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Bikesandbakeries t1_ja1tst2 wrote

Reply to comment by Khfreak7526 in Unpredictable childhood environments linked to food addiction in adulthood by chrisdh79

I can pinpoint the start of my life long issues to the first move. A switch def got flipped. I wish someone would have addressed it. It got worse each move. As a teen it swung from starvation and extreme weight loss to binging. In fact every move as a late teen to now involved a pattern of extreme loss/low weight to start with… i just realized huh.

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CGNer t1_ja1s9it wrote

Reply to comment by mjh2901 in Workers tasked with moving products in the U.S. food and beverage supply chain are at a high risk of severe injuries and fatalities — Grocery wholesalers and grocery retail stores saw the highest number of injuries, followed closely by the warehousing and storage groups by marketrent

Also all the best qualified for these jobs have moved to Amazon, leaving companies scrapping bottom of the barrel workers because they don't want to pay more...

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AdvonKoulthar t1_ja1qkrr wrote

Reply to comment by bluddragon1 in Workers tasked with moving products in the U.S. food and beverage supply chain are at a high risk of severe injuries and fatalities — Grocery wholesalers and grocery retail stores saw the highest number of injuries, followed closely by the warehousing and storage groups by marketrent

Thanks to an evidence based judicial system, taking physical objects will remain easier to prosecute and discover than digital numbers not being equal to other numbers

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jtd1776 t1_ja1nvsl wrote

Reply to comment by crazymoefaux in Workers tasked with moving products in the U.S. food and beverage supply chain are at a high risk of severe injuries and fatalities — Grocery wholesalers and grocery retail stores saw the highest number of injuries, followed closely by the warehousing and storage groups by marketrent

According to the latest data available from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), there were 5,333 fatal work injuries recorded in the United States in 2020. Of those, 1,089 were homicides, which means that approximately 20% of all fatal work injuries in 2020 were homicides. This number includes police officers.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), there were 614 fatal occupational injuries among delivery and other miscellaneous drivers in the United States in 2020. This category includes all drivers who are not classified as heavy or tractor-trailer truck drivers, but who operate vehicles to transport goods, make deliveries, or perform other similar duties. There is no specific number on intentional homicide of these people, who can be anything from Uber Eats, to Amazon drivers. Due to the nature of their job (driver) one can infer that most of their deaths likely resulted from a traffic collision or traffic incident.

According to the FBI's Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted (LEOKA) Program, which collects data on law enforcement officer fatalities in the United States, a total of 366 law enforcement officers died in the line of duty in 2020. Of those, 47 were feloniously killed, which means they were intentionally killed while performing their duties as law enforcement officers.

There are nearly we’re 3 million delivery drivers working in the US in 2020 according to BLS, and possibly many more unaccounted for freelance drivers working food delivery and other delivery services. There were approximately 700,000 police officers in the US in 2020.

I’ll let you do all the math, but I believe that sufficiently proves that police officers probably have a more dangerous job than pizza delivery drivers.

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-Swaggy t1_ja1mbm0 wrote

Reply to comment by lekkermuff in Workers tasked with moving products in the U.S. food and beverage supply chain are at a high risk of severe injuries and fatalities — Grocery wholesalers and grocery retail stores saw the highest number of injuries, followed closely by the warehousing and storage groups by marketrent

The workers under serious wage threat don't have the savings to take time off. The rest know corporations and government policies are against them, or don't, but in most cases can live pretty comfortably for the moment. There's not the incentive to protest for most. Also, it takes a lot of planning and organization to be effective. If you go out by yourself there will be no message heard. In addition, to anybody that knows anything about the history of governments and corporations, they know governments will always side with the wealthy and corporations, because that's who they really represent. So if things end up being ongoing for a few months with no resolution from governments or corporations, people will have to die for change. If peaceful protests don't work, violence is the only remaining solution.

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Nonstopdrivel t1_ja1kh2h wrote

Reply to comment by faiththeillustrious in The Role of Insulin Signaling in Hippocampal-Related Diseases: A Focus on Alzheimer’s Disease by faiththeillustrious

I’m still working my way through the paper, but I’ve read enough to think that my frequently expressed hypothesis that there is something fundamentally different about the brains of people with type 2 diabetes, something that seems to blunt their affective responses and lead to generalised apathy, is not so out there after all. You can see this blasé approach to life even in very young patients before they have an official diagnosis of type 2 diabetes. I work with them every single day, and I still find their impenetrable lack of passion for, well, anything just as disconcerting as the first time I encountered it. There has to be some sort of genetic mutation endemic to the type 2 diabetic population that accounts for this.

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DTFH_ t1_ja1j8df wrote

Reply to comment by r-reading-my-comment in Workers tasked with moving products in the U.S. food and beverage supply chain are at a high risk of severe injuries and fatalities — Grocery wholesalers and grocery retail stores saw the highest number of injuries, followed closely by the warehousing and storage groups by marketrent

> They also say law enforcement has the most general violence committed against them

Did they compare themselves to healthcare workers? I'm sure behavioral health workers beats out law enforcement tenfold.

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Chii t1_ja1hzn8 wrote

Reply to comment by pittopottamus in Public opinion on climate change in China from two national surveys: findings suggest that Chinese people have a fairly high awareness of the existence and anthropogenic causes of climate change by Biosphere_Collapse

> meaningful policy change targeting the big dogs doesn’t also happen

not disagree, but any policy that costs more (such as carbon capture) would mean the costs passed down to the eventual consumers.

So ultimately, individuals bear the cost. What is needed is for policy to ensure all externalities are accounted for and paid for, and this requires gov't intervention.

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The_Original_Gronkie t1_ja1fkta wrote

Reply to Researchers believe rising sea temperatures are to blame for the plummeting number of invertebrates such as molluscs and sea urchins at Rottnest Island off Western Australia, with some species having declined by up to 90 per cent between 2007 and 2021. by Wagamaga

I'm glad I snorkeled the Carribean back in the late 80s, early 90s. I think I saw it before it all goes dead. Such a shame, it was so beautiful back then.

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