If you still think that work ennobles us, you are behind the times. The problem we have is not that we need more ways to waste our lives in useless toil. It is that the fruits of the labor that must be done to sustain our society is so unevenly distributed that some people get paid enough to live on for a year from an hours work, and others get paid enough to live on for a half hour on an hours work. The way to solve this is not to give those people more work. It is to pay them more.

SJWs don't give a shit about malls. We see them as a plague on downtowns. :)

The article doesn't mention Apple's recycling program, not surprisingly since it's from 2013 and Apple's program was announced in 2018. It also doesn't mention that China has stopped taking most recycling, again because China stopped doing that after 2013.

LMGTFY is only a good answer if what you get from the Google search actually addresses the question; in this case it does not.

Hey, don't blame environmentalists for this claptrap! I'm an environmentalist, and it smells pretty fishy to me too!

That would be hella cool.

Well, we're going to make a killing on bridge tolls, that's for sure.

Finally we can have a bridge to Europe, instead of all these pesky airplane flights! I'm really looking forward to this.

Hm, of course, now all I have to do is survive for a few million years... Whee!

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Would be interesting to know what they do with them, and whether they are in fact able to deal with the issues raised here.

I have an Aeron. I hate it. It's great for after a bike ride, but you can't sit in any position other than legs down, and the tilt isn't very reliable. I've been sitting in a Steelcase Gesture for the past couple of years, and I'm quite happy with it. It's not ideal for after a workout—for that I just stand. But the rest of the time it's quite a comfortable chair to sit in.

This is not to say that you are wrong to like your Aeron, BTW. There are things to like about it, and I was pretty happy with mine for a while before I started to hate it. I'm a bit of a weirdo—I like to be able to sit in half lotus sometimes when I'm working, and you can do that on the Gesture, but definitely not on the Aeron, unless you like pain. So that may be why you like your Aeron and I hate mine. :)

Make sure you don't have any open WiFi.

That's great in theory, but where is this dumb TV that you can buy? When we went shopping for TVs, this simply wasn't an option.

What choice do we have? All the TVs are running crapware. What I do is to just make sure that it can't connect to the network and download updates, and then I use an external set-top-box (an Apple TV, as it happens, but doesn't have to be) to deliver content. I wish you could buy a TV that wasn't "smart," but that doesn't seem to be an option at present.

None. The state is full of conservatives. Just not the kind you're talking about. We're the kind who believe in paying our bills, treating our neighbors decently, helping out when someone needs help, banking locally, actually maintaining our infrastructure. You know Bernie gets in trouble regularly because he's not anti-gun, right?

It's a problem if you don't want to die of resistant TB that you got from one of those poor people you fucked. It's a problem if you don't want them to overrun your palace where you're eating cake and guillotine you. And it's a problem if your salary is paid by selling stuff to them.

The service you buy with your taxes is a world where you can have nice stuff without being afraid you'll be shot over it; where you can have roads to drive on; where you don't have to feel guilty when you tell the homeless guy who really needs your help because there's no safety net to fuck off; where you don't have to see a new GoFundMe every week for some poor fuck who can't afford their pills.

How do I know? I grew up in that world. It was nice. My generation killed it, because we wanted to pay fewer taxes.