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Cake day: September 26th, 2025

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  • I’m sure there are bad natured bots, but they certainly aren’t as prevalent as on other platforms. I think lemmy is so much smaller in size and population that it just isn’t as worth the time to deploy a lot of resources. With the lower population, the bots likely stick out a bit more, which makes it a lot easier to block them.

    But that’s just a theory… A bot theory.







  • Per the Wikipedia article on biomedical waste:

    Biomedical waste is often incinerated. An efficient incinerator will destroy pathogens and sharps. Source materials are not recognizable in the resulting ash. Alternative thermal treatment can also include technologies such as gasification[13] and pyrolysis including energy recovery with similar waste volume reductions and pathogen destruction.

    An autoclave may also be used to treat biomedical waste. An autoclave uses steam and pressure to sterilize the waste or reduce its microbiological load to a level at which it may be safely disposed of.

    Microwave disinfection can also be employed for treatment of biomedical wastes. Microwave irradiation is a type of non-contact heating technologies for disinfection. Microwave chemistry is based on efficient heating of materials by microwave dielectric heating effects. When exposed to microwave frequencies, the dipoles of the water molecules present in cells re-align with the applied electric field. As the field oscillates, the dipoles attempts to realign itself with the alternating electric field and in this process, energy is lost in the form of heat through molecular friction and dielectric loss.

    For liquids and small quantities, a 1–10% solution of bleach can be used to disinfect biomedical waste. Solutions of sodium hydroxide and other chemical disinfectants may also be used, depending on the waste’s characteristics.

    Sooooo, burn it, almost burn it with steam, almost burn it with radio waves, or chemically burn it.








  • If it’s any consolation, prion disease occurance is almost entirely genetic. The mad cow scare in the EU in the early 00’s is really the only major case of a threat within the food supply, and it was pretty quickly fixed by changing how animals are handled (especially sick ones). Outside of that, the only other transmission between hosts has been observed in tribal rituals involving eating the brain of a loved one after they die, and improperly sterilized medical instruments used during brain/spinal surgery.

    So don’t eat human brain and make sure that you’re getting your brain surgery done with either new instruments or ones that have been properly autoclaved and you should be good as long as you don’t just randomly get CJD due to genetics. Not much you can do about that, though.

    You’ll probably get done in by heart disease, a car accident, and lightning a couple of dozen times before you need to worry about contracting a prison diseases.