zephorah
@zephorah@lemm.ee
- Comment on Does the USA simply have no food safety standard at all? 2 days ago:
I’d worry less about the sweet tea and more about how contaminating your laundry is given the amount of plastic microfibers washing away with the waste water. Polyester is plastic. You deliver microfiber bits of plastic into the wastewater with every load of wash. How much of that is really filtered out?
If you end up in the ER or hospital, you will have an up close and personal experience with plastic. Blood: in a plastic bag. Plasma: in a plastic bag. Platelets: in a plastic bag. IV fluids: in a plastic bag. The tubing that delivers any of those things directly into your bloodstream: plastic. The syringes used: plastic. The IVs placed in your veins: plastic, including the catheter that sits inside your vein for the duration (heated to 98 degrees). The wrappers on each individual pill: plastic. The bottles the pills originally come in: plastic. Thermometer covers: plastic. The tubing used during dialysis: plastic. Tube feeding: plastic bottle of food fed through plastic tubing directly to stomach. A chemist or engineer could detail out what type of plastic is used and whether it’s a potential problem far better than I.
I question the “biodegradable” items used with seedlings. Why is the mesh from the Burpee peat pucks still fully intact in my compost pile after 4 years? Pucks baked wetly on a heating mat. Buy seedlings? Probably baking in the sun at a garden center in a cheap plastic pot.
A lot of shelf stable food is stored in plastic, and we don’t know how hot or cold its getting in the trucks or warehouses before it hits store shelves.
- Comment on Josh Johnson - The Failure, Fear, And Frenzy around Luigi Mangione 2 days ago:
Trevor Noah’s podcast is a discussion with him, Josh, and Christiana about this topic. One of the more honest discussions I’ve heard.
Haven’t seen this yet.
- Comment on RFK Jr.’s Lawyer Has Asked the FDA to Revoke Polio Vaccine Approval 1 week ago:
I think he was batshit before the worm.
- Comment on RFK Jr.’s Lawyer Has Asked the FDA to Revoke Polio Vaccine Approval 1 week ago:
This man is absolutely batshit. Why does he want polio back?
- Comment on Indian start-up Yes Madam fires employees who indicated being stressed in the survey 1 week ago:
That is…what a way to inspire mass exodus in the remaining employees.
Here, be honest. Thank you. You’re fired. This feels very Trump-y.
- Comment on Germ Blaster 1 week ago:
You can buy boxes of moldable foam earplugs which can do very well for noise blocking. Individually wrapped in pairs. They carry well in a back pocket. Those work if you’re ok with the sensation of something in your ears, don’t have ear tubes, or some other contraindicated condition.
An aesthetically pleasing pair of full muffs can also work. Sometimes kids need their environment dimmed, and the muffs can work rather well.
- Comment on graceful wombats 2 weeks ago:
This is awwww material.
- Comment on Germ Blaster 2 weeks ago:
My biggest issue is the decibel level. I can hear, for now, but the decibel level on those things makes one of my ears feel like it’s being blasted out of my skull and induces ringing.
I use the paper because it doesn’t hurt my ear.
Yes, I’ve seen a doctor, it simply is what it is and my only recourse for that ear is to wear ear protection. In any public restroom, apparently.
- Comment on YEET 2 weeks ago:
Citadel lobby, yes.
- Comment on YEET 2 weeks ago:
Or, you just decided on first contact, but, suddenly, ship goes boom after being struck in the propulsion system with a bullet like manhole cover.
- Comment on alpha 2 weeks ago:
Someone needs to tell all the authors involved in the wave of trash urban fantasy books that flooded the market a while back, using this to write werewolves. (True Blood, etc.)
- Comment on Silent but Deadly: I met some of my closest friends through multiplayer games. Then a strange happening turned everyone (literally) speechless. 2 weeks ago:
Never played anything like call of duty, so idk, my experience is limited.
You would think, because we live in a society, it would just be cool like that.
- Comment on Silent but Deadly: I met some of my closest friends through multiplayer games. Then a strange happening turned everyone (literally) speechless. 2 weeks ago:
I’m a dnd fan, so ofc I played the MMO. Within the DND MMO, I had no harassment as a woman on a mic. In fact, it appeared as if ~50% of those playing and on mic were women. Granted, that was years ago. And maybe DND was, and is, a different scene.
Way back with vanilla and BC WOW, same though. No issues and lots of women playing. Self moderated social groupings, probably.
