Arsenic is found naturally in some foods, including fish and shellfish, and in waters and soils.

Inorganic arsenic is found in industrial materials and gets into water—including water used to submerge rice paddies.

Rice is easily inundated with weeds and other crops, but it has one advantage: It grows well in water. So farmers germinate the seeds, and when the seedlings are ready, plant them in wet soil. They then flood their fields, which suppresses weeds, but allows the rice to flourish. Rice readily absorbs the water and everything in it—including arsenic, either naturally occurring or not. Most of the world’s rice is grown this way.

“What happens in rice, because of complex biogeochemical processes in the soil, when temperatures and CO2 go up, inorganic arsenic also does,” Ziska said. “And it’s this inorganic arsenic that poses the greatest health risk.”

If I’m understanding correctly, the risk is from flooding the fields with contaminated water

A farm that relies on flooding the field with rain from a rainy season should be unaffected? Or minorly affected, right?

We’re the Russians standing in bread lines, now…

Bpii Mai Thai

🫣🔫

Yes.

My wife is Thai. I knew Thai New Year was here but it still caught me off guard when she wished me a Happy New Year this morning.

If you mean quit as in actively deciding “I quit”, no. I definitely go days without checking in though. Usually because life gets in the way. And I’ve definitely been less active since the US election.

It was a better performance than the game show host could ever dream of giving though…

I don’t know why this is being downvoted.

Because the circumstances of Khashoggi’s death were entirely different?

I hope you got Ernie’s consent to post this…

…nobody can afford to eat 50 eggs

FTFY

On an iPhone you can also do two consecutive dashes (–) to get an m-dash (—). I’m not aware of a similar shortcut for an n-dash.

(To be honest when I started typing this comment I thought it was 2 dashes for an n-dash and three for an m-dash)

It’s as easy as 1, 2, 3…

…come on…

“Everything’s computer”

Yes, and he killed himself after the FBI was throwing the book at him for doing exactly what these AI assholes are doing without repercussion

Whoever brings Aaron Swartz back gets to violate all the copyright laws

Jesus Christ…

VA governors can only serve one (consecutive) term.

For me it’s easy to imagine an article being linked to two communities that are going to have drastically different takes.

!cars@lemmy.world and !fuckcars@lemmy.world for example.

Now I can see wanting to have a discussion across both communities, but I can also see /c/cars wanting discuss cars without having every conversation devolve into an argument or admonishment.

As I was writing this another problem came to mind. You have a pooled discussion across two or more communities with two or more moderation policies. How could that be reconciled?

My personal opinion is to pick the top two or three most applicable communities and post there.

As someone who primarily browses Local or All, after seeing the third identical post it starts looking like spam.

Choosing what you say or share is censorship?!

😂🤣😭