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[Jolly Roger]

Quote: Originally Posted by Speedy

I couldn't imagine living near that chemical disaster in Ohio. That's almost like Chernobyl in my mind.

I'm about an hour SE of there. They'd better make the companies involved (trains, chemical producers, etc.) pay for everything, but of course they won't.

Hopefully it was more of an acute short-term toxicity situation and not a long-term one, which is what I gather to be the case. A lot of it just burned up and/or evaporates quickly. Apparently they also had ethylene glycol monobutyl ether, ethylhexyl acrylate and isobutylene on the train.

I mean, FFS, why do we need all these chemical additives? If we cut out all the plastics we use, that would help.

[Jolly Roger]

Also, news media, can we please not play this "what if?" with bird flu right now? We don't need this, LOL...

[dubcity]

Quote: Originally Posted by Jolly Roger

Also, news media, can we please not play this "what if?" with bird flu right now? We don't need this, LOL...

They need it tho. Not enough clicks on those "will your 3rd covid infection be the worst one yet??" stories lol. They want everyone to always be a little on edge so that we'll read there articles.

[SmashMan]

Speaking of news clickbait…what happened to murder hornets?

[Caulfield]

Quote: Originally Posted by SmashMan

Speaking of news clickbait…what happened to murder hornets?

I dunno but I imagine PETA got involved and now it's ''save the hornets!''

[Jolly Roger]

Quote: Originally Posted by Caulfield

I dunno but I imagine PETA got involved and now it's ''save the hornets!''

"The world’s largest wasp has a new common name, designed to avoid evoking fear and xenophobia: the northern giant hornet."

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/a...rnets-new-name

[l3ulvl]

if monkeypox translation to mpox got confused with the murder hornets change and became murderpox...

[Jolly Roger]

I'm a few years away from 40 and have never had a cavity, filling, or lost a tooth (other than wisdom teeth). Am I just really lucky? From what I've read, this is rare.

I don't have perfect teeth though, seems like I've got gum recession. But my teeth were always "tall" so I'm not sure. Some people just have more tooth showing. And they're definitely not the whitest teeth ever seen. I used to not take great care of them, but now I water brush them after every time I eat or drink anything other than water. Still, I wish they were Hollywood white, I mean...everyone seems to have those Hollywood white teeth now. Makes me feel self conscious.