The paper says you can produce enough vitamin d to maintain healthy levels from a specific amount of sunlight per day, depending on latitude and skin color.

The original comment suggests that there’s some (very short!) limit beyond which the body is unable to produce more vitamin d, which is very different. I’d be very curious to see sources for that.

Particularly given the alarming stories of people being prosecuted for having miscarriages, it feels ridiculous.

If anything I hope more automated diagnostics and triage could help women and POC get better care, but only if there’s safeguards against prejudice. There’s studies showing different rates of pain management across races and sexes, for example. A broken bone is a broken bone, regardless of sex or race.

I’ve observed that animals are pretty good at reading body language and can tell when they’re actually being seen by, rather than just sharing space with, a human.

I wonder what happens to the resulting sludge with concentrated plastics? That’s an issue with bioremediation for lead in soils. The plant materials needs to be removed from the site order to make any difference. If we’re currently using alum in the same way, there must be a strategy for cleaning it or disposing of it safely.

Sounds like this might not be a scalable solution, but great for diy setups and rural communities without access to industrial options.

From everything I’ve heard about working in Amazon warehouses, getting interviewed by a faceless robot is probably giving an accurate impression of the work culture. Even for a seasonal job it feels disrespectful to the candidates.

Everywhere else I’ve worked I’ve had slack/teams/email/pagerduty whatever on my personal device without issues. It hasn’t felt realistic to ask for a dedicated work device for that.

There’s a withdrawal period for livestock medication for all slaughter, so no one should be eating animals that were recently medicated. IIRC it’s 30 days for LA200, the antibiotic I used for my flock.