Water is a universal solvent, it's normal to have all sorts of shit dissolved in it, depending what rocks are in the aquifer. Mine has so much iron you can pick up the used sand filter with a magnet.
Iirc it wasn't a big deal in the old days before effective pumps, because people mostly lived off surface water of various kinds (where it has little contact with the bedrock and the worst you can get is, uh, cholera). But even natural spring water can be full of sulphur, lead, copper, mercury, arsenic, radium, oil, methane, etc.
SteveKirk
16d ago
we already do engage in a fair bit of "affirmative action" moderating.
Wasn't this strenuously denied for years and claims of it were met with accusations of being paranoid conspiracy theorists?
who wrote in the government system messages such as: “Trump sign no entry per leadership.”
What a brilliant way to make a paper trail that's less deniable than whistleblowing that would be dismissed as "claims without evidence." If your boss doesn't overrule you, he's nailed himself she/her has nailed herself.
To be fair though I wouldn't want to be knocking at Trump houses in a Florida swamp going "Hi, this is FEMA. Before you ask, yes these are level 4 plates, but I'm out of spares so please don't aim for the cracked bits"
SteveKirk
16d ago
Yeah in retrospect it actually doesn't seem great vs "literally just brush your teeth", but at least it was better for getting a measured dose.
I just like sprites more than 3d models, maybe that's weird. Plus it means my next PC build can be a 9800x3d with the same GTX 970 I've had for 6 years.
SteveKirk
16d ago
Jesus, glad you got lucky. Is your bathroom fan on a timer that runs for hours a day? That was code for my place, but disabled it right away.
Having a washer and dryer in the house rather than a shed sounds like a lot of trouble. I'd never even thought about dealing with lint in an interior.
I wouldn't think so, because in the absolute worst case it shows the feds' old 1.5 limit was dangerously close to or exceeding the harmful-effects level, and ideally it should have all been filtered if possible. Give people the optimal topical dose through toothpaste.
(One reason I'm skeptical of any harm at <=1.5 doses is that the initial introduction of fluoridation should have had a pretty big and rapid -IQ signal, but... Could it have been drowned out by the fynn effect, which was peaking around the same time?)
Factorio is single monitor and so easy on the GPU you could multi-task it with the imaginary girls until pretty far in the late game, I'd have thought.
As late as the 70s it probably would have been a few 10s of thousands, although that's with the benefit of hindsight knowing which obscure academics to target. Now... Being realistic it would spiral out of control unless you were very lucky or had enough top-down organization (which would make violence redundant in the first place, and is obviously what the NRX crew is aiming for. Good luck to them.)
Like Hannah Arendt said about nuclear war, it can only be a rational response against a future worse than human extinction.
(and @jeroboam) I was using it in the general sense of "uncorrected for demographics because everyone knows you're only supposed to use proxies". It's not specifically blacks because the studies come from all over the world. Rural/urban demographics in every country are a unique complicated mess to untangle and don't respond well to a simple "correcting for income." The kitchen-sink "self-sufficiency index" in that one paper is a good example.
The exciting parts of these studies were the natural experiments with existing ppm differences with (ideally) no correlation to demographics. Unless Sweden banished all retards to the Speckle-Tooth Mountains sometime in the 1700s.
I think he started walking it back with "correction: I do not want wrong left wing ideas such as 'Yglesias should be fired from Vox' to gain pow--wait no!"
Bad model I'd argue, ignores agency of public officials.
Consider parallel: "terrorist attacks are random and happen at a certain rate. If a huge terrorist attack happens and the state seizes enormous powers, then starts warning about another looming terrorist attack right as they attempt to justify invading another country/win re-election, the dice roll probably just came up 20 again by coincidence."
Pandemics are now "in the tool kit" the same way the "terrorism alert level" warnings at every bus station were in 2003. And deliberate release/false-flags aside, "are we in a pandemic/at risk of terrorist attack" is itself a political decision: see the difference between choosing "we must fight monkeypox stigma and not let it change our behavior" vs "we must close the bathhouses for two weeks (forever) to slow the spread"
Afraid I don't remember the specifics (last looked at the evidence years ago, in the spirit of "honest reassessment of all widely-mocked right wing conspiracy theories"), but iirc there were Sailer Confounders on the IQ loss, and I wasn't convinced.
