16 y/o 🛠 Pivot Essentials
Joined February 2026
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Ariel retweeted
If you want to look as squeaky clean as Michael, use pivotessentials.com/
Was amazing. If you were hesitant to apply this year, you won't regret applying for the next.
Some scenes from 2E 2026.
We got a bunch of unusually curious teenagers together, took them to see some wild technology, and let them spend a few days with people who are just as obsessed with their interests as they are.
Pretty good way to spend a weekend.
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Ariel retweeted
Heavy metals are an issue in consumer products and certain foods, but Oasis turned it into a joke.
When an issue is distorted and obfuscated, people get fatigued and give up; unable to determine threat.
This is the essence of the pushback, not to defend heavy metals.
Oasis fear for profit scheme continues.
Lead in everyday vegetables:
Potatoes: 4.82 µg /serving
- About 9x CA Prop 65
- 220% above FDA threshold for children
Lettuce: 2.15 µg /serving
- About 4x CA Prop 65
- 98% of FDA threshold for children.
Tomato: 1.14 µg /serving
- About 4x CA Prop 65
- 48% of FDA threshold for children.
Food from the earth has trace heavy metals. This does not mean it’s harmful.
The Prop 65 level is set with a 1,000x margin of safety to “no observable harm.”
That means this threshold says you could have 1,000 times the level - or 162 Aloha bars - every day, for years, and would still see no harm.
Not to mention these levels were set based on the context of lead contamination in drinking water (ie, pipes), not naturally occurring lead forms - which are far less bioavailable.
Next, the FDA threshold for children must be compared against children portions, not adults. So once again Oasis missed basic arithmetic and are falsely representing the data.
Calling out food for having trace heavy metals and saying it’s a health crisis is like calling out breathing for being toxic because too much oxygen in your blood is harmful.
If you want to eat food, you will consume heavy metals. And you’ll be just fine.
Consuming this type of content, however, will result in fear and misunderstanding.
Ariel retweeted
Oasis fear for profit scheme continues.
Lead in everyday vegetables:
Potatoes: 4.82 µg /serving
- About 9x CA Prop 65
- 220% above FDA threshold for children
Lettuce: 2.15 µg /serving
- About 4x CA Prop 65
- 98% of FDA threshold for children.
Tomato: 1.14 µg /serving
- About 4x CA Prop 65
- 48% of FDA threshold for children.
Food from the earth has trace heavy metals. This does not mean it’s harmful.
The Prop 65 level is set with a 1,000x margin of safety to “no observable harm.”
That means this threshold says you could have 1,000 times the level - or 162 Aloha bars - every day, for years, and would still see no harm.
Not to mention these levels were set based on the context of lead contamination in drinking water (ie, pipes), not naturally occurring lead forms - which are far less bioavailable.
Next, the FDA threshold for children must be compared against children portions, not adults. So once again Oasis missed basic arithmetic and are falsely representing the data.
Calling out food for having trace heavy metals and saying it’s a health crisis is like calling out breathing for being toxic because too much oxygen in your blood is harmful.
If you want to eat food, you will consume heavy metals. And you’ll be just fine.
Consuming this type of content, however, will result in fear and misunderstanding.
The 5 highest-lead protein bars in 2026 testing
Aloha Peanut Butter Cup: 3.08 µg /serving
- About 6.2× California’s Prop 65 lead benchmark
- 140% of FDA’s daily lead benchmark for children
Santa Cruz Paleo Chocolate: 1.80 µg
- 3.6× Prop 65 benchmark
- 82% FDA’s benchmark
David Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk: 1.67 µg
- 3.6× Prop 65 benchmark
- 76% FDA’s benchmark
Kreatures of Habit Daily Bar Chocolate Peanut Butter Banger: 1.36 µg
- 2.7× Prop 65 benchmark
- 62% FDA’s benchmark
GoMacro Smooth Sanctuary: 0.98 µg
- Nearly 2× Prop 65 benchmark
- 44% FDA’s benchmark
Check Oasis app for the complete protein bar reports
These Oasis guys need to start reading the studies they cite before posting. Here's what was actually done:
They incubated Benzoyl Peroxide products at extreme 158*F temps to induce benzene formation. The average max temperature for a HOT shower is 105*F and most of these products are stored in room temperature anyways.
Next they claim that when they do induce benzene, it far exceeds a 2 PPM safety limit. But when you look closer, you'll see that they are actually comparing the concentration in liquids directly to safety limits for benzene in air. Essentially, they are just stating how concentrated benzene is in the overheated product, not the actual amount your body will absorb, but making it sound like they found the latter.
So how extreme is the actual amount you'll absorb? The best breakdown I found was done by Dr. Michelle Wong @LabMuffin in reference to the same Valisure studies:
If you left a bottle of Benzoyl Peroxide in your car on a sunny day, all day, and continuously breathed in the amount of benzene that gets released from that every day for 78 years, you will have an increased cancer risk of 0.0127%.
Companies really need to stop fearmongering to compete and start innovating instead.
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Ariel retweeted
The planet can spell your name – literally. 🔤🌍
This Earth Day, see your name written in landscapes captured by Landsat: go.nasa.gov/4ak4Cdu
ALT Landscape image collage spelling "NASA"
Ariel retweeted
Only one chance in this lifetime…
Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him.
I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.
