• Furbag@pawb.social
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    8 hours ago

    Wonder how that conversation came up.

    “I’m sad. My parakeet died today.”

    “Alright, fuck it, let’s make a deal!”

  • BambiDiego@lemmy.world
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    Um, Ackshually… It would be for the Biggoron’s Sword.

    Giant’s Knife is the 200 Ruppee scam from Medigoron.

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    13 hours ago

    At the end of this trade quest they will either end up with an alternate costume that people only wear because of the quest or the most powerful weapon ever conceved. We will just have to wait and see if the earth is destroyed by the stick of unlimited damage or someone walking around some weird dead parakeet suit that offers no protection.

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      11 hours ago

      Best I can do is when I went to germany to baptize my french nephew with the ceremony being in Spanish

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      Commercial honey is often pasteurized and filtered to avoid crystallization, be smoother and be pollen free. While it can effect the shelf life raw honey isn’t enormously dangerous (or illegal anywhere as far as I’m aware) like raw milk but should still be avoided by infants and immunocompromised people. I am also not american.

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        Is cristalised honey considered unproper for consumption? Honey doesn’t go bad. That is the only food that is so. Cristalised honey is just that: honey that doesn’t have the same texture as a more recent more.

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        Isn’t eating local honey supposed to help with allergies because it contains local pollens? So it like builds an immunity or something?

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          That’s unfortunately untrue. Raw honey contains too little pollen to have an effect, and what little is there is rapidly broken down in the stomach.

          It’s also the wrong type of pollen as the type collected by bees is from plants that utilize insects, not wind, for fertilization. It’s heavy and stickier, so isn’t airborne in substantial quantities, and thus not the type of pollens responsible for most seasonal allergies.

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          Honey can contain botulism, which is why you need to avoid it with babies and those with weak immune systems.

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            Would stirring it up real good help with that? Like to aerate it. I don’t think bubbles would move around very freely but mixing it for a while should eventually expose it all to air.

            Edit: no, it does not, the lack of oxygen is only relevant to the production of the toxin, not the stability of it as I incorrectly believed until the following conversation happened.

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                  Clostridium botulinum is anaerobic bacteria. But I doubt it that mixing up the jar of honey once in a while is gonna do anything. Especially since it’s apparently the spores that chill out in honey, and only turn into bacteria when eaten.

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                Why would I think that? There’s a whole conversation thread beside this where I go into more detail about what I thought and why. It was a misunderstanding about how the presence or thereof of oxygen played a role in the toxin’s production (it does) and stability (I thought it did but it didn’t).

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              To elaborate a bit, apparently Clostridium botulinum bacteria produce spores, which are very resistant and don’t give much of a fuck about anything — e.g. boiling at 100°C. That’s why preserved foods are boiled at pressure with higher temps, and pickled with acid and salt to kill the emerging bacteria. Toxin itself can theoretically be destroyed by prolonged boiling, but it’s highly potent in very small quantities, so it’s always recommended to just toss spoiled canned foods.

              Bacteria themselves don’t live in honey because of its high sugar content, but if it has spores, those would turn into bacteria in ones’ intestines, and children’s immune system is not equipped to deal with that.

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                  I have no certain idea, being blissfully free of the obligation of childcare, so you better clarify that at some more scientifically inclined resource. But from what I’ve briefly seen on Wikipedia, it seems that switching to solid foods changes the acidity of the stomach environment, or at least the acidity is ready when switching can be done — and the acidity is what nukes bacteria trying to pop up from the spores.

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                Oh I thought they meant it contained the toxin rather than the bacteria (or spores).

                Though I also thought the bacteria was one of the ones that was around us all the time and it’s just anaerobic conditions like in an unsterilized sealed can that make it dangerous.

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                  Toxin is produced by the bacteria in canned foods (typically indicated by swelling from the gases that the bacteria also emit). The toxin can’t be easily destroyed, and definitely not with enough certainty that it won’t paralyze you.

                  The botulinum toxin is the most potent toxin known in scientific literature, natural or synthetic, with a lethal dose of 1.3–2.1 ng/kg in humans.

                  That’s 1.3 nanograms, i.e. 0.0000000013 grams. Firstly, your aeration would do absolutely nothing to the toxin, secondly even if it did, consider if you’re sure enough that you didn’t miss ~0.00000013 grams of it in there.

                  I also thought the bacteria was one of the ones that was around us all the time

                  That’s true:

                  C. botulinum is a soil bacterium. The spores can survive in most environments and are very hard to kill. This bacteria is widely distributed in nature and can be assumed to be present on all food surfaces.

                  Idk how exactly anaerobic bacteria live and multiply, but at least when spores are dumped into a healthy adult stomach, the acid kills the bacteria. As evidenced by lots of people eating honey all the time.

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        In Finland honey is never pasteurized but also not recommendes for children under 1 year old

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    Sounds better than sitting in a cubicle for the best hours of the day, and the best years of your life

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    Wow, what a quaint little folk-tale. I wonder how this will…

    When did my life get this weird?

    Oh.

    Oh shit, someone should let this person know that a lot of these don’t end well.

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    The Giant’s knife was the garbage that was easy to acquire. You’re thinking of the Biggoron’s Sword, obviously

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      One red paperclip.

      I’m guessing that’s what you’re referencing.

      There was a dude in the Lego community on Lugnet at the time that took the idea and did a similar thing trading up from a 1x1 red stud to a Technic bulldozer that was one of the most expensive sets at the time.

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        Nope, a quest in popular mmo Runescape. It makes the player fetch items which require other items repeatedly and then you work your way backwards, usually takes between 2 and 6 hours depending on what systems if transport the player has unlocked.