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Comment Re:"But there should be none" (Score 1) 50

To make her statement illogical, you would need to have evidence to invalidate any studies that established a causative link between the presence of plastics in animal tissue and an increase in disease/mortality.

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.

Comment "But there should be none" (Score 0) 50

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.

Comment Re:Rust could be awesome. (Score 1) 31

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.

Comment Re:Rust could be awesome. (Score 2) 31

I see no evidence of that "religion" of which you speak.

Ubuntu 25.10
Is that evidence enough? "We do not break user-space."
Unless it is to implement Rust based tools in spite of knowing that they fail tests and break user-space. KNOWINGLY
There is definitely a problem. Not with creating Rust. Not with replacing things that can be replaced.
When thought, they knowingly break a foundational rule to implement their religion, it makes the point.

Comment Re:Rust could be awesome. (Score 1) 31

No one is saying that it could not be good.
That said, if you replace parts of the system with incomplete parts because the Rust tool chain is incomplete, you get angry people yelling about how the new Rust replacement can not do the things that they counted on that system to do. Then the Rust zealots tell us why we don't need to do that and that we should completely recode everything we have to work with the new hotness.
"We do not break user-space"
Unless it is done to Rustify something. Then, fuck user-space? No.
Rust should do some stuff. Work where it is complete and can do the WHOLE job. Work on completing the tool chain and build replacements that you can build correctly without shitting all over, "We do not break user-space". If Rust was sticking to that, the world would be moving slowly toward a better, safer place.
As it is, Rust is creating enemies in places where it never needed to.

Comment Re:$500 (Score 1) 183

Pain for sure.
That said, we have traded good paying jobs for cheap imported goods.
Now, that cheap, imported goods are coming from countries that want to see us become part of China and a lot of these pieces of equipment can cause massive security issues, we are faced with a situation in which in order not to die, we have to suffer.

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