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argarath@lemmy.worldto Europe@feddit.org•New Refrigerators, Washing Machines, Furniture and Tires Will All Have to Last Longer, Europe MandatesEnglish11·14 days agoAhhh, so you are the type of dumb that heard the name and assumed the wrong interpretation and ran with it. The so-called “forever chemicals” are called that because they themselves don’t really break down, but they don’t give that property to other things. These “forever chemicals” are stuff like teflon, they’re stuff that doesn’t react with other things and that makes them nonstick, something that can be useful in a bunch of different things besides just nonstick pans, but because they’re so nonstick, it’s difficult to make them stay in the pan or whatever industrial machine they’re a part of, so they can flake off and be in the end product, in our food, water, soil and much more, and since like I said before they’re not reactive, they can just stay there as their molecules, forever. Using them in a machine doesn’t give the machine more durability or extends it’s work life, it just helps it not stick to stuff
argarath@lemmy.worldto Europe@feddit.org•New Refrigerators, Washing Machines, Furniture and Tires Will All Have to Last Longer, Europe MandatesEnglish14·14 days agoDo you even know what forever chemicals are or do you think they’re a magic thing that are added to machines to make them last longer?
argarath@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•US FDA suspends food safety quality checks after staff cuts3·15 days agoBut they have their chefs prepare and cook their foods, they can afford the clean version, they’re still protected from the consequences of their actions because of their money
argarath@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•It Certainly Looks Like Elon Musk’s ‘Legion’ of Kids Is Bigger Than Anyone Imagined6·17 days agoNah, secretary would hurt trump more because he most likely thinks it’s a woman’s job, so trump is a secretary of the president
argarath@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft fires employee protestor who called AI boss a ‘war profiteer’English3·26 days agoIt’s so freaking annoying that these anti cheats don’t ever work with Linux… I wonder if steam did their own anti cheat that worked for Linux they could get those games to run on it, but it’s a pipedream, it’s too complex and it’s much better to keep the Linux portion of the market growing through making it more accessible to normal users and then getting the anti cheat companies interested in making a version for Linux instead
argarath@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft fires employee protestor who called AI boss a ‘war profiteer’English11·26 days agoJust out of curiosity, what games do you need a windows machine to play that proton can’t make work on Linux?
argarath@lemmy.worldto Games@lemmy.world•6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?English2·28 days agoI keep getting called away from my computer in the middle of whatever I’m doing and I don’t want to leave it unlocked while I’m away and I don’t want to have to reopen 4 or 5 programs including a game, if I could shut it down instead of sleeping I would but sadly I can’t
argarath@lemmy.worldto Games@lemmy.world•6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?English2·28 days agoI’ve even taken out the drive that I had Linux installed, windows still has the issue, it started barely happening a year or so ago but recently it’s gotten much much worse and it happens in waves(?) where it’ll not have any issues for several days and then one day it will fail to wake up every time it goes to sleep, except when I’m testing. I recall testing the drive check on both Linux and windows, but both came out clean.
My bf and I have narrowed it down to probably being the power supply (last year there were a bunch of power outages after a historical flood here in southern Brazil) but the ram is also unstable at timings that it used to run perfectly fine, but the ram test came out clean so it’s a big mess of possibilities RN. I’m just waiting for Monday to be able to buy a new power supply and a UPS to test, but even then we’re still unsure if this will truly fix it or if I’ll need to get a new motherboard.
