Direct but not private? Interesting

I don’t get why they care. This feels like it only has downsides

The ice raids line the pockets of people who manage farm labor. There’s a profit/exploitation motive there. This just seems backwards for the sake of xenophobia alone

Oh no

Behold, a population heat map by state

It took me three reads before I figured out that it was trying to say that places designed to churn out research papers in China are causing a surge of retractions which in turn is causing reforms in their university system

I’m sure there’s a snappier at way to say that but the title they chose is really confusing

It seems there are many benefits to being a marine biologist

Source: https://pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/article-pdf/159/1/141/20857776/141_1_10.0041870.pdf

https://pubs.aip.org/aip/sci/article/2026/2/021103/3376287/Simulating-saxophone-sound-and-vibrato

Their Seabest

I have an electric hot eye compress

https://www.wizardresearch.com/products/dry-eye-relief-mask-electric

It’s over priced for what it is but it’s the ones my doctor recommended and I haven’t found a better one. I often will put a damp paper towel on it for moistness

The doctors office itself uses a microwaveable version. The important thing is to use it for at least 7 minutes

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11341798/

I’ve been using computers heavily for over 2 decades

https://www.trieyecare.com/dry-eye-optometrist/electronic-devices-and-dry-eye/

My eye doctors have impressed on me the importance of eye lid health and hot eye compresses. They say everyone should do it twice a day

I’m not sure if I’d go as far as to reccomend that (plenty of people do fine without it) but my eyes get gunky FAST if I skip hot eye compresses

The doctors say it’s common for screen starers. It’s certainly not going to be everyone but I’ve been playing video games/using the computer heavily since I was a kid

My doctor’s practically predicted I was a programmer when they saw the problems I was having with styes and dry eyes

https://www.trieyecare.com/dry-eye-optometrist/electronic-devices-and-dry-eye/

The other commenters are well meaning but don’t really know what they’re talking about. I have chronic dry eye from staring at screens too much (remember to blink!). My tear ducts have gotten overworked and started to produce thicker, gunkier, tears which blocked them and cause styes. I’ve lost a bunch of my tear ducts. Once they’re gone they don’t grow back.

These little mites eat the gunk my eyes produce and, when they get overpopulated, leave a ton of gunk on your eye. It’s called blepharitis

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/demodex-blepharitis

I’ve had it so bad that I’ve had trouble opening my eyes in the morning. There’s a relatively new eyedrop that clears them out. Combining that with hot dye compresses and lid scrubs have helped keep them under control and has drastically increased my eyelid health

I hope that helps answer your question

Source? Not to say they aren’t putting in a ton of effort and making great progress. It’s just hard for me to see them as the biggest force in stopping global warming when China built an entire Germany of electrical capacity last year and almost all of it was renewables

Their manufacturing leadership has brought solar and wind down so cheap that it’s no longer economical to use create non-renewable generators in most cases. They’re also doing a fantastic job producing new electric cars and industrial scale batteries

China is still massively polluting but they’re showing a kind of leadership on climate change that I wish I saw in America

I’m curious to hear your take on why Europe is doing the most on climate change

Isn’t that just the original meaning?

Speaking as someone who used to be a young Earth creationist, some of us are just born into it and are given lots of tools and incentives to maintain the faith despite, you know, all the evidence

Taking a class on the scientific method and reading a book on rationality was what got me to embrace doubt and decide that I only want to believe in something if it’s true

Love of truth set me free

"While the number of laboratory-confirmed acute cases of Lyme disease in 2025 is an increase on numbers reported in 2024, we expect overall case rates to vary year to year depending on awareness, testing rates and factors that impact outdoor activities such as weather. Broader trends in 2025 remain consistent.”

Stupid clickbait title

That’s not metric time

This is metric time

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_time

That book sounds wonderful. My local library has it through Libby

If we stop producing forever chemicals they’ll slowly sequester themselves

Heck yeah, this content is my shit