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maryellencarter:

big-ass-magnet:

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Hi, Mass Effect Legendary Edition is on sale for SIX DOLLARS.

That’s all three games, almost all the DLCs (rip, Pinnacle Station) including weapon and armor packs, for six goddamn dollars.

HOLY SHIT

look, if you can stand shooters at all (the easy mode, target assist, and squadmate auto-attacks are extremely helpful – this was the first video game I ever played), and if you think you’d be interested in 260+ hours *per playthrough* (the first game alone takes three playthroughs for 100% completion) of roleplay-heavy story content In Spaaaaace with close to two dozen potential found-family members played by some of the best voice actors in video games…

Do check if your computer can run the game, Legendary Edition is pretty graphics-heavy. But my god, six dollars for (if you like it as much as I do) literally thousands of hours of entertainment? Damn.

(Also, MELE is deliberately optimized to be modded. Check out NexusMods to see just how bananas the mods scene is, because it’s fucking amazeballs. Mass Effect 1’s original PC port was literally unmoddable due to loss of the original masters, and between the inbuilt moddability of LE and the dedication of the modding community, it’s now got mods I always wanted and never *dreamed* could exist. Drop another five bucks on a month of Nexus premium downloads and go to town.)

(obligatory disclaimer: not a paid endorsement yadda yadda, I just really motherfucking love this game and it was extremely formative for me)

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fox-bright:

My covid post from last year is going around again, as I sit here debating how and what to write about HPAI H5N1.

I’m tired.

Things to know:

  • HPAI H5N1, Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1, is so far wildly lethal when humans get it. Somewhere between 53% and 56% of the humans who have been found to have it have died.
  • Those people mainly got it from interacting with sick birds. A couple have gotten it from interacting with sick mammals. The one of those that’s most important to US news right now is a worker at a milk cow farm who got sick very recently. That worker’s only symptom before getting on antiviral medication was pinkeye.
  • (Keep your cats indoors; cats are getting it from sick birds. Don’t have bird feeders this year. Do NOT interact with wild birds that are acting strangely; do not poke at dead wild birds.)
  • Humans are not yet giving it to humans. There are one or two cases where they might have done, in the last few years; those cases guttered out quickly, to the great good luck of our species, and did not spread.
  • Human-to-human transmission is the big concern.
  • We are not in any immediate danger of H2H transmission. When we’re in immediate danger, you’ll know.
  • When the flip happens, we will go from not being in immediate danger to being in immediate danger, very rapidly. This could happen this month, or in five months, or in five years, and we don’t know when.
  • By the time we are in immediate danger, it is too late to do the greater bulk of your preparation.
  • So it’s time to prepare now. This time we have is a blessing. We should not squander it. What would you have done differently in September, 2019, if you knew what was coming? Do that.
  • With some differences; a) flu can pass by fomite–that is, a sick person touches a doorknob, you touch a doorknob, you rub your face, you get sick–so you actually do need cleaning chemicals for this one. b) This one gets in through the eyeballs pretty easily in its current shape, so eye protection should be prepped for adding to masking in public spaces. c) this one is gonna call for fever reducers and we know how hard they were to get when covid hit; stock up. And stock up on pet food if you can keep it from going bad, because pet food gets its protein from cow and bird meat; there will be shortages.
  • With a lot of similarities; the flu is airborne so don’t stop masking, if we have a proper lockdown this time you’re going to wish you had flour and rice and canned fruit so keep stock of all your staples. If you have a nice big freezer, now is the time to get beef and chicken before the prices shoot to the ceiling. I’m also stocking up on powdered milk and powdered eggs for baking with.

We have made a lot, a LOT of mistakes with how we’ve handled covid. But one thing we didn’t do wrong was all of the community-building in the early days. Think about what worked then, and what didn’t really work. Now is the time to make sure community bonds are strong. As always, as in ANY potential disaster, there are two most-important questions?

Who can protect and support you?

Who can you support and protect?

Plan accordingly.

