Plaidboy

If the buffer says 7.5 and it makes up 6 when mixed, either far too little of the buffer was used/there was already something else buffering the solution or the buffer was prepared incorrectly.

By selecting the correct buffer and the correct ratio of salt to acid (such as acetic acid and sodium acetate) an exact pH within a certain range can be reached.

I think it isn't that these other things you mentioned aren't war crimes, but rather that this particular instance involves a lot of evidence that could prove that this was a war crime unequivocally.

1. You heard other people say that, not me. Go respond to other people who are saying that instead of responding to someone who is NOT saying that (me).

2. What is your argument here? Honestly I'm confused about what your stance is. How far do you extend this moral equivalency? A strong case can be made that Russia's oil industry is a vital part of its war machine, but I don't think you could say the same about a Ukrainian coffee shop. Is it just as bad to kill a child by bombing a school as it is to kill an adult by bombing a weapons manufacturing facility?

From my perspective Ukrainian strikes are carried out in self defense against military related targets, while Russian strikes are often purposefully hitting targets not related to the military.

You can learn more about Russian strikes on Ukrainian civilians here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attacks_on_civilians_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine

I think your implication that a strike on Russian oil infrastructure that kills a civilian working there is equivalent to a strike on a Ukrainian apartment building is wack.

IIRC the reason most caps used to be unrecyclable (many still are) is that they had a liner in them made of a different material. Because such caps were composite materials (using different types of plastic for the liner and the cap), they would make an impure product if recycled. The same problem applies if the cap and bottle are different types of plastic, which used to be more common.

Nor do they justify the armored personnel carrier... Talk about over the top. Obviously intentionally over the top to intimidate.

How useful of a platform is it if only selected information is allowed to be shared? From my perspective, it is only useful for Reddit admins want it to be useful for.

In your particular case, it was NOT useful for communicating very important information to your local community, unless I am misunderstanding your post here.

So by you and others continuing to use Reddit instead of committing to another platform, the suppression of information is facilitated/implicitly supported.

Why are you still using Reddit? Haven't Reddit admins proven over and over that they are willing to manipulate content on their platform to influence their users? Haven't they shown you that their platform is worth abandoning??

If nothing else, this experience should demonstrate that it is time to switch to Lemmy full time.

I think there may be more to Ukraine's abstention than being "too busy with their own shit," probably they don't want to annoy the US govt and risk having military aid further reduced.

Don't understand why anyone was still on the masts when they hit the bridge...

They had lost power and all sails were furled, so they couldn't have been moving very fast. And according to this article the ship was taller than the maximum clearance under the bridge. So it seems like someone fucked up big time not getting crew out of harms way.

This is awesome! Are these all from "I Kissed Dating Goodbye" or were there other sources for the text?

Brought to mind the song "Radio Silence" by Zella Day

Maybe RFK really is just meaning vaccines when he says "environmental contaminant," but couldn't he mean microplastics or PFAS or PCBs or any of the other extremely common, poorly understood (in terms of health effects) actual environmental contaminants?

This article takes a very narrow view of the topic in my opinion. The point is well taken that the recent increase in reported numbers does not represent a sudden spike, but there is a serious conversation to be had about the potential link between pollution and autism. From the article:

Zoe Gross, director of advocacy at the Autistic Self Advocacy Network, said some initial studies have suggested an association between autism and environmental factors such as pollution, but she was unaware of studies "demonstrating a causal link between the two."

Demonstrating a causal link takes a lot of effort! Just because there isn't a clear causal link doesn't mean there isn't an important association. And because some pollutants (like PFAS) are so widely distributed that they are in rainwater pretty much worldwide, you can't find an "unpolluted" control group, so proving that they are causing health impacts is doubly difficult. The way RFK talks about it is dumb but the topic itself is worthy imo.