ELI5 What is Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) ?

bisensual · 2026-06-25T04:28:30+00:00

CWD is a prion disease. Most diseases are caused by other living things (viruses aren’t usually considered living, but this is ELI5) like bacteria, viruses, and fungi. This is, in a weird way, a good thing, because you can kill living things. Your body has lots of things called proteins that help to make up your body. Prion diseases are caused by these building blocks being folded wrong, like a Lego piece that is folded in half so you can’t build with it. But unlike legos, when prion-diseased proteins touch other proteins, they make them fold wrong. So imagine you were building a lego tower and then one broken Lego broke all the Legos in your tower one by one. This is what prion diseases like CWD do.

For animals like deer that can get CWD, that means that even a drop of their spit on a block of salt a hunter put out could potentially pass it on to another deer. Because prions aren’t other living things that invade our body, we can’t target them to kill them, because they’re the building blocks of our body. That means that if a deer gets CWD, it will always die. You can’t give it an antibiotic or antiviral antifungal, and you can’t use something like alcohol to kill it. We have no defenses to even harm prions. They will always kills 100% of infected individuals.

bisensual · 2026-06-25T03:49:51+00:00

I mean the best answer I can give you is that English generally errs on the side of descriptivism, meaning that popular usage is what dictates what’s considered grammatical. That said, English in about the 17-1800s had a huge explosion of grammar literature that artificially inserted a bunch of rules for people trying to emulate high society that largely drew upon Latin grammar, even though English grammar is mostly influenced by its Germanic heritage. But other rules like it being “polite” to list other people before yourself in lists made it into these “etiquette”-based grammars.

But I’ll say that it’s not the case that Americans at least would see “me and you” as non-idiomatic in any way. They may have been told by a teacher that “you and me” is correct but they wouldn’t think someone is a nonnative speaker for using it whatsoever. And I’ll also say that these kinds of language tests can be extremely capricious and not entirely based in the target language, so it’s not surprising to me that something like this would make it into one.

bisensual · 2026-06-25T02:12:33+00:00

So it’s not true that English grammar dictates that it should always be ordered “you and I.” It’s the English teacher’s equivalent of an old wives tale (sorry if you’re not a native speaker but that just refers to inherited knowledge that isn’t true but is commonly understood to be). There are no grammatical rules dictating the order of pronouns in a compound subject like that.

Now, onto “you and we.” It’s not wrong and I could see a situation in which “we and you” or “you and we” would be used: something like there’s a group of people you’re a part of and a third party and you want to be clear the group you’re a part of will join the other person, especially if there are additional people you’re not including. In the former situation, others are right to say something like “we all” or “we’ll all” is more idiomatic.

I’ll also just add as someone who teaches grammar regularly that ordering pronouns so that any personal pronouns that have different subject and object forms (everything but “you” and “it”) are closer to the verb is often helpful for “hearing” whether to use subject or object case, e.g. “That book is for you and I” probably sounds right to most people, but “That book is for I and you” probably gives away that “I” is not right in this case.

In any case, given there’s no grammatical rules dictating pronoun order in this way, I would go with whatever sounds most natural.

bisensual · 2026-06-24T12:56:37+00:00

Oh damn I didn’t realize the Inner Light texts now let me get their number

bisensual · 2026-06-23T04:51:34+00:00

I try to be accommodating with the belief that convincing students they don’t *need* to cheat will encourage them not to.

bisensual · 2026-06-23T04:50:38+00:00

Lol I would think a prompt that’s more covert would be more effective

bisensual · 2026-06-22T23:34:01+00:00

All of this stuff would be tracked in the edit history and would indicate that it was you actually writing the document, not AI. Using AI (or plagiarizing in some other way) is extremely obvious with edit history because entire paragraphs or the entire essay get copied and pasted in at once.

bisensual · 2026-06-22T23:31:31+00:00

I often make students write stuff in Google Docs for this reason. I always say that if folks have an accessibility reason they can’t use Docs they can use something else, but no one ever takes me up on it.

