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Comment Re:It's all in the seeing. (Score 1) 74

Oh, come on now. Don't let the jokes replace reality.

If you think billionaires are billionaires because they're smarter than everyone else, you're the joke and you're nowhere near reality. Some of them are the sharpest pencil in the box. Most of them are just the least scrupulous, luckiest, and best positioned.

Comment Re: The helium leak (Score 1) 44

DEI is decency. It's only made political by people who oppose decency politically.

You donâ(TM)t even know what youâ(TM)re talking about.

I know that the people attacking DEI are mostly white supremacists who want to preserve their positions of privilege. The remainder are nonwhites who have internalized white supremacy.

Comment Re:Huh (Score 1) 91

Your personal attack on me tells me all I need to know about you Drinkypoo.

Your abject hypocrisy in telling me not to "play the "I didn't say that" game and then following it by attributing to me something which I did not say is fucking pathetic. I quoted the important parts for you and you still couldn't figure out what was wrong with you, because you're in denial about your inability to remember what you're saying and remain consistent for more than a paragraph. You forgot what your argument even was right in the middle of it but you still want to tell me about me? You're a sorry excuse for a LLM.

Comment Re:Prolonged headphone use? (Score 1) 91

Mine crumbled too. I got some foams for another model and cut them down to fit, I forget which though. What I really need is to find another cord before I finally manage to murder this one, I've run it over with my chair a whole bunch of times and they must have made it out of black box material.

Comment Re:Prolonged headphone use? (Score 1) 91

Indeed. Other common chemicals of concern involve fire and UV resistance. Some plastics are just naturally soft, but some grades of them are produced with additives.

I have Sennheiser HD420s, they have a soft plastic short plush covering which I bet is releasing all kinds of plasticizers.

Comment Re:WTF did they DO all that time? (Score 2) 20

Well, that's one hypothesis. However since they saw a significant difference in the population where the social media apps were removed, then if your hypothesis is true, the data would suggest that delivering the service as a native app rather than a web app must have some harmful effect in itself. An alternative hypothesis is that their application usage patterns changed when the apps were removed.

It's not altogether far fetched that web-delivered apps have a different psychological effect than native smartphone apps, because native smartphone apps have greater access to the system for tracking and notifications. Native apps also offer different features than their web versions. This is why I use Facebook via a browser, because the Facebook native app is insufferably intrusive, constantly trying to get your attention. It means, however, I can't use Facebook's chat function.

Comment Re:Prolonged headphone use? (Score 4, Interesting) 91

Tell me what chemicals are in the fake pleather cover of the ear foam, or the headband foam. Everything else is irrelevant.

Generally, the softer the plastic, the more plasticizers have been added. Plasticizers are usually the chemicals of concern, because they are often endocrine disrupters.

I'm pretty sure these plasticizers routinely leach out of headphone pads because the pads on every pair of headphones I've owned over the past 40 years has gotten brittle and disintegrated after a few years of use.

Comment Re:Huh (Score 3, Insightful) 91

Would we have better luck getting rid of some of this stuff and moderating intake of foods that can disrupt hormonal balance if we let everyone know it is not good for women either? This might sound strange to say, but it is obvious that few care about what is happening to men, happening right before us.

I don't think it works that way. Medical science overwhelmingly neglects women so there's really no chance that is what would move the needle. The problem is denialism. People addicted to our modern lifestyle who cannot imagine being able to have luxuries if we make changes will resist believing anything that requires them to make any.

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