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Cake day: May 13th, 2024

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  • When a federal worker takes this buyout, the 8 months pay still comes out of the budget of whatever office/department they were employed by. So many of our federal institutions are already cash strapped right now due to funding cuts and straight up DOGE sabotage.

    When these workers take the buyout, those facilities lose a worker and spend money for nothing out of their appropriated budgets.

    I’d bet most of these people that have taken the buyout already earned their pentions. This isn’t “saving” as much money as you think, it’s just meant to break shit and its working.






  • please read the article before panicking, this shit is mega complicated:

    Brains of people with dementia had up to 10 times more MNPs than other brains but that doesn’t mean MNPs had caused dementia. The elevated rate was likely a result of damage to the blood-brain barrier from the neurodegenerative disease, the authors said.

    The study didn’t find more plastic in the brains of older people with more lifetime exposure, suggesting the brain can clear itself of MNPs, Campen said.

    however:

    Previous studies have found microplastics associated with certain cancers, cardiovascular disease and harm to human reproductive, digestive and respiratory health.

    although, if you’re ingesting a lot of microplastics, maybe you are also ingesting a lot of other pollutants (or maybe you’re just eating a ton of processed food, and this trash food has more microplastics in it), and the microplastics are correlated in this way.







  • Thanks for the link.

    I forgot how frustrating these people are. I’d love to read these comments but they’re filled with sentences like:

    I take seriously radical animal-suffering-is-bad-ism[1], but we would only save a small portion of animals by trading ourselves off 1-for-1 against animal eaters, and just convincing one of them to go vegan would prevent at least as many torturous animal lives in expectation, while being legal.

    Just say “I think persuading people to become vegan is better than killing them”?

    Why do you need to put a little footnote[1] to some literal fiction someone wrote about human suffering to make a point?

    Screw it, here’s that footnote:

    For a valid analogy between how bad this is in my morality and something that would be equally bad in a human-focused morality, you can imagine being born into a world with widespread human factory farms. Or the slaughter and slavery of human-like orcs, in case of this EY fiction [link omitted].

    Exqueeze me? You have to resort to some shit somebody made up to talk about human exploitation?