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Yet another refugee who washed up on the shore after the great Reddit disaster of 2023

  • Brewing tea removes lead from water

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  • From the article (emphasis mine):

    It turns out that the type of tea bag matters. The team found that cellulose tea bags work the best at adsorbing toxic metals from the water while cotton and nylon tea bags barely adsorbed any contaminants at all—and nylon bags also release contaminating microplastics to boot. Tea type and the grind level also played a part in adsorbing toxic metals, with finely ground black tea leaves performing the best on that score. This is because when those leaves are processed, they get wrinkled, which opens the pores, thereby adding more surface area. Grinding the tea further increases that surface area, with even more capacity for binding toxic metals.

  • Americans voted for Trump, but don't support his agenda

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  • He doesn't fucking care. The whole campaign was about doing and saying whatever was needed to get elected so that he could avoid lawsuits, make a profit, and dismantle government. Rich and powerful supported him because they saw ways for themselves to get more rich and more powerful. The richest man on the planet went all in, and now is personally helping to eliminate government agencies that were investigating his own businesses. They don't care that the public gets unhappy, they've served their purpose.

    This isn't a surprise, it's their plan going as intended.

  • Removed

    If I don't see it, it's not real

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  • I have to tell a true story about this. A bunch of years ago I got to work and had a voicemail from an employee. She said, "I'm not coming in this morning. My carbon monoxide alarm kept going off all night, and I hardly got any sleep. I'm just so tired." The way she talked, she sounded really out of it. I was worried that she had a carbon monoxide leak which was making her not think straight, and that it could be fatal.

    This was back before it was common for managers to have an employee's personal number. I called HR to see if I could get it, but they didn't want to give it to me. I spent quite a while trying to convince them to give it to me, or to call her themselves. I was making some progress when she called back. Said the landlord couldn't get it to stop going off either. I asked if it could be because it was a real leak and she said she didn't think so. I told her to at least open a window. Never really heard more about it. It was honestly pretty frightening.

  • Can I still consider myself a “young woman” after I turn 24? I turn 24 in March (next month).

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  • Thanks! Even though we're ten years apart, I think we're together on the tail end of the Lemmy age bell curve. It's nice to have company.

  • Can I still consider myself a “young woman” after I turn 24? I turn 24 in March (next month).

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  • It's all relative. I'm 62 - from my perspective you've only recently gone from being a girl to being a woman, so for sure a young woman. Of course in ten years I'll be 72 and you'll be 34, and I'd still call you a young woman.

  • What 5 Megabytes of Computer Data Looked Like in 1966 ~ Vintage Everyday

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  • I remember our first personal computer had 40 columns on the screen, but we ended up getting an 80 column graphics card for it.

    I taught myself basic, but the first language I took in college was fortran, and it was on cards. A bit of an aberration: they had moved on to somewhat more modern equipment, but the lab was being upgraded, so they reverted you the card system for a semester temporarily. It was out of date, but not wildly so at the time.

  • What 5 Megabytes of Computer Data Looked Like in 1966 ~ Vintage Everyday

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  • Well, it might or not be a line of code - depends a lot on the language. It's 80 bytes, and a byte is one character. You could have continuation cards if your line was more than 80. That wasn't ever needed for assembly language, rarely for Fortran, but very common for COBOL.

  • Mitch McConnell, 83, won't seek reelection in 2026

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  • Once upon a time this news would have made me happy. McConnell is responsible for so many terrible things, but honestly he pales in comparison with Trump and the MAGA folks. He's like Dr. Evil, who was the big baddie in his day, but is nothing compared to today's evils.

  • What 5 Megabytes of Computer Data Looked Like in 1966 ~ Vintage Everyday

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  • Seems about right. One card had 80 columns, a byte for each one, so 5,000,000 bytes divided by 80 would be 62,500 cards.

  • Why do males complain about female-led stories or too many female characters when the majority are still dominated by males?

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  • There's a saying, something like "When you're used to privilege, equality feels like oppression." It's the same with white folks who feel like it's a big deal when there's more than a token POC in something. It must be DEI, right?

    I'm a straight, white, middle class male, but I'm fully aware that my life experience is much different from so many other peoples'. And I've never understood why some people feel like it takes away from them when someone else gets something, like the straight folks who feel like it takes away from straight marriage if gay folks can marry.

    People are weird.

  • Giving the neighbors a laugh

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  • According to translate, the side of the van says "Home delivery service, we always come."

    Does that pun actually work in both English and German?

  • Vance: If US survived Greta Thunberg, Europe ‘can survive a few months of Elon Musk’

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  • It's not the same at all, but it sounds clever, so the base will suck it up and repeat it.

  • Dem derails Marjorie Taylor Greene's 'DOGE' hearing with photo of 'President Elon Musk'

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  • Need to keep this up. Not that, in itself, it accomplished anything, but staying silent legitimizes this bullshit.

  • eggs in japan

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  • The protective barrier is true, but you're either making assumptions about the rest or you've been misinformed. There really aren't major issues in any of the developed countries today, but the washing and refrigeration is still the safest with the longest shelf life. It isn't the condition the chickens are kept in - there are countries where it's much, much worse than in the US - it's just that chickens very easily carry salmonella.

    Many years ago, more countries washed, but there were some escapes, especially one from Australia with the eggs exported to the UK, and it got a bad name, so some countries dropped it, but the US figured out how to make it work consistently. Most countries require chickens to be vaccinated, but the US hasn't needed to because of the washing and refrigeration.

    Lots of good info online. Here's a USDA article on it, and here's a higher level NPR piece.

  • eggs in japan

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  • It's just two different strategies for avoiding salmonella. The US method has worked very well for a very long time. So much so that other countries did adopt it, at least for a time, but it requires an infrastructure that can keep the eggs refrigerated through from processing to consumer, which isn't trivial.

  • Musk says he 'deleted' IRS easy filing team that let Americans file taxes for free online

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  • Ah, okay. Just for electronic filing though, right? You can still use it, print the results, and mail it in, can't you?

  • FBI agents file class action suit against Trump’s DOJ over ‘retribution’

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  • Glad to hear it, though I'm not holding my breath for justice from Trump's DOJ.

  • Musk says he 'deleted' IRS easy filing team that let Americans file taxes for free online

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  • Isn't freetaxusa still good?

  • What's the deal with Signal?

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  • Yep, just the default messaging app on their phone.