I don't get why they care. This feels like it only has downsides
The ice raids line the pockets of people who manage farm labor. There's a profit/exploitation motive there. This just seems backwards for the sake of xenophobia alone
It took me three reads before I figured out that it was trying to say that places designed to churn out research papers in China are causing a surge of retractions which in turn is causing reforms in their university system
I'm sure there's a snappier at way to say that but the title they chose is really confusing
It's over priced for what it is but it's the ones my doctor recommended and I haven't found a better one. I often will put a damp paper towel on it for moistness
The doctors office itself uses a microwaveable version. The important thing is to use it for at least 7 minutes
The doctors say it's common for screen starers. It's certainly not going to be everyone but I've been playing video games/using the computer heavily since I was a kid
My doctor's practically predicted I was a programmer when they saw the problems I was having with styes and dry eyes
The other commenters are well meaning but don't really know what they're talking about. I have chronic dry eye from staring at screens too much (remember to blink!). My tear ducts have gotten overworked and started to produce thicker, gunkier, tears which blocked them and cause styes. I've lost a bunch of my tear ducts. Once they're gone they don't grow back.
These little mites eat the gunk my eyes produce and, when they get overpopulated, leave a ton of gunk on your eye. It's called blepharitis
I've had it so bad that I've had trouble opening my eyes in the morning. There's a relatively new eyedrop that clears them out. Combining that with hot dye compresses and lid scrubs have helped keep them under control and has drastically increased my eyelid health
Source? Not to say they aren't putting in a ton of effort and making great progress. It's just hard for me to see them as the biggest force in stopping global warming when China built an entire Germany of electrical capacity last year and almost all of it was renewables
Their manufacturing leadership has brought solar and wind down so cheap that it's no longer economical to use create non-renewable generators in most cases. They're also doing a fantastic job producing new electric cars and industrial scale batteries
China is still massively polluting but they're showing a kind of leadership on climate change that I wish I saw in America
I'm curious to hear your take on why Europe is doing the most on climate change
Speaking as someone who used to be a young Earth creationist, some of us are just born into it and are given lots of tools and incentives to maintain the faith despite, you know, all the evidence
Taking a class on the scientific method and reading a book on rationality was what got me to embrace doubt and decide that I only want to believe in something if it's true
"While the number of laboratory-confirmed acute cases of Lyme disease in 2025 is an increase on numbers reported in 2024, we expect overall case rates to vary year to year depending on awareness, testing rates and factors that impact outdoor activities such as weather. Broader trends in 2025 remain consistent.”
They kinda bury what the different types of warming are
Type 0: no warming
Type 1: warming on upper and lower end equally
Type 2: It doesn't get as cold on average than it used to
Type 3: it gets hotter than it used to
Direct but not private? Interesting
I don't get why they care. This feels like it only has downsides
The ice raids line the pockets of people who manage farm labor. There's a profit/exploitation motive there. This just seems backwards for the sake of xenophobia alone
Oh no
Behold, a population heat map by state
It took me three reads before I figured out that it was trying to say that places designed to churn out research papers in China are causing a surge of retractions which in turn is causing reforms in their university system
I'm sure there's a snappier at way to say that but the title they chose is really confusing
Source: https://pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/article-pdf/159/1/141/20857776/141_1_10.0041870.pdf
https://pubs.aip.org/aip/sci/article/2026/2/021103/3376287/Simulating-saxophone-sound-and-vibrato
Their Seabest
I have an electric hot eye compress
https://www.wizardresearch.com/products/dry-eye-relief-mask-electric
It's over priced for what it is but it's the ones my doctor recommended and I haven't found a better one. I often will put a damp paper towel on it for moistness
The doctors office itself uses a microwaveable version. The important thing is to use it for at least 7 minutes
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11341798/
I've been using computers heavily for over 2 decades
https://www.trieyecare.com/dry-eye-optometrist/electronic-devices-and-dry-eye/
My eye doctors have impressed on me the importance of eye lid health and hot eye compresses. They say everyone should do it twice a day
I'm not sure if I'd go as far as to reccomend that (plenty of people do fine without it) but my eyes get gunky FAST if I skip hot eye compresses
The doctors say it's common for screen starers. It's certainly not going to be everyone but I've been playing video games/using the computer heavily since I was a kid
My doctor's practically predicted I was a programmer when they saw the problems I was having with styes and dry eyes
https://www.trieyecare.com/dry-eye-optometrist/electronic-devices-and-dry-eye/
The other commenters are well meaning but don't really know what they're talking about. I have chronic dry eye from staring at screens too much (remember to blink!). My tear ducts have gotten overworked and started to produce thicker, gunkier, tears which blocked them and cause styes. I've lost a bunch of my tear ducts. Once they're gone they don't grow back.
These little mites eat the gunk my eyes produce and, when they get overpopulated, leave a ton of gunk on your eye. It's called blepharitis
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/demodex-blepharitis
I've had it so bad that I've had trouble opening my eyes in the morning. There's a relatively new eyedrop that clears them out. Combining that with hot dye compresses and lid scrubs have helped keep them under control and has drastically increased my eyelid health
I hope that helps answer your question
Source? Not to say they aren't putting in a ton of effort and making great progress. It's just hard for me to see them as the biggest force in stopping global warming when China built an entire Germany of electrical capacity last year and almost all of it was renewables
Their manufacturing leadership has brought solar and wind down so cheap that it's no longer economical to use create non-renewable generators in most cases. They're also doing a fantastic job producing new electric cars and industrial scale batteries
China is still massively polluting but they're showing a kind of leadership on climate change that I wish I saw in America
I'm curious to hear your take on why Europe is doing the most on climate change
Isn't that just the original meaning?
Speaking as someone who used to be a young Earth creationist, some of us are just born into it and are given lots of tools and incentives to maintain the faith despite, you know, all the evidence
Taking a class on the scientific method and reading a book on rationality was what got me to embrace doubt and decide that I only want to believe in something if it's true
Love of truth set me free
"While the number of laboratory-confirmed acute cases of Lyme disease in 2025 is an increase on numbers reported in 2024, we expect overall case rates to vary year to year depending on awareness, testing rates and factors that impact outdoor activities such as weather. Broader trends in 2025 remain consistent.”
Stupid clickbait title
They deserve it, honestly
You and me both
They kinda bury what the different types of warming are
Type 0: no warming Type 1: warming on upper and lower end equally Type 2: It doesn't get as cold on average than it used to Type 3: it gets hotter than it used to
Parents got children measles.
We had been suspicious in the previous letters but the em-dashes in this one pretty much confirm it