Anti-union propaganda or actual goldbricking? This story doesn't have enough detail to support the latter. It seems like it just tries to stir-up class warfare. What it underscores is that not everyone makes a livable wage, and it's only been getting worse in the US.
> sex industry is deeply tied to human trafficking
Which career? Where? Sex workers encompasses a number of careers including escorts, prostitutes, strippers, burlesque dancers, cabaret artists, nude models, and solo and porn performers. Prostitution is already legal in most of the world, apart from the puritanical US where prohibition is seen as a panacea.
Sex work is not the problem. When human trafficking is prevented and policed sufficiently and the participants are assured to be consenting adults, there are no valid objections remaining apart from shrieks from moral panickers believing sex will bring about the rapture. Solve human trafficking by solve human trafficking, not by blaming sex work or sex workers.
Marcin Jakubowski realized earlier than most that open source hardware is a deeper solution that even generous right-to-repair (R2R) protections cannot necessarily deliver.
It happens that this title is within the realm of reason and fact, and Robert Reich, a White House veteran, has been shouting about how grotesque is inequality from the rooftops for years. Nothing will happen so long as the wealthy control the media and the political process that manufactures consent and buys policy.
Nope. Prohibition "War on Drugs" is stupid and wasteful of human lives. It was ordered by Nixon to attack minorities and hippies. Portland and Portugal prove decriminalizing all drugs works. All drugs should be legalized immediately.
I don't know what point your comment attempts to make.
> not some weird thing where trees are grown in the desert.
This is being tried in Africa. [0].
You can't "regrow" forests if the climate changes too much. Differences in rain, temperature, and/or soil won't be conducive to the survival or thriving of trees if they exceed their tolerable range by too much.
They're not carbon sinks because they catch fire.
I don't think you understand that forests aren't going to "solve" climate change AND that the climate is changing, which means biomes change, specifically desertification.
"Anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." this isn't. There is nothing scientific or substantive about this article and it's more-or-less basic information found in any old Black & Decker home improvement book.
Plus, only an idiot uses expanding anchors that cannot be removed without getting into drywall repairs. Blue putty for an unframed poster, brads (tiny nails) for light items, screw-in removable drywall anchors, or anchoring into studs using lag bolts are basically all you need.
Meta: I have lost a lot of confidence that are enough hackers left on HN to outweigh the nonhackers who "Facebook viralify" junk articles and low-signal arguments.
Regardless of Ethiopia or #TeamTrees, trees are not fast or permanent enough to sequester anything substantial.
Not all tactics will be equally effective. It's worth investing in the approach(es) that are most effective in proof-of-concepts trial runs guided by a first principles perspective. That's how to maximize change. GMO kelp and phythoplankton for oceanic BECCS seem like the leading candidates.
That's a rosy, invalid assumption and equivocation. Climate drying, and effectively biome changes in the direction of desertification, across much of western North America and other parts of the world due to climate change isn't conducive to replacing biomass lost to forest fires caused by multi-year droughts.
Yeap. Lots of specialists. Many areas are under investigation.
One is activation of the There is a possibility of an autoimmune disease like lupus or MS causing dysautonomia. I also have inappropriate sinus tachycardia and hypertension without obvious causes. All roads point towards the autonomic nervous system.
And no to that too. RDAs try to be one-size-fits-all guesstimates.
For Vitamin D3 in particular:
"The model developed for UL derivation was summarized in 1998 (IOM, 1998), and it acknowledged that the lack of data would affect the ability to derive precise estimates." [0]
Furthermore, an RDA and a UL doesn't work for D3 because the ranges across people don't harmonize to specific "safe" or "adequate" numbers for a given demographic. 1000 IU is too much for some people. [0]
Blood tests trump RDAs. I need over 10k IU per day, but this could cause hypercalcemia, calcification of tissues, and/or calcium kidney stones in other people.
That's what the minimum bar of excellence should be, and it's the same standard for everyone.
Americans are more illiterate overall and have a level 5 rate comparable to the global average (which is low compared to top-performing countries). America's literacy problem has nothing to do with IQ and everything to do with poor education stemming from anti-intellectualism.
Incorrect. The RDA and TUL amounts for vitamin D are wrong. 10k IU/day is safe. Dr. Fauci takes 6k IU/day.
My levels of 25(OH)D3 are optimal. It takes slightly over what the real average TUL should be because of my mass and apparently poor absorption.
Edit: Cortisol levels are fine. I also had a complete HPA/G/T workup by an endocrinologist. The results were unremarkable. I even had testing for pheochromocytoma, although this does not rule out other types of adenomas.
White text on a blue background are what we used for Wordperfect for DOS in the ye olden days specifically because the white popped out of the background. If this is paradoxically worse, then maybe there is an actual problem. But I would look at white console text on a blue background on a computer monitor first before reaching any conclusion.
I'm considering doing a ketamine treatment too.