Activated carbon does absorb lead because it has a variety of binding sites that will bind to lead ions. The problem is, those binding sites are limited and will get quickly used up if you’re having to actually deal with any significant amount of lead and if you have other metal ions (like copper) trying to compete for binding sites the whole profile looks worse. This means if you’ve got hard water with a ton of competing ions, the filter will likely do dick for lead. So the Brita filters do do something, but if there’s an actual utility to what they do in regards to heavy metals depends on the water.

Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.

Just be glad it’s actual repairs and not just entirely coated in speed tape.

Realistically the carrot itself is only something like 5×10^(−11) karat gold.

The liberal brain, gentlemen. Tou Thao was convicted for keeping bystanders from intervening while not doing anything himself. He might’ve been less worse, but he still deserved to go to prison. And he remained unrepentant to the end. Of the four cops he got the second worst sentence despite never laying a hand on Mr. Floyd precisely because he refused to admit any culpability. It really is a good comparison, seeing this comment.

Owning a horse is like owning a boat. It’s not going to grant you happiness.

Formal fallacies do not relate to the truth of either the premise or the conclusion but having valid form. Your argument just doesn’t follow. How is downvoting fallacies therefore doing your part.

Thanks for your engagement. I like positive or negative.

Downvoted: formal fallacy

There’s no connection between premise and conclusion.

Now there are even English memes telling me to

SPRICH

@metaStatic@kbin.earth is just trolling for DMs at this point.

Sure but they’re just buying a licensed property with a declining player base and leaving Niantic with the base tech and the drive to innovate. It’s a dead end road where they’re buying the “secure” part of the company but it’s actually incredibly high risk because of how licensing agreements work. That’s why I call it dead tech. They’re not going to build anything out of it. It’ll just decline. Perhaps quite catastrophically at that.

You give them too much credit on this one. This decision was likely spearheaded by some nepo appointment who is out to diversify in the worst way. When your send cousin Johnny to college in the West, you’re still not getting the best and brightest when he comes back. Whole structure of their investment fund is graft and bad decisions.

Compare Saudis system to Norway’s sovereign fund. Instead of being politically neutral, like everything in the house of Saud it’s a patronage system. They do big headline buys like this to convince everybody above them they’re actually doing something to diversify from oil market shocks. But in this case they’re buying a dry well that’s already had it’s data sold to those who wanted it and is burdened to IP licensing that likely drains much of its micro transaction potential while also being able to be revoked if the parent company stops liking what they’re doing. They’re not going to get much from a state security standpoint from it that they couldn’t get in ways that would cost several billion less and they’re not going to get much of a return of investment on it either. But since patronage rewards are front loaded they do stupid buys like this.

If they just wanted the data, they could’ve gotten it for much less than 3.8 billion. They likely could’ve gotten it for 3.7 billion less at least. Or just send some guys to steal it like they did with Twitter back in the day. Much cheaper.

Saudi Arabia really likes to invest in dead tech.

Some do. You see some communities ban users that do nothing but downvote the communities posts from the all feed instead of just blocking them.

You can also do so from some mbin instances. It was a default feature for all users on kbin.

In those conversations it’s because each downvote is closely associated with a reply though there are ways to see I don’t actually use them. And I was mostly joking.

No his bans just finally stuck.

I’m under the impression that he has fans on hexbear, but I don’t get hexbear over here on world.

Edit: oh I’m being cryptically sarcastic, I mean they really don’t seem to like him. Overall it doesn’t bother me.