Rubisco
@Rubisco@slrpnk.net
4 billion years of fixing inorganic carbon in the biosphere. Sometimes mistakes O2 for CO2. Slower than other enzymes, but very abundant. Here, have some phosphoglycerates about it.
- Comment on Musk 'Pressured' Reddit CEO to Silence DOGE Critics, Leaving Moderators Outraged: Report. 6 days ago:
- Comment on John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed 5 weeks ago:
You mean Last Week Tonight? The Late Show is Colbert.
- Comment on Insect populations flourish in the restored habitats of solar energy facilities 3 months ago:
Now I’m feeling the need for a CPBBD episode that covers restored habitats of PV facilities. Really curious what a walk through looks like.
- Comment on Silenced and erased, Hong Kong's decade of protest is now a defiant memory 3 months ago:
iheart.com/…/1119-cool-people-who-did-cool-960033…
As long as there’s been oppression, there’ve been people fighting it. This weekly podcast dives into history to drag up the wildest rebels, the most beautiful revolts, and all the people who long to be—and fight to be—free. It explores complex stories of resistance that offer lessons and inspiration for us today, focusing on the ensemble casts that make up each act of history. That is to say, this podcast focuses on Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff.
Give Margaret Killjoy a listen.
- Comment on cuke division 4 months ago:
Mitch Hedberg: Where the fuck you get that
bananatelophase cucumber at? - Comment on Dyk, Bobby? 4 months ago:
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- Comment on It's a tradeoff 4 months ago:
There is a small wormy parasite that attacks our red blood cells (RBCs).
It turns out that people with mutant and half-mutant RBCs are less likely to be attacked by the parasite.
Also, the red blood cells of the mutant variety are more likely to be cleared by white blood cells than those that are non-mutants.
Full-blown (homozygous) mutant RBCs kinda suck at their day jobs though. Whereas half-mutant (heterzygous) RBCs are still mostly functional by comparison.
So being a little weird, but not totally weird, gives an advantage over normies (wild-type) when the RBC parasite is common.
Were there no parasite around, the advantage would go to the non-mutant RBCs because they do their job best. Their downside is being easy targets.
- Comment on It's a tradeoff 4 months ago:
For the curious: www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa072464?url_ver=Z39…
- Comment on Protein 4 months ago:
“Those are some good-lookin helices you have there. Wanna come back to mine and try out some novel ways to fold?”
- Comment on What did the snowball Earth look like? 4 months ago:
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- Comment on Science or some other arcane wizardry PCM 5 months ago:
Comrade Pauli?!
- Comment on Chat, what do you see? 5 months ago:
- Comment on 7 years ago there were no billionaires worth more than $100 billion - today there are 18! 5 months ago:
You’ve convinced me.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_(linguistics)
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- Comment on English Ivy 5 months ago:
Because Crake is saving it for some special project at Rejoov.
