It might be 100 times better at concentrating the PFAS, and better at disposing of it, but the critical question is whether or not it's 100 times cheaper than the alternatives to disposing of the PFAS, along with the legislative will to actually force the filtering for cleaning the stuff up.
Well, even 10% cheaper would be enough if the will exists. The cheaper cleaning it up is, the easier that sell is.
Just look at Flint Michigan for how cheap water companies and municipalities can be.

They may make an exception here, it really depends on the definition of "registered" and "vehicle". an e-bike or scooter of some sort might not count, especially if low powered.
Looking, they aren't actually restricted from owning more than one vehicle, it's just that the additional vehicle counts towards the $2k/$3k asset limit, while the primary vehicle doesn't count, even if it's $100k.
Which seems silly and should probably be increased by an order of magnitude.

https://secure.ssa.gov/apps10/...

To expand upon this a bit, it is important to realize that "deferred maintenance" tends to artificially lower the price of the good - in this case water/sewer, while costing even more to catch back up.
So the natural price might be 2, with deferred maintenance the cost is 1, but to catch back up it ends up having to be 3-4, when people were used to 1. It is poor practice all around.

Not taking it for weight loss, but did drop 20 pounds and 2" of waist on it. I'm diabetic, so taking it for that.
Nearly a year later and my biggest problem is that I still can't properly assess my appetite. No other real side effects. I'm just not hungry anymore.
Though keep in mind that it still counts as dieting, so making sure you still get enough nutrition and exercise can be a factor to keep up bone density and muscle.

So, going to the study you cite, the background statement:

Translation: GLP-1 drugs might improve bone formation and reduce fracture risk.

Findings: GLP-1 drugs do not improve bone formation, in a research sample of 64 people, most of them women, which I find highly unusual. It says that increased bone resorption (good) was likely due to weight loss. Indeed, the bone loss noted in the semiglutide group can be attributed to lower stress levels (which tends to build bone) from lower weight.

I mean, Ozempic isn't for everybody, not even everybody with type-2 diabetes, but it is proving to be an extremely valuable tool in the medical chest.

It might be $6 now. Looking, might be $11-12. Mom's on Medicare though, and she's getting the $700/month treatment. Ozempic alone satisfys her catastrophic drug coverage limits every year, IE she pays $0 starting Nov-Dec.
The profiteering is real and enourmous.

I'm just fortunate my coverage is with the VA, which has the power to negotiate those rates lower.

I take Ozempic for diabetes. It costs me $5 a month with my coverage. It absolutely cratered my appetite.

Fast food was indeed one of the casualties from that. I can't even count on finishing a cheeseburger, one of the small ones, much less a double, big Mac, with fries and soda.
A couple slices of ham or turkey does it these days.

Also, probably a pretty good job prospect afterwards. Just in porn or other adult establishments.

That said, when people look into what college students are actually getting degrees in, the number of "useless" degrees are actually both tiny and often employ very well in very specific ways.

Basically, people hear about a course in "underwater basket weaving" or "rap cultural studies" and assume it is a whole degree, not a putz (easy) 100 or 200 level course that fulfills the art/social studies requirement for general education (broadening) US bachelors require.

The student could be graduating with a chemical engineering degree, and their 3 credit hour art class was underwater basket weaving. Out of 120-150 credit hours of instruction.

I'd hardly call studies like this useless, as it is normally part of a large glob of other information collected and processed for various reasons.
This is the sort of information people in the college and other education industries want to know, politicians included.

As for the cause, the slow roll, it's very basic economics.
Consider workers to be a form of good used by businesses.
Exceptions exist, of course, but on the education access the bottom of the barrel are the dropouts, then the high school graduates, then finally various levels of college degree.
But then we got on the kick that more education was a way to raise everybody's income, individually and as a whole.
But it should be obvious that not all jobs benefit from, much less require, a degree.
Back in the day, when less than 10% of the population had degrees, they were highly sought after, it really was a ticket to the good life if one could make it.
Today? Over half the population at least starts college. College ends up being a filter for "better" employees when a high school education would be more than sufficient. It's a rather expensive filter.
For example, when my mother started working as an accountant, her specific field was an associate's degree. When she retired? It's now a master's degree, and mom (now upgraded to a bachelor), complained on a regular basis that half the people still couldn't do the job.
What happened? In going from 40% graduating from high school to over 90%, standards dropped. In going from 7.7% graduating from college, to nearly 40%, standards dropped, and college isn't that helpful to that many workers, not unless we start having trade schools hand out degrees.
Which, given that I have an Associates in Applied Information Technology (USAF enlisted degree), and a Masters in Computer Science, and having seen my brother's schooling in electrical work, I'm not opposed to giving the electricians, plumbers, and such who have attended a trade school that meets requirements a degree in "Applied" whatever. I'll note the applied in my degree screwed me when I went to get my bachelor, because they went from accepting it as the first 2 years to breaking it down and going class by class.

