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Finding out that buy and large what people mean when they say "it's dangerous to reheat rice!!" is that if rice is held at a tepid temperature for an extended period of time it tends to grow cultures that can cause food poisoning. A fact that is true about pretty much everything.
#yes. cooked rice is a potentially hazardous food and if allowed to stay in the ''temperature danger zone'' for too long#for example when being cooled too slowly and then reheated to a less than bacteria killing temperature#it can grow stuff that makes you sick!#that is in fact how that works. this isn't actually particularly new information? nor is it terribly rice specific#i have a hard time believing that so few twitter/tik tok users are food workers that this could become a panic#guys they make us watch a video about this every time we renew our food handler cards#you remember the video? the annoying one? my state's video has a cartoon bleach jug idk what yours is like
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"We're old moms, we can't wait to stop breastfeeding so we can get [very excited, shrill even] botooooox!!!"
We are never making it out of the patriarchy.
#every time i open instagram i see videos promoting botox for the moment you turn 20 and face lifts and plastic surgery#and skincare regimens that are not care at all but just fifty products to torture your skin (and spend money!!)#the ties between the patriarchy and capitalism that support one another are terrifying.#but not even that . i feel like i'm going insane#how did we in this day and age normalise so much of this shit#what happened to feminism... why am i seeing a man who works as a plastic surgeon#talking about ''when a client walks in and i know EXACTLY what she needs to change so i am able to get her to#sign up for four more procedures asides from the one she came here for ^_^'' i'm going to kill you.#beat you with rocks. do you guys know botox is a bacteria? do you guys know about botulism?#you throw away a can of food because it's slightly dented so you don't die from botulism#but you inject it straight into your forehead because someone told you signs you#lived a long life full of expressing your emotions guilt-free was what made you ugly#the way i see influencers who will call themselves feminists talk about those wrinkle-free straws... don't sleep on your side#don't breathe wrong don't crease your eyebrows don't smile don't cry don't drink from straws#you're all fucking insane. and wrinkles are caused by your skin losing elasticity. you will STILL have wrinkles#if you live long enough that is (<- can you see why it's a blessing?)
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18 hours difference of bacteria growth
How much can Staphylococcus aureus bacteria grow in less than a day? I add a few drops of bacteria into a fresh medium (basically a meat bouillon soup) and after 18 hours I count tens of billions bacteria per milliliter.
Literally, today I had 8x10^10 bacteria/ml. They grow like crazy when given the chance.
For the next 24 hours, I let them bath in antibiotics. Hehe!
#microbiology#bacteria#MRSA#staphylococcus#antibiotic#science#research#postdoc#crazy#stem#biophysics#academia#medical research#killing time#original content
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i am FUCKING pissed about the feral cat situation yet again
#killed the fledgling bird ive been happily watching be nurtured by its parents over the last few weeks#and which had just started out trying small flights on its own#i guess technically i managed to chase the cat off before it finished the job but the baby is almost certainly going to die#almost all the feathers on the back half of its body were ripped out and it had a large bleeding gash down its back#if the wound isnt fatal the bacteria from the cat teeth and claws will be and it got out of sight so i cant even find/help it#i hate it!!!!! i hate it that a group of 'animal lovers' can just decide the rest of the cities wildlife doesnt matter and deserve to die#just because they get sad 100 cats a year or whatever were humanely put down in shelters#first nubfoot my beloved one footed dove and now the baby :(((((#ive tried trapping ive tried deterrant sprays ive tried plants they dont like the smell of ive tried chasing it off every time i see it#nothing works!!!!! it does not care. and no it cannot be taken to a shelter. they just dump them back where they were collected#thats how TNR works. makes it everyones problem and lets the cats die miserably of heat exhaustion at 115º in june instead#bc apparently thats the nicer thing to do i guess#anyway keep your FUCKING cats inside#not sure if it also got one of the parents :(((((( have only seen one dove kind of looking around trying to find its family#:((((((((((((((((((((((((((((
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I am soooo normal about the plague I feel normal feelings about the plague absolute normal guy activities and behaviors regarding it. I have the world's normalest knowledge about the plague<333
