Nut Nut's Attempt At A Book About Politics & Society
Dear Forum Members,
Over in the poker threads, they have members who blog about their poker experience. I've been wanting
That is just clearly false. Please think about it for five seconds.
All water is dirty today. It is all loaded with plastic.
There are actually lots of ways to remove microplastics from water. Personally, I just boil my water.
How much plastic is in our bodies ?
“Levels of microplastics in human brains may be rapidly rising” was the shocking headline reporting a widely covered study in February. The analysis, published in a top-tier journal and covered by the Guardian, said there was a rising trend in micro- and nanoplastics (MNPs) in brain tissue from dozens of postmortems carried out between 1997 and 2024.
However, by November, the study had been challenged by a group of scientists with the publication of a “Matters arising” letter in the journal. In the formal, diplomatic language of scientific publishing, the scientists said: “The study as reported appears to face methodological challenges, such as limited contamination controls and lack of validation steps, which may affect the reliability of the reported concentrations.”
Tiny pellets of plastic found on a beach
Plastic nurdles found at 84% of UK sites of special scientific interest
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One of the team behind the letter was blunt. “The brain microplastic paper is a joke,” said Dr Dušan Materić, at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Germany. “Fat is known to make false-positives for polyethylene. The brain has [approximately] 60% fat.” Materić and his colleagues suggested rising obesity levels could be an alternative explanation for the trend reported in the study.
You are posting a rebuttal to a study that I didn't cite.
The study that you cite is only a small contributor to the data in the link I provided.
It references plastic in the blood and lungs as well. A rebuttal to the methodology of counting plastic in the brain isn't relevant to that, is it?
I'm not an expert on the DRPK. It doesn't seem like an appealing place to live nor do I approve of the deification of rulers or a hereditary monarchy. You look around the world at human societies and it's easy to find flaws wherever you look. I'm also not perfect. What I suggest is not a utopian fantasy. It is merely a path to survival which allows people the maximum freedom wh
NN, North Koreans can also go to restaurants, play sports, watch movies, go bowling, they get hammered drunk. They can call a taxi and freely move around their cities within reason.Their Healthcare is free. Their living is paid and offered by the state. They get smartphones and can order food with their phones. Any potential dengerous media is also controlled. They flew their soccer team across country to play in the World cup.
Why does it not sound like an appealing place to live or are you just propagated by the west?
NN, North Koreans can also go to restaurants, play sports, watch movies, go bowling, they get hammered drunk. They can call a taxi and freely move around their cities within reason.Their Healthcare is free. Their living is paid and offered by the state. They get smartphones and can order food with their phones. Any potential dengerous media is also controlled. They flew th
I don't have any first-hand knowledge of N Korea. Never been there. Never met any N. Koreans.
They seem to have a hereditary monarchy with a deified leader. That doesn't sound like my cup of tea.
After thinking about it a bit longer, this thread is way better to express myself.
The onion deserves particular attention, not because it is necessarily more important than any other ingredient, but because it has acquired a reputation for existing within recipes in such a consistent manner that its repeated appearance has become almost entirely unremarkable. An onion may be white, yellow, red, sweet, or simply identified as "an onion" without further clarification. Once selected, it is often peeled. This peeling process reveals another onion-like layer beneath the previous onion-like layer, after which another layer may reveal itself, and occasionally another, resulting in what can only be described as an experience of repeatedly discovering that the onion continues to be an onion.
Following this revelation, the onion is frequently cut. The exact dimensions of the cuts are subject to ongoing discussion despite the undeniable reality that, eventually, the onion will become smaller than it originally was. Whether it has been diced into cubes measuring approximately five millimeters on each side or chopped into pieces that could reasonably be described as "close enough," the onion remains destined to participate in cooking, provided it is not accidentally left on the cutting board while every other ingredient proceeds without it.
The onion represents the natural food which serves as the best metaphor for climate change.
Compare it to an apple which can easily be peeled and sliced in very thin layers around the circumference with a sharp knife.
An onion can't be peeled in the same way. It comes naturally packaged in thick layers which stick together as a cohesive whole. A whole lot of onion comes off at the same time.
That's the way it is with Earth's glaciers and ice sheets. Once you pass a certain threshold of loss on a glacier with a retrograde bed slope, you commit to losing massive amounts of ice until a new equilibrium point is found.
The Earth is like a giant onion and each layer represents a radically different version of Earth which is completely different from the layer we've been blessed with for the last 11,700 years since the AMOC started circulating anew after a 1200 year hiatus.
Thank you weeez. I've had this analogy tucked away for awhile and you unlocked it !!!!
Haven't bothered reading the entirety of the thread but did you ever write your book? Seeing as OP was nine years ago?
