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  • Take a bag, fill it with water, and grip it loosely at the top so all your fingers wrap around like a loose fist.

    Now, without turning the bag, use your other hand to empty it by squeezing out the water.

    You get most of it out, but there’s still some in there, even if you squeeze violently and it seems like nothing else can come out.

    Also, for most of human history, if you’ve poisoned yourself ingesting something, chances are the next thing you’re ingesting is still poisoned. It’s only recently we’ve worked out distilled poison and purified water. So, biologically speaking, better to just be sick for a day so you can get to a different water/food source.
















  • I’m not a scientist, I don’t know one way or the other if there are “cleaner” fossil fuels. But I believe the Exxon CEO when he claims there are.

    Hanlon’s Razor doesn’t apply to CEOs. It’s always 100% conscious malicious choices.

    While it’s easy to believe Exxon would make up “we could have done it cleaner but it cost more than the market would bear” its much more in tune with big oil’s real strategy of “we absolutely knew about it and beyond doing nothing, we actively suppressed action about it and spent a lot of money ensuring no one else would too.”