[ed25519FUUU]

I sometimes think back about our attitudes towards lead, mercury, and even radium[1], and I truly wonder how we survived as a specifies!

I am grateful that collectively things seem to be improving. We're learning more about diseases, their causes, and their treatments.

1. https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/01/24/an-energy-drink-th...

[outworlder]

Frankly, this could be the Great Filter.

[jschwartzi]

This kind of thing is what eventually kills off Brewer's Yeast. The individual yeast cells keep making sugar into alcohol until the alcohol concentration is so great that they kill each other off.

[jwdunne]

You know what, that is a fascinating analogy and microcosmic explanation of the Great Filter. I’ve never thought of that before.

[mycall]

No, that is Facebook right now :)