Imagine having to downgrade your bed
from being a cold large stone slab because some rich people who also own the empty building across the street decided to spend money to stop you from doing so.
It still baffles me how the activation energy can defined as absolutely X because of atomic energy levels defined by quantum mechanics. But then you have an enzyme show up and it's, weeelllll it can be much lower.
and also, a reason why the body mostly uses sugar molecules instead of fat molecules for energy metabolism is probably because sugar has polar groups (-OH groups) that are electrically charged, so it's easier to grasp those with the fingers (which are also charged), while fatty acids are not charged, so they're hard to grasp. so it's easier for enzymes to attack sugars than fats, and that is why sugar metabolism is orders of magnitudes faster than fat metabolism.
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plutopos@lemmy.zip · 67 pts · 84d
This picture goes so hard what's it from
fascicle@leminal.space · 19 pts · 84d
https://leminal.space/comment/23605383
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz · 64 pts · 84d
This picture was originally was taken to emphasize the violence of antihomeless architecture in public spaces.
The ridiculous costumes emphasize what you would have to wear to be able to lay down comfortably which kind of does fit the enzyme metaphor.
Texas_Hangover@lemmy.radio · -46 pts · 84d
Violence? Have you ever seen violence? You're delegitimizing what violence actually is.
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz · 39 pts · 84d
The result of this kind of infrastructure is torture.
Imagine having to downgrade your bed from being a cold large stone slab because some rich people who also own the empty building across the street decided to spend money to stop you from doing so.
Physical and mental torture. Definitely violence.
athatet@lemmy.zip · 20 pts · 84d
Violence is more than just physical.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz · 12 pts · 83d
I have never seen a human body dismantled by physical violence in front of me, that does not mean I haven't seen absolutely brutal forms of violence.
Homelessness in the US is an act of mass violence against some of the most vulnerable people in society.
HailSeitan@lemmy.world · 46 pts · 84d
Archisuits!
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 84d
It still baffles me how the activation energy can defined as absolutely X because of atomic energy levels defined by quantum mechanics. But then you have an enzyme show up and it's, weeelllll it can be much lower.
john_lemmy@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 84d
The enzyme lowers it?
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 84d
Yes. That's what they do.
gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org · 5 pts · 83d
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 84d
No, sorry, enzymes do not defy quantum mechanics.
ToiletFlushShowerScream@piefed.world · 18 pts · 84d
Antibodies too
xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 84d
Who are they and why are they so against bodies?
xzinik@feddit.cl · 1 pts · 81d
the bodies crossed them
teft@piefed.social · 9 pts · 84d
Also drugs be like:
YoiksAndAway@piefed.zip · 2 pts · 84d
Cute, but I find it mildly annoying w.r.t the induced fit model.
gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org · 1 pts · 83d
you know what i recently recognized, the electrically charged prongs are like the fingers of the enzyme that it uses to grasp other things.
gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org · 1 pts · 83d
and also, a reason why the body mostly uses sugar molecules instead of fat molecules for energy metabolism is probably because sugar has polar groups (-OH groups) that are electrically charged, so it's easier to grasp those with the fingers (which are also charged), while fatty acids are not charged, so they're hard to grasp. so it's easier for enzymes to attack sugars than fats, and that is why sugar metabolism is orders of magnitudes faster than fat metabolism.