<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>IshKebab</author><text>&amp;gt; However, Cousins noted that PFAS levels in people have actually dropped &amp;quot;quite significantly in the last 20 years&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;ambient levels (of PFAS in the environment) have been the same for the past 20 years&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &amp;quot;What&amp;#x27;s changed is the guidelines. They&amp;#x27;ve gone down millions of times since the early 2000s, because we&amp;#x27;ve learned more about the toxicity of these substances.&amp;quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>Synaesthesia</author><text>I just read that rainwater around the world is unsafe to drink because of PFAS contamination.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;phys.org&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;2022-08-rainwater-unsafe-due-chemicals.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;phys.org&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;2022-08-rainwater-unsafe-due-chemicals...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>oldstrangers</author><text>They&amp;#x27;re finding PFAS in everything now.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.consumerreports.org&amp;#x2F;bottled-water&amp;#x2F;pfas-in-bottled-water-new-study-finds-a1111233122&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.consumerreports.org&amp;#x2F;bottled-water&amp;#x2F;pfas-in-bottle...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.vice.com&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;m7gban&amp;#x2F;rainwater-everywhere-now-considered-too-toxic-for-safe-consumption-study-finds&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.vice.com&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;m7gban&amp;#x2F;rainwater-everywhere-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.dcourier.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;aug&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;prescott-valley-shuts-down-4-wells-after-positive-&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.dcourier.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;aug&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;prescott-valley-sh...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Study finds link between &apos;forever chemicals&apos; in cookware and liver cancer</title><url>https://www.insider.com/study-confirms-link-between-forever-chemicals-and-liver-cancer-risk-2022-8</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>majormajor</author><text>Is there universal treatment for this in most countries or does this also imply that municipal water everywhere is equally &amp;quot;unsafe&amp;quot;&lt;i&gt;? Some quick Googling suggests common britta filters don&amp;#x27;t remove it either, for instance.&lt;p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;unsafe in scare quotes because the article says environmental levels have been steady for the past 20 years and we aren&amp;#x27;t all dead yet... and lots of animals of course drink rainwater more directly out of bodies of water.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s obviously not a good thing but I don&amp;#x27;t this means &amp;quot;we&amp;#x27;re doomed&amp;quot;... the article here cites a professor saying we just have to live with it, but it would be also interesting to see if anyone had leads on removal or any sort of mitigation&amp;#x2F;protection&amp;#x2F;neutralization schemes.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Synaesthesia</author><text>I just read that rainwater around the world is unsafe to drink because of PFAS contamination.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;phys.org&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;2022-08-rainwater-unsafe-due-chemicals.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;phys.org&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;2022-08-rainwater-unsafe-due-chemicals...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>oldstrangers</author><text>They&amp;#x27;re finding PFAS in everything now.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.consumerreports.org&amp;#x2F;bottled-water&amp;#x2F;pfas-in-bottled-water-new-study-finds-a1111233122&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.consumerreports.org&amp;#x2F;bottled-water&amp;#x2F;pfas-in-bottle...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.vice.com&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;m7gban&amp;#x2F;rainwater-everywhere-now-considered-too-toxic-for-safe-consumption-study-finds&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.vice.com&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;m7gban&amp;#x2F;rainwater-everywhere-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.dcourier.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;aug&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;prescott-valley-shuts-down-4-wells-after-positive-&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.dcourier.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;aug&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;prescott-valley-sh...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Study finds link between &apos;forever chemicals&apos; in cookware and liver cancer</title><url>https://www.insider.com/study-confirms-link-between-forever-chemicals-and-liver-cancer-risk-2022-8</url></story>