No. To make it illogical, all I would have to do is to show that the only way to get to zero is to get rid of plastics. That getting rid of plastics would result in disease, famine and plague, and wipe out a large part of humanity. That is how you get to ZERO.
Thinking that this is a number that should be aimed for is retarded. We should care about the levels. We should care about where in the body we find it and we should care about finding out what levels cause what problems.
More facts, more science, less proselytizing.

Sadly, I can not refute your statement out of hand.
I wish that I could.

How exactly are we going to do that?
That statement is not logical, it is evangelical.
Plastics are an incredibly important, irreplaceable part of our world. If they disappeared, the effect would be catastrophic.
Do I want to be drinking and eating tons of microplastics? No. That seems fucking stupid.
Should be Zero though is the statement of a person doing damage control to push a narrative that might be endangered by a new fact.
This is not even saying that the new measurements will put us at low numbers. It might not.
Anne McNeil here though is worried that the data might make this mountain into a mole hill and running pre interference. That is not science. That is activism.

Not really. These sorts of tests are all stochastic. Your prescription makes science sound binary, i.e., if one assumption is wrong, then it is all wrong. But one if one assumption is x .0095, when evaluating the gloves too means your assumption is x .0096. That means your numbers might need to be adjusted a bit, but, depending upon the math and model, it may not be a radical adjustment; just an adjustment at the margins.

Reagan was on a privatization kick. It resulted in wonderful growth for the Beltway Bandits. Another reason privatization does not work for government is because government is not private enterprise that can decide what markets to enter and which to exit. Programs are mandated by law. Sure laws can change but it is a long arduous path. And you wouldn't want it any other way. Changing things on a whim has brought current U.S. to its knees, and the damage appears to be long lasting.

Want to see privatization at work? Look at the U.S. health system. Those insurance companies use actuaries to determine who gets covered. A good team of actuaries can put a price on your grandmother and her cat and will if you ask them to. As a consequence, we have a health system which can send you to the poor house in under a year because of a medical condition.

DoD is one of the largest organizations on the planet. Saying their failure to pass 8 audits in a row ignores the scale of the problem. First off, it was never built to be audited. The idea of auditing DoD is just like DoD telling a contractor to add this extra special whizzy to their weapons system after it had already been built. It has taken a lot of time and a lot of effort to corral systems that were never built with auditing in mind into sysrtems that can be audited. And those systems are not stand alone, they all interact.

Then the question come up of what software will you use to audit a system this large and complex. They chose SAPs software (for the most part). Ever interact with SAP's ERP? Hell is more welcoming. They chose SAP because no other system was big enough. Oracle is for babies. MS? (okay, stop laughing). In addition, Congress keep mandating new requirements. And new systems are constantly being brought on line and old ones retired. It is like changing a plane's internal mechanisms while it is flying. Ever try to hit a moving target of an engineered system while keeping the system up and running? If you answer no, you do not understand the scope of the problem.

There's no freezing DoD in place so you can perform an audit on it. It is constantly changing. To make matters worse, Congress and Administrations keep changing. Their priorities keep changing. Meanwhile, you must be sure to keep DoD's job of defense up-to-date, and offense must be kept up-to-day as well.

Gee, it is almost as if the U.S. government needs to encourage homegrown solar panels. If only the U.S. could find such a government.

Even re-architecting might not fix their problem. It depends upon how much their software people are relying upon bot generated code. Given their famous attention to detail, what's the likelihood that they are pushing out code they do not understand because "it worked"? The hardest bugs do not show up in test harnesses. So if they have built up a giant sticky wad of code they do not understand, there's no going through it all quickly if that is even possible. If they re-architect with the same software dependence on bots, they haven't really solved the underlying issue which is the way they build stuff.

I knew someone pushing this shit a few years ago and claiming it was "therapy." She got arrested for dealing (other) drugs and then fled the country after making FALSE accusations at a number of people...

There will be no manned Mars missions: radiation. The problem is that no one has any doable idea to stop it. And this isn't the milk toast radiation we get around the Earth. This is the really nasty stuff from the rest of the Universe. And if you are lucky, you won't run into a solar flare on the way. Aside from the pretty lights, it is really nasty radiation. Don't forget to protect your space craft's instruments, they are more delicate than even you.

Another reason is that if you send someone up there for roughly a year just to get there, their bodies are not programmed to work very well in extended periods of no gravity. One's heart and other organs were developed in the Earth's gravity. When they get there, they get to enjoy low gravity. And then up to another year later, they are in the right planetary positions to catch the red-eye back. We might get them there and back (irradiated as they are), but they won't be living on Earth. Their internal organs will not take the strain.

Ever lived with 4-5 college roommates in a tin-can for even a month. It won't be pretty. Now we want them married to each other for 3 year years. Yup, that'll work.

So to sum up, I think we should send you. You are dim-witted enough not to understand the implications so you won't experience any angst over the trip or the radiation or the lack of functioning bodily organs. But you'll at least be wanting in a little buddy. I suggest Elmo, he too is dim-witted and is wildly enthusiastic enough to go. And he has the money to make it happen. Go submit your application to him for the trip. Better take a lot of ketamine with you (hint: that's what you will need, not him).

From the story it appears that some bloke sent a threatening email to the girlfriend of one Kashyap Patel
FTFY

"It's like the toddler in chief never had to understand the consequences for any action he's ever taken." That is precisely correct, he never has had to understand the consequences of his actions. He's just a two-bit bunko artist. A bunko artist never does have to understand consequences as long as he gets what he immediately wants. There's always another mark out there.

And el Bunko is no different. After stiffing banks, he still found banks willing to lend to him. After stiffing contractors, there were plenty more where they came from. And up until about May of last year, he always found enough Maggots who would believe him. Now he's running out of those kinds of Maggots. It seems some have found out he lied to them about the la Presidenta-Epstein files. And now he's lying about the Epstein-Iran war. He lied about his tariffs. He lies about everything and never could tell the difference between truth and what he wants.

No. 1 Rule of la Presidenta: He destroys everything he touches, and the U.S. made that idiot president.

Hey, lay off la Presidenta. He's needs time to play with his new "present" (very expensive we're told, but not by anyone reliable) from Iran.

you have that backwards, the alien called Ross Perot met with humans.

It really is simple. Rust zealotry is 100 percent fact and provable.
Ubuntu 25.10.
What is a foundational tenet of Linux? "We do not break user-space."
But, we do for Rust. Why? Because Rust MUST move forward at speed. Can't pass tests? Fuck it. Works good enough.
Breaks user-space? Yes, but not all the time and not for most people. We are accepting Rust CoreUtils for no other reason that it must be.
It has been decreed. Ubuntu about CoreUtils is Bill, "Fuck it, we'll do LIVE!".
Large performance hiccups, failing tests? Does not matter. Pushing it live will bring the issues to light and we can fix it all over time.
What? That is not how this has ever worked. We do not break user-space. Especially on purpose so we can speed up Rust development.
Rust replacements should exist. Rust replacements should make there way into the systems we are using every day to make things more secure. Rust replacements should work though and not break user-space. If is not an acceptable replacement if it were written in C, then it is not one just because it is written in Rust. Real commands, real scripts, real jobs fail. Anything that works as a drop in replacement should be accepted. (Preferably because it is provably better, not just, "Written in Rust though!". Anything that does not, should not be a default in the release and should stay in the background, getting better till it is ready.

Anything other than that is religious zeal, not making a better Linux.