It was a joke. But lead is in the environment. If toddlers are exposed to it, chances are the parents are too.

Or, cognitive impairment from lead poisoning leads to unsafe gun storage.

They do have infinite resources (a lot of money) relative to the difficulty and expense of getting into a private tracker (not a lot of money). If you are in a jurisdiction where seeding is an offense, it is only a matter of enforcement priorities whether users who leak their ip address get targeted.

As someone fluent in Alien, I can confirm she sounded like gibberish, but the accent was on spot.

This is actually forbidden knowledge. You shouldn’t have seen it, not sure why you have. It’s a self reinforcing recursive spiral fractal graph, the key to free energy from water. If you put it in a car, it can drive 1000 miles on just 1 gallon of water. Big tech and the capitalists doesn’t want you to know, so they probably did something to delete it from your memory. I’m surprised this post stayed up so long, maybe MOSAD has no eyes on Lemmy yet?

Europe is a small area while San Francisco is a large area? dude you are dumb as fuck, sorry.

Some are slums, some are decent. It’s not irrelevant, because you specifically said the US housing is unique because it was built fast. America was not built out in a rush in 10 years while millions were without homes, it was populated gradually over 4-5 centuries. That is a long time compared to the average lifespan of a house. The availability of lumber is a much bigger factor than speed.

After a while, many buildings were retrofitted with thermostats. I know from experience that in Eastern Europe until the late 90s, there were valves but no thermostats, and radiators were effectively serially connected, so if you shut a valve, everything downstream was shut off too. Some units were always hot and people were growing tropical plants and had their windows open the whole heating season. Other units were miserably cold, depending on where they were within the building.

unlike the rest of the world.

Europe had to build out housing extremely fast after WWII, because whole cities were practically demolished by bombings. Cities built huge blocks of apartment towers, typically from prefabricated concrete panels. These were made in a factory, trucked to the building site, and assembled into 4-20 story towers (8-10 the most typical).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large-panel-system_building

The apartments are small, and typically have district heating and no AC. These buildings provided housing for lower income or middle class families, depending on the area, from Spain to Russia. In America, the closest equivalent are the projects. The concrete walls don’t make for very comfortable living spaces. Sound travels between apartments, walls between rooms are frequently drywall. It’s a bitch to drill into if you want to hang anything. District heating means too hot inside when it’s on, and you can’t turn it on or off when you want it.

And why is that?

Like every religion. How is LDS somehow worse than your regular “satan told me” or “I am going to heaven” christian nonsense? It’s a completely arbitrary distinction. If those folks consider themselves christians, or followers of Christ, who is entitled to deny their identity as such?

I don’t have a tenure committee and nobody cares what I research as long as I publish and get grants. Ymmv. Edit: also, the comic skips postdoc, which is probably the most care free career stage (you can pretty much do whatever the fuck you want as long as you manage to impress your supervisor every now and then with original stuff and follow through to turn them into papers).

I don’t remember. I have been using Steam for more than 10 years and I have 90 games in my library. I honestly don’t remember any bad experiences. I buy games, I play them, when I don’t like one I request a refund. I always got my money back.

I don’t know if any of this stupid discussion is real, but if it is, then we also have time travel, because the post mentions that the zombie drug was announced on May 11.

Confirming that you are simply wrong. There are a ton of high yield savings accounts, by mainstream banks, local credit unions and fintech startups, pick your preference; you can deposit and withdraw any amount any time and interest is calculated daily, paid out monthly. Rates are not fix, they have been hovering 3-5% in the past 10ish years.

I don’t see this in other replies, even though it’s incredibly obvious, so: insurance for most people comes as a benefit from work or from the government. So you get something, you take it. Your question only applies to those who are not eligible for any kind of subsidized health insurance, which is rare for those who could otherwise afford one.

Therapy (if we talk about talk therapy with a psychologist) is difficult, and takes a very highly trained and skillful person many many sessions to get a breakthrough. As sad as that sounds, these qualities make it expensive, and thus only available to those who have money or have access to a system that provides it (for which in most places you need to be a very severe case).
My impression is that it’s quite normal for a patient going in completely oblivious about the nature of their issues. If I were you, I wouldn’t expect the therapist to directly address the issue that I name as my top concern. I would expect them to start learning about me, finding out who am I and what my life was like, then identify the issue we need to work on, then gently lead me to discover it for myself. To put it bluntly, if you knew your issue, you wouldn’t need this type of therapy.
Having said that, it is very important to be able to trust your therapist and feel that you are in good hands, and it can take a few tries to find someone who works.
Meditation, exercise and sleep are very very helpful for mental health, but may not be all you need. Still, it’s good to make progress on these fronts as well, won’t hurt. I wish you good luck and I hope you will find the help you need. It took me years of trying different approaches and things before I found a therapist who helped. The issue that I was seeking help for during all those years, was a surface level symptom and had nothing to do with my real issues.

Okay, but if it’s fewer than 239, then even with one more it will be fewer than 240.

This thought is so deep I will drown in it. When do people stop posting it?

Well, even if you don’t partake, there are trackers with subscriptions and they have subscribers.