Rabbit hole starting here: https://www.vox.com/platform/a...

Your bodyâ(TM)s hormones wonâ(TM)t allow you to have a net energy deficit daily if it can avoid it.

Iâ(TM)ve âoeprovenâ this casually for 30 days trying to reach nerds not to be obese and have worked with hundreds of folks if not thousands.

You canâ(TM)t outrun the kitchen unless youâ(TM)re in a rare 1-2% of people who can.

Everyone else? The gym builds muscle but doesnâ(TM)t burn fat.

So you want doctors to work for free?

Or you want me to pay for someone's medical treatment even if they lived an entire lifetime of shit lifestyle?

What percentage of cancer patients got cancer because of lifestyle choices?

45%? 55%?

And you want me to suffer for it?

Cold hard facts: if it's not a PET 1 or PET 2, it's not going to be recycled in North America, unless it's part of commercial or industrial recycling program.

Yes, they end up in the waterways, and don't "compost".

We can actually make replacements for plastics to actually biodegrade into food, and we can produce single use plastics that are recyclable, but that requires only using ONE type of plastic in a material, and having a recycling program run by commerce and industry.

Otherwise it's wishful thinking.

There, problem solved

Seriously, reality TV hosts ... it's not a high bar to climb.

UW, WSU, UPS, SPU, SU are all dropping as well.

Obviously teh Google got caught and now they pay the penalties.

Is so sad. Having of many tears am I. Beklempt.

The cold hard reality is that any established tech firm has tons of cash and near-cash reserves, and he just didn't want his golf buddies in the exec suite to have to cut their outrageous compensation packages.

This is mindless.

Companies have to raise prices during fearful times in order to profit now so they can cover the potential losses later.

I jacked my prices up BIG TIME in early COVID because I didn't know if I would be out of work in 2 years. I made a fortune in 2020 and half a fortune in 2021 as things equalized and nothing really bad happened.

I deserved that profit for taking a risk, tho. If things would have gotten shut down for me, I would have had enough cash to weather 2-3 years of outage and rebuild my businesses.

To wit, fuck you for your collectivism.

All hail the God Emperor Xi the Teddy Bear children's toy!

Glory to his occupying forces!

No, there are other options, and the world is changing

Remember, it's still 20 years in the future, just as it was at the 1963 World's Fair

There are organic and inorganic replacements for many of those. Including sealants.

I'm not saying there's nothing that plastics might be a more optimal solution for, but those tend to be when it's a single plastic chemical string, usually something "permanent". Most plastics in use are for temporary things, and those are bad uses.

We don't actually need plastics.

Most containers can be replaced by materials that are recyclable (plastic isn't) or compostable (plastic isn't).

Mushroom fibers, paper bags, seaweed, there are many replacements which can be mass manufactured at cheaper costs.

It's only with artificial subsidies and no disposal costs that plastics even exist.

They're just theories that have been proven by repeated observation.

As we increase observations, we notice gaps, or things that don't quite work, so we propose replacement theories, which when given sufficient proof of observations, replace the prior Laws.

That's what science is.