V, is that you?

Potentially, as cancer cells don’t switch off and die the same way, they have a longer lifespan to accumulate microplastics. Especially if the body’s disposal of dead cells actually manages to clear at least some of the microplastics from the body.

one study found enough microplastics in the average brain to make a plastic spoon

What the fuck does this mean for Spoon Theory‽

I agree with the core of your point. I’d like to assert, though, that all people exert some level of self-censorship in public on the basis of the opinions of their neighbors and peers. Having to worry about powerful organizations like governments and megacorps also always being there (instead of just sometimes, or usually) adds a new degree of reason to self-censor, for sure.

I don’t want to have to keep up with the current styles of SmartGlasses from however many makers of these things there are at any given time. I am happy to outsource this awareness to someone I can find good reason to trust to provide me the info I need. Just like I don’t make my own vaccines, because I have no idea how to get the 5G that small.

Warning: there is probably a bunch of phones near you right now.

I’m with you. Made a comment recently, here or elsewhere, that a huge thing to happen with social spaces over time is that trustworthy sources of information have a chance to really prove themselves as such. So when you rip apart one platform and scatter its users, you destroy that earned credibility and leave a lot of people without at least some of their reliable news sources. That’s most harmful to people looking for actual truth, since people willing to swallow comfortable lies don’t really need the providers of information to be vetted.

The conclusion to all this is that keeping social platforms from building large, long-term communities is a very effective way to keep people who seek truth from finding it.

Neutral Good considers the rules and tends to acknowledge owledge the rules are usually good, but sometimes should be bent or broken. Chaotic Good ranges from “Fuck the rules!” to “Any rule that oppresses the people is bullshit” to “The rules are sometimes okay, I guess, but I’m gonna ignore them without remorse when they make no sense.” Minding that the Good component means they tend not to break rules for self-gain and/or at the expense of decent people.

New dimension to “flyover states” unlocked

I imagine you’re focused on for-profit companies

Null set. No Nazi can actually be punk.

I would celebrate their admission of wrongdoing and willful rehabilitation to civil society. Alternatively, if the way they stop being a threat is that they happen to die, I will celebrate that decent people are safer as a result.

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“Was that a car backfire, or a gumshot?”

They invited the target in, and realigned the cameras accordingly.

All we need to know, so far. One imagines a powerful, charismatic, and terrifying world leader in a powerful enough country could be a real threat to the “fascist old guard”, and they would much prefer an Orban there to that.

That’s almost worth comparing, if the resources and human effort needed to maintain a golf course, plus any other positive or negative environmental impacts, are favorable to the effects of a parking lot or whatever. But I imagine that, either way, a proper public park would be way better.

Hilarious Joke, maybe?

How many random picks would it take to find someone who worse embodies those values than the orange baboon?

“If you don’t save every dog, you aren’t a dog lover.”

This is an insane take. By that local, someone doesn’t love anything unless they are using all their time and energy on that one thing. Which is called obsession.