There’s no conclusive evidence that giving blood lowers serum levels of microplastics. It may based on the assumption of seeing microplastics in donated blood but there’s not direct evidence yet that this lowers serum levels. Whether it would impact brain levels is also unknown as a result

There is conclusive evidence that donating blood does accelerate the removal of “forever chemicals” like PFAS though, in some cases fairly significantly (up to 10% blood level reduction and 30% serum reduction). Plus donating blood is nice

Is it teflon coated? If so you should be careful. Many of the suggestions here are for increasingly abrasive options which will scratch that coating and cause it to eventually flake off, which means it will get into your food, which definitely not something you want to eat

On one hand the grease itself is probably not a food safety issue anymore. Similar to a cast iron pan once oil/grease heats enough on a surface it polymerizes and essentially bonds to the surface. This is generally safe unless the oil is exposed to very high temps (beyond what is typically used for cooking) but it looks bad on stuff like sheet pans

However you do want to be a bit more diligent cleaning as a result. Unlike a cast iron pan where the polymerization layer (seasoning) is generally very smooth this is generally not; it is bumpy and has more nooks and crannies. This means there are more areas where filth and bacteria can be harbored. Not a huge issue, just make sure you clean well.

therapist

Yeesh.

But herein lies the problem. They post a sentence and a misleading graph, people eat that shit up. They have an audience of millions and media outlets will amplify it to more, maybe tens of millions even. Easy to digest

I can tear it apart, others can too. Easy, but wordy. I am very bad at doing this succinctly (my post history is clear evidence of this ha). I am sure someone else can do a much better job of doing this concisely BUT:

It almost inherently won’t be concise enough to be as digestible as theirs. It will be a paragraph, a few sentences. There will be more to it.

It will be inherently harder to understand. There will be more steps involved in processing the information. You have to understand what they presented, understand the flaw, and then evaluate whether the flaw is valid

The person posting a reaction is almost certainly not going to have the initial reach of musk amplified by the tech bro and gop propaganda sphere

Per above it is inherently reactionary. Their info has settled in people’s minds as valid and legitimate before yours can even come into play.

Even if they do post at work, so the fuck what? Do they not have downtime? Are they not allowed to spend said downtime as they please?

This is propaganda. “See how lazy these workers are? They USE THE INTERNET AT WORK!” Posted by a billionaire that tweets 900 times a day.

It’s totally okay when he goes on websites to post memes but when you do it you’re a lazy piece of shit because worker scum should be giving 100% efficiency. No breaks, no cellphone usage, no chairs, fuck you wage slave

Plus as others have said this is almost certainly edited and misleading:

First off what did weekends and holidays dwarf this? Are they purposely excluding them to make this seem worse?

Secondly what the fuck is that y axis scale? 30,000 posts per day? Bullshit. Reddit has no api access to make this easy to figure out (so how did they get this data??) The front page of r/fednews doesn’t have a metric that would go that high aside from upvotes, maybe. They do get some posts with 1-3k comments but most have like 20. Upvotes make more way more sense

That’s where we get to the point of purposefully misleading. I haven’t used reddit for years but when I did I was on a community for psychotherapists. It’s one of the things I miss about reddit actually because to post there you had to subscribe and message the mods with proof of your licensure or enrollment in a program and then were flaired appropriately. This helped immensely with “armchair psychologists” invading our professional space, which is a genuine problem elsewhere

I mention that because it does not appear fednews has any similar policy, meaning anyone with an account can post, comment, upvote, etc. The overwhelming majority of this data is likely not federal employees given Reddits prominence in online discourse and the current focus on federal government employees

At a minimum they realized this is data that can be easily used to mislead, at worst they pumped the numbers with bots to push their narrative

Similar to the RFK anti vax “data” that was easily dissected bullshit yesterday. The gop has been good at misleading data for years (so have dems but the gop are far more shameless) but now they have big tech on their side. This is absolutely terrifying because tech giants are going to be much better at making this subtle and outright manipulation so that the data appears valid (see the potential for botting above if the scale is upvote based)

Well of course. Me too! The only way that changes is if we change the framework of our entire economic system, really

And mine either!!

