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These pescatarian birds are directly exposed to PFAS contamination due to the island's position near the St. Lawrence Seaway.
Over fifty years of data show a peak in PFAS (also known as "forever chemicals") content in seabird eggs in the 90s, followed by a decrease as regulations went into effect. The most recent findings show a 70% decrease of most common PFAS.
While continued vigilance a regulation is needed, this data indicates that regulations are working to reduce PFAS concentrations in marine ecosystems.
Yes!!!! I did a review of literature on PFASs in human drinking water about half a year ago, and there is a lot of really good progress! Please celebrate this, please don't let this solution be forgotten (at least so quickly) as the ozone layer or acid rain.
We are making genuine progress! Producers are dramatically altering how much they use PFAS and how much gets released in effluent, but also there's a lot better understanding of how to remove PFAS from the environment!
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I WAS FUCKING WONDERING WHAT THOSE DIGITAL PRICE TAGS WERE ABOUT SUDDENLY i had hoped they were so the workers didn't have to finagle those little papers into the slider part anymore 😭
Hi, yes, that is the OFFICIAL excuse made to me by the guy replacing the paper tags with digital ones at my local Walmart, but the end goal is to remove the numbers off the shelf entirely, replacing them with QR codes that you have to scan with the app…. Which requires your login information….. and also stores your card information so even if you didn’t use your Walmart account at the physical checkout, if you used a card they recognize, they assign that purchase to your Walmart account purchase history.
I explained very clearly to the manager my issue with the meat section not having the price tags listed, and they claimed it was only going to be for the meat, since meat is by weight, and the price of each item is printed on the packs of each item.
Sure. That’s how they get their foot in the door. Fast forward not even two weeks, and here we are:
Bar codes. No prices, no item descriptions. No price stickers on the individual items. Heck, not even the name of the item that is SUPPOSED to be there.
No. The only way to see the price is to scan it on your phone app, which is also recording what you looked at recently, as a way of gauging what you might be looking for in the future.
So here’s what we’re gonna do gang:
Every time you go into a store that has implemented these price-less tags:
Take 1-3 items up to the cash register. Ask the cashier for the price, or hit the price check item on the self checkout, which will likely call over the attendant.
Express that you didn’t actually want it, you just couldn’t see on the shelf how much it was.
POLITELY, AND WITH A THANK YOU FOR THE PRICE CONFIRMATION, Give the items to the cashier or attendant to put back.
When they inevitably try to push the app, politely decline. If pressed for why not, say you don’t want to have to carry your phone in-hand the whole time you are shopping in order to see how much things cost. (Not having cell service or data to use the app is NOT a valid excuse, as stores already often have complimentary WiFi AND more stores will provide WiFi rather than give up on this push for surveillance pricing)
If it’s a shelf-stable item, the cashier will have to set it aside, taking up room in their limited operating space, and eventually pass it off to someone to put in a holding area to put back later. If it’s a fridge/freezer item, it might have to get tossed due to food product sale regulations.
In either case, you are making it a pain in the ass for them to have these digital bar codes. Tie up the checkouts. Give the employees more busywork that the company has to pay them to do. Hurt their bottom line having to toss the pint of ice cream you carried around in your cart for 20 minutes before giving it back to the cashier.
Yes, call your reps. Yes, push for more legislation like this in more places. But also take an extra minute out of your shopping trip to MAKE IT HURT for companies to pull this shit.
I've seen some people in the notes express (very fair) concern that this is only going to inconvenience already under-paid laborers, and not have any impact on corporate. While I can't speak for every company or every store, I do work in a grocery store and I can tell you this is precisely the kind of thing that would have an impact, especially if people are doing it en masse. Stores absolutely track their shrink numbers, and they do draw distinctions between what gets stolen, damaged, or wasted for other reasons. If people are making it clear that the reason they're bringing things to the cashier is that the prices are not adequately represented on the displays, and rather than improving business it's wasting product, slowing down transactions, and causing confusion and mistrust in customers, that is a language that shareholders speak.
I worked in retail for years. If this had happened while I was working retail, I would have been delighted and felt great solidarity with anyone who was wasting my employer's time and money and giving me busy work as an act of protest. In point of fact every moment the employee spends carting items back to the shelves is a moment not spent standing at a register.
I don't have a picture, but our area is flooded with a dude holding a comedically large hammer and looking to sue the shit out of any truckers that have injured you.