#mica rambles#hi! I fell down a rabbit hole again#I want to scream brain empty only filled with thoughts of past pandemic#did you know that the pneumonic plague (one of the variant of the bubonic plague) could kill someone within hours of getting the bacteria?#so even though it was the most contagious form of the plague it didn't make it spread around as much!!#it is so so so fascinating top 5 Mica interests of all time along with marine biology ghosts the sun and plants
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after several weeks of one ailment after another i am finally mostly fine 👍
#got some kind of stomach issue followed by a UTI followed by an ear infection followed by the other ear getting infected#also an annoying downstairs problem that i am attributing to some kind of allergic reaction or something from T#given that the only way i have an STD is some kind of freak accident involving my colleges gender neutral toilet#however. all has (mostly) faded. no doubt ive killed scores of useful bacteria with the multiple antibiotic regimens. but now i am doing OK#... of course i have a doctors appointment tomorrow and im going to have to get a metric fuckton of blood drawn#but one thing at a time
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pro tip: use a little bit of isopropyl alcohol on your underarms if you want to get rid of the stinky but can't shower at the moment
#fun fact. this works becayse smells are caused by bacteria and rubbing alcohol kills bacteria#i am Going Thru It and showering is especially difficult lately#of course use antiperspirant and/or deodorant as well but over time you get stinky even while using those#og#i swear i saw a post like this but don't rememeber. might have been a tik tok
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in amazing news i think my uti is still not gone after a second round of antibiotics
#how this is possible after they found the bacteria causing it and the antibiotics it was resistant to is beyond me#and i wanna kill myself and im sick of it and i dont think i deserve this#like ok the second round maybe but for the third time in one month i dont think i deserve it really
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The sardonic, reductionist headline here could be "Scientists finally figured out why you get more colds in winter: bEcAuSe iT's CoLd!"—but the actual science involved here is both interesting, and potentially very relevant to everyday life and especially the immunocompromised:
It turns out the cold air itself damages the immune response occurring in the nose. [...] In fact, reducing the temperature inside the nose by as little as 9 degrees Fahrenheit (5 degrees Celsius) kills nearly 50% of the billions of virus and bacteria-fighting cells in the nostrils, according to the study published Tuesday in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.
“Cold air is associated with increased viral infection because you’ve essentially lost half of your immunity just by that small drop in temperature,” said rhinologist Dr. Benjamin Bleier, director of otolaryngology at Massachusetts Eye and Ear and an associate professor at Harvard Medical School in Boston.
Want to avoid catching or spreading respiratory viruses like CoVid-19, RSV, influenza, or a common cold? Mask up, please, but also bundle up! Wrap up in a scarf, wear a balaclava, and just generally keep your face warm. There's no single magic solution, but that's not a reason to do nothing. Rather, it's a reason to take several simple precautions that help avoid the spread of disease and protect those around you. (I can't tell you how much "this isn't 100% effective so I shouldn't do it at all" frustrates me.)
Oh, and #knitblr? This is your time to shine.
#covid 19#rsv#respiratory illness#science#immunocompromised#face masks#masks work#knitblr#knitting#crochet
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as a second person who studies bacteria on food surfaces. the tone of that specific post is really disproportionate
#like should we all wash our waterbottles more often? sure#but as prefered bacterial substrates go? the silicone and PET in ur resusable waterbottle are at the bottom of the fucking list#like. if you've eaten at a lunch table you're more at risk.#if you've eaten chopped fruit or veggies that you didnt prepare 10 minutes ago ur more at risk#we all eat and drink bacteria all the time#yes mold kills. but i think we can get rid of this bizarre victorian germaphobia renaissance
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genuine question- how do you feel about vaccination?
Very pro. I’ve gotten every vaccine I’ve ever been offered. I’m behind on my flu shot this year but that’s just because they keep doing the work clinics on days when I’m either not there or working through lunch. Our immune systems are ticking time bombs that are always looking for an excuse to kill us and so far all available evidence suggests that exposing them to things via vaccine reduces the rate of autoimmune issues due to that specific virus or bacteria later, in addition to decreasing frequency and severity of infection. The shingles vaccine may even decrease risk of dementia, which is HUGE.
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The knowledge of some common plants
Since many people don't know most of the plants around them, this is information on some plants that are commonly seen in many places throughout the world
This is Lamium purpureum, also called Purple Deadnettle.