Depends on the country in question, but generally yes.
Denmark - cheaper registration
Netherlands - road tax exemptions
France - purchase bonuses (subsidy), but reduced
Germany - stopped most by 2024, road tax exemptions remain
UK - purchase grants mostly phased out.
Norway - VAT exemptions, reduced tolls
Spain - purchase grants, funding inconsistent
Italy - purchase incentives, but sporadic, funding runs out fast.
That doesn't seem like much to me to be a heavy driver.

What decision do they have an interest in? Are you a doctor to interpret the measurements taken by Biden's doctors? Do you trust Trump's instead, given the stuff I'm hearing?
Submit a freedom of information act request if you want.

The 70% figure is a misstatement. 70% of the guns Mexico's government submits to the USA for tracing are successfully traced to the USA.
Trick is, Mexico only submits a fraction of the guns they collect. They don't submit weapons they trace to their own forces and store, weapons they know are from elsewhere, like the full auto AK-47 and 74 rifles with Russian and similar stampings, stuff obviously made in China or South America.
The whole paragraph citing the 70% figure.
"According to [U.S.] Justice Department figures, 94,000 weapons were recovered from Mexican drug cartels in the five years between 2006 and 2011, of which 64,000 -- 70 percent, according to Jim Moran -- come from the United States."[26] The percentages pertaining to the origin of weapons confiscated from organized crime and drug cartels may not be accurately reported. Said numbers represent only firearms Mexican authorities asked the US to trace (7,200 firearms) and that the ATF was able to trace (4,000 on file, of which 3,480 from US). US ATF Mexico City Office informed Mexican authorities ATF had eTrace data only on firearms made in or imported into the US and told them not to submit firearms that lacked US maker or US importer marks as required by US law. The guns submitted for tracing were only firearms that appeared to be US origin. The remaining guns were not submitted for tracing, or were not able to be traced. "In fact, the 3,480 guns positively traced to the United States equals less than 12 percent of the total arms seized in Mexico in 2008 and less than 48 percent of all those submitted by the Mexican government to the ATF for tracing. This means that almost 90 percent of the guns seized in Mexico in 2008 were not traced back to the United States."

Firearms confiscated: 94,000
Submitted for trace: 7,200, 7.7%
Successfully traced to the USA: 3,480. 48% of 7,200, 3.7% of the 94,000 collected.
That is far less than 70%, to the point that saying 70% is in the realm of deliberate misinformation.
All this indicates is that the Mexican government has a good idea of what weapons came from the USA. High quality handguns, semi auto weapons, firearms with serial numbers.
They don't bother with weapons obviously manufactured without serial numbers or that they knew were made elsewhere, like the full auto AK series.

Actually, the plastic zip gun is the best somebody can do with a relatively cheap plastic or resin type printer.

Using industrial metal printers, like what Boeing and other airline manufacturers are using to make select parts, it is possible to print a fully functional handgun. I remember reading an article where they printed and tested a 1911 using one. All metal parts.

That said, not a lot of us are running around with a $100k and up printer, so it isn't that much of a factor, at least for now. The noble gas requirements for good 3D metal printing is always going to be a barrier (at least for the next 100 years or so).

Indeed. Mexico has far more stringent gun laws than the USA, has only 1 legal gun store (as of last time I checked), ownership of military calibers is forbidden (so no 9mm or 5.56 for the people). Cartels still have huge amounts of firearms, including machine guns. While US firearms are popular for handguns and niche weapons, lots are running around with actual AK line weapons (full auto/select fire), and the police have found the cartels to be manufacturing weapons as well.

You might want to actually research this before you make the claim, as it is you who is "100% incorrect."

ATF webpage on Privately Made Firearms.

While there's obviously more to this, I can legally make a firearm myself, using a 3D printer as desired and technically feasible, so long as there's enough metal in it to trigger a metal detector (that's the Gun Control Act detectable requirement). Generally a metal barrel and chamber is more than enough for this.