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- Comment on Is it possible that none of this is real? 1 week ago:
We cannot be living in a simulation because the amount of energy to simulate and calculate all the possible atoms, quarks, and other particles and all their simultaneous interactions every fraction of a millisecond would far exceed an exponent of zillions upon zillions of all the possible energy that could ever exist. We wouldn’t even begin to be able to comprehend anything.
“Well… the forerunners’ physics operate differently, duh!”
Uh… if you were to believe that delusion, then I wouldn’t know what to tell you; then you could just rig whatever answer you want to anything. And even if that were true, then the “real” world must be so vastly different from anything we could possibly connect with or perceive that it wouldn’t be relatable anyway and would therefore be worthless or just academic to think about. I guess you don’t want to hear it but this is unfortunately our actual life and that guy was just weird. Ask him if you can buy any potions from him next time or something.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Doesn’t matter if you show 100 ads.
The average person has less self-control than you, sadly.
- Comment on YSK that Dark Chocolate is healthier than White Chocolate 2 weeks ago:
You are correct; they have unfortunately also become risky. I literally, unironically minimize veggie intake because of these issues and eat spirulina powder. Algae is the future of food. JOIN ME!
- Comment on Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, we can no longer msg other participants without paying. I guess they’ve picked up on it having dating potential since it has a “Single” designation so it may get added to Match’s ever-growing portfolio down the years, haha.
- Comment on YSK that Dark Chocolate is healthier than White Chocolate 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I was about to say that I thought this was already considered old news. Probably all chocolate is infected. Good thing I wouldn’t care if it went extinct.
- Comment on Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App 3 weeks ago:
No, but I used to be more active until I saw that they started to increasingly prevent you from talking to other participants, and even seeing who other people are (can’t even tell gender or anything) unless you paid for their higher tier. I literally saw it get added out of the blue after years of no such restrictions, and they’ve only dug deeper and deeper. I couldn’t even connect with someone with whom I met just because I didn’t attempt to get their number immediately on the spot.
- Comment on Ubisoft Montreal Lead Fired After Critical Comments on New Return-to-Office Mandate 3 weeks ago:
I hope they eventually crumple from hiring stupider and stupider team leads, then.
- Comment on Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App 4 weeks ago:
Good thing none of us have iPhones here, right, guys? Right?
- Comment on Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App 4 weeks ago:
It’s just platform-milking, just like Meetup.com’s latest antics; there isn’t deep analysis needed to everything, haha. “Capitalism” is totally a legitimate answer despite being just one word.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
2023? Man, this article is ancient. It’s not gold any more as it’s been discovered to not be scarce:
- Comment on Activist group says it has scraped 86m music files from Spotify 2 months ago:
Clandestine organizations are hard to keep a tight rein on. All it takes is one deviant to sway others and start a foolish snowball effect…
- Comment on Steam winter sale is live. What patient games are you picking up? 2 months ago:
Board Game Arena is so good already, though!
- Comment on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang complains about stock price slide during all-hands meeting — says market did not appreciate company’s ‘incredible’ quarter 3 months ago:
Ha, you think that’s high? Don’t look at PLTR’s P/E, then.
- Comment on Windows 11 to add an AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders, warns of security risk 3 months ago:
Go on… Pop!_OS? KDE Fedora? And why? I was about to move to Mint Cinnamon 22.2 until you said this, but I’m open to recs.
- Comment on Windows 11 to add an AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders, warns of security risk 3 months ago:
Linux Mint Cinnamon is incredible, free to try/move to, and reversible.
- Comment on Why is Lemmy.ml blocked? 3 months 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? 3 months ago:
:::spoiler Satirical Commentary Buddhists hate it! :::
- Comment on What are your favorite games from a worldbuilding standpoint? 3 months ago:
it had a tremendous effect on my actual worldview
How so?
- Comment on What are your favorite games from a worldbuilding standpoint? 3 months 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 months 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] 4 months ago:
*laughs all the way to !freegames@feddit.uk*
- Comment on Poop Coffee 4 months 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. 5 months 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. 5 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 5 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 5 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. 5 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. 5 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. 5 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. 5 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.