It's called deadnettle because it looks like a nettle but it doesn't sting you
This plant is a winter annual—it grows its leaves in the fall, lasts through the winter, and blooms and dies in the spring
Its pollen is reddish orange. If you see bees with their heads stained reddish orange, it is likely because they have visited Purple Deadnettle
This is Trifolium repens, white clover
It is a legume (belongs to the bean family) and fixes nitrogen using symbiosis with bacteria that live in little nodules on its roots, fertilizing the soil
It is a good companion plant for the other members of a lawn or garden since it is tough, adaptable, and improves soil quality. According to my professor it used to be in lawn mixes, until chemical companies wanted to sell a new herbicide that would kill broadleaved plants and spare grass, and it was slandered as a weed :(
It is native only to Europe and Central Asia, but in the lawns they are doing more good than harm most places
Honeybees love to visit clover
Four-leaf clovers are said to be lucky
This is Achillea millefolium, Common Yarrow
It has had a relationship with humans since Neanderthals were around, at least 60,000 years, since Neanderthals have been found buried with Yarrow
Its leaves have been used to stop bleeding throughout history, and its scientific name comes from how Achilles was said to have used Yarrow to stop the blood from the wounds of his soldiers. A leaf rolled into a ball has been used to stop nosebleeds
It is a native species all throughout Eurasia and North America
This is Cichorium intybus, known as Chicory
The leaves look a lot like dandelion leaves, until in mid-spring when it begins growing a woody green stem straight up into the air
Like many other weeds, it has a symbiotic relationship with humans, existing in a mix of domesticated or partially domesticated and wild populations
It is native to Eurasia, but widespread in North America on roadsides and disturbed places, where it descended from cultivated plants
Its root contains large amounts of inulin, which is used as a sweetener and fiber supplement (if you look at the ingredients on the granola bars that have extra fiber, they usually are partly made of chicory root) and has also been used as a coffee substitute
A large variety of bees like to feed upon it
This is Phytolacca americana, known as Pokeweed
It is easily identified by its huge leaves and its waxy, bright magenta stem
It can grow more than nine feet tall from a sprout in a single summer!
If you squish the berries, the juice inside is a shocking magenta that is so bright it almost burns your eyes. For this reason many Native American people used it for pink and purple dye.
It is a heavy metal hyperaccumulator, particularly good for removing cadmium from the soil
All parts of the plant are poisonous and will make you very sick if you eat them, however if the leaves are picked when very young and boiled 3 times, changing out the water each time, they can be eaten, and this is a traditional food in the rural American Southeast, but I don't want to chance it
British people have introduced it as a pretty, exotic ornamental plant. I think that is very funny considering that here it is a weed associated with places where poor people live, but maybe they're right and I need to look closer to see the beauty.
If you see magenta stains in bird poop it is because they ate pokeweed berries- birds can safely eat the berries whereas humans cannot
This is Plantago lanceolata, Ribwort Plantain
It grows in heavily disturbed soils, in fact it is considered an indicator of agricultural activity. It is successful in the poorest, heaviest and most compacted soil.
The leaves, seeds, and flower heads are said to be edible but the leaves are really stringy unless they are very young. Of course, it is important to be careful when eating wild plants, and make sure you have identified the plant correctly and the soil is not contaminated
I have also heard the strings in the leaves can be extracted and used for textile purposes
and that's some common plants you might often see throughout the world
#just remembered i had this in my drafts#i forget why i didn't post it immediately#anyway#plants#the ways of the plants
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Okay, how ridiculous are the comments on food shorts on FB? Literally any time a girl with false nails is making something, half the comments are about how gross she is. For...making food with long nails???
Or the people who tell girls (even without false nails) to wear gloves when they're cooking. If they don't they're disgusting and nobody should ever eat their food. Literal 🤮emojis.
Who in the actual fuck wears gloves to cook at home? How do they think women with false nails eat or feed their families? Gloves and short, polish-free nails are only necessary if you're working in a commercial/industrial environment. Because you're exposed to a wide variety of germs, you're preparing food for a longer period of time, there's a much greater risk of cross contamination and you don't want to endanger the public.
Are there actual people these days who legit put on gloves to cook for themselves in their own homes???
#the idea that people are attempting to create near sterile environments in their own homes#and see this as not only normal but disgusting if you don't also do the same#is honestly disturbing to me#going overboard like this is a recipe for breeding superbugs#follow general food safety rules like proper cooking times and thawing procedures#keeping your hands and surfaces clean#and avoiding cross contamination wrt raw meat#but for the love of god don't try to eliminate every single microbe#it's perfectly fine to prep food with your bare hands#use antibacterial cleaners sparingly and only where necessary#such as bathrooms and surfaces that come into contact with raw meat#clean your hands properly with soap and water#understand that a degree of bacteria is normal and healthy to be exposed to#and attempting to create near sterile conditions within your home only serves to kill off the weakest bacteria#while allowing stronger varieties to survive and breed - creating shit that's resistant to treatment#food safety procedures within your home and within restaurants or factories are quite different for very good reasons#if we applied the same standards in the home as we do in commercial/industrial environments we'd have a lot more serious issues#than some herbs under some girl's fingernails#they're regular people showing off some recipes you can also make at home#chill the fuck out
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Look. I have literally no horse in this race when it comes to the WGA/SAG Hollywood strike. I do not watch enough TV or movies to be affected and I’m not a part of the industry. I really haven’t cared.
