Dirty bombs have never been used in a conflict and may not even actually exist beyond something theoretical.

Seriously, you think they never use bombs with dirt or mud on them? I've seen photos of US military bases and their hygiene is not up to par. Guarantee some of the bombs they use are dirty.

Yeah, this will be like when the US said they would pay reparations to Vietnam once all the US POWs were returned, but they lumped the MIA in with that number, so they would never have to pay. The goalposts will be moved.

Alan MacLeod popped off a bunch more about this on X on Oct 16th too. Sorry, but I don't remember if it was anything not included in the article.

A rough summary of 3 of the Bandai Namco articles from the leak website in no particular order:

Many employees took the job because they wanted remote work and the company forced them in-person without a transition period recently. The employees then self-surveyed with the question "are you willing to come to a compromise on remote work" and the bosses ignored it without any response.

Bandai pushed out all temporary and part-time employees. Those workers can sue, but it's unlikely they can do much against the company with all its resources.

Bandai is searching for the whistleblowers who reported these things via interviews and searches of employee PCs. If they have even the slightest discrepancy in their computer logs, it's used as an excuse to say "I have engaged in problematic behavior in the past, so I will not be able to do anything in the future.'' Employees say this means there is no future for you if you stay at the company.

When Bandai finds out an employee is leaving for another job, negative reviews are spread about them with messages like "you should have nothing to do with this person," to prevent them from getting jobs elsewhere. (Seems to contradict them wanting to purge employees, but idk Japanese labor law and maybe it has to do with severance. Maybe cruelty is the point?)

The articles also confirm the "waiting room" strategy. Employees are being transferred between departments and not given work to force them to leave. Apparently the company is not developing new, distinct IP fast enough and this is part of why they want to cut employees. Shutdown of Blue Protocol also started waves of this behavior.

Articles are from late September to this Monday.

For anyone who wants a deeper dive, Amy Westervelt covered this story in season 5 of her "Drilled" podcast.

Give it time, eventually we will do an imperialism to your country too.

No, not at all. This was looking at the effects of reducing inflammation on depression. Typical depression meds are meant to increase the availability of certain neurotransmitters such as serotonin.

Looks like it's a monoclonal antibody design to decrease inflammation. The target is people with persistent, low levels of inflammation and major depression.

My institution doesn't give access, but my first question would be whether they accounted for treatment for the underlying cause of the inflammation. Persistent inflammation can cause all sorts of issues and I suppose a treatment for relief is good, but why does it exist? Treating the underlying condition seems more prudent unless they don't know the cause.

I figured that's how they would get around it, but also that there are surely people who purposely miss pronounce it. Seems much easier to make the acronym different by doing something like omitting the B.

Feels like it's purpose-made to invite bad behavior.

DOJ continues to support law enforcement agencies’ transition to the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS). Beginning in January 2021, NIBRS became the national standard for law enforcement crime data reporting in the United States and the transition to NIBRS represented a significant improvement in how reported crime is measured and estimated by the federal government

Really?

Well, we all know that if it happens outside the Continental US, it doesn't actually count. And if it happens in a concentration camp very moral, legal, and necessary temporary holding facility home, it also doesn't count. And if it happens under a Democrat, it also doesn't count. It only counts when it helps the narrative of the Democratic party. They are the oldest political party, so they should get to make the rules.

Even if someone disagrees with your argument, there are alternative versions such as lisdexamfetamine (Vyvanse) and methylphenidate formulations (Jornay PM, etc.) that cannot be separated from their extended release mechanisms. They literally cannot be abused.

Lisdexamfetamine exists as a generic now too and shouldn't cost more than $15 for 30 pills (though I know there are pharmacies that will price gouge it). I don't know why any med provider would put you on Adderall at this point besides insurance issues and lisdexamfetamine is a pro-drug that delays access to the active drug in a way that is dependent on enzyme activity in your red blood cells. There is a hard rate of release limit to how much can be made available and this cannot be overcome. Methylphenidate isn't quite there in terms of access due to IP, but it's on its way.

Keeping the more advanced versions of these stimulants as schedule II is nothing but cruel. Either the limiting mechanisms are proven and they should not be restricted, or you don't trust them and never should have approved the drugs for use.

But in an unexpected location, like the HVAC system.

Yes, recognizing there is a wider environmental impact than the fuel your vehicle uses means you must give up all technology. What a reasonable conclusion to take from that comment.

More improvement in the area of vaccine technology, acceptance, and adoption of these techniques: alternative forms of administration, less reliance on boosters, improved thermal stability. A better understanding of the immune system, neuroscience, and human biology in general. I expected more infectious diseases to be eradicated such as HIV, TB, and malaria.

These things are progressing and I see hope in how technologies are progressing, but I believe vaccine and infectious disease research and development have been severely limited by the industry's obsession with intellectual property and pursuit of profit. Our understanding of human biology has improved, but thinking back to my teenage years, I was naive as to how complicated biology is and how little we actually understand.

I'm still a bit salty no one ever brought dinosaurs back from the grave. Our progression in flight technology has been disappointing without flying saucers too.

The phrasing was weird, but this guy was born in Egypt and the statue was taken from Egypt. This isn't a matter of private property, he's commenting on how the UK exploited Egypt.

Sure, race and nationality are social constructs and genetics don't support the divisions we make along phenotypic lines, however, you can't just hope to solve racism and colonialism by saying they are gone and meaningless. If you say they no longer exist, that doesn't erase the impacts racism and colonialism have had on a people.