I assume they’re being pragmatic. Appealing the us to remove copyright is a fools errand. Appealing to shorten the length of the prection period is too frankly given the nature of corporate protectionism but it’s far more likely than America ever entertaining the idea of free information, regardless of the benefits that could ensue. Think of the shareholders! And yourself! Gotta hang that carrot in front of you. What if you finally write that novel and it blows up! I know you secretly want to be a multimillionaire! No one just makes art or has passion to study and document something without financial gain, that’s dumb. Ignore all those forum posts where people do exactly that

I remember when I was a teenager working in restaurants during high school I’d come home and shower afterwards. when I’d wash my hair it’d reek of cigarette smoke because I’d spent the last 5-9 hours standing in a giant plume of it.

I picked up smoking in college, I wonder if that was a factor. Thankfully I quit, eventually

Mihon is still available although it doesn’t do anime, only manga

Total fiction. Everyone knows you have to go to a unlicensed seller at a gun show in the majority of states for that, not a gun store

Anon is slowing disarming America

I mean they’re obviously arguing chromosomal sex is the end all be all

while it is true the gonads and external genitalia of embryos appear the same regardless of chromosomal sex it is also true that generally that embryo will develop sex characteristics in weeks 7-12 based on chromosomal assignments that occurred at conception.

The xy embryos have the presence of the sry gene on the Y chromosome which triggers development of gonads into testes, testosterone, and amh. Wolffian ducts become early stages of a penis, amh causes Müllerian ducts to regress

Xx embryos lack sry gene obviously, which allow the gonads to become ovaries. The wolffian ducts regress without amh and the Müllerian ducts become early stages of a vagina

Then week 12+ is when uterus/prostate start

That said biological sex is obviously much more complex than this. Intersex people exist. And there’s a great deal of variation in that.

Gonadal dysgenesis can occur when the gonads do not fully develop into testes or ovaries, incomplete or ambiguous genitalia.

True hermaphroditism can occur where both ovary and testicular tissue is present, again usually leading to ambiguous genitalia (no futas)

Androgen insensitivity can lead to ambiguous genitalia or in some cases an xy person with female external genitalia

Alternatively excess androgen can cause masculinized genitalia in xx people

Kleinfelters (xxy) can give underdeveloped testes, infertility, and low testosterone

Turners (x) underdeveloped ovaries, infertility

And this just kind of hand waves all those people away. Do you feel like your identity is linked to the fact that you’re in this minority and maybe doesn’t match what people perceive you to be? Are you an xy person with female genitalia because of androgen insensitivity who feels that your genitalia don’t match who you are. Well technically you’re a guy now I guess by these rules although we all know they mean “if you look like a chick you’re a chick”

And this all is besides the scientific evidence on transgender neurology, which is large and growing.

The bed nucleus of stria terminals is associated with gender identity and is typically smaller in cis women and larger in cis men. In amab trans women it tends to be similar to that of cis women

Cortical thickness of trans individuals tends to align more closely with their preferred gender

Trans people tend to show brain connectivity patterns in regions associated with self perception and body image aligned with their identity

Etc. this is already a novel. And this doesn’t even touch upon the *many many * more things at play here like genetics and epigenetics, prenatal neural developments and hormonal factors, social structures around gender (though tbf they did somewhat touch on this if only to outright deny its validity without offering any real rationale other than “we think it’s dumb”)

But these people obviously don’t give a shit about any of this. They’ll negate it, attack the source, outright deny the claims with no counter evidence, etc. or they’ll just do what they’re currently doing, remain completely ignorant on the topic and seize authority and power to implement their will regardless of the scientific consensus.

Dark times but fuck them. You don’t need the governments approval to express yourself. although I do recognize this will probably be an absolute nightmare for anyone who has not gotten a name change, modified birth certificate, drivers license, etc. if you haven’t done that maybe do it asap, especially for federal documents like passports (especially if you plan to bail on this shithole)