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by relax88 5y ago
It was a study from the Danish EPA on grocery bags. It wasn’t energy use but total impact actually, so I mis-remembered that a part. https://mst.dk/service/publikationer/publikationsarkiv/2018/... I’m no
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by relax88 5y ago
The paper industry ranks #5 in carbon intensity and is responsible for something like 9% of global CO2 emissions. Do you honestly think that industry uniformly manages their forestry in an environmentally friendly manner? You could use rene
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by relax88 5y ago
A plastic bag in a landfill is less harmful to the environment than a paper bag that costs 43x more energy to produce. The former is trapped underground in a location engineered to prevent seepage and runoff, and will be sitting there for a
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by relax88 5y ago
Agree on your first two points. That’s what I mean about helping developing nations. We shouldn’t be exporting billions of pounds of plastic waste to places that cannot ensure proper disposal. By focusing resources on waste management and i
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by relax88 5y ago
The beaches covered in plastic bags are exactly my point. The problem is plastic waste being mismanaged. Recycling is not a solution to mismanaged waste streams, and yet for some reason everyone loves talking about recycling plastics and no
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by relax88 5y ago
One thing I’m always curious about is why we are so concerned with plastic waste. My local grocery store recently switched to paper bags. So I got curious. Turns out you have to re-use a paper bag 43 times for the energy use to be the same
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by relax88 5y ago
It’s definitely not false. The entire purpose of money to exchange human ascribed value across space and time. People try to buy love all the time, and if they could purchase the real thing they would likely pay a lot for it. Just because s
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by relax88 5y ago
Absolutely agree on your last point. I’m very concerned that most of the discussion on climate these days is driven by the joy of shaming others/elevating ourselves as opposed to actual progress.
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by relax88 5y ago
What does money represent but the value that humans ascribe to things? We aren’t all willing to pay the same price for certain things, but we all know that we can get more of what we value by getting more money. Fighting against this is lik
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by relax88 5y ago
Divesting from profitable companies is against the most important incentive of all (profit/money/value). The real solution is to implement carbon taxation globally via trade blocs/agreements and then suddenly the incentives a
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by relax88 5y ago
Pretty much. The whole idea that people will divest from profitable industries is foolish. Some will virtue signal and cash in, some will divest, and where there is money to be made, others will profit. The demand for oil will be satisfied
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by relax88 5y ago
So wear goggles and a mask while killing zombies… got it!
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by relax88 5y ago
Is this even possible? By what mechanism could a prion disease become airborne? Viruses have evolved to more easily infect cells in the respiratory tract for this specific purpose, but prions are much less sophisticated. It seems there may
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by relax88 5y ago
He must right? Is there any way it would naturally take someone that many tweets to say “the algorithm selects longer videos creating an incentive for fluff”?
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by relax88 5y ago
I agree with your logic here, but ideally Intel and AMD have to follow the same rules and find cause to terminate their employees OR pay out severance based on duration of service. You might follow this up by saying that this decreases glob
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by relax88 5y ago
Morality is a lot more subjective than labour law. Do you want to believe on faith that business owners will act in a way that matches your morals? I certainly don’t.
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by relax88 5y ago
If they stop showing up, you would have legal cause to fire them.
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by relax88 5y ago
One side of the sword makes hiring more difficult, the other side means you become homeless, lose your health insurance, and cannot provide for your family. It can literally be life threatening to the worker. The power differential favours
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by relax88 5y ago
I’m not suggesting that there are no issues with algorithmic HR operations. I’m suggesting that the abuses of such a system will only be solved in the courts, and that those courts decide the rules based on legislation that outlines worker
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by relax88 5y ago
The whole concept of at-will employment and employees made to look like contractors is the issue here. This is a labour rights issue, not an “Amazon is evil” issue. I don’t see any problem with an algorithm that fires unproductive workers,
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by relax88 5y ago
What do you suggest we do?
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by relax88 5y ago
This is by far the most exciting part of the whole idea. Up here in Alberta Canada we have an oil producing province chock full of people who are against the Federal carbon tax. Some are climate deniers, but most are rational people who are
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by relax88 5y ago
Every single problem listed with working from home also applies to at least some subset of office environments. At least with a home office I can attempt to make my environment better instead of just accepting whatever my employer provides.
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by relax88 5y ago
I think my biggest problem with this article is the idea that the government is “coming clean” on the issue. An unclassified report on UAPs does in no way confirm that some subset of these sightings aren’t advanced military aircraft of some
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by relax88 5y ago
> It’s not like there’s a club of past & future delivery company operators that meets regularly Why not? “National Delivery Drivers Union” sounds pretty good to me for a name. If you want to negotiate with leverage against Amazon, yo
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by relax88 5y ago
I don’t think people should have to care. They are customers. They want to buy things and have them delivered for a good price. Why is the consumer or shareholder being asked to solve a legislative problem? Buying consumer goods shouldn’t b
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by relax88 5y ago
As a foreign onlooker to American politics, it seems to me is what is required is a new movement to free the US government from the influence of corporate donations. Politicians will never care about the people while their wallets are being
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by relax88 5y ago
If Hamburgers were required to survive I’m sure you would see the same problems. If the state was the single largest negotiator for purchasing hamburgers and representing tens of millions of people odds are you would have more competitive h
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by relax88 5y ago
It’s the same reason why health care costs are out of control in general. It’s a for-profit system where literally every cog from drug company to pharmacist has an incentive to separate you from your money.
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by relax88 5y ago
Try showing up with 500 people.

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