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2 days agoHow does buried plastic cause microplastics to leech everywhere?
Weathering (sun, exposure, abrasion caused by plastic being moved by wind and sea) is a significant part of microplastic formation.
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Quite honestly, going to a landfill seems so so so much better than the alternative: going into the environment and oceans, turning into microplastics and getting into food chains.
At least landfills are contained. Bury the shit until we have the tech to deal with it.
Some day, between the plastics, nutrients from organics, e-waste, landfills are going to be a goldmine.
41·3 days agoTheocracy
Huh. Nothing to do woth religion…
7·7 days agoThere’s going to be no external interference when you’re under water. Sea water makes an excellent em shield
I’m not convinced there was an issue with 12th gen. I had instability with the 12900k until the latest bios update.
I bet the screen is less prone to scratching from anything in your pockets
3·25 days agoWarm take, but that’s what makes a burger good
There’s plenty of infectious agents that can just lay dormant almost indefinitely.
There’s major concern about viruses coming from the melting permafrost in regions like Siberia.
If you want to hear something even more terrifying, prions can last about indefinitely. Chronic wasting disease in deer is particularly bad because a deer might die and its remains will decompose into the earth. But vegetation will later grow, and some of those prions will have contaminated the new vegetation. A new deer will get infected by eating that vegetation, even years later.
Physical locks and keys are also easy to bypass.
Especially if X# of cameras are down
Capacitive sensors don’t measure the body’s signals. Capacitance is a physical property of a material. The sensor puts out a signal and measures the response.
I can use a gallon of milk to scroll my phone. Just tried.
No, logical “or” isn’t exclusive. XOR is one and only one.
“I want either steak or fries”- but not both.
“and” means “both” or “all” conditions must be true, or items present in a set
“Or” means “any/at least one” condition needs to be true, or item present in a set.
The condition of “and” is already covered if you use “or”. Unlessbyou say “either or”.
No? You don’t think the courts would approve of a fishing expedition for forth amendment violation access to your computer?
What good does that do for society?
If a cup has a few drops of water after you pour it out,
Say a drop is 0.05ml (20drop/mL is rule of thumb for chemistry). Say your glass cup holds 16oz (mine does), that’s 473mL.
(4*0.05mL / 473mL) *100 = 0.04228% of the original concentration. Now scale that volume up. That ratio is going to be much smaller, since you’re right about volume vs surface area.
5ppb is the cutoff for benzene in stunning water in Oregon apparently. EPA says 5ug/L.
5ppb is apparently 0.0000005%. That’s about 84,000x higher than the cutoff for that one potential contaminant.
Given how small the minimum acceptable level is for many chemicals in gasoline or fuel… Yeah I bet it would increase cancer rates in a statistically significant way.
As soon as they bake drm checks into the os
That would be to be a huge balloon to do anything appreciable, both to your enemy and also the stockpile of waste you have
Coming from the man who knows more about manufacturing than anyone on the planet
I read the snippets and abstract. I’m not seeing how these micro plastics are getting out of the landfills.
Never knew that!
That’s scary, microplastics can absorb and spread pollutants!
But I’m not seeing anything about how they’re getting out from a landfill. I even read a few of the referenced articles. But nothing about if or how they’re getting out.