Exactly. This is what chaps may hide about these types of articles. Thinking the problem can be solved with just local action. It’s like saying the planet is saved from climate change because England is now 100% renewables. Thats great, sure, but it’s not going to fix the problem which will only get worse for everyone. This has to be a global effort.

Well, it’s good to have doubt but you are flat out wrong. Not only are there virtually no coal plants nearby in terms of European standards, or that nearby ground plumes could account for, but the problem is only getting worse. Look at the affected lakes, it has nothing to do with the iron mining that’s nearly non-existent now. The last coal fired refining plant for iron is at Duluth 100 miles south while the prevailing winds tend to be moving toward the south and east most of the time. Go on google maps and look, it’s not like Europe, or even many of the other heavily developed areas in the country. There is nothing on the Canadian side at all and on the American side it’s very sparse and both sides have heavy regulation on coal burning.

While emissions sources deposit the bulk of the material within a few dozen mile ground plume, especially when low or no smokestacks are used, we aren’t talking about the house just downwind which may be quite bad but the article is talking fish and it applies to wildlife contamination in general. Something like 10% goes thousands of miles and is spread over millions of square miles. This is why you can be on Antarctic ice edge and catch a fish and its mercury contamination is too high to eat but you’re more than a thousand miles from the nearest tiny city much less a burnt denture. While cutting pollution is good, the idea dental amalgamation is responsible for organic mercury contamination in fish is wrong because it’s not a significant amount of the total problem which would remain with no dental emissions.

The article is wrong. Those are local emissions, mercury contamination accumulation is global. Great example is I live not far from the boundary waters, a wilderness region largely untouched by humans including mining. It’s known for its pristine wilderness and people that go there are encouraged to pack out each tiny piece of material they went in with, some include fecal matter in that list. But you can’t eat the fish in many lakes due to mercury contamination that is mostly from coal burning worldwide. A good amount is from India and China and not even America.

Mercury from dental fillings is literally nothing, and the stupidity in thinking cremation or burial puts meaningful amounts into the environment is insane. The average number of amalgam fillings per person is under 4 and at about 1 gram each where mercury is 10-15% so maybe .6 grams per person. Over 2200 tons of mercury are released by coal burning and it’s only 1/3 of human mercury emissions making it around 7000 tons per year, or the equivalent of 4.2 billion people’s tooth filling per year. England plus wales had only 500k cremations per year, the idea mercury from teeth is even 0.001% of the problem is insane. Might as well as blame world oil consumption on rubber finger dolls.

This reminds me of the time I tried to delete Facebook, but had trouble getting root on their servers.

Capitalism naturally leads to consolidation as it takes advantage of economies of scale, which enables vast inequality. That inequality in power leads to the toxic dominance of others, stripping them of the value their labor produces and taking it for themselves instead. A hundred billionare does not work 100,000 times harder and smarter than an average family, they likely work the same hours with the difference being they strip the wealth from hundreds of thousands to live like a god while the workers creating that value have trouble finding food, a home, and basic medical care. It’s this toxic class dominance where we enable a ruling class nearly unlimited license to abuse that is the root of most of society’s problems.

Given the propensity for hallucinations, I’m not sure taking recipes from an AI LLM is very wise. You might as well ask it how to commit suicide, that might get you a good mayo recipe.

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Well, we know it’s probably better with a 75’ Casio fx 7000 because they used a crystal oscillator and even with some brutal temperature drift it’s still likely ahead.

That’s just Cherenkov radiation, it’s supposed to be a blue deathy thing.

More like a Dorritoxxing, look they were just following orders -CEO
Reporters: You mean they were following the orders of the AI?!?
If that’s what lets me off the hook, yes! -CEO

The best extra expense I’ve found for the money is local produce. Not always cheaper but because it wasn’t shipped 25 days while green then artificially ripened with gas along with coatings that while edible make for those clickbait science videos but instead was shipped 25 minutes after already being ripe it tases FAR better. Nutrient wise it might be marginally better, just because the alternative was picked too early. Organic or not doesn’t matter.

Thank goodness. For a minute I thought there might be a disturbing lack of carbon.

Knowledge is power, and AI is pushed to be infinitely knowledgeable. It’s like asking a black hole if it’s had enough by throwing more money in.