I don't speak the magical linguini language on the italian part of the presentation but it seems to be some kind of showcase of lab results obtained using LA-ICP-MS, which is a pretty ***ing neat analytical chemistry technique for metal analysis so here's a LA-ICP-MS crash course :

The "LA" part stands for Laser Ablation. A laser will blast away some of the surface of a sample leaving a really small crater (the crater images you see in the .ppt are smaller than the width of a hair). The matter "burned away" by the laser is reduced to atoms in a really small cloud of hot gas aerosol

The material that was "burned away" by the laser is then carried into the "ICP-MS" part which is a kind of mass spectrometer. The ICP-MS image I used is from a ICP-TOF-MS, a type of "Time-Of-Flight" mass spectrometer that can scan and analyze the presence of almost every element in the periodic table by looking at how long that specific ion has been traveling after the entrance into the instrument.

So the whole LA-ICP-MS process goes :

1 - Laser ablation goes zap
2 - Burned atoms are introduced into the "ICP" (a type of plasma, really ***ing hot)
3 - Atoms lose some electrons to become "ions"
4 - The ion beam produced in the "ICP" is steered by magnets to enter the "MS" (mass spectrometer part)
5 - Faster ions of lighter elements are "detected" first (as in : they litterally crash into the detector plate like a drunk man crashes into a school bus), heavier ions (Uranium and friends) will be detected last
6 - Beep boop magic cumputer stuff will analyze the signal to give result

All in all done over about 1-2 millisecond (mostly limited by the speed of the aerosol produced by the laser, the detection of the whole periodic table takes about 50-100 microsecond on modern instruments otherwise)

It is really fun to use to produce "maps" of elemental composition in rocks and small biological samples by "scanning" the surface with the laser, which gives way more information than simply looking at it with a microscope.

tl;dr Fire a laser at something and look how fast atoms fly away afterwards to determine the elemental composition of pretty much anything down to the microscopic level (assuming the laser is strong enough)

If throwing matter into an Argon plasma hotter than the surface of the Sun then steering away the ion beam via the sheer force of m̶̶̶a̶̶̶g̶̶̶i̶̶̶c̶̶̶ magnets for mass separation and detection of a rancid fart diluted in a thousand olympic pools isn't cool

then nothing is

oh boy FFTA postin'

we all makes mistakes in the heat of passion jimbo

It's not that millons of people aren't part of the problem. It's the marketing of "climate change is an individual issue" by a massive industrial contributor the problem.

A bit like those *** plastic producers teaming up and heavily marketing "recycling" as a viable way to handle plastic waste with their bullshit RIC while being fully aware that the waste management industry was not able to economically handle the massive quantity and diversity of plastic waste so it would end up in dumps in third world countries.

I HATE OVERPACKAGING. OH YEAH THIS SAUSAGE REALLY NEEDED 3 LAYERS OF PVC/PET FILM OVER A POLYSTYRENE CONTAINER.
I HATE MICROPLASTICS.
I HATE NANOPLASTICS

Thank you Terry

I had my doubts about Trump losing his meme magic recently but I stand corrected.
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Wasn't so sure about wich one to use so here's another for the 18 naked cowboys out there

MAiD is used as a medical euthanasia alternative (injections) since 2016 in some provinces and has been fully legalized federally (despite being legal on most provinces already) since 2021.

From official reports the median age of people requesting MAID is well over 75 and despite what recent memes try to tell you MAID is still overwhelmingly (98%+) used in cases where reasonable foreseeable natural death is in play.

People that ask for MAID are generally in end-of life conditions from cancer (60%), cardiovascular, respiratory failures... ect (or a combination of those). It's not an apply and you're done thing either as you can still die from natural causes while the request is being evaluated (it's the case in about 10% of the requests)

The process actually involves a vetto 2nd opinion from an external practicioner to make sure that the MAID is actually done at the request of the patient under full knowledge of what is happening and not under pressure. You can't request MAID if you're not legally able to understand it (think advanced Alzheimer or neurological problems).

There's a few published reports if you're actually interested https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/medical-assistance-dying/annual-report-2021.html

As for how the public take it it's well perceived generally. For myself I saw personally how the whole process while a relative was dying from generalized cancer and would 100% go out this way instead of waiting weeks for my body to rot away with nothing I can do about it while I still have some control of myself.

tl;dr Fringe abuse cases are being blown out way out of proportions by the mass media (what a surprise) and some of those cases may actually be criminally investigated