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- Comment on Windows 11 to add an AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders, warns of security risk 6 hours ago:
Linux Mint Cinnamon is incredible, free to try/move to, and reversible.
- Comment on Why is Lemmy.ml blocked? 2 weeks ago:
I wonder what the future of Lemmy growth will be like among average folks.
I feel like average folks greatly dislike managing multiple accounts, despite there being many tools out there to mitigate that. The average person just doesn’t explore across the Internet like we do, so our crowd will always be more technical.
- Comment on What are your favorite games from a worldbuilding standpoint? 2 weeks ago:
:::spoiler Satirical Commentary Buddhists hate it! :::
- Comment on What are your favorite games from a worldbuilding standpoint? 2 weeks ago:
it had a tremendous effect on my actual worldview
How so?
- Comment on What are your favorite games from a worldbuilding standpoint? 2 weeks ago:
Dang. I wish I could enjoy replaying it, but nothing will capture the magic of the first time. I always love watching others experience my enjoyed titles live for their first time, though.
- Comment on The Viking combat roguelite Bad North (2018) is truly incredible in bite-sized real-time tactics 4 weeks ago:
Sure thing! It’s excellent in bite-size chunks, yeah!
- Comment on Updates to Xbox Game Pass: Introducing Essential, Premium, and Ultimate Plans - Xbox Wire [prices going up] 1 month ago:
*laughs all the way to !freegames@feddit.uk*
- Comment on Poop Coffee 1 month ago:
Too bad they’ll all be extinct soon, at this rate: nationalgeographic.com/…/ocean-heat-wave-blob-wha…
- Comment on Google just broke *all* third-party web clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required. 1 month ago:
What makes it the “best” over Ubuntu Touch, etc.?
- Comment on We got rid of acid rain. Now something scarier is falling from the sky. 2 months ago:
“Although data is still quite limited, maybe all these epidemics that we have — obesity, cardiovascular disease, everybody getting cancer — are related,” LaBeaud said. “People are trying to figure out if they’re associated with the plastics that we’re inhaling and imbibing.”
Children, whose organs are still developing, could be at higher risk of harm. Kara Meister, MD, a pediatric otolaryngologist and head and neck surgeon at Stanford Medicine, noticed that thyroid cancer was becoming more common among her patients and was often linked to autoimmune disease. Considering what could be disrupting kids’ hormones, she decided to research microplastics.
In early 2024, Meister and her team began looking for microplastics in tonsils they’d removed from healthy children with conditions such as sleep apnea. “What we found is there are definitely microplastics in a high proportion of pediatric tonsil tissue, and they seem to be not only on the surface but also deep within,” she said. In one child’s tonsils, the team found specs of Teflon visible with a microscope.
Next, Meister and her team are developing techniques to identify and quantify the microplastics they’re finding and to determine where exactly they’re embedded. Eventually, her aim is to illuminate the potential role of microplastics in pediatric thyroid disease. “We have a long way to go,” she said.
Scientists don’t yet know how long microplastics stay in the body or how effects are tempered by genetics, the environment or other factors. They haven’t determined whether some plastics or forms of exposure are worse than others. Nor do studies exist on the direct dangers of microplastics in humans. “Because plastic is so ubiquitous, it’s difficult to have a lot of evidence that’s causal,” LaBeaud said. “It’s not like we’re going to have randomized control trials where people aren’t exposed.”
- Microplastics and our health: What the science says
Microplastics’ physical properties are one source of potential hazards. Some marine organisms seem to be eating more microplastics and fewer nutrients, which can reverberate up the food chain. In humans, researchers point to illnesses caused by particulate air pollution, which contains microplastics, and by workplace exposure to plastic dust.
Other threats arise from chemicals in and on microplastic particles, including plastic components — such as BPA, phthalates, and heavy metals — that are known or suspected to cause disruption to nervous, reproductive, and other systems.
Although the variety of microplastics and the difficulty of estimating accumulation in human tissues make it challenging to pin down risks, findings in models show inflammation, cell death, lung and liver effects, changes in the gut microbiome, and altered lipid and hormone metabolism.
Mounting evidence suggests that microplastics magnify the potency of other toxicant exposures, such as cadmium, as Demir and Turna Demir have confirmed in fruit flies and Lemos has confirmed in mice and fruit flies. Others are chasing down hints that microplastics can carry antibiotic-resistant bacteria and other pathogens on their surfaces and into our bodies.
