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Maybe, but it seems more like it’s likely due to genetics, and exposure (or lack of exposure) to given environmental compounds, whether it be those that cause asthma directly, or those that could cause the body to develop resistance to developing asthma.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asthma#Causes

However, a lack of strenuous activity could be correlated with obesity, from which:

There is a correlation between obesity and the risk of asthma, with both having increased in recent years. Several factors may be at play, including decreased respiratory function due to a buildup of fat and the fact that adipose tissue leads to a pro-inflammatory state

It’s also just generally easier for first-time users to start using. For anyone curious, their little “feeds” of communities you can follow in one go by topic are super handy.

For example, if I subscribe to the activismplus feed, I automatically subscribe to communities like antiwork, solarpunk, socialism, leftism, anarchism, unions, antifascism, human rights, left urbanism, etc, from a number of different instances all at once.

For a first-time user, it’s easier to pick a topic they’re interested in and automatically be following all the relevant communities across most instances, rather than subscribing to communities one-by-one over a very long period of time.

Can confirm, used to have an account on lemm.ee, switched to PieFed just before lemm.ee went down.

This is a good answer.

It’s not like doctors are always right, but they will almost always have a better understanding of how you can go about the process of transitioning, the risks of doing so, and determining if it’s the best course of action for you, given those risks, then refer you to specialists that know how to handle your particular case.

Cancel every pointless reboot and give me this instead. Please, I need it now.

If only it were that easy.

Most third places have either disappeared, or been replaced with ones that you can only really enjoy if you’re able to spend money every time you go there (e.g. bars, theaters, cafes, clubs, etc).

Many small towns are only getting smaller, leaving people that still live in them with less and less people to talk to.

Economic circumstances are consistently getting worse across the board, meaning people are spending more time at work just to stay alive, rather than being able to easily arrange to spend time somewhere with people.

It’s not like it’s impossible, obviously, but the state of the world is actively discouraging prosocial behavior through both cost and just circumstance.

In that case, I’d say just find any food that’s just similar enough, and use that. It’s better to have a close-ish estimate than none at all.

For example, I had no clue what the nutrition would be like for the meatloaf I had the other day, so I just entered it as if it was pure ground beef and called it good enough.

You’re probably just gonna have to get better at guesstimating, (e.g. by comparing to similar pre-made options and their nutrition labels), or use an app for tracking nutrition that integrates with OpenFoodFacts and get a scale to weigh your ingredients. (or a similar database, though most use OpenFoodFacts even if they have their own, too)

I don’t really know of any other good ways to just take photos and get a good nutritional read, and pretty much any implementation would use “AI” to some degree, though probably more a dedicated machine learning model over an LLM, which would use more power and water, but the method of just weighing out each part of a meal and putting it in an app works pretty well.

Like, for me, I can scan the barcode of the tortillas I buy to import the nutrition facts into the (admittedly kind of janky) app I use (Waistline), then plop my plate on my scale, put in some ground beef, scan the barcode from the beef packaging, and then I can put in how many grams I have. Very accurate, but a little time consuming.

Not sure if that’s the kind of thing you’re looking for, though.

Our artificial intelligence, is smarter than 50% of the population

“Smartness” and illiteracy are certainly different things, though. You might be incapable of reading, yet be able to figure out a complex escape room via environmental cues that the most high quality author couldn’t, as an example.

There are many places an AI might excel compared to these people, and many areas it will fall behind. Any sort of unilateral statement here disguises the fact that while a lot of Americans are illiterate, stupid, or even downright incapable of doing simple tasks, “AI” today is very similar, just that it will complete a task incorrectly, make up a fact instead of just “not knowing” it, or confidently state a summary of a text that is less accurate than first grader’s interpretation.

Sometimes it will do better than many humans. Other times, it will do much worse, but with a confident tone.

AI isn’t necessarily smarter in most cases, it’s just more confident sounding in its incorrect answers.

The MSDS for the filament I use says that it doesn’t contain any PBT/vPvB substance or endocrine disruptors. I presume that means it’s likely fine, at least for the brand I use.

The only 2 ingredients are PLA, and calcium carbonate, which is also found in egshells, some vegetables, and is coincidentally commonly used as an additive to composting piles that can eliminate pathogens.

I also think the overall amount of pigment entering the environment from something like this will be quite low compared to practically any other contaminant that enters the waste stream from people who just don’t know what’s compostable throwing random things in the bin.

There’s also the fact that there’s probably larger overall harms from all the microplastics existing in a landfill rather than being broken down entirely into plant proteins in a composting facility but with a minute amount of contamination. It’s not perfect, but it’s probably better than leaving all the microplastics floating around for decades if not centuries, depending on the environment.

I have absolutely no clue how to calculate that by myself. I think that would call for a… lifecycle analysis.

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Get it?

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I’ll show myself out.

Fucking finally. Dems always pull the “we won’t stoop to their level” BS all the time, and all it ends up doing is letting the right slowly seize more and more power.

I hope this will become a growing trend, but sadly I’m not very optimistic given how the party has acted prior to this.

This paper estimates the CO2e emissions of roughly a 1kg spool (estimates are done by length of filament, not weight, but weight would end up being about 1kg) of PLA filament at 3.10kg of CO2e.

The model used to print the alleged ghost gun is the FMDA 19.2 by “the Gatalog,” which when I load it into my slicer shows an estimated 55g of filament used to print when using 15% infill, and 94g with 100% solid infill, for an estimated 0.1705-0.2914 CO2e of emissions for the printed parts. (This doesn’t include any support material, depending on print positioning)

There’s no easy way to determine how much of that could theoretically end up as microplastics though. As for the metal parts, I have no clue lmao, I don’t care to estimate it that much.

