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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • Well after the beginning of the age of home electrification, but I’m not sure precisely. I’m renting my current house.

    I don’t think any of my stairs have had such an exaggerated ledge of the tread like the picture in this thread. In my previous house (owned, built in 2000 something) it just had a little bump nailed on to the edge, but it was symmetric on both the tread and riser.









  • They respond because they have to do things like inject the genetic material into the organism once it latches on to whatever on the cell surface. That doesn’t occur in the host, it occurs in the virus.

    It’s been a while since I took virology, but I feel pretty confident that something occurs in the virus due to an external stimulus.


  • One of the theories how organisms switched from RNA to DNA is due to viruses. Viruses have a pretty wild range of their genetic diversity. Single strand DNA, double strand DNA, positive sense single strand RNA, negative sense single strand RNA, double strand RNA. We’ve also probably got viruses as a permanent part of our genome from some ancestor species.

    I think they’re pretty cool. Also, they do respond to outside stimuli, otherwise they’d be completely inert.