ORC wrangling is sort of fun. They think they get away with it but then get involved in a police blitz and go to jail for quite a while. What happens is They police and store asset protection / loss prevention allow them to steal products until they hit the federal $ limit to be a federal crime. A blitz occurs and they get funneled to police waiting outside to arrest them. I’ve probably seen 5 ORC rings busted using this method.
This is genuinely huge and is negligent homicide at the very least. We need multinational lawsuits to deal with multinational crimes like this.
Knowingly using a material that degrades with heat and humidity and can cause cancer in the manufacture of a heating humidifying healthcare device, and then ignoring all reports for years is diabolical stuff.
It sounds like it’s not just a case of “could cause cancer” it sounds like it straight-up does cause cancer. They’re not just talking about carcinogenic compounds, they’re talking about genotoxic carcinogenic compounds. My understanding is that normal carcinogens carry a risk of developing cancer, but it’s not guaranteed. Genotoxic carcinogens, however, are almost guaranteed to cause cancer because they actually change how cells work.
It’s worse than that. My buddy had one and on a fixed income, had to scrabble and scrimp to pay for a replacement. I just sent him the article and said I hope he sues them.
The recall really fucked CPAP prices. Phillips and Resmed make up probably 99% of the CPAP machine market with a few other companies fighting over the scraps. And to be fair, none of those other companies come close to making a machine as good as a Resmed or Phillips one. Redmed and Phillips probably have a 49.5% share each of the market. So when Phillips was suddenly yoinked from the market, it left a HUGE hole none of the others could fill. To make matters worse it happened during supply shortages. I know Resmed was having problems with getting chips for the modems their machines use to remotely report to doctors. In addition they were switching over to a new model, so production of the older model was ending, too.
To put it in perspective, I picked up a used Resmed Airsense 10 with low hours for about $150 a month or so before the recall. Hell, I’d even see people giving them away on Craigslist sometimes. Nowadays you’re not paying less than $400-$500 for a used machine last I checked. That is close to the price you’d pay for a new machine before. Everything associated with CPAP machines went through the roof, as well, even though there was no shortage for those.
To add insult to injury, you can’t get the parts to fix this things. This is another market where right-to-repair needs to be opened up. I get it, though, they are medical devices and faulty 2nd hand parts could cause injury or even death, but for those of us with the skill and wherewithal, we should have access to the parts. I’ve torn down both my machines and cleaned them out. The main failing part is the blower motor. I mean that thing sees 10s of thousands of hours of use. My main machine has been used on average for 8 hours a day, every day for around 6-7 years, total. Yet replacing it is dirt simple - pull the old one out, unplug it, plug the new one in, put it in the machine, boom, done. Having authorized repair techs would be dirt simple. It just wouldn’t be as profitable as forcing insurance companies and individuals to shell out hundreds of dollars for a new machine. Which circles around to another pet peeve of mine - profit motive and healthcare need to be wholly divorced from each other.
Sorry, this went on longer than I wanted it to, but once I got started, I couldn’t stop.
The flow rate is low due to short term drought in the Mississippi basin, it’s not “drying up.” Adequate rains will return, likely within the next month as the fall wet season gets started
What I’m saying is this will not be a perpetual problem, but it will definitely be a more common occurrence. Periods of drought are growing more intense, as are periods of flooding. Saying the Mississippi “is drying up” makes it sound like the river is going away, but we can definitely expect a flood cycle at some point, probably in the near future
The extended periods of drought could very well cause the river to dry up. We just don’t know. i do know that in my part of the southeast, we have definitely seen a decrease in rainfall. Will the trend continue? Who knows. Climate change is going to redefine our regions.
I’m sorry, but you’re the one making the fantastical claim here. The Mississippi is fed from waters that cover a third of the United States. Yes, climate change will change our ecosystems, but there’s no evidence that the Mississippi will dry up anytime soon or at all.
Which is fine, because one is the sum of the other, but they do have very different properties.
Expect Mississippi River dry ups to happen more often. But also for flooding to happen more often. This dry up isn’t an anomaly, but dry ups happening 3x more often is.
The output of the river is 120000 cubic feet a second. This isn’t California. There is still plenty of water in the river. This isn’t even the Lowest recorded flow. Plus 30% of the flow goes down the atchafalaya river.
Aha. So it’s SwiftKey that is incapable of saying, even sarcastically, that the Senate is doing important work.
It also seems like some people were unable to interpret my previous comment? Idk why else I’d have a bunch of downvotes for pointing out a particularly amusing typo…
The California Catholic Conference opposed the law, arguing the state is “engaging in ideological colonization against states and citizens that do not want abortion.”
Fucking bring it. California is one of the largest economies in the world. I’d like to see states like Louisiana and Alabama try to fuck with us. Texas might be able to go toe-to-toe, but they’re about the only abortion-banning state that’d even stand a chance.
Spoiler, it’s not going to change anything. People can still stockpile their rations and get trashed, or get other people, who aren’t going to use their rations, to buy for them. And 18 beers, three bottles of wine, or a bottle of liquor is still enough to get trashed on in a night.
And that doesn’t even touch the sexual assaults where alcohol isn’t involved.
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