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MediaBiasFactChecker Bot , in Texas’ overcrowded and understaffed jails send people awaiting trial to other counties and states

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MediaBiasFactChecker Bot , in 2 former police officers and 2 military veterans accused of staging sham raid to extort nearly $37 million from California man

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MediaBiasFactChecker Bot , in Homeowners are increasingly re-wilding their homes with native plants, experts say

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MagicShel , in Woman recalls alleged sexual abuse at age 3 in Michigan church, lawsuit says

Our memory is so unreliable. I have some very clear memories from my childhood that I can prove to myself couldn’t have happened the way I remember.

I have no reason to doubt this happened, especially since repressing memories is a trauma response, but proving it in court without good corroborating evidence is going to be nigh impossible.

RestrictedAccount ,

For some very good reasons

Deceptichum , in Iowa man allegedly shoots his father in face after complaint about smelly feet
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When you hear son, your mind really doesn’t go to 48 does it?

andrewta ,

Some children never grow up

moshankey , in Scientists find humans age dramatically in two bursts – at 44, then 60

Oh, fuck me! I got nothing else.

dactylotheca , in Scientists find humans age dramatically in two bursts – at 44, then 60
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Fuck, that explains a lot

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madcaesar , in US Considers a Rare Antitrust Move: Breaking Up Google

Google NEEDS to be broken up badly. They are essentially a monopoly in the online space, from chrome to search to maps to youtube.

Every service is abusing the power of the others to grow their market share and kill competition.

I used to love Google. They pushed the web and tech in the right direction.

But somewhere along the way they’ve been taken over by marketing cunts that only looked at the bottom line and didn’t care how evil or anti consumer they became.

FlyingSquid , in Cancer-Causing Benzene Is Used to Make Store-Brand Cold Relief Medicine
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Perrier got a huge amount of negative press when it was discovered that benzene was found in their bottles and did a massive recall back in 1990.

That was when the news actually reported on important things in a big way.

This will mostly get ignored.

MagicShel ,

The loss of journalistic integrity is the most damaging result of the enshittification of the internet. I’ve thought for years about how to fix this, but I can’t think of any way. Information is a commodity with no intrinsic value. So “news” whores itself out to donors with an agenda or advertisers.

This was supposed to be better than the gatekeeping of the 70’s and 80’s where you had a few major papers and 3 TV stations, and they could bury stories that went against their self-interest or agenda. But somehow we’ve made it worse.

Two things I would never go to school for these days: teaching and journalism. And that’s fucking tragic because those are maybe the two most important jobs there are.

Lemming6969 ,

This is why we have public funding and government and laws.

nilloc ,

Unless you live in a red town that votes to blow all its budgets on police and subsidies to empty storefronts.

AmidFuror ,

I don't know about you, but I consume water more often than cold medicine.

FlyingSquid ,
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I have absolutely no idea what your point is. I drink more water than Pepto Bismol, but if there was mercury in it, I would sure as hell want them to stop selling the Pepto Bismol with mercury.

AmidFuror ,

The dose makes the poison. What was the benzene level in Perrier compared to these medicines, and then how much was a person likely to consume in a year? Without a discussion of dose, it's pretty meaningless.

California has Prop 65, which is rendered virtually useless because everything is carcinogenic to some degree.

FlyingSquid ,
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First of all, plenty of people take Mucinex every day, especially in allergy season.

Do you know what the safe daily dosage of benzine is? I bet it’s not especially high when we’re talking about something cumulative. And why should people take that risk when the article says this is just about saving money and there are safer alternatives?

This is some weird defense of big pharma.

MadLegoChemist ,

This article is talking about benzene, not benzine FYI.

The allowable limit in drinking water by the EPA is 5 ppb. Inhalation exposure limit by OSHA is 1 a 5 ppm per day (inhalation is not an apples to apples comparison to consumption though). I’m not a toxicologist so I don’t know what exposure amount is “safe”, but dosage does matter.

