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There's already been issues like this in using copper sulfate (which is inorganic in terms of molecular structure and persistent as an element like you mention, but labeled as organic in some jurisdictions in terms of agricultural treatments and food marketing) as a fungicide. It's a very short lived fungicide for leaf borne fungal diseases, meaning it must be present on the leaf to prevent infection (it is easily washed away by rain or errant irrigation) and applied repeatedly, but is long lived in the soil meaning it can build up and kill off mycorrhizae and other beneficial soil fungus causing longer term drops in yield.

So, yeah, your worry is valid. And, that's just one example.

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avian influenza

uphillbothways ,
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Humans are burning down the wrong Amazon.

uphillbothways ,
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In my experience, if you break them into sections or at least halves, you can pick those up and eat them. (provided a good layer of beans to hold it together as mentioned by another commenter.) When I've tried to pick the whole thing up, it almost always breaks right around where I was holding it and it sucks, even if it manages to hit the plate when it falls.

uphillbothways ,
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In the US, it's usually an easement written into the deeds.

uphillbothways ,
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I hate musk and think he's an idiot, but people are apathetic enough to let everything go to shit without their plan.

They may have one, you're probably right, but it's still a dumb plan.

Trump 'does not have the right to say and do exactly what he pleases,' Judge Chutkan says, issuing gag order (www.cnn.com)

A federal judge on Monday issued a gag order on former President Donald Trump, limiting what he can say about special counsel Jack Smith’s federal prosecution into his alleged attempt to subvert in the 2020 presidential election....

uphillbothways ,
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I'm not a lawyer, but that should be felony contempt for violating a direct court order.

uphillbothways ,
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milorganite

uphillbothways ,
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Meanwhile, mosquitoes... pollinating, cleaning waterways as nymphs, females just needing the slightest amount of blood to lay a couple hundred eggs. Forgotten, maligned, made the focus of actual efforts to purposefully cause species extinction. ._.

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Mosquitoes don't directly cause death, though.
They are susceptible to diseases. They pass those diseases on. Those diseases cause death.
Bees cause more direct deaths due to anaphylactic shock from allergies to apitoxin.

Mosquitoes just catch all the blame.

uphillbothways ,
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My family was on Alderaan. You monster!

uphillbothways ,
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Being insufferable is a great way to become redundant. Doesn't matter if you're a platform or a person, rich or poor. Anything can be more trouble than it's worth. And if you are given the chance to stop and think about it, it's probably been true for a while already.

uphillbothways ,
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Mmmm. Delicious polyfluorinated substances.

uphillbothways , (edited )
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As concerned as most christians seem to be with punishment of those doing some imagined wrong or another, wouldn't that sort of mean they're following in their supposed satan's ways and tenets.

uphillbothways ,
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Seems like debate and people changing their minds when presented with new information is something that died around 9/11, if it ever even existed. Even the most mild vocal disagreement just further entrenches people in their feelings.
There's just no point.

uphillbothways ,
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Here's an empty bucket to yell into so you can hear your own voice. That'll be $12/month. Thanks.

uphillbothways ,
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There's work being done on something better still.

https://iepi.mcmaster.ca/research/pillars-of-research/innovation-emerging-technologies/research-syntheses/transmissible-vaccines/

"Transmissible vaccination is a type of inoculation that targets wild animals and can spread between hosts autonomously, with the goal of preventing transmission of animal pathogens to human populations."

uphillbothways ,
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No one cares what Putin is saying, unless he says that he's resigning and submitting himself to custody for prosecution by independent international authorities. He's a lying piece of shit. Everyone just wants his reign of terror to end, by any possible method.

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Archive link (it and entire article also in the post text): https://ghostarchive.org/archive/O3xl6

uphillbothways ,
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Here's the cited Kyiv Post article: https://www.kyivpost.com/post/22308
(Business Insider always has bullshit.)

uphillbothways , (edited )
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Remember when all those Employee Assistance Programs, marketed as ways to get mental and other forms of help for workers, were found to just be sharing data with HR so companies could have reasons to fire you? Cause Pepperidge Farms does.

Never trust your employer with sensitive information.

uphillbothways ,
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When I was a teenager, an older friend told me how he learned in college history how the first Emperor of China wrote the language, made all these scientific discoveries, etc, etc. And I, knowing fuck all about Chinese history, was like 'you mean he killed all the historians and advisors, then burned all the libraries, so he could take credit, right?' My friend is like 'uhhh.....'

Yeah, so turns out that's pretty much how more recent readings of it say it went down.

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Friend of mine's dad, back in the 90's, ran a small shop converting VW bugs to electrics w about a 40 mile range using just a bunch of car batteries. The shop went under after a little bit, not enough interest. But, it's very possible.

The Bioactive Substances in Spent Black Tea and Arabic Coffee Could Improve the Nutritional Value and Extend the Shelf Life of Sponge Cake after Fortification (pubs.acs.org)

Abstract: The study aimed to evaluate the potential use of spent coffee powder (SCP) and spent tea powder (STP) as bioactive supplements for sponge cake. To achieve this aim, we initially compared the chemical properties of spent tea and coffee powders with those of their raw forms. Subsequently, three supplemented cake blends...

uphillbothways OP , (edited )
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I read that as a neutral example medium. I'm going to try it in some kind of muffins, I think. The 3% dry ratio to flour and general nutrient profile, that it's not going to be bitter or bad for me, that was of most interest to me.
I drink enough tea. Might as well. And it's a free preservative that's good for me and adds flavor.

uphillbothways OP ,
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Yes, the first one. Any coffea arabica.

