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1·27 days agoIt’s u/whitehouse
49·3 months agoThe X service remains available to the people of Brazil, billionaire Elon Musk’s platform said on Saturday.
Wait so what do they mean by stopping operations in Brazil then? Just the offices and staff? The article isn’t super clear on it
4·3 months agoNot the person you are replying to but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darknet_market
Not OP, but as someone who was at one point excited by the potential of crypto, the ecosystem has moved more and more towards what it claimed to stand against initially
It’s supposed to be decentralized, but things like mining pools have lead to heavy amounts of centralization in block production. If we look at Bitcoin, for an example, we see that over 51% of block production is controlled by just two mining pools. That’s not limited to just Proof of Work mining either. Proof of stake sees centralization in staking pools as well. That’s only just looking at one aspect of the network
It has also not really been seen as a currency. People’s view of it as an “investment” which have the opposite qualities you really want to see. People are encouraged to hold it and never let go, meaning they won’t want to spend it which is adverse to its use as a currency. This has also lead to it being incorporated and dominated by the very financial systems it was initially supposed to move away from
I don’t want to type out an essay, but I could keep going on in other ways that’s not really lived up to its promises.
112·3 months agoRaising the wage of 1 million contractors is not just words. Yes, we do need more, but don’t think it’s nothing
Part of the goal is to encourage their campaign to get more of a mastodon presence
Most of those claims about treatment of trans people are just false. They are primarily based on misattributed actions of other people which harris has denounced
Here’s a good article looking at just that
Not saying she’s perfect, but consider with the two party system in the US, the alternative is far far worse
Harris has generally pushed for minimum wage increases where she can. For instance
August 08, 2023
FACT SHEET: Vice President Harris Announces Action to Raise Wage Standards Over Time For More Than One Million Construction Workers
She has advocated for $15/hr minimum wage and joined protesting and striking workers in that push before
https://apnews.com/general-news-united-states-presidential-election-6a566fe8785a4ae5aa7963fd3bc5166f
Unlike a certain rich republican candidate who has misused funds, the money goes to their campaign not the person themselves
US elections certainly takes way more money than it should but until Citizen United gets overturned, donating is an unfortunately important part of elections for those who can afford to do so
106·4 months agoThere are perceptional reasons why it may feel like milk worked better such as it being cooled vs using room temperature water. Or from being the second thing used. Or from various different factors
But the research above suggests it doesn’t do as much as people think it does
The infection risks are not the same. Milk has stuff in it that microbes like for growing where water doesn’t have nearly all that. Other stuff can enter inside. The eye infection pathway is concerning especially right now when bird flu seems to enter that way and is in large quatities of dairy milk. Not all pasturization methods are certain to actually remove it (i.e flash pasturization might not)
Edit: A minor point to clarify, capsaicin is in pepper spray but not tear gas. They often do get conflated but they are different
Only if they consent :3
(but also probably not great in terms of infection risk either)
I would think that alcohol on the eyes wouldn’t do too many good things to them, however
One of the studied things was using antacids in that pepper spray study and didn’t find much benfit for it for pepper spray. There currently doesn’t really seem to much that research confirm works any better than any other liquid over the eyes
In most species, bird flu is both highly infectious and very deadly. A disease being very infectious can make up for its lethality
I mean it still should still be horrfying, just that it should something to be worried about globally rather than just locally
Yep, for a source for others about the plastic bit
The system that strips off the plastic wrappings can’t capture it all, and so in the UK a limit of 0.15% of plastic is allowed by the Food Standards Agency. The official EU level for plastic permitted in animal feed is zero although in reality many other countries operate within the same 0.15% limit.
14·7 months agoI assume this is probably not in good faith, but answering anyway for a reminder to others
From just trump and the US alone:
There was the child sepeation policy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_administration_family_separation_policy
His appointments to the Supreme Court has led to abortion being banned in 14 different states across the US
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2023/nov/10/state-abortion-laws-us
Gender affirming care is now much restricted in a number of US states with constant threats at larger bans of all care
And so much more
In the UK, the right wing government has helped o underfund the NHS and make service worse
There’s a lot of damage that can be done. Just because it may not be as visible to one person, doesn’t mean it does not exist
Haha, luckily wasn’t too bad because it only nicked my finger for a really short amount of time. It rotated past my finger when it flicked around. Could have been much worse
Be mindful that a soldering iron cable can pull a soldering iron from your hand, so don’t have too loose of a grip. Learned that one the hard way :(
There’s a decent chance Walz runs to be president in the future if Harris wins and I think he’d probably do fairly well in a primary and general