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Water Cooler / Re: Population: High levels of glyphosate found in more than half of sperm samples
« on: Today at 05:03:31 PM »
I thought this was posted earlier but couldn't find it.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/20/microplastics-human-testicles-study-sperm-counts

Microplastics found in every human testicle in (small) study | Plastics | The Guardian

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Hardware & Technology / Re: How to live your life in text files
« on: Today at 04:58:17 PM »
Decades ago there was a study on accounting record-keeping.  They found that most software and hardware in use changed within a few years and people & businesses could no longer access digital archives from a few years earlier when audited.   

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Economics & Investing / Re: Renewables make up the lion’s share of new electric generation
« on: May 19, 2024, 06:08:53 PM »
>automated e-mail stating I am on track for higher than usual electricity charges

Looks like you're going to get another email, Trav

https://fortune.com/2024/05/18/texas-power-prices-1600-percent-heat-wave-record-energy-demand-electric-grid/

Texas power prices soar 1,600% as heat wave to drive record demand for energy | Fortune

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Water Cooler / Eight Automakers Grilled by US Lawmakers Over Sharing Data With Police
« on: May 19, 2024, 02:10:42 PM »
https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/05/18/0414236/eight-automakers-grilled-by-us-lawmakers-over-sharing-of-connected-car-data-with-police?amp%3Butm_medium=feed


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Monetization / Big Tech to EU: "Drop Dead" | Electronic Frontier Foundation
« on: May 19, 2024, 02:02:43 PM »
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/big-tech-eu-drop-dead


Good read, but one point bothers me;

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Meta’s answer to this is a “Pay or Okay” system, in which users who do not consent to Meta’s surveillance will have to pay to use the service, or be blocked from it

I don't like “Pay or Okay” but it seems to be a reasonable offer by a vendor.  There has to be some sort of monetization that'll pay the bills.

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Water Cooler / America Takes Its Biggest Step Yet to End Coal Mining - Slashdot
« on: May 19, 2024, 01:50:38 PM »
https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/05/18/2235223/america-takes-its-biggest-step-yet-to-end-coal-mining?amp%3Butm_medium=feed


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Economics & Investing / Re: >8 billion people, 6 billion jobs.
« on: May 19, 2024, 01:49:03 PM »
>I'm guessing UBI and work week limitations are going to get more popular.

The godfather of AI agrees, LM.

"AI would increase productivity and wealth, the money would go to the rich and not the people whose jobs get lost and that’s going to be very bad for society”.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cnd607ekl99o

AI 'godfather' says universal basic income will be needed

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Web Development / Re: 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade later
« on: May 19, 2024, 02:09:41 AM »
>different, unrelated content now

That's a problem within AMZ now.  A vendor will discontinue a product and substitute another --sometimes similar, but often not related-- product.  I come across this when I go to 'buy again' from past orders.

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Water Cooler / Re: NOAA declares a G5 (extreme) geomagnetic storm
« on: May 18, 2024, 02:36:16 PM »
> keep messing around with G5s

BBC: More Northern Lights soon as Sun storms strengthen

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c163j8551ygo


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Water Cooler / Population: High levels of glyphosate found in more than half of sperm samples
« on: May 18, 2024, 01:31:57 PM »
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/17/glyphosate-weedkiller-sperm

High levels of weedkiller found in more than half of sperm samples, study finds | Herbicides | The Guardian

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014765132400486X

Glyphosate presence in human sperm: First report and positive correlation with oxidative stress in an infertile French population - ScienceDirect


<related>
Monsanto shills program to parry negative online comments
http://th3core.com/talk/marketing/monsanto-shills-program-to-parry-negative-online-comments/msg74205/#msg74205

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Hardware & Technology / Re: How to live your life in text files
« on: May 18, 2024, 01:19:33 PM »
quick read. good summation...

https://sive.rs/plaintext

Write plain text files | Derek Sivers

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Web Development / 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade later
« on: May 18, 2024, 01:14:38 PM »
https://www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/2024/05/17/when-online-content-disappears/

Link Rot and Digital Decay on Government, News and Other Webpages | Pew Research Center

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Water Cooler / US: 100% tariff on electric vehicles
« on: May 18, 2024, 12:44:59 PM »
https://insideevs.com/news/720126/tesla-model-3-tariff-batteries/

Cheapest Tesla Model 3 Will Be Hit By Biden's New EV Tariffs

"other parts of Biden’s anti-China trade agenda will have a more significant and immediate impact on the U.S. EV landscape. Case in point: A higher tariff on EV battery imports"

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Water Cooler / Re: Military Drones Changing the Game
« on: May 17, 2024, 10:39:49 PM »
https://old.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1cu8jen/last_night_ukraine_launched_over_a_hundred_drones/

Last night Ukraine launched over a hundred drones at oil facilities around Russia, this is the port of Novorossiysk

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https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/05/17/ukrainian-drone-attacks-on-russia-kill-2-set-oil-refinery-ablaze-a85144

Ukrainian Drone Attacks on Russia Kill 2, Set Oil Refinery Ablaze - The Moscow Times

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Web Development / Reddit brings back its old award system — ‘we messed up’ - The Verge
« on: May 17, 2024, 02:55:47 PM »
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/17/24158848/reddit-brings-back-award-system-gold-coins-messed-up


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