Filtering out PFAS is only the first step. These ‘forever chemicals’ still have to be destroyed, and there are many questions about how to do that safely.
"Dr. Farrar said such guidelines should be based on clear experimental evidence, though that evidence is still scarce for many diseases."
Does that mean that Farrar/WHO will accept *experimental* studies like exposing healthy hamsters to air from a room where sick hamsters were breathing, and if they get sick, that's clear evidence of airborne (excuse me, "through-the-air") transmission? Or will "experimental" studies turn out to mean "human RCTs only"?
The Kennedys are all gonna be in Philly today to endorse President Biden in show of force against RFK Jr.
RFK Jr.'s sister, Kerry Kennedy, will talk about her dad, former A.G. Robert F. Kennedy and her uncles, former President John F. Kennedy and Sen. Ted Kennedy
"President Biden has been a champion for all the rights and freedoms that my father and uncles stood for."
He may have discovered that Ukranians are Christians, which always seems to play a big role in his motivation. Wait till he hears what the Armenians have been through.
@kristen_d @jeffjarvis you get me. So many people complaining about links about sources about this about that… even here there is an abundance of whine
This is the game GOP leadership plays…act like they’re finally trying to do something positive, then pull the football away just as the kicker gets close to a viable solution, saying it’s not ready yet and blame the Democrats. Remember? They did a similar tactic on the border…
the entire split aid proposals are a ploy to get Israel aid passed, and to further obfuscate aid to Ukraine. It's a f*cking trap, and I'll bet anything that dems will fall for it. They'll vote to protect his speakership, for allowing the vote to happen, as he sticks a knife into our backs.
"If we continue to block this, our whole project to destroy America will be compromised. Putin will need to let Ukraine drag out a little longer to preserve our cover because otherwise it's just too obvious we work for him."
By the middle of the century, global emissions from plastic production could triple to account for one-fifth of the Earth’s remaining carbon budget, an analysis has found.
Instead of banning tiktok, would it be better to amend section 310 of the Communications Act to include social media companies as "common carriers"?
I honestly don't know--I just know that there is plenty of precedent for banning foreign ownership of communications mechanisms.
So let's recognize sm as communications mechanisms and regulate them as we do other comms methods (radio in this case) instead of singling out one company?
@Doctor Historianess Its a red scare/ racist scare. They want our white capitalists to have that data and manipulate our algorithms, not Asian socialists
@Doctor Historianess Yes but their Nation and government uses the word socialist, So by republican logic they are. Oddly, they don't have the same issue with India or Portugal which call themselves socialist nations in their constitutions
Why a third term for Modi could be ‘catastrophic’ for India’s 200 million Muslims
As India heads into the world’s biggest election, Muslims tell Shweta Sharma of growing anxiety and fear of persecution after two terms of the Modi government marked by rising polarisation in the country #press
I feel that critters from German #folklore would be better known if they had snappier names. Or, in many cases, any names at all.
I know that the German language has a reputation for "having a word for everything", but the folk tales largely go for unnamed horrors. Which makes writing them up for #ttrpg monster manuals more difficult. 😉
South Korean Buddhist monks, including representatives from the Jogye Order and Bongeunsa Temple, retrieved Buddhist relics from the Goryeo Dynasty from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, during a visit on Tuesday.
South Korean Buddhist monks have reclaimed Buddhist relics from the Goryeo Dynasty from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. A delegation of the Jogye Order led by Venerable ...
That is because we live in a system of private property something that didn't exist for most of reality. We had personal property and the commons. If you live in the system you gotta follow the rules or get screwed.
From 2 years ago today. Its so weird, when I was financially unstable before this new pay raise, I would spend more than I should then beat myself up for it. Now that I have a plan to get out of debt and no longer have to stress out about money, I have to remind myself I can afford to do something. Not being stressed about money makes impulse buying so much less a thing and impulse control is held in check. Maybe we need to stop blaming people for how they spend their money, and realize that people when put under stresses are less rational when it comes to spending creating a psychological trap they can't get out of. My spending habits have switch 180 degrees and I now have the head space and look back on financial behaviors that were terrible ideas, but the stress made them sound reasonable. Money truly can buy happiness, just up until your needs are met and you have enough to help others out too.
404 Media tested the service, called Spy Pet, and verified it is collecting information on Discord users, including the messages they post across usually disparate servers.
Well, I can switch to a flip phone, or I can try to struggle my way through a carrier like USCellular (actually impossible to trace), or I can stick with my Pixel, that defaults to a keyboard that knows what app I'm using, rendering even Signal's P2P 256-bit useless.
Yeah, I try to switch keyboards....
Even the hackiest of hackers can't keep everything under wraps. it can't be done.
