Fairphone also lets you change out the battery very easily, so it’s not that big of a deal if it degrades. You might save the world 20% of a battery’s worth of e-waste by micromanaging your charging, which won’t really make a difference.

The fact that there’s textbook fascists in the US government and many people I know seem to still be in denial. Mostly non-US people, in case that changes the equation.

Maybe like 13. However it wasn’t until my twenties until I learnt what it actually means, and I’m convinced most of the general populace never learn that.

This is a lot more than mildly infuriating, even as a non-brit.

Cancer rates are not 1 in 1000. Something like 40% of people will be diagnosed with cancer at some point in their lives.

Thousands or tens of thousands of people is not statistically insignificant.

We increase the background rate in a city of 10 million people to say, 200 mSv/year for five decades and do the experiment to see if their genetics can handel it to get statically meaningful data?

As the video points out, there already is such a city of Ramsar, Iran, though it’s not 10 million people but rather some thousands or tens of thousands. It’s one of the places used for these studies.