For anyone stopping by looking for more info, it’s Camp Lejeune not Legume.
Good lord. Thank you. Served in Pendleton and I should know better.
Readit NewsMarkMarine commented on Thousands of U.S. farmers have Parkinson's. They blame a deadly pesticide mlive.com/news/2025/12/th... · Posted by u/bikenaga
I just read another article about this, but the affected group is military from Camp Legume. The water in Legume was contaminated, and its actually given a control group test for the incidence of Parkinson’s with Camp Pendleton, where the water was not contaminated.
Spoiler: it looks like the farmers are right
https://www.wired.com/story/scientists-thought-parkinsons-wa...
Amazing thing is TCE was banned by the Biden EPA in 2024 and Trump’s EPA stopped its ban.
MarkMarine commented on Developing a food-safe finish for my wooden spoons alinpanaitiu.com/blog/dev... · Posted by u/alin23
As a child, my grandmother once accidentally used a poison oak stem to roast a hotdog over a campfire. She hadn't cooked it hot enough to denature the oil, and she reacted to it internally, which required a hospital visit.
Granted, consuming it is the worst-case scenario, but exposure to those oils can be life threatening.
There are people eating poison oak salad to try to make themselves immune:
https://www.wsj.com/style/eat-poison-ivy-oak-immunity-3207ec...
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How would we effectively regulate social media? Being the regulator could be a very powerful political tool and used to capture or maintain political power.
Regulating is already being done by the “private” companies that own them, heck it’s the plot of a bond movie (sub in newspapers for social media) with a real life Larry, Elon or Mark as the villain.
As a society we choose what to allow or not allow together, collectively, through politics (ideally) and when things damage our collective health we regulate or ban them. All regulations probably seem impossible before they happen. Australia regulated guns, China regulated social media, plenty of countries regulate alcohol, drugs, gambling. It’s all possible, just have to weigh the positives and negatives and find a balance, but the status quo is broken.
I lucked out in when I was born, I developed before social media existed and my college was a later addition to Facebook. I think it just doesn’t affect me in the same way… like someone who has never won a dollar gambling looks at a gambling addict. I’ve got tremendous empathy for the people that are addicted to it and I can’t imagine how corrosive it would have been to my teen years, so much as I revile the politics behind Rahm who believes nothing and will stick his finger in the wind every few minutes and go where it takes him, I’m glad this is the way the winds are blowing. Social Media should be regulated like alcohol and cigarettes and drugs. All addictive, all tuned to hit dopamine centers, all bad for our health in different ways.
MarkMarine commented on Autism's confusing cousins psychiatrymargins.com/p/a... · Posted by u/Anon84
Their comment was against the guidelines and I've replied to it to explain how, but it's still not OK to comment like this on HN, no matter what it's in reply to. Please take a moment to remind yourself of the guidelines and make an effort to observe them when participating here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I will Tom. That comment was touching the third rail for me and I reacted where I shouldn’t have.
MarkMarine commented on Autism's confusing cousins psychiatrymargins.com/p/a... · Posted by u/Anon84
You should also think before you call people stupid. If you google autism test, you'll find this:
https://www.clinical-partners.co.uk/for-adults/autism-and-as...
"I prefer to do things on my own, rather than with others."
"I prefer doing things the same way - for instance my morning routine or trip to the supermarket"
"I find myself becoming strongly absorbed in something – even obsessional"
These are all questions everybody living in a modern society can relate to.
Of course autism is a real condition, but modern society somewhat requires people to be machine like and that can easily look like someone is on the spectrum.
Didn’t call anyone stupid. I said the comment was stupid. I maintain it was.
MarkMarine commented on Autism's confusing cousins psychiatrymargins.com/p/a... · Posted by u/Anon84
Based on what I've read lately, my consensus perspective is that 80% of what people consider autism is actually just the western diet's effect on normal brain chemistry.
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MarkMarine commented on Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros about.netflix.com/en/news... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
Any consolidation like this seems like a negative for consumers. But at least it wasn’t bought by Larry Ellison, as was considered very likely (assuming this merger gets approved, in the current administration you never know).
From a Hacker News perspective, I wonder what this means for engineers working on HBO Max. Netflix says they’re keeping the company separate but surely you’d be looking to move them to Netflix backend infrastructure at the very least.
as a positive, maybe this will make fast forward work on HBO streaming. One of the little UX pebbles in my shoe that Netflix has figured out.
Jokes aside, HBO is a prestige TV brand. Netflix had a deep desire to create and run premium content previously, but the cost and volume they could put out was clearly a problem for the business. Maybe HBO becomes the premium, prestige TV brand and we get 1-2 series at a time from that + movies, and Netflix remains as it is. This consumer would be quite happy with that.