You actually literally can’t kill prions, they aren’t alive, they’re basically the virus debate’s bastard older brother with a rap sheet that’s just a list of all the people they’ve sent to the hospital, and then followed up bankrupting the hospital because literally everything that victim touched has to be scrapped because hospitals usually don’t have the tools required to break down prions enough for it to be safe to keep anything that might have gotten the patient’s prions on it.
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Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
What? Prions suddenly being in dirt instead of a human being doesn’t kill them, there’s a whole thing with Mad Cow and soil from the UK. Part of why they’re so fucking horrible is that you practically can’t kill Prions.
Obscenely high temperatures are required.
The rich should be turned into fuel pellets instead.
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Misfolded proteins if I remembered right, and Auroclaves (and tools that can survive it) probably ain’t cheap.
ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 2 months ago
Auroclaves
The definition makes it sound like a fancy pressure cooker.
Guess we can just use a really heavy duty pressure cooker to cook the stuff before composting it?notthebees@reddthat.com 2 months ago
Surgical tools can be autoclaved, not really big things.
ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 2 months ago
The rich should be turned into fuel pellets instead.
Until it’s started with them alive, it’s fine
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Composting is a specific set of chemical processes that take place in a hot, highly oxygenated environment with the proper mix of nutrients for microbial growth. It is not comparable to ordinary decomposition in soil.
Composting can destroy prions, but it might be different to ensure you’ve destroyed all of them. Read more here: beefresearch.ca/…/can-composting-destroy-bse-prio…
PS: I think it’s not good to joke about killing people, even shitty people.
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
To be fair, nobody said you had to kill them.
Just cut off parts as needed for food, or bury them in a deep composting pit.
At that point, they might die, but that’s on them for not pulling themselves up by their bootstraps.
JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m not sure you want any of it for food if there’s a risk of prions
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Eh, the risk isn’t exactly high. Totally worth it for some fresh long pig
ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 2 months ago
Then it’s time to stop joking
Deceptichum@quokk.au 2 months ago
Who’s joking about it?
This is a war, people die in war. If our enemy doesn’t want to die, let them forfeit their “power” and surrender.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Well, I was trying to be charitable. People who seriously want to murder people they’ve never met have serious emotional problems and should seek therapy.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 2 months ago
It’s not about wanting to murder people you’ve never met, it’s about wanting to defend yourself and others.
These people are actively waging class war against us, and they hold all the power while letting the planet be destroyed.
It is imperative they go ASAP, if they won’t go voluntarily the other option is by force.
jerkface@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I think you will find that war isn’t a very useful metaphor for this kind of conflict.
psud@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Does it really have to be? A class war (as actual war) has to be better than any other sort of war