Based on the article it seems the infection likely occurred while he was handling the raw meat. Wear gloves and wash your hands and surfaces well and take precautions to avoid cross-contaminating ingredients that won’t be cooked to safe temperatures. Standard kitchen and food safety stuff.
If you’re not preparing it yourself, then it could be reasonable to avoid it if you’re aren’t confident in the preparation.
Was thinking the same thing as well. I've hunted in this region a long time ago (on a private hunting club in Ocala) with an old friend from uni who explicitly advised that wearing gloves while handling wild hog was an absolute safety must because of infection risk.
How would you describe their taste? Because having tried fresh oysters (which I found to be awful) I imagine them just tasting like the ocean (not a compliment).
Because they don’t know why they should take it so seriously. They really just don’t know why it’s bad that data about their DNA might be sold to the highest bidder.
water := gram / cm^3 // Standard density of water (defined)
1 g/cm^3 is the maximum density of water at standard pressure (1 atm), which it reaches at 3.98°C.
(Or at least, that used to be true by definition. Using the current definition of the kilogram, and the latest measurements of water density, the maximum density is actually closer to 0.99997 g/cm^3.)
Yes, that is one use of the demonym “American” in a modern, geopolitical context. There are other contexts and other uses when it has different meanings.
Asserting it has that meaning when used in context of a time tens of thousands of years ago is nonsensical.
There are multiple usages, specifically just citizens of the USofA is just one use.
American, a. and n.
(əˈmɛrɪkən)
A adj.
1.a Belonging to the continent of America. Also, of or pertaining to its inhabitants.
1.b American language (usu. with the), (i) a language of American Indians; (ii) American English (see sense 3). Also American tongue.
2.a Belonging to the British colonies in North America (obs.).
2.b Belonging to the United States.
2.c U.S. spec. (See quot. a 1861.)
1837 Diplom. Corr. Texas (1908) I. 187 A large number of fine American horses‥which there is no doubt had been stolen from citizens of Texas. 1846 E. Bryant What I saw in Calif. (1849) iv. 37 Such [Indians] as rode ponies were desirous of swapping them for the American horses of the emigrants. a 1861 Winthrop John Brent (1862) ii. 14 He was an American horse,—so they distinguish in California one brought from the old States. 1878 J. H. Beadle Western Wilds, xvi. 253, I rode a good-sized American horse.
3.a Special Combinations. American bar; American blight; American cheese; American cloth; American dream; American English; American football; ...oadfoot et al. Billiards i. 41 In 1876 D. Richards‥ran second to Cook in an *American tournament. 1976 Cumberland News 3 Dec. 19/1 On Thursday, December 16‥a Christmas American tournament will take place.
3.b In the names of various trees and plants native to North America, as American arbor vitæ, Thuja occidentalis; American ash, Fraxinus americana; American aspen (tree), Populus tremuloides; American Beauty (rose), a variety of cultivated rose; American beech (tree), Fagus grandifolia; American elm (tree), = white elm; American plane (tree), the buttonwood or Virginian Plane (see plane n.1 1).
B n.
B.1 An American Indian.
B.2 A native of America of European descent; esp. a citizen of the United States. Now simply, a native or inhabitant of North or South America (often with qualifying word, as Latin American, North American); a citizen of the United States.
B.3 A ship belonging to America.
B.4 pl. Short for American stocks or shares.
B.5 American English; the form of English spoken in the United States.
Idk, seems like if you're already established somewhere and someone else comes in and tells you the place you live and your ancestors have lived in for millennia is now called "America"... Dunno, that feels kind of wrong.
But that’s what it’s called in English, the language the article is written in.
Germans don’t call the place they live Germany. They don’t even call themselves Germans. But I call it Germany because that’s the English name for that place.
You have to call it something. Place names are a function of language, not of genetics. In English it's called North America or South America, and together The Americas. In Chinese South America is "South Beautiful Continent".
Oh nooo, I'm so offended that Chinese people have a name that I didn't agree too for the place my ancestors are from for the last 350 years. Someone give me some pearls to clutch.
Their "point" was nothing more than repeating the colonialist propaganda that the real americans were the ones who ""settled"" later and named the continent.
(ALso that is a so ridiculous reasoning, by that logic everyone is native african and not native <insert place where they genetically diverged and settled>)
No that does not follow, but the very first individuals who migrated to America (the humans this discussion is about) obviously were not born in America. By my logic there were no native Americans that came from Asia to America, but their descendants became native.
Yes I know, very pedantic. I don't think there is anything wrong with the title.
The key word in "birthday" is "birth". Not conception.
For human cultural purposes, you are 0 days old at the time and date recorded for your birth. It goes on your birth certificate. If you find a culture that celebrates conceptiondays and issues conception certificates, let me know.
The comment I’m replying said nothing about “birthday”. They asked how many years old you are when you’re born, which is ambiguous.
You know some cultures don’t even celebrate birthdays, right? It’s not even uncommon for people to not know their date of birth. Even my own grandmother, born in Chicago in the 1920s, didn’t even know exactly what year she was born in.
When you're born. That is your birth day, because the person to whom you were born gave birth to you that day.
No culture I know of tracks the date of your conception as a measure of your age. If they measure it at all, the starting point is your birth.
You are zero days old on the day of your birth. Even if those cultures think you are "in the first year of your birth" for days 0-365 of your existence, they would accept that 1 day after your birth, you are 1 day old, not 9 months old.
Ok, what changes based on which label should apply?
> I take it you don’t think it pointless to have an argument about whether or not something is ‘racist’, for example.
In the abstract, it probably is, unless the point of the argument is to determine whether to make meaningful change. "Are oranges racist?" - pointless. "Is this policy racist, in that it disproportionately affects X minority group?" - meaningful.
Say we all agree this is an example of innovation and not invention - now what? What was the outcome that warranted the argument at all?
FWIW, I lived in Chicago (one of the favorite punching bags for gun violence) for over 30 years and heard gunshots twice.
While gun violence here is absolutely far more common compared to Europe, it is still very rare in absolute terms. The only guns I’ve even ever seen were in a police officer’s holster or in the possession of military personnel. Most gun violence is related to domestic disputes or among criminals. If you’re not selling drugs or don’t have an ex-husband with an anger problem and access to a gun, you’re probably going to be fine.
It’s not the guns you should worry about, but the border and entry process.
I lived in Chicago for 3 months and heard them twice a week (minimum), but I lived in the South Side, South of U Chicago.
Gun violence is largely local and contained between people who know each other in the US. City-wide stats obscure the concentration of crime in specific neighborhoods in most American cities
Yup, it will very much depend on where you live or travel. I lived on the Northside. If you avoid localized areas with high gun violence, you will very rarely ever encounter it.
The areas surrounding University of Chicago were historically some of the worst areas in the entire city for gun violence.
Many cities actually have crime heat maps that can show you the most dangerous areas and can be filtered by crime type (murder, assault, property crime, etc).
If you’re not preparing it yourself, then it could be reasonable to avoid it if you’re aren’t confident in the preparation.
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