PTFE and chemicals used in its production are some of the best-known and widely applied PFAS, which are persistent organic pollutants. PTFE occupies more than half of all fluoropolymer production, followed by polyvinylidene fluoride (PVdF).

-- Polytetrafluoroethylene on Wikipedia

I'm not a chemist, but from what I can tell it's created using cesium salt as a precursor or catalyst. This doesn't sound like something punks can safely mix in a bathtub.

Great singing, coordination, and choreography.

"You know what? I'm a grad student. I've got a crappy Toyota Corolla and 50 bucks in the bank. They can shoot me in the head a billion times, and only the first bullet hurts"

-- Andrew 'Bunnie' Huang

Like the stupid titles and vocabulary of the Klan, or the infantile memes of frenworld.

Swapped out the amp link. Thanks.

I was a little disappointed that she tried to find some kind of synthesis between her own fawning opinion and Kim Stanley Robinson's critical view of Always Coming Home.

Ursula's concern with erasure due to sexism is warranted, but everyone's star must fade. No one is completely correct, and while Le Guin was ahead of her time, no one has a perfect vision of the future or even a clear vision of their own present. Sincere criticism is a form of flattery, and many authors long gone continue to be referenced not just because they had a prescient view, but because their critics keep them alive. Tolstoy was the most famous author in the Soviet Union because despite being banned to print, the publishing of rebuttals and counter-apologetics were subsidized by the central soviet, so that everyone knew his name and anarchist views.

In this cast, DeFreitas celebrates Le Guin in a way that is effusive but neither hot nor cold. It's exactly this kind of inoffensive praise that reduces the great to symbols of greatness, and from there to cliché, mediocrity, and obscurity. Good authors deserve trenchant praise, or at least honest criticism.

I wish this were the case. While greater parental wealth means better health outcomes for their infants, it is still significantly lower than outcomes for comparable infants of wealthy parents in welfare states.

Intentionally undermining health infrastructure with the intention to harm women, working people, and minorities harms health outcomes for everyone.

I appreciate this.

The IDF also murdered 972 Magazine journalist Khalil Abu Yahia.

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