As a matter of comparison, that cracker would probably not sever your fingers off even if held tightly in a fist, but do not try it, for god’s sake, I may be very wrong too, whereas the similar volume of PETN, would cut your wrist off even if held on an open palm.
In the army we used to cut trees with explosive fuse made of PETN. Three rounds around a tree of 10cm diameter was enough, if my memory serves right.
How to opt out of some platforms AI data scoop:
NVIDIA stock to the molten core.
For those communists out there - this is an example of how markets work. you may think that NVIDIA is overpriced, but it’s that very high value itself that drives (incentivizes) the massive investment needed to build new and powerful competitors and so to break monopolies. Tax away the gains or central plan investment and you end up with no new competition and so no new innovation.
Anyone active on BitcoinTalk?
Weird that they can’t simply do a tiny bit of research. Seems like they maybe someone with an axe to grind.
It’d be funny if they cannot find SAFE anymore and didn’t bother following the trail to Autonomi
Well done @DavidMc0 
Dusting off the old Bitcointalk account 
Can we start with all the English white settlers in Scotland, please?
Dear Friends,
History has been made. After 7 years of pursuing legal action against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over the risk posed to the developing brain by the practice of water fluoridation, the United States District Court of the Northern District of California has just ruled on behalf of the Fluoride Action Network and the plaintiffs in our precedent-setting court case. A U.S. federal court has now deemed fluoridation an “unreasonable risk” to the health of children, and the EPA will be forced to regulate it as such. The decision is written very strongly in our favor, and we will share it in its entirety tomorrow. Below is an excerpt from the introduction of the ruling:
“The issue before this Court is whether the Plaintiffs have established by a preponderance of the evidence that the fluoridation of drinking water at levels typical in the United States poses an unreasonable risk of injury to health of the public within the meaning of Amended TSCA. For the reasons set forth below, the Court so finds. Specifically, the Court finds that fluoridation of water at 0.7 milligrams per liter (“mg/L”) – the level presently considered “optimal” in the United States – poses an unreasonable risk of reduced IQ in children…the Court finds there is an unreasonable risk of such injury, a risk sufficient to require the EPA to engage with a regulatory response…One thing the EPA cannot do, however, in the face of this Court’s finding, is to ignore that risk.”
In this moment, I want to recognize attorney Michael Connett for pursuing this case and leading the effort every step of the way. He’s a true superhero to all of us here at FAN. Many other amazing team members were also involved in making this a reality and deserve great appreciation and thanks, including our co-plaintiffs and all of you who donated and spread the word about our case. Take a moment to celebrate this momentous occasion tonight, wherever you are. After 7 years, we all deserve it.
Please stay tuned as we will provide further comprehensive details in a press release and bulletin tomorrow.
Sincerely,
Stuart Cooper
Executive Director
Fluoride Action Network
So nice to see that the byproducts of fertilizer and aluminum production will no longer be dumped in the public water supply. They don’t even use medical grade chemical. They use cosmetic grade material which is not for internal use.
What is your bet, if the ruling stands after all the appeals, that they will want to reduce the level rather than remove it. The ruling specifically states that at those levels. Nothing about if any is added at lower (or higher) levels. Although higher levels would to a reasonable person be covered by the ruling that if at 0.7 mg/l its bad then higher would be also bad. But there are other things where this is not the case.
You are right the will appeal until the option is exhausted. Lawsuits are their biggest fear.
What I don’t like about putting it in the water is dose can’t be controlled. If you have a guy working out in the summer heat laying asphalt drinking water all day he’s going to get a far higher dose than someone sipping water at home.
Or in food processing where large volumes of water are evaporated you end up with foods with very high fluoride levels.
On the upside there is more research coming out all the time that fluoride is harmful to mammals.
I have a friend who’s a PhD medical chemist. He works on chemo drugs and won’t work with fluoride stages in the lab. He said yes there are safety precautions but if something goes wrong it really bad. He said it’s just nasty stuff that reacts with nearly everything.
This is likely separate from it’s poisonous properties. My chemistry prof. told me about a prof. he used to work with who had several missing fingers due to his work with halogens of which fluoride is one - it’s that entire column of the periodic table. They are all incredibly explosive.
But yay for no fluoride in water. I only drink rainwater here - have large tanks to collect it, then I carbon filter it. When I lived in the city I used a reverse osmosis filter to remove the fluoride - carbon filters won’t remove it.
In this video, David Shapiro explores the future of artificial intelligence, predicting the rise of billions of AI agents and a massive expansion of data centers globally. He envisions AI models becoming widely accessible, similar to how CPUs and Python are today. David emphasizes the crucial role of system architecture in maximizing AI’s potential, with multi-agent frameworks enhancing their capabilities. He also discusses the emergence of AI-driven marketplaces powered by blockchain and cryptocurrency, creating decentralized networks of intelligence. Instead of a single monolithic AI, the future will feature a network of interconnected agents, driving innovation and collaboration.
The problem will be a lack of energy. Not just for the AI’s directly, but for all the people who use the AI’s to be more productive.
Currently, many complicated projects are energy possible, but too difficult for individuals and small groups to tackle. But with AI the difficulty bar will drop, thus driving more energy use and pushing the price of energy much higher.
We need a massive investment in nuclear power today. Without it, people will have the ability to do tremendous things, but we simply will not be able to afford to do them.
Hopefully sooner rather than later we get some kind of compute function on Autonomi.