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[tilthat]

TIL that the reason lead levels in children’s blood have dropped 85% in the past thirty years is because of an unknown scientist who fought car companies to end leaded gasoline. He also removed it from paint, suggested its removal from pipes, and campaigned for the removal of lead solder from cans.

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[squeeful]

Yep.  It also correlates extremely strongly with an increasing decrease of violent crime.  One of the symptoms of low level constant lead exposure is increased aggression and volatility. 

[kurowrites]

“Unknown scientist”? That was Clair Cameron Patterson.

[solarpunkcast]

Gas companies are still so mad at him he’s “unknown scientist”, know his name

[bogleech]

Daily reminder that health and safety standards like these are what politicians mean when they talk about “deregulation.”

[prismatic-bell]

Patterson died 5 December 1995.

Petition to make his date of death a Tumblr holiday celebrated by talking about cool shit the gas and petroleum industries don’t want us to know about, and fighting to continue his work.

[augustdementhe]

Merry CCP Day!

[nyansense-the-nyanbinary]

Happy Clair Cameron Patterson day, and fuck the oil and gas industries

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[elalmadelmar]

I gotta say, so much queer intra-community horseshit dropped off my shoulders when I decided to adopt a firm policy that everyone is the expert in their own identity, the single most knowledgeable person about what it's like to live life in their own skin, and that if someone describes their experience in ways I find contradictory or paradoxical I should do them the courtesy of presuming that they are striving to express something very specific and nuanced, rather than leaping to the conclusion that they're just dumb and using words wrong.

Sure, there are some combinations of identity terms that I look at and go "hmm, I don't get how that works." I'm still a human being. But there's a big difference between not getting how something works versus insisting that it doesn't.

[kagedtiger]

There's a big difference between not getting how something works versus insisting it doesn't

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[how-did-i-get-here-42]

a lot of good quotes from Brennan in this video, as always, but this one really got me.

be cheesy, romanticize your life, whatever, life is short and it's cool to just love stuff

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[dawaxxenpith]

At risk of sounding like a hater and an asshole this looks like AI and if its somehow not, the editor who reworked images and sharpened them up made it look like AI

Edit: yeah its AI

[theromanbarbarian]

This is the actual image (from a 6 year old reddit post so def not AI). Either someone asked AI to recreate it or AI, being the plagiarism machine it is, was asked for a pic of dogs finding humans in the snow and just ripped off the first image it could find. Another reminder that AI doesn't actually create anything. Also real cute dogs.

[badboneszone]

Actually a fantastic example for when you need to illustrate to someone that AI art is theft, blatantly, and not in some abstract way

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[kaijuno]

[evilwizard]

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[deepspaceboytoy]

Man I mean. Like what’s even the point man.

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[depsidase]

[a-bit-off-center]

chatgpt is a program that calculates a statisticly likely response to what it is prompted with. that is how LLMs work. it has no memory, your whole chat log is the prompt, not just the latest sentence. it doesn't think, or reason. it's just statistics.

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[femperor]

When I say purity culture has no endpoint, what I mean is that they will never run out of people to cut down. If porn was made illegal and all of the perverts were run out of the country, the jesus freaks would immediately turn on each other. They require an enemy to function, and will create one of their friends if need be.

[charlesoberonn]

Christians used to excommunicate each other (back when that was tantamount to a diplomatic boycott) over whether the Eucharist should be done with leavened or unleavened bread.

When you're convinced that the fate of your immortal soul and its relationship with the ultimate force of good is on the line, no quibble is too small.

[yournewfriendshouse]

christians used to kill each other over the eucharist