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I read all the theories. All I can muster is 'oh no, not Russia's pipeline.' Seems like however you cut it, Russia did this to themselves by invading Ukraine. They were kind of on a more decent path towards meaningful integration for a minute. Would have been good for common Russians and everyone else if they'd stayed on that path. But, instead their leadership decided on extreme aggression.

uphillbothways ,
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Profit is the portion of revenue that is stolen from workers and given to shareholders. Profit is bad. Revenue is good.

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Which is crazy, right? If a stock sale allows an investment in a business, a stock buyback should be a paying off of that debt, freeing more revenue in the future to be used explicitly to pay workers who generate that revenue. How the fuck that is justified in instead enriching the value of other investments still held by other investors shows the selective use of the analogy by corporate interests and that the whole house of cards is just bullshit.

uphillbothways ,
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Unfortunately, the only face this disease gets is when a celebrity or politician is struck with it. In terms of dementia awareness, that's all there is. My interest in the article was about the disease, not the individual. There wasn't much information there, but awareness is important. Dementia is increasing in the population, partly due to an increase in average age.

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That's true. But, I think for many, it's kind of a black box. How it progresses isn't something people want to think about. It's pretty unpleasant, but is also a vital part of that support for the family you mention. Having something to compare their own experiences with. Being able to ask is this normal. That sort of thing.

It's a very sad disease.

uphillbothways ,
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Well shit. I'm gonna recommit to making a million dollars by lunch tomorrow. Fuck all that'll do, but why not.

Attorney for Alabama band director arrested after football game says tasing was unacceptable and left students traumatized (www.cnn.com)

The Alabama band director who was arrested after refusing to stop his band’s performance at a high school football game is grappling with the aftermath of being tased by police, which his attorney says was unacceptable and left students traumatized....

uphillbothways ,
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He didn't deserve any sort of action. The stadium was clearing out just fine. He was finishing up and was assaulted for making music.

In what kind of fascist hellscape does that warrant police action?

uphillbothways ,
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We've fucked up every ecosystem there is and are looking for ways to fuck places that don't even have them. Humans are the worst.

uphillbothways ,
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He went from saying he was going to build an 'everything app' to charging for something that does nothing and is shit at it.

Officials find debris from F-35 fighter jet that crashed in South Carolina after pilot ejected (apnews.com)

The crash site for a stealth fighter jet that went missing during the weekend after its pilot ejected has been located in rural South Carolina after the military asked the public for help finding an aircraft built to elude detection....

A missing F-35 stealth fighter may have kept flying after its pilot ejected. A pilotless Soviet jet once flew 500 miles before crashing in NATO territory. (www.businessinsider.com)

The curious case of a missing F-35 stealth fighter in South Carolina has authorities — and civilians — searching high and low, especially considering the jet may have continued flying on its own for some time even after its pilot ejected....

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Advanced flight AI turned on all the warning lights, made the pilot bail, killed the transponders and stole the plane. This is how skynet starts.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy: The 2023 60 Minutes Interview transcript (www.cbsnews.com)

Zelenskyy warns Putin could cause World War III if not stopped in Ukraine, says Putin counting on U.S. instability during the 2024 election and says drone strikes will continue if Russia keeps attacking infrastructure....

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Autopilot engineers in meeting: 'Oh, hi.... You're.... here.'

San Jose woman loses limbs after battling bacterial infection from tilapia (www.kron4.com)

There’s a warning about a dangerous bacteria that might have infected a local woman who’s still recovering after nearly two months in the hospital. An online fundraising effort says she contracted the bacterial infection after eating fish and is now a quadruple amputee....

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More info on the bacteria here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibrio_vulnificus

"Vibrio vulnificus wound infections have a mortality rate around 25%. In people in whom the infection worsens into sepsis, typically following ingestion, the mortality rate rises to 50%."

"Increasing seasonal temperatures and decreasing salinity levels seem to favor a greater concentration of Vibrio within filter-feeding shellfish of the U.S. Atlantic seaboard and the Gulf of Mexico, especially oysters (Crassostrea virginica)."

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From: https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/CDPH%20Document%20Library/VibriosisEpiSummary2013-2019.pdf

Epidemiology of Vibriosis in California, 2013-2019

During the surveillance period, V. parahaemolyticus was the most common species identified
as the cause of vibriosis (845 cases, 50.0% of cases), followed by V. alginolyticus (269 cases,
15.9%) and non-toxigenic V. cholerae (91 cases, 5.4%). Thirty cases (1.8%) of V. vulnificus
were reported. Among the 1,481 cases with complete hospitalization information, 287 (19.7%)
of 1,454 non-V. vulnificus cases were hospitalized and 23 of 27 (85%) of V. vulnificus cases
were hospitalized. Deaths were reported among 30 (1.8%) case-patients at the time of case
report. Of these deaths, 10 (33.3%) had V. vulnificus infection and the others had infection with
another Vibrio or unidentified species.

The spread of Vibrio vulnificus as a result of warming coastal waters seems worthy of concern. Though uncommon, it is far more dangerous than other Vibrio species. Anything that could raise the incidence of infection is very bad.

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It's sad, but it's of note for epidemiological reasons. If no one else ate the fish, there's no reason to think a second person could have become sick.

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