AOPA et al. File Complaint Protesting California 100LL Ban
This is really not a winning battle. Not sure whey #AOPA wants to be seen promoting retaining #lead in fuel in #California.
#lead
Ok y’all, apparently the right wing is freaking the hell out about a TikTok trend of Make Aqua Tofana Great Again," or #MATGA. Now, this is some funny shit right’chere, I tell you what.
Some history: Also known as “Manna di San Nicola", the poison which was formulated with #lead, #arsenic and #belladonna, and developed by Madame #Tofana was sold openly, and is rumored to be the cause of over 600 murdered husbands. It is odorless, flavorless and very deadly. Also, nobody knows the exact formula anymore.
Modern context, #MAGA are posting “your body, my choice” memes, and women are responding by stitching in themselves pouring a vial of clear liquid into a glass and saying MATGA.
Naturally, the right wing immediately demanded the fbi hunt these women down as terrorists. Because maga are #bullies, and like all bullies, crumble when faced with even the slightest hint that they may face repercussions.
California Legislature Passes Leaded Avgas Ban
California is a governor's signature away from banning leaded aviation gasoline statewide. Politico Pro is reporting the California state Senate on Thursday passed bill that would outlaw the fuel starting in 2031. California is the first state to pass a leaded fuel ban. Several other states have similar legislation moving through their legislatures.
About time!!!
The #Chaldean order and the seven metals:
#Saturn - #lead
#Jupiter - #tin
#Mars - #metal
#Sun - #gold
#Venus - #copper
#Mercury - mercury
#Moon - #silver
The #7 #metals Chaldean #Astrology Talisman
The power of this Talisman is the combination of metals. Every metal is connected and strengthen different qualities in the person, in accordance with its principle. The Chaldean order ties together, those qualities in a way that puts each quality in its right place in relation to the others, that way its power will express itself in its maximum and still maintain equilibrium with all the rest. This tying up and hierarchy creates an order that resonates with the order of those qualities and their manifestation in reality.
Thomas Midgley, Jr., a man who one historian said "had more adverse impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in Earth's history."
In the 1920s, his employer, General Motors, had a problem. Car motors of the time tended to violently backfire, or "knock," which could be disconcerting for the people in the car. Adding ethanol to gasoline solved the problem, but since ethanol already existed, General Motors couldn't patent it.
Midgley solved the problem by inventing a compound called tetraethyllead (TEL), which, when added to gas, produced what would become known as "leaded gasoline." He gave himself lead poisoning in the process, and TEL would go on to poison the rest of the world over the next sixty years. But GM could patent it, so by using their muscle to make it the standard, they got paid every time someone filled their tank.
After that glorious success, GM sent Midgley to their Frigidaire division to work on another problem. Refrigerators were in their infancy, and they depended on refrigerants that were toxic or explosive. This made them hard to sell to nervous hausfraus. Frigidaire wanted a safe, stable refrigerant.
Midgley solved that problem, too. He invented a new type of refrigerant that was dubbed a "chlorofluorocarbon," or CFC for short. You may be more familiar with it by its brand name: Freon. Freon didn't catch fire or explode, so Frigidaire was thrilled. But when deployed in millions of refrigerators, it would end up opening a giant hole in the ozone layer.
In 1940, Midgley contracted polio. He invented a complex system of ropes and pulleys to help him get in and out of bed. On November 2, 1944, he was found dead in his home. His contraption had strangled him.
In his time, Midgley was one of the most celebrated engineers in industry. Medals and prizes and honors rained down on him. It would take decades for the true impact of his work to be fully understood.
Tech is full of Thomas Midgleys.
If you've got a little extra time, I've really been enjoying this fresh new voice out of #Australia by way of #UK. In this one she mentions the #banning of #asbestos and #lead based #paints #explaining that they #helped #protect against #fire and #emf's respectively.
