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I used to have the same intuition: that inert things inside your body are simply inert and do nothing.

PFAS research has eroded that a bit: it has so many flourines! It can't do anything! But it gets into your cells because your body doesn't understand that it isn't a fatty acid, and then miscellaneous bad things happen because it isn't _exactly_ like a fatty acid

Of course, microplastics are probably less bad than PFAS. It's inert and big. Probably fine... but nevertheless a little worrying

my most crank opinion is that microplastics literally do not matter as a health concern bc by definition they're inert. they're an ecological concern, yeah. i helped my mom with a little lit review and the general vibe is like, well they could theoretically be a vector by which dangerous things like pathogens or heavy metals or chemical compounds could come in your body but they're just hanging out there. and given that heavy metals are still being found in all kinds of food everywhere in the world, public health has to chase that.

#it's probably fine #not sure if it warrants stopping adding plastics to roads #or making roads out of waste plastic #low confidence

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Looking up Japanese counters, and the first result reads "350 Japanese Counters Grouped by How Useful They Are".

With 205 being in the "Somewhat Common" category.

#japanese language redesign when #so pretty so sing #so awful to learn

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Canada, PNW French fries, chips, scones Cookies, soda, candy Cigarettes, touque, luffa

i'm conducting an experiment. everyone who's from an english speaking country state your country, regional area and what you call the following images. i need to see something

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First, we have to consider how damage works, against 10^9 lions.

we can consider it like double battles, where if there are two opponents, each takes 75% of the damage. Thus, if there are 10^9 lions, you get (0.75)^(10^9) damage on each lion, which is probably 0. This is ridiculous since this implies that total damage decreases for AoE moves as the number of combatants increase

we can consider it like double battles, where each additional combatant grants 50% increase in total damage, which is spread amongst all combatants. With 10^9 lions, this approaches a 2x multiplier for damage.

Second, we have to consider how much damage can be dealt in a single spread move

+6 stat on the attacker: There's Prankster Swagger / Flatter, with Prankster Safeguard

Weather: There are Prankster weather setters. You can also Mega your Kyogre/Groudon. Air Lock from Rayquaza can be removed with Whimsicott's Worry Seed

Choice Scarf/Spec: 50% increase

~590 [1] instances of Helping Hand a. if Helping Hand stacks multiplicatively, that'd be a 7x10^103 damage multiplier b. if Helping Hand stacks additively, that'd be a ~295x damage multiplier

Third, we have to consider if our Pokemon (desginated attacker) can move first:

find a Prankster Pokemon with After You, which makes another Pokemon act immediately afterwards

Thankfully, Gen 6 and 7 offer Triple Battles, allowing us insight into how these important questions will play out.

A move's power is cut to 0.75x in triple battles, against all targets. No exponential decay or diminishing returns. A single spread priority move that OHKOs a lion will OHKO all lions

Helping Hand, according to this forum post stacks multiplicatively. Note that the retort in the comments refers to a Smogon article on Generation 5, where there was no Triple Battles to speak of.

In conclusion, not only can After Me + Choice Spec Kyogre OHKO all one billion lions with Water Spout, Helping Hand x 590 + After Me Swinub can do so with Powder Snow.

[1] From the Helping Hand learnset, we can use ``

const images = document.querySelectorAll('a[href*="Pok%C3%A9mon"] > img[alt]'); const pokemonNames = new Set(); images.forEach(img => { const name = img.getAttribute('alt'); pokemonNames.add(name); }); console.log(pokemonNames)

to find out how many Pokemon learn Helping Hand.

Who would win

- 1 billion lions

- 1 of every pokémon

- okay, listen, there's nuance here (other)

#pokemon #dubious math #Kyogre would like to enter combat by drowning your continent #neither in game nor in lore would the lions prevail #lions can swim but can they dive #lions can jump but can they fly #would be funny if you can give the lions moves with priority

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Aaaay, it's my 40th birthday!

The only one of my grandparents that didn't live past 80 died of heart issues that would be trivially treatable today, so this probably isn't even midlife!

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I went to sleep 2 hours behind schedule for this

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mixed news!

inverse Copenhagen ethics: do all the evil that will happen anyway yourself, so that others can live more virtuous lives untainted by compromise.

#what happens to magical girls after our new overlord?

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If Eliezer Pudkowsky was a Punjab, I think he would tell people to read the sikhuences

If Eliezer Yudkowsky was a banshee, I think he would tell people to read the shriekuences.

#terrible

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As is usual for Mao Zedong's policies, and then everyone rolls a D20.

Try not to have a Critical Fail on staying alive.

