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If I burnt all your aromatic sticks without asking you first, would you have never been so incensed?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I need myrrh information for this is patchouli difficult question and then musk think about it. Ceder comment that follows as citronella clever retort.
There's a sci-fi version of creating these aromatic sticks from bit's and pieces of discarded sticks: Frankincense
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That would be nonsensical.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Yeah - would seem like a real ash to everyone.
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They would be fuming.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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As long as you don't touch my AXE (LYNX in UK)
In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.
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This one really stinks. Someone should censer you.
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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If a sea-urchin can train an aquarium owner to become his hat manufacturer [^] by clever behavior, cannot we, the humble digi-serfs [^] powering the gig economy, learn to make program managers and corporate types our love-slaves ?
Can we not learn from the urchins' use of independently mobile spines that can collaborate to secure head-protection a paradigm for our collective mobilization ?
Think spiny !
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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I am here for this.
You know collectively, in the same vein we could run absurd social experiments on program managers. Like getting the entire dev team to start speaking in Klingon, but only on Thursdays, and never bring it up or say anything about it. If they ask play dumb.
It might not be as practical as what the sea urchin does, but it could be entertaining.
Real programmers use butterflies
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You mean we have to speak English to PM's the rest of the week? 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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May your spines stay mobile !
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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(Talk about labor)
Fantastic planet urchin putting work in
Searching for pertinent verse minus the murderous diversion
Apologies won't lure me to the communal sob story
Nor will I sacrifice live style to benefit jury temperament
This old Green Goblin web cutter butts up against
Crayola daydream landscape spitting bedlam. Dead 'em
Charge the villagers nickels and nicotine to watch him fed to
One disgruntled kraken at high noon
We'll sell popcorn beer and balloons - Aesop Rock, Labor Days
Now it's in my head. Thank you 
Real programmers use butterflies
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 wonderful (the lyrics) !Quote: Just to watch these monitors spit white noise through your office space
Speaking of monitors: [^]
give an urchin a farthing, he'll keep starving,
give an urchin a chapeau, he'll be your aquarium's best beau
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
modified 25-Nov-20 5:28am.
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BillWoodruff wrote: cannot we [...] make program managers and corporate types our love-slaves ?
Can, it's probably debatable, but would you want to?
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BillWoodruff wrote: learn to make program managers and corporate types our love-slaves
How perverse. Who would want to have sex with invertebrates?
Software Zen: delete this;
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I'm looking for scientific articles on some questions I have about how mRNA vaccines work.
First, I've read (and it seems to be basic biology) that mRNA does not alter the DNA in your cell nucleus. Anything that contradicts that?
But the questions I can't find answers to:
1. What cells does the mRNA vaccine "infect"?
2. Does your body see these cells as "hostile" now and kills them off?
3. How long do your cells produce the proteins that the mRNA encodes for? In other words, what is the basic biology of how long mRNA continues producing proteins?
Any useful, non-conspiracy theory, links?
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This[^] was the article that first clued me in on how mRNA works. For me, this paragraph was the key.
From the article:
mRNA vaccines, in contrast, trick the body into producing some of the viral proteins itself. They work by using mRNA, or messenger RNA, which is the molecule that essentially puts DNA instructions into action. Inside a cell, mRNA is used as a template to build a protein. ‘An mRNA is basically like a pre-form of a protein and its (sequence encodes) what the protein is basically made of later on,’
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Yup, but beyond that, I'm clueless and want to be educated. 
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That answer did it for me, although maybe I'm too easily satisfied. 
The ribosomes in whichever cells the mRNA enters will assemble the protein for which it encodes (one that appears on the virus' outer surface, if I recall). This should train your immune system to attack that foreign protein, giving you protection against the virus. But the protection probably wears off eventually, at which time you'd need another mRNA injection.
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Pubmed is a reliable source
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Nature is a peer reviewed journal and is a go to source for me on stuff like this. I haven't looked for anything covid related - i already caught it anyway and am not into disaster pr0n so I try not to dwell on it but if i were to I'd start there.
They have lots of articles aside from the studies they publish and the articles can help you ask the right questions and know where to expand your hunt for info - that sort of thing.
Real programmers use butterflies
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There's a good one here[^]
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Never stop dreaming - Freddie Kruger
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For (2) you may want to read up on apoptosis which is the controlled process by which a cell dies.
One of the problems when looking into medical science is that you have to learn a whole new language.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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GuyThiebaut wrote: earn a whole new language.
This is the wikipedia entry in French:Mode d'action
La production d'antigène dans le cytosol de la cellule conduit, après clivage par des protéases, à présenter les épitopes de l'antigène au complexe majeur d'histocompatibilité de classe I, qui active l'immunité cellulaire, et au complexe majeur d'histocompatibilité de classe II, qui active l'immunité humorale31. Every single word of this sentence requires hours to understand what it is about.
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