But yeah, I think putting literally any medication in the water supply is foolish. We try not to do it with livestock these days because you have no idea what dosage is actually being given. The same people who don't brush their teeth are likely to drink nothing but cola rather than tap water. And if you up the concentration to dose those people, you will absolutely give Water-Chugging Georg skeletal fluorisis.
When I was little kids got bottles of fluoride tablets from the county health department, which seems like a better option.
I don't remember ransomware hitting a power plant specifically, but didn't an east coast gas pipeline network get shut down by one? It's definitely not inconceivable if scammers are willing to paint a big enough target on themselves, or aren't quite aware of what fish they've got on the hook (because they hit the off-site power-sales and distribution office, not the computers for the actual control rods or something)
If you read Foucault and his descendants, all "scientific knowledge" is socially constructed. Think of Power as an OSI layer between "reality" and "our understanding of reality", with the actual existence of immutable reality left deliberately ambiguous.
It's not that some things are "socially constructed" and others are "real", even if it's used that way tactically ("Science Is Real! No, your science is a socially constructed artifact of the cisheteropatriarchy"). It's that all our methods of understanding go through a filter of social power/biopower/whatever.
It's a very clever definitional superweapon.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GXd0TunXoAASp0t?format=jpg one of his more famous quotes, but I forgot he said "wrong" instead of bad. It was a delightful preview of 2020.
I actually didn't know that, thanks. Always thought the name was just cutesy to make banking easier.
I'm very familiar with my three principled libertarian friends on the site though: Mr. Hands, Mr. Feet, and Mr. 14-really-is-prime
SteveKirk
18d ago
Boots on the ground will never be useless, but they already are useless on their own, rather than as the base of an integrated weapons system.
There will still be human soldiers walking around, but anyone who tries to fight real ones without their own cloud of support weapons will be quickly incinerated.
True, but I've spent the last four years watching obscene amounts of government money go to them too. Over a quarter of national science grants are now for DEI programs now, for example.
And that's not counting the constant use of nonprofit propaganda as a moral bludgeon, which yglesias himself is often guilty of.
I actually remember learning what abortion was in 5th grade and being so repulsed I lectured the teacher who was trying to convince us it was a good thing. (Says something about where I grew up that something like that could happen, thanks Quakers). Not even confusion, just an instant angry threat response: "this is an attack on us kids"
Years later I read that one PKDick story and remembered "oh yeah, this is exactly what it felt like in the moment. Did my beliefs change, or did I just lose that animating perspective?"
The angry threat response and instant friend/enemy distinction is probably the most stable (and valuable) part of my political identity, come to think of it.
No, it just delays the inevitable by a few years, until they get in again and finish the plan of giving their imported migrants the vote in every swing state.
Go look at Ken White doing the "literally murder heritage foundation members" thing and tell me there's any option other than getting the necessary violence over with as fast and effectively as possible. Bluesky is already talking about a final solution to the white man problem, why should we give them any more time to prepare for it, when they will only grow stronger and their brainwashing more effective?
If you say why not bomb them tomorrow, I say why not today. If you say ok sure, I say why not 40 years ago when this could have been stopped by a targeted excision instead of civilization-destroying war?
For one, injunctions in half the states against Biden's new title IX "misgendering is an expellable offense" rules. Which at least gave it a slim chance of being overturned by courts before it became a fait accompli.
The last item is a problem though. There is no recognized 2nd amendment right to murder drones, or even anti-murder-drone-drones or drone-jammers. That last will get you an FCC raid worse than any ATF dog-shoot competition.
If things take longer than a few more years to kick off, the 2nd amendment people will be using "bows and arrows against the lightning." The longer you wait the worse it gets, unless you happen to have a high tech weapons lab and global microelectronics manufacturing chain in your compound.
I know, but I've spent the last decade joining in on the "hey ATF, my dog shoots first" thing, and I really hate the "lol you're crazy for hallucinating all those things I said" gaslighting tactic.
Even if they're immoral for doing it, I'm not going to mock someone for taking things I said in jest (steely unironic intent) seriously.
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