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New comment by hh3k0 in "3M knew its chemicals were harmful decades ago, but didn't tell the public"

hh3k0 — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 21:47:46 +0000

> despite saying they're "harmful", they've been everywhere for all these decades that a lot of other measures of quality of life have been increasing?

Might be unrelated (or not), but cancer rates have been exploding the last decades. Example via Google-Fu:

> Cancer cases in under-50s worldwide up nearly 80% in three decades, study finds

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/sep/05/cancer-cases...

New comment by hh3k0 in "Possible to detect an industrial civilization in geological record? (2018)"

hh3k0 — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 02:05:50 +0000

Those would surely all be crushed beyond recognition by tectonic shifts?

New comment by hh3k0 in "Possible to detect an industrial civilization in geological record? (2018)"

hh3k0 — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 01:07:12 +0000

> That's a frustrating response, because you must surely understand as a whole what they are saying.

It's late and I couldn't come up with something that'd survive the timespan in question, so I just wanted an example.

New comment by hh3k0 in "Possible to detect an industrial civilization in geological record? (2018)"

hh3k0 — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 00:52:09 +0000

Such as?

Spain's Malaga Airport smashed December heat record from 1998 by almost 5°C

hh3k0 — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 00:16:52 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/mikarantane/status/1734602860544086075

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38620844

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by hh3k0 in "Adolescent boys struggle with disorganization and distraction"

hh3k0 — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 17:53:42 +0000

> What they were not doing was sitting in a classroom for 6-8 hours a day listening to someone talk and then going home and sitting indoors for the rest of the day […]

That is not a new occurrence, though. It has largely been like this for a 100 years now.

New comment by hh3k0 in "Adolescent boys struggle with disorganization and distraction"

hh3k0 — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 17:10:53 +0000

> Oh cool, something that wasn't a problem in the past now has a solution that can be bought through a variety of products and services.

Plastic additives and softeners have been linked to ADHD – and plastic is virtually omnipresent nowadays. ADHD presents differently in boys and girls. I wonder if there could be a relation.

New comment by hh3k0 in "Nebula Genomics – First to offer consumer anonymous sequencing"

hh3k0 — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 10:43:50 +0000

They offer a life-time membership that requires a one-time payment.

New comment by hh3k0 in "Swedish Tesla strike goes international as Norwegian and Danish unions join in"

hh3k0 — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 15:59:39 +0000

This comes to mind: https://twitter.com/HoldenShearer/status/998913016925220865

New comment by hh3k0 in "US warship and multiple commercial ships attacked in the Red Sea"

hh3k0 — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 17:46:40 +0000

> Not really, no.

Well, perhaps have some basic knowledge of the topic at hand before oversimplifying the matter by simply paraphrasing "cui bono", effectively hinting at heinous Jewish scheming being the crux of the matter.

New comment by hh3k0 in "The world of Japan's PC-98 computer"

hh3k0 — Sat, 25 Nov 2023 11:45:20 +0000

Yeah! And how comes that YU-NO – the visual novel GOAT – is mentioned nowhere?

New comment by hh3k0 in "I will always prefer to work from home"

hh3k0 — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 18:19:45 +0000

> Under-appreciated: not wearing shoes all day.

For me it's regularly putting my feet up, standing up to stretch, and looking out of the window into the distance for a few minutes.

You know, just some things you should absolutely do if you value your health. And yet, having coworkers around tends to guilt you into not doing them.

$266T in Climate Spending Is a No-Brainer

hh3k0 — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 04:07:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-11-13/climate-change-266-trillion-to-fight-global-warming-is-a-no-brainer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38259023

Points: 3

# Comments: 3

New comment by hh3k0 in "How to Fathom Climate Change's Unfathomable Numbers"

hh3k0 — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 22:28:49 +0000

All other things aside, it will also make food less nutritious:

> Research led by Sam Myers, Director of the Planetary Health Alliance at the Harvard Chan School, found that when food crops like wheat, corn, rice and soy are exposed to CO2 at levels predicted for 2050, the plants lose as much as 10% of their zinc, 5% of their iron, and 8% of their protein content.

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/c-change/subtopics/climate-chan...

New comment by hh3k0 in "How to Fathom Climate Change's Unfathomable Numbers"

hh3k0 — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 18:52:39 +0000

There is no bet for you to take, but I hope you’ll find the time to think back to your foolishness once when we have resource wars and widespread famines due to simultaneous global breadbasket failure.

New comment by hh3k0 in "How to Fathom Climate Change's Unfathomable Numbers"

hh3k0 — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 18:34:42 +0000

You will live to see the worst of it. Denial will not save you.

New comment by hh3k0 in "How to Fathom Climate Change's Unfathomable Numbers"

hh3k0 — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 18:31:34 +0000

Allow me to recommend you an outstanding novel:

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/60806778

New comment by hh3k0 in "How to Fathom Climate Change's Unfathomable Numbers"

hh3k0 — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 18:24:58 +0000

> What about all the potential New Yorks that are currently too cold to live in but could be thriving cities if they were just warmer?

That’s easy: those New Yorks will release hundreds of years worth of greenhouse gases when they plow the newly ice-free soil around them.

New comment by hh3k0 in "How to Fathom Climate Change's Unfathomable Numbers"

hh3k0 — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 18:22:01 +0000

> Until people see a material change, they're not going to make massive changes themselves.

The beauty of climate change is that it’ll be too late by then.

A perfect civilisation killer, designing a better one would be a tall order.

New comment by hh3k0 in "Anti-Anti-Adblocker uBlock filter to get rid of the annoying YouTube message"

hh3k0 — Sat, 14 Oct 2023 23:16:34 +0000

How about I don't watch ads and don't buy premium?