I liked how after killing dozens or hundreds of people you would get cut scenes where the protagonist complains about how terrible it is to do such things. Dude you just murdered a village then skinned every animal within a kilometre, I think you've gone beyond thinking about the moral implications at this point.
Any amount of money, as long as it is sufficiently divisible, is capable of facilitating trade within an economy. The idea that somehow money has to increase over time is one of the most non-sensical idea.
"Thus inflation becomes the most important psychological resource of any economic policy whose consequences have to be concealed; and so in this sense it can be called an instrument of unpopular, i.e. of anti-democratic, policy, since by misleading public opinion it makes possible the continued existence of a system of government that would have no hope of the consent of the people if the circumstances were clearly laid before them."
Capitalism is responsible for a lot of evils in the world but it is not the root cause of people lying.
>especially anything that advocates a particular approach to health, nutrition, or medicine -- should be vetted by actual experts (more than one), and stores should be required to post disclaimers when the product doesn't pass muster.
No thanks to the nanny warning. I've reading plenty of books on alternative medicine and without exception they all have a warning along these lines:
"The medical information contained within is provided as an information resource only, and is not to be used or relied on for any diagnostic or treatment purposes. This information does not create any patient-physician relationship, and should not be used as a substitute for professional diagnosis and treatment. Please consult your health care provider before making any health care decisions or for guidance about a specific medical condition."
An additional sign is not necessary IMO. We're grown adults.
This isn't directed at you then - if you actually have experience and done some real research (not read some news articles), great. Make informed decisions.
"We're grown adults."
A non sequitor. Grown adults are often unknowledgeable, incorrect, strapped for time, etc.
I've frequently seen nonsense pushed as fact, and known that I don't actually know everything. I welcome better (human agency, crowd-source mix) vetting in general.
I'm not so arrogant that I think I can always "do my own research" and get it right.
I assume that the list from less toxic to more toxic is:
silica -> iron -> aluminum -> copper
With a logarithmic scale unit between each step or so. We ingest and tolerate much more aluminum than copper in our daily journey and we could drink water with much more iron oxide dissolved on it than aluminum oxide without suffering permanent problems
You should be careful of leaded glass, I've read research that shows it leaches into the liquid it contains (this is a problem in e.g. decanters where the acidic wine sits for several days).
How careful? Everything is a trade-off, without numbers on the quantities, extraction rates, and what levels are tolerable for short or long-term exposure we can't make a reasoned choice.
Titanium in perfectly pure form is very reactive and it would be dangerous in contact with organic matter.
Fortunately, it is pretty much impossible to come in contact with pure titanium, because whenever it is exposed to air it becomes immediately covered with titanium dioxide.
The ratio between electric charge and radius of the titanium ions is such that titanium dioxide is one of the least soluble oxides. It is practically inert in water or blood.
This inertness of the titanium dioxide ensures that titanium is one of the safest materials for making implants that will have to stay forever in a human body or for making objects that will be in contact with food.
While glass remains the best food-contact material, titanium is a decent choice for applications where glass might break, e.g. spoons.
On that scale, titanium would be placed between silicon and iron. It should be kept in mind that the position on that scale actually refers to the behavior of the oxides, not of the pure elements, because all the elements mentioned are oxidized quickly in air and they are oxidized even faster in a living body.
Titanium dioxide is more inert than silicon dioxide, so less of it can become dissolved, but once the two oxides are dissolved, the silicon dioxide is safer, because most living cells have mechanisms to deal with it.
Plague is (was) worse in terms of its mortality rate, but Covid is worse in that we still don't have a way to eradicate it, so it's going to continue to be a health risk for some time to come.
^^ Change republican to politician
Biden granted more oil and gas drilling permits than Trump in his first 2 years in office https://news.yahoo.com/biden-granted-more-oil-and-gas-drilli...