LNT does not assume that there isn’t a repair mechanism. It assumes that the repair mechanism has a constant failure rate. That’s a pretty good match for the primary biological process involved.

All of the studies I’m aware of looking at lower dose thresholds for radiation occur on timescales and in situations where the benefits of selection due to mutations overrides the negative effects of mutations on cancers. They aren’t actually measuring lifetime cancer risk on an organism level. (If a study is talking about comparing sieverts instead of doses of a specific kind of radiation, it’s also suspect.)

It’s theoretically possible to have a positive effect on an organism level, but that involves much more complicated biological mechanims like immunity and epigenetics which aren’t as easily modeled or as well understood. Moreover, they also have the capability of being supra-linear at low rates of DNA damage.

The reasoning behind abandoning ALARA isn’t particularly strong; it’s based on pragmatism and economics of risk, not the underlying biology and chemistry of ionizing radiation exposure. Linear No Threshold is still one of the more conservative models that accurately depicts the impact of ionizing radiation on the underlying biology of adducts, double strand breaks, and associated repair mechanisms.

We’re already in a shooting gallery of radiation exposure due to solar and terrestrial sources; controlling some radiation sources won’t be worth the cost, but that’s where reasonable comes in.

There are better candidates on the ballot, but money and strategic voting because of FPTP make some of those candidates less likely to be elected. This isn’t an issue unique to California.

Most farms should be corporate owned in the US if for no other reason than to be a liability shield. The question is who owns the corporation and whether the workers are being adequately compensated.

The shadow moving is more akin to bandwidth of transmission rather than speed of transmission. You still have to wait for the photons (so speed of light) for the information to arrive, even if the “speed” of the shadow appears FTL.

The thinking is that as an independent he’ll receive more votes than as a Democrat, as people who don’t like the Democratic party but dislike the Republicans more will vote for him in addition to all Democrats who would never vote for the Republican candidate.

The Republicans thought so too, which is why they ran a spoiler candidate on the Democratic primary ticket.

All of these shenanigans are happening because FPTP voting is absolute trash and should be gotten rid of immediately if not sooner.

they still need to award a participation trophy to someone on their team.

That’s not it. The point was for her to win and drop out so there wouldn’t be a Democrat on the ballot at all to dillute the vote. If she hadn’t won, there would be a Republican plant running on the Democratic ticket.

There are plenty of bad things to castigate the Democratic party for; we don’t need to invent them.

A facade, even.

Like an old Western set. All front wall, nothing in the back.

This is slightly incorrect. Congress can pass a law forming a body which can then determine if the president is unable to perform their duties and invoke section 4 of the 25th amendment.

Passing such a law would almost certainly require a veto override, and even then, Congress would still need a two thirds majority of both houses to make section four stick.

This bill’s primary purpose is to force Republicans to be on record that they are just fine with whatever unhinged things Trump is doing. Just like the war powers bills.

That’s the same as asking “How many deaths have seatbelts prevented?”

Just like measuring the effectiveness of the TSA, it is possible to measure the effectiveness of seatbelts.

So yes, you can come up with an estimate of how many excess deaths TSA prevented. (Especially since the government tends to try to convict people who were trying to kill people.)

The only thing that changes is that more power shifts to the civil servants,

And most importantly, power shifts to the lobbyists who help advise on how to write the laws to maximally benefit their clients. It’s yet another carve out for billionaires and those who control extensive capital.

Apparently planned years in advance.

This launch, designated GT 255, was scheduled years ago, and is not in response to world events.

The law defines a public webpage as a covered app store. Anything that can run doom and view a webpage is potentially covered.

It’s way overbroad and unclear how it could be implemented, and likely to be challenged in court if it even gets that far.

I don’t know the details, but I’d expect an object store was being used (GCP Cloud Storage) and then the question is what the object retention policy is on each stage of the processing pipeline. It’s possible that they had to go to the underlying storage, but it probably didn’t even take that.