This article mentions benzene coming from the carbomer in these formulas. The benzene is a residual impurity in the carbomer making process, and there are carbomer on the marketplace that don’t use benzene in their manufacturing process, but they are more expensive. I’m not sure the source of carbomer for these products, but I’ve seen reported on carbomer I’ve looked at to have up to 1 ppm of benzene impurity. Products like this might use carbomer up to 0.5 to 1%. So you’d expect maximum levels of benzene to be in the product (at the aforementioned levels) to be 10 ppb. So possibly at double the amount allowable in drinking water by EPA. People drink a lot more water than cough syrup (I hope) so it might not be that concerning.

The article frustratingly does not give amounts of benzene found in these products so it could be sensationalist—I just don’t know. So is benzene bad—yes. Does the cough syrup have concerning levels of benzene? Maybe, but just saying benzene might be present isn’t enough information in my opinion.

whostosay ,

I think what he’s getting at is, it has benzene, it’s got what plants crave.

disguy_ovahea ,

They also had a magnesium filter fail shortly after. They survived the bad press by buying up US water brands before the boycotts could take them down. They picked up Poland Spring, Great Bear, Deer Park, and San Pellegrino. Their only real competition was Evian until Dannon got big into the water game.

Source: briefly worked for PGA (Perrier Group of America) in the late 90s

SarcasticMan , in Vance agrees that raising grandchildren is ‘whole purpose of postmenopausal female’
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Women are for reproduction use only. Men can fuck couches and dress up like women but their place is out in the world. Doing the tough jobs like I did when I was a US Marine, risking my life to write press releases and enjoy it in the rear, hahaha, that’s what she said. I am not weird, you’re weird. When a woman can no longer produce babies and her womb has dried up she should devote her time to raising the children of her husband’s young new baby machi…I mean grandchildren. In conclusion, Donny said I could say the n-word any time I want if he gets elected and he would also buy me a nice new sexy suede couch and he promised not to deport my brown wife and our Italian-level white children." - James David “My Preferred Name Is JD” Vance

Lost_My_Mind ,

Well, you certainly live up to your username! Damn! Tell em how you really feel!

SpraynardKruger ,

I thought his name was Jorkin Depeanus

homesweethomeMrL , in Meta kills off misinformation tracking tool CrowdTangle despite pleas from researchers, journalists

“How odd”

rockSlayer , in Montana Supreme Court rules minors don't need parental permission for abortion
phoneymouse , in Starbucks’ CEO is out. Chipotle’s Brian Niccol is taking over

I don’t understand the obsession with either of these restaurants

corsicanguppy ,
  1. Caffeine is addictive,
  2. sugar gives you the zoomies, and
  3. frothy milk is delicious.

That’s the coffee part handled, anyway. The only improvement would be allow for alcohol, I think, as I’m really sure an irish coffee all day would improve my morning commute – the bus driver would be so much more relaxed!

frezik ,

It’s strange how the Internet turned on Chipolte. When they were first expanding, everyone raved about how great they were. Then there’s a few very public food safety issues, which certainly doesn’t put them in a good light. They didn’t make any particular changes to their recipes AFAIK due to that. If you thought they were tasty before, then that opinion should be the same now even if you avoid them due to untrustworthy food safety.

I dunno; the Mexican fried rice they use tends to sit heavy in my stomach, so I avoid them, anyway.

the_crotch ,

Moe’s Southwest grill is exactly the same as chipotle but their food is higher quality and they give you free nachos

Boozilla , in Americans don't like Project 2025
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Americans want affordable housing, affordable health care, better gun regulations, a true ceasefire, and many other things that the establishment politicians don’t give AF about.

432 ,

I don’t know about better gun regulations.

Boozilla ,
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90% of Americans want something done about guns. They disagree on the details, but common sense things like Universal Background Checks are very popular. I know it’s common to depict all Americans as “hamburger, humburger, bang bang bang!” but a lot of people think AR-15 and similar weapons being allowed in the hands of civilians is absurd.

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