Pretty sure you get Medicaid if you are on disability, no?
But I'm from somewhere that has loads of people on benefits, but no one says "disability" it's medical retirement and they get around all the restrictions by doing gig work under other people's name, and then taking their split in cash 80/20.
The big bags of that candy also come with an actual silicagel packet to keep humidity from ruining the candy, so it's always a fun game of "guess what's edible".
> Benford was brought in to help calculate the probability that someone or something would intrude on the site for as long as it remains dangerous — approximately the next 10,000 years. It turns out, few things (outside of organized religions and ritualized traditions) last that long.
What a weird thing to say. No organized religion or ritualized tradition has ever lasted that long.
In the post-Hellenistic world yes, but I remember reading something about an aboriginal fire ritual that had been practised by indigenous people in Australia for something like 12000 years. I think there are also very long traditions of ritual practice in Native American peoples. Because these traditions were passed down orally or through generational practice they have gradually been lost which is sad.
I think there’s also a cave in the Middle East where there is evidence that it had been a ritual centre for 30000 years.
And you could probably make a relatively convincing argument that the ‘dying and rising god’ tradition that underpins Christian ritual is just a syncretic continuum going backwards from Jesus Christ to Dionysus to Osiris to Iah to moon deities - the moon being a ‘dying and rising’ entity, which itself underpins a wide tradition of fertility ritual.
So although it’s a stretch there is maybe some logic behind the statement!
> but I remember reading something about an aboriginal fire ritual that had been practised by indigenous people in Australia for something like 12000 years
In Australia they're very proud of asserting things like that, but obviously there is no evidence it's true. On the other hand, there's lots of evidence that that doesn't happen.
> Because these traditions were passed down orally or through generational practice they have gradually been lost which is sad.
The fact that this mechanism of loss exists is already sufficient to prove that a tradition can't last 10,000 years.
Based on this article I think that there's is a reasonable body of evidence to suggest it might be true. Sure, not irrefutable evidence, but evidence does exist.
I'd be genuinely interested to see evidence that it doesn't happen, too, though.
> The fact that this mechanism of loss exists is already sufficient to prove that a tradition can't last 10,000 years.
That seems a bit of a non-sequitur, and without being a glib keyboard warrior Sagan's "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" is pretty relevant here.
As I argued previously, there's a fairly strong line from ancient fertility rituals to Christian tradition, and I'm not sure that those syncretic routes are particularly disputed at a top level. I agree that there are definitely people who run away with those sorts of inheritances and make all sorts of claims using them, but the simple thread of "moon > fertility > Iah > Osiris > Dionysus > Christ" is not (as I understand it) particularly contested.
So I'm not sure that a "mechanism of loss" is proof that a ritual can't last 10,000 years in native populations with an exclusively oral cultural tradition - it might be fairer to say that we have no proof that it can persist.
Again, I don't have the reference, but I remember reading something that was essentially "the archaeology of story telling" tracing early oral tradition through to things like fairy tales, to the modern day.
Similarly, things like flood myths and myths around the seven sisters - the latter of which astronomers think could be as much as 100,000 years old - indicate to me that stories, and by extension ritual, could persist for far longer than 10,000 years.
TL;DR we found these chemicals present but with only one cherry picked exception we make no quantifiable claims of potential harm. That exception is lead, and we used the strictest standard we are aware of to describe the "dose", also note that we assume that the product is ingested to come to our conclusion. We also use weasel wording to avoid explicitly claiming that there are any regulatory or legal violations.
“Weasel words”? The article repeatedly makes clear, unambiguous statements, and repeatedly links to full results:
> * All the synthetic braiding hair products we tested contained multiple carcinogens. Three products contained benzene, a known carcinogen that causes acute myeloid leukemia. “It is strictly regulated and discouraged to use in laboratories because of its potential to cause cancer,” Rogers says. Two products contained an animal carcinogen, and all the samples contained a probable carcinogen, methylene chloride. See the chart below for the full list of known, probable, and possible carcinogens that were detected. Also, see our full test results (PDF).*
> Rogers and his team determined that the nine samples in which lead was detected all exceeded the level deemed safe by experts… We used those levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead in synthetic braiding hair
> CR contacted all the brands for comment about the test results. Only two, Sensationnel and Magic Fingers, responded. … Neither company responded to questions about whether or not they test their products for lead, VOCs, or other contaminants before they go to market.
> “There’s no doubt about it that this actually needs a very intensive evaluation because the use is so widespread amongst a specific population,” she says.
As someone who has worked in compliance testing for tightly controlled software platforms, things like this piss me off. These problems have known solutions.
