Silica is one of the most common minerals on earth. Any type of stone countertop has a potentially dangerous amount of inhaled. Just use a dust mask when cutting/grinding stone or when around people who are. If anything, synthetic countertops could (but currently is not) be made to have very low levels of silica, but people should still not be breathing them in.
I wonder if inductive power transfer could be used to eliminate the need for a battery. It would only have to power the LEDs, not the motor as that could be mounted to the base. Additionally, both coils could be placed right inside of each other, and on a ferrite core.
Where the “thea” part comes from Chinese. It would be bizarre for a beverage discovered in ancient China (and brought to Europe only a couple centuries ago) to be named in latin.
Herbal teas were common in Europe before camellia sinensis tea was imported, so I find it hard to believe the Latin origin is correct.
In Lithuanian 'arbarta' colloquially refers to all types of hot water infused drinks, there isn't any distinction of what kind of leaf or fruit (e.g. raspberry or buckthorn tea) is used.
On the other hand, the consensus in English is that where wasn't a word for this type of drink, you just used the herb's name itself.
> Herbal teas were common in Europe before camellia sinensis tea was imported
They weren’t called teas though. tê is the name in Hokkien and that’s where all the similar-sounding names for tea come from originally… in countries where tea was originally brought from China via sea. The Polish name herbata was coined in the XVIIth century specifically for camelia sinensis, but due to general ignorance about what it actually was beyond “an infusion from some weed with medical applications” the word lost precision.
They can round any number under 5 kilocalories to 0, and a gram of sugar has 4 kcal. Same thing with most sweetener packets, which use sugar as a filler or else there would be less then a single grain of powder per pack. Ironically, there is another fairly common filler: erythritol, which has less calories then sugar, and doesn't contribute to blood sugar, but because of how it's produced it can't be labeled natural.
I really don't know, but the next few years will sure be interesting for content moderation and anti-spam methods.
That is provided, of course that, people actually care about bots, large companies might well not, as bots drive up user counts. With increasingly more human like bots, it will be increasingly difficult to determine just how bad it is. An internet full of bots might be a conspiracy theory now (Dead internet theory), but is quickly becoming plausible.
