Informed consent laws were around well before The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks came out. I think there were earlier publicized examples of subject mistreatment (like Tuskegee) that already pushed the field to be better.

23andme requires you to agree to what they ask, which is far more than what Johns Hopkins did for Henrietta Lacks.

It’s almost like our entire world of modern technology is inextricably connected to the economics that support it.

Oh cool, is there anything similar for lemmy?

Nah, the remaining employees aren’t the “dead wood” necessarily. They’re all the ones on H1 visas who can’t legally work in the US anywhere else (without taking a massive risk).

I may be missing the reference here?

I love the fediverse, but it hasn’t fully solved the migration need problem. If I open an account on an instance which I later discover I don’t like, I have to migrate for that as well.

The point as I see it is just limited to who do I want to follow, and what platforms can I use to do so? If bluesky turns to shit in a decade, but I get value out of it for that decade, maybe that’s enough for my needs.

(FWIW, I am not on bluesky)

I2P is still around? I remember experimenting with it a decade ago. Sounds like it’s still a slow experience.

Mint was my first, Pop is my current and fave.

Just remember to check your favorite Steam games on protondb.com to see how well it runs on Linux.

Until you dismantle inheritance, the old fat cats will find a way to pass their wealth to younger fat cats.

I actually appreciate this article. I’m not near where I need to be to invest in solar, but the details of the corporate fuckery that goes on in rooftop solar providers is helpful to learn.

There didn’t even need to be a deliberate cartel for this to happen either.

Amazon realized it could make money and grow the company by offering cloud services and now AWS runs something like 30% of the internet.

Google turned their leading search algorithms into an extensive tracking and advertising platform that integrates with most of the internet.

Apple decided that people don’t need to be allowed to tinker with and repair their own devices so that hardware can be locked into a four-year cycle of planned obsolescence.

A whole bunch of profit-maximizing firms did the hard job of controlling everything for the governments.

The way you present your message, it implies the effort was rejected statewide. That could be misleading some folks.

It was actually rejected by Carroll ISD, which is the school district covering the disproportionately white and wealthy suburb of Southlake, TX.

There are 1,021 more ISDs in Texas to go.

The rawest

Eh, I learned it primarily by word of mouth from gardening enthusiasts who are buying homes. But here’s one article about the phenomenon: https://www.hgtv.com/outdoors/gardens/planting-and-maintenance/when-to-test-garden-soil-for-lead-contamination-and-how-to-garde

I don’t have a lot of statistics to back it up except that it seems worse on the East Coast and Rust Belt

I went into a startup job. It’s not a con because everyone knows that your job is less secure, and employers have to figure out how to incentivize their employees to be willing to stick around. Absolutely zero people were under the impression a startup job would be secure in the long run.

If you’re in a good startup, it can be a great way to take some of that venture capital funding as your wages. If you’re in a bad one, at least job hopping isn’t that rare so you can just move on to your next job and it’s a normal thing.

Our world is shaped by those capitalists, but that doesn’t mean these jobs are a con.

Electricity costs money unfortunately

As far as lawns go, thanks to lead paint and leaded gasoline from the mid-20th century, that land isn’t even one you’d consider suitable for growing food unless your house was built after the 1980s. At least, as long as you’re trying to avoid getting lead in your produce.

Really feels like our grandparents’ generation did a lot to fuck over our current generation. So many of these issues trace back to when even the Boomers were children.

Comparable? Not really. The i3, Leaf, and Bolt didn’t have the same fast charging capability or range as the Model 3, and luxury brands are out of reach for the average consumer.

The vehicles that are actually putting out comparable specs had their first model years in 2021 (Ford, VW) or 2022 (Hyundai and Kia).

Android was never the only player in the cell phone OS market. Tesla was the only player in the EV market until last year more or less