Melody Fwygon

The best way to prevent misuse of the Comstock Act is to hit them where it hurts. Find out what items their funders sell or trade in the most; then find logical ways to link it to sex or abortion.

Pretty soon you’ll gum up all trade and they will cry for mercy.

Personally; I manage my BO. If I can lift my shirt up, pull my head inside the shirt, and smell my own armpit odor, then I’m in need of some DO.

I’ve been using a Dove branded Spray-On (AP/)DO for Women and it’s effective. By combining the acts of applying DO, then, changing clothes; I don’t particularly sweat over much.

I Do Shower on an As-Needed Basis. That’s saying that I do shower, without committing to any specific showering pattern or timing basis. If you try to imply I don’t shower regularly you will look foolish.

If I stink, then it’s either uncommonly hot and humid or I have not yet had the opportunity needed to shower. The hows and whys of this are not important; but generally if I choose not to shower, it’s probably for a good reason.

I do suffer from some allergies and disabilities. I won’t comment on what they are specifically, but they do exist, so I keep my fragrances light and unobtrusive; and I try to shower only when I can manage to handle doing so. I’m not going to uproot or upset my health, focus, peace or routine just to take a shower to please someone arbitrary; but I do allow the people whom I live with and love to remind me gently should I forget about addressing my BO in the chaos of life.

This isn’t saying that I don’t care. It’s saying I’m imperfect, I have a life, and I do get overloaded sometimes.

TL;DR: This article is misleading and sensational. Do not take it at face value.

The cups were placed in temperate water or sediment and left to leach for up to four weeks.

This isn’t how the cups were intended to be used. Yes this can be used to model a threat caused by cups littered into our environment; but this article tries to spin this out first to scare you.

Coffee cups are made of a complex mixture of synthetic materials and chemicals. Manufacturers add processing aids, heat stabilizers, and other substances, many of which are known to be toxic. Even if plant-derived materials are used—such as polylactic acid, a material derived from corn, cassava, or sugarcane that’s used to coat paper cups—cup makers often add a number of other chemicals during processing.

More scare tactic information; preying on your lack of familiarity with how these things are regulated or tested. Scaremongering continues for two more paragraphs before it abruptly changes tone midway.

Improving recycling practices would be a logical step in trying to keep harmful chemicals from ending up in nature, but researchers say it’s best to retire disposable paper cups altogether. It’s difficult for most recycling centers to separate the plastic coating from the cup’s paper. In the UK, for instance, a mere handful of recycling centers take paper cups. Many coffee shops will collect them for recycling—but having to drop paper cups off takes the convenience out of a single-use product. Today, only four out of every 100 paper cups are recycled in the UK.

By now the author hopes you’re scared enough to do as they ask; but if you weren’t convinced; they threw in some other statistics at the end, and even breaks their suggestion by showing how inconvenient and impractical it is to recycle them.

In 2019, a research group from India filled paper cups with hot water to see if plastic particles or chemicals were released. “What came as a surprise to us was the number of microplastic particles that leached into the hot water within 15 minutes,”

They’re still not done scaring you though.

On average, there were 25,000 particles per 100 ml cup. The researchers also found traces of harmful chemicals and heavy metals in the water and plastic lining, respectively.

They dump some number of particles on you; giving you zero context, and zero information about how dangerous that is. They only mention in passing the “harmful chemicals and heavy metals”, giving no specific concentrations nor giving you any clues as to how much of it is in there.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0304389420321087

Unfortunately the above article is pay-walled; and is difficult to access. I doubt the journalists read the full paper. Everything mentioned in the article is accessible from snippets on this exact webpage; which may mean things are being taken out of context.

That’s actually pretty cool science there!

This gives me an idea;

Don’t store incoming data from remote instances into the “Main DB” immediately. Store them into SUBORDINATE DATABASES!

The logic of how you arrange these subordinate databases should be simple; depending on which instance you’re communicating with you could select a subordinate database like so;

• First; we need to have a “Main Delay” database. This database is used by all the instances we Both Federate With, and Mark as one we Trust! and we merge all records here into the main database on a specified timeframe to give ourselves a little time to roll back the clock if something betrays that trusted status.
• Secondly we need to have unique little databases for each little instance that we Federate with, but do not yet mark with trust! These little DBs are merged into “Main Delay”, then Main on a different time-delay schedule. This gives us even more time to roll back large-scale attacks, spam or flooding via ActivityPub as well as time to just smack the “Defederate” button as soon as they start to misbehave and, optionally, jettison the garbage data that caused the need for Defederation as well.