She also discovers that the methane in natural gas is one of nature's most powerful anti-inflammatories as reported by the NIH, where it says the elements contained within methane are in every human cell and are crucial for human survival.
She composes herself well with a firm and relaxed delivery and I have to say I haven't disagreed with anything she's reported. Follow the #white-rabbit.
https://rumble.com/v38cz3y-update-migrants-maui-and-the-natural-gas-ban.html See less
UPDATE: MIGRANTS, MAUI & THE NATURAL GAS BAN
Dogs may be at risk from high levels of lead from shotgun pellets in raw pheasant dog food, study finds
. Although elevated levels of dietary lead are potentially damaging to animal health, lead shot can be legally used for hunting terrestrial gamebirds, like pheasants, in the UK. While most pheasants are eaten by people, some are used in petfood.
I didn't know lead munition is still allowed
#lead #science #dogs
https://phys.org/news/2023-05-dogs-high-shotgun-pellets-raw.html
#Teflon contains a #plastic #polymer that, when heated above 572°F (300°C), starts to release #toxins.
Try this safe alternative instead: real #cast-iron. This is a nontoxic cooking option that truly withstands the test of time. It heats well and evenly throughout.
#Aluminum is a #neurotoxic #metal. Elevated levels of aluminum in the body have been linked to several central nervous system diseases, including #Alzheimer's and ALS.
Try this safe alternative instead: glass cookware. It’ll never release anything toxic when heated, it doesn’t hold onto any old flavors or odors, and it's not only durable but also eco-friendly.
#Copper cookware, especially when it isn’t coated, can easily send you to the ER with a bad case of metal poisoning. And that’s because it can release copper when you cook acidic foods.
#Stainlesssteel is a great cookware option: it's relatively lightweight, scratch-resistant, and comes in non-stick varieties.
Soft #ceramic coating isn't durable enough and starts chipping after a few months of daily use. When this happens, #lead and #cadmium sometimes found in the coating will end up in your #food and, thus, in your #body.
Try this safe alternative instead: 100% ceramic cookware. This is one of the best and safest options out there since it's made with completely natural materials, it isn't toxic, and it won't chip or peel off.
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"Fun Factoid":
"Ceramic nonstick pans" are not even Ceramic!
They're actually metal pans with a finish that uses silicon to prevent sticking. Like #ceramicware, the coating is made of #sand and has a slick, glossy surface, which is how it came to be called ceramic.
Lead and Cadmium Could Be in Your Dark Chocolate - Consumer Reports https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-safety/lead-and-cadmium-in-dark-chocolate-a8480295550/
Contains a list of brands with high levels of #cadmium and #lead
#chocolate
Aceeed #session Nov 8, 2022 (UNO #Drum, #UNO #Synth, #TD-3) - #SynthMania
Swimming in the Electron Lake, tonight... a hypnotic #electronic session inspired by the late '80s Aceeed era - which I fondly remember from when back then I was still living in #Europe - mixed in with a bit of '70s #psychedelic, #mystic #esoterica.
Gear used:
IK Multimedia UNO Drum (drum #machine)
IK Multimedia UNO Synth ( #analog #lead)
#Behringer TD-3-AN (303 lines)
#Arturia #KeyStep 37 (controller for the UNO #Synth)
#Cubase plugins: #pads, additional #drums
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFLZXGFz_bQ
#musique #music #synthétiseur #synthesizer #techno #acid #trance
"In 1914 – 1920, it was documented that children were going into convulsions and seizures because of lead paint. Some companies wanted to still advertise that their product was not the cause of their ailments but friendly and reliable. Dutch Boy was created to advertise to families that their white lead paint was safe. There were toys, paint books for children, advertisements saying that their lives are now better with Dutch Boy paint. From dark and gloomy to happy and cheery because of paint."
I've lost count how many people I've worked with that lead totally destroyed their lives and family. It can happen very fast, within months, causing confusion, aggressiveness, family and legal problems, banned from stores, early death, and nearly always loss of their job. The stories may seem funny until you know the cause and how it could have all been avoided.