As a lawyer and orchardist, however, I am now utterly entranced by the fact that some Universal Studios exec thought it was a good idea to cut down city-owned trees in the middle of summer.
There is no way to get around the absolute clusterfuck they have brought down upon themselves.
First, the ownership question. These trees are not owned by Universal. They’re the City of Los Angeles’ trees. That means the responsibility, and the right, to maintain them belongs to the city government. If you want to touch city property like that, you better have their permission. If not, you’re looking at anything from fines, to replacement/maintenance costs, to jail time.
Now, I don’t know LA, and I’m not licensed in California, but a lot of cities also require permits for any massive trimming like that that can affect public property (like the roads and sidewalks).
Second, they have zero excuses that can even remotely minimize the trouble they’re in. Anything that justifies that kind of pruning at this time of year would have likely required the full removal and destruction of the trees.
Because that level of pruning? You don’t do that in summer. You absolutely do not do that in summer unless the trees are dying or infested with something. Why? Because summer is healthy growth time. Summer is when your trees need all the energy they can get so they can grow and strengthen their branches and roots.
It’s also when they’re susceptible to diseases. Various bacteria, fungi, and insects strike during the summer and can cause severe damage. By trimming those trees so severely, not only are there a ton of gapping wounds for diseases to enter the tree, they’re now stressed by trying to replace that lost growth, which makes it even harder for them to survive any further damage.
Basically, Universal Studios might end up accidentally killing the trees. Which will make everything so much worse.
So, yeah. Now I’m invested.
#fury’s a lawyer#wga strike#sag strike#universal studios#tree law#it’s like watching a train crash real time#I don’t even practice tree law#but I know it’s reputation is well earned
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why do i still feel like i have a cold after 3 whole weeks? :( guess this is what i get for spending hours everyday in freezing temperatures by choice but still
#ack. i just. feel super awful all the time and my throat hurts so bad now :(#i think this latest cold is significantly worse than the previous 2 ugh#idk. maybe its just my body not handling the cold well be either way its a sickness even if its not caused by bacteria but it might be that#being in cold temperatures kills like a crazy amount of the bacteria in your nose that helps keep you from getting sick so it makes sense#that id be getting sick repeatedly simce ive been in very cold temperatures a lot lately so if theres anything around im more likely to get#sick from it. it could also very well be my body struggling just bc its been in the cold a lot too tho. its not really important which one#ugh. i still havent been able to get to the store bc of unexpected super icy roads and sidewalks. i stumble a lot so i think maybe its a#bad idea to walk to the store when everything is covered in ice. i also very likely cant even get a bus bc theyve not been running as often#bc of the ice so id prob have to walk home too#i guess waiting wont kill me but i want one asap. its still definitely better to just wait instead of walking there while its freezing and#probably make myself more sick
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In photos of 2023’s World Economic Forum- or Davos as it is commonly called, after the Swiss resort town where it annually occurs- you might not notice the HEPA filters. They’re in the background, unobtrusive and unremarked upon, quietly cleansing the air of viruses and bacteria. You wouldn’t know- not unless you asked- that every attendee was PCR tested before entering the forum, or that in the case of a positive test, access was automatically, electronically, revoked. And if you happened to get a glimpse of the strange blue lights overhead, you could reasonably assume that their glow was simply a modern aesthetic choice, not the calming buzz of cutting edge Far UVC technology- demonstrated to kill microbes in the air.
It’s hard to square this information with the public narrative about COVID, isn’t it? President Biden has called the pandemic “over”. The New York Times recently claimed that “the risk of Covid is similar to that of the flu” in an article about “hold outs” that are annoyingly refusing to accept continual reinfection as their “new normal”. Yet, this week the richest people in the world are taking common sense, easy- but strict- precautions to ensure they don’t catch Covid-19 at Davos.
These common sense, easy precautions include high-quality ventiliation, use of Far UVC-lighting technology, and PCR testing. You’ll also see some masks at Davos, but generally, the testing + air filtration protocol seems to be effective at preventing the kind of super-spreader events most of us are now accustomed to attending.