Granted, there was a social effect of 1 woman on a mic drawing out all the other women, a social permission & safety element.
No idea what it is now though, I’m too old for it now. If it’s rampant with harassment, that’s just sad, for everyone.
- Comment on billions & billions 2 weeks ago:
Were really just photographers right now.
- Comment on SHAME. 2 weeks ago:
This is likely more in the crunchy, no measles vax set of dipshits, not MAGA.
- Comment on SHAME. 2 weeks ago:
If it’s ultra pasteurized you should be fine, but as in all things, do your own personal threat analysis.
- Comment on SHAME. 2 weeks ago:
Half & half in coffee. We go very unprocessed and cook in my household. So I buy half and half which is just milk and cream. It’s delicious in coffee. It’s also ultra pasteurized. A little heat in the name of microbe death is great.
Apart from that, milk is a cooking ingredient. Again, ultra pasteurized.
- Comment on SHAME. 2 weeks ago:
Raw milk is a disease vector for H5N1 right now, and as been for most of the year.
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2405371. (Location for the sick worker in the article: Texas)
Why it doesn’t matter so much for those of us not working directly with cows is pasteurization. In my household, we’ve since switched to ultra pasteurized in the cases we’ve not been doing that already, just to play safest.
The more humans that catch H5N1, the more likely it is to take and make a vector out of humans.
To be fair, it is often good to avoid processing your food. However this does not include the cleaning aspect of that food. Would you suddenly stop washing your fruits and vegetables? Flashing a little heat on the milk for safety is fine. It doesn’t create the milk equivalent of beef jerky or a ritz cracker. If you’ve ever spent any time in a milking barn, among cows, or seen the milking process you might not even drink milk after. You’ll want bacteria and virus death in your milk.
But wait, Zeph, surely this process is only effective for bacteria, we’ve always been taught that the same means of death for bacteria don’t typically work on viruses. (Antibiotics). Pasteurization is it’s own thing.
- Comment on SHAME. 2 weeks ago:
The word you’re looking for is dipshits.
- Comment on New oven and they lock the air fryer functionality behind wifi. 2 weeks ago:
This is from 10yrs ago. Adult Swim joke skit.
- Comment on New oven and they lock the air fryer functionality behind wifi. 3 weeks ago:
More likely to be bidets.
- Comment on Give us your best infodump. 3 weeks ago:
This is so true, and I can’t even type that without a severe eyeroll of agreement.
I think that’s why some people wax poetic on Reddit or Lemmy with very little provocation. Finally…a captive audience that might read this info, even if they’re just passing time on the shitter…
- Comment on ugh i wish 3 weeks ago:
It has been contracted by humans, but because we pasteurize and ultra pasteurize, the problem has been mostly moot. I’m still using ultra pasteurized dairy. It’s typically those who work very closely with the animals and such. Many a farmer will dip into that raw milk for their own table too.
CDC data has 29 human cases 15 of which were serious to critical, with 7 deaths. That is NOT a large enough pool to establish a meaningful percentage, but it’s worth keeping an eye on with some level of concern. Especially with the number of medically minded dipshits we have in this country.
- Comment on ugh i wish 3 weeks ago:
I mean, viruses are kind of Trumps thing. Maybe H5N1 kills another million or so to mark his second term.
- Comment on ugh i wish 3 weeks ago:
Surely this is satire. One of you guys made this as a joke, right? Right?!?
- Comment on BACK IT UP 3 weeks ago:
Actually, the brain worm never died, it is sentient, and this is part of the RFK worm’s long term goal to infect the nation via destruction of the FDA. The rest is there simply as distraction.
(This comment is for the readers of Parasite by Mira Grant.)
- Comment on BACK IT UP 3 weeks ago:
If they break that infrastructure the long term impact won’t be immediately evident, which means the impetus to fix it will match that of climate change.
- Comment on Turkey Temptation 3 weeks ago:
That is what I meant, I’m largely ignoring the legos.
In a forced choice scenario I’d guess no, it just sounds too gross and too likely to disintegrate the bird off the line.
- Comment on Whole Foods Workers File for First-Ever Union, Defying Amazon 3 weeks ago:
Waiting for President Elon to kill unions.
- Comment on Turkey Temptation 3 weeks ago:
Does it matter? It’s fun. And park rangers are good people, keeping humanity from ruining nice things on the daily.