Something like following the industrial hygiene rules at work and not eating candy bars with unwashed hands after making a new batch of heat resistant PVC plastic. It's not worth it welding in forklift battery trays without full positive pressure respirators. Don't dust the batteries and breathe the dust. Because 100% that lead will start replacing calcium as the neurotransmitter in your nervous system and it doesn't work as well. And it's the worst disability and death I've ever seen.
I believed after lead was taken out of gasoline, our country would be sane. That, I haven't seen yet, but it was a step in the right direction.
And don't play with liquid metal mercury.
GAMI Unleaded Avgas Approved For GA Piston Fleet
This is actually pretty big news and will hopefully signal the beginning of the end for this last significant source of environmental lead - aviation gasoline.
Backyard hens’ eggs contain 40 times more lead on average than shop eggs | Ars Technica
Our newly published research found backyard hens’ eggs contain, on average, more than 40 times the lead levels of commercially produced eggs. Almost one in two hens in our Sydney study had significant lead levels in their blood. Similarly, about half the eggs analyzed contained lead at levels that may pose a health concern for consumers.
This is probelmatic in all cities. Not only in Australia I would say.
#urbanGardening #chicken #lead
● NEWS ● #TruthOut ☞ #Lead Pipes Leave Benton Harbor, Michigan, With Toxic #Water https://truthout.org/video/lead-pipes-leave-benton-harbor-michigan-with-toxic-water/
Operation EpikFail
Anonymous leaks gigabytes of data from alt-right web host Epik
Clients include 8chan, Parler, and Gab, among others.
DDoSecrets will, when they have they have the whole leak, release it to us in a more practical way. In the mean time, here's the page where this will eventually appear. Watch this space!
https://ddosecrets.com/wiki/Epik
Epik
180 gigabytes of user, registration, forwarding and other information behind the "privacy" web hosting and registrar service Epik, known for hosting fascist, white supremacist and other right-wing content as well as harassment and doxing websites.
Original torrent
The original torrent is presented [here](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:7870f10ce71afa3fee1d986b839bd19e80713cba&dn=EpikFail&tr=https://tracker.bt-hash.com:443/announce) as-is and was created and released by the source independent of Distributed Denial of Secrets. Due to its size, it's incompatible with most torrent clients and many users will have difficulty downloading the data. When we're able, we'll release a more accessible version of the data.
Contents
According to the hackers, the contents include:
- Domain purchases
- Domain transfers
- WHOIS history
- DNS changes
- Email forwards, catch-alls, etc.
- Payment history
- Account credentials
- Over 500,000 private keys
- An employee's mailbox
- Git repositories
- /home/ and /root/ directories of a core system
#anonymous #corporate #fascist #hack #lead #ddosecrets #epik
Lead epitomises much of my revised thinking on technology, impacts, speech, liability, risk, and other concepts.
See "Leaded petrol is gone – but lead pollution may linger for a very long time" and discussion on @Andrew Pam 's post
I increasingly view technology as a verb: technology is a means, ,a mechanism or process, to some ends. (This borrows heavily from J.S. Mill.) The devices we build as artefacts of technology merely serve to channel and control those processes. Materials and inputs take part in the processes, some are consumed, some are not. We tend to mistake the tangible objects for the intangible process (more on that discussing cognizability).
Impacts
The problem begins when we realise that there are intended and unintended consequences. There's the end we want, and the end we get. All technology has positive and negative impacts, varying with time, cognizability, and expressibility.
Time is the easiest of these three to address: there are short- / near-term effects, and long-term effects. Ends that happen closer to means are easier to recognise and realise.
Cognizability is a somewhat unfashionable word (though you may recognize similarities to others) expressing the ability for a thing to be perceived or known. And for technology, more cognizable effects dominate in social realisation over less cognizable ones. In general, simple, clear, distinct, large, and immediate effects are more cognizable.