From what I’ve seen, at the bare minimum, it will break down completely back into plant polymers faster than other plastics could hope to break down into anything non-dangerous to the environment, and even if it does break down into microplastics quicker, I’d rather have something like that, which can then later break down into plant polymers, rather than something that slowly leeches microplastics into the environment for the next few centuries, and doesn’t really break down into anything much less dangerous past that point.

To cite some interesting points from the paper you referenced:

The biodegradation of polylactic acid occurs in two main steps: fragmentation and mineralization. […] which can be biotic or abiotic. For instance, biotic hydrolysis involves microorganisms and/or enzymes, whereas abiotic hydrolysis involves mechanical weathering.

This means it can break down via multiple mechanisms, with or without the presence of any microbes, but only given specific environmental circumstances, which is why it doesn’t work well in aquatic environments, as previously mentioned. However, some of it does still break down there, and if it later exits that aquatic environment, other processes can begin to break down what remains.

The authors concluded that polylactic acid and its blends are similar to non-biodegradable plastics in terms of biodegradation in aquatic environment.

[They] proposed that low temperatures along with low bacterial density make the sea water unsuitable for the biodegradation of polylactic acid.

However, on the microplastics point, while they do state it degrades quickly, in terms of overall quantity of microplastics produced, it’s actually lower than other common plastics.

The authors reported that polylactic acid forms almost 18 times fewer microplastics as compared to the petroleum-based plastic, polypropylene.

They do still mention that it will still likely have many negative effects on marine life, though, even given that. Surely we’ll stop dumping plastics in the ocean now, for the good of the planet! Or not, because profits matter more, am I right?

From another study, it seems that soil with certain combinations of bacteria, at regular temperatures found in nature, could mineralize about 24% of PLA in 150 days, which is pretty damn good compared to how long it would take non-bioplastics to do so.

And of course, when put into dedicated composting facilities that can reach high temperatures, PLA can be composted extremely effectively. And this is just regular PLA we’re talking about, not things like cPLA, which can be 100% composted within regular composting facilities within 2-4 months. (coincidentally, most biodegradable utensils are now made of cPLA)

I wouldn’t doubt we start seeing even more compostable variants of filament for 3D printers specifically popping up as actual distribution and manufacturing for the material becomes more cost effective and widespread. I was able to find cPLA filament at a reasonable price just from a simple search, and there’s even a biodegradable flexible filament as an alternative to TPU, made of oyster powder, which is 100% compostable (though is about 4-8X the price of regular TPU per gram as of now)

None of this discounts any of the current environmental impacts of 3D printing materials, of course, but a lot of PLA now can already be almost entirely, if not actually entirely composted in local municipal composting facilities, and there’s even more compostable alternatives that exist today.

I compost my failed or no-longer-needed PLA prints, and my city even explicitly states to put it in my compost bin, as it’s supported by our composting system.

I can’t believe you have to state things like this. There’s enough bad things he has provably done that you could attack him until the day you die based on it.

If we stoop to the level of spreading fake claims because it suits our narrative, we’re no better than Trump and his supporters.

I don’t think a lot of these people understand what it means for them to be a public servant. This is not a job where you put your interests first. You are quite literally a servant to your constituents, and your entire purpose during your term is to serve their wishes, to carry out the will of the people. The amount of people that will get elected into a role like that, then be shocked when the people that elected them ask them to do things for them is baffling to me.

That’s not an extension cable, but an adapter, thus it’s not a problem in this case. It’s a cable that can convert the data from an audio jack to something that can go through USB-C, not a cable that simply extends a USB-C cable. The cable can almost certainly handle any amount of power and data that an audio jack would pass through it, no problem, even if it were a USB-C to USB-C extension cable, and not an adapter.

The problem arises when someone tries using a higher-spec USB-C cable with a lower-spec USB-C extension cable, such as using a 240W charger with the lower-spec USB-C extension cable in the middle that can only do 120W. In that case, it would pass more electricity through than the lower-spec cable could handle, and it would overheat.

The amount of data and power from an audio jack is simply too small to overwhelm practically any USB-C cable or adapter that exists, thus it’s not an issue.

Most of these AI crawlers are from major corporations operating out of datacenters with known IP ranges, which is why they do IP range blocks. That’s why in Codeberg’s response, they mention that after they fixed the configuration issue that only blocked those IP ranges on non-Anubis routes, the crawling stopped.

For example, OpenAI publishes a list of IP ranges that their crawlers can come from, and also displays user agents for each bot.

Perplexity also publishes IP ranges, but Cloudflare later found them bypassing no-crawl directives with undeclared crawlers. They did use different IPs, but not from “shady apps.” Instead, they would simply rotate ASNs, and request a new IP.

The reason they do this is because it is still legal for them to do so. Rotating ASNs and IPs within that ASN is not a crime. However, maliciously utilizing apps installed on people’s devices to route network traffic they’re unaware of is. It also carries much higher latency, and could even allow for man-in-the-middle attacks, which they clearly don’t want.

Oh I totally understand, it’s just that it’s relatively hard to work with multiple materials in the way these houses are printed, so you commonly only see them made of concrete, without much else in the way of materials, and the way they’re designing the manufacturing processes seems to be more focused on all-concrete production since that’s what’s cheapest.

Technically, but specifically I’m talking about the ones we’re seeing a pretty big expansion in the market for right now, which are built of the same materials as a regular house, with all the same wood, insulation, etc, just in a format that makes them more modular and easy to build and deploy.

It does technically fall under the same umbrella category of those other homes, but it’s becoming more common now since it’s a good middle ground between a shitty mobile home and an overly expensive full-size house, and it’s made of higher-quality materials. It’s more about deployment than it is about cost, it’s just that they tend to be much smaller, and quicker to deploy, thus saving on cost in the process.