For those of us living in the plasticene and prior to the availability of decent water filtering for nanoparticle-sized plastic bits, this is probable too little too late. These MNPs are in food and airborne, as well. Further, they are shed by plastic water bottles and the plastic shells of water filter cartridges (leaving aside the PFAS/PFOS leached from the filter material itself - but that’s a topic for another post). At this point, no excretory pathway has been identified by which the body removes these particles. They fon’t appear to any enzymes in mammalian cell which break down plastics. So, as you live, the MNP burden increases gradually. If you have a child, water filtration/RO may be a stopgap strategy to slow accumulation but not a panacea.

I'm running linux Mint 21.3 on a multi-monitor set-up. It installs cleanly and just works

The breakdown of OSX versions shows only OSX 10.x versions. Newer versions of OSX 11-14 (Big Sur to Sonoma) are not identifiable by StatCountet (see notes on report breaking down OSX version market share). The drop in OSX tracks with the increase in ‘unknown’ OS numbers and the sum of OSX plus unknown follows the trend of OSX from prior reports.

The Matt Damon defense.

^ I so agree. I have floppies for Word 5.1 for Mac (runs on System 6-9) and early Windows (sorry, only 32 bit). Doesn’t run on any modern Macs and my G4 PowerMac MDD died. You’d can run Word 5.1 for Mac in an emulated machine using System 7 at https://infinitemac.org/1996/S...

F*****g magnets! How do they work?

No different from any other bankruptcy. Lawyers and government get paid, the rest of you schmucks don’t.

The judge just denied a preliminary injunction. This is a finding only that the FTC did not make the case that there was imminent harm. It may signal that the court believes the FTC is unlikely to prevail in their suit, but the lawsuit can still proceed absent the injunction.

I worked as a physician for a decade in VA hospitals and 25 years in private/not for profit/university ones. The care provided in VA hospitals is every bit as good as in other hospitals or - in the many cases of VA hospitals associated with medical schools - superior. Like all systems, it has it’s problems but these are also shared with the private system. Surveys of the clients of the VA (US veterans who actually use the services) uniformly show overwhelming support for the system. I’m afraid you are misinformed.

Why do I care about authenticating my job to my online Rolodex service? For longer than I can remember, all I have used LinkedIn for is a semi-self-updating electronic phone book. If I call someone and don't get who I expect, I'll know right away and delete their contact. I expect they would do the same with me. I probably use it to look someone up 3 or 4 times a year, if it is a particularly busy year. I can't be bothered with (and actively avoid) the social media features.

While short term alteration on the gut microbiome in mice may cause modest and transient changes in obesity (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4995824/), attempts to alter the gut microbiome to treat obesity in humans have failed (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6835402/). Further, attempts to change the microbiome by various preparative methods (antibiotics, laxatives, various purges) followed by introduction of different bacteria have shown that the persistence of the introduced species is limited and that they are gone within 6 months or less, replaced (apparently) by the native microbiome. It is difficult to be certain of this point as there are many thousands of species of bacteria in the gut and persistent of small subpopulations or of bacteria for which there is no assay cannot be excluded. But that's no drawback, This is an active area of research in pharma - a treatment for obesity like this would be a blockbuster, particularly if you had to do it every 3-6 months.

Good thing the guy who wants to eliminate the Constitution just admitted it on a public forum for all to see, so our Armed Forces know who the threat is.

From TFA:

Reps. Tom Emmer (MN), Warren Davidson (OH), Byron Donalds (FL), and Ted Budd (NC) from the Republican side of the aisle;

Reps. Josh Gottheimer (NJ), Jake Auchincloss (MA), Ritchie Torres (NY), and Darren Soto (FL) for the Democrats

"It's not a conspiracy theory" -Dude claiming 9/11 was a controlled demolition

Alright grandpa let's get you back to The Villages and set parental controls on your tv to block tucker carlson.

The right to abortion is a downstream right of bodily autonomy, granted by the constitution under the word "liberty". It's right there in the preamble, not even an amendment. You don't have to get deep into the document to find it.

You have a right, as a citizen, to do what you want with your body, so long as it doesn't violate the rights of another citizen. The unborn are not citizens. They're not even people, as they have no long term memory capability or ability of rational thought.

It's pretty clear. It's the same reason you can't be forced to donate a kidney even though you have two, even to save the life of the President.

I guess I'm just real confused as to why you think it's not covered by the constitution. Do you really believe the only rights granted by the constitution are those specifically named? Because, oh buddy, you'd have a real bad time if that were truly the case.