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Radiation exposure is cumulative. It's a small increase in your risk of developing cancer but it's not zero.

China has over a million people in concentration camps right now https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_re-education_camps

Is there a way to tell who funded this study?

Post to craigslist or facebook marketplace and you'll quickly find out how in demand they are. Esp if there are minifigs. Lego collecting is VERY popular right now.

That seems like a pretty cynical perspective to me. Like if Edison had said "it's been shown over and over that electric light bulbs don't work" after the first couple hundred experiments didn't pan out.

You can get 120 pills of 100mg of caffeine for $6 including shipping "Jet-Alert 100 MG Each Caffeine Tab 120 Count". There are fancier ones that include L-Theanine (found in green tea) to mellow the caffeine jitters out but those are significantly more expensive.

In what ways is the world worse? "So why does it feel like the world is in decline? I think it is partly the nature of news coverage. Bad news arrives as drama, while good news is incremental—and not usually deemed newsworthy." http://time.com/5086870/bill-gates-guest-editor-time/

Amazon Prime Video recently added a whole section of content that is free but has ads. Seems to work for Crackle also.

Source?

TIL: https://www.pca.state.mn.us/green-chemistry/bpa-thermal-pape...

I agree with his post, more or less. It could probably have been delivered in a less confrontational manner. rayiner has often made posts with lawyer style arguments defending questionable behavior by governments and corporations. In this case he is deflecting blame from the companies that originate the carbon emissions saying that they're just fulfilling a free market demand, as if it's impossible for companies to behave ethically without government or consumer coercion.

Poverty rates have been relatively steady for a long time. I think that your concerns about how bad things are might be a bit exaggerated. https://poverty.ucdavis.edu/faq/what-current-poverty-rate-un...

A small number of people control a huge percentage of the market and have a vested interest in prices always going up.

You're absolutely right, I misread that statistic.

The top 1% own 40% of the wealth and have realized 95% of the increase in wealth over the past decade: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_inequality_in_the_Unite... "More recently, in 2017, an Oxfam study found that eight rich people, six of them Americans, own as much combined wealth as half the human race."

Paypal?

Bitcoin is also 5-10%+ owned by an unknown person/entity.

There's a Criterion Collection blu ray of City Lights that I would imagine was done very well given their reputation and the reviews https://www.criterion.com/films/27558-city-lights

Given gas prices, cost of oil changes, and the number of miles being driven per year it probably makes economic sense.

How interested are most humans in communicating with the other reasonably advanced species on our own planet?