Alexander Shunnarah is such a big meme in Alabama that people got this man to attend anime conventions multiple years in a row as a special guest that furries and cosplayers can take pictures with and get autographs from. He's on nearly Every billboard in the state.
If I were an evil emperor in a fantasy world, I would have a an enormous aviary full of exotic birds that are exceptionally well cared for. They would be from a distant enough land that there would be very few people in my kingdom that knew much about them, they would be a friendly but not overly territorial species, and moderately intelligent. Like puffins. They would not, crucially, be able to imitate sounds and 'speak', but they would be very trainable and curious. Occasionally importing new birds for my aviary would be the Big Frivolous Indulgence that my political enemies make fun of.
I will also have a sorceror in my employ. When a hero or a renegade or a political rival is in a situation where I can safely kill them, they will instead be turned into a bird and added to my aviary. I would not brag about this; it would be a complete secret, known only to me and my sorceror. In situations where I capture multiple people working together, only one would go in the aviary;the others can be imprisoned or killed or whatever. If they escape and I reacquire them later, another one can go in the aviary. The point here is that nobody going in the aviary can safely assume that another bird in there is their teammate.
Because I would be trickling real birds in there, too. And I would train some of them to do 'intelligent' things like tap out prime numbers or scratch shapes into the dirt with their beaks. I would train some of them to pick at the locks and bars as if they were trying to escape. I would not train them all the same way, or train many of them at all.
Sometimes, a new bird goes into the aviary -- fellow revolutionary? Or just a bird? Is it trying to communicate to you that it's human, or just being friendly and imitating you because that's what smart friendly birds do? People would develop opinions and theories over time. They'd amass in a group of the smartest ones, pretty sure that they're closest four or five friends are humans, are using their invented little language of wing-flaps and trills with a human mind behind it... but can they ever really be sure?
Most people, when going into the aviary, would assume that all of the birds are captured enemies. So why are some of them hard to have ongoing communication with, to learn about, to plan with? Are these the natural communication barriers of someone in a bird body, or does being a bird make them stupider over time? Will that happen to them also?
Sometimes, if I capture a pair, I'll imprison them separately, then turn one into a bird and put them in the aviary at the same time as a real bird that's trained to have a couple of their partner's mannerisms.
When I interact with the birds, even in private, I won't secretly mock them or make clever veiled references to their past or act at all like I remember that they were once human. They are my birds, that I imported at great expense. And I've brought a treat for them; some fresh fruit, and another friend to share it with! A new bird!
phm time travel au where the mission failed. Grace is killed trying to get the taumeoba, Rocky left alone knowing solution but unable to get it, bad bad bad. Only, now armed with the knowledge of time and space warp but not knowing enough to know what impossible and eridian tech and desperation and NEEDING GRACE BACK, figures out time travel. Rocky ends up at the point right after when Eridians launched Blip-A bc something something that’s where his spatial journet started. Has a break down about his crew being alive. calls a thrum to slam everyone else with lots of Earth science. Modifies his Blip-A first and foremost for radiation protection, then fishing, then splitting teams between return and diplomatic mission to earth.
Adrian is deeeeeply concerned about their partner. Rocky is very different, hyper and twitchy and manic. They’re the only one who can coax him to actually talk about Grace because usually just send him panicked working. Rocky doesn’t know how to stop anymore. He’s terrified of stopping after so many years alone. After watching so many stop and never start again.
Nobody is quite sure if Rocky is altogether…sane. Sure the unfathomable science keeps checking out. but his speech is so simple and tonally bizarre, he has this ineridian mannerisms, he’s constantly ordering people around and snapping and flinching. He’s not the Rocky they knew only weeks ago.
It takes a few years to modify the ship properly. Rocky gets more and more anxious. And when Adrian suggests that maybe he shouldn’t be going up again alone, he absolutely freaks out and barely processes their clarification that they want to go with him.
everyone is relieved. They’re all concerned about him and a little on edge.But of course none is more relieved than Rocky. He has the best mate.
Over the many years of the flight Adrian gets him a bit calmer, there is improvement when the radiation protection work and send off taumeoba. Sharing stories of Grace tends to help. Adrian learns so much about their mate’s odd leaky space best friend and comes to love him so much. They design his biodome to perfection, and daydream of all the additions they’ll implement with real earth biota.