argarath@lemmy.worldto Games@lemmy.world•6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?English5·28 days agoI was running mint, but had to go back to windows because of a hardware bug I’m still trying to fix where my PC will randomly not wake up from sleep and that results in corrupted drives, which windows can fix with it’s automated repair at boot, but Linux has done commands that I need to run and if I fuck it up it would fuck my computer up even more, so until I can fix the hardware bug I’m stuck on windows, but by fuck do I hate it. I prefer Linux so much more over windows, so much more convenient, efficient, personalizable and it actually works in many places where windows simply doesn’t even with a lot of fiddling around in settings and shit
argarath@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Arrest Of Elon Musk For Felony Vote Buying Demanded In Wisconsin7·1 month agoThey’ll defend him because if he goes to prison that is now a can of worms they cannot close, the slippery slope they fear the most is society actually putting these people in prison
argarath@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•‘Go Back to Your Country!’ Marjorie Taylor Greene Unleashes Unhinged Tirade on Foreign Reporter Asking About Signal Controversy13·1 month agoHey, neanderthals weren’t heartless, bigoted morons, you should compare her to shit, but even that is doing a disservice to shit since that can still help the soil with nutrients, unlike her who would only poison
Hi, I am graduating in biotechnology and my professors discussed this in class. The main points they brought up were:
1: the technique used for gene editing in those test subjects was and still is not 100% specific. With the correct primers you can still have incorrect breaks in the DNA and incorrect adhesion of your gene of interest, pair of bases can be lost and/or introduced indirectly, causing mutations that range from luckily encoding the same aminoacid to a sequence break, altering all of the following aminoacids and resulting in either a truncated protein that luckily does nothing to a protein that results in who knows what damage to the cell. This is ok in situations where you’re changing just a few calls inside or outside of the body, but when you’re changing the genome of an entire person, that is extremely dangerous for no real gain because
2: the gene he edited was still being studied and was not guaranteed to give them immunity and it turned out they didn’t gain immunity to HIV.
3: there are better ways to guarantee a baby is not born with HIV that are better known, do not involve possibly giving ultra cancer to babies and have been throughout tested before, they did not advance our scientific knowledge and put people’s lives in danger for no guaranteed benefit besides his own ego.
There’s a reason why the entire scientific community was against his actions, especially those who work with genetic editing.
argarath@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Texas lawmakers file FURRIES Act, targeting animal roleplay in schools1·2 months agoThere are enough furry conventions that you cannot say it’s not typical. Also have you not interacted with children at all? Because they play as if they’re cats or dogs or wolves and many other animals all the time, are you saying that typical child behavior is not typical human behavior?
This makes the current moment perfect, because the US is not becoming more attractive to companies, in fact it’s discouraging new companies, only the absurdly big ones who are already established there have some chances of profiting from this chaos
argarath@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•VW Design Boss Confirms Buttons Coming Back: 'It's A Car, Not A Phone'English3·2 months agoAnd make it the responsibility of the car manufacturers if the touchscreen is used, because they clearly induced the accident, that would quickly make them stop making touch screens be needed for things you should not look away while driving
argarath@lemmy.worldto Buy From EU@lemm.ee•Döner's are tasty, local and not expensiveEnglish2·2 months agoThat is really nice!!! Thank you very much, I will use this so much!!
argarath@lemmy.worldto Buy From EU@lemm.ee•Döner's are tasty, local and not expensiveEnglish4·2 months agoI was avoiding American companies fast food since the genocide in Gaza started since I didn’t know which companies didn’t have business with israel, I knew mcdonalds and starbucks did, so I didn’t buy anything from them since then, but now I’m just avoiding them all. Since I started I’ve found a Brazilian fast food company that sells calzones and they’re really cheap and tasty, as well as being much faster than the other fastfood places. I am now just missing a coffee shop that sells stuff like macchiato or those other drinks that starbucks sells, I love those and I cannot replicate them at home even with an espresso machine
argarath@lemmy.worldto Canada•Upcoming tariffs convince Canadian restaurants to take U.S. products off menu | Food & Drink101·2 months agoGMOs are not dangerous, it’s ridiculous how people are still believing in that bullshit. If anything GMOs can be much healthier for us than regular crops, you know why? Because we can make GMOs that need waaaaaay less pesticides than regular crops, we can make GMOs that have way more vitamins and nutrients that the regular version of those plants lack (I’m still incredibly pissed that the golden rice incident happened, rice that can give thousands of malnourished people the vitamin A they needed to not go blind was destroyed because of this ridiculous and baseless fear). By making GMOs we can carefully make plants that grow faster, healthier food with less need of pesticides if needed at all, capable of surviving the harsh climates that global warming is throwing at all of our crops, with no negatives (intellectual property is an issue caused by capitalism, not inherit to only GMOs).
Dammit I should have posted my exact same solution back when I thought of it for the first time, but I was lazy so eh my fuck up