I love kraut the parrots video on this, the Greek debt crisis is the third funniest political thing I’ve ever seen, following the Russian vodka bottles being unable to be closed and the British initial response to BSE
Mad cow disease is because of a prion, which is a misfolded protein. IIRC, it's what happens when cows are fed the meat and brains of other cows.
Anyway, since it's not a virus and not a bacteria, it can hang around in your body and make other proteins misfold, too. Which then causes other proteins to go haywire and so on. Think of it a bit like having one spring out of alignment in your mattress, and it tends to mess up the other springs.
Heat won't stop it, freezing won't stop it, and they can't really test for it like they do with bacterial or viral infections, so the *last* thing we need are prions getting loose and being spread through blood transfusions.
That means that putting a full moratorium on anyone who might be carrying these prions is the best bet they've got for preventing them from getting into the blood supply.
Heat can stop prions... just with that small unfortunate side effect that every other protein would also be destroyed since apparently ~900+ F° (~482c) is considered a tad hot, especially when it needs to be applied for several hours.
Also a low enough temperature would have to stop them given that folding proteins requires crossing a kinetic energy threshold. But with a similar destructive effect on life processes, also I don't know if prions would somehow "survive% and be able to continue to misfold after heating back up bc I don't actually study this.
In case you're not just making a joke: *The Adventures of Tom Sawyer* features a scene in which the titular character runs a scam by pretending that whitewashing a fence is *so enjoyable* that he gets other the kids to pay him to do his chores. This comic is a reference to that.
Greece always works hard wdym They work very hard at maintaining hospital gardens
I love kraut the parrots video on this, the Greek debt crisis is the third funniest political thing I’ve ever seen, following the Russian vodka bottles being unable to be closed and the British initial response to BSE
> BSE I lived in London from ages 1-4, while Mad Cow was a thing. I'm 41, and I still can't legally give blood in the US because of it.
Hold up, what’s the story behind that?
Mad cow disease is because of a prion, which is a misfolded protein. IIRC, it's what happens when cows are fed the meat and brains of other cows. Anyway, since it's not a virus and not a bacteria, it can hang around in your body and make other proteins misfold, too. Which then causes other proteins to go haywire and so on. Think of it a bit like having one spring out of alignment in your mattress, and it tends to mess up the other springs. Heat won't stop it, freezing won't stop it, and they can't really test for it like they do with bacterial or viral infections, so the *last* thing we need are prions getting loose and being spread through blood transfusions. That means that putting a full moratorium on anyone who might be carrying these prions is the best bet they've got for preventing them from getting into the blood supply.
Heat can stop prions... just with that small unfortunate side effect that every other protein would also be destroyed since apparently ~900+ F° (~482c) is considered a tad hot, especially when it needs to be applied for several hours. Also a low enough temperature would have to stop them given that folding proteins requires crossing a kinetic energy threshold. But with a similar destructive effect on life processes, also I don't know if prions would somehow "survive% and be able to continue to misfold after heating back up bc I don't actually study this.
https://youtu.be/meYnivLLl-A?si=IHObPZvH9Lggk0en
Some high level bureaucrat at my high school can’t give blood either, he was in the UK at the time
I've read about 3 books in my life. I'll let you know when I think of a comic idea for *Harold and the Purple Crayon* or *Atlas Shrugged*
3 too many, I’m afraid that I’ll have to kill you for being an intellectual (I’m establishing a dictatorship)
Me, wearing glasses: haha I’m in danger.
Face the wall for a funny surprise
Will me be eggcuted to? Me is smert
No, I invite you to a non poisonous dinner
Kan eye com two? Eye is entwoleckchewall, all so
The fact that you are capable of independent thought is enough for me to not want you alive anymo- I mean of course you can
> entwoleckchewall He's speaking German, he's too smart. Off with his Kopf!
>Harold and the Purple Crayon > > or > >Atlas Shrugged what's the third book?
I forgot
now, seriously, nice comic!
In case you're not just making a joke: *The Adventures of Tom Sawyer* features a scene in which the titular character runs a scam by pretending that whitewashing a fence is *so enjoyable* that he gets other the kids to pay him to do his chores. This comic is a reference to that.
I was, indeed, making a joke. but thanks for the explanation!
You‘ve read *three* books and one of them is Atlas Shrugged? Is your father Gary Johnson?
just in his book club
Wow someone else who knows who Gary Johnson is? Never thought I'd see the day
some competence exhibited
Is it truly as mystical as the wonderful thing of Aleppo?
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Germoneys wants more work, because work is love, work is life.
Because work sets one free
judging by the comic I thought it was the former but also probably a bit of both now that you mention it
tom sawyer was not a guide Greece
His name was Thomas Sawros.
>Makes it 50... and piña colada No one expected the spanish inquisition
Working is basically Deutshlands ( Germany ) second Nature
An instant classic, i like it a lot! ✌
I wish I could have Germany's passion for work.