Lol. Although this claim might be technically true, comparing the cost of the first prototype lithium ion battery with a modern mass produced batteries is apples to oranges.

I read it. It’s not compelling.

The first cited research regarding DNA damage is a dead link. It says “error: this is not a published article” or something like that.

The second cited research is an abstract claiming that 20% of mice developed lung cancer after being exposed to vape smoke for 9 weeks. The methodology is blocked behind a paywall, but I’m betting they concentrated trace components and blasted mice with it for two months straight. This isn’t very informative; if I concentrated the carcinogens found in normal city air, I could probably achieve a higher kill rate.

A better example of this strategy would be if I blasted mice with extremely high intensity UV radiation to prove that the sun was dangerous. Sure, 90% of mice would quickly get skin cancer, but it doesn’t tell us how harmful the sun is in real scenarios. Blasting an animal with a lifetime worth of sun in an hour is more dangerous than gradual exposure.

Tobacco the plant has a host of carcinogens. No matter where you put tobacco -mouth, lungs, bladder, nose, ass, wherever-it causes cancer. The article’s claim that nicotine causes lung cancer but nicotine gum is safe is pretty ridiculous.

Source: I’m a chemist. Part of my schooling was making mundane results appear as sensational as possible.

I agree with you there. At the end of the day, the Democrat candidates personally benefit from conservative policies. It isn’t a well balanced two party system.

…I’m not necessarily against Trump posts, but this shit ^ is obviously marketing or propoganda. It’s bots talking to bots taking to bots. It’s dystopian as fuck. The tone is always negative, which says alot about the orginazations that propogate it.

On my All feed, Trump is specifically mentioned in the title of 7 out of the first 38 posts. This doesn’t account for the posts that are primarily about Trump, but don’t include his name in the title. 0 out of 38 of the posts are about Democrats or Democrat policy. The only other politician mentioned in the first 38 post titles is DeSantos (1).

Based on what I’ve seen on Lemmy in the last three days, I am statistically likely to be a bot. I can’t argue with that.

I’m being serious though. I can name every person in Trump’s cabinet. I know everything about his policies, some I disagree with, some I don’t. I can’t name a single Democrat other than Harris and Biden. No one posts anything positive about them.

…as far as Lemmy goes, the community is more obsessed with Trump than the people on Truth Social.

I don’t get why nearly every post on Lemmy involves Trump. You’d think it’s democrat propoganda, but I haven’t read anything positive about the Democrats on Reddit or Lemmy in the last two years.

…Reddit is the opposite of Republican. The people there are aggressively far left. It is hard to believe that it’s not an artificially enforced echo chamber.

The problem with echo chambers is that they are politically sterile. By aggressively forcing Republicans and moderates off the platform, we lose the ability to influence their stances and opinions. It becomes a circle jerk.

Testosterone administration is more illegal pharmaceutical use then it is a fad diet. It’s also not particularly dangerous. The safety profile is similar to hormonal birth control.

I wouldn’t want to shut down the simulation, but it would depend on the energy expenditure. A hospital could theoretically save more people if they allocated fifty million dollars per patient. A person’s right to life is contingent on the cost to maintain it.

Born again woman?

…I don’t think I’ve ever met a man in real life that ate a fad diet. They eat hamburger helper and take out.

If we had sustainable practices, at least of 3rd of the people in the United States and Western Europe would have a standard of living similar to the people in 3rd world country. This is assuming we don’t compensate for things by exploiting more vulnerable populations.

I personally think this is a decent trade-off, but the people my country would end up exploiting would probably disagree.

Karma is just a means to exploit perceived peer pressure to reinforce desired behavior and change how people think. The desired behavior from the perspective of the platform isn’t limited to engagement. There are more subtle forms of monetization, such as propoganda and “peer”-to-peer advertising.

… pretty much. Natural disaster have been attacking man since the dawn of time. It’s about time we struck back.

I don’t see this information as being particu relevant. There are various boards and committees where half the people are government and half of them are from Google. From what I gather, Google more or less functions as the mass surveillance arm of the government, so a Government App serving this purpose would be redundant.