Why would people here care that much about this? This kind of material exists on any site that allows user submitted content, and the only solution is aggressive automated moderation, which winds up hurting everyday users. Would you prefer that anyone who uploads a song or podcast that names a drug be automatically removed and have to be manually approved?

These are low-effort scams to steal credit card numbers, it doesn’t seem like any of these had an actual avenue to purchase drugs. They should be removed for sure, but this is hardly some wild breach of responsibility.

This has got to be machine printed right? They’re no worse than Wizard’s usual minis, but yeah they always suck. The biggest problem IMO is the sculpt, they look like they’re made out of mud. I assume it has to do with the rubber they use. I don’t know, I’m way too spoiled by printing my own to consider buying something that looks this bad.

I mean, isn’t the joke that there are only like 20 people who really do anything that matters in Star Wars? The rest of the trillions of beings in the SW universe are apathetic too.

That’s also one of the underlying threads in Andor, Luthen is trying to agitate the empire so that they lash out and start really interfering with people’s lives. The more the Empire tries to crush dissent, the more apathetic people they disrupt, and the dissent only grows. That’s where we’re at now, most people’s lives haven’t meaningfully changed yet, but it’s coming.

You should take a look then, this one is subtly but significantly different. They found Dimethyl Sulfide, which is (to our knowledge) only created by living organisms.

Wasn’t that the big news last week?

Maybe it would be more helpful if the old leftists who wasted too much time protesting started putting their lives on the line instead of insisting their children should do it for them.

In what concentration? The SDS is an essential tool, but you need to be able to interpret it. Almost any chemical you look at is going to have an LC50 or EC50 and some kind of data on toxicity to aquatic life. That doesn’t necessarily mean it’s so toxic it should never enter the water stream, it just means it shouldn’t be put into water sources in high concentrations.

Looking at a basic ‘geranium oil’ SDS, it’s mostly Citronellol, Geraniol, and Linalool, with miniscule amounts of a handful of others. That is probably not the best environmentally. Since Linalool and Citronellol are both antimicrobial and antifungal agents they absolutely will be somewhat harmful to aquatic life, though probably not significantly in the quantities you’d be using for shower gel.

That said, looking at Linalool, the more “toxic” component, the most sensitive subject is water fleas, with an EC50 of 20mg/L over 48hours. That means 50% of water fleas living in a medium of 20mg/L Linalool for 48 experienced harmful effects from the substance.

So, I searched a random shower gel recipe and got a basic starting point let’s say we’re going to use 7 drops of rose oil in 7 oz of liquid soap (and whatever other stuff). So that’s one drop per oz, using a rough estimate (0.05ml/drop) that gives us a concentration of 0.169% or 1.69 mL/L in your soap. A mL of liquid typically weighs roughly a gram (very roughly, but we’re just looking for a general ballpark here). Linalool makes up about 8% of the rose oil, so your overall Linalool concentration ends up roughly 135mg/L. So, the straight gel would definitely be harmful to aquatic life. But it’s not going into the water system straight, it’s mixed with the water used for bathing. Let’s say you use an entire oz of soap for a shower, and we’ve got a short shower using only 10 gallons of water. So one Oz of gel has 3.9mg of Linalool diluted into 37.8 liters of water, making a concentration around 0.1 mg/L. That’s not much, and that’s just going into more water to be diluted further.

It’s your creation, and it’s up to you to determine what level of potential harm you’re comfortable with, but moreso I hope this helps you understand better what the SDS really means and how to interpret it.

Truly the stupidest thing I’ve seen on Lemmy today, and that’s a fucking high bar to leap.

Then you probably shouldn’t waste so much of other people’s time by claiming something didn’t happen if you haven’t even bothered to fucking check.

He very clearly salutes, turns around, and salutes again. Twice in a row, enthusiastically and perfectly executed.

If you haven’t seen this, you didn’t watch the inauguration.

You literally just rephrased exactly what they just said. Who do you think the ‘third of us who learn and try to repeat it but better’ was talking about?