Off topic but do any of the $40 for the 48h access go to any of the authors of the paper?
Microwaved plastic containers release microplastics into food
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Or clumsy. Or a small child. Clumsy people and small children still need to eat, though.
One of them is synonymous. Clumsiness is a learned (or lack of) behavior, whereas children can be taught to be mindful of their actions. As a child who grew up in a poor Eastern European family, I was punished for my clumsiness, which led me to become an adult who pays attention to what he does. While I empathize with individuals who have significant cognitive deficits, I generally have absolutely no tolerance for th…
And yet here you are, doing this.
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As a daily Aeropress user, I wonder if I should maybe switch to something else. Thoughts?
Aeropress will be releasing a premium version made out of glass later this year. https://coffeechronicler.com/aeropress-xl-premium/
I was thinking you could probably machine metal to fine enough tolerances to make an all metal Aeropress but I don't know how you can do this with glass. How do you get a good seal around a glass plunger?
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#214Earlier quoted context omitted.
One of them is synonymous. Clumsiness is a learned (or lack of) behavior, whereas children can be taught to be mindful of their actions. As a child who grew up in a poor Eastern European family, I was punished for my clumsiness, which led me to become an adult who pays attention to what he does. While I empathize with individuals who have significant cognitive deficits, I generally have absolutely no tolerance for th…
I’m pretty sure my clumsiness just came with my ASD.
Assuming it was diagnosed by your doctor, it falls under the 'cognitive deficits' section in my previous comment. Even so, it doesn't excuse one from at least trying.
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#215Why we don't use glassware? It's perfect for food. 1. Easy for cleaning 2. Good glass container will look new for years with proper washing 3. It breaks. So it requires full attention of person handling it. We all want to live in present moment, don't we? Use glassware and you will be in the present moment more often ;)
For Christmas I got a set of Anyday microwaveable dishes. They've been awesome! They're made out of glass with a stainless steel and silicone seal on the lid for steaming.
Are there any problems with putting the stainless steel lid in the microwave? Is the silicone not subject to the microplastic shedding problem?
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#216Earlier quoted context omitted.
Aeropress will be releasing a premium version made out of glass later this year. https://coffeechronicler.com/aeropress-xl-premium/
Swank. This is what I've been waiting for. The plastic is my only beef with the Aeropress.
Same here! I only drink from stainless steel food safe bottles and store/heat food in glass containers. The Aeropress is the only food-related plastic thing I can't get rid of, until now.
I'll take the risk.
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Terrifying honestly, my aeropress experiences have always concerned me with if the mug can support the force. I know there isn't supposed to be a lot of force but I've used a few of these brewers and my experience is they're not super consistent! Hopefully glass is easier. I knew a barista who had a mug explode while using an aeropress, now imagine the brewer is itself glass as well during an event like that.
I helped a guy pick out cycling gloves one time when I was a mechanic. The palm of one of his hands was a wreck. I don't know if I pried or he volunteered it: Slashed the hell out of his hand trying to push a stopper into lab glass. It broke and momentum carried his hand into the glass. You might get lucky if a cylinder of glass breaks across the diameter in your hand. You will not get lucky if it breaks lengthwise u…
Oh that is awful! Total tangent but I started doing group rides again recently and am surprised by how few people wear gloves. After my first fall tearing up my hands I decided I would not let that happen again. And since then, it's really nice when going down not having to plan for where/how the hands land! This past ride someone went down on some really awful shoulder debris and luckily her hands were fine but man gloves are like $20...
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#218Is there any real evidence that consuming these is a problem though? Last I checked the evidence was shaky that this is even problematic for humans and read like a who's who of sketchy medical claims, up there with seed oils killing your testosterone.
The really annoying thing is that when you bring up the generational decline of testosterone in men no one really cares. Then RFK Jr brings it up - quite validly - and now you have the entire Democrat-pharma industrial complex lumping it under "far-right conspiracy theory, probably funded by Russia and MAGA white supremacists who hate women and Muslims". The irony is that it's a problem that is clearly already having…
There's also a correlation between increasing levels of obesity and decreasing levels of testosterone. And a likely explanation, in that fat cells metabolize testosterone to oestrogen, plus, obesity is linked to lower levels of SHBG which binds to and carries testosterone in the blood. So it's probably that too.
Also from what I've read, I think ROGD mostly affects young women and girls? It's not so much a male phenomenon. I don't think any of the research so far has linked it to plastics consumption, seems more to be a socially contagious, culture-bound syndrome, like anorexia is.
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#219Off topic but do any of the $40 for the 48h access go to any of the authors of the paper?
no
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#220Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've heard that a lot of the time the authors are happy to email you the paper directly, if you ask. Basically no one likes the academic paywalls, except for the world's most awful people [not an exaggeration].
I don’t like the academic publishing racket either, but that is an exaggeration. Presumably you were being sarcastic, but it’s still caustic. What stereolab called easy cynicism.
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