I never thought I’d see the items in a shopping cart double in price so quickly, but here we are

My ESD sense are freaking out right now

I would think the only way they could fight China effectively is by being the extremists that these militants aligned with. Which unfortunately means the CCP is going to crack down harder on anyone remotely affiliated :/

Yeah, that makes sense too.

I’m certainly not kidding about it. Associating with communism or people who associate with communism is a big NO. And it doesn’t exactly make sense anymore, but that’s the FBI for you

No.

However, anything that requires security clearance or is PR for the employer will (in the US at least).

If you want a job that needs clearance, I recommend closing your social media now, stopping all drugs now, and wait at least 7 years before applying to those jobs. Limit travel. Work to have any mental health records destroyed (idk if you can actually do this) and cancel therapy. Stop using Lemmy, and don’t do anything that remotely indicates that you associate with divergent cultures (i.e. communism or anarchism).

For PR - just stay off social media and drugs and don’t talk about work except in an extremely positive way.

If you guys need ideas on how to solve the conservatives pushing it, we did find out a way to scare them recently.

“Amazon, which has appealed the union certification, claims the Teamsters have coerced workers, accusations the union denies.”

Oh this is so stupid. My parents even fall for this shit. Any “coercing” going on is the workers pointing out that without the union things won’t improve, and likely get worse.

The 2028 totally-not-an-organizef-general-strike is desperately necessary.

Is it 0? No?

Have a ways to go then.

See I didn’t know that, cool thanks

Yes, it cannot be created naturally.

The concern is that if one of the mirror proteins is able to be cloned naturally, then we would have a problem on our hands.

However, those mirror cells would need a supply of “mirror food” such as “mirror sugar” in order to survive their natural lifespan. And then they would need to break apart into the mirror proteins that can be cloned. Racemic drugs like Thalidomide do not behave the way they are talking about in the article.

I have my doubts that this is an actual concern. It’s not even similar to prions - prions are misfolded proteins that have the same chemical make up, but the natural enzymes end up cloning those over the natural ones because they are easier to make.

Correct. It’s also a much simpler organic molecule than any of the proteins they are talking about creating.

I know I just responded, but I read the article, and the drug page, and discovered the thing we’re talking about. Racemic organic molecules are not the same thing here.

These are specifically proteins used for cellular life. These are significantly more complex, as there are no natural bindings between the two. To note this from Wikipedia:

Examples include thalidomide, ibuprofen, cetirizine and salbutamol. A well known drug that has different effects depending on its ratio of enantiomers is amphetamine. Adderall is an unequal mixture of both amphetamine enantiomers. A single Adderall dose combines the neutral sulfate salts of dextroamphetamine and amphetamine, with the dextro isomer of amphetamine saccharate and D/L-amphetamine aspartate monohydrate. The original Benzedrine was a racemic mixture, and isolated dextroamphetamine was later introduced to the market as Dexedrine. The prescription analgesic tramadol is also a racemate.

We know that those drugs aren’t great in pregnancy, but Adderall specifically does not cause birth defects. Again, these molecules are significantly less complex than any protein they would talk about here.

Well that answers my question if mirror cells need mirror molecules.

They just die and break apart turning into mirror molecules. Oh well.

I’m being honest with you, I don’t think I’ve seen him outside before.

Interesting to note, they mentioned the Florida woman’s name, but not the judge’s.

Interesting, interesting, interesting.

I take it that was the the information they could get.

I wonder what people will do about that.

Nothing? Or cheer?

It’s sort of funny. All they are going to do is isolate the bastards into doing even more corrupt shit.

They really refuse to believe that the first part of finding out, is fucking around.

The more they fuck around and put profit ahead of everything, the more finding out I imagine is going to occur.

“forcing leaders to ask themselves uncomfortable questions about their own preparedness for a threat landscape that appears far more serious than many realized just a week ago.”

It’s probably even more serious than they think it is right now too.

In fact, all I see are talks of securing these executives. And as the article points out, security is a sunk cost. There is no financial gain. That means as security gets more expensive, they will have to weigh how to afford it versus the problems they cause.

Fear isn’t the word I think we want though, fear seems too normal. Terror sounds closer to what they likely need to feel before things get better.

Well, I was sort of hoping for a happier ending than that, but they didn’t call it the reign of terror for not beheading 16,000 people.