• Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    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 as i recall. 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.

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      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: https://www.beefresearch.ca/fact-sheets/can-composting-destroy-bse-prions/

      PS: I think it’s not good to joke about killing people, even shitty people.

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        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.

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        PS: I think it’s not good to joke about killing people, even shitty people.

        Then it’s time to stop joking

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        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.

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          I think you will find that war isn’t a very useful metaphor for this kind of conflict. … you get that it’s metaphorical, right?

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            Does it really have to be? A class war (as actual war) has to be better than any other sort of war

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          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.

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      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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        Misfolded proteins if I remembered right, and Auroclaves (and tools that can survive it) probably ain’t cheap.

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      The rich should be turned into fuel pellets instead.

      Until the process is started with them alive, it’s fine