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Thank you.

Brian Higgins had an unbelievably good 2023.

Would you care to list them so the conversation can be more complete?

Jeannie Miller would probably hold that over Meredith's head even longer than Sheppard.

No, the boomers with all their magic environment poisoning synthetic fabrics with antiwrinkle coatings did. The next seven generations will have microplastics in every part of their body, but I haven't touched an iron in a while.

Sorry, I must have skimmed too quickly and missed that.

~~Look for an expiration date. Radionucleotide style detectors end up failing with false positives when they reach end of life. You might need to have all the old ones replaced.~~

Harvard is a $50 Billion endowment fund that happens to run a school. So Harvard divesting from Israel affiliated investments is potentially significant.

That's a little hyperbolic. There's a lot of mechanics at play in generating microplastics. Fabrics have microscopically thin strands of plastics. It should be no surprise that rubbing up against thousands of tiny strands every time we move and wash synthetic fabric clothes releases many tiny particles. Plus clothes have to deal with UV degradation making the plastic more brittle.

The plastic components in an RO system should be specced to not leach plasticizers. They should have smooth walls and laminar flow. There shouldn't be much to abrade the plastic surfaces and shed particles. They may not be perfect, but water from an RO system will have orders of magnitude fewer microplastics. So an RO system still "does something about it."

We do need to address the problem, but I wouldn't want people to avoid beneficial remediation just because it has some plastic components.

People have very limited bandwidth. You can only dedicate so much energy to care about things at a given moment. Bedbugs aren't a huge threat society wide, but individually they're devastating. So if you spend a bunch of personal energy and effort on making sure you don't bring bed bugs into your home, what things are you not paying attention to that normally would be a big deal?

Viral outrage campaigns don't need to be devastating on their own. Their purpose is to keep people distracted, tired, and apathetic.

The fact that you think this is an embarrassingly unsuccessful endeavor implies to me that they are doing a good job obscuring their actual objectives.

Inflation is really hitting everywhere. First it was a penny for your thoughts, then it was putting in your 2 cents, now it's 5c for a comment.

The description of hypersexuality in your link doesn't match losing interest in a partner as soon as there is familiarity. If anything, hypersexuality leads to wanting more sexual activity than their partner. That can contribute to fidelity issues, but that's not the same as losing interest as soon as they get together.

ADHD doesn't mean you can only be interested in novel things. People with ADHD tend to be impulsive and have trouble controlling how much attention they can allocate to each subject. They can still hold particular interests for years and decades.

The only argument for the behavior in the OC being attributable to ADHD, is that maybe they are compulsively jumping into relationships before finding out if they have any compatibility with the other person. So it's not that ADHD made them lose interest immediately, it's that they acted on impulse and started a relationship prematurely only to find out that they never liked the other person for more than their appearance. But that's too much extrapolation for what is actually written.

That's a really distorted view of what ADHD is.