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stef25··on Overestimation of microplastics potentially caused by scientists' gloves
Well, it could mean more microplastics occur in an unnatural environment (the lab) containing much more plastics than in a typical home setting.

If you're around plastic a lot you're ingesting a lot and if you're not, you're not.

So the conclusion would be that plastics "sheds" and you should avoid it in packaging, kitchen utensils, etc

stef25··on Alzheimer's disease mortality among taxi and ambulance drivers (2024)
Friend of mine is an airline pilot and when she was doing short flights, going around several EU capitals per day she said "it's like driving a bus". You fly from A -> B -> C -> D -> A. And start over again the next day. She wasn't a huge fan.
stef25··on Alzheimer's disease mortality among taxi and ambulance drivers (2024)
Yeah, basically Waze is causing dementia
stef25··on Mayor of Paris removed parking spaces, reduced the number of cars
> Bicycles have had gears for almost a century, and they allow to tackle hilly areas easily.

Assuming everyone but you is retarded.

stef25··on Ozempic Is About to Go Generic for Billions of People
Can confirm, it does sometimes reduce cravings for drugs and alcohol. It's crazy, you can go 8 hrs without consuming anything.

Food is just another drug.

stef25··on Mayor of Paris removed parking spaces, reduced the number of cars
> Motorists are incredibly fragile

Until you throw yourself in front of my car

stef25··on Mayor of Paris removed parking spaces, reduced the number of cars
> the Netherlands

It's completely flat and the obvious reason why everyone cycles. Nothing to do with mindset, like you're somehow superior to the rest of EU.

stef25··on France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app
SkyECC

Another instance is one darknet market being taken down by Dutch police. They were also in full control of the next biggest market where they knew everyone would flee to, and they spent some time monitoring all comms on that second site before intervening.

stef25··on Wired headphone sales are exploding
Really good analogy!
stef25··on Show HN: I built a real-time OSINT dashboard pulling 15 live global feeds
It's called Hacker News
stef25··on How the Sriracha guys screwed over their supplier
Planted a few Jalapeno seeds in the soil in mom's greenhouse once and harvested buckets of chilies, more than I knew what to do with. Super rewarding.
stef25··on Iranians describe scenes of catastrophe after Tehran's oil depots bombed
> Instead we have to wait 3 more years to end this insanity.

Pray that you'll see the end of it in 3 years. It would be surprise if that ship can be turned around.

stef25··on The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein
Did you even read what you posted ? Talking about the 7 deaths:

> Five were evidently unrelated to the vaccine: One girl drowned in a quarry; another died from a snake bite; two committed suicide by ingesting pesticides; and one died from complications of malaria. The causes of death for the other two girls were less certain: one possibly from pyrexia, or high fever, and a second from a suspected cerebral hemorrhage. Government investigators concluded that pyrexia was "very unlikely" to be related to the vaccine, and likewise they considered a link between stroke and the vaccine as "unlikely."

End of discussion.

stef25··on The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein
Drugs in clinical trails like this have made it past the animal testing stage and the healthy volunteers testing stage. Efficacy wise, yes they are unproven.

To be the devil's advocate, it can be difficult to explain informed consent in the case of mental incapacity or whatever. In that case, a responsible adult can sign.

> Answer me honestly: Did that same billionaire (Bill Gates) and his organization (Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation) do the same exact trials in his home country (USA)? "clinical trials of unproven vaccines on thousands of poor minor girls, without consent of then and their parents"

As far as I know not so yes that's correct.

I said before they might have gone to those regions in India to bypass strict ethical committees in the west. And yes, that's definitely questionable.

The thing you completely ignore is that none of the deaths were because of the vaccine.

Yes, there have been problems with FDA. But modern medicine is mostly completely safe, so if the whole system was riddled by fraud this wouldn't be possible.

One day you or someone close to you may need life saving treatments and then you'll be thankful for the pharma industry.

stef25··on The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein
Also as a European, these mossad conspiracy theories are laughable. Story doesn't add up ? Mossad! You even threw in the FSB for good measure.
stef25··on The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein
> that deadly unproven vaccine

It was not.

stef25··on The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein
> directly caused the deaths of several children

You're completely wrong, as I've pointed out below. "Especially girls" because they probably couldn't find boys with a cervix (HPV causes cervical cancer)

Impossible to take these hysterical takes serious, do better.

stef25··on The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein
This is what google shows: 7 deaths out of 24K vaccinated individuals.

"An Indian government committee and subsequent investigations concluded that the seven deaths were most probably unrelated to the vaccine itself. The reported causes included drowning, snake bite, intentional ingestion of poisonous substances (suicide), malaria, brain hemorrhage, and viral fever."

This was in a trail for the HPV virus so presumably they wanted subjects who were not yet sexually active. Girls were chosen because HPV can affect the cervix. So you vaccinate them, and then follow them up for maybe 15 years and see how it turns out.

Enrolling young children in a trail like is always going to ethically hard to justify. And it's well possible they chose India instead of California for this reason. However the protocol makes sense.

I worked in clinical trails for years, believe me the LAST thing anyone wants is problems like these because you'll end up losing billions.

To market something in EU or USA you need EMEA or FDA approval. They will check every single piece of paper and can tank your entire decades long project.

Respectfully, you're blowing this way out of proportion, this is just more "billionaire hysteria"

stef25··on How London became the rest of the world’s startup capital
> A company that just started that can scale to 100M evaluation in less than 5 years.

How can you assign a name to something based on what might happen in < 5 years ?

stef25··on Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability
Leads ?!
stef25··on BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp
> SMS

Here in EU you pay for that. Soon as you send an image, you get charged extra. Completely useless compared to Whatsapp

stef25··on Eat Real Food
Sorry didn't mean to attack.

I'm thousands of miles outside the US sitting firmly in the center watching left and right be at each other's throats over absolutely everything so maybe we're kind of alike.

stef25··on Eat Real Food
It's crazy how people are incapable of seeing something positive in the actions of the tribe they don't belong to.
stef25··on Htmx: High Power Tools for HTML
Because that one library is vastly more complex
stef25··on Coursera to combine with Udemy
For a basic crash course in Python, is there anything better than the top rated Udemy course, can YT offer something better ? I really don't mind paying the 12$ it costs on Udemy.
stef25··on Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment
Surely they'll be using AI to make these videos in the not too distant future.
stef25··on Thousands of U.S. farmers have Parkinson's. They blame a deadly pesticide
My dad used Roundup extensively in the garden in the 80s and 90s. Both he and a gardener he hired to help died from dementia.

The scientist in me wants to see definitive proof from validated studies.

stef25··on Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025
> I've noticed that in recent months, even apart from these outages, cloudflare has been contributing to a general degradation and shittification of the internet. I'm seeing a lot more "prove you're human", "checking to make sure you're human", and there is normally at the very least a delay of a few seconds before the site loads.

Good to know I'm not the only one

stef25··on Kohler Can Access Pictures from "End-to-End Encrypted" Toilet Camera
Can you send it in for servicing when the lens becomes obscured ?
stef25··on Kohler Can Access Pictures from "End-to-End Encrypted" Toilet Camera
Fingers crossed they'll pivot to a smart anal probe I can just leave in there
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