Yeah the company I work for is having our 3rd or 4th Reduction In Force this year... Upper management is also pushing hard for us to all use more AI.
It's great, not only are we understaffed with impossible deadlines, but we lost all of our tribal knowledge, and half the fires we are fighting are due to inexperienced workers using AI for everything.
For context, until the 1960s, the terms moron, idiot, cretin, and imbecile were all genuine, non-offensive terms used, including by psychiatrists, to refer to people with mental intellectual disabilities and low intelligence. These words were discontinued in that form when concerns arose that they had developed negative meanings, with "retard" and "retarded" replacing them.[6][7] After that, the terms "handicapped" (United States) and "disabled" (United Kingdom) replaced "retard" and "retarded". Disabled is now considered a more polite term than handicapped in the United States as well.
There's dozens of similar products sold at home depot, target, and other name brand stores. They sell brush attachments for drills too, I see Ryobi makes some.
You're saying that a "spin scrubber" shouldn't spin? Huh.
It's theoretically possible, some experts think no level of radiation is "safe". Yet, it's so improbable that the risk of developing cancer from a single banana is indistinguishable from background noise. You get a far higher dose of radiation just from living on earth.
It would have to be the "perfect shot" of a particle hitting a cell to cause DNA damage that wasn't repairable. And you would need to be extremely immunocompromised.
If you were in such a position to get cancer from eating a single banana, you would likely already get it from living life.
I presume it's because people in stem are more likely to have strong opinions about statistics, validity of tests or science, that sort of thing. Or, they'll sound more competent when discussing with other jurors.
I also think both sides wanted to appeal to emotions, and have their expert witnesses be the technical authorities.
I recently went to jury selection, was excused twice. Probably because I raised my hand when they asked "has anyone been a victim of reckless driving" and the case was about a DUI and reckless driving. The other involved DNA evidence and they struck all of the people who worked in STEM.
Anyway, the security did NOT let me bring in my fountain pen, asked me if it was a pen gun lol... Ball point and pencils were fine. I think crochet needles won't be allowed... Vapes and zyns were allowed. They didn't seem to care about food or liquids at the courthouse I went to.
You'll be spending most of your time in the waiting rooms, unless you're picked for a trial.
Drinks and food were up to the judge, but the 2 justices I reported to basically said "if you have drinks, make sure they're covered, otherwise be careful and don't spill". Boiled down to "don't make a mess".
They told us to turn phones off, but a lot of folks did not.
Books and sudoku should be fine. Just try to bring an empty bottle you're okay with tossing if needed. There will likely be vending machines inside too.
PTFE and some others are considered chemically inert. Other PFAS are mostly chemically inert.
Carbon-fluorine bonds are extremely strong. If these weren't mostly chemically inert, they wouldn't be "forever" chemicals. They would readily degrade and it wouldn't be an issue.
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