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Reminder that mice aren’t humans. Many drugs do not work on mice that do on humans, and vice-versa.

but remember the mantra of these cretins for the past century or few; “the solution to pollution is dilution!”. Never mind all the demonstrably terrible effects of quite a few things in the parts per billion/trillion…

Nah, that’s everywhere and slumlords (read: all landlords) constantly try to raise rent whether or not anyone can afford it.

I mean… fiberglass and asbestos are actually chemically inert, yet they’ll still fuck you up good. It’s a bit silly to think any foreign contamination is harmless.

It doesn’t ‘know’ anything, and getting it to, “triple check” itself is merely reinforcing those terms in the token space. These LLMs do not even begin to have the capacity to actually check their sources.

The only way it does work is to add extra algorithms that check correlation between output and source, and even then, you’re still back in the realm of word weight association.

TL;DR - LLMs literally cannot do this.

1. It’s a loss of volume, not vasomotors pulling the skin ‘down’, though that can be chocked up to phrasing.

2. It is still caused by water absorption, though not directly and not only.

3. The medical paper makes no mention of “improving grip”. That conclusion seems to be spurious and almost certainly wrong. The tire tread bit is particularly hilariously dumb. Your fingertips don’t need to shed water like a tire ffs.

rofl if you continue to fail to understand how lead isn’t the only viable option, you’re only proving how pathetic and ignorant YOU care to be on the topic. Pathetic. Genuinely, your view is ignorance manifest.

You’re defending using literal biotoxins as projectiles. You are a vile piece of shit who would readily violate many treaties of the past. You are a fucking loser who fails to understand the problems of certain technological advancement. You are a braindead stone sitting in the stream of the past.

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This isn’t a discussion of lead vs some stupid-ass strawman you all imagine. This is about lead vs literally anything possible.

If you think copper or other heavy-ish metal bullets could never compete with lead, even on spread and delivered damage, then you are just stupid.

The force difference for rounds made to similar WOULD be miniscule, because they’d be made to be similar. OFC you cannot cheat physics. I’m not trying to defend bullets made of fucking feathers here…

Unless you’re a sniper working from 100+ yards, you do not need to care about the energy delivery difference air resistance would make.

Even then, it’s more about bullet drop and far less about suddenly losing lethality.

Yes, notice how it is shaped far more complicated than a normal lead bullet? Now why in the world would they make it so complicated if there didn’t have to be a softer metal on the outside…? 🤔

Lead is 1000% cheaper than that style of bullet. The only way changing out all bullets to (functional) steel would work is if you wanted to make it even more of a yuppie hobby in the US…

Not to mention, such styles of ammo suck at dropping soft targets…

Steel bullets would also absolutely destroy 99.9% of rifled barrels. Which is the vast majority of them.

Nope. The core is the strength of the bullet. If it were steel, you can bet your ass that thin copper jacket is not going to magically allow the bullet to squish through the barrel.

“… but lead from the bullet isn’t exactly getting sprayed all around.”

no, just the bullets themselves get sprayed around everywhere. Regardless of what removing lead from bullets would mean for humans, it would be great for the environment either way.

That technical level of discussion is all totally BS as far as politics is concerned. If your target can be harmed and isn’t armored, almost any kind of bullet will harm them. If they’re armored properly, nothing civilians get access to is going to harm them.

If you’re defending from an intruder, do you think they’ll be stopped faster by six bullets that fragment into five pieces each, or six bullets that fragment into three pieces each? Or maybe your (royal your: the people who seriously whine about all gun regulation) dumb ass is just splitting hairs after six shots…

The force difference would be absolutely miniscule. The energy comes from the powder, not the bullet material. Denser cores increase penetration by concentrating the force, not magically delivering more force.

That’s incorrect. It’s correlation, not causation.

If lead were such a direct cause of violence, they should start diverging at the introduction of lead, not long after a notable decline in lead levels. (ok ok not diverge at first, but still have a predictable, visible connection throughout)

Children grow up constantly, and only one of the lines is not age-restricted. If it were to ever diverge while still being a major cause, it’d begin to diverge at the introduction of the stimulus… or rather, start to diverge when the supposed initiating cause was reduced.

As you say, lead is a lifetime problem. If it were to be a tent pole contributor to violence, violence wouldn’t have reduced in lockstep basically ever.

Lead is a massive problem and is a toxin, but it surely did not itself contribute to increased violence. Increased stupidity? Absolutely.

lol no. Lead in the atmosphere is a problem, because if it’s in the atmosphere, you are breathing it. Remember that next time you see a gas plant spewing out exhaust.

Nuclear power plants will not exhaust anything except water vapor unless things go terribly wrong. Things going terribly wrong basically cannot release radiation with modern designs unless you were to bomb the core directly, with large bombs to defeat the containment building and massive amounts of stuff surrounding them…

Fossil fuels are infinitely worse for everyone than nuclear, with or without lead.

We do see relativistic and quantum effects at macro scales. Not necessarily day to day, but many experiments have shown it’s quite a blurry line between quantum states and ‘normal’ states.

From things like Bose-Einstein condensates having quantum properties across the entire mass, and experiments showing that electrons and even things as big as protons still can exhibit wave-like properties, amongst many other phenomenon, it’s blatantly obvious there is no hard line.