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#OP is from 2024-04-05 #in the past month‚ things have continued to spiral #the cold war has not yet gone hot‚ but it’s notably warmer than it was #personally‚ I would not be willing to bet money that good PPE will still be available for sale a month from now #it might be #it might not #don’t rely on it #(I rather suspect the only reason it’s still in stock is that the PPE supply chains bulked up somewhat after 2020) #(so that they’re not the very first thing to fail anymore the way they were then) #(in 2020‚ respirators were already impossible to obtain by late January) #also‚ take a moment to thank all those who fought for pasteurised milk to be the standard #PSA #101 Uses for Infrastructureless Computers #HPAI #illness tw #apocalypse cw? #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once #I think I will rearrange my queue to place this post second instead of its default eleventh #and arrange the current ninth post to be first

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baddaydiary:

tendermiasma:

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for fellow austins and the rest of texas

fuck ERCOT

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thread says:

ATTN: ANYONE WITH NO HEATING OR POWER CURRENTLY

I know it’s cold, I have some tips for you, thanks to having been through this before, many times.  (spool of thread emoji)

Please RT the thread if you know anyone without power currently! (black heart emoji)

-Choose 1 room to inhabit
-Move all furniture to external walls
-Move your mattress to the center of the 1 room
-Block pets from leaving that room, put all needs in it
-If your fridge is warming up, put all perishable items in a trash bag and place outside, form snow around
-If you have plants, move them in the room with you
-If you have a small space heater, move it in the room with you
-Hang thick blankets or large towels in all the windows
-If a sunny day arrives before power, open curtains when sun hits directly, then put back up
-Wear multiple layers of clothing
-If your pets are too cold, put socks on their feet and/or clothing you have that fits them
-roll clothing or towels and block all door and window gaps
-Throw all your dirty clothes on the floor, covering every space you can

Your body heat will warm that room if you remain in ONLY that room.  You want to use anything you can to add insulation between you, and the outside.  Hence covering and blocking all floors, windows, and walls.  Now isn’t the time to have a clean house, it’s the time to survive.

Late addition thanks to a friend of mine:

If you have, or can get, bubble wrap, tape that to all windows, as it creates a kind of double insulation!

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#101 Uses for Infrastructureless Computers #PSA #I still need to test whether it’s feasible to set up my mom’s tent indoors #failing that‚ I should brush up on my blanket-fort techniques #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once

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agender-witchery:

kobolde:

kobolde:

firefox just started doing this too so remember kids if you want to stream things like netflix or hulu over discord without the video being blacked out you just have to disable hardware acceleration in your browser settings!

for the people saying this might be too difficult: idk about chrome but in firefox it just goes

> open settings

> search “hardware acceleration” and there should only be one result

> uncheck use recommended performance settings

> uncheck use hardware acceleration

done!

Since I’m looking at the comments and seeing a lot of people asking what hardware acceleration is and getting wildly incorrect answers, here you go. This is what hardware acceleration is. It’s not DRM, and it’s not placing a limit on memory usage (unless you have weird definitions for both “memory” and “placing a limit”).

This is what hardware acceleration is:

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“Do you just have a graphic for this on hand at all times?”

Yes. For this precise reason.

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#PSA #the more you know #discourse cw? #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once

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homunculus-argument:

One absolutely hilarious part of human existence is the repeated incidents of spicy bananas. People who have lived their entire lives up to this point just assuming that a specific fruit or vegetable is supposed to taste bitter, tangy, or spicy, having no fucking idea that all this time, they’ve been allergic to this plant. Because how would they have known? You learn what things taste like by tasting them, nobody’s going to tell you that bananas are supposed to be one of the mildest flavours out there. And people already eat so many things that taste hot, bitter, tangy and tart! Because they like how that kind of thing tastes like!

You can just happily much on a plant, thinking “ah, this angry plant tastes sharp because it hates me. Much like all the other sharp angry plants that people eat because they like the sharp”, and it wouldn’t cross their mind to think that the plant just hates you, specifically.

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msfcatlover:

This is sitting on the shelf of human experiences riiiight next to people who don’t realize they’re colorblind.

