Admittedly I am not familiar with the specific health effects of aluminum compounds beyond the basic fact that they are neurotoxic and not good for us, but plenty of things are neurotoxic and bad for us and I admittedly don’t really know the extent that aluminum is a problem (nor am I claiming it causes any specific health effects, to be clear). I’ve personally researched more into the leaching aspect than the neurotoxicity aspect, if for nothing else than I find those interactions between materials interesting, and personally it’s more than enough to put me off using them, considering our track record of massively underestimating harm from things similar to this, but that’s entirely just my own opinion for what kind of cookware I’m willing to use. I do appreciate you trying to be thorough and I wish I had more relevant links at hand.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308814603003789

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308814600000686

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969796053478

You can bypass paywalls by copying the DOI and pasting it into SciHub–uh I mean, you should definitely buy these papers and give the publishing company the exorbitant royalties it so rightfully deserves after they’ve already taken the researchers’ money to publish it in the first place.

I was promised microchips. I haven’t gotten a single brain notification from Elon Musk yet. This some bullshit.

Or the “stick it in but don’t orgasm” method.

Fun fact: the darker the glass is, the less energy it takes to produce and recycle because the additives that make it darker reduce the glass’s melting point significantly. Dark coloured glass is also preferred for beverage storage and preservation as they block sunlight, which is why the more expensive wines almost always come in dark glass bottles. Only issue is dark bottles don’t let you see inside, which consumers don’t tend to like, and a clear glass bottle is more likely to draw attention on the shelf.

Which is actually critical because aluminium compounds are also neurotoxic similar to lead. There are advisories against especially cooking acidic foods in aluminium cookware because the acid, especially if heated, can easily break through the oxide layer and react with the aluminium, forming soluble compounds that are easily absorbed when eaten. And soda is quite acidic so I imagine without the plastic film they’ll all turn into poison within a few weeks (I mean, more poisonous I guess).

Honestly we’re starting to realize that aluminium is the lead of the modern age. Not to nearly the same extent as lead obviously, but the mechanisms for how they harm people are similar. Not saying we go as far as to ban aluminium, but we need to be smart about how and where it’s used (i.e. should ideally be avoided for food packaging or preparation) and seek out better alternatives when aluminium doesn’t work well for an application.

Fun fact: the Romans knew that lead was toxic from their own observations, but still chose to use it because it was just so useful, and because the health effects are chronic so do not manifest for a long time, meaning it could be much more easily ignored until it was too late.

Sound familiar?

“Don’t steal the training data that we stole!”

People also don’t realize that it’s super easy to intentionally have severe biases in an AI’s response. So if ChatGPT wants, for example, Trump to win, they can very easily make their AI pro trump. It could be as subtle as just having more favorable than usual responses for trump related prompts which many people would take the AI’s word for. The idea that “well it still gets things wrong but at least AI is impartial” is completely false because maintaining an AI requires a lot of human work and its management are still all humans.

It’s an open secret that musicians get totally screwed by record labels.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whQ8UBoz-To

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_y_zeql7pc

Not a lawyer, but 99% sure it’s the same here in Canada as well.

Maybe I’m just naive of how many protections we’re actually granted but shouldn’t this already fall under CP/CSAM legislation in nearly every country?

I hate how way more school districts (at least in North America) insist on teaching kids cursive than the ones that teach kids how to touch type.

Which skill do you reckon they’ll find more valuable in their adulthood?

"Omg it’s so hard. It might as well be in Chinese "

Chinese Simplified enters the chat

But why do children need to be required to learn it when there are more pressing skills that they need?

His pronouns are nazi/fascist

Oh wait sorry. Nazi’s pronouns are nazi/fascist. Sorry for misgendering!

Reminder that the largest brands regularly and shamelessly steal from small independent artists to sell for profit, knowing that the artists don’t have the resources to do anything about it: https://web.archive.org/web/20230726050616/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/01/arts/design/digital-art-copyright-marvel-panini-wizards.html

And these are the companies trying to convince you that pirating big name media for your own personal use is theft.

What the fuck the do you have a life question is so offensive! Stop trying to just be edgy in memes!

I’m so sick of these stupid stereotypes that the Linux community has. I’ll have you know that I use both Debian and Fedora and I do not in fact have a life.

They could always do what Android does and give you a prompt to force close an app that hangs for too long, or have a default subprocess limit and an optional whitelist of programs that can have as many subprocesses as they want.

At some point the Linux kernel will be patched to detect and terminate forking attacks, and sadly all these memes will be dead.