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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/16/detroit-tfa-forever-chemical

Sounds like pesticides heavily use it, heavy industry as well as certain clean energy applications. This goes on my list of items containing PFAS, including rain gear, most non-stick cooking equipment, umbrellas, shoes, (gliding) dental floss, cosmetics, all toilet paper, reusable (glass, bamboo) and paper straws, takeaway food packaging, and anything “-resistant” such as grease, water, fire, or heat resistant.

Also, basically most fertilizer or soils that have had any sewage sludge fertilizers in the past 40 years. Which is most of our foods.

At this point, I think it’s just easier to list stuff that isn’t heavily contaminated with industrial runoff or horrible chemicals that bioaccumlate in your body.

Why uncomfortable?

That is super hardcore. Definitely a lot of trust in those vines!

She barely won by less than three percentage points vs her Republican opponent. While I dislike what she’s doing, more people in your district must vote (or move in and vote). That district was a real nailbiter in November. Until then, I doubt she will be able to do anything more than moderate left, lest things go to the authoritarian party next election.

Okay, this one made me audibly laugh

Those reader responses are cute, haha. Poor Gary!

Visit Montana or Wyoming in the summer, there are tons.

Thanks for linking that! Super interesting, I never had a name for that, but wondered about that exact thing.

I’m not sure I’d want to do 45 in that thing, hell of a way to go if you got speed wobbles. I could see a use for kei vehicles in downtown areas. Traffic is so bad that a car’s top speed might be 30 if you are lucky. Mass transit, bikes and tiny vehicles are what most people could easily get away with day to day.

The article notes that Russia has no furniture slide manufacturing. That’s what makes this tariff so baffling. Genuinely not sure why they would do this, there’s no upside.

Iran and Russia used to be helping them, but Iran is in a shadow war with Israel and Russia is in a war with Ukraine + western allies. Their funding and personnel dried up.

Plus, the Syrian rebels banded together. Without Russian air support and airstrikes around the capital, and without iranian arms, their regime collapsed and ran to Russia like a bitch.

Will Syria be better now? It’s anyone’s guess. I could see Russia and China potentially making moves on them during the rebuild process, but who knows for sure. The US will probably pull out soon once the next government is formed in January. It could be up to the Syrian rebels and Syrian people, but their country infrastructure is pretty blown apart, so they will need outside capital and expertise to rebuild.

Greed. The Achilles heel of humans since the beginning of time. Greed breeds hate, hate breeds fear, and fear breeds violence.

The new commentary is really good, tbh. I had no idea how much research and R&D they did. It looks fucking amazing for a 2004 game. The characters in particular.

War is a terrible thing. Entire generations of teens and men are lost. It’s why Putin’s war is unbelievably wasteful. There was no reason to fight, he just did it to keep unrest down. People like him are monsters.