why the fuck would it be mentioned. thalidomide is synthetic, article is about wrong enantiomer of natural compounds working in a living organism that has unnatural chirality. that teratogenic effect of thalidomide was figured out and is now used in anticancer treatments. it’s a tool, and if you use it right it can be useful. that thing in article is highly speculative as of now and making any component would be hideously expensive anyway

well it’s still not broken down in environment so it doesn’t accumulate in people but it accumulates in seawater in general, so it’s probably not good even if it’s not very toxic

main source appears to be decomposition of fluorinated refrigerants, not breakdown of pesticides

TFA is not usually considered PFAS because while it technically is, it doesn’t accumulate and doesn’t exhibit the kinds of toxicity that longer-chain PFAS do, like endocrine disruption https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36800005/

lol don’t worry about it, you’ll be long dead from global warming by the time it’s developed

no

the point of prions is that there’s a naturally occurring protein in metastable state, and when contacted by a protein in more stable state it can transition to that more stable state. this way it’s infective without being alive. there’s nothing like this in nature, let alone commonly occurring

The capability to create mirror life is likely at least a decade away and would require large investments and major technical advances;

wanna bet that this “decade” will last longer than “just a decade until fusion works”?

i think you have it backwards, jet fuel and diesel are easier to make and gasoline requires heavier, more energy-intensive processing (like reforming or cracking). jet fuel up to fuel oils are just desulfurized distillates

but you can make it work with either, it just means yield is smaller. rearranging refinery so that it can take different source of crude is a long and expensive process tho

“could” means “won’t” here

it looks like they do refine it, just that petroleum products are counted in petroleum exports. these then are sold everywhere, esp to countries that don’t have refineries https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/oil-and-petroleum-products/imports-and-exports.php

so crude is imported but propane, diesel and greases exported. some crude is exported to friendly countries that have no oil but have well developed chemical industries, like south korea or netherlands

the crude you are exporting is not the same kind of crude that you’re importing, and depending on what refineries take they can make different products with more or less problems

that’s just the old prime minister kept in place so that whatever underfunded state apparatus was there keeps running, to not worsen humanitarian situation. they don’t have anything agreed last time i’ve checked

They aren’t even done combing countryside from SAA stragglers, nevermind having any kind of coalition deal by now

(literally writing this from lab) i’m not calling him a techbro because i have some kind of disdain for tech workers, i’m calling him a techbro because he’s chasing unviable or harmful ideas or tech from old scifi that his cult (or at least was influenced by ideas typically associated with that cult) adopted as a part of doctrine. things like cryonics, some sketchy supplements that are supposed to give extreme life extension, or AI and quantum computing (because they think simulation = actual thing, and they hope to achieve immortality with AI). you might start to think that i’m batshit crazy just by explaining it, but i assure you it’s them, and these people will be part of american government really soon. start there https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/LessWrong

in no place i’m saying “technology bad”, i’m saying there’s plenty of harmful tech being pushed for profit and Luigi went full in in that sector. other than healthcare, that is

funnily enough luigi would disagree with this exact take

https://xcancel.com/pepmangione?cursor=DAABCgABGejOMJU__6YKAAIV6ATjUpqAAAgAAwAAAAIAAA

this is because he’s an “effective altruist” which is an ideology cooked specifically to justify current day greed with future charity. also includes bad scifi and cult of AI

i’m saying do your thing, because luigi and his friends won’t help you

zeroth of all, they were figureheads in large organizations. luigi has none of that

besides, there’s no improvement without criticism

if you’re relying on people like luigi, who also had atlas shrugged on goodreads reading list, for healthcare change, don’t get surprised if you get what you’ll get

yeah, luigi is a bootlicker too, he says so in first sentence of his manifesto:

To the Feds, I’ll keep this short, because I do respect what you do for our country.

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/luigis-manifesto

Luigi is a rich libertarian techbro bordering on AI cultist. he likes Thiel and Musk, he thinks that human immortality is feasible, that AI will outsmart us all real soon, and bought in in a bunch of other tpot/longtermist/ea horseshit hook line and sinker. he also only started caring about state of healthcare industry when it touched him personally. he’s not leftist in any useful meaning of this word

this is his twitter https://xcancel.com/PepMangione these are his takes: https://xcancel.com/PepMangione/status/1780863519677940189#m https://xcancel.com/PepMangione/status/1750041444239434013#m https://xcancel.com/PepMangione/status/1600875886727016449#m this one is pinned tweet