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deadmomjokes:

My best friend’s husband didn’t realize he was colorblind until after they were married in their mid-twenties and she watched him run a stop sign that was in front of a big bush. He’d lived his entire life not knowing. So when they did some tests and realized “hey, you’re super colorblind,” he got to thinking, it’s X-linked, right? Which means it had to have come from Mom’s side of the family, so he started digging and asked his mom’s dad, and Grampa was like “Well that would explain a lot, I suppose. I kind of thought your grandma was just pulling my leg about the tomatoes.”

Because Grandma had apparently banned him early on from picking the tomatoes in the garden because he was constantly coming in with unripe ones, and he thought she was just being super nitpicky about it. This was a lifelong family joke, that Grandpa couldn’t tell a ripe tomato to save his life, and nobody ever stopped to wonder if maybe he and the grandson who routinely colored the grass red on his drawings might have something going on with their ability to see red and green as distinct colors.

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yardsards:

i thought aloe vera gel was SUPPOSED TO burn your skin. like how rubbing alcohol burns when applied to a cut. figured that everyone else was just better at gritting their teeth and bearing the full body aloe sting than i was. i just didn’t feel like the stinging was worth the mild healing properties aloe had.

yeah… turns out it’s NOT supposed to burn and i was just allergic to aloe

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life-on-the-spectrum:

STORY TIME!!!!!!!

My husband comes from a “weird” family. Like, the whole county knows. “He’s a total weirdo. AAAH THAT’S HIS LAST NAME THAT EXPLAINS IT OKAY NO PROBLEM GO FLY FREE DUDE WE LOVE YOU!!” The family’s just a bunch of freaks, like the Addams Family meets the Beverly Hillbillies. I ADORE them.

It was celebrated because they’re so valuable to the local community. This one sells meticulously grown veggies at the farmer’s market, then hisses at you for suggesting they wear soemthing that isn’t tie-dyed. That kid was in kindergarten before she said her first word, and that’s cool because her older sister translated for her NO THANK YOU TEACHER WE DO NOT NEED A DOCTOR THAT IS NORMAL FOR THIS FAMILY GO AWAY. She’s got two quiet kids of her own now and WE STILL DO NOT NEED A DOCTOR GO AWAY. That uncle knows everything there is to know about every car engine ever, and he never wears shoes with laces because he literally never worked out how to tie them (He’s 60). He’s also the top mechanic in his town and makes serious dough that put his super-smart daughter through college, and now she’s an ace veterinarian who pterodactyl screams at acrylic sweaters and keeps everyone’s pets alive. I shit you not, the family matriarch gets excited for tax season every year and begs everyone to bring her their taxes so she can MATH at them. It’s her freaking hobby.

Whatever. They’re in OUR family. It’s totally normal for us. The family’s just full of freaks, that’s all. We encourage our people to go with their strengths and use their skills to make our little corner of the world a nicer place to live in, then teach them how to manage the difficult parts of the world because we all had to learn to do it ourselves. “Because this family’s full of people just as freaky as you. You’re one of us.”

No, most of them don’t go to college. It’s rural Illinois, of course they don’t. Lots of them end up in specialized trades, like electricians or farmers, and they always kick ass at it. They tend towards jobs that require a lot of focus, and attention to detal, and very specific, in-depth knowledge that is almost useless outside of whatever field they’re in. We’re mostly spread between two or three small towns in Illinois, and I do not think these three towns would function without my husband’s family fixing and growing everything they do.

One of our cousins’ kids got diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder a few years ago. His now-ex-wife insisted that something was wrong and that our cousin was a jerk for not caring enough to notice. The family reacted with “He’s fine, it’s normal, we all did that when we were his age… wait… shit… what do you mean it’s genetic?”

It turns out that like 70% of my husband’s side of the family is autistic as fuck. We’re talking about grandmothers. Uncles. Cousins. People are in their 70s just now figuring out why they are how they are. 

They’re just so famously weird in our community that they attract the other weird people as partners, and then they have weird little kids, and no one really looks twice. A bunch of the people (including me) who married in were informally adopted first. “Oh, your parents punished you for this behavior? We all do that here. Come to the barbecue!” Two years later, I had their last name and was helping watch their adorable little handflappy babies.

We’ve got an entire gene pool over here of autistic people thriving so well that no one noticed we were all autistic.

