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dko

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Too-earnest chronic illness fuckup

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renegadejade , to random
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My therapist had to cancel this afternoon so I’ve picked three relatable mental health memes to share with y’all instead.

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dko , to random
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reader friends, any recommendations for epub sources? my last device was quite some time ago (👇), but i assume Proj. Guttenberg and Internet Archive are still a good place to start?

i was planning to get a kobo clara 2e and just sideload and/or borrow from my extremely awesome library.

are there somewhat ethical places i can buy epubs and support authors of current books?

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@ehurtley @pluralistic Cheers, much appreciated!

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Millions have died and developed chronic illness from COVID. Millions have died and developed chronic illness from air pollution. Making sure our buildings have clean air isn't only a COVID issue. It's a climate justice issue too.

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@luckytran Air quality should be a much bigger concern for everyone. No other intervention / improvement so positively affects disease spread, intellectual performance, incidence of cardiovascular & metabolic diseases, and on and on.

As far as return on investment in public health goes, improving air quality is probably only rivaled by indoor plumbing and obstetrics/pediatrics.

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Pittsburgh: a polluting coke plant is suddenly closed. Emergency visits for cardiovascular disease decreased 42% immediately, continued over 3 yrs

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2752-5309/ace4ea

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At 1000ppm CO2, decision making is measurably impaired. At 2500ppm that impairment becomes substantial. Those are numbers I wouldn't be surprised to see in a home even with a modern HVAC system or in a meeting room after half an hour of people sharing the same space.

https://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/summer-2016-welcome-to-there/your-brain-carbon-dioxide-research-finds-even-low/

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High PM2.5 levels and air pollution correlate with increased incidence of dementia

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-27049-2#Sec2

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Road proximity (< 50 m from a major road or < 150 m from a highway) was associated with non-Alzheimer's dementia, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, and multiple sclerosis.

https://ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12940-020-0565-4

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PM2.5 now also has a well-researched link to Type 2 diabetes. Both in multiple studies with "WEIRD" subjects as well as south-east Asian populations exposed to higher levels of PM2.5.

https://drc.bmj.com/content/bmjdrc/11/5/e003333.full.pdf

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