Homeless Friend posted:

the whole corn+crab moves uniformly op.

bowser posted:

https://twitter.com/noemmeg/status/1462291129601339393?s=21

Tungsten posted:

the one thing i remember from that novel is the medical tourist getting the oxygenated lung enema in mexico

quote:

... And some English language happy talk news. Spanish happy talk news. Japanese happy talk news. Alex, born in 2010, had watched the news grow steadily more glossy and cheerful for all of his 21 years. As a mere tot, he'd witnessed hundreds of hours of raw bloodstained footage: plagues, mass death, desperate riot, ghastly military wreckage, all against a panicky backdrop of ominous and unrelenting environmental decline. All that stuff was still out there, just as every aspect of modern reality had its mirrored shadow in the Net somewhere, but nowadays you had to hunt hard to find it, and the people discussing it didn't seem to have much in the way of budgets. Somewhere along the line the entire global village had slipped into neurotic denial.

Today, as an adult, Alex found the glass pipelines of the Net chockablock with jet-set glamour weddings and cute dog stories. Perky heroines and square-jawed heroes were still, somehow, getting rich quick. Starlets won lotteries and lottery winners became starlets. Little children, with their heads sealed in virtuality helmets, mimed delighted surprise as they waved their tiny gloved hands at enormous hallucinations. Alex had never been that big a fan of current events anyway, but he had now come to feel that the world's cheerful shiny-toothed bullshitters were the primary source of all true evil.

gay_crimes posted:

can humans induce volcanic eruptions? my future is curious

Jel Shaker posted:

i recall the consensus was no, but we could give it a good try

petit choux posted:

Probably didn't hold your attention I'd guess since that was in the first few pages. It was from that part that this passage kind of stuck with me 16 years ago:

Seemed really prescient in '95.

bowser posted:

https://twitter.com/noemmeg/status/1462291129601339393?s=21

scary ghost dog posted:

there is far more to this world than we are capable of perceiving. we are all still in the cave, looking at shadows on the wall

silicone thrills posted:

Praying we get a president crazy enough to launch a bunker buster bomb into yellowstone caldera.

Raine posted:

i cant tell if youre joking or if i cant spot fakes because im now apparently old

WampaLord posted:

Also fairly sure that a crab would not chill out and calmly eat corn if it was being boiled alive

Radirot posted:

crab is ok

https://youtube.com/watch?v=qB2cHz5cPqo

IAMKOREA posted:

Yes, I am talking about absorption refrigeration. I had to Google Norcold but they seem to be absorption refrigerators. I'm curious about it because my father in law has about 64 m2 of thermal collectors he uses to heat the house in the winter but they don't do much during the summer. I was thinking that they could be used for refrigeration. If you guys have solar thermal collectors you might also be able to use the summer excess for refrigeration. I don't see why you couldn't add one to your existing system, it's just a matter of plumbing the hot side up to the refrigerators heat exchanger.

IAMKOREA posted:

It's very interesting you are growing grains. Are you willing to discuss yields and financials? I'd love to grow grains for a living ecologically but with how the European ag subsidy system is set up at the moment it seems completely impossible.

take_it_slow posted:

Edit: also, on plastics talk:

take_it_slow posted:

Edit: also, on plastics talk:

Paradoxish posted:

Someone had to pay for that plastic bag and bird got it for free

Good deal for bird

Jel Shaker posted:

i recall the consensus was no, but we could give it a good try

Cold on a Cob posted:

this quote was in a weekly newsletter i received today and i can't stop chuckling

Raine posted:

gently caress COREY PERRY posted:

flossin and brushin and lolin at how oral hygiene is just abrading your mouth with plastic

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/01/09/oral-b-glide-floss-toxic-pfas-chemicals-study/2530661002/ posted:

Oral-B Glide floss tied to potentially toxic PFAS chemicals, study suggests
Using Oral-B Glide dental floss might be associated with higher levels of toxic PFAS chemicals in your body, according to a new peer-reviewed study of consumer behaviors potentially linked to the substances.

PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, are potentially harmful chemicals often used for their water and grease resistance.

The study, which aimed to explain how these chemicals enter the human body, was published Tuesday in the Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology and comes from the Silent Spring Institute in Newton, Massachusetts, and Public Health Institute in Berkeley, California.

Researchers found higher levels of PFHxS (perfluorohexanesulfonic acid), a PFAS, in women who flossed with Oral-B Glide compared to those who didn't.

Using Oral-B Glide dental floss may be associated with higher levels of toxic PFAS chemicals in your body, according to a new peer-reviewed study.
"This is the first study to show that using dental floss containing PFAS is associated with a higher body burden of these toxic chemicals," lead author Katie Boronow, a scientist at Silent Spring, said in a statement.

In a statement to USA TODAY on Thursday, Oral-B said it didn't find any of the substances in the study in its floss. "The safety of the people who use our products is our top priority. Our dental floss undergoes thorough safety testing and we stand behind the safety of all our products," the company said.

Among the other behaviors in the study that were associated with higher PFAS levels: Having stain-resistant carpet or furniture and living in a city with drinking water contaminated by a PFAS.

More:Look out for these 5 potentially dangerous food chemicals when feeding your kids

Researchers also found that African-American women who ate food from coated cardboard containers had higher PFAS levels for four of the chemicals studied compared to those who didn't.

According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, "there is evidence that exposure to PFAS can lead to adverse human health effects."

Floss, other hygiene products, nonstick cookware, fast food wrappers and microwave popcorn bags are among the various products the Centers for Disease Control lists as potentially containing PFAS.

Exposure to certain PFAS chemicals, like perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS), has ties to cancer, ulcerative colitis in adults and thyroid disease in children, among other health problems, researchers said.

More:These baby foods and formulas tested positive for arsenic, lead and BPA in new study

According to the EPA, PFAS chemicals have been used in products in the United States since the 1940s. The agency also says the chemicals accumulate in the body over time.

"As a result, as people get exposed to PFAS from different sources over time, the level of PFAS in their bodies may increase to the point where they suffer from adverse health effects," the EPA website states.

The study consisted of 178 middle-aged women, about half of who are African-American, from the Public Health Institute's Child Health and Development Studies, which looks at multigenerational impacts of environmental chemicals and other factors on disease.

Researchers measured levels of PFAS in the women's blood and later interviewed them about certain behaviors that might lead to exposure — like eating food from coated cardboard containers and nonstick cookware or having stain-resistant carpet and furniture.

More: Many couches contain potentially toxic flame retardants

Oral-B Glide flosses were among the 18 floss products studied. Scientists said they tested the various products for fluorine, an indicator of the PFAS polytetrafluoroethylene, or PTFE. Six of the products had fluorine, including the Oral-B Glide products and others marked with "compare to Oral-B Glide."

"The good news is, based on our findings, consumers can choose flosses that don't contain PFAS," Boronow said.

In an earlier statement to USA TODAY, Velvet Gogol Bennett, a spokesperson for Procter & Gamble, emphasized that the study focused on a variety of behaviors and products, not just flossing, and that their use by the women was self-reported. Procter & Gamble is Oral-B's parent company.

Follow USA TODAY's Ryan Miller on Twitter @RyanW_Miller.

mawarannahr posted:

lol

lmao

gently caress COREY PERRY posted:

mawarannahr posted:

Islam is the answer, as always.

Noob Saibot posted:

ok fine have fun in the permanent dystopian hellscape the republicans have planned for you

Democrats are the only shot we have at keeping this planet hospitable to humans just remember that

silicone thrills posted:

Lol some moron is trolling the succ thread stupid hard rn and just posted this and whew. Guess we are all just gonna die

T-Paine posted:

Hey when the earth gets sick, Democrats make it feel better.

JeremoudCorbynejad posted: