Trump has a direct quote about people who get shot being losers as a dig at deceased veterans but somehow has a veteran who called him Hitler as a running mate. He is a convicted felon representing the Law and Order party and is endorsed by police unions.
At this point American politics makes zero sense to me. I'm just holding my breathe and hoping defending our border won't be necessary in a year
This is understated. I live in Canada and the pest danger is already severe. Every dead tree you see in the forests has the telltale squiggly track marks of the Emerald Ash Borer or other bark beetles. Out west is suffering record fires. Logging is the only category I'd be less concerned about here because they are required by law to replace what they harvest.
Thank you. This should have been a top comment as it needs more direct attention.
POV: you're a happily married female Alpaca just trying to walk home.
If you use Ublock you can use this filter to clean Shorts from Youtube (FTR you only need 2 lines near the bottom that have the word 'short' in them, but Lemmy formatting is balls so it's all or nothing):
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Okay, first thing: Lemmy is Federated. This means you don't need new logins. See a community on a different server? So long as the server it is on hasn't been defederated you can read, vote, post and comment just fine on it. For example, I'm not on this server.
The only time you would need more than one login is if you wanted separate accounts. Whether they are on different servers or not doesn't matter so long as they are all on the same Federation/web of connected servers.
Second, complaining about Social Media issues on a SM platform is pointless. The people that aren't problems won't care, and the people that are will just feed on it and use it against you. Don't like the thundering shithole that is all Social Media anymore? By all means, leave. I absolutely understand and agree with the sentiment. Maintain your mental health for your good and those you interact with IRL.
Almost anything can be carcinogenic with a high enough exposure. You can pump a rat full of water until it dies and declare that water kills people. But, that doesn’t prove anything or serve a point.
This is how science is done friend. You make no assumptions. You have reason to believe a theory predicts a testable outcome? You test it. Not everything causes cancer. Pure air doesn't... Clean water doesn't... The research shows us Aspartame does indeed have carcinogenic effects in rats. Now we know this, and the result can be used to support applications for more costly research using subjects much more similar to our anatomy because if it is carcinogenic in one mammal, it probably is carcinogenic in others.
You call the study flawed when it looks perfectly fine to me for the purpose it was designed for. It shows it is carcinogenic in the mammal it was tested on at dosage levels that translate to non-'massive', quite reasonable consumption rates for humans. As such, it warrants concern and all these claims by the European and US Food Agencies saying 'we did 100s of studies decades ago and it is fine trust me bro' is not enough. I'm not arguing this one study proves Aspartame causes cancer in humans. I'm saying your particular criticisms of it are unfounded as is your confidence that Aspartame is non-carcinogenic. You cite FDA claims 'Aspartame is safe' but show no research that supports this conclusion. Looking at the provided links I noticed things like "don't feed to pregnant mothers because phenylalanine", "methanol is a metabolite - nothing concerning there", and 'we plan on doing a systemic revaluation of aspartame as the research is over a decade old (the whole time with the biggest corporations in the world breathing down our necks)' https://www.efsa.europa.eu/sites/default/files/corporate_publications/files/factsheetaspartame.pdf
Looks to me like somebody did more research and found contradictory results otherwise why would WHO say they are going to do this?
Well it was confusing to begin with. I'm still not sure how to search efficiently or whatever, and I don't know where you can quickly see the Instance themes. I've settled in though and I'm comfortable now. It really helps that **every **comment isn't replied to with someone outright hostile for whatever reason. Pretty sure that'll change once the bots realize we're worth their time.
I have my icks. I wish thread trees were more distinct. I'm still getting the hang of the interface. But despite them there is a pleasant vibe here where you feel like you're actually talking to people and not screaming to be heard amongst a hostile crowd.
And a missing slot "404"
It's a daily report with totals for all the way up to the start of Russia's attempt at Kyiv in February of last year. The deltas are simply the change from yesterday's report, and so on...
TIL David Smith (the article author) is completely out of ideas and has decided to phone it in until the weekend.