It always feels a bit hopeless to discuss climate change, because the policies that are politically feasible seem so short of what would be needed. You know who really would have solved it though? Mao Zedong. He'd be like, "starting next week, using carbon to generate electricity is forbidden, also all the intellectuals will go to country villages to build improvised nuclear reactors".

#improvised nuclear reactors might be worse though #intellectuals might decide that it's better to have it not work than work poorly #would be fulfilling to work at a nuclear power plant #also lethal under the circumstances

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In a distant land, it is the Genshin Players who are dominant, and the Minecraft Players that are the minority. Minecraft Players there adopt the cultural output of Genshin Players, making timed musical montages of explosions, hiding in silly places in minigames, and typing random stuff just to see what gets censored. Would it be then prohibited / taxed / pressured for Minecraft players, where they are dominant, to import the practices of their overseas brethren?

What’s the steel-man for closed practices? Hard to buy into any form of racial / ethnic copyright

#unvirtuous on main #is the anglosphere just weird? #never hear <immigrant source> complaining about appropriation #only local recent immigrants #2nd gen immigrants a little lost

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I want to go to this exact point and run around it saying “I’m in Sweden!” I’m in Finland!” “I’m in Norway!” until I get tired

i aspire to great things in life

#i wonder how long it took to get this particular thing approved by all three governments

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Unfortunatley, I believe alcohol, coffee, and tea may be popular as drink mediums not only due to their drug contents, but also the taste/texture/tradition. A great ketamine latte may well just be a normal latte, spiced with ketamine. Not that it wouldn't be possible for the rituals surrounding a particular drug intake to be romanticized. One's first inhale could be a choking, coughing affair, turning the very air acrid for half an hour as one's olfactory receptors scream and recalibrate One's two thousandth inhale may be a blend of nostalgia and anticipation, with hints of earth and wood smoke, reminescent of a particular tobacco field in Virginia. But that's likely a habit. One wonders if those who got hooked on nicotine from tasteless sources would ever enjoy a cigarette.

The fact that most drugs aren't legal is honestly an artistic tragedy. Think of the variety of taste, beauty, texture, and experience available in drinking a cocktail, or making coffee. We could have that for other drugs, too! Remember how people made moonshine during prohibition and it sucked? That's the situation right now for all recreational drugs except weed, caffiene, nicotine, and alcohol.

If drugs were legal, you could decide to drink a fancy little acid cocktail at .2% strength and just have a slightly weird day today. You could go out and get the ketamine latte with the best reviews in town. You could see as many varieties of shrooms on a shelf as you do of cigarettes. There would be a whole world of little rituals, novel delivery methods, and ways of presenting a drug for consumption like there are for the ones we've already legalized. I think this is a tremendous creative opportunity that we as a society are sleeping on because we're bizarrely offended by altered states of consciousness. We could have such a richer culture!

#why am i such a killjoy #would love to try various drugs though #especially if I can do so in public supervised by those who are not my friends so that any embarrasement can be negated

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If you don't have a GPU (not sure about Integrated Graphics), you may not have this setting.

Streaming / screenshotting hardware accelerated video is unavailable because such features do not know how to grab the relevant data from the GPU.

firefox just started doing this too so remember kids if you want to stream things like netflix or hulu over discord without the video being blacked out you just have to disable hardware acceleration in your browser settings!

#nobody is at fault #sometimes there are tradeoffs #unclear why they can't grab data from the GPU though #maybe this will be solved in time

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For those who found the lowercase jarring, your Internal Narration Device may not be fully calibrated, or otherwise non-functioning

While it may be undesirable to have an Internal Narration Device, which is hardlocked at 300wpm, it is useful for reading non-traditionally-formatted text. If you have turned off your Internal Narration Device to read faster, this lovely work of lust may not be available to you.

first fic out in several months that I'm proud enough to share! it's a sex doll noncon fic, although the noncon direction is complicated:

I've also put it in a new "Author's Favorites" series that collects the works I consider to pass the "actually feel good about this fic" bar (about 1 in 4 of my works).

I wrote this fic in lowercase to force myself to occupy a "quick sketch" frame of mind and kept it in the final draft. I'm interested in what % of people this is a dealbreaker for.

#Internal Narration Device slowly crowding out Unvoiced English Text Parser as I age #this drastically lowers reading speed without gains in comprehension #What does it feel like to read poetry without having the Internal Narration Device on

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I hate this too! Synthetic is just as good! Just because it's made from urea doesn't make it any worse!

hate capitalism and its perpetual use of buzzwords just saw an ad for lemonade with "plant-based caffeine" like where the fuck else would you get caffeine if not from a plant

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I just finished watching a video on The North Face vs Columbia vs Canada Goose, and was contemplating what could go wrong if governments banned destruction of unsold goods.

