It shouldn’t, but as a problem it is no longer preventable, at least for most people not able to be born into a socioeconomic bubble now that it has been identified as a problem. Lumping them altogether into microplastics is like lumping all addictive substances - coffee, alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, cocaine - into the same category. Sure, you’d be a lot better not being addicted to anything, but some addictions are worse than others, and for different reasons. It also lumps carcinogenic agents under the same smoke screen as, say, biodegradable microplastics which have considerably lower ecotoxicity.

It only works when they aren’t bribing each other off.

Yeah, I remember reading that tires are the biggest microplastic contributors. Those are some good points.

Your mistake wasn’t making the comment, it was that it caught the eye of an admin’s alt. It’s why r/worldnews goes to shit anytime anything Israel related is ever mentioned, and it’s such a sticking point for the admins that they basically had to throw away everything they had built up with the worldnews Q&A and interviews. They even used to pass off admin actions as that of the mods until eventually after getting enough backlash they just promoted the karmawhore mods willing to be loyal to them and forced the rest to leave.

They don’t want users or subscribers anymore, they want a product. They don’t give a shit how many years you were a member, and they secretly hope you do end up registering with an alt. It’s basically a stick to implicitly train you to avoid those topics if you want to continue participating.

If you want to go back to reddit, your best bet is to run on a VM with a different yet standard resolution and to try to mask all the data your browser leaks about you (why there isn’t a browser that already does this is ridiculous). Different timezone, location, etc. Tracking doesn’t matter as long as you don’t use it with your main account. Cycle your IP, which is usually simply turning off your ISP router for a while then turning it back on again, don’t really need a VPN unless they want to start banning whole geographical locations. If everything works out, congratulations, you have become yet another organic user reddit has turned into being indistinguishable from fake bot users.

Honestly, if the AI craze hadn’t bought off all the basic components needed for consumer PC builds, I’d probably object, but as it is, the market for consumers is being so starved that they could not survive on sales to them alone.

They’ll get their tariff money back - if they remember to bribe Donny. Otherwise, he’ll probably try to get federal agencies to harass them.

Correlation still doesn’t prove causation. Tumors process resources different than surrounding cells. The worst thing about the study is that it chooses to focus on microplastics without distinction when we know certain types of plastics have far higher carcinogenic risk than others, it would have just taken than slight bit more effort to actually make it worthwhile.

Notably, tumor tissue contained significantly more plastic. On average, cancerous samples had about 2.5 times the concentration found in healthy prostate tissue (about 40 micrograms of plastic per gram of tissue compared with 16 micrograms per gram).

Still, correlation does not imply causation. It might just be that because of the nature of what tumors are, they get stuck with more microplastics. The biggest problem with this study is that there are known carcinogens in some types of plastics over others, and it seems to outright choose to dismiss any attempt at distinction for the sake of the microplastic boogieman.

Honestly, the taint is so much that it makes one wonder if another federated alternative that was just largely a name change would be more popular. Even with piefed, go into the Lemmy ecosystem and you can’t escape the biases of the baseline.

I don’t take any particular downvote personally, I just have a problem with the whole unregulated concept of downvoting is, and I think there’s a reason why the same networks that brought it into popularity over the predecessors that didn’t have are also the ones rampant today toxicity, cult-on-demand bubbles, circlejerks, and the like. Lemmy is the one platform where downvoting really isn’t worth anything - well, at least unless the piefed guys have a say in it, from my understanding. If it ever became popular to try to act like the upvote/downvote ratio means something in Lemmy, it would be far easier to manipulate and take advantage in contrast to non-federated platforms, and I already commonly see accounts with almost no comment or post participation since a few months just being used to slap upvotes and downvotes on an hourly basis.

It would just be so simple to improve, but people just keep trying to clone the same flawed systems that made them leave other platforms.

I know some people like to actually use the term, but the fact still seems to be that the majority of people using the term are those looking to slap an “anti-” to it while searching for a boogieman to hide their bigotry under. It also isn’t really an effective term, given how ambiguous it is and how easy it is to say what you mean.

It’s definitely effective for them. For a small minority of possible legitimate use, they get to keep their whitewashing of a boogieman and people who rarely even use the term themselves will downvote any suggestion to go after banning popular labels used by bigots. Regardless of what some people want it to be, it is an excellent and effective exercise at gaslighting to the benefit of the bigots themselves.

The irony of claiming to be aware of social injustice by acting to support such an effective boogieman for it, to the point where you are actually defending them against hate speech laws. Gaslighting supreme.

That’s the beauty of downvotes: no f-ing context on why people disagree with you or if they even do and are just holding a vendetta from somewhere else, since they aren’t forced to indicate why.

The account enjoys making a lot of very questionably inconsistent downvotes over their far fewer upvotes and even comments their own suggestion on how to sabotage Flock surveillance cameras in the thread yet doesn’t seem to be an edgelord in their own comments, so who knows. Unlike upvoting, where you presumably agree with a comment, downvoting provides no context as you have no clue why or how much they disagreed with something. Presumably the statement was too simplistic to resonate with their refined tastes, which to avoid the downvote should presumably have been stated with the collection of words they would favor as an argument, if they ever bothered to make it.

Honestly, using the woke label should be classified as hate speech. “Woke” is literally anything that goes after hate speech, favors different point of views, and empowers traditionally suppressed groups. For all their claims that woke is somehow recent, the loudest proponents don’t have any problems going back a few centuries and to call that woke. It’s just an attempt at gaslighting critics who themselves don’t have the moral foundation to admit it. They are worse than the hardcore racists because at least they have the decency to be honest about it.

For all the flak I give GOG, I will actually have to praise them over Steam if they take a decent stand on this, but I suspect that they will join in with Steam and avoid virtue signalling on this lest they risk the wrath of “many gamers”.

Fuck centralized surveillance.

That’s the culture in the US, money has always been able to influence and coordinate over ideology. It has become clear that patriotism in the US is so obsessed with the romanticized past to make up any actual ideological conviction in the present. Otherwise, we would see a lot of states begin trying to coordinate with each other against a clearly unconstitutional federal government.

There’s a couple of nice safeguards you can buy for your 12VHPWR connection now. There’s even load balancers. I just wouldn’t leave my PC on and unattended with one of the new cards.

The best way to prepare yourself is to prepare for the most likely outcome. Doesn’t matter how good the balm is if it’s treating the wrong condition.

Yes, all bark, no bite.

ITT: People placing their hopes on a presidential race when they don’t even know if they are even going to be able to have a legitimate rollover on the midterms.

Unfortunately, 4090 is already going into the obsolescence by power cable fire hazard territory. Keep your eye on it as it ages.