5 years ago the guy at the local garden store use to tell me this stuff was so safe you could drink it.
I had my doubts
Roundup herbicide ingredient connected to epidemic chronic kidney disease
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There's nothing wrong with growing grass mixed with clover. Clover on its own tho won't form a complete groundcover. There's nothing wrong with having a lawn if you don't live in a drought-prone area. It's a lot less work than anything else people suggest. Just run a mower over it every couple weeks. And just plant with grass seeds adapted for your area, mix with clover, and ignore your stupid neighbours.
…yeah no. I have wonderful neighbours. It’s sad that some people don’t.
Thank you. My neighbor planted bamboo! Twice a year I have to dig the frickn roots/shoots out of my yard.
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Has anyone here tried the bespoke home-made weed-icide made with vinegar + salt + dish-soap? If yes, was it effective? A cursory google search suggests the internet is divided on this.
You can also just use boiling water. Killing above ground vegetative structures is easy.
The problem for most people are perennial weeds with deep storage structures. It's very hard to kill those without a metabolic poison (or lots of labor over long times)
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> edit: looks like I am already being downvoted. outstanding. Either your point stands or it isn't contributing anything. Pointing out that it's being voted one way or the other is frowned upon ( https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html , near the bottom). It might be read that your motivations are emotionally based. Either way, it doesn't make the situation on HN or in the world, any better. +1, because I th…
I wish HN took place in a physical arena because it would be much easier to identify friends who are operating outside the bounds of honesty, healthy debate and Socratic dialogue - and are just here to praise corporate overlords and protect the popular narrative. This is why I make reference to being downvoted as I genuinely feel a valid criticism is being oppressed by folks with an ulterior motive. Someone recently…
My sense is, based on comments I've made and have been down voted, is that every _______ Industrial Complex has actors on HN. Some are likely employees who will naturally stick up for their industry and employer. However, there are plenty of hired-gun PR types who use the down vote to help influence the narrative.
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Depends on the topic. If you're trying to prove (or, more accurately, fail to falsify) a certain set of results or a discovery, open data plus reproducibility should be the gold standard. If you're trying to make decisions about personal health, it pays to take a cautious approach (IMO) and let people decide for themselves. It is not inconceivable that commercial entities finance "peer-reviewed research" in order to…
I'm confused. I thought that reproducing a study was pretty much doing a peer review?
That is the way it was sold but peer review fraud is a major problem.
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#107it's doubly stupid because you can eat dandelions which are one of the many "weeds" people kill with this shit to protect their useless-at-best lawns. kill your lawn. plant native shit.
Dandelions taste gross though. That's why nobody wants to eat them.
Also, grass is native in a lot of places.
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Is fluoride in drinking water toxic? I thought they added it on purpose to help our teeth or something
>Is fluoride in drinking water toxic? I thought they added it on purpose to help our teeth or something No, not toxic; you are correct.
It is toxic, it's rat poisoning. Do the lower levels of tooth decay outweigh the risks? So far they have decided yes in many places but that is changing (like lead pipes)
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I know we're supposed to all pretend they don't exist and never talk about them, per the site "guidelines", but there is no doubt in my mind that Monsanto / Bayer / Roundup / Glyphosate goons are all over this right now. They swarm over stories like this. They gaslight and toxify, flag and bait. They're going to hit this one especially hard, because it's so important.
Is there no possibility that you're misinformed? No room for self reflection?
I supposed you could prove me wrong: Try to find a HN thread about glyphosate where no one gaslights, deflects, toxifies or baits.
Any time, in the whole history of HN. One single story, where no one tries to pretend or insinuate that Roundup / glyphosate is perfectly safe, or attack people / studies / lawsuits that suggest otherwise.
The only rule is that it must have at least a dozen comments - there's no need to FUD on stories with no traction. Bonne chance!