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squifton Roundup found in 95% of studied beers and wines

Oh, thank you for catching that! I can't believe I missed such a big detail.

squifton Roundup found in 95% of studied beers and wines

Ah! Thank you. I already knew of PIRG via Ralph Nader, but you're correct. Influencewatch definitely leans right which is unfortunate if they want to appear neutral.

squifton Roundup found in 95% of studied beers and wines

Tsingtao has the highest glyphosate content of the beers tested at 48.7ppb. That's 0.02254 mg per 16 ounces. You'd have to drink nearly 100 pints per kilogram of body weight in a day to get to the 2mg/day EPA safe limit recommendation referenced in the linked article. The article, and the US PIRG report that "1 part per trillion" of glyphosate can stimulate cancer cells but doesn't say what unit of measurement that figure is measured from.

Also consider PIRG's funding sources and biases. I'm absolutely for minimizing the use of pesticides but, this is just not it.

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=49.7+ppb+of+16+ounces

https://uspirg.org/feature/usp/glyphosate-pesticide-beer-and...

https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/u-s-public-interes...

[Edit: I missed the per kilogram of body weight part of 2mg/kg/day on the EPA guidance]

squifton Ask HN: How to Create a Machine Learning App That Creates Low Poly Images

CycleGAN or other style transfer projects might do what you’re looking for:

https://junyanz.github.io/CycleGAN/

squifton [dead]

The amount of pearl-clutching over the use of singular “they” from some people is astounding. It’s not difficult. Language is malleable. “They/them” works just fine, thanks. Newer pronouns similar to “xe” will get you nasty looks from people who already struggle with concepts outside the gender binary and IMO, not worth adding even more social friction into a conversation.

Sincerely, a non-binary developer and Linux user in the digital humanities field.