Littering was a social norm when these chemicals were invented. Even today, most Americans eat meat from factory farms, drive gas powered cars, and throw most trash in a landfill. Problems that will have to eventually be fixed.
If you’re born into this kind of society are you going to handicap yourself by holding yourself to a stricter set of rules than everyone else? The ‘yes’ and ‘no’s to that question don’t fall neatly into class lines.
If you want to be proactive about problems you need the political will to create and enforce rules. But nobody votes for rules that make people’s lives worse now, but future generations lives better. You can’t just blame rich people for that.
The political will didn’t exist for pfas back then, and it doesn’t exist for things like water scarcity, or antibiotic resistance, or e-waste today.
Knowingly poisoning people is a criminal offence, and always was. They knew their workers were dying from it, they had done studies that show it’s toxic.
No new laws are needed.
This is not the case of finding loopholes in laws or pushing a problem off to the next generation, like climate change.
This is a corporation profiting off someone’s death and getting away with it.
Intelligence does not get funded the same way that everything else does. It has a history of being self-funding if necessary. This could easily all be funded off the books via a third department that simply straight-up acts as a conventional ransomware attacker. I would be deeply unsurprised most ransomware payouts ultimately land in some intelligence budget for some country somewhere.
COVID was proof The Right Data is better than Big Data. All those data sources to measure how many sick people we have and it turns out we just need one: Wastewater.
The article mentions issues with the 900-series drives. It seems like the 800-series are still rock solid (also been running them for s few years now without issue)
There may be multiple, different issues with Samsung parts at play here. The 900 series issues seem to have been addressed with a f/w update; the 870 EVO issues were - allegedly - caused by bad NAND and the devices needed to be replaced.
ofc part of the problem here is the lack of public acknowledgement / information from Samsung on these issues.
The Model Y Performance was $69,990 last year and now costs $54,490.