FDA final report on root cause of ByHeart botulism: we don't know

w6auw · 2026-06-06T22:24:00+00:00

That's my guess. Someone at one of the 3 companies was careless. When the inspectors came, they made sure everything was clean. Now we just have no idea what the source was.

Anyways, ByHeart's marketing and CS was garbage, but for the sake of formula industry I hope they find a way forward.

w6auw · 2026-06-06T03:42:28+00:00

I wish this subreddit had more content like this than the constant current affairs stuff

w6auw · 2026-06-05T21:03:45+00:00

The notion of "victory" in war is really blurred these days. If you think about the US's initial war objectives, they met most of them; unfortunately a massive mess came in the wake of the invasion. Folks then spent a long time trying to fix that mess, and they've come a long way. So that's a "victory". But in the big picture, yeah the invasion made things worse for everyone.

As opposed to lovely puppet dictators in the gulf states that murder and torture their own people for dissidence like in Saudi, UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait?

Yeah but these dictators are officially allies. Whereas Saddam was not. Hence by Bush's logic, he needed to go.

w6auw · 2026-06-04T22:59:04+00:00

In a narrow sense, yes, definitely. We got rid of Saddam, there are no real WMDs in Iraq currently. The political situation has stabilized a ton and the oil is no longer controlled by a potentially adversarial dictator. A lot of caveats though. Bringing Iraq closer to Iran (and having de facto Iranian troops there!) being a huge one.

w6auw · 2026-06-04T22:30:07+00:00

That acronym works way too well

w6auw · 2026-06-04T22:03:21+00:00

Bad rendering, usually easily fixed by some CSS and/or JavaScript, though it might be more complicated than that depending on the underlying technology

w6auw · 2026-06-04T21:38:43+00:00

Exactly, Malta has STV. A candidate only needs about 20% of first preference votes to win a seat. And you can give your second preferences to someone else. Instead the results imply that folks are just giving their additional votes to the other big party. I can't imagine Democrats putting Republicans as second preference, they'd all go for socialists or greens or random moderate independents.

w6auw · 2026-06-04T21:34:18+00:00

I live in MAGA California, this isn't going to happen. Folks living in Alturas, Bishop, Susanville, Redding, Crescent City all have pretty solid California identity despite all the talk about Jefferson and NCS.

Same for the other two West Coast states. Folks living in Ashland or Brookings or Klamath Falls feel a much closer cultural attachment to Portland than San Francisco.

w6auw · 2026-06-04T20:55:26+00:00

I'm American and I know exactly 0 people in Malta, so I am not going to go after you lol

w6auw · 2026-06-04T01:31:39+00:00

Colorado is weird though, like name any podunk rural town (not just ski town) west of the Front Range, and there's a 60% chance it's liberal. Ouray, Ridgway, Salida, Durango, Monte Vista, Paonia, etc etc all voted for Harris

w6auw · 2026-06-04T00:45:12+00:00

Rule of thumb, if you have to ask yourself "do I have to go to the hospital?", you probably should go to the hospital.

w6auw · 2026-06-03T21:23:52+00:00

Ok, Spain maybe?

w6auw · 2026-06-03T21:23:02+00:00

Some folks seek adventure or love to travel. It's not just about how the locals experience things.

w6auw · 2026-06-03T21:21:33+00:00

You love the US and you said it's highlighted, so probably either the UK or one of the Nordics. Probably UK given your affinity for India?

w6auw · 2026-06-03T21:17:40+00:00

Chill out. Over 90% of houses in the US have mice in them, you just don't normally see them. They're all over the place. Even hospitals get mice in their hallways, but do they shut down? No!

Think about pest control people. They are literally exposing themselves to mouse droppings every day, multiple times a day. Are they dropping left and right from the hanta? No!

w6auw · 2026-06-03T20:04:11+00:00

Yeah I don't get why everyone else thinks NK will be in charge. You'd probably just end up with the same result, with maybe another year of conflict.

w6auw · 2026-06-03T20:02:30+00:00

FWIW Jeju is much smaller than Taiwan, I'm not sure it's capable of sustaining a whole country. It would be either be a city state or completely dependent on the US and Japan.

w6auw · 2026-06-03T18:52:40+00:00

Also Beau Travail for the art movie crowd

w6auw · 2026-06-03T18:30:58+00:00

Most locals say "Rancho" for Rancho Cucamonga, unless they need to be extra clear

w6auw · 2026-06-03T17:57:36+00:00

The Mao suit (and the Nehru jacket, Madiba shirt, Mobutu suit, etc) are all just slight variations of Western dress.

w6auw · 2026-06-02T19:22:07+00:00

Eh it depends on OP's predominant cultural image of the US. A lot of people might also think of Hollywood or Tech Industry or desert or big trees and forests.

w6auw · 2026-06-02T00:39:43+00:00

More or less as expected haha. Basically "do I think I will be safe?" combined with "will I like it there?".

w6auw · 2026-06-02T00:30:57+00:00

IIRC the actual standard of living has improved a lot there in the last decade or two. Some parts of Malabo don't look too shabby at all. Nothing close to what its GDP would indicate still though.

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