like they are a homogenous group that you can “figure out”. They are individuals, and to be successful with any woman, you need to take the time to understand what that woman is looking for and decide if you are capable of providing it.