Also, that cousin got RID of his wife when she started talking about how “tragic” their son’s autism is. Their son is a perfectly normal child in our family and will be raised as such. We joke now that when something needs fixed, “Oh, just call Uncle So-and-So, he’ll autism at it.”’

I fucking love this family so much.

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bisexualbaker:

Beautiful, wonderful story, no notes (except maybe asking if there’s room for one more at the dinner table).

Anyway, back to the original post, I am in deep gratitude for it, because it’s the only reason I thought to wonder if chickpeas are supposed to be spicy.

(Hint: Apparently they’re not. The genetic lottery locked the good tasting falafel and hummas behind an allergy wall.)

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lukiepoooo:

….what,,, what is aloe vera supposed to feel like?????

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vaspider:

It’s supposed to feel cool and soothing.

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#that one post with the thing #is the blue I see the same as the blue you see #food #allergies #autism #PSA #embarrassment squick #poison cw? #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once

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greatpoetryfun:

mariacallous:

Friendly reminder as we head into tax season (for US Americans), that the major tax preparation companies are fully prepared to lie and mislead you into paying for their tax preparation software when you might qualify for free software through the IRS.

Don’t fall for their bullshit. Visit IRS Free File and see what services are available to you. The requirements vary depending on your household status and income, but if you make less than $79,000/year (which is nearly everyone I know), you probably qualify for something.

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#…the fourth question they ask is ”what country do you live in” #(with a long list of possible answers) #I am going to have to look into this #I still don’t *super* expect it to work #–later parts of the questionnaire kind of implied that the #only valid reason to be a non-resident citizen is if you’re on a military deployment– #but it does need further investigation #(tax-preparation services for non-residents normally start at USD$120) #(that’s for an ~installation-wizard‚ not a person) #(it’s $160 if you’re a gig worker) #(if you hold index funds outside of a short list of exceptional circumstances #you don’t qualify for the DIY tax software and you have to buy a human-assisted service for $550) #((yes‚ five hundred and fifty)) #home of the brave #tag rambles #PSA #adventures in human capitalism #this probably deserves some warning tag but I am not sure what

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iknityounot:

(Long post, sorry y’all)

A little more than two years ago now, my grandmother passed away. She and my grandpa had moved down to my home town a few years before so we could take care of them. I brought them groceries once a week, helped them write checks, fixed tvs, and found lost things. I was really close with my grandma.

In addition to her hilarious personality and dry wit, one of my favorite things about her was that she was a painter and a crafter like me! She used to crochet, and I took her to the craft store a couple of times so she could get more yarn and books on crochet. But her arthritis and the shaking in her hands kept getting worse, so she eventually had to stop.

She kept her most recent project, a granny square blanket, safely packed away in a plastic bin. She told all of us she was going to finish it one day.

Her hands never got better, and when she got sick, and we found out it was cancer, she rapidly deteriorated.

After she passed, I went to work helping my mom clean out my grandparents apartment so we could move my grandpa in with her. In our frantic cleaning, I found that bin again:

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DOZENS of granny squares, dozens of half used skeins. I asked my mom what she wanted me to do with it, and she said she didn’t care. I set it aside and later took it home.

Maybe a month later, that tumblr post about the Loose Ends Project was going around. It felt like a sign–I was never going to learn to crochet in order to finish my grandmother’s blanket. But they might be able to help!

So I filled out the interest form. They got back to me SUPER quick. And maybe 2 weeks later, I was paired with volunteer in my state (only 2 hours away!) and the box of yarn, granny squares, and my grandmother’s crochet hook were in the mail. That was at the end of January this year.

Over the next couple of months, my “finisher” emailed me regular updates on her progress, and asked me questions on my preferences for how she constructed the final blanket.

At the end of August, the blanket was done!

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I had always intended the blanket to be a gift for my mother. So I cleaned it up, put it in the only bag I had big enough to fit it, and drove to my mom’s. I gave the blanket to her and she was gobsmacked. I explained to her all about Loose Ends, and how someone volunteered to finish the piece for us. She was speechless. (I was quite pleased with this, because I am not the best at giving gifts, so this was a pretty exciting reaction!)

