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mitb6··on Rebecca Heineman has died
BT3 was wonderful, lots of nostalgia for me. Sad to hear of her passing.
mitb6··on Denmark close to wiping out cancer-causing HPV strains after vaccine roll-out
Also throat, mouth, tongue, anal and penile cancers.
mitb6··on Japan sets record of nearly 100k people aged over 100
Rapeseed oil has been used for cooking in Japan for hundreds of year. The 1950s saw a shift to non domestic production.

https://www.tokyofoundation.org/research/detail.php?id=241

I shouldn't have used canola to refer to both.

Mustard oil is traditional and still very common cooking oil in South Asia that is even higher in erucic acid than rapeseed. People have used high erucic acid seed as good for a long time.

mitb6··on Japan sets record of nearly 100k people aged over 100
The two most common oils in Japan are canola and soybean, and that's also historically been the case, not a modern change. They definitely do not believe there's anything wrong with seed oils.
mitb6··on Effectiveness of trees in reducing temperature, outdoor heat exposure in Vegas
That's because that doc is talking about Southern Nevada (read: Vegas) in isolation, 78% of Nevada water usage is agriculture (followed by 13% residential, 7% mining)

https://extension.unr.edu/publication.aspx?PubID=4764

mitb6··on Chemical knowledge and reasoning of large language models vs. chemist expertise
OTOH dates back to the 90s and has since remained very common in internet writing. It is more surprising that you've never seen it than that someone used it.

It also isn't an exact synonym of "conversely".

mitb6··on A Texan who built an empire of ecstasy
The production of LSD was highly concentrated, the DEA claimed that after Pickford's arrest, availability dropped by 99.5%, it looks quite a while to recover. His supply basically was the entirety of demand at the time.