Smash cut many many years. Earth has started to panic about the Petrova line, in the very very early stages of starting Projevt Hail Mary. And suddenly this HUGE alien space ship appears. And this swarm of stone spiders comes out. With a … record player made of never before seen materials. And in freaking English it says:
<We come in peace statement. Take us to your Ryland Grace order>
And noooohing else. Cause once they have Grace translating is solved! Cue a very terrified middle school teacher getting kidnapped by the CIA in the middle of the night. Interrogated for everything he knows about aliens and given no answers, best Grace can tell is this ?? Might be about his theory on non water life forms ?? Is this about the Petrova line?????
Rocky is getting more and more antsy, hes so very excited and they’re making him wait rude rude rude. Adrian is so ready to finally meet the amazing Grace, frankly all the Eridians are super interested and are having a ball -heh literally- being on such a light planet, wanting to explore while human security is very very antsy about the aliens want. Adrian keeps politely tapping Rocky to translate to the rest since he’s the one who can actually speak human. Rocky is rather disinterested in struggling to communicate with the humans because inefficient when just get Grace. He makes it clear he understands them…he just only responds by repeating the recording exasperatedly and the occasional thumbs down.
which uh….hm. Gives the world governments a very skewed understanding of what the Eridians want. Do they know what astrophage/star dim is? No? Alright. And get skittish from exchanges like, I dunno, asking if they’re unarmed and getting a thumbs down and another demand for Grace.
Rocky has been waiting decades to see his best friend again. And the moment he does? Immediately tackles and hugs him, pressing as close as he can while not crushing the fragile leaky space blob. The cool, soft press of his body against the xenonite, pulsing with breath, eases the crystal clear memory of his broken dead body. It’s okay. He’s okay. So Rocky’s okay.
Grace is crying. Of course he is. This is Rocky’s precious leaky space blob, he’d expect nothing less. Rocky wraps all five arms around his Grace, who’s shaking. Who’s not returning the hug. Who’s breaking on his sobs. Who’s struggling to breathe.
Who’s quietly begging not to be killed.
Cause for Grace, he just got kidnapped by the government, interrogated, told to walk into a room with lethal aliens, held at gunpoint when he tried to run, and then got immediately tackled and surrounded by a swarm of aliens. Cowards aren’t BUILT for that sorta pressure.
Rocky starts having a break down. Well, started having one since Grace died, but this is the culmination of it. Is human memory that bad? No. No, Grace would never forget him.
But Grace was made to forget before, wasn’t he?
Grace absolved humanity before, balanced the world against his life and was forced to admit it was worth it. Doing this to Rocky’s best friend twice?? They don’t deserve Grace. No. They don’t deserve grace.
For the sake of his best friend’s love for his home, Rocky still leaves them the Taumoeba. But the humans can figure it out on their own. Rocky squeezes around the hyperventilating human a little too tight, and drags him aboard the ship. Grace scrambles as he’s forced into the human safe enclosure Adrian designed. It’s perfectly comfortable. Horrifically familiar. As in, filled with things he owns. Literally wearing the same joke tee shirt as laid out on the approximation of a bed.
Trembling, Grace picks up the little knit Earth set out for him. The same one that’s in his classroom right now.
“What- what is this? How long have you been- stalking me?”
The brown alien that attacked him presses against the glass. It sings to him, low and soft.
Grace drops to his knees and cowers when the engines rumble and the alien ship initiates take off.
Specifically all the ways that the earth governments could misunderstand Rocky’s goals. He’s impatient, his words are limited, and all the thumbs down don’t help. So concluding the Eridians are immense threats to earth. And or that Grace is meant to be some sort of enemy or insult or sacrifice to the Eridians.
The tension of human reactions, people wondering who else will be abducted, if the aliens are eating or dissecting or ???? Grace. Talking about the ethics of handing over Grace for salvation/who ever else the aliens ask for. Also what is the Taumoeba? Scary alien zombie virus?Maybe some stupid nation is about ready to nuke the ship before Stratt’s scientists figure out it can eat astrophage.
And all the diplomat Eridians who were chosen for their charisma and negotiation and peacefulness that are really on edge because they want good relations with the humans. But also humans really concerning. But also Rocky is dead set against them in his grief. But also. This Grace that has been the focal point of everything is pressed into a corner terrified.
The thing is, the Eridians can’t leave, either. The original plan involved getting earth food and plants and organic samples so they can properly clone food for Grace. Now they don’t have that, and probably can’t actually leave or Grace will starve fast. Well they have taumoeba sludge that can be eaten. But Grace doesn’t know that. And probably wouldn’t react well to being force fed!
