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Giving plasma is actually better if you want to remove PFAS.

And giving either is a good thing, so if this can mean people will give 2 or 3 times a year, everybody wins.


Suppose I give plasma or blood, and it removes PFAS from my body. Does it give those PFAS to the recipient of my plasma/blood?


Yes, but:

- it removes only a fraction of it from your body, so it gives only a fraction of it to the recipient.

- if you need a donation, this dose compared to what you get in exchange is usually a very good deal

- some blood don't actually go to people, but is used for manufacturing drugs, science tests or expires

- hopefully people don't get blood transfusions very often and have a blood level of PFAS close to the average and the given blood. Hopefully.


Also: recipient likely has a similar PFAS concentration in their blood already, so there's minimal net impact (aside from the life-saving part!)


I'm always amazed that in cases like this nobody gets crazy and try to get justice themselves.

There are so many guns in the US, and we hear about rogue snipers and school shooters, but never about one guy that decided a CEO should pay for his bad deeds in blood.

Maybe it shows that the average human being is quite stable and peaceful?


Despite our media, it isn't part of our shared culture to go out shoot someone in revenge. Things like murder and generational feuds are taboo. And we're too individualistic to do things like make the ultimate self-sacrifice in pursuit of justice.

We are also very far removed from nature and death. Most of us fear death and do everything to avoid it. Few of us have any experience in killing.

It's easy to get a gun and kill someone in broad daylight. But you have to be really motivated to overcome all that I mentioned and accept the consequences.


To whoever flagged this: grow a spine. The poster is making an observation - and an interesting one. Not even a call to action. Instead of plugging your ears and screaming lalalala, why don't you come up with an equally interesting response to this question that has apparently made you so uncomfortable?


In certain circles this might be considered a call for action by a lone wolf. Not saying that this is one of those circles.


CEO has a $million+ security detail. What does your kindergartener have?


Vigilante justice died down with the phase out of leaded gasoline. One of the effects of people not being so violent and impulsive anymore is that people are not so violent and impulsive anymore


And yet, you still get 'I hate society and I'm going to shoot up a school/mall/movie theatre/parade/nightclub' terracts on the regular.

It is strange that intersection of 'I'm angry at stuff and want to make people pay', and 'I own guns and I'm going to use them' seems to consistently result in rage and violence against society at large, rather than bad actors in particular.

It's almost as if there's a kind of slant to the propaganda that pushes people into those buckets. Not a lot of unhinged, violent anti-3M/Purdue/Kaiser/DuPont rhetoric on the *chans and in the Q-sphere...



Uncle Ted had plenty of time for exposure to lead, there have got to be hundreds of better domestic terrorists for you to choose from


Not to mention ads incite to consume more, attempt to creep inside your daily thoughts and lie about the qualities of the product using all the tricks in the books.

Add on top of this it gives more power to the big players with more money and create terrible incentive for the medias and you have one of the easiest moral decision in the world.


Not all ads are exploitive or deceptive. Ads empower small players as well. Without them large and entrenched players have a greater advantage.


The whole industry lost me way back in the 90's when I saw the first popover/under ads for X10 cameras. No, the industry is entirely exploitative of technology with little to no real redeeming qualities and are so invasive, pervasive and dishonest that you generally can't even trust the top search results for product class reviews either.


This reads like a submarine article.


For the same reason you vote, stop buying products, and read history books.

To shape the society you want to live in.


This is pretty exciting from the perspective of any kind of navigation. If this gets into a phone, we will be able to navigate on a digital map with no signal at all.


Ruff is an excellent base linter because it takes care of essential stuff and has sane default while integrates well without much work.

It's not going to replace pylint, but pylint is hard to configure and slow.

There is overlap between ruff checks and what's eliminated by black though, since ruff implemented flake8 rules first and a lot of them are PEP8 oriented.

Also, note that ruff is also a fast import sorter, faster than isort. But it's not a 1:1 match to isort (no fly to top, some formatting are different).

All in all, I would advice to use it if you are not used to linters, or if you don't feel like going full bazooka on a project.

It's has a very good cost/benefit ratio give how lighweight and easy to use it is.


Ruff actually focuses on checks that don’t overlap with Black. (“By default, Ruff enables Flake8's E and F rules. Ruff supports all rules from the F category, and a subset of the E category, omitting those stylistic rules made obsolete by the use of an autoformatter, like Black.”)

Its import sorting is designed to be compatible with isort --profile=black by default (https://beta.ruff.rs/docs/faq/#how-does-ruffs-import-sorting...). Many isort settings are supported (https://beta.ruff.rs/docs/settings/#isort). I’m not sure what “fly to top” means.


interesting! I just set it up for a new project but I didn't know it had the ability to sort imports, how to you run this command ?


Enable the "I" category and run ruff with autofixing.


Why not replace pylint with it?


Pylint has hundreds of rules that ruff doesn't have, yet; see this GitHub issue: https://github.com/charliermarsh/ruff/issues/689


"simply"


The author says he used all the VR systems that exist under the sun, but he doesn't mention SimulaVR.

Since for my use case it's the most direct competitor (using VR as working tool, not gaming), anybody got a comparison of the early test devices for both?


> The author says he used all the VR systems that exist under the sun, but he doesn't mention SimulaVR.

I don't think SimulaVR counts, since all they have so far is a few prototypes and a single pre-release build sent to an external reviewer (https://simulavr.com/blog/review-unit-in-transit/). And unless the author is that reviewer (or works for SimulaVR), he can't have used it.


You can be both


Some subtle things can only be perceived as you slow down.

Under mushroom, food tastes amazing, because you can suddenly perceived a lot more details.


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