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by grey413 4y ago
Flight plans for Musk's jets are public information.
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by grey413 4y ago
Most domesticated animals that I can think of do just fine when they're released into the wild. In fact, I don't think there's any domesticated animals out there that don't have a feral population running around somewh
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by grey413 4y ago
I can't recommend Scott Sandwich's condensed, light-heated translation of the Kalevala enough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZhf-AcnIyw
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by grey413 4y ago
Additions like gypsum work in cases like this because they add permanent drainage to the soil. Adding organic matter also adds drainage, but microbial activity removes it over time and you end up with the same soil that you started with.
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by grey413 5y ago
Anyone taking this should still develop an immune memory to covid. As I recall, even people who took monoclonal antibodies (that is to say, an antiviral where they literally inject functional anti-covid antibodies into your veins) developed
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by grey413 5y ago
Agreed. The reports that VAERS provides can hint at rare adverse outcomes for vaccines, but it simply doesn't hold any significance compared to clinical trials. Comparing them is just outright false equivalence.
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by grey413 5y ago
VAERS hasn't turned up anything like you're implying about the Pfizer vaccine.
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by grey413 5y ago
My understanding is that other antivirals are much less effective after the first week or so of infection.
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by grey413 5y ago
On the other hand, claiming that the vaccinated spread the disease 63% less even in close household situations is supported by the science. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.10.14.21264959v...
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by grey413 5y ago
They're apples and oranges, really. The best course of action to get a vaccine for the preventative effects and an antiviral if one has a breakthrough infection.
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by grey413 5y ago
Reddit does that... but also scrubbed pretty much all nude and sexual subreddits off their "all" and "popular" feeds to appease advertisers.
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by grey413 5y ago
FYI, your dad would most likely already qualify to receive the antiviral antibody treatments that have been given emergency authorization by the FDA. https://www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/therapies/ant...
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by grey413 5y ago
Corner-related deaths probably had a hard time standing out as a major concern during a time when disease constantly stalked the land.
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by grey413 5y ago
I fail to see how this is relevant. Obviously some set of people will test positive after they've been hospitalized for other causes, and another set will have mild cases that don't progress to the serious your-lungs-no-longer-wor
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by grey413 5y ago
Comparing Covid statistics to VAERS is comparing apples to oranges. I completely reject your premise that the covid statistics are shoddy. It's easy to confirm a covid case. You do a PCR test, and if you get a positive back it's c
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by grey413 5y ago
VAERS reports can (and should) be done for any death following vaccination, whether or not anyone thinks that death was vaccine-related. There's no evidence that the "13k+ COVID-19 vaccine related deaths" are anything of the
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by grey413 5y ago
I agree, easy, free access to rapid tests would be fantastic. They're pretty prone to false results, though, and are no substitute for vaccination. As for giving exemptions for prior infection, there's no real reason to. Prior inf
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by grey413 5y ago
Getting a vaccine after recovering from covid would be along the lines of getting a booster shot. You'd develop some new antibodies, and strengthen your immune memory for the disease. It'll offer you better protection no matter wh
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by grey413 5y ago
mRNA vaccines deliver mRNA to the target cell, via merging a lipid bubble into the cell membrane and dumping the contents into the cytoplasm. The mRNA is then translated into a specially designed variant of the spike protein that is embe
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by grey413 5y ago
Concord, obviously
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by grey413 5y ago
A colleague on mine who once ran an ecological survey in the desert mentioned that her fluid of choice for extreme dry heat was V8. Pretty much anything else would cause horrible salt deprivation.
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by grey413 5y ago
The amount of energy required for fast interstellar travel is mind-boggling. People do not comprehend the scale. Even with ridiculous things like massless fuel it would take multiple times the entire yearly energy expenditure of the earth f
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by grey413 6y ago
I hate it when map apps spin. Just absolutely hampers any ability to develop a bigger picture idea of how you're navigating, and is terribly confusing when the app gets your heading wrong, as your friend found out.
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by grey413 6y ago
Everyone else has had good answers, but I'm also going to note that we knew a ton about covid's general molecular biology well before it ever came into existence. Covid (more properly, SARS-CoV-2) is a cronovirus. Cronoviruses hav
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by grey413 6y ago
We are really quite fortunate that there was a ton of work done on coronaviruses, mRNA vaccines, adenovirus vaccines, etc prior to the pandemic. It seems like a pandemic even a year or three prior would have made the vaccine rollout conside
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by grey413 7y ago
Freeze drying is largely about removing water. No water means no bacterial action. Instant mummification, in effect.
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by grey413 7y ago
Those are much, much simpler systems. Your average human microbiome has 30+ trillion cells in it, too say nothing of the intestinal cells. That's not getting into the underlying complexity of the cells themselves.
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by grey413 7y ago
It's pretty normal to introduce springtails (small arthropods) to sealed terrariums. Their main purpose is to to eat mold, but they presumably also help with the carbon cycle.
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by grey413 7y ago
There are specific varieties of grape that are grown to be turned into varieties of raisins.
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by grey413 8y ago
Realistically, that sort of thing suffers. My wife keeps an early schedule and anything past 7 or 8 is iffy. She can usually do it, but there's a non trivial chance that she'll be too tired to function properly.

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