NaibofTabr

Here we go, found it in the Health Impacts article:

There is experimental evidence that very slim fibers (<60 nm, <0.06 μm in breadth) tangle destructively with chromosomes (being of comparable size). This is likely to cause the sort of mitosis disruption expected in cancer.

And here in MECHANISMS OF ASBESTOS-INDUCED CARCINOGENESIS

It is somewhat more difficult to understand the “chromosome tangling hypothesis.” We recently found that asbestos fibers including crocidolite are actively taken up by several different kinds of cultured cells. Furthermore, those fibers enter both the cytoplasm and the nucleus. In this situation, asbestos fibers may tangle with chromosomes when cells divide. Whether there is a specificity of tangling for any chromosomal region is the next question to be addressed.

So not quite down to the DNA level, but basically chromosomes can get wrapped around asbestos fibers during cell division.

help desk -> sysadmin -> CISO -> goat farmer

Yeah, it’s a crystal structure and it’s really a shame that it causes so many health issues because it’s kind of an amazing material otherwise. It’s lightweight and strong enough to make bricks with but you can also make flexible fabric out of it, and it can hold up to really impressive amounts of heat. As the poster above said, it is still in use in some industrial applications because in some situations there is no effective alternative.

Of course the problem is that if you damage an asbestos brick or bend an asbestos fabric you get lots of tiny little asbestos fibers that come loose. My understanding is that the fibers are so small that they pierce cell walls and damage DNA strands, hence the cancer.

shoot the messenger

The first modem just transmitted data over the analog phone network as a series of beeps, a function which the phone system was never designed for.

Computer networking is kludges all the way down.

Realistically no organization has so many endpoints that they need IPv6 on their internal networks. There’s no reason to deal with more complicated addressing schemes except on the public Internet. Only the border devices should be using IPv6.

Hopefully if an organization has remote endpoints which are connecting to the internal network over the Internet, they are doing that through a VPN and can still just be assigned IPv4 addresses on dedicated VLANs when they connect.

“We don’t know who struck first, us or them. But we do know it was us that scorched the sky.”

Easy, you just subtract a higher voltage from a lower voltage. Thats just maths.

Alternatively, just swap the red and black probes on your multimeter, and now your positive voltage is negative.

Or, just twist that knob on your oscope.

Er, yes, that’s my point? It’s up to the business to make that choice.

Um, how would you define legitimacy in this context?

It’s not really unprovable when we know that on average less than 50% of eligible voters actually vote.

China is basically exporting environmental damage to other countries right now in order to continue inflating their own economy. It’s why they have ocean-going sand dredging boats.

“A government is a body of people - usually, notably, ungoverned.”

The point being that, when you say soemthing like “this religion killed those people” or “that nation killed those people” what you mean is “these people killed those people”.

So when you ask “Disputes between who?” the answer is “Disputes between people.”

In a practical sense it’s true that most businesses can’t afford to not accept Visa & MasterCard.

This is not a choice made by banks. The credit payment networks are not banks and are not owned and operated by banks.

A business does have the choice to accept other forms of payment besides Visa & MasterCard, which is the point I was making. If you want to use a different method to pay for something, the business has to accept that form of payment.

So, I’m not assuming that you or the person I replied to are in the US specifically.

But in the context of the US, if you (generally) chose not to vote in the 2024 election then you are guilty of doing nothing to prevent the atrocities committed by the Trump administration, when you in fact had the opportunity to do something - which is to say that you are guilty of negligence.

If you encouraged others to not vote then you are complicit in the actions of the Trump administration, because you helped put them in power.

There is no “blame-shifting game” being played here, as there is no need to shift anything. The blame is direct, valid, and undeniable.

Congratulation! You have high-roaded the environment into the dumpster! You are complicit in all the actions of the election winners, because you helped put them in office!

May all your moralizing keep you warm at night.

The problem with answering this question is that on the consumer side you don’t really make this choice. The businesses that you pay for things at make this choice.

Visa and Mastercard are payment networks. The businesses that accept them are renting access to those payment networks, because ultimately accepting those forms of payment helps them make more money.

There are other options for payment systems, but for you to use them requires that the business you want to buy something at accepts those options.

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Don’t waste your time on jealousy;
Sometimes you’re ahead,
Sometimes you’re behind.
The race is long, and in the end, it’s only with yourself.

[…]

Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your life.
The most interesting people I know didn’t know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives,
some of the most interesting 40 year olds I know still don’t.

~ Baz Lurhmann