All medications should be disposed of separately to other waste. I’m not sure how it’s handled worldwide, but my country allows disposal in community pharmacies.
Many antibiotics (e.g. pretty much all penicillins) don’t get broken down significantly on passing through the body, so a major source of contamination is coming from human waste and inducing bacterial resistance in the bacteria in the wastewater system.
The real solution here is to reduce unnecessary antibiotic usage.
Thanks for the link! Now I’ll never miss one of these very well put together posts!
How do you access an RSS feed of a user’s posts? I’d love to do this.
No. See the recent example of Meta blocking Careless People from being publicised and the book’s subsequent position on the bestseller list for reference.
Right up there with you! This sounds great.
Unlike the others here, I would argue that this is supposed to be this way - it’s a mind bending puzzle after all.
It’s like he doesn’t know what to do with his face in order to smile - “Let all the muscles go completely loose? No, that didn’t work - constrict everything! Hmm, perhaps I just need to tense my teeth and let everything hang loose while opening my eyes reeeeeally wide…”
Stranger still to make the headline about one small paragraph in the middle of the piece that was clearly an aside.
The sequels expand on the premise in pretty interesting ways too.
You should read Semiosis, a sci-fi book about a planet with a lot of bamboo.
C’mon Matrim - EXPLODE!
Great post. The personal touch reminded me of the articles on Rock Paper Shotgun.
Since the site keeps getting the hug of death, here’s a transcript.
We are joining a lawsuit will challenge the President’s unchecked authority to impose tariffs. We will not stand idly by while our livelihoods–and the livelihoods of thousands of small business owners and contractors in the US, along with the customers whose pursuit of happiness we hold dear–are treated like pawns in a political game. Like many tabletop publishers (import code 9504.90.6000*), we started print runs of products before the President took office, and now we face an unprecedented $14.50 tariff tax for every $10 we spent on manufacturing with our trusted long-term partner in China. For Stonemaier Games alone (a US based company in which all 8 employees are US citizens), that amounts to upcoming tariff payments of nearly $1.5 million. If the tariffs are damaging your business as well, please contact me at jamey@stonemaier.com and I will connect you with the law firm. There is no cost to join the lawsuit. I try to lead with compassion and empathy, so legal action is very low on my list of ways to handle difficult situations. But with this new norm of a 145% tariff imposed by the President on all exports from China to the US–including products that have been in the manufacturing process for months–we are compelled to take action. Of course, this isn’t the only action we’re taking, as we have 200,000 units of reprints and 50,000 units of Vantage (plus 57,000 other Vantage accessories) ready to ship out of Shenzhen in a few weeks. Here’s what else we’re doing in regards to these fully manufactured products: We’re selling to other countries: Around 35% of our annual sales are to distributors, retailers, and consumers outside of the US. We ship directly from China to those distributors and fulfillment centers, so the tariffs will not impact our prices in those regions. We’re storing the US quantities in China: For now, we will pay for warehousing in China store most of the US-bound products in the hopes that the tariffs will decrease by the time we need that inventory to replenish our supply in the US. We’re sending out-of-stock US quantities to the US: Finspan is out of stock in the US, so we are proceeding to send the restock as scheduled. We will eat most of the tariff cost (which more than doubles our costs) to minimize the impact on distributors, retailers, and consumers. We’re sending direct-sale Vantage to the US: I’ve spent too long trying to make this game affordable that I’m not going to let one person with unchecked power get in the way of me serving my customers. The tariffs may have a slight impact on the US price, but the plan is to largely keep our direct price the same and give customers the option to cover the tariff cost at checkout. The plan to release Vantage to US distribution and retail may need a delay–the lack of margins there have a bigger impact on a new game than on reprints. Again, these strategies are focused on products we have already manufactured, as the tariffs did not carve out a grace period for such products. We are fortunate to have a buffer at Stonemaier Games to weather this storm, and my heart goes out to the many other small businesses–in the US and beyond–who invested their resources in products that they can no longer afford to bring into the US. *There is an article circulating that states incorrectly that tariffs on tabletop games are only 20%. The (unfortunately) correct number is 145%.
Yes! Such a small throwaway line for something that really makes automations way better. I had a Choose block based Notify automation which now has a single Notify action at the end with just the variables being declared in the Choose options instead of having the Notify action specified in each option.
The concept of sustainable mining strikes me as inherently contradictory.
I like the windows fizzing into existence, how did you accomplish that? Also, what’s the rainmeter-esque “Guess what” background component?
I don’t understand what the image is trying to convey anyway (though agree with the premise of Amazon-fucking).
I think those are lips.
NacMacFeegle wahey!
“Here are your tablets and here is a box to piss into for the next week while you’re on antibiotics.”
I’m not disagreeing with your point as such, but implementing an entirely separate sewage system is probably impossible and the alternative is kinda gross.
As I said in another comment, the real solution is to reduce unnecessary antibiotic usage.