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Chytrid is actually a really bad disease affecting frogs all over. There was a PBS Nature documentary about it some years ago that I encourage people to find/watch. I think it's called The Thin Green Line.
 
This is not "best" but rather "holy crap insane"

190 mph wind gusts?!

Great Google Moogly.

Also, a mass amount of vehicles stuck on Donner Summit?
That never sounds good.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/03...nd-gusts-of-190-mph-closes-i-80-indefinitely/

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BongoYodeler said:
0 percent for you, a slightly higher percentage for me. ;)
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Hubby and I stayed with friends who rented a cabin near Helen GA, and after we used the gas fireplace one night their little dog was stung by a scorpion. Apparently it migrated to the pup’s bed. Having been Arizona resident’s our friend’s knew how to safely eliminate the threat. I didn’t leave any clothes on the floor after that and I shook out my shoes before slipping them on. 😱
Wouldn’t wish a sting on anyone, especially some where sensitive.
 
balrog said:
Rising sea level, melting glaciers, stronger storms -- all very bad.

This, however, this is apocalyptic.

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/...arabica-beans-can-quality-robusta-save-coffee

"The Arabica coffee bean which is near-universally synonymous with quality coffee, is under serious threat from climate change."
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Kent88 said:
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They’re just rolling out a sinister framework for surveillance capitalism and its greedy shareholders to highjack what little remains of freedom. A few years back, we had a choice, red pill or blue pill. Now they’ve decided for us. While we were all looking the other way. We’re all taking the blue pill and buying really expensive dry yeast from Agent Smith.
 
Ah the good old days.....

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41416-019-0467-9

Ingested asbestos in filtered beer, in addition to occupational exposure, as a causative factor in oesophageal adenocarcinoma​

Oesophageal adenocarcinoma has become much more common over the past 50 years, particularly in Britain, with an unexplained male to female ratio of > 4:1. Given the use of asbestos filtration in commercial brewing and reports of its unregulated use in British public houses in the 1970’s to clear draught beer “slops”, we have assessed the hypothesis that ingested asbestos could be a causative factor for this increased incidence. Importantly, occupational asbestos exposure increases the risk of adenocarcinoma but not squamous cell carcinoma of the oesophagus. The presence of asbestos fibres was consistently reported in filtered beverages including beers in the 1970s and asbestos bodies have been found in gastrointestinal tissue, particularly oesophageal tissue, at autopsy. There is no reported association between the intake of alcohol and oesophageal adenocarcinoma but studies would mostly have missed exposure from draught beer before 1980. Oesophageal adenocarcinoma has some molecular similarities to pleural mesothelioma, a condition that is largely due to inhalation of asbestos fibres, including predominant loss of tumour suppressor genes rather than an increase of classical oncogenic drivers. Trends in incidence of oesophageal adenocarcinoma and mesothelioma are similar, rising rapidly over the past 50 years but now plateauing. Asbestos ingestion, either from beer consumed before around 1980, or from occupational exposure, seems a plausible causative factor for oesophageal adenocarcinoma. If this is indeed the case, its incidence should fall back to a low baseline by around 2050.
 
We should have known that asbestos, miracle product that it was, had a downside. But back in the day, if you had welding/cutting/gouging slag directed your way, you could take an asbestos fire blanket and make a poncho out of it. Way better than leather sleeves, except for the fact that it might kill you.
 
Kee said:
We should have known that asbestos, miracle product that it was, had a downside. But back in the day, if you had welding/cutting/gouging slag directed your way, you could take an asbestos fire blanket and make a poncho out of it. Way better than leather sleeves, except for the fact that it might kill you.
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Reminds me of the oilcloth ponchos worn by soldiers during the Civil War. They were treated with litharge, (PbO), Lead Oxide! I suppose it kept the cloth from mildew and critters, but….
 

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