Thanks for making me aware of it, I dunno how active the humanities side of it is but I’m definitely going to be checking my sources on it when I’m doing class work 👍

Mining for the rare earth elements used in solar panels is pretty ugly, too. But once they’re taken out they can be reused, it’s not like coal or oil where you use it once and it’s gone forever.

Excellent breakdown of flaws, this one is the most damning to me:

Cancer sites are not considered. Exposure to radionuclide pollution from Uranium fission products is known to be associated with specific tumors (thyroid cancer, lung cancer, leukemia) due to the chemical nature of the products of its decay chain (radioactive isotopes of Iodine, Radon, Cesium). Stratifying by tumor site would have provided evidence to support the assumption that tumors are caused by radiation exposure.

Who cares if you find more bladder cancer if this radiation isn’t associated with bladder tumors? This makes the study absolutely stink of a conclusion looking for evidence, especially in combination with the failure to use the actual radiation data readily available from nuclear sites.

It looks like the saturation was cranked up on the OP image, the pictures on Wikipedia of Texas persimmons show them as ‘blue’ in the way that blueberries are blue, very dark and almost black. But I only knew of them as orange, so as far as I’m concerned that’s pretty blue!

I had no idea persimmons came in blue, neat!

Aw, so it does. Cute!

In elementary school in the 90s I remember an exercise where we had to imagine what killed the dinosaurs. I came up with an implausible scenario of overpredation, and because I grew up in the south a classmate of mine said the Biblical flood killed them all and was praised by the teacher 🤷‍♂️

I don’t think I’ve seen a study with solid methodology break 5%, and it’s usually in the 1-2% range.

‘Teenage boys should get to say wildly misogynistic things with no social repercussions’ is absolutely not how you wind up with men who have normal relationships with women.

April 2002

April fool’s joke?

Pastels: could be tasteful

Neon: what happened to your eyes?

Smoking too much weed is stereotyped with eating junk food, but no fruit has ever tasted better to me than when I’m blazed.

Oh, you replied to the wrong post. Because my post was about people who were saying to go kill people in DC.

But yeah, the trans person in the US is a Nazi for not making himself more of a target. Sounds like some real normal political views 👍

‘Go kill people in DC or you’re doing nothing’ is fucked in the head politics. You wouldn’t be saying that to people in any other dictatorship.

Yeah, well have you considered that you should give up your life to go to DC and kill people??

-people who think they’re not deranged for some reason

Relevant short story: https://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html

Former situation: there is one electron

New situation: there are two electrons

This is untrue, gastroliths are associated only with birds that eat plants. They grind up food, which isn’t necessary for meat. Eagles eat bullets from animals that have either been shot and abandoned, lost, or had parts of them discarded as zqxwas pointed out.

Complaints that specifically cited problems with the way treatment had been provided constituted around five per cent of all complaints made in that time. They represented 0.06 per cent of the 12,000 service users the clinic was believed to have been treating on average.

The journalists noted that the majority of the eight complaints filed were over fears that ongoing treatment for patients could be suddenly rescinded.

Thank you for the warning.