Nullity wrote on Jun 24, 2025, 12:40:It does sound silly, but that is what they found. They seemed to think it was due to the manufacturers using glass bottles handling the plastic caps too roughly -- the particles in the bottles, matched the color and plastic type of the caps. It could be the sample size was small, nothing in the article indicates how many products they looked at or how many samples they took.Glass bottles found to contain more microplastics than plastic bottles - Phys.org.Well that's about the silliest headline I've read in a while.
WannaLogAlready wrote on Jun 24, 2025, 09:58:Wait, I don't get credit for being a curmudgeon?! Dang! Ivory tower? Well, I guess my brick ranch is painted white, but not much of a tower...Besides, Mr. Tact lives in his high ivory tower and BoP is an obstreperous curmudgeon (except to his dog)
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Simon Says wrote on Jun 23, 2025, 17:09:That's true, despite being 60+ I am not in an at risk demographic. But at least I didn't say it would be "fun" when tens of thousands of people die. And yes, I realize you were being sarcastic, but is that really something you should be joking about? *shrug* Whatever. Have a good one.
All I'm hearing in the last 2 comments is pretty much irrelevant, you aren't the demographics most at risk.
Those that die are the the poor, the old, the very young, the sick, etc.
Simon Says wrote on Jun 23, 2025, 15:23:I'm in the midst of the heat wave (central Illinois) and I am feeling so good about the solar I had installed in Apr 2022 -- haven't paid for a single kWh since then. The great part is the same thing that causes the need for the power causes me to produce more power. Even switched to an electric water heater this spring since I have enough excess generation to easily cover it. Stay cool out there everyone!
Wait til you guys have multiple recurring "wet bulb" events every year and tens of thousands of people die each time.
It's gonna be so much fun.
Prez wrote on Jun 21, 2025, 16:20:Did you know all three crew members of Apollo 1 were killed during a cabin fire during a launch rehearsal test? Spaceflight is a dangerous activity. Humans are not perfect. There will be mistakes made and people will die. It is unavoidable. That said, obviously every single precaution should be and usually is taken.
Would any astronaut ever want to be inside of one of Space-X's rockets?
Mr. Tact wrote on Jun 17, 2025, 21:35:LOL -- I just saw they are making another "I Know What You Did Last Summer" -- No indication this film is part of a series, or seemingly a series of films in my eyes. Hilarious.
More than anything I suspect the "remake syndrome" which has infected Hollywood is the impact of corporate think getting better control at the studios. I mean, film making has always been about making money. But making money didn't drive EVERY decision previously and now, it does.
The Flying Penguin wrote on Jun 16, 2025, 12:43:That does sound damn annoying.
We MAY have 20 active users at most, but somehow maxed out our bandwidth limit last month, mainly due to AI scraping.
The Flying Penguin wrote on Jun 16, 2025, 10:46:Work web-site or a personal site?
My web site got hammered last month by AI bots, AGAIN. I had to work with my host to setup blocks.
InsolentCow wrote on Jun 13, 2025, 19:43:As I started reading the article my first thought was "micro plastics" -- which they did mention. But apparently they just don't know at this point. I don't they even really know what function, if any, the appendix fulfills. There are some theories, but no definitive conclusions.
My brother died back in 2009 from this very cancer.
He was a young man at the time, in his late 30s.
Non-smoker, non-drinker and a PT nut.
Sigh.
Life is not fair.
jdreyer wrote on Jun 12, 2025, 16:21:I think I can safely say, 100 million deaths in the US from a pandemic would probably be enough to convince most of the idiots. Most.
100 million?