276
PFAS 'Forever Chemicals' Found in Freshwater Fish, Yet Most States Don't Warn Residents
(www.scientificamerican.com)
this post was submitted on 17 Dec 2023
276 points (98.6% liked)
News
23262 readers
5390 users here now
Welcome to the News community!
Rules:
1. Be civil
Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.
2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.
Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. We have an actively updated blocklist, which you can see here: https://lemmy.world/post/2246130 if you feel like any website is missing, contact the mods. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.
Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.
5. Only recent news is allowed.
Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.
6. All posts must be news articles.
No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.
7. No duplicate posts.
If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.
8. Misinformation is prohibited.
Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.
9. No link shorteners.
The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.
10. Don't copy entire article in your post body
For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Plastics in our fetuses, PFAS in the fish... Smartest species on the planet apparently.
We put lead in gasoline well aware that lead was toxic and knowling fully that lead would come out the tailpipe and it still took us decades to reverse that decision.
Avgas is still used in some race cars and small planes with combustion engines tho ... so not completely gone.
We will favor cost savings over safety every damn time.
https://thehill.com/changing-america/sustainability/3716345-how-nascars-switch-to-unleaded-gas-boosted-test-scores-near-racetracks/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/21/lead-emissions-racetracks-portland-international-raceway
Well, evolution is pretty fucking stupid it turns out. It just tries shit generation after generation; and those with the winning genes have more babies. Humanity is arguably the longest running experiment by evolution, and we’re now getting to a point that “imagination” which is what put us ahead of the game, and allowed things like art and science to prevail, also allows people to “imagine” how they can step on those around them to have a better life themselves. I think evolution’s experiment of imagination is either coming to a close, or we’ll be replaced with true AI, which, really is sort of the peak of evolution anyway.