Today the thing I'm choosing to be overspecifically annoyed by is people who are obsessing about benzene in sunscreen but don't wear hazmat gear when fueling their car (gas is full of it). Benzene is pretty benign. Choose a career where you don't breathe it daily and chill out.
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FYI, here's the Material Safety Data Sheet for ethanol. It's a neurotoxic mutagen and teratogen that causes tumors in mice. Could it be in your child's sunscreen?pic.twitter.com/JnLyOjOk3b
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Human brains are wired to hold absolutist beliefs about purity/uncleanliness and these react in socially disastrous ways with a modern society that needs things like nuclear power, vaccines, and effective pesticides.
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Most of what we learned about occupational exposure over 50 years: 1. Feed anything to a rat in big enough quantities and it gets cancer. 2. Don't work in unventilated spaces with stuff
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Gardening is an excellent way to convince yourself that we would all starve without pesticides.
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I see a lot of people on this site not taking advantage of useful anxiety lifehacks. For example, if you're up every night panicked about runaway global warming, there's no need to worry about what's in your kids' food.
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Wait… organic only checkout belts?? That’s a thing? Sorry, I don’t shop at Whole Paycheck
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I rarely go to WF but I've never seen organic-only checkout lines at one, even in LA...
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I wish I could remember which one I saw it at. It was a Bay Area Whole Foods that also had different kinds of distilled water (deionized, regular) on tap.
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