The microplastics in a product don’t have to originate in a product’s final packaging. Things like airborne particles on the production line, filaments from filters and cleaning equipment, manufacturing swarf, and cleaning processes that are oriented to killing small things with heat / UV / chemistry rather than filtering tbem out is probably more of the answer than leaching and degradation.
Without resorting to abolishing the family kitchen altogether (many years of church morning teas give me the heebie jeebies about foodborne illnesses around community food prep) - there are ways to avoid some plastic packaging. Depending where you are, wholefoods places probably exist and will happily sell you a scoop (metal) of the ingredient you need in a pickle jar (glass). Also a good way to avoid storing bulk amounts of rarely-used ingredients, saves some waste.
Has there been any serious proposal for hydrogen to replace reticulated gas in domestic supply? The cost to refit existing infra would surely make it less attractive than something like power-to-methane.
I just came across the article and came here to see whether it had been posted and I’d just missed it. Glad someone did, amazed it didn’t get same the traction. Amazed!
Syllabic notation is harder to understand, someone talked about it above, syntactical boundaries are harder to parse, and the language’s functional parts - things like tenses and inflections, are mostly written in kana, the rest mostly in kanji.
This article (featured previously on HN) discusses the efficiency thing a bit - https://yakkomajuri.com/blog/language-efficiency - though I think the pixel count metric is meaningless and leads to weird conclusions, there are some good thoughts.
Dated put probably not outdated - Japanese also retains パソコン (pasokon, short for “personal computer), which shows its age. I recall a Japanese friend explaining it in 2003, at which time the IME for kanji in Windows had had at least a decade of common use and was remarkably sophisticated. It may be that post-smartphone it’s been such a common phenomenon that everyone accepts it as part of everyday life, there are certainly enough articles and posts about it.
If Mark Twain is more to your taste, go have a browse of an early 20th centry edition and see how you feel about teaching the language in that to your kids.
Encourage you to have a look at the number of different English-language translations exist of biblical texts and the kinds of debate that goes into discerning what those words mean.
Children aren’t exactly reading as literary historians. The tropes that have been lightened up in these changes are things like equating disfigurement with evilness, fatness with moral failure, femininity (in women) with virtue. Kids will absolutely repeat the unkindness that they pick up in works like these. If you read through them, the changes are not “covering up” anything or “forgetting” history, they’re clearly there to lessen the ambient amount of ridicule against certain groups of people that kids get exposed to.
And - this happens all the time, you can look at Enid Blyton and things like Biggles for properties that have quietly changed language here and there to keep them from getting too dated. Panties get bunched when the currency changes from pounds and shillings, the _Spectator_ trots out another piece about wokeity sending us all to hell because Noddy and Big Ears aren’t gay any more - but those books stay in print.
The article is written from experience in one paediatric centre, when the pratice between different centres - and laws in different states - differ vastly.
Information about people seeking gender affirming care in different places and stages of transition is not refutable based on this article.
And it is anecdata - how many patients had positive outcomes? Article doesn’t tell you. What did the (brand new) centre learn from these cases with negative outcomes? What protocols was it using? Are they the same now? Are they common elsewhere?
Will be interesting to see how this interacts with the ecology. Normally a complete shading like this would kill off everything underneath, which will mean it’ll produce loose soil and dust. In some hot environments it may produce a bunch of condensation overnight and if the panels aren’t raked at all that’ll be a challenge to deal with.
Just. No. Leaving aside the massive pastoral leases, that is the ancestral land of the oldest continuing cultures on the planet.
Mabo vs Qld was handed down in 1992 and the idea that “nobody is out there” was formally and legally abolished then, and should be condemned to Australia’s regrettable, racist past.
> The environmental damage of open pit mining operations is nothing compared to the environmental damage and visual pollution of a large city
Eh? These processes liberate vast amounts of heavy metals, arsenic and other environmental contaminants, making byproducts like poil and tailings are super toxic and expensive to deal with, and mining companies have a tendency to vanish before the cleanup is done. When these leak or fail, they often do so into water supplies for cities or isolated communities who have the serial insults of being displaced and then poisoned. Have a search for “tailings dam failures” or superfund sites, for that matter.
The lands in question in the Pilbara are the ancestral property of various first nations, and after a couple of centuries of it, are a bit wary of blokes turning up saying “well we need your resources we’re taking them.”
There are complex and intersecting interests here, and the tech industry acting like resources in someone’s country are there for the tech industry to exploit as of right, are a really good example of how colonialism continues to cause suffering and the inequalities it promises to emancipate us from.
Important advice is to be that amazing father. Breastfeeding is a huge time/energy drain. And if one of you is full-time working, the other is full-time parenting during work hours. When working parent gets home, that’s when their parenting shift begins. Use parental leave if it’s available, negotiate more if you can.
The reliance on using OTP by SMS has become worse in that time, if anything. Although these days they prefer to set up a fake Linkt website and phish the OTPs since Facebook leaked everyone’s mobile numbers.
Okay, you’re using that word in an unconventional sense. In your usage, the US Congress would be an “offshoot” of the British Crown. Movements that stand in opposition to a prior established manner of thought are usually referred to as something like a backlash or a reaction or a breakaway.