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Christ I think I copied the wrong figure and it should actually be 2.9%.

I’m on mobile ATM so can’t conveniently check but that likely changes the income decile considerably.

Are you referring to this paragraph?

The Joint FAO/WHO Meeting on Pesticide Residues (JMPR),[109] the European Commission , the Canadian Pest Management Regulatory Agency , the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority [110] and the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment [111] have concluded that there is no evidence that glyphosate poses a carcinogenic or genotoxic risk to humans. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has classified glyphosate as “not likely to be carcinogenic to humans.”[112][113] One international scientific organization, the International Agency for Research on Cancer classified glyphosate in Group 2A, “probably carcinogenic to humans” in 2015.[15][13]

Because I count that as 6 saying “no evidence of a cancer link” and 1 saying “probably carcinogenic.”

At the very least, that suggests to me that if it is carcinogenic, it’s at such a low level that the effect is hard to measure, and so not worth worrying about.

I’m a committed Wikipedia reader, so if you’ve got a better source to read (or “parrot”) then go ahead. If you don’t reply I’ll know you’re on the pocket of big dandelion.

Average S&P return is 10%, but average US inflation is 7.8%, which gives you a yearly return in today’s dollars of $22,400. If you did your plan and bought a house for $250k, (well below the US median house price, but I’ll take your word for it that it’s plausible) you’d expect to indefinitely get $16,800 a year. If you add on the average US rent ($1,700) which you wouldn’t be paying with an outright-owned house, you get an equivalent yearly income of $37,700. In 2023 this would’ve put you in between the 4th and 5th deciles, so slightly below median.

So, if you think the middle class is squeezed in the USA, then you should also think that someone with a million dollars would be squeezed if they quit their job and retired intending to live of it.

Yeah good point. I mean arguably they are still reputationally damaged, but that’s also not enough.

It’s important to understand that glyphosate has been the subject of a lot of studies. Naturally those studies require increased scrutiny now, in case the same dishonest tactics have been used on others, but the likelihood is that the overall conclusion that glyphosate is safe is still true.

Unfortunately the retraction of a paper by a journal only really harms the scientists who were involved, not the company that instigated the fraud. When there’s a financial incentive to subvert scientific transparency, that seems insufficient. But I dunno how you could resolve this legally (or legislatively).

Are volumetrics computed on the CPU though?! I didn’t change the GPU at the same time.

But jam comes in jars of a minimum size and sometimes it goes mouldy before finishing.

You can build infrastructure that encourages reasonable people to drive slower (an example I’m thinking of - you can remove priority rules at a junction and force drivers to negotiate it on a more ad hoc basis, which requires a lower speed to see what everyone is doing). You can’t build infrastructure which does this for everyone. Joe Twatface will just speed through that junction and let everyone else slam their brakes on.

A lot of features that discourage dangerous driving also prevent emergency vehicles from going at high speed.

On faster roads, these traffic-calming measures are generally undesirable also.

So: the methods are limited and have disadvantages. Traffic cameras can fill in the gaps.

If your traffic cameras are accessible to private companies who can misuse that data, that’s a problem that needs to be addressed in legislation. If your traffic cameras are accessible to police who are fundamentally compromised as part of a proto-fascist state apparatus, it’d be good to link your protests against cameras (which exist all around the world) to their use by proto-fascists (which haven’t co-opted the government all around the world, yet). And there are probably more effective ways of disrupting them.

Yeah, it couldn’t be the UN-confirmed genocide, nor the IDF-sanctioned videos of complete devastation, nor the steady wash of articles from journalists with decades of experience confirming utterly inhumane practices around aid distribution, rules of engagement and civilian deaths. Couldn’t be.

Yeah, it’s so weird to sympathise with people who are being starved 🙄

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Then you haven’t been looking very hard. The airline industry in the US is a good example. Your internet search terms could be “deregulation case study” and would also find negative cases

EDIT: you can downvote, but can you type three words into a search engine and click on one link that doesn’t align with your current opinions? IMPOSSIBLE CHALLENGE!!

This is kind of what traditional celebrations are. There’s no inherent reason to put a tree indoors at Christmas, but I still love doing it, because it connects me with my childhood and with my parents and with all my ancestors going back generations.

Preach! Or maybe not preach, but you know, continue to spread this reasonable and undogmatic message!

They weren’t children after all; they were adults and the pickling shrunk them

I have a C2 with LibreELEC but last time I checked there were zero os updates for years :( any suggestions?

Lol, doesn’t surprise me given how that game runs. It looked like any other game but prompted a couple upgrade from me

That would essentially mean the only reason to use Linux over Windows is ideological opposition to Microsoft, which is sheer nonsense.

Hey. Hey. Fuck you.