CynicusRex

joined 9 months ago
 

“Engineers have invented a new way to remove health-harming ‘forever chemicals’ from water – using 3D printing.

Researchers at the University of Bath say their method, using ceramic-infused lattices (or ‘monoliths’), removes at least 75% of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), one of the most common perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS), from water, and could become an important tool in future efforts to eliminate the chemicals from water supplies.

Their findings were published this week in The Chemical Engineering Journal.”

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“Testing of the monoliths has surprisingly shown they have become more effective under repeated use – they undergo high-temperature thermal ‘regeneration’ treatment after each use. This is something the researchers are keen to understand more fully with further experimentation.”

[–] CynicusRex@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What does the acronym SO stand for?

[–] CynicusRex@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Fair enough. But a workaround that I have implemented before my previous “Reddit nuke” was saving all my most valuable answers and hosting them on my own website. What I would do now is just replacing all my comments with a link to my website: POSSE, Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere. Well, almost POSSE, because I'd be removing the actual content from Reddit.

[–] CynicusRex@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)

Lies, as in that it's not really “blocking” but a mere unenforceable request? If you meant something else could you please point it out?

 

Do the advantages of deleting one's entire Reddit history outweigh the disadvantages?

I have previously nuked my first Reddit account because it felt satisfactory to be completely detached from a platform one considers unethical/bad. Though, I have garnered quite some history on a second account—because Duty Calls*, of course—and I'm considering doing the same.

However, I don't want to do it impulsively. I think I might be blind to some disadvantages. What do you think?

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[–] CynicusRex@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

#TL;DR:

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[–] CynicusRex@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for the share, had no idea. It felt so nice that I already added two contributions to OpenStreetMap.

 

“Fever feels bad. So we take medication to suppress it – but is this a good idea? It turns out fever is one of the oldest defenses against disease. What exactly is a fever, and how does it make your immune defense stronger? Should you take a pill to combat it?”

Sources & further reading: https://sites.google.com/view/sources…

[–] CynicusRex@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

On desktop, either use:

On Android: