They compared results to California’s "Proposition 65" threshold, which is only a consumer-warning benchmark and not a federal law.

  Proposition 65 sets an extremely low “level of concern” of 0.5 micrograms of lead per day, far below the FDA’s own guidance of 15 micrograms per day for adults.

These figures are expressed as daily intake, not concentration in the product.

In contrast, the EU regulates heavy metals as contaminants in food supplements under Regulation (EU) 2023/915, which limits lead to 3 milligrams per kilogram of product, equal to 3,000 micrograms per kilo.

A typical 30-gram serving would therefore legally contain up to about 90 micrograms of lead. Numerically that is much higher than both US reference levels, but EU rules are binding law, not advisory, and products are routinely tested before and after they reach the market.

In the US, supplements are only lightly regulated under the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act, and companies do not need pre-market approval.

So while California’s Proposition 65 looks much stricter, it is mainly a consumer-warning regime, not an enforceable contamination limit, whereas the EU system sets a legal ceiling but enforces it systematically.

In short, the problem described by Consumer Reports reflects US regulatory gaps rather than something likely to occur widely in the US, though the EU’s numeric limit is paradoxically higher because it is designed as a legal cap, not a “no-risk” benchmark.

Nature already made it that way, when you have procreated, you can die.
Science prolonged it.

I'm sure you mean a non-existing genocide, where people are killed because of their geographical location, not their ethnicity.

Making it a GEOcide.

"Volkswagen, burdened with massive electrification costs, "

Not to mention the fraud costs.

Volkswagen’s diesel-emissions scandal — “Dieselgate” — ended up costing them around €33–40 billion globally, depending on what you count. That includes U.S. fines and buybacks (about $25 billion), European recalls and legal settlements, and years of reputational fallout that tanked sales and share value.

To put that in perspective, VW’s entire electric-vehicle development push — including new MEB platforms, the Zwickau conversion, and the early ID lineup — cost about €35 billion up to 2025. In other words, Dieselgate alone could have funded the whole transition to electric, factories and all, once over.

Or to dramatize it: every euro spent on covering up nitrogen oxides could have built a battery plant instead. The scandal didn’t just pollute the air, it delayed VW’s EV pivot by several years, letting Tesla and the Chinese automakers seize the lead.

But the Romans solved that problem a long time ago.

Roman concrete absorbs CO2 over its lifetime through carbonation, where the hydrated cement reacts with CO2 to form calcium carbonate (calcite).

Because Roman structures can last for millennia, the total duration of this CO2 uptake is extremely long, allowing the process to continue for much longer than the intended service life of most modern concrete (50–120 years and that's generous)

It's called breeding.

Ever saw a Chihuahua?

That's a formerly wild wolf.

Doesn't the Nissan Leaf get about 60 miles?

I was looking at a cheap used one that was down to 45 miles, I think.

30 miles gets me to town and back so it would only last a few years at that rate.

A murder of crows

A parliament of owls

A flamboyance of flamingos

A murmuration of starlings

A business of ferrets

A conspiracy of lemurs

An obstinacy of buffalo

And now a flock of cameras.

The 'uninspired' teachers wrote 'uninspired' shitty prompts.

This is Major Tom to Ground Control
I'm stepping through the door
And I'm floating in a most peculiar way
And the stars look very different today?

Rents are supposed to be decided by a group of slimy slumlords, like god intended.

I remember that lazy bastard that didn't want to use paintbrushes, so he used gravity instead. much less cleaning to do.
Pollock or something...

I guess you're the only one still using a slide ruler.

Like we all and some few of us have even a similar memory.

The Encyclopedia Britannica says Wikipedia is causing dangerously less buyers.