She said that it was the most thoughtful gift she had ever been given. She said “your grandma would love this”. To which I replied, “yeah, I know she really wanted to finish it a couple of years ago”. But that was when my mom dropped the bomb of a century on me–she told me that my grandma had started making those granny squares OVER 30 YEARS AGO. She had started the blanket when my grandpa was staying in the hospital, but that was back when my mom was younger than I am now! My grandma had packed them all away, planning on finishing it, when my grandpa was sent home from the hospital. Then it went from house to house, from condo in Chicago to their apartment in my hometown. All that time and my grandma had wanted to finish it, but couldn’t. First because she was busy, then because she forgot how to do it, then because of her arthritis, and then because of the cancer. My mom said she had given up on expecting my grandma to finish it.

She said I brought a piece of her childhood with her mom out of the past.

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And really, all of this is to say, if you have seen or heard about the Loose Ends Project and have an uncompleted project or piece from a loved one who has passed away–these are your people. They were so kind and treated my project with such care. That box probably would have been found by my own grandkids one day if I hadn’t heard about Loose Ends.

Five stars, absolutely worth it!

(From what I understand, you can sign up to volunteer too! If you have time to share, it might be worth checking out!)

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#PSA #death tw #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once

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mamoru:

you know how all those applesauce packets were recalled for lead?

well. it turns out the cinnamon used in them may have been laced with lead on purpose.

Lead contamination in applesauce pouches may have been intentional, FDA says

fun times in the united states food industry right now am I right folks

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ferrosparrow:

In case you’re a buffoon (like me) and thought someone was out here meticulously hand-poisoning applesauce:

An FDA spokesperson said that one of the agency’s theories for the WanaBana cinnamon applesauce contamination was “economically motivated adulteration.” (…)

Economically motivated adulteration, or “food fraud,” can occur when a cheaper ingredient is added to a product to enhance it or bulk it up, but is not disclosed, according to the FDA. One example, the agency said, is when lead-based dyes are added to spices to give the product a certain color.

We love cutting corners to maximize profit at the expense of our consumers

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mamoru:

hand-poisoning applesauce would be too tedious. these applesauces were poisoned in bulk for maximum efficiency

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pazithigallifreya:

Turmeric is also frequently affected by this. A lead compound with a bright yellow color can be used.

I’m not gonna dox myself by saying precisely what I do for a living, but I am involved in public environmental health, and in the past have conducted home investigations in child lead poisoning cases. For years, foreign spices have been a problem, particularly for immigrant families who visit relatives overseas and bring spices back from south asia in particular.

During and immediately after covid, however, we started finding domestically sold spices coming back from lab testing with high lead results. Sam’s club, wal-mart, etc. We used to tell families to buy domestically instead of bringing things back from India, Pakistan, etc, but even that isn’t safe anymore.

You might – might – be safer with higher end organic products but I really just don’t trust anything anymore. This isn’t a new issue, but it’s definitely becoming more widespread.

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mamoru:

is there a reliable way to test spices for lead at home?

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propelledbydisaster:

if the spice you’re using is water-soluble, you can mix it with water and then use a water testing kit. they sell water-testing kits at the hardware store; ones that you send off to a lab are more reliable (but also more expensive).

you can also buy lead-testing swabs on the Internet. some of these are not reliable, so I’d recommend testing the lead-testing swabs. use a swab on something that you know is lead (a fishing sinker, a car battery, etc) and another swab on something that you know is lead-free (most things in your home, hopefully) and make sure you get the expected results.

note that lead-testing kits are not food-safe, so you should not just put pipettes / test swabs / etc into your spice jar. spoon out a small amount (onto a plate or whatever), test that small amount, and then throw that small amount away. (and then wash the plate.)

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alugard:

gonna add this consumer reports investigation from a couple of years back that made the rounds. they looked into a bunch of american spice brands and found that this is a huge problem across brands, regardless of whether or not it’s organic (exact quote: “CR’s tests could not determine whether one brand was consistently better or worse than any other. And organic products did not have consistently lower levels than conventionally grown ones”).

