4 billion years of fixing inorganic carbon in the biosphere. Sometimes mistakes O2 for CO2. Not as fast as some enzymes, but very abundant. Here, have some phosphoglycerates about it.

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  • RuBisCO@slrpnk.nettoComic Strips@lemmy.world•i still think of you, jim henson
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    5 months ago

    Dr. David Gelmont announced that Henson had died from Streptococcus pneumoniae, an infection that causes bacterial pneumonia. However, on May 29, Gelmont reclassified it as organ dysfunction resulting from streptococcal toxic shock syndrome caused by Streptococcus pyogenes. Gelmont noted Henson might have been saved had he gone to the hospital just a few hours sooner. Medical expert Lawrence D. Altman also stated that Henson’s death “may have shocked many Americans who believed that bacterial infections no longer could kill with such swiftness.” A lack of familiarity with this possibility, combined with the then-recent deaths of prominent men (including Rock Hudson, Liberace, Roy Cohn, and others) whose AIDS deaths had first been publicly euphemized as other illnesses due to AIDS’s pervasive stigma, led to a false but widespread rumor that Henson had died of AIDS–a rumor that was swiftly and directly refuted by Dr. Gelmont. Frank Oz believed the stress of negotiating with Disney led to Henson’s death, stating in a 2021 interview: “The Disney deal is probably what killed Jim. It made him sick.” Henson was cremated and in 1992, his ashes were scattered near Taos in New Mexico.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Henson

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streptococcus_pneumoniae

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streptococcus_pyogenes

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Walt_Disney_Company

  • RuBisCO@slrpnk.nettoTechnology@lemmy.world•Netflix mulls introducing free ad-supported tier. The circle is completeEnglish
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    5 months ago

    “People are taking the piss out of you every day. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you. You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity. Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head. You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.”

    Banksy