It seems unlikely to me that a New York Times reporter will follow the super-rich around like David Attenborough on safari, the way one of their employees did when they profiled middle-class maskers last month. I doubt they will write “family members and friends can get a little exasperated by the hyper-concern” about the assembled Prime Ministers, Presidents and CEOs in Switzerland. After all, these are important people. The kind of people who merit high-quality ventilation. The kind of people who deserve accurate tests.
Why is the media so hellbent on portraying simple, scientifically proven measures like high-quality ventilation as ridiculous and unnecessary as hundreds of people continue to die daily here in the US?
Why is the public accepting a “new normal” where we are expected to get infected over and over and over again, at work events with zero precautions, on airplanes with no masks, and at social dinners trying to approximate our 2019 normal?
We deserve better. We deserve to be #DavosSafe as the hashtag going around on twitter puts it. Your children deserve to be treated with the care that world leaders are treating each other. Your family deserves to be protected from the disease which is still- unlike the flu- the third leading cause of death in the US. We don’t deserve to be shoved back into poorly ventilated workplaces while our politicians and press assure us that only crazy people would demand to breathe clean air.
Clean water and clean food are rights we fought for; we have regulatory bodies that ensure we aren’t exposed to pathogens via our water supply nor our food. In 1854, John Snow famously conducted his Broad Street Pump study in London and demonstrated that cholera was water-bourne; however, it took decades for our public policy to catch up with our scientific knowledge.
A public health case study published by the NBCI describes the years that followed:
The first use of chlorine as a disinfectant for water facilities was in 1897 in England. The first use of this method for municipal water facilities in the United States was in Jersey City, New Jersey, and Chicago, Illinois, in 1915. Other cities followed and the use of chlorination as standard treatment for water disinfection rapidly grew. During the 20th century, death rates from waterborne diseases decreased significantly, and although other additional factors contributed to the general improvements in health (such as sanitation, improved quality of life, and nutrition), the improvement of water quality was, without doubt, a major reason.
Forty-three years passed from the initial demonstration that pathogens were being spread via water, and public action and regulation to halt disease.
Can you imagine, in the 1890s, being somebody who argued against cleaning the water?
Can you imagine, in those years of plentiful cholera, calling the people who demanded shit-free water “hold outs”?
One thing COVID realists are accused of is being “doomsayers” and “fearmongers,” so let me share a dose of optimism about the future with you. When we choose- whenever we choose- to get COVID under control, there’s an exciting new world awaiting us. One, not only without constant COVID reinfection, but where our kids can grow up free of colds, flus, RSV, and many other common bugs. And no, contrary to what you may have heard, staying healthy (shockingly enough) is not bad for children!
Once we choose to institute ventilation standards and introduce new technologies like Far UVC lighting- and embrace masking as an easy, kind, and useful tool to control outbreaks- we can bring every nasty airborne pathogen under control the way we did cholera. We didn’t have the science before; now we do. (I mean that quite literally; I can’t recommend enough the linked Wired article cataloguing the long journey to establishing that Covid is, indeed, airborne).
We face a stark choice; down one road, the one with zero infrastructure upgrades, no air quality regulations, and Covid safety only for those who can afford it, you and your family will get Covid this year. You will get Covid next year. You will continue to get Covid over and over and over again, as the health problems - like cardiac damage, viral persistance, and immune system dysfunction- continue to build up. (The billionaires, of course, will not).
Down the other road, we quite simply treat ourselves the way Davos would. We engage with what the science is telling us and we build a safer, better world for our kids. We embrace the lessons this pandemic is teaching us, and let go of things we now know are harming people. We stop clinging desperately to the idea that 2019 will come back if we just get the virus one more time, and we come together to achieve what we’ve been told is impossible: elimination.
The economic elite thrive on our divisiveness and blame casting. They don’t mind that we’re calling each other names, engaging in racial stereotyping, or leaving disabled people to die, so long as we keep their machine running. But we can choose to stop throwing blame at each other, and direct it where it belongs: at the powerful people who’ve left us to suffer, at the politicians who are whipping people into a frenzy over masks instead of over our millions of dead, at the talking heads on TV that work so hard to convince us: you want to get sick. It’s better than being a *weirdo* or a *hold out*.
We needn’t wait 43 years to redirect our energies. France and Belgium have already introduced new air quality standards, and DIY projects to build Corsi-Rosenthal boxes for schools and healthcare settings have popped up around the country. We have the science, we have the technology. All we need now is the political will and the solidarity to truly end the pandemic- the kind of solidarity the super rich always show with one another.
The billionaires at Davos don’t accept continual Covid reinfection. They demand better. It’s time we demand better too.
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