We need dogged legislators who understand code and the international order.
“The Cybertruck’s owners manual does caution against ever washing the truck in direct sunlight, and there is a section expressly mentioning that the truck has to be switched into ‘Car Wash Mode’ before washing to avoid damage to parts of the vehicle.”
@maddiefuzz I mean, all you have to do is put it in Car Wash Mode, a thing no other car ever built has required. It's all very clearly spelled out in the giant document no one will ever read
i had a shitty stainless steel clad travel mug that was HAND WASH ONLY, the first time i ran it through the dishwasher the glue dissolved and it fell apart. They made a giant fucking travel mug and put wheels on it
Politico—The #Trump campaign is asking for down-ballot candidates who use his name, image and likeness in fundraising appeals to give at least 5 percent of the proceeds to the campaign.
It's the friendly base that gets swindled, not the opposition who already know you are a grifter. He will carry on until he has exhausted every last penny his base can squeeze out, and some of those people are going to be pensioners who hock themselves to the gills to support their chosen one.
Donald Trump's endorsement typically decreases support for Republican candidates in general elections, significantly deterring Democratic voters and having a minimal positive impact on Republicans.
"At least" 5%? I wonder how many of the candidates will happily give him more...
...or not so happily. There may be GOP candidates who aren't cultists themselves, but just want the cultists' votes - and I can see Trump driving up the licensing fee by making it a loyalty contest. Telling his audience that Candidate X only gave the minimum, while Candidate Y gave oh so much more.
I'd love to see state GOP parties get bankrupted by this.
Most of them will oblige tRump’s grift to trade on his image and pay him the 5% because let’s face it, in the GOP the wingnuts don’t fall far from the tree.
( I know that last sentence doesn’t actually make any sense but there is a kind of lyric grace to using word salad to insult tRump & his GOP Groupies 🤣 🤣 🤣 ) #tRump #GOP #USPol
Does a bagman go around to the candidates to collect the money. If it's not enough, does the candidate lose a little finger? Does each state have a captain overseeing his crew of money collectors?
I have to wonder. MAGA's core voting block has been getting milked HARD for eight to ten years now, not only by Trump (the politician) and the GOP establishment, but also by Trump (the grifter) and the MAGA/fox news/Alex Jones griftosphere. The latest, of course, being the DJT stuck hustle. I kinda think they can't have all that much money left at this point.
I hope they give in and let him drain them. They are ridiculous and should reject him but if they refuse to reject him, they deserve to be drained of resources.
Maybe once he has stolen all of their money, maybe after he makes their victories all about him and maybe once he forces them to literally kneel and kiss his ring, they will see how ridiculous he makes them.
Whenever Trump does anything, you need to look for where the cash inflows to him might be. Dude does nothing that isn't for his own benefit ...and if there's side effects that benefit anyone else, he expects a piece of that, too.
[in NYC goodfellas voice] "Nice little campaign ya got here! Shame if anything were to happen to it. We don't wanna tell ya how much to give ... but if it's less than 5%, well ... hey, doesn't your daughter go to school right down the street over by dere?"
Yeah, but what do you do when they DO do it better? My ex ALWAYS re-washed the dishes after I washed them, and it drove me crazy. But she was a perfectionist, and couldn't stand dirt and disorder, whereas, me, I'm just like Pigpen in Peanuts.
Well that was quick. By 51-48-1, Senate votes that article one of the impeachment is unconstitutional because it contains no high crimes or misdemeanors. In agreement were all Democrats and all three Independents. Sen. Murkowski (R-AK) voted “present”.
@Phiend It was probably the most efficient possible scenario for managing an impeachment that Democrats, across the board and in both chambers, believed to be without merit.
@darwinwoodka Given that the outcome was pre-ordained - not a single Senate Democrat or Independent caucusing with them ever indicated they’d do anything but vote to dismiss/table/whatever Schumer went with - Romney probably figured there was no political upside to putting himself on the line again like he did with the 2nd Trump impeachment.
Sen. Schumer moves that article two is also unconstitutional for the same reason - no high crimes or misdemeanors. First motion to prevent a vote on the Schumer motion is up now. Expect this round of votes to go about the like the ones for article one.
The CFPB issued an order against BloomTech and its CEO for deceiving students about the cost of loans and making false claims about graduates’ hiring rates.
Just got a fraud alert text from Chase. “MCAFEE” charged $0.11 to my credit card. It was probably some sort of trial balloon transaction to see if I would flag it before the spammers racked up a bunch of charges.
This sort of theft is financial vandalism that we all pay for. It pisses me off.
At least you got one. Lively declined 60 transactions over a span of 2 months before letting $1400 in fraudulent charges through and didn't tell me until VISA cut my card off their interchange.
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