Now that’s a hot take

My takeaway from this conversation is that I need to give more thought to microplastics. Thanks for the brochure I’ll check it out

That’s really too bad about sunscreen because I’m pale as they come so I feel like I need to pick between getting sunburnt or ingesting microplastics.

Thanks for the detailed response. I didn’t realize that canned food was a concern.

UV blocking chemicals

Does this include sunscreen?

The sources for the blog post in point number 3 are pretty spotty. They quote Western media like the Washington Post or a former Australian official without giving the proper links or citations. The citations to some “Western” sources like Amnesty International are there but these sources are only brought in so the authors can get nitpicky about their word choices. The only solid source I could find was the WikiLeaks source from the US embassy, but that doesn’t contradict the massacre narrative because the wire could have been sent before the violence peaked. The more substantive claims rely on YouTube videos or other blog posts for their sources.

I’m not trying to be hostile by saying this; I’m willing to hear you out. But I will need a far higher standard of rigour before I’m willing to take any of these ideas seriously.

Piefed is fine too. The drama there is a nothing-burger. The tankies are just pissed off that Piefed has better moderation so they can’t troll Piefed servers the way they would like to

besides shaving cream, what other sources of these chemicals should we watch out for?

Decomposition would likely be slower in this environment too. It would be harder for worms and maggots and so on to get a foothold. You’d have to rely mostly on bacterial means of decomposition

You ask it about the Tiananmen Square Massacre

Yes I agree completely. I was using DuckDuckGo for like 10 years but it’s gotten to the point where it’s genuinely unusable. Even if AI turned off, basically all the results are AI slop blog posts. I was basically impossible to find an answer to any question. I’ve switch to Ecosia and it’s noticeably better, but still, this is a problem every search engine is grappling with right now.

AI slop is like toxic sludge that polluting the online commons. Places like Lemmy are one of the last intact ecosystems that haven’t been destroyed by the sludge.

Interesting, thanks for the explanation

Which is pretty par for the course so far as scientific classifications go.

Well yes I don’t necessarily disagree with you there. But there are some cases where it’s more obvious than others. A good example would be ring species: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_species

I’d say planets are about the same level of arbitrariness as far as scientific categories go

Yeah Manitoba was the trend setter, BC and Alberta (which I forgot to mention) followed after the Manitoba NDP made the announcement

Are you from Manitoba or BC?

I mean that these descriptions are somewhat arbitrary. Roughly round is not a very precise delineation, there will be edge cases where it’s not clear which category they fall into

Wow that’s amazing. How did you learn how to do this?

It is convenient to classify it as a dwarf planet but that doesn’t mean that “dwarf planet” and “planet” are scientific categories in the purest sense of the term

Why are the colours different?

god damn

What’s up with dragonflies?