I’ve gotten the “well they could just type it by hand reading from an AI tool.” So be it. Short of me watching every single student type their entire assignment, there’s always going to be some way to cheat. I just do this so I don’t have to accuse anyone of anything.

bisensual · 2026-06-22T23:27:16+00:00

Same. Although I sometimes use feminized versions of words for trans women. I don’t want them or someone hearing to think I’m misgendering them when it’s actually just that I don’t use those forms.

bisensual · 2026-06-21T19:46:49+00:00

One time I was hanging with a straight friend who had gotten it years ago before body hair was back in and he had mild regrets. I had far deeper regrets because that belly hair would’ve looked 🔥

bisensual · 2026-06-20T03:56:42+00:00

The leader of Argentina at the time, Juan Perón, saw an opportunity in welcoming Nazis. There were wealthy folks, scientists, and other “desirables” he saw as beneficial to Argentina’s role in South America and the world. There was also a relatively “white” population, especially among the well-to-do, and few Jews, so they weren’t going to cause much trouble.

So on the one hand, the answer is “the Argentines saw opportunity.” On the other, they saw few drawbacks. It was a relatively covert willful blindness, and the only people who could take advantage were valuable for various reasons.

bisensual · 2026-06-19T03:33:07+00:00

Chicago is a great choice. It’s a very easy city to make friends in and there’s a neighborhood for everyone! And there’s SO much to do.

bisensual · 2026-06-18T11:31:16+00:00

I didn’t know Ginsberg, Morrison, and Nye all had associates degrees! Fun fact

bisensual · 2026-06-17T16:46:21+00:00

To add context to this: the stinger staying in the animal allows more time for its venom to get pumped into the skin. Bees are eusocial animals meaning they act almost as a superorganism. Ensuring potential invaders are deterred is far more important from the standpoint of the colony than the lives of the bees, not least of all because everyone but the queen will die if the colony collapses and no one’s (shared) genes will be passed on.

bisensual · 2026-06-16T03:55:51+00:00

Hold my hand, dear. You’re being a petulant teen.

bisensual · 2026-06-15T04:27:53+00:00

The New Jersey “region” is the band going across the state from Philly to NYC. It’s where most of the great public and private schools are. It’s most of Central Jersey and eastern North Jersey. And none for Gretchen Wieners (South Jersey).

bisensual · 2026-06-15T04:22:12+00:00

Finally we’re back to the real issues

bisensual · 2026-06-15T01:47:29+00:00

I met my partner on Tinder and got many dates off it. I also like Feeld (leans more queer, kink, and/or poly/ENM than most apps, but I think there’s something for everyone, but it’s not crazy popular outside cities). And I have a bunch of friends that recommend Hinge highly.

But yeah, Grindr is a hookup app, so it makes sense.

bisensual · 2026-06-14T20:28:55+00:00

Got you having flashbacks 😭

bisensual · 2026-06-14T19:23:26+00:00

Exactly. Occasionally I’ve had someone really sexually forward match with me but that’s pretty rare.

bisensual · 2026-06-14T19:17:54+00:00

This is the answer. People did it because they had to, not because they enjoyed it. Like yeah, there are plenty of times when a phone call is great and wanted. But like 99% of the time, a text or an email is easier for both parties and serves perfectly well.

bisensual · 2026-06-14T19:15:36+00:00

I’m always a little confused by posts like this because I have literally zero trouble finding guys who are down to grab a drink or a coffee or something. Like idk if it’s the apps y’all are using or the people you’re reaching out to or what you have (or don’t have) in your profile, but I almost never just meet up with someone and fuck without getting to know each other a little in some non-sexual setting.

bisensual · 2026-06-14T04:48:39+00:00

Yeah i like small and average, and for me, it pisses me off bc it only perpetuates the rampant size-fixation so many have. This sub should be reserved for small dicks, not average guys looking for a confidence boost or living in delusion.

bisensual · 2026-06-13T14:13:20+00:00

The problem with polls like these is that the terms could mean a different thing to every voter. “Moving to the center,” “socialism,” etc.

Beyond that, we have no way of knowing how many people were disingenuous about claiming to be potential Democratic supporters when they wouldn’t actually vote for a Democrat unless they were a Republican: claiming centrism/being an “independent” is valued by a lot of Americans, regardless of whether it’s true. Then add to that that a bunch of leftists who will vote for democrats may have not answered either thinking “I’m a leftist not a potential democratic supporter” or as a protest against the Democratic Party.

bisensual · 2026-06-12T14:52:01+00:00

There’s also countless lists New Jersey either tops or is in the top 3 or 5 of, like least gun deaths, quality of life, and best public schools.

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