No comment on the level of PFAS aside from

though the levels were low

This is just feeding the outrage machine to get clicks. If it was a story they’d be citing concentration guidelines and telling you what concentrations were found in the products. It’s not a story, it’s rage bait.

Love it. I’d never have thought to look for it, but I’m glad I stumbled across this post!

Richard Feynman had a really good bit about how bad human intuition is about quantum physics. About how we evolved to throw a rock at an animal out on a grass plane, and not to make good guesses about the nature of particles so small we can’t even fathom them.

Seems appropriate here.

Storage of easily enriched material to prevent theft is a concern, especially given the number of incidents with jokers photographing themselves inside nuclear facilities and the results of FBI testing of nuclear site security protocols.

Additionally, given the ridiculously long half life of the products, you get into conversations about what happens on the thousands of years time scale in which it’s not reasonable to think that any given state remains politically stable.

And we’re just ignoring the whole weapons proliferation side of things?

An effect can be observable but still negligible in terms of the actual increase of risk.

You think a mercury sandwich isn’t a realistic representation of wood.

Wow, you know, after careful consideration I think you may be right. Thanks for your wisdom. Truly enlightening.

I’ll go eat some wood.

Sometimes I just don’t bother learning new stuff till the old stuff stops working for me. It’s amazing how many really simple things people stroll past on their way to god knows where.

If something is part edible and part not, then it really depends on the nature of that not edible bit. If it’s inert, then great. If it’s not, then you could be kinda fucked.

The fact that something is 45% edible says precisely nothing about whether or not it is edible.

Wood is just less than half cellulose by weight, so wood must be safe to easy.

This mercury sandwich is just less than half bread by weight, so it must be safe to eat.

The answer used to be John the Ripper, but I’m a decade out of date on this stuff, so it might not be any more.

Also, thanks, that’s awesome!

OK, but is coffee a soup?

You can fear the implications of war without thinking you’ll lose it.

Project Zomboid is worth looking at. It’s not my kind of game, but it’s great at what it is (top down zombie survival crafring)