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...

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.

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.

Not to be pedantic, but China was designated as MFN in 1980 during the Carter administration. This designation was not permanent but had to be renewed every year by Congress, which it was. In 2000, Clinton proposed “permanent” MFN for China and this was dutifully passed by Congress. /pedant

Not just because many users put Linux on out-dated, left over, or just plain old systems that they had sitting around after they upgraded their main Windows or Mac device, but it's just slow and clunky. I use a Macbook Air 2017. MacOS boots faster than, say, Mint on the same machine despite MacOS running twice as many processes under the hood. OpenBSD boots even faster (to cvm though; it's slower to XFCE). Once up and running, Linux and OpenBSD are sluggish in opening a browsers or other applications compared to opening the same applications in MacOS. (By clunky, I mean the increased occurrence of system hangs and app crashes on Linux as well as the idiomatic ways various distros manage configuration, updates, etc.) Of course, a lot of this is because Apple can develop their software to optimize performance on a very constrained set of hardware, libraries, etc. But even when I make customized builds of Gentoo to most closely reflect the device the best I can or spend hours trying to tweak the install, the lag persists.

Perhaps, Linux distro developers should consider a hardware standard (or limited number of standards) to build for - a common, reasonably high performance device like, say, a Lenovo ThinkPad or what have you, then work to slim down and speed up the performance on this benchmark device. Or, perhaps this should fall to the PC manufacturers. With prices increasing, offering machines a few bucks cheaper with a nice OS but no MS tax or lock in would be a good business plan. I've used Linux in various forms for over 20 years since Slackware 3, I've wanted to love it, but now it's all OpenBSD on the servers, firewalls, and routers, and MacOS on the desktop.

That horse has left the barn and. the barn has burned down.

Playa Hermose can be a mean beach break. Iâ(TM)ve surfed there many times. One day a few years back, my son and I both broke boards in a ~6-8â swell. A poor swimmer or someone not familiar with ocean swimming or surf could easily drown.

Facebook and their ilk are not toxic - it's the people on social media who are toxic.

I use Macs at home. I have a TimeCapsule which backs up the active computers. I have a script on my McBook which I trigger manually which rsync the $MacName.backupbundle disk image to a separate disk attached to the Time Capsule. I could convert this to a periodic task but I just trigger it on Fridays when I finish working. When the disk gets near full, I swap in a new disk and put the old on in cold storage in the barn.