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cogidub··on Nepal moves to block Facebook, X, YouTube and others
banned whatsapp too
cogidub··on Is the decline of reading making politics dumber?
europe
cogidub··on Amazon's Vulcan Robots Now Stow Items Faster Than Humans
hopefully
cogidub··on Cooking with black plastic is particularly crucial to avoid
yes unfortunately mps are in the air from tires now.
cogidub··on Cooking with black plastic is particularly crucial to avoid
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.

cogidub··on Severance payments at Wikimedia Foundation
America has an income stratification problem to go with it's wealth problem
cogidub··on British Rail’s short experiment with travelling pubs
>> Generally in the ex-industrial areas

These are the places people actually live.

cogidub··on Apple releases new Covid-19 app and website based on CDC guidance
Suggesting masks are ineffective protection was a bad start.
cogidub··on uBlock Origin: Address first-party tracker blocking
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.

cogidub··on What I learned from reading a thousand emergency room bills
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?

cogidub··on WhatsApp Cofounder Brian Acton on Why He Left $850M Behind
signal
cogidub··on Bleak New Estimates in Drug Epidemic: A Record 72,000 Overdose Deaths in 2017
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...