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by trainsplanes 5y ago
The link mentioned that a lot of it was "contaminated" recyclables. Contaminated recyclables are just garbage. Countries are getting fed up with the EU and US sending supposedly separated recyclables because it's pure garbage
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by trainsplanes 5y ago
The link in the very first post I made was about the US and EU literally shipping their plastic to other countries as part of their "waste management" program. > Upon implementation of the policy in 2017, plastic imports to Chi
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by trainsplanes 5y ago
>Japan is surrounded by a sea of trash due to the countries surrounding it. I'm seeing mainly trash from Japanese companies that are Japanese products with Japanese labels. It's easy to recognize. Externalizing blame isn't
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by trainsplanes 5y ago
NYC probably has people actively cleaning trails and beaches. Japanese beaches that aren't ultra popular tourist destinations are currently flooded with trash. Going through Shizuoka, Aichi, and islands of Kagoshima, they're incre
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by trainsplanes 5y ago
Have you gone to a beach lately? I don't live in the US but it's certainly not a developing country. Beaches are absolutely covered in plastic waste and it's noticeably worse each time I go. Forests are steadily becoming fill
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by trainsplanes 5y ago
My first thought. Pay someone else to buy the house for you and hold onto it. Unless you restrict the number of houses private individuals can own and massively restrict what corporate owners can buy, not much will change.
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by trainsplanes 5y ago
I didn’t say always. The person specifically mentioned Tokyo and I stated the reality of how it is in Japan. The situation is the same in China. I also specifically said people wear them outside of the pandemic. I think you’re very confused
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by trainsplanes 5y ago
Everyone in Japan is currently walking around masked. People here also walk around with masks during allergy season, or doing flu season even when they’re not sick. In Taiwan and Vietnam I saw (and wore) masks on days when the air was parti
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by trainsplanes 5y ago
Wild how westerners make these dystopian associations, while in Asia it’s just part of basic hygiene, like expecting people to wipe their ass or wash their hands.
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by trainsplanes 5y ago
I'm basing my experience on people I know who got infected. So are many other people who got vaccinated. People who are screaming about the vaccine being a bigger risk than the virus are the ones being fed info by outrageous media repo
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by trainsplanes 5y ago
I think we're closing in on a point where you can't reach a multi-billion dollar valuation if your company is profitable. Just keep burning through investor cash until you're acquired by a bigger corporation. Then a year late
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by trainsplanes 5y ago
> because the CDC says on their website that the flu is more dangerous than covid for young people. Depends what you're defining as young people. Under 5 as in those quotes, maybe virtually no risk. But I know otherwise healthy peop
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by trainsplanes 5y ago
I'm afraid that in a decade, humans will just accept this as our reality and forget that it wasn't always like this. In 20 years, we'll have a generation of adults who'll think our stories of years of generally calm weat
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by trainsplanes 5y ago
I know the OECD is supposedly a respected institution, but I love how nonsensical nearly every item on the list here is. Just comparing these two, they say the US is below the OECD average lifespan while Japan is significantly above. Yet Ja
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by trainsplanes 5y ago
I mean, countries with high numbers of billionaires are as well. Going around many parts of the US and then looking at countries with more balanced wealth and there's a pretty stark difference. Poverty is much more visible in the US co
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by trainsplanes 5y ago
Imagine a world where instead of saying "hey, people in your town are dying on the streets, your water is full of lead, you can't afford medical treatment, and your children can't possibly afford college, but quit being jealo
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by trainsplanes 5y ago
Individuals make mistakes, yes. And mobs are clusters of angry individuals. Surely there’s a multiplier on the mistake factor when mobs go after people. Oftentimes they’re angry about one-sided stories or even lies.
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by trainsplanes 5y ago
The article says they recruit people with military and police experience. There’s a good chance this job is full of 40-50 year olds who retired early and need a way to keep busy.
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by trainsplanes 5y ago
Yeah, same. I've found that cutting off my water 4 hours before sleep lets me sleep better. Otherwise I'm waking up 1 to 3 times in the middle of the night with a painfully full bladder. I'll still take a couple sips before b
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by trainsplanes 5y ago
The astroturfing against Assange became insane at a certain point. There was a time where you could say “Wikileaks” nearly anywhere online and have a flood of comments calling Assange various things and anyone who didn’t outright hate him a
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by trainsplanes 5y ago
>You are forced to drink fast, or you end up having a flimsy straw that can't suck At which point you just stop using the straw and drink normally. The straw controversy was bizarre to me. I can't remember when I last used a st
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by trainsplanes 5y ago
> The most abhorrent idea of all to me is that there are stupid, weak people that are worse than "us" that we need to shield from bad ideas because they are not smart enough (like we are) to handle them. Gullible people exist.
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by trainsplanes 5y ago
Would that even be possible since Greenland is just part of Denmark? It'd be like Hawaii saying "Go on, Botswana. Our ocean is all yours."
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by trainsplanes 5y ago
Robotics software is incredibly complex. Even with machinery that was a perfect replica of a human body to the most minute details, throwing some ML algorithms at it wouldn’t get us anywhere. If it worked that way, my job would be much easi
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by trainsplanes 5y ago
That’s some thing I hear a lot on the internet lately as if it’s truth, and I have no clue where it comes from. Some people really do get stressed out with too much human interaction, just like there are people who suffer when they don’t ge
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by trainsplanes 5y ago
You’re assuming that minimum wage workers aren’t supposed to have families that they provide for. Are they just supposed to leave kids on a couch?
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by trainsplanes 5y ago
Eureka is a moderate sized town by most standards, and you can get cheaper places in similarly sized towns or larger small cities throughout the US. Probably get apartments much bigger than a studio, too.
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by trainsplanes 5y ago
> He's struggling to find all the workers he needs to churn out his pizzas, and he's losing valuable business. There’s literally no way there aren’t enough workers to make pizza so long as unemployed people exist. This is a pro
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by trainsplanes 5y ago
And wild animals die of small infections and deal with parasites all the time. Success is just being able to live long enough to reproduce. Being able to clean ourselves improved our health a lot.
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by trainsplanes 5y ago
According to the Wikipedia link, bucket shops are illegal gambling. So if what this is doing isn't any different than a bucket shop... I think we'll see the same outcome.

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