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True, but you’re asking a cross segment largely made up of people who didn’t vote for him, so we can’t answer your question. Best we can do is to say that apparently a giant contingent of our society is made up of people who are stupid, cruel, racist, and/or easily manipulated.

Silly me for retiring in January

Call BS? What he said is literally, explicitly true: If you click on the article, that’s the title of it. OP didn’t change the title to fit an agenda, he used the article’s title.

All that is true. In addition, those communications are subject to records retention laws, so using signal and flagging them to be deleted is illegal in itself.

Not sure about your political persuasions, but sadly the inexpensive areas of California tend to be deep red as well.

Yeah, there’s kind of a big flaw in this. I’m in California, too. It’s a huge state, and there re giant swaths of it that don’t have especially high cost of living, but the population centers like LA and San Francisco are very, very expensive. Taking the median isn’t going to give you a realistic answer for most of us.

And you think that’s required for recognizing a Nazi salute? That’s whack.

Are you suggesting that a kid doesn’t have any insight into their parent’s behavior and that “experts” do?

It is absolutely an active coup on our democracy, and basically the whole party is complicit.

That part is so frustrating. The other branches are the “checks and balances” we’ve always been taught to trust in, but the Republicans have become a cult that’s infiltrated all of the branches, nullifying those checks and balances. It’s horrifying.

Yeah, someone talented and hydrated enough to write something with it.

Me too! I’ve voted consistently liberal, including for every minimum wage hike on the ballot. Also, I’m on the very trailing edge of the boomer generation, and much of the era you’re talking about was before my time. I did reasonably well because I was a computer science grad when that was an earlier thing, but still, I had it easier than my kids (who we’ve tried to help a much a we can).

I just retired after 40 years at over company, plus some college jobs. I’m 62, and social security was one of the things in my plan that made me decide I could retire My company was laying people off; I was secure, but my leaving allowed one more person to keep their job.

Now Trump is tanking my 401k and Elon is taking about cutting SS. I’ve never been more stressed about money.

Yes Putin sought NATO membership, but NATO was formed as a check on Soviet aggression, so that’s a nonstarter. Russia invaded Crimea in 2014, and they thought they’d cakewalk into Ukraine as well. There’s no slant where Russia is the good guy in this. You sound like a propaganda machine.

Russia sent people to talk about peace

You mean the country that started the war by invading another country wants to discuss a peace they could have by simply getting out of that country? Russia, who has violated more than one ceasefire? What a bunch of crap.

It’s hard for me to ignore the fact that what you said is 100% something Putin wants. Trump could not be doing a better job of tearing apart the United States and its standing in the world.

It wasn’t sanitized at all - the link is literally a rickroll.

No argument, it’s a surprise to the morons who were manipulated into voting for the guy, but most everyone else saw what was happening.

Seems like if that’s was the case, steep times wouldn’t matter. Why would tea steeped longer have significantly less metal in it than tea steeped shorter if they both got poured through the same filter?

From the article (emphasis mine):

It turns out that the type of tea bag matters. The team found that cellulose tea bags work the best at adsorbing toxic metals from the water while cotton and nylon tea bags barely adsorbed any contaminants at all—and nylon bags also release contaminating microplastics to boot. Tea type and the grind level also played a part in adsorbing toxic metals, with finely ground black tea leaves performing the best on that score. This is because when those leaves are processed, they get wrinkled, which opens the pores, thereby adding more surface area. Grinding the tea further increases that surface area, with even more capacity for binding toxic metals.