In essence, it's like punching someone repeatedly until they are bloody, stealing the money from their wallet to buy yourself a house, and then saying, "why can't we forget our differences and just be friends?" Is everything alright? Is it ok that you now have a home and the other person is destitute because you stole their money? Does it make it any better if it was your parents or grandparents who did this and now you've inherited the house?

Just claiming it's a social construct and wiping your hands of the issue does not fix the problem. And that metaphor I made does not even encompass the entire issue! Reality is more along the lines of: now that you own this house, you enforce policies that continually raise the price of housing and put a tax on people who don't own a house. The exploitation many people have suffered at the hands of racism and colonialism never stopped, it just changed it's form.

Damn, beat me to it. Colonialism is a hell of a drug.

Good point, but what I meant were the smaller actions like suddenly turning on other mutants at critical moments that don't make sense. His ideas to eradicate humans to protect mutants made sense as "I'll achieve my goals by any means necessary" is his M.O.

One of the ones that bugged me the most was in First Class. They are trying to prevent the humans from being able to acquire and exploit Mystique's DNA, so immediately after preventing her from being captured, he decides that it's best if she dies to prevent that from ever happening. This logic can be justified, but he decides to accomplish this by shooting her in a location the humans control, in essence spreading her DNA everywhere and presumably leaving her body behind for them to exploit anyway.

It completely defeats the purpose of everything he was working towards and negates what he had just accomplished. It was those kinds of inconsistencies that bug me.

Or just a Magneto movie where he doesn't just randomly decide to start murdering someone or betraying everyone around him because "he only knows vengeance" or some other bullshit to remind you he's supposed to be the bad guy.

Seriously, he'll be strategic, logical, and the most insightful character throughout most of each movie and then to balance that out, they need to make him throw all of it away to do something overtly evil that deviates from his plan or the plan suddenly has a twist that involves someone's death with little to no good justification. Why? Because he's supposed to be the baddie.

For once, just drop the act and let us have a cool Magneto that makes sense and doesn't do deranged shit. Idgaf if he's meant to be the villain or an antagonist, everything he does is more interesting than the tired platitudes Prof X and crew give us. The plot always ends up the exact same. In Dark Phoenix and even for a bit in Apocalypse they decided to ease up on him and let Magneto just be cool, but they still had to add enhinged, murderous rage scenes and spontaneous moments of betrayal that are otherwise completely inconsistent with his character and goals.

We don't need a clear black and white, good vs evil story.

As much as I hate to point to reddit, the r/curly hair sub has a lot of great advice. Curly hair never stops being a pain in the ass, and it gets worse with length. I find somewhere around shoulder blades is where it ramps up even higher for some reason. On the flip-side, everyone will be jealous of your curls/waves, so it's about finding a balance of what you care about. Unfortunately, much of this is related to buying the right things to treat it right, but this can still be done with relatively little money.

• Your comb is generally bad for curly hair. Ditch the little plastic knobs at the end of the bristles. A wide-tooth comb (usually ~5-10 teeth) is necessary, other combs aren't, but can help. If you really need something like a traditional comb, get ones without the knobs and don't get boar's-hair bristles. I bought a Denman D3 for about $25 10 years ago and it's held up well. Looks the same as the day I bought it.

• Don't dry with a towel and don't rub. A soft shirt works well and you can use this to scrunch your hair to help dry. Heat treatment is generally bad, but you can get away with drying to about damp on low/no heat, then let your hair dry naturally.

• Getting good curls is usually about moisture. Good shampoo and conditioner are important. Anything with silicone or paraben will weigh your hair down/straighten it and takes a long time to wash out without clarifying shampoo (green V05 is usually recommended to use once to remove everything). Clarifying is harsh on hair and strips it of moisturizing natural oils. Avoid products with dimethicone (fucking everywhere) or other ingredients ending with "-cone". r/curlyhair used to have links to sites where you could screen products for curly-hostile ingredients in their sidebar.

• Don't shampoo everyday if you can help it. I get bad dermatitis and find I can get away with every other day at most during flare-ups. Some people wash daily with conditioner, some skip their hair entirely on some days.

• If you are going to spend money on product, it's better spent on good shampoo and moulding products. Good conditioner is cheap, even V05 works, just check ingredients. If I want to save money, I'll condition with a cheap conditioner and then use a small amount of more expensive conditioner as a leave-in.

• Finishing products are something that will be more specific to your hair type and partially determine the messiness of the style at the end. Lots of people form a hard "cast" like using hair gel, then scrunch it in a soft shirt or towel to break up the crunchiness and leave the definition and shape without the nasty crunchiness. I think this works best for tightly curling hair, while a curling cream, mouse, or just conditioner works better for looser curling/wavy hair. Just experiment to find what works for you. It's best to apply while your hair is wet. This is where you can comb it in, but finish with a wide-tooth and then turn your head upside down and "scrunch your hair up towards your scalp in clawing/cat kneading motions to help define curls.

• If you must add something for shine, use something like pure argan oil. Most shining products have dimethicone. Argan is closer to natural hair oil.

• When getting a haircut, it's usually best to style it before you go and sometimes you'll get a dry cut. I've had both dry and wet work well. If you cut on your own, the best videos I found were on the YT channel "Manes by Mel" I think.

• If you can get a silk pillowcase or hair net, that will help protect your hair at night. I've wrapped my hair in a shirt before with success. Pillowcases are around $30.

Hopefully that gives you a starting point. I could recommend specific products, but hair varies widely and yours might not respond the same as mine. I've been using similar methods on medium to long hair for ~8 years and they've worked well. I may be able to answer questions later. Good luck!