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6·3 days agoPlease tell me you have not been cleaning the toilet with my Q-tip
69·6 days agoSounds like maybe we should be more interested to see what Bill Owens does next.
Arsenic is found naturally in some foods, including fish and shellfish, and in waters and soils.
Inorganic arsenic is found in industrial materials and gets into water—including water used to submerge rice paddies.
Rice is easily inundated with weeds and other crops, but it has one advantage: It grows well in water. So farmers germinate the seeds, and when the seedlings are ready, plant them in wet soil. They then flood their fields, which suppresses weeds, but allows the rice to flourish. Rice readily absorbs the water and everything in it—including arsenic, either naturally occurring or not. Most of the world’s rice is grown this way.
“What happens in rice, because of complex biogeochemical processes in the soil, when temperatures and CO2 go up, inorganic arsenic also does,” Ziska said. “And it’s this inorganic arsenic that poses the greatest health risk.”
If I’m understanding correctly, the risk is from flooding the fields with contaminated water
A farm that relies on flooding the field with rain from a rainy season should be unaffected? Or minorly affected, right?
We’re the Russians standing in bread lines, now…
I hope you got Ernie’s consent to post this…
On an iPhone you can also do two consecutive dashes (–) to get an m-dash (—). I’m not aware of a similar shortcut for an n-dash.
(To be honest when I started typing this comment I thought it was 2 dashes for an n-dash and three for an m-dash)
It’s as easy as 1, 2, 3…
…come on…
0·2 months agoYes, and he killed himself after the FBI was throwing the book at him for doing exactly what these AI assholes are doing without repercussion
Whoever brings Aaron Swartz back gets to violate all the copyright laws
0·2 months agoMy personal opinion is to pick the top two or three most applicable communities and post there.
As someone who primarily browses Local or All, after seeing the third identical post it starts looking like spam.
I don’t know anything about this but in my misspent youth kids would take the regulator off adjustable disposable butane lighters and you could light the lighter and then basically pour the butane out of the lighter.
Something like that could surely ignite clothing and appear to be “just” a lighter.
Is a dongle that doesn’t dangle even really a dongle at all?
1·10 months agoNot saying it’s what you’re doing.
Really just trying to say some folks are being more gentle than they should and over correcting.
As usual, the best way is a middle ground but the internet rewards extreme positions.
I agree with you, however denouncing political violence doesn’t need to extend to fawning.
This is my favorite proposed response I’ve seen:
If I was a Dem asked what I think this would be my short statement:
History has shown us that political violence like this is a hallmark of authoritarian states.
That it turned against the man inciting it shows how slippery and dangerous our current moment is.
Come November we have a choice – an America where a man like Trump, who believes lynching his political enemies is fine, sits in the white house while fires of political retribution burn across the nation; or an America where our fragile democracy rests in less unhinged hands, safe for the moment.
FTFY (probably)