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Ring has 'partnered' and gives access to videos taken of you and your neighbors to police departments without a warrant, just ad hoc access. Amazon has also been working on a facia…

The dude said 'unintentionally' overdose on opium. This article covering Laudanum (opium + alcohol tincture) deaths in the 1800s sounds like the overdoses were largely intentional …

Thank you so much this is so cool and necessary. If you need a visual to pitch it to investors and you haven't seen it there was a great south park episode (looked it up S15E01, th…

Would you tell people that are on SSRI antidepressants that they are addicted to antidepressant medication?

Being fat or excessive weightgain whilst pregnant increases the liklihood of your children being obese... Can I please see your sources?

More complex question would be if I vape my dessert flavor with or without nicotine is that better for me than eating said dessert? I have had so many people tell me how they 'cant…

Before I switched from smoking 12-ish years ago my lungs would physically hurt in the morning and I would cough when I woke up. To me, and other people who legitimately view vaping…

From EPA "Propylene glycol and dipropylene glycol were first registered in 1950 and 1959, respectively, by the FDA for use in hospitals as air disinfectants. At one point, there we…

The only instances I could find of respiratory irritation requiring medical intervention related to fog machine use where involving oil based fog machines, or mixed-use but have so…

100% agree with the VG (Vegetable Glycerin) recommendation, you will have to add a small 20-30% percentage of PG Propylene Glycol to decrease the viscocity (or alternately use pure…

In Ancient Rome, where your namesake hails from, wouldn't a superwealthy individual(corporation) be considered obligated to use that accumulated wealth in part to provide for the p…

I just had to point out that a similar idea was incorporated in the second episode of Black Mirror . It's one of my favorite shows, don't know if you're a fan. https://en.wikipedia…

I think you forgot funding. That's kinda important.

From the healthcare delivery standpoint there are so many rotten, inefficient and corrupt practices that many days it feels like you are delivering good care despite the system. Ce…

Thank you for replying. In terms of ideology v reality this would be similar to the ideology that led to the Iran Contra scandal. Source: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperienc…

Im really impressed at the number of downvotes, despite the lack of subsequent replies. Here's another source: "The first UN rapporteur to visit Venezuela for 21 years has told The…

From what I have read it sounded like the US government has been working to undermine Venezuela economically for some time. Socialism was working too well, it brought huge swathes …

If you're open to Windows consider checking out the Razer Blade 15" laptop. I'm biased because I play video games but it's as nicely made as any computer apple ever made, with grea…

I would argue its a combination of miserable life circumstances and lack of availability of better options. Have you ever heard of the drug Krocodile? It's most prevalent in Russia…

Right? If you could just do a national sampling as part of routine autopsies or something it would give so much valuable data. Sadly there is a lot of politics and money even in sc…

The key here is that as soon as you can afford a real attorney the prosecution often won't go forward. If you take public counsel, poor people in the system call them 'public prete…

It's likely a result of the manufacturing process, at least partially. I found the journal article the WHO pulled data from. Heres the abstract (I italicized for emphasis): Eleven …

I couldn't access the article because paywall, however 'a)... synthetic textiles' would make more sense for inhalation vs ingestion. Also American Chemical Society may be biased, d…

> The article says a "microplastic particle" is any peice of plastic smaller than 5mm I double checked the article and you are right, this is why the use of the apothocary symbols …

Phone maker Xiaomi's Miui version of Android has a feature much like this called Second Space where you can create a clean copy of the OS and only import what data you choose from …