And luxury brands have entirely different incentives from other "fast fashion" retailers. There's no way luxury brands won't take the clothing off market, whether it be recycling said clothes, or tearing it to be used as something unrelated. But surely the lever to pull for "fast fashion" would be to, as suggested, just increase fees/taxes around thrown away clothes? The consumers are already paying for the discarded items, and if there are externalities to the clothing's disposal, then so charge for that. This seems to mirror a different complaint, targeted at consumers, "Why do you buy stuff and then throw them away?" Well, you see, this item belongs to a class of items that I couldn't tell whether I would like before buying and trying them out. Every book on my bookshelf costs about 2x what I paid for them, because there's a graveyard of books that I didn't like, and I optimized for the total cost of research time vs enjoyment of the book, not just the latter.

The optimal amount of items to discard is not zero. Not even close.

It’s an open secret in fashion. Unsold inventory goes to the incinerator; excess handbags are slashed so they can’t be resold; perfectly usable products are sent to the landfill to avoid discounts and flash sales. The European Union wants to put an end to these unsustainable practices. On Monday, [December 4, 2023], it banned the destruction of unsold textiles and footwear.

“It is time to end the model of ‘take, make, dispose’ that is so harmful to our planet, our health and our economy,” MEP Alessandra Moretti said in a statement. “Banning the destruction of unsold textiles and footwear will contribute to a shift in the way fast fashion manufacturers produce their goods.”

This comes as part of a broader push to tighten sustainable fashion legislation, with new policies around ecodesign, greenwashing and textile waste phasing in over the next few years. The ban on destroying unsold goods will be among the longer lead times: large businesses have two years to comply, and SMEs have been granted up to six years. It’s not yet clear on whether the ban applies to companies headquartered in the EU, or any that operate there, as well as how this ban might impact regions outside of Europe.

For many, this is a welcome decision that indirectly tackles the controversial topics of overproduction and degrowth. Policymakers may not be directly telling brands to produce less, or placing limits on how many units they can make each year, but they are penalising those overproducing, which is a step in the right direction, says Eco-Age sustainability consultant Philippa Grogan. “This has been a dirty secret of the fashion industry for so long. The ban won’t end overproduction on its own, but hopefully it will compel brands to be better organised, more responsible and less greedy.”

Clarifications to come

There are some kinks to iron out, says Scott Lipinski, CEO of Fashion Council Germany and the European Fashion Alliance (EFA). The EFA is calling on the EU to clarify what it means by both “unsold goods” and “destruction”. Unsold goods, to the EFA, mean they are fit for consumption or sale (excluding counterfeits, samples or prototypes)...

The question of what happens to these unsold goods if they are not destroyed is yet to be answered. “Will they be shipped around the world? Will they be reused as deadstock or shredded and downcycled? Will outlet stores have an abundance of stock to sell?” asks Grogan.

Large companies will also have to disclose how many unsold consumer products they discard each year and why, a rule the EU is hoping will curb overproduction and destruction...

Could this shift supply chains?

For Dio Kurazawa, founder of sustainable fashion consultancy The Bear Scouts, this is an opportunity for brands to increase supply chain agility and wean themselves off the wholesale model so many rely on. “This is the time to get behind innovations like pre-order and on-demand manufacturing,” he says. “It’s a chance for brands to play with AI to understand the future of forecasting. Technology can help brands be more intentional with what they make, so they have less unsold goods in the first place.”

Grogan is equally optimistic about what this could mean for sustainable fashion in general. “It’s great to see that this is more ambitious than the EU’s original proposal and that it specifically calls out textiles. It demonstrates a willingness from policymakers to create a more robust system,” she says. “Banning the destruction of unsold goods might make brands rethink their production models and possibly better forecast their collections.”

One of the outstanding questions is over enforcement. Time and again, brands have used the lack of supply chain transparency in fashion as an excuse for bad behaviour. Part of the challenge with the EU’s new ban will be proving that brands are destroying unsold goods, not to mention how they’re doing it and to what extent, says Kurazawa. “Someone obviously knows what is happening and where, but will the EU?”"

-via British Vogue, December 7, 2023

#i dislike fast fashion #unclear if that is an aesthetic preference #would love sturdy clothing that lasts a decade #though i do wear a lot of clothes from a decade ago

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I hope your journey into lifting will help with the injury.

(I have spent a year not lifting, due to unreleated injury, and getting back into it is harrowing (where'd all my muscles go) but great (progress again!))

Current activity: reading the notes for the individual exercises in this BIG GAINS FAST MAXIMUM FITNESS article on bodybuilding.com and putting them into a notebook with glittery gel ink pens so I can have them as a quick reference.