Arsenic is found naturally in some foods, including fish and shellfish, and in waters and soils.

Inorganic arsenic is found in industrial materials and gets into water—including water used to submerge rice paddies.

Rice is easily inundated with weeds and other crops, but it has one advantage: It grows well in water. So farmers germinate the seeds, and when the seedlings are ready, plant them in wet soil. They then flood their fields, which suppresses weeds, but allows the rice to flourish. Rice readily absorbs the water and everything in it—including arsenic, either naturally occurring or not. Most of the world’s rice is grown this way.

“What happens in rice, because of complex biogeochemical processes in the soil, when temperatures and CO2 go up, inorganic arsenic also does,” Ziska said. “And it’s this inorganic arsenic that poses the greatest health risk.”

If I’m understanding correctly, the risk is from flooding the fields with contaminated water

A farm that relies on flooding the field with rain from a rainy season should be unaffected? Or minorly affected, right?

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This is what goes through my head every time I see it 😂

I’ve decided it’s a feature; not a bug…

(Computer Based Training if you’re asking seriously, though)

We’re the Russians standing in bread lines, now…

Your HR’s CBT must be waaaay more complicated than ours if you need AI to help answer the questions 😂

“Your line manager tells you to ‘Grab them by the pussy; when you’re a manager they just let you do it’. Has this crossed the line into sexual harassment?”

⚪️ No. this is acceptable behavior
🔘 Yes. You should report this to HR
⚪️ You’re required to follow your line managers orders or risk dismissal for insubordination
⚪️ Sometimes it’s good to relax and joke around in the office.

Bpii Mai Thai

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Yes.

My wife is Thai. I knew Thai New Year was here but it still caught me off guard when she wished me a Happy New Year this morning.

Beat me by 52 seconds.

Self tapping screws with the head broken off

“If this gonna be that kinda party imma stick my pussy in the mashed potatoes”

If you mean quit as in actively deciding “I quit”, no. I definitely go days without checking in though. Usually because life gets in the way. And I’ve definitely been less active since the US election.

It was a better performance than the game show host could ever dream of giving though…

Maybe they should use the GOP Gerrymandered maps as guidance and only selectively knock on doors.

Personally I’m not telling any of my neighbors because I don’t think it’ll help 🤐

There is also a map with registered addresses of the challenged votes. You can see if your neighbors are affected.

I don’t know why this is being downvoted.

Because the circumstances of Khashoggi’s death were entirely different?

I thought this was AI slop at first 🤣

The full name for ‘Bangkok’ in Thai is ‘กรุงเทพมหานคร อมรรัตนโกสินทร์ มหินทรายุธยา มหาดิลกภพ นพรัตนราชธานีบูรีรมย์ อุดมราชนิเวศน์มหาสถาน อมรพิมานอวตารสถิต สักกะทัตติยวิษณุกรรมประสิทธิ์’

Transliterated into English it’s ‘Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Ayuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit’

https://www.bananathaischool.com/blog/bangkoks-full-name/

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I hope you got Ernie’s consent to post this…