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Re:Nepal moves to block Facebook, X, YouTube and others on Friday September 05, 2025 @02:58PM (#45142295)
banned whatsapp too
Re:Is the decline of reading making politics dumber? on Thursday September 04, 2025 @09:18PM (#45134096)
europe
hopefully
Re:Throw Out Your Black Plastic Spatula on Thursday October 31, 2024 @02:45PM (#42010088)
yes unfortunately mps are in the air from tires now.
Re:Throw Out Your Black Plastic Spatula on Thursday October 31, 2024 @02:32PM (#42009949)
unfortunately microplastics are found in oil from both glass and plastic packaging. possibly contam from manufacture?

Analysis of microplastics in commercial vegetable edible oils from Italy and Spain - 2024

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03088...

• MPs were detected in all samples which were stocked in both PET and glass bottles.

America has an income stratification problem to go with it's wealth problem
Re:British Rail’s short experiment with travelling pubs on Thursday April 16, 2020 @12:33PM (#22891060)
>> Generally in the ex-industrial areas

These are the places people actually live.

Suggesting masks are ineffective protection was a bad start.
Re:uBlock Origin: Address first-party tracker blocking on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @02:54PM (#21587786)
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lib%C3%A9ration

> Libération (French: [li.be.ʁa.sjɔ̃]), popularly known as Libé ([li.be]), is a daily newspaper in France, founded in Paris by Jean-Paul Sartre and Serge July in 1973 in the wake of the protest movements of May 1968.

> For its first six or seven years it was a uniquely vibrant and pluralist publication and hugely influential. This > was mainly due to its refusal to take paid advertising which meant there was no direct or indirect pressure from advertisers.

Seems they're now helping to push boundaries of pushing advertising since their founding.

Re:What I learned from reading a thousand emergency room bills on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @04:47PM (#18720046)
There is an issue with what I'll call the "consumer-market" theory in emergency healthcare in that there is no transparency in pricing at time of purchase or prior to purchase.

How can markets function without price-transparency?

Re:WhatsApp Cofounder Brian Acton on Why He Left $850M Behind on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @11:24AM (#18076888)
signal
I'm not sure stoner movies are equivocal to increasing broader drug use generally.

Studies show that legal marijuana is associated with decreasing opiate prescriptions

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/articl...