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Comment Re:Food Waste (Score 1) 73

I think you're the one who doesn't know what it means.

Plastic is highly inert. Thats why it has the properties it has in the first place.

Of course it is not perfectly inert, but neither are most things. It's certainly not any more dangerous in a landfill than any number of other non-man-made substances, things like lead and arsenic.

Comment Food Waste (Score 3, Informative) 73

Plastic prevents tood waste.

Replacing plastic with paper, would result in more food waste.

Food waste is already THE NUMBER ONE Co2 contributor after transportation, with 46% of food produced being wasted.

And you're suggesting making it worse, in order to reduce the volume of something that is inert and could just be buried for all of eternity.

Comment Re:Exemptinkg YouTube is nonsense (Score 1) 26

We're saying the same thing.

Laws should never pick winners and losers. If you want to police content, then define how the content should be policed, and then go and do that. Don't make up arbitrary lists of companies - which, by the way, will become outdated the moment they are published.

Comment Exemptinkg YouTube is nonsense (Score 4, Insightful) 26

Look - if you're going to roll out these wacky laws, then you need to think through the implementation, do it consistently, and live with the consequences.

The idea that YouTube should be granted an exemption over TikTok and Instagram simply because some of their content is educational, is *BANANAS*. Are you trying to tell me there is no educational videos on Instagram and TikTok?

The regulations, and any exemptions, should be based on clearly defined CONTENT RULES, *NOT* based on platforms. IE, if you want to exempt educational videos, then exempt them outright and let all platforms allow minors to view that type of content.

Comment Re:Neutralizing agent X-Prize... (Score 0) 60

The solution to getting rid of waste of all kinds is to continue to reduce the cost of escape launches.

Starship is targeting $20/ kg and under.

The annual cost to store nuclear waste starts at $200 / KG and goes up to $2000 / KG.

IE, it is very soon going to be 10x, to 100x cheaper to just launch this stuff into space with a general solar trajectorm, than to store it.

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