Common cleaning sponge found to release trillions of microplastic fibers

There are about 1e31 bacteria on Earth. A few trilion microplastic things don't matter. The bacteria will eat them; food chain indeed.

I wasn't worried about that big oil spill in the Gulf. The critters down there love oil.

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Not all micro plastics are edible by bacteria?

Well, earth (sun) will go in time anyways.. So will we, nothing to worry about. But I still do not want plastic and oil for dinner...

After watching a Chinese engineer talking about China's deepseek AI being better than the US AI bubbling stuff I made a deepseek account : deepseek.com chose English

Very nice! Asked it to create some C code that prints: 'hello world' No bloat, the right code, nice interaction. From that Chinese man, who also worked in the US and predicted several previous financial bubbles and now a US AI one; what he was saying matches my view of US AI going for some bubble too.

Seems trump now also twists and turns again:

I hate it when they do that, choosing some silly units and using them to dazzle us with impressive-sounding numbers. Clearly they seek to awe and manipulate rather than to inform.

Jeroen Belleman

There are also several amazing AI things that will design the hardware and the software to make an electronic product. They all design wonderful LED blinkers.

Sure, AI is a huge bubble. Bubbles happen regularly. Robotics is big here now too.

TDS is a terrible disease. I don't think one ever fully recovers from brain rot.

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If you don't think that Trump is now looking even more deranged that he used to be, you've got a problem.

The Australian commentators who used to see Trump as a shallow clown with quite a lot of rat-like cunning are now getting more concerned - he has started to take his own propaganda seriously, and there's now a lot less rat-like cunning to be seen.

We all know what he an Netanyahu hoped to achieve by killing off most of the Iranian cabinet - getting the survivors to panic.

They should have had enough sense to know that it wasn't going to have that effect - if you kill off a bunch of sincere fanatics, they get replaced by people who are even more sincerely fanatical and even further out of touch with reality (and somewhat disturbed by the sudden deaths of lots of their colleagues).

It's a big enough misjudgement that their colleagues should have found some excuse to get rid of them before they did something even more foolish, but Trump's cabinet isn't full of people who can think for themselves and Netanyahu has spent years purging the Israeli cabinet of anybody brave enough to disagree with him.

So we've got the US, Israel and Iran run by a bunch of dangerous lunatics, and Trump and Netanyahu have put an even more deranged bunch in charge in Iran.

What we need is a UN mental health force to take them all off to an international lunatic asylum, and put in a bunch of timid bureaucrats to tidy up the mess. It isn't going to happen, but we can dream.

I have an idea that involves the first settlement on Mars.

Probably it would not even take a lot of force in one case, because being first guarantees to be the highest IQ person the planet.

Gerhard

Yes, they are. And melamine can be used as a fertilizer.

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Melamine is widely used for plates and cups and the like.

There is a big debate on this very issue in the US.

To get the *whole* story, consult both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, and compare - each will point out the blind spots, flaws and material omissions of the other. These are by far the two most important newspapers in the US (by circulation). Neither newspaper is fond of Trump.

Joe

That won't work. IQ is derived from various standardized tests. The distribution of the test results follows a normal probability distribution with the mean test result equal to 100. If you deport a large number of low IQ politicians to Mars, their test scores will logically shift downward. That causes the distribution curve to shift downward which in turn causes the mean value (IQ = 100) to also shift downward. The result will a Martian population of incompetent politicians, all with a mean IQ = 100.

Essentially every piece in the NYT, in all the sections, mentions Trump, and never in a nice way.

They couldn't publish a blueberry muffin recipe without finding a way to insult Trump.

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The truth insults Trump.

If the NYT held its silence, the very blueberries of the earth would cry out.

The problem with everyone in the mideast is a deficiency of God's food, pork.

We need to do an epic airlift of Spam to Jerusalem and Tehran. That will open their eyes and hearts, and next thing you know they will be making nicey-nice and everything, and like, can't we all just get along.

Spam saved Britain's bacon, why not the shithole middle east. Now how much spam can you buy for the price of 1 patriot missile? About 40 or 50 pallets.

Minnesota's farmers are standing by.

trump is just an ego-maniac lunatic, a murderer, sex abuser, jewish pawn, anti-Christ. All he ever did was killing, in his first term he had faucy create COVID to hurt China, that backfired Later he had the previous pope killed by sending some faucy created stuff with a trump man visiting the pope, pope died a few days later now he claimed 'you would not be pope without me' to the current pope!!! He is so stupid he gave away his plot that way. And now killing in Gaza, Lebanon, Iran, not to mention stealing oil and killing Cubans in Venezuela, and now hurting Cubans in Cuba with fuel embargo. what a pig that stinking s*it head is.

Insulting it is the least you can do, impeachment a better thing!! Before the world gets so fed-up with it that it nukes the s*it out of his world.

Eating pork now and then significantly reduces one's risk of spontaneous explosive decomposition amidst large crowds of people.

Gerhard

Not ALL the 'critters' . . . . and not all the oil.

Don't worry. If you can't see it in your back yard, today, it probably isn't there.

RL

More to the point, they're added to the immediate environment without planetary dilution or dispersal . . . .where you live, eat and breath.

As do those from all domestic sources . . .

RL

I don't blame him for defunding NPR. If I turn on the local station, KQED, chances are that I'll hear Tump insulted by name within 5 minutes.

The other NPR station here, KALW, just plays cheap bad music all day.

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The gulf, like lots of other places, has natural seeps of oil and methane. And there's a corresponding food chain evolved to gobble it all up.

Biology exploits almost any possible food source.

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You are allowed to use natural sponges or cotton rags for washing up.

And to dress in all natural fabrics.

And cook over a wood or dung fire.

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