Sources and Toxicity of Mercury in the San Francisco Bay Area, Spanning California and Beyond:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7519205/

And they wonder why we set them on fire…

Did they pay for their own R&D? Usually that get socialized and then the profits are privatized, it’s the American Way.

This is what I do.

The honor system nature of restraining orders allowed the abusive husband to break the restraining order. They just make it extra illegal when the restrained person goes ahead and commits whatever crime they were going to commit anyway.

They did.

Naturally, less oil being burnt means less CO2 emissions. BNEF estimates that electric vehicles currently prevent 112 million metric tons of CO2 emissions per year. And this is net emissions reductions, also taking into account the emissions from extra electricity generation.

People are out here letting Lemmy comments interrupt their day?!

New fear unlocked!

It doesn’t have anything to do with hoovering up all the water from national parks and sensitive aquifers for free and selling it in little plastic bottles for shocking amounts of money. Or taking farms from people in developing countries at gun point. Or convincing people that breast milk is dangerous and Nestle baby formula is the only safe alternative, even for people who don’t have access to clean water to mix it with. They’re just not going to use fossil fuels while they do that. Fuck Nestle.

WHY WON’T YOU DO WHAT YOU DREAM???

Yep, that Pfizer for you, using taxpayer money to R&D drugs they will use to price gouge the public who paid for it, out of the kindness of their hearts.

FYI Blindsight is free for audible members.

My 2013 Prius got totaled around the peak of this. I wanted to just replace it with the exact same model, because it’s a good car. It would have been cheaper to buy brand new one at the time. I got a new electric car instead and with the $7k tax rebate ended up spending less than I would have to buy a 9 year old Prius.

A new rule proposed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) would ban the sneaky fees some companies slap onto their services at checkout time. Thanks to these junk fees, which have crept into the process of everything from buying concert tickets to booking vacation rentals, the prices consumers initially see are often nowhere near what they end up paying.

The Biden administration has been putting pressure on companies like Ticketmaster and Airbnb to improve their ways, and both recently committed to providing more transparency about their extra charges. The FTC wants to take things a step further by banning the common deceptive tactics altogether. The proposed rule targets both hidden, mandatory fees that aren’t properly disclosed upfront and ambiguous “bogus fees” that leave consumers unsure of what it is they actually had to pay more for.

These practices are misleading, with companies often resorting to “bait-and-switch pricing and misrepresenting the nature and purpose of fees,” the FTC argues in the proposal notice. Under the proposed rule, businesses would have to include these additional fees in their advertised prices, explain what each fee is for and let customers know if any of it is refundable.

The FTC took comments from the public last year to assess the impact of junk fees and ultimately gathered over 12,000 responses to shape its proposal. It’s now opening up comments for 60 days so consumers can weigh in on the rule it’s put forth. “By hiding the total price, these junk fees make it harder for consumers to shop for the best product or service and punish businesses who are honest upfront,” said FTC Chair Lina M. Khan. The proposed rule would "save people money and time, and make our markets more fair and competitive.”

So sparkly though…

They do oxidize a bit when you cut them. They just don’t turn brown like apples and potatoes. It makes them more bitter.

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From the title I thought this was an article about men driving vehicles into people at the job fair. I was slightly aghast that the discussion was only about whether or not it’s ok to have a job fair for women in tech.

I got scammed into attending a seminar for “business women empowering business women.” It was just this lady giving a talk about what a great job coach she is and then pressuring everyone into hiring her for $300 per month. She saw me as a mark and was really targeting me, I actually wrote the check for her first three months and was about to hand it to her, but saw the look in her eyes, looking at my check and realized I should just tear it up.

Here’s a shorthand way to think about healthful technology use.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/healthy-or-healthful

Is it ‘Healthy’ or ‘Healthful’? You don’t win friends with arbitrary usage rules from the 1880s

Do you like healthy food? Or do you think green vegetables only qualify as “healthful”? Those in the latter camp believe that healthful means “good for your health” (which is true), and that healthy means “having or showing good health” (which is also true), and that one word can never be used for the other. . .which, well, isn’t true.

These vegetables are healthful. They are also healthy. Both words are correct.

Let’s look at the histories of these two words. Healthful is older. It dates to the late 14th century, when it was used exclusively to mean “conducive to health” or “good for you.” Within about 150 years, though, healthful was also being used to mean “having or showing good health.”

Around the same time this alternate meaning of healthful developed—in the mid-1500s—the word healthy came on the scene—and it was used with both meanings that healthful had.

Since then it’s all been pretty much downhill for healthful. The word is now only rarely used as a synonym for “well,” and it’s not very frequently used to mean “good for you” either. Yep, since its introduction more than 450 years ago, healthy has been the more common word for both meanings.

For a long time it seems no one cared about which word people used. The distinction between healthful and healthy was first prescribed as a rule in the 1880s. The rule, though, never had much of an impact on actual usage. In American English, healthy is far more common than healthful, and in British English healthful is downright rare. You can of course observe the distinction if you want to, and call vegetables healthful and your well friends healthy. You’ll be correct if you do, and in the minority. You can also ignore the distinction and say that both vegetables and well people are healthy. You’ll also be correct, and in the majority. It’s up to you.