Expressability simply means the ease or difficulty of of describing or communicating about a factor. Something that's complex, multi-factored, long-term, subtle, and indistinct, is exceedingly difficult to communicate especially in mass media which relies on a minimum viable audience and a low common level of understanding and perception. There's also the challenge of competing for time and attention within a crowded media sphere.
This gives multiple factors or a matrix defining technological impacts:
X = f(p, n, t, c, e)
Where X is technology (from the Greek chi), p is positive impacts, n is negative impacts, t is time, c is cognizability, e is expressibility.
This also ties strongly to Robert K. Merton's notions of both latent vs. manifest functions, and of unintended consequences.
Risk
Too much to get into here, but I increasingly find discussions of risk to be unsatisfactory. Generally:
Risks have contexts. Individual risk isn't the same as global risk. Your individual risk of dying in an automobile accident may be roughly equal to that of dying in a meteor impact. One is common but small-scale (at least in the current era), one is uncommon but global. But the odds of all of humanity, or all life on Earth, dying in an auto accident is minuscule relative to of dying in a meteor impact. Global catastrophic risks are global. I don't know if it's the Western focus on individualism that gives rise to this fallacy, but I see it constantly.
There's a distinction between randomness and uncertainty. Radioactive decay is random, but (in aggregate) its behaviour is highly certain. Abstract risks, say, of Roko's Basilisk, are highly uncertain. We simply don't know what the probabilities are. (Numerous other "it can only happen once, because once it happens, it's all over" events are similar: global total nuclear war, grey goo, Skynet, global catastrophic logistical collapse, etc.) Treating these as intrinsically similar is ... well, I'm pretty sure it's just plain wrong.
Risks accrue differently to different parties. All life is a risk-externalising mechanism, and within its own domains, market-capitalism is as well. Profits are privatised, risks are socialised, as we've become profoundly aware over the past two decades. This is inherent.
Risks in space differ profoundly from risks in time. Private insurance works best for small-scale risks which occur frequently, at small scale, within a given market, in an uncorrelated fashion. Automobile accidents and house fires are classic examples. Rare, large-area, highly-correlated risks affecting many policyholders simulataneously, are far more difficult to insure against. Wildfires, urban firestorms, earthquakes, major flooding events, sea level rise, cyclonic storms, droughts, and famines are wide-spread events, some are global. Conventional commercial insurance providers fail to address these well if at all. In most cases, "insurance" comes in the way of government (state or national) disaster response, or international aid. An asteroid impact, gamma-ray burst, nearbye supernova, major solar storm, or supervolcano erruption, would be truly global. Global warming moves more slowly but is of a similar nature (as are other global catastrophic risks.)
Liability
Numerous private industries benefitted by use of lead whilst externalising most of the costs and impacts. (Thomas Midgely somewhat infamously was not immune to the effects and did suffer lead poisoning.) More generally, though, investors and creditors faced minimal direct exposure, whilst front-line workers and the public at large, especially in poorer areas more exposed to contamination, bore the brunt.
Profits were privatised, costs socialised.
Speech
Industry and its advocates were strongly motivated to confound the issue. They lied, misled, delayed, and otherwise contaminated not just the physical environment but the epistemological one. It's here that I have some extreme misgivings over popular notions of free speech, in which rights to say anything are at odds with the general public's right to accurate and truthful information. It seems to me that there's a profound conflict here, and a growing problem. It's not one that's easily resolved, though my thinking in terms of #AutonomousCommunication is poking around that space. See here https://joindiaspora.com/posts/622677903778013902fd002590d8e506
(I'm not happy with that term. "Information Autonomy" or "Communication Autonomy" are probably better.)
See also especially Oreskes and Conway, Merchants of Doubt.
#lead #leadedGasoline #environment #contamination #risk #speech #liability #technology #manifestation #RobertKMerton #NaomiOreskes #MerchantsOfDoubt #ErikConway
