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Best be safe: Only drink from the skulls of your enemies.
“Our manufacturing process currently employs the use of an industry standard pellet to seal the vacuum insulation at the base of our products; the sealing material includes some lead,” a Stanley spokesperson said in an emailed statement. “Once sealed, this area is covered with a durable stainless steel layer, making it inaccessible to consumers.” “Rest assured that no lead is present on the surface of any Stanley product that comes into contact with the consumer nor the contents of the product,” the statement said.
This started after Tamara Rubin, also known as "Lead Safe Mama," posted her lead-test findings on her website in March 2023. When she tested the trendy Stanley Quencher tumbler she received positive results for "unsafe/hazardous levels of lead in the exterior bottom 'sealing dot' of the products," according to her website.
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A journalist goes undercover to reveal the absurdity of the art scene
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"The Algorithm" Does Not Exist
- (Apr 2023) Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm
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geohot's plan to end homelessness
we need to formalize a new class of Americans. Right now, the US is a two-class society: Citizens and Incarcerated, but we need to add a third: Subjects.
- Citizen — You participate in the economy. You have full freedom, but you must pay more to the government than you take.
- Incarcerated – You do not participate in the economy. You have all your needs paid for. You have very limited freedom.
- Subject — You don’t participate in the economy. You have all your needs paid for. Aside from living in a subject city, you have most personal freedoms. You don’t have political freedom.
Both Subjects and Incarcerated are net negatives on society, but Subjects will cost far less than the Incarcerated, and people will choose to be Subjects voluntarily. Practically, many homeless people are already Subjects. Like I said earlier, Subjects will be completely taken care of by taxpayer dollars, but on the crucial condition — among a few others — that they are geographically separated from Citizens.
- Jerry Pournelle's "Taxpayer / Citizen" divide, even to the point of "Citizen Islands!" I think it's a bad idea to have a non-citizen "underclass," for numerous reasons that have been demonstrated throughout history. However, it's certainly worth discussion the notion openly, instead of letting it happen the via fiat accompli "we didn't know there were that many migrants" methods currently being undertaken in many countries.
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Who Speaks Truth to the Speakers of Truth to Power?
In the hands of a skilled writer or orator, the critical, anti-authority mentality can produce some of the most deliciously biting and witty prose. But in the absence of ideas, nuance, and fair-mindedness, even the most eloquent writing can only paper over the hollowness inherent to an incomplete examination. The world is too complicated for any one-size-fits-all approach. There are too many variables and moving parts. If there’s an ethos or code we should strive for, it is to take everything case-by-case.
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Starbucks is launching its olive oil-infused beverages nationwide | CNN Business
Electric / Self Driving cars
celebrity gossip
Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering
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Most Top News Sites Block AI Bots. Right-Wing Media Welcomes Them (Archive)
Data collected in mid-January on about 40 top news sites by Ontario-based AI detection startup Originality AI shows that almost all of them block AI web crawlers, including newspapers like The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Guardian, general-interest magazines like The Atlantic, and special-interest sites like Bleacher Report. OpenAI’s GPTBot is the most widely-blocked crawler. But none of the top right-wing news outlets surveyed, including Fox News, the Daily Caller, and Breitbart, block any of the most prominent AI web scrapers, which also include Google’s AI data collection bot. Pundit Bari Weiss’ new website The Free Press also does not block AI scraping bots.
Originality tallied which sites block GPTbot and other AI scrapers by surveying the robots.txt files that websites use to inform automated web crawlers which pages they are welcome to visit or barred from.
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Disinformation Is the Real Threat to Democracy and Public Health
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Missouri social media lawsuit will be heard by U.S. Supreme Court on March 18 • Missouri Independent
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on March 18 in Missouri’s lawsuit alleging the federal government colluded with social media companies like Twitter and Facebook to suppress the freedom of speech.
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James O'Keefe: “If they’re gonna kill me, they’re going to kill me.”
Musk
Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp
Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
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Teach your children well - by Michael Hooten - Gnardo Polo
We want all children to be properly educated, we have spent 200 years figuring out what a proper education is, and still no one seems to be very happy with the result.
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO
Crypto con games
Economicon / Business / Finance
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UPS to Cut 12,000 Jobs and Mandate Return to Offices Five Days a Week
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Just Months After "Massive Labor Deal," UPS Announces Massive Layoffs | ZeroHedge
Five months after unionized UPS workers ratified a massive five-year labor deal that included massive pay bumps, the logistics company announced on Tuesday morning that 12,000 jobs, or about 14% of its 85,000 management jobs, would be cut.
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Rent has never been less affordable, especially for the middle class
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Adobe Gives Up on Web-Design Product to Rival Figma After Deal Collapse
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Raspberry Pi is preparing for an IPO in London for likely more than $500M
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Why Cut Rates in an Economy This Strong? A Big Question Confronts the Fed
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23andMe’s Fall from $6 Billion to Nearly $0 - WSJ
23andMe’s valuation has crashed 98% from its peak and Nasdaq has threatened to delist its sub-$1 stock. Wojcicki reduced staff by a quarter last year through three rounds of layoffs and a subsidiary sale. The company has never made a profit and is burning cash so quickly it could run out by 2025.
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
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The Anti-Democratic Movement Targeted Ralph Nader First. We Should Have Paid More Attention
Twenty years and multiple political upheavals later, the Democrats are taking the sabotage game it played in 2004 up a notch or ten. It’s taken the position that all of Joe Biden’s potential challengers within the party and without are, in effect, new Naders, whose presences are “distorting” the real election. The major difference between 2004 and now is that thanks to major changes in both the Democratic and Republican parties, current Democrats have the money and institutional capacity to attempt a legal campaign to “Naderize” even the likely GOP nominee, Trump, essentially seeking to ballot-block their way to victory.
Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
World
Russia Bad / Ukraine War
China
Health / Medicine
Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda
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Inside the Crime Rings Trafficking Sand | Scientific American
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How much does human breathing contribute to climate change? - BBC Science Focus Magazine
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Climate change is causing a pothole plague. Are robots the solution?
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Energex remotely cuts power to 170k air conditioners six times in a month
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Anchorage sets a record for the earliest arrival of 100 inches of snow