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  • Mass bleaching has been monitored throughout the Great Barrier Reef since the 80s. There was certainly bleaching but not at the level seen in the years listed, and look how that frequency changed. I doubt it’s because we got better at documenting bleaching effects. The important thing is that bleaching to some degree is normal, but typically the population would have time to recover before the next event, and they would be localized. Large scale and every year doesn’t allow recovery.



  • The max thresholds don’t mean it’s fine if it’s lower, just that at some point it becomes difficult to both detect the presence of things and there’s a limit on how much can be prevented. If we were progressing in time correctly we should be lowering these maximum levels both in the ability of detection and in the beginning sources. Especially in cases like this where either the metals are being added or are part of specific ingredients that would cost more to process and remove the metals.

    And wow, they said Washington State was lower than the FDA, but that’s a magnitude less! Good job, Washington!



  • I haven’t seen the sequel to it yet, and sort of was fine leaving it open-ended. I can see how there are dark parts to that episode, mainly from sticking with Dark Mirror’s premise that tech can be used badly. It also paints a not-so-great picture of the real people, hero worship, maybe the gaming industry? The sim copies seem to make out the best of anyone. Definitely a favorite, if I’d rate it on dark vs. positive, it’s 8/10 positive, whereas San Junipero was a 10/10 in the end. Actually San was a 9/10, as it did show that some used the tech there as escape and didn’t grow like the main characters finally did.












  • The issue from the beginning was that people wanted to pick where there were already discussions. .world had already started growing a lot more, so new users gravitated to that. As drama happened, there was some splintering, but since you can’t take your history and account with you, there was also resistance to move. What you suggest was discussed during the first big migration to the Fediverse for Lemmy, but it takes time to put things in place and it was already too late to really fix the lopsidedness of who was where.

    It’s still a good idea for new users, maybe instead of randomizing have a way to categorize the types of instances and their rules, so people go where they’ll be the happiest. The best way to fix the problem though is to come up with a secure and privacy protecting way to fully move a user from instance to instance. Good luck with that.