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Seems like if that's was the case, steep times wouldn't matter. Why would tea steeped longer have significantly less metal in it than tea steeped shorter if they both got poured through the same filter?

From the article (emphasis mine):

It turns out that the type of tea bag matters. The team found that cellulose tea bags work the best at adsorbing toxic metals from the water while cotton and nylon tea bags barely adsorbed any contaminants at all—and nylon bags also release contaminating microplastics to boot. Tea type and the grind level also played a part in adsorbing toxic metals, with finely ground black tea leaves performing the best on that score. This is because when those leaves are processed, they get wrinkled, which opens the pores, thereby adding more surface area. Grinding the tea further increases that surface area, with even more capacity for binding toxic metals.

He doesn't fucking care. The whole campaign was about doing and saying whatever was needed to get elected so that he could avoid lawsuits, make a profit, and dismantle government. Rich and powerful supported him because they saw ways for themselves to get more rich and more powerful. The richest man on the planet went all in, and now is personally helping to eliminate government agencies that were investigating his own businesses. They don't care that the public gets unhappy, they've served their purpose.

This isn't a surprise, it's their plan going as intended.

Thanks! Even though we're ten years apart, I think we're together on the tail end of the Lemmy age bell curve. It's nice to have company.

It's all relative. I'm 62 - from my perspective you've only recently gone from being a girl to being a woman, so for sure a young woman. Of course in ten years I'll be 72 and you'll be 34, and I'd still call you a young woman.

I remember our first personal computer had 40 columns on the screen, but we ended up getting an 80 column graphics card for it.

I taught myself basic, but the first language I took in college was fortran, and it was on cards. A bit of an aberration: they had moved on to somewhat more modern equipment, but the lab was being upgraded, so they reverted you the card system for a semester temporarily. It was out of date, but not wildly so at the time.

Well, it might or not be a line of code - depends a lot on the language. It's 80 bytes, and a byte is one character. You could have continuation cards if your line was more than 80. That wasn't ever needed for assembly language, rarely for Fortran, but very common for COBOL.

Once upon a time this news would have made me happy. McConnell is responsible for so many terrible things, but honestly he pales in comparison with Trump and the MAGA folks. He's like Dr. Evil, who was the big baddie in his day, but is nothing compared to today's evils.

Thanks, though I'm just not going to give Reddit any more of my clicks. I left there at the first big exiguous and I'm not going back.

There aren't a lot of posts on the SF community here, but when I've posted something interesting it's gotten a lot of activity, so I know there are people reading it. Here's one from the end of the year.

Seems about right. One card had 80 columns, a byte for each one, so 5,000,000 bytes divided by 80 would be 62,500 cards.

I'm a big science fiction reader. Mostly I:

• Look up lists of winners and nominees for the big awards (Hugo, Nebula, Arthur C Clarke)
• Read reviews for successive books in a series when I liked the earlier ones
• Find articles on the top SF books of all time or by year, written by respectable sources
• Get recommendations from friends who also read SF
• Occasionally post threads in the SF community here on things I've read and see what comes up in the comments

There's a saying, something like "When you're used to privilege, equality feels like oppression." It's the same with white folks who feel like it's a big deal when there's more than a token POC in something. It must be DEI, right?

I'm a straight, white, middle class male, but I'm fully aware that my life experience is much different from so many other peoples'. And I've never understood why some people feel like it takes away from them when someone else gets something, like the straight folks who feel like it takes away from straight marriage if gay folks can marry.

People are weird.

According to translate, the side of the van says "Home delivery service, we always come."

Does that pun actually work in both English and German?

It's not the same at all, but it sounds clever, so the base will suck it up and repeat it.

Need to keep this up. Not that, in itself, it accomplished anything, but staying silent legitimizes this bullshit.

The protective barrier is true, but you're either making assumptions about the rest or you've been misinformed. There really aren't major issues in any of the developed countries today, but the washing and refrigeration is still the safest with the longest shelf life. It isn't the condition the chickens are kept in - there are countries where it's much, much worse than in the US - it's just that chickens very easily carry salmonella.

Many years ago, more countries washed, but there were some escapes, especially one from Australia with the eggs exported to the UK, and it got a bad name, so some countries dropped it, but the US figured out how to make it work consistently. Most countries require chickens to be vaccinated, but the US hasn't needed to because of the washing and refrigeration.

Lots of good info online. Here's a USDA article on it, and here's a higher level NPR piece.

It's just two different strategies for avoiding salmonella. The US method has worked very well for a very long time. So much so that other countries did adopt it, at least for a time, but it requires an infrastructure that can keep the eggs refrigerated through from processing to consumer, which isn't trivial.

Ah, okay. Just for electronic filing though, right? You can still use it, print the results, and mail it in, can't you?

Glad to hear it, though I'm not holding my breath for justice from Trump's DOJ.

Isn't freetaxusa still good?