My takeaway from this conversation is that I need to give more thought to microplastics. Thanks for the brochure I’ll check it out

That’s really too bad about sunscreen because I’m pale as they come so I feel like I need to pick between getting sunburnt or ingesting microplastics.

Thanks for the detailed response. I didn’t realize that canned food was a concern.

UV blocking chemicals

Does this include sunscreen?

besides shaving cream, what other sources of these chemicals should we watch out for?

Decomposition would likely be slower in this environment too. It would be harder for worms and maggots and so on to get a foothold. You’d have to rely mostly on bacterial means of decomposition

Interesting, thanks for the explanation

Which is pretty par for the course so far as scientific classifications go.

Well yes I don’t necessarily disagree with you there. But there are some cases where it’s more obvious than others. A good example would be ring species: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_species

I’d say planets are about the same level of arbitrariness as far as scientific categories go

Yeah Manitoba was the trend setter, BC and Alberta (which I forgot to mention) followed after the Manitoba NDP made the announcement

Are you from Manitoba or BC?

I mean that these descriptions are somewhat arbitrary. Roughly round is not a very precise delineation, there will be edge cases where it’s not clear which category they fall into

It is convenient to classify it as a dwarf planet but that doesn’t mean that “dwarf planet” and “planet” are scientific categories in the purest sense of the term

Why are the colours different?

Interesting

I don’t think SUSE is really a large corporation

Would the water need to be desalinated if it’s only going to be cooling the equipment?

Was a major vulnerability discovered?

I remember there being some talk about the EU also doing this. Is it just the EU and Australia enforcing this right now?

How would that even work? Did they think the US gov was making up the existence of other countries as some sort of conspiracy?

If you’re a propagandist then there’s value in being active in niche social media networks. It makes you a big fish in a small pond, and if the social network for some reason blows up then you’d be one of the early adopters which will give you more influence. For example Ghislaine Macwell was a moderator on Reddit, but apparently also Voat iirc, which is an obscure Reddit clone that never had a big user base