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Different pollen have different weights. If you're seeing yellow dust laying on the ground then it's likely to be a heavy pollen that won't bother many people unless they actively stir it up. Example: People with pine allergies aren't really bothered unless they play in the pine needles and stir it up.

Not familiar with the biology of the matter. But I would assume there are advantages and disadvantages to the weight of the pollen in how it disperses and pollinates.



Ar matey, I am confused about your comments. Will the Preschoolers be sailing off on the high seas?

Thank you, big fan of ELO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Light_Orchestra and I was a bit confused about the comments.

It will go away once someone hacks it and shows inappropriate content.

The simplest solution of a video file on flash storage with the cheapest, minimum hardware required to display it would make it pretty much unhackable. On the other hand, I am not sure if the ad industry can resist getting it connected to the internet for maybe personalized (scan the plates around the truck?), most up-to-date ads they can serve.

Like a personalized advertisement for a bail bonding service to the driver of the vehicle reported stolen.

Goatse to the rescue! I'm sure someone can AI generate a 3d version

Better yet, project an image of the road ahead, Wile E. Coyote-style, and watch Teslas run into it.

And if/when someone ports DOOM to it, they can do a Show HN

The article praises Häagen-Dazs as a beacon of integrity. If a company names itself with deceit I am doubtful of their integrity.

"Häagen-Dazs" is an invented pseudo-Scandinavian phrase coined by the American Reuben Mattus, in a quest for a brand name that he claimed was Danish-sounding.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A4agen-Dazs


I referenced the article and the math seems fine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_Tour_(The_Jacksons)#Ti...

Tour attendance: 2.5 million Only 1 in 10 purchases were honored, so purchase for 25 million tickets were attempted. $750 million in Money market at 7% for 6 to 8 weeks.

So, 6 to 8 million in interest depending on the weeks (6 to 8) in money market.


Yes tilting an actual pinball machine is very legitimate. On the other end, pinball machines have adjustable legs and the arcade owner will make adjustments to the machine to throw people off. Not daily, but when they notice someone is constantly earning free plays, they will take action. Any minor changes will cause the ball to take slightly different paths.


https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10237242/ Our review of industry documents shows that companies knew PFAS was “highly toxic when inhaled and moderately toxic when ingested” by 1970, forty years before the public health community.


I don't see any mention there of the dosage at which these toxic effects occur. That would be necessary to determine if the amount found in the environment is a concern or not.


https://www.sciencedirect.com/org/science/article/pii/S20462...

See table 1

>The toxicity of PFAS to humans has been linked to several health-related issues such as breast cancer,80 infertility,81 vitamin D deficiency,82 increased cholesterol,83 diabetes,84 altered metabolism,85 thyroid toxicity,86 atherosclerosis,87 osteoporosis,88 and cardiovascular diseases.61 Individually, various PFAS and their associated health-related issues are summarised in Table 1.


That's silly. The fact that it is toxic makes it a concern, and the fact that it is a concern means that if you're selling it you should find out yourself about the specifics.

It's like saying that you're not responsible for stealing a wallet because you didn't know exactly how much was in it.


A lot of things are toxic at high doses, yet have essentially no effect at low doses. The linear no-threshold model is a simplification that rarely matches reality.


Silly? There are plenty of substances that are toxic at high dose and innocuous, or even necessary, at low dose. Examples of the latter are vitamins A and B6.

The question of responsibility is of course not what we were talking about, but rather whether the statement "PFAS were known to cause issues" was in fact true. Too often we see possibility of harm being deliberately conflated with actually causing harm. Is it too much to ask for some honesty here?


For most people, if you're taking any position with nuance, your not actually serious about the problem and therefore part of the problem.


The chemical differences between PFAS and vitamin A and B6 are beyond vast.

Comparing them betrays a complete ignorance of the molecular properties that, in combination with biological system processes, make A and B6 healthy at small doses and poisonous at large doses on one hand, and those that makes PFAS linearly poisonous at any given doses on the other. (And yes, you can be exposed to small amounts of toxins and be fine. That doesn’t change the toxicity of a given substance.)

Struggling to see how this could be anything but a bad faith argument.


It really feels along the lines of "prove lead is actually harmful rather than potentially harmful" with all the knowledge and evidence we currently have.

The number of cases of hantavirus annually is incredibly low. There's absolutely no reason to track cases.


I hope that you are right and it keep being such. And that it would not be another December 2019.


I think we are safe from a pandemic. Hantavirus is primarily transmitted through inhaling virus particles from rodent urine, droppings, or saliva that become airborne.


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