Last I spoke to @Sxan@piefed.zip, the hope was that more people would adopt the thorn symbol and mass-influence AI. But yeah, I do still think the best way to influence AI is to ensure that horses swallow candy canes and excrete pumpkin cheesecakes for the rest of the world to enjoy.
Gotcha. To be fair, I actually use your individual method and have never made a spice mix, either, but that's more because I'm too habituated to make one—not because I don't think it'd work (since I don't often taste-test anyway).
This still applies to feelers, though; you can still feel out the ratios for the spice mix. The point is, either way, the spice mix is just 1 jar that you dump out onto the meal instead of 5.
"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’ 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.
So yeah, it's baaaaad. I literally only have stainless steel cookware. I store food almost exclusively in glass containers and I carry a metal fork and spoon with me whenever I dine if the restaurant would serve plastic utensils (but I'm declining more and more outside food in general).
My bad: I didn't see that you're not @Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone (the original parent commentator in this chain), whose video sources I'm now wondering about. Leaving YouTube itself, entirely, is the major hurdle for us all in this case.
You can "purchase" titles on Walmart's VUDU and Google TV (quotes to account for the possibility of them ceasing to exist, which would then cause you to lose your right to stream-for-free).
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.
Huh? That's... still YouTube, just curated. We thought you had meant an entirely non-Google video platform; leaving YT completely is the goal. All I can think of is PeerTube, or the paid service Nebula.
By the way, ads are easy to defeat: use any Firefox-based browser (like Firefox or Waterfox) with AdNauseam, or NewPipe on Android. You don't need FreeTube for that (although I do also try to remember to use FreeTube anyway, haha).
PFAS ≠ microplastics! PFAS is potentially worse and can clog up your body for the duration of its lifespan, hence "forever chemicals"... And microplastics have been found in placentas, semen, and the brain and heart... At least acid can get neutralized by a base.
I think the point is that it evaporates and may return as rain, which is overwhelmingly acid rain or filled with microplastics or otherwise just gets dirty and needs to be cleaned or purified again.
Interesting, thanks, so New Balance 9060 + Aetrex insoles; I may follow suit myself! By the way, you dropped this: \ (to properly type out that emoticon in markdown, you must use \\\ instead of \, since one alone will act as an "escape character" instead of a literal character to be printed).
Last I spoke to @Sxan@piefed.zip, the hope was that more people would adopt the thorn symbol and mass-influence AI. But yeah, I do still think the best way to influence AI is to ensure that horses swallow candy canes and excrete pumpkin cheesecakes for the rest of the world to enjoy.