Calm down, now you are talking to yourself.

From the article:

This could be five to 50 times greater than the rate found in plastic bottles or metal cans, scientists say.

By normal formatting standards that means cans have the lowest average.

From the article linked by u/givesomefucks:

The study could not directly establish whether there was any health risk from the consumption of such beverages sold in glass bottles or not, due to the lack of toxicological data.

The plastic particles turned out to be contamination matching the paint of the caps, so it is different types of plastic, and that could be either better or worse.
Seems like cans are the safest option.

From the context it appears this is in UK, it would have been nice if they had started off early telling us where they are actually held.

But no matter where it is, this is sad, live to fight another day is a good motto. Hunger strikes rarely accomplish anything but harm to those that do it.

I 100% understand what you mean. I just bought a VW ID.4, and IMO they have a good balance. Everything needed for normal driving is handled with buttons, and although some are touch, they do have haptic feedback, and it works OK IMO.
I was looking at the Skoda Enyaq, because it has traditional buttons and more things operated through them.
But it cost about €5000 extra for the same features as is in our fully equipped ID.4 when used and 4 years old. But now I’m happy we chose the ID.4 instead of an Enyaq with fewer features. Because the ID.4 works way better than I expected.
It’s crazy and previously absolutely unheard of that the Skoda version of a similar car to a genuine VW is more expensive.

greece nearly drug down the EU when theirs popped off,

Erh no! Don’t trust the sensationalist stories about the Euro collapsing for this or that reason. Those stories are always without merit, my guess is they serve a purpose for speculation or are just sensationalist stories.

USD is the cornerstone to the entire western financial system

What are you smoking? It doesn’t make a hoot of difference to the rest of the world to trade in another currency. But more likely than not, it won’t be a single currency replacing USD, it will be a basket of currencies where USD will probably be a part.
In Europe the Euro totally dominates the financial market and has done for years. I think you mean the currency for trade, and for that the Euro obviously dominates in Europe.

You can PM me too if it comes to that.

I like how they start off with inflation, and show it’s not so bad.
Then second they show the interest rate is declining, something the steadying inflation makes room for.

Then third they show the jobs numbers are awful. The thing that might explain 1 and 2.
Because if the economy is in recession, it is normal for inflation to drop, the economy is cooling so no overheating causing inflation.
Finally GDP seems fine too, but we know this number is heavily influenced by AI growth that has absolutely nothing to do with Trumps policies, and that most think is a bubble.
Looking closer on the inflation curve, it shows a significant uptick from April and forward. Something that shouldn’t happen when the economy apart from AI seems to be slowing down. This increase in inflation seems to me 100% created by Trump making difficulties with for instance tariffs for the general American market.

So all in all IMO from an economic perspective this looks mostly like a C minus when considering the context of the numbers.
But that’s actually way better than expected, because I expected an F. I think without the AI bubble it most definitely would have been an F, as the declining interest rates have NOT kept the wheels turning, showing something with the economy is off.

USA already has widespread poverty, the longest work hours, lacks free healthcare and education, has the lowest life expectancy among economically comparable countries, has a dysfunctional democracy and AFAIK the greatest inequality among rich democracies.

So USA is already a shit-hole country, and among shit hole countries, totalitarian countries are the absolute worst.
If you think people have it bad now, especially below middle class, you just wait and see what it will be like if USA becomes a totalitarian country!

Oh I absolutely expected USA to be surpassed by China at some point. And for USA to gradually lose international dominance.
But the shit USA is making for itself is turbocharging that process by at least a factor 10.
Some might say it doesn’t really make much difference because the end result remains the same. But the problem is that this doesn’t give the world the same amount of time to adjust. Disruption is generally bad, and disruption of world power is no exception.
Of course the worst disruption is to USA, and that will have a serious negative impact on American business, and if the US dollar loses the position as the world reserve currency, the significance of the American debt will be way more serious.

And then lose control of numerous functions of your car.
It’s simply not an option in modern cars.

I’m an EU citizen.

Thanks. 👍 💖

You know most Americans are descendants of that historical lesson too right?

I never expected USA to self destruct like they are now. It’s absolutely insane!
Electing Bush Jr. twice was crazy, but electing Trump twice is insane.
Following the trend of elections for the past few decades, USA is on a path to become a totalitarian country.
The Democrats may win the next presidential election if there is one, but if the trend continues, when the pendulum swings again, that will be the end of democracy for USA.

Paywall.

Trump: “How many pencils do you need?”

Just watched a “Feynman” video on Youtube I thought was a little off. Especially when one of the examples simply seemed outright wrong.
But I thought it was probably me who misunderstood something. Until I read the description, and it turned out his voice was recreated by AI, and the “lecture” was designed by an unknown person to be in the “spirit” of Feynman!

It had Feynman’s name all over it, and then in the description they end it with:

No impersonation is intended

When they had his name all over it, and the title claims it’s a lecture by Feynman which it absolutely wasn’t, and they use AI to simulate his voice!! How is that not impersonating? That shit should be outright illegal, it is fraud, Feynman had nothing to do with the content, and it even had mistakes!

Unfortunately on Youtube I can’t find a way to block a channel after having seen the video. That option seems to only be available on my start page for the suggested videos on that page.
I have blocked hundreds of AI crap channels, and they keep popping up.

No American politics are for Americans to decide. European governments don’t even express an opinion, because it is considering meddling in internal affairs of a sovereign country.

Your strawman is wrong and stupid.

Highest estimate for no kings was 5 million, which is 1.6%. So accounting for infants and the sick I find that to be a reasonable estimate.