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  • Is it hopelessly naive to say it’s a good thing we have identified the specific agent, and it is not a core part of tires nor the tire material itself that is this specific problem.

    We don’t have to figure out how to filter tire dust from runoff (yet) or outlaw cars, or even completely reformulate tire materials. Just replace one chemical.

    We’ve done that in other scenarios, so it ought to be possible. It’s got to be easier than removing transfats from the food supply or PFOAs from teflon manufacturing


  • But this is the closest thing to make sense. He doesn’t say meanest, but toughest. There are a lot of desperate people falling out of the modern world, seeing no way out.

    Most of us would look to stop the class war, increase jobs and education, strengthen safety nets, etc

    They correctly see these things as unwieldy so think a “tough guy” is the only chance. That makes some sense. Somehow he made them believe he was a tough guy rather than just a grifter. Somehow he made them believe he would act in other than personal self-interest. Most importantly he was able to stoke their outrage and identify subgroups to hate, while somehow getting them to ignore reality, history, facts



  • we have what, 11 aircraft carrier groups and we are using what, 2 of them on Iran

    That’s the problem with

    • excessively complex vehicles
    • keeping our fingers in every pie

    We start with 11 ships

    • but at least a third are undergoing maintenance at any given time, so only 7 active
    • we’ve committed to having one near every possible trouble spot
    • leaving at most 2 per ocean





  • For some people there’s cortisone injections. They don’t fix anything but reduce pain and inflammation. I’m actually a use case where that was enough for that occurrence. I had a sharp pain in my knee and the cortisone got rid of the pain and inflammation and that specific issue didn’t come back.

    Of course now my knees are totally wrecked and the only choice they gave me is replacing them

    PSA: I wish they told me more about strength and balance when I was evaluated. I wasn’t able to go through with it at the time and had no reason to believe it was urgent since I could live with the pain . However now after years of of being unable to use my knees, I clearly have weakened muscles in my lower leg, clearly do not balance as well, and have a hard time getting up from the floor. Even worse I keep reading that those are exactly what they look for in aging and independence. So now I still need the joint replacements but somehow have to rebuild my lower leg strength