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« Reply #240 on: June 14, 2021, 08:36:17 am »
Probably the all pervasive endocrine disruptors.

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« Reply #241 on: June 14, 2021, 09:03:27 am »
According to researcher Shanna Shawn, phthalates cause small penises, and affect fertility.

https://news.sky.com/story/human-penises-are-shrinking-because-of-pollution-warns-scientist-12255106

Air pollution affects both men and women, affecting both egg and sperm production, and likelihood of carrying the baby to term.  https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/feb/17/air-pollution-significantly-raises-risk-of-infertility-study-finds

And the affects of electronic devices on sperm:. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7727890/

Gilead seems even less unlikely, but at least explains why there are no cell phones in the show.

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« Reply #242 on: June 14, 2021, 09:56:10 am »
Good thing I had my kids early.

Really ?  I never really enjoyed morning sex.  I need coffee before I do anything energetic or erotic :D
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« Reply #243 on: September 21, 2021, 09:57:56 am »
BACK ON TOPIC

https://www.ted.com/talks/stephanie_kelton_the_big_myth_of_government_deficits?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare

Stephanie Kelton talks MMT and sounds suspiciously more like a politician than an economist ?

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« Reply #244 on: September 28, 2021, 08:34:18 am »
Europe tries to assemble to combat China, Russia and the US from trade 'coercian'

https://www.tradetalkspodcast.com/podcast/157-europes-trade-policy-and-open-strategic-autonomy/

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« Reply #245 on: November 01, 2021, 03:39:36 pm »
About 1/2 way through this.  Watch and you will get smarter with each minute.

A fine primer on how common people and even experts repeat and build policy on misconceptions and falsehoods.



Yukon Huang is the presenter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukon_Huang

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« Reply #248 on: November 09, 2021, 05:33:13 am »
Not much of interest to Canadians.

We were involved in it, and anyway there wasn't much coverage ibsaw in the US either.

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« Reply #249 on: November 09, 2021, 04:06:33 pm »
Not much of interest to Canadians.
Maybe it's a more general growing lack of faith and very low expectations that are causing more people to tune out.

Take COP26 for example. The vast majority of us expect nothing to come out it and have concluded that we're too late. We should have been acting on this decades ago. Of course we would have needed to work on our governance for decades before that.

https://angusreid.org/

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« Reply #250 on: November 09, 2021, 04:08:13 pm »
We were involved in it, and anyway there wasn't much coverage ibsaw in the US either.

We were exempted from tariffs on steel, were we not? 

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« Reply #251 on: November 09, 2021, 05:21:57 pm »
We were exempted from tariffs on steel, were we not?

Yes but with a quota cap.

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« Reply #252 on: November 10, 2021, 05:39:13 pm »
Yes but with a quota cap.

Has the cap changed?

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« Reply #253 on: November 10, 2021, 06:13:31 pm »
Has the cap changed?

I haven't heard.  I don't think so

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« Reply #254 on: May 23, 2022, 02:37:27 pm »