The majority of carcinogens from smoking tobacco are created by burning the plant fibers. Quitting smoking is the number thing someone who smokes can do to improve their health. Vaping exposes individuals to fewer carcinogens than smoking, but still has the negative health impacts of nicotine alone on heart and mental health and still some carcinogen exposure.
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I say outdoors. Indoors has a vibe of being human made to me, and a low likelihood of encountering wildlife. So I guess walking around a mine is indoor cave exploration
The heat goes down immediately with most pans. Cast iron retains more heat though.
We went to the thrift store with a fridge magnet to buy our new pans, stainless steel lasts a long time
Love my new induction stove! Our old gas stove was leaking and could have blown up the house. We’ve noticed a lot less waste heat too, metal pan handles can be grabbed without a hot pad, the kitchen doesn’t heat up as much from cooking. And it heats up blazingly fast.
Just in case it’s helpful to anyone, SmokeFree.gov has free science-based resources to help with quitting!
Dedicated bus lanes can have multiple times the capacity in terms of moving people compared lanes that allow cars. Say you got a six lane road in the suburbs, convert the center lanes in each direction to dedicated bus lanes, then have a small median/curb separating the bus and car lanes on both sides. This will make buses faster than cars because of the lower congestion and incentive people to use them, making car congestion go down as well, because people who would otherwise drive are now on the bus.
City Nerd has a great channel focusing on stuff like this on YouTube and Nebula
Obligatory City Nerd video analyzing the utility of the rail line
Thanks! This is the closest thing I’ve seen on Lemmy to an r/AskHistorians thread, wish we had more of that
Great, trade professions are the jobs of the future! AI can’t replace plumbers and electricians… Or at least I wouldn’t trust their work
I’m also going to speculate Iran’s threats to retaliate for the consulate bombing has their attention. Biden doesn’t want to start a war with Iran before the election, or at least I hope not
$4,800 every 6 months is only $800/month. The OP pays $500/mo on insurance, let’s say $100 on gas a month, that’s only $200/month payment on the loan for an old used car. Car ownership is expensive, but it’s probably more common for the car payment to be $500/month and insurance to be $200/month. This doesn’t even factor maintenance
The “nature only has two sexes” crowd obviously never heard of Schizophyllum commune which has thousands
City Nerd has a few great videos on affordable places to live that have urban amenities, for example: https://youtu.be/1qzePci2N6E?si=dWq43GmzH5ObF1q8
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/S I don’t get what’s wrong! Boeing shouldn’t let pesky things like safety get in the way of the stock price
I like how many European countries fixed the shutdown issue… Force a snap election for everyone in parliament if a budget isn’t passed.
Eh, the CHIPS Act also does good things that doesn’t necessarily need additional funding, so repealing it entirely would end those things as well. This problem gets at the structure of Congress, they have “authorization” committees that give power to federal agencies and separate committees that give money to agencies.
Animals on average convert about 10% of the mass they eat into their own body mass.
Great video! Based on my smart thermo stat, I think my furnace is like 18x the size it needs to be and my AC is twice the size it needs to be. Been wanting to convert to a heat pump and ditch gas regardless… Maybe that $20k quote I got is a bunch of garbage
The copious amounts of sugar in our diets, antibiotics for livestock (or just factory farming in general), single-use plastics, and new pesticides/herbicides are today’s things that are “perfectly safe”…but not really.
With the exception of medicine, a big issue in the U.S. at least is that companies don’t have to proactively prove a new chemical/product is safe for the environment or public health before selling it. The EPA really only has the authority and staffing capabilities to step in once issues arise years or decades later. Just look at PFAS which are finally getting regulated decades too late.