• barsoap@lemm.ee
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    20 hours ago

    It’s a hostile instruction manual which learns, adapting itself to its surroundings, constantly re-writing and re-inventing how it interacts with the world. Which is more than can be said about most politicians. Forget about physical anatomy, for a second, and consider the species as an organism.

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      19 hours ago

      It’s not, and i am not going to keep arguing in circles with people who want to contradict basic and agreed upon biology.

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        18 hours ago

        I’m not contradicting anything, I didn’t even use the word “life”. I’m simply taking the perspective of the genome, and fighting against the notion that viruses would act as mechanistically as prions.