WesternWind

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by WesternWind 1y ago
I read today that people who are now 50-75 years old were at the peak of exposure to leaded gasoline fumes. It's pretty well established that greater lead exposure leads to increased risk of cognitive decline. I'm not saying that&
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by WesternWind 1y ago
It's incredibly foolish. Whatever the justification is, it doesn't matter as much as the horrible outcome. This is one of those things the government does for the benefit of the whole.
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by WesternWind 2y ago
As the article says, "The Musk/DOGE plan is one of self-enrichment and outward punishment. Someone should outline a different path."
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by WesternWind 2y ago
That's not exactly true, to pick some examples Bernie quitting the race in 2020 used his connections with biden and got a lot of things into a unity party platform, and I've seen it argued that AOC and the green new deal pushed th
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by WesternWind 2y ago
See I know something of what actually wanting to fix the government's waste fraud and abuse would look like. It would be beefing up the IRS (where every dollar more than pays for itself), it would be banning people in congress from bu
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by WesternWind 2y ago
It was a cousin on my dad's side, they don't live near me and we just don't talk that much directly.
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by WesternWind 2y ago
Eh I wouldn't have known a friend died if I didn't occasionally log into FB. I wouldn't have known that my best friend from middle school lost her house. I wouldn't have known that a family member was pregnant. But yeah,
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by WesternWind 2y ago
blaming the wolves is an interesting choice.
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by WesternWind 2y ago
More eligible voters didn't vote for any candidate then for Trump or Harris. Trump won a slim majority of the people who did choose to vote, but it's hardly an endorsement by a majority of Americans, much less the American people
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by WesternWind 2y ago
My concerns about the future are based on what President Trump did in 2017 with the NIH budget (attempting to cut it 22%)¹ thus preventing important scientific research funding, as well as removal of covid-19 health statistics from the CDC
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by WesternWind 2y ago
Pretty sure a bunch of statistics that might be used to argue against Republican talking points are going to disappear or not be updated. Maybe they won't even get to be collected. It's a lot easier to lie if you prevent scientist
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by WesternWind 2y ago
A full pardon should mean that he can get all his bitcoin back, as I understand it.
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by WesternWind 2y ago
That's almost exactly the split they made actually, with things like feats and flight still species based, but statu bonuses and backgrounds (with maybe some small exceptions) not being species based. They did some work to balance it,
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by WesternWind 2y ago
The entire premise of insurance is that people get care for their medical issues. Mental health issues are medical issues; just because they manifest in terms of behavioral and thinking changes doesn't make them any less so. Mental He
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by WesternWind 2y ago
Actually that's covered by the rule. Buying Positive or Negative Reviews: The final rule prohibits businesses from providing compensation or other incentives conditioned on the writing of consumer reviews expressing a particular sentim
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by WesternWind 2y ago
Just to note this is for ISL, Indian Sign Language, not ASL, American Sign Language.
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by WesternWind 2y ago
private equity does seem to be kinda crap at running stuff, even screwing up with successful brands. It's not a surprise that hospitals and smaller businesses also get screwed up. Like Toys'R'Us, Sears, Gymboree, Payless, Cl
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by WesternWind 2y ago
Hey, just going to say what I've been telling folks IRL, if you are reading this, and your parents and family members aren't tech savvy, you need to set them up with two factor authentication now. Because you know how to do that,
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by WesternWind 2y ago
Wait... So Microsoft doesn't use Microsoft Teams, it uses Slack?
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by WesternWind 2y ago
Probably because of the high number of civilian deaths in a much shorter period. Adults are harder to split out into civilians vs combatants, so sticking with just kids, by the beginning of March, four months into the Israel Hamas conflict,
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by WesternWind 2y ago
I'm unsure on the ethics of this. Yes only the elite have the internet, but also the internet is likely used internally for communication, which is important for resource distribution. I don't give two shits about the elite in NK,
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by WesternWind 2y ago
TL:DR Avoid highly processed foods, chicken nuggets are worse than chicken breasts Try to use glass containers over plastic ones. Heat from dishwashers and microwaves can cause plastic containers to break down and release particles. Use pap
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by WesternWind 2y ago
Yeah the 5th Circuit was giving standing on hypothetical issues. However since states were allowed to join the case in district court, they may raise the issue again and be judged to have standing.
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by WesternWind 2y ago
Governments can and cooperate on international crimes, and the US has more resources to prosecute US corporations. Columbia extradited the AUC leaders.
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by WesternWind 2y ago
I feel like the US government has a legitimate interest in making sure US corporations don't pay paramilitary death squads for drug traffickers, especially ones that the US had designated as terrorist organizations at the time. I don&#
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by WesternWind 2y ago
Early menarche and never having been pregnant (pregnancy pauses the menstrual cycle) are both associated with early menopause. But fertility problems are more likely an issue because people tend to get pregnant later in life than before. h
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by WesternWind 2y ago
Per the article, the best predictor based on research of early menarche is higher body mass index.
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by WesternWind 2y ago
Not badly written but it's poorly supported, and argued mainly from anecdote. There's no engagement with subject matter experts, there's cherry picking of data points, and the suggested solution isn't supported by provid
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by WesternWind 2y ago
Seeing that made me worried but when I checked it was opt-in with an option to add an openAI API key, still this is better long term IMHO.
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by WesternWind 2y ago
When I was younger there was a short period I thought it meant that a person was just really anal about details.

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