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  • This is how pasteurization works fyi. You shouldn’t do it in your home oven because air is a terrible insulator and your home oven likely sucks at maintaining temperature but if you can maintain temperature relatively precisely (not terribly, like within a swing of half a degree) and can use a medium that is not a terrible insulator (like a water bath) the problem is solved

    Thus things like pasteurized milk, eggs, and sous vide.

    Louis pasteur essentially found that you can just cook things to a super high temperature to kill bacteria but alternatively you can bring them to a much lower temperature and hold them at said temperature for a specific period of time and this will result in a reduction of bacteria to safe levels. This is highly preferable because it preserves flavor and texture. He was a super genius and you should read a book



  • To be clear I don’t think you were trying to be misleading or anything and I apologize if I came off as rude. By nature of my work I talk to anti vaccine people a lot and it can be trying

    I mean to ultimately stress the point that somehow we have lost the plot. When vaccines came out people truly understood that the vaccine was a tremendous advantage over the alternative. Primarily because at the time they had seen firsthand the chilling effects of disease ravaging their communities

    It unfortunately appears we will have a reminder of that soon because stupid selfish morons refuse to read a book and as result their “right to liberty” will result in countless deaths. Sorry to grandma, sorry to babies, maga dork doesn’t trust doctors


  • 1 in 100 is ridiculously overstating the serious risks, borderlining on misinformation. You are not doing the same thing with measles parties at all

    Here are the risks of the mmr vaccine

    Death: literally 1 in a million. These are typically due to anaphylaxis. In much rarer cases underlying immune disorders are triggered, underlying neurological conditions such as encephalitis are triggered, or very severe thrombocytopenia occurs. The majority of cases of thrombocytopenia induced by the vaccine (which is still astoundingly rare) are not nearly this severe and are correctable

    Anaphylaxis: literally 1 in a million

    Febrile seizures: between 1 in 3000 and 1 in 4000

    Thrombocytopenia, a low platelet count: 1 in 40,000. Again, most cases are not fatal

    Mild swelling of the glands similar to mumps: 1 in 1000

    Mild side effects like rash or fever though? About 5%

    Now to contrast:

    If you catch measles you have about a 1 in 1000 chance of dying. This is in America, the risk is higher in less developed countries and countries where vaccinations rates are lower (and thus pockets of America where vaccination rates are low may see higher death rates). This is because of the potential risk of developing pneumonia and encephalitis

    People who are anti vaccination do not understand medicine at all and do understand the most basic statistics. The fact of the matter is vaccines can and do cause harm. There is no getting around that fact. But the chance of you encountering the harm from vaccines is astronomically lower than the risk of of encountering harm from the diseases they are protecting you from.

    To put it quite simply: if you vaccinate your child with the mmr vaccine they have a 1 in a million chance of dying. If you do not and they catch measles they have a 1 in a thousand chance of dying. If you purposely infect them with measles you should be charged with child abuse.




  • Actually the most common way is through aerosolized particles, meaning there is a ton of rat shit and piss somewhere in your living space (like an attic or crawlspace) and it gets into your air supply. Far less commonly but still possibly it can be through direct exposure to feces and urine, or even more rarely through a scratch/bite

    Despite this it’s astoundingly rare. 20-50 cases annually for the entirety of the USA and less than 1000 from 1993-2022





  • Head on down to the container store, a store that is just (expensive) plastic boxes, so you can fill the one room you don’t show anyone with storage to load it up with all the shit you own and don’t display out of shame

    But really minimalism is rich person shit. Minimalism is for people who can afford a house with several rooms and to furnish entire rooms or entire homes even in one go.

    Poor and middle class people end up with maximalism. It’s hard not to when your design is I’m gonna buy a cheap couch that’s not really what I wanted but overall okay, then a chair 18 months later that design trends changed in the interim, then a table 6 months later, then 3 years later I replace the couch I had with an even worse couch because it broke (fuck you ikea) and I had to replace it somewhat urgently and my budget was very weak, etc.

    or they have fallen deeply for the consumerist trap and they have the wall of funko pops. But that’s their own fault. Now if you’ll excuse me I’m going to go put on one of my hundreds of vinyl records, which is totally different and doesn’t make me a hypocrite at all