Grace being battered at the very best, but also highly in cornered injured animal mode. I do think that Rocky would’ve gutted the human ship for stuff before the return journey, though the Hail Mary got too badly damaged in the failed fishing. Damaging the translator computer in the process I love filling plot holes. But really good chance Rocky salvaged stuff like the medical robot so now Grace has one thing he can actually speak English to. But WAYYY more questions. How the hell did aliens get this??? Why were they SO prepared to host human life in their ship???? WHY ME
Rocky’s priority is working on translating. The medical robot can already make English sounds, even if limited, so he’s modifying it to receive eridian input. This is an engineering problem. He can do this. Rocky sits in a corner watching Grace while he works, increasingly upset as Grace forces himself to stay awake out of fear.
Aidrian is absolutely panicking because this ISNT normal for Rocky, this can’t be good for Grace. Adrian tries to soothe both of them. They don’t understand what Grace is saying, and Rocky is getting increasingly too depressed to translate. All they’ve got is gentle movements and pullling Rocky back when he’s getting intense. Doing little puppet shows. Figuring out some incredibly rudimentary communication.
With modifying the medical robot, Rocky has a very limited vocabulary and has to stick together phonetic chunks. But can eventually explain first and foremost that they’re best friends, and rocky grace save stars. Next programmed message is that they gave humans the cure to astrophage, which drastically reduces Grace’s fears about evil invading aliens. He probably won’t be killed on purpose..? He hasn’t eaten for awhile though… Grace tentatively accepts that he has a weird alien stalker that probably isn’t going to dissect him. After a bit more Rocky manages a message to explain time travel, which Grace needs so much convincing on. But eventually he swallows that too. The decades old astronaut suit with his name and the only recently announce Project Hail Mary on it sis the nail in the coffin.
Grace can’t breathe with the weight of how his own death has so clearly traumatized this alien. And with the realization that even when Rocky eventually overcomes it, Grace will already be light years away from home.
The worst part is, Rocky keeps expecting Grace’s memories to slowly come back, like last time. And so is able to be in denial for quite a long time. Now, I’m an absolute sucker for the fawn response and pretending to love someone to survive, so I would personally write it as Grace nervously pretending to remember things, but, that’s just me. Maybe cracking a little and asking Adrian for stories he can ‘remember’ for Rocky, since both of them really don’t know what to do. Adrian knows finding out would gut Rocky, but also he’s started to calm down and be more rational and- and he’s happy, and they haven’t seen that in so long… they’re very conflicted about it.
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It's commonly accepted in this fandom that humans have extremely fragile bodies in comparison to Eridians, but I think that's actually an oversimplification.
Because while Eridians are incredibly strong and tough on the outside, on the inside they are actually quite fragile:
They have no immune system, so anything that makes it past their enclosed carapace and internal heating will pretty much kill them
They have no natural defenses to radiation of any kind
In general they have very little organic matter so anything that targets their cells directly is quickly lethal
They are partially cold-blooded and live at a very narrow temperature range (about 20 degrees C)
They rely almost entirely on one, highly developed sense and are helpless if deafened (can't even remember the layout of a room)
They are completely helpless while asleep and can't control when that happens
They will forcibly become dormant after eating AND when badly hurt enough (their equivalent of going into shock)
They require more energy to function than humans do, and have very little organic matter to burn in the case of starvation
In contrast, humans:
Have an aggressive immune system and internal mechanisms for dealing with cell damage
Have adrenaline which allows them to temporarily ignore injuries and perform abnormal feats of strength
Are persistence hunters built for economy of movement and capable of extreme levels of endurance
Exist in a very wide range of habitats and on a diverse diet
Are very hardy in general, able to survive massive injuries, lack of sleep, prolonged starvation, and intense environmental conditions if given proper care
The quintessential example of this dichotomy between strength and endurance is the Going Fishing incident in the book: Rocky is able to survive and move in G forces that are killing Grace and to physically wrestle off the chair crushing him, but he collapses from his injuries almost immediately after. Despite being injured himself Grace then carries his 400lb friend up a ladder, is badly burned returning him to his atmosphere, and then proceeds to get some basic medical care, hype himself up on pain meds and keep working (albeit rather badly, lol) while Rocky forcibly sleeps.
The TL:DR is that Eridians are harder to damage, but easier to kill. They're like an rpg character with high armor and low health. I think Rocky would consider Grace to be very delicate at first, only to be blown away by how deceptively tough his friend can be.
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