reneestephen.bsky.social
Free esprit de l'escalier.
Salty posts from a salty island.
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Deeply skeptical about how much of the work is tech and how much is just outsourcing taxi drivers overseas.
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Well yeah, lots of privatization of profit and socialization of costs to be had from this admin. Business opportunities galore.
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He's trying a thing where he isn't a total asshole at all times. I'm really hoping the electorate isn't fooled.
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Guess they didn't know about the tattoo. In retrospect, a really good move on her part.
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You gotta take the good with the bad.
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Direct translation of an idiom. He meant you can't let better be the enemy of good, i.e. don't seek perfection at the expense of a flawed but acceptable solution.
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They used AI to write this fucking tire fire of a polished turd.
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I work remotely for a US company that recently started wanting me to do in-person customer visits and I... well.
What's worse, lot of my colleagues seem surprised at my reticence. They aren't paying attention. That's both very sobering and deeply depressing as we have a lot of staff on visas.
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Don't forget the chin implant. Big glow-up and any accusations about anyone else's vanity is pure projection.
Note: I have no problem with plastic surgery, I do have a problem with him pretending he's some paragon of working class values. He, also, wears an expensive suit.
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The Verge article is really nice, talking about how the line between laughing at conspiracy theorists and laughing at mental illness is pretty fine.
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For those who aren't familiar with the internet's weirdest conspiracy,
www.theverge.com/2015/9/2/924...
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TIME CUBE
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and concludes that it isn't simple, all the studies find different things, and more study is needed. Which I think is a great idea, sure!
But again... gotta read past the abstract for your gotcha quotes.
I'm gonna mute this now before you send another study you didn't read.
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were *massive,* so... don't bathe in it I guess? And application mixture adjuvants played a role in toxicity, which isn't a concern for residual exposure. Glyphosphate is also eliminated in urine, it's not bioaccumulative.
The study basically recommends a lower, still massive, exposure threshold
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But the actual compound is attainable and the review study you just linked discusses the independent research. And your cherry-picked quote doesn't represent the body or conclusions of the article. E.g. the studied exposures for rats and mice
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That is ... not a high quality article. I checked out the 2nd ref, it's a survey asking farming women to recall miscarriages (early may not even be known) and includes about 20 herbicides. It's associational and has a bunch of issues too. Etc.
Just linking a study isn't enough, you need to read it.
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And 'nuanced' means "teach me a grad level seminar in physiology, microbiology, and virology, then patiently refute every misunderstanding I have. I will be tentatively convinced at the end of the convo until my brain resets itself the next day, because turns out this isn't a factual belief at all."
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I have everbearing non native ones underplanted throughout my rose bushes for shade, and also fruit. Just as I was about to go down and pick the first ripe one of the year, a Towhee parent brought its three babies down and taught them how to strawberry. It was very cute. But... my strawberry!! 😂ðŸ˜
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Oh my god. Yes. I thought it was just me.
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membranes? And 2. What are the levels if so? It's on a list of potentially carcinogenic ingredients in the EU out of a precautionary principal but the actual in vivo studies are limited. The in vitro ones find levels need to be super high, but is there a pathway in people to even get that exposure?
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The arsenic levels is because groundwater in India is increasingly contaminated with it because the wells need to get drilled deeper and deeper. Then it goes on crops.
I know exactly how glyphosphate get in there: pesticides. That does seem more serious but 1. Does it even absorb thru mucus
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And can it even be absorbed through mucus membranes? Haven't looked into the molecule size but 🤷
Is this a case of "it sounds bad therefore it is the worst possible thing"?
I don't trust Monsanto, but the independent research on toxicology finds that the levels even in vitro need to be very high.
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No, it's not cotton. It's a bacterial infection.
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Thank you for adding this needed context. It's so frustrating that the level of media and science literacy is such that people just accept claims without running them through their "but what does that really mean?" filter.
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The irony? Calgary *was* the research -- the difference in cavities was so stark and trackable so quickly that it's used in epidemiology as an example of why fluoridation is necessary. Perhaps John should stop doing his own research.
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haha "scheduled time" he quit like a big angry baby because people were mean to him and his business is tanking. He'll still be there behind the scenes doing whatever evil he can do.
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At a minimum how hard is it to have the parking on the outside and the bike lane on the inside? Way less chance of dooring, and bikes are protected from traffic.
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Oh almost certainly this kid was also a bully. And had parental approval to do so.
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Was gonna say, they've published some dodgy stuff in their day. The difference is they'll actually admit when they were wrong.
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Man went and got himself a new chin for the campaign and he can't even wag it :( :( :(
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Jail for Dark Ages tropes! Jail for one thousand years!!
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Always something to take joy in on this amazing website.
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There should have been an option for "Meh, whatever man."
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Because it checks all the libertarian boxes:
1. Cheap and off-patent, so "Big Pharma" doesn't want you to know -- you've discovered a secret conspiracy, and thus are smarter than other people!
2. You can get it at Tractor Supply.
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It seems much more likely she asked if she should because she read on [website] etc etc, and the doc said ...sure, why not?
Did the doc actually *prescribe* it?
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If you were told that 40% of almonds in a handful were poisoned, would you be okay eating them?
Enough are angry, and they are listening to people who are weaponizing that anger to turn into actions (...and policies) that affect 100% of us.
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JP, kermittily: "You sure are something."
Smartass Kid: "And you're NOTHING."
It was beautiful.
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That guy owned JP so hard that Jubilee changed the ep title about five minutes after they posted it, from "1 Christian vs 20 Atheists" to "Jordan Peterson vs 20 Atheists," before taking it down altogether lol
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Same US Republican playbook. People in Montana were *dead set convinced* all the coastal cities were smoking burned out shells.
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Yes. He's already campaigning for the next elxn. It was too easy for him to turn Canadians against things like the carbon tax and burn his three word slogans into people's brains. It's super important we 1. push the media to cover him better, and 2. come up with and spread strong counter-narratives
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He's sort of mealy-mouthed about it, talking about how important "Christian values" are, and attending Catholic church apparently? but not really being a believer. But he can't admit that in so many words because his income depends on the right wing griftosphere.
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Their whole job is supposedly to sound the alarm and communicate the problems to the public and inform people, not report on how nobody cares -- help them care ffs? (It isn't true anyway, but let's say.) But that would be unseemly or alarmist some respectibility bothsides nonsense bullshit like that
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Oh my god I didn't even twig to that, but it's entirely that. They're gonna blame diabetes on women's lib jfc of course they fucking are
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"80% of Canadians [a stat I just pulled out of my ass knowing opinion pieces aren't fact checked] believe CPP won't be around in 7 years"
<checks date> huh
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This is reminding me of Elobowgate when Trudeau accidentally beaned a colleague in the boob and it was a story for weeeks. Ah, simpler times.
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Sick as in it needs a blankie and a nice warm garage, poor thing! j/k
As concept art I kinda appreciate it, sort of like tech billionaires dressing in ripped jeans and hoodies