- Comment on Australia’s quietest cockatoo is running out of trees. We have betrayed its gentle curiosity 2 months ago:
“Betrayed?” Was capitalism ever on its side from the start?
- Comment on Borderlands 4 boss tells players "please get a refund from Steam if you aren't happy" as Randy Pitchford continues his very public crashout over the FPS's performance woes 2 months ago:
Oh, Sans is smarter than that; he’d say how you can’t refund because you’ve already played for way more than 2 hours to get this far. If anything, he would mention your actual playtime statistic in his dialogue.
- Comment on We got rid of acid rain. Now something scarier is falling from the sky. 2 months ago:
Yes, that’s the second half of the quoted portion. What about the first? The point is that it’s all bad and not any better than acid rain.
- Comment on We got rid of acid rain. Now something scarier is falling from the sky. 2 months ago:
PFAS ≠ microplastics! PFAS is way worse and can clog up your body for the duration of its lifespan, hence “forever chemicals”…
- Comment on Whether you use AI, think it's a "fun stupid thing for memes", or even ignore it, you should know it's already polluting worse than global air travel. 2 months ago:
Ew, who still uses Google Search?
- Comment on Whether you use AI, think it's a "fun stupid thing for memes", or even ignore it, you should know it's already polluting worse than global air travel. 2 months ago:
I think the point is that it evaporates and may return as rain, which is overwhelmingly acid rain or filled with microplastics and needs to be cleaned or purified again.
- Comment on Whether you use AI, think it's a "fun stupid thing for memes", or even ignore it, you should know it's already polluting worse than global air travel. 2 months ago:
Basically every tech company is using it… It’s millions of people, not just us…
- Comment on Firefox Nightly Adds CoPilot AI Chatbot + New Tab Widgets 2 months ago:
I get that and I know there are ways around it, but none of them are official from the LibreWolf team; that’s what rubs me the wrong way. We have to find our own side alleys to bypass it, which is absurd. It infuriated me when a video I scheduled got uploaded at 2 AM or whenever instead of 9 AM, which was what led me to uninstall that deceptive software. I never saw any warning about the forced time zone-changing…
- Comment on Firefox Nightly Adds CoPilot AI Chatbot + New Tab Widgets 2 months ago:
LibreWolf messes up timezones and makes scheduled content appear at unwanted times. That would normally be fine if there was a way to temporarily switch to your normal time zone in the settings for scheduled posts and chats, but they provide no way to do this without major tinkering in
about:config(or whatever the experimental page is); that’s why I returned to Wx, which, yes, has been nearly flawless so far. - Comment on I hope slimes are allowed. I found Metatrichia vesparia and Trichia varia hanging out 2 months ago:
It’s amazing how similar to wasp nests those middle ones look like…
- Comment on Firefox Nightly Adds CoPilot AI Chatbot + New Tab Widgets 2 months ago:
I wonder how much this will affect the development of derivatives, like Waterfox and LibreWolf.
- Comment on thick skinned employees, how can you be so thick skinned? 2 months ago:
Right, there’s a reason it’s called “work” and not “fun!”
- Comment on Reddit lost it 2 months ago:
Nnnnnnoooooow you’re talkin’ my fantasy!
- Comment on ‘I’ve never seen such an extensive film of pollution:’ New oil spill dumps over 10 tons of petroleum in the Black Sea, killing birds and coating Russian beaches 2 months ago:
Welp… making it true to its name, I guess.
- Comment on Reddit lost it 2 months ago:
Yeah, until they start choking you to death due to falsely thinking that that’s what you want. Sounds like a fun temptation but it’d still be ultimately introducing more IoT into my home, which is a “no” from me, dawg, due to hacking risk.
- Comment on Reddit lost it 2 months ago:
Universal Paperclips is such a great browser game, as buggy as it may (have) be(en).
- Comment on The Browser Company (Arc, Dia) Has Been Acquired by Atlassian 2 months ago:
Oh, they had abandoned Arc? Then yeah, doubly dismiss them. It wasn’t even old…
- Comment on The Browser Company (Arc, Dia) Has Been Acquired by Atlassian 2 months ago:
What do you currently use? I’ve been consistently enjoying Waterfox.
- Comment on (Rant) Don't buy Rockstar games. 2 months ago:
Oops, I misunderstood and agree; I didn’t realize a second launcher was the issue here. That is messed up.
- Comment on (Rant) Don't buy Rockstar games. 2 months ago:
I am aware of this list. Try comparing it to itch.io and GOG, though.