I think that the theory is that mercury in the environment is converted to methylmercury by microbial activity, then it bioaccumulates in fish. Presumably, anything that is leaching from fillings is metallic mercury, which is far less toxic than methylmercury.

I've seen claims that the mercury is so firmly bound in the amalgam with silver that your exposure is negligible, but I'm not sure how much I believe that. I've had quite a few worn out mercury fillings replaced over the years, and I always wondered how much of the ground up fillings ends up getting ingested in that process.

Of course, the newer fillings are largely some kind of UV-activated epoxy resin, probably a different exact brew of chemicals for each one. I wouldn't be surprised if someone eventually figures out that some of those chemicals pose risks as well.

What can you do? Not getting your mouth fixed is known to be risky as well. Bacteria cause inflammation that causes your own body to release highly toxic chemicals.

Can't find your favorite flavor of sugary water in the third world ? Ooh man where is civilization going ? Life must suck for you.

I think they should go back to their original pre-CD business plan:

1. Mail out a lifetime supply of free floppy disks to every household in the USA.
2. ???
3. Profit!

It was demonstrated long ago that most all trading markets are chaotic. By definition, you won't see a sign of collapse in sight.

Unlike useful markets, (but similar to 17th century tulips), crypto has no intrinsic value. Therefore, there is no bottom to a potential crash.

Are they smart enough to know to pull those gains out before the tulip market crashes?

I'll know that AI has achieved a major milestone when one of them eventually says:

"Crypto is a strange game. The only winning move is not to play."

Greenhouse gasses, by orders of magnitude.

The gasses leverage the vast energy available from the sun over a span of decades. The server heat is one and done.

Undoubtedly, the greenhouse gasses released from powering these servers will warm the oceans far more than the servers themselves will.

Once again, that is out. White males are in.

At least ones who bother to keep up with current events.

Obviously, you have been living under a rock for the last 9 months.

In my day, the whole world was an "analog bag".

Mainly because my parents were too cheap to buy me the TRS-80 I kept harping about.

100 Big corporation publishes paper claiming to finally achieve quantum supremacy
200 Wait a few days
300 Some random math guy demonstrates how to calculate the same thing faster on a conventional consumer laptop
400 GOTO 100

Self-hosted Atlassian products seem to be just fine.

As for what "they said", they also said this cloud shit would be cheaper. It isn't.

Yes, that's exactly what I did,

I'll be very interested to find out whether the gimp snap has the same problem as the Firefox snap: it does not work in a VNC session. Like at all. There's a known workaround involving futzing some environment variables, but it is not a complete solution: although it gets the main Firefox window to come up, additional popups (like the Save As dialog) are still broken.

This was always a problem right from the beginning, since Ubuntu replaced its native Firefox package with a snap, 2-3 years ago. Initially I grinned and beared it, expecting the issue to be fixed soon. It is still not fixed, and nobody appears to be interested in fixing it. When I brought this up on the Ubuntu users list I got a very indignant response from a snap advocate, along the lines of "it's not a snap problem, it's a [some-obscure-library-related-to-desktop-integration] problem". Well, wonderful, but it's a distinction without a difference. The bottom line is that the Firefox snap does not run in a VNC session, and which specific library is responsible for the problem is a distinction without a difference.

On the flip side, one reason I'm sticking with my old cars and not considering buying a new one any time soon is because I really like the fact that they lack connectivity of any kind. They also have real control knobs and no touch screens.