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The max thresholds don't mean it's fine if it's lower, just that at some point it becomes difficult to both detect the presence of things and there's a limit on how much can be prevented. If we were progressing in time correctly we should be lowering these maximum levels both in the ability of detection and in the beginning sources. Especially in cases like this where either the metals are being added or are part of specific ingredients that would cost more to process and remove the metals.

And wow, they said Washington State was lower than the FDA, but that's a magnitude less! Good job, Washington!

Elise's early website (under <1999) is vintage web work. Even got on the Discovery Channel! We don't make websites that cool anymore.

Early summer on the NC beaches can be a bit brisk with the wind. But they're the best beaches. :D

Connections.

"Danger to humans" simply means they would run rather than attack you. Holding it like that, if your hand is in the wrong place you might still lose it.

Thanks, Indian plate!

HISSSSS

"No, we're not going to choose that option."

They come out mostly at night. Mostly.

An origin theory pointing to manmade sources alone was never the problem. Using that idea to avoid doing things to protect the public was and still is. If someone like Trump starts shouting "hey, look over there!", you better look where he's not pointing, as he's all about distraction.

The Good News has been shared for a very long time.

I always see a lot of great and diverse solutions for maintaining information and even being self sufficient in the face of some sort of societal collapse and loss of infrastructure. I never see plans mentioned for what to do afterwards. The point being, there seems to be an assumption of either permanence to things like storage and alternative energy sources, or perhaps an implied having to just last a decade or so and things will be rebuilt.

So hypothetical, something happens and things go away, but someone in your community has set up a center of preservation of knowledge that can be tapped into through a mesh network, and everyone has a minimal power setup to use some things to do this and other electronic based work. Now what? Is asking this question too vague since there can be so many scenarios possible and we just have to figure it out from there?

TL;DR - what happens to a post-collapse tech center in the long run since we see all the time that there are limits to even the best storage media and parts wear out even in non-moving solar panels. Mass replacements and salvage are a given, but even that has limits and problems.

I'd rather her be Speaker of the House or go Senate and be party leader. Progressive needs to be more that a minority that's afraid to push too hard or get shut down by their own party. Plus both of those are more long-term positions of power, and in some ways more powerful than a President (well, legally). She can run for President later to finish off her political career.

Ollama.com is another method of self hosting. Figuring out which model type and size for what equipment you have is key, but it's easy to swap out. That's just an LLM, where you go from there depends on how deep you want to get into the code. An LLM by itself can work, it's just limited. Most of the addons you see are extra things to give memory, speech, avatars, and other extras to improve the experience and abilities. Or you can program a lot of that yourself if you know Python. But as others have said, the more you try to get out, the more robust a system you'll need, which is why you find the best ones online in cloud format. But if you're okay with slower responses and lower features, self hosting is totally doable, and you can do what you want, especially if you get one of the "Jailbroke" models that has had some of the safety limits modified out of them to some degree.

Also as mentioned, be careful not to get sucked in. Even a local model can be convincing enough sometimes to fool someone wanting to see things. Lots of people recognize that danger, but then belittle people who are looking for help in that direction (while marketing realizes the potential profits and tries very hard to sell it to the same people).

Sure. Is there also a matching one for capitalism, since it's far beyond just cars.

Monty Python makes more sense than reality. I wish a moose would bite Trump.

Dude wouldn't know where to find eggs if you dropped him into a grocery store, let alone the prices people are paying. "What could it cost, Michael? $10?" vibes.

Idiocracy without the President who cares about fixing the problems.