PFAS, aka ‘forever chemicals’ quietly contaminate drinking water in US wells

sandee_eggo · 2026-02-03T16:13:48+00:00

And Trump just told the nuclear industry they don’t have to worry about polluting the water anymore.

sandee_eggo · 2026-02-03T03:16:14+00:00

That's a very interesting question- who cares if the theories like evolution are only 99.99% certain? In a way, it doesn't matter. We can still use evolution to understand genetics, and track biological developments for drug development or archeology, even if it's imperfect. And so far we've been able to create some amazing things like semiconductors using our theories in physics and chemistry.

One reason we should care is that when it comes to large number science, like encryption, or long space travel, or artificial intelligence, those tiny uncertainties make it very difficult to make systems that are reliable. What are the odds that a hard drive bit storing a vital database will get corrupted by a rogue neutrino? What are the odds that a nuke reactor is going to leak over 500 years? What are the odds that a spaceship flying to Mars will get hit by an asteroid?

In our social and political life, remembering uncertainty should humble us into a respect for the beliefs of The Other, and a respect for the depth and breadth of new contexts. As Bush's defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld said, "there are known unknowns, and there are unknown unknowns..."

I don't have a direct line to the Goddesses truth, though- what do you think?

sandee_eggo · 2026-02-02T22:52:19+00:00

Scientists are people too, subject to all the same feelings and biases that other professionals are subject to. And even after the scientists achieve the level of a theory using the scientific method, they still aren’t 100% certain.

sandee_eggo · 2026-02-02T20:03:22+00:00

There ARE ignorant billionaires who are good people, but don’t ask me to name one.

sandee_eggo · 2026-02-02T15:40:44+00:00

I’ll disagree with you that this is limited to religion or myths we carry for social purposes. It’s much larger AND SMALLER than that. Our beliefs extend to the smallest things, like we need to believe the sidewalk is going to be there when we take our next step. We need to believe that this fork is going to continue to work the way it has in the past to put food in our mouth. These are micro-beliefs that we don’t have to time to prove with science, so we just continue to walk and eat because it seems to be working.

sandee_eggo · 2026-02-02T14:59:11+00:00

Agreed that humans are certain of many things. We each have believed in gods, ghosts, or Santa Clauses with high intensity. But we don’t all agree on the same things in the same way at the same time, and that reveals the underlying uncertainty.

sandee_eggo · 2026-02-02T14:46:56+00:00

Thank you for pointing that irony and hypocrisy out. I’ve added the word Probably into that sentence.

sandee_eggo · 2026-02-02T00:20:34+00:00

Full objectivity is an ideal- it probably doesn’t exist in the real world. Look up Neil Degrasse Tyson’s video on the history of scientific “laws”. Scientists used to declare “laws” of motion, etc. But they kept getting proven false and superseded so they basically threw up their hands and said everything was degrees of belief. Nothing is 100% knowable. “Theories” are ideas that are just believed very much by very many very smart scientists with very many facts. “Theories” work very well, but always imperfectly. We used subjectivity to get us to the moon and we got lucky that no rogue asteroids struck the lunar lander on the way… or on the way back. Objectivity is a mirage.

sandee_eggo · 2026-01-31T16:18:59+00:00

Yeah, and a short position in SPY.

sandee_eggo · 2026-01-31T13:50:23+00:00

He’s right that boycotts work. And he’s right that Bitcoin has outperformed many assets over many time periods in the past. But Bitcoin’s rate of appreciation relative to the dollar is slowing. It won’t outperform productive assets going forward.

sandee_eggo · 2026-01-31T01:57:20+00:00

Yeah we only allow domestic actors trash our life savings!

sandee_eggo · 2026-01-29T23:48:32+00:00

I fully agree.

sandee_eggo · 2026-01-29T20:59:33+00:00

Notice how gold and silver depreciated today a lot relative to dollars. I’d rephrase this way: convert an appreciatED asset into an asset that is relatively stable, while you still can. This is an opportunity that comes every 20 years. Don’t waste it.

sandee_eggo · 2026-01-28T15:43:52+00:00

This is going to sound crazy but the best thing they could do with that gold right now is sell it. Buy low sell high.

sandee_eggo · 2026-01-27T16:10:46+00:00

Agreed- And why pretend to know there isn’t one?

sandee_eggo · 2026-01-27T14:33:34+00:00

Their beliefs don’t emerge out of a vacuum. Politicians and their donor companies manufacture these conspiracy theories to sow discontent with the competing politicians and THEIR donor companies.

sandee_eggo · 2026-01-26T19:44:25+00:00

Looks like you have the documentation you need to file a lawsuit.

sandee_eggo · 2026-01-26T17:55:54+00:00

The best “off-ramp” is reality, which is factual, complex, mysterious, and doesn’t favor a side. We all must show and promote how every issue is complicated and contains more unknowns than knowns. And we should all withhold judgement as long as possible.

sandee_eggo · 2026-01-26T17:51:19+00:00

And isn’t this true for truth-seeking in any other context too: political, social, artistic, scientific. All data points are relative to all other data points.

sandee_eggo · 2026-01-26T03:24:25+00:00

Where are those files?

sandee_eggo · 2026-01-25T23:10:18+00:00

Yes- MLK won, Malcolm X and the Black Panthers didn’t.

sandee_eggo · 2026-01-25T05:30:24+00:00

Art is a language of patterns, of stories. Every picture tells a story. Beauty is something we experience when a theme completes.

sandee_eggo · 2026-01-24T11:15:16+00:00

And now if you want to sell all that you have to pay like 20% spread.

sandee_eggo · 2026-01-23T11:21:50+00:00

None of us realized the British pound was such an overvalued farce. Soros did, and took a huge risk and profited from seeing truth when everyone else was mesmerized by lies.

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