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mamoru:

summary of the results, which tested for things like lead, arsenic, and cadmium beyond safe limits:

  • there was no safe oregano or thyme among their tests
  • for basil and ginger, only one brand was found to be safe in each
  • for paprika and cumin, half of the products were unsafe
  • a few of the spices they tested were considered “high concern” as in, their highest level of danger on this scale
  • consumer reports recommends growing your own herbs when possible because herbs and spices can be so dangerous to buy

fun!

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fire-fira:

I highly recommend reading through the article @alugard linked because it gives a lot of good information.

Also, close to the bottom, it gives a rundown of the spices that were tested with a helpful visual graphic for which brands and which spices were more concerning or less concerning, starting with this disclaimer and table:

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[Text description: A screenshot with the header in larger bold text that says “CR’s Herb and Spice Test Results”. Below it in smaller text is a paragraph that reads, “CONSUMER REPORTS tested 126 herbs and spices from 38 brands for arsenic, cadmium, and lead. (We did not test spices that tend to be used in baking, such as cinnamon and nutmeg.) We tested two or three samples from different lots of each product. Our findings are a spot check of the market and cannot be used to draw definitive conclusions about brands. The products are organized alphabetically by type. Within each group, the products are listed according to the degree of concern. Regularly consuming ¾ teaspoon or more daily of a product in one of the concerning categories could, over time, pose a health risk to children as a result of the combined levels of the three heavy metals. Unless noted, they could also pose a risk to adults. The more red boxes next to a product, the higher the concern.” Below the paragraph is a graphic of four categories: a green circle with a white checkmark in it, labeled ‘No Concern’; a single red circle labeled ‘Some Concern’; two red circles next to each other labeled ‘Moderate Concern’; and three red circles next to each other labeled ‘High Concern’. /end text description]

Whiiiich is definitely helpful if you’d like to be more careful with what spices you use based on the information available. (That said, they only tested 38 brands, and there are a lot more out there than that. Again, I highly recommend reading the article.)

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#here’s the other thing I was referring to re: turmeric #food #home of the brave #PSA #poison cw #what’s the warning tag for brain damage‚ I feel like that should have a specific tag

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robustcornhusk:

toasthaste:

oh the Reply All host* has a kind of spiritual successor podcast called Search Engine that’s ticking off most of the same boxes for me. It’s not explicitly about the internet but it’s about digging around trying to find answers for really specific questions, and it has a very similar vibe/editing/production.

Currently listening to “Why can’t we just turn the empty offices into apartments?” (Which thus far basically aligns with the stuff I thought I knew about the subject and has the same extremely-listenable quality that Reply All had)

Other eps of interest to me include “How sad are the monkeys in the zoo?” “How do I find new music now that I’m old and irrelevant?” and “Wait, should I not be drinking airplane coffee?”

Not a ton of eps out yet, like 15-20 maybe? Apparently they’re gonna do 40 and see how much support they get and if it’s enough then they’ll commit to 40 more and so on.

very tangential to “is it okay to drink the airplane coffee” -> lately i was reading about Germs On Planes and also Germs While Hiking -> apparently you sometimes get hiker-epidemics of norovirus on popular hiking trails, because there’s no running water to wash your hands with, and hand sanitizer DOES NOT KILL NOROVIRUS

which was news to me! maybe it’s not news to other people.

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#PSA #illness tw #vomit cw #unsanitary cw #norovirus is fucking terrifying #(she says as someone who probably has Long Norovirus) #((though she was never tested to confirm it was that and not some other stomach bug)) #(true‚ my new baseline is actually overall *better* than my old one) #(but those first two weeks fucking sucked and the next six weeks were not great either) #(and it was a few months after that to psychologically adjust to the permanent appetite reduction) #you ever read the Wikipedia article? #my main takeaway from reading it was that if you are ever eating in a restaurant #and someone‚ *anywhere* in the restaurant‚ vomits #abandon your food and leave immediately #(I don’t know what I’m going to do if I’m *working* in a restaurant and this happens) #(99.97% filtration might actually not be enough against fucking norovirus) #tag rambles #(I don’t queue tag rambles‚ so that I can keep track of which posts to put in the comment roundup) #(so you’re getting this one upfront) #(have fun)