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They went and built the torment nexus...

They can't not use it!

That's not how that works though...

In the year 2000...

That's actually pretty cool.

All true.

Nobody's really complaining about these bike lanes. It's obvious to anyone that they're a good idea.

Wu is kicking ass.

As a fellow Massachusetts resident, I have to say... Hah, you got owned kid!

I don't see my flag in the same light anymore either because of these people.

You have a flag?

I don't know man, I feel like patriotism is a racket. Why buy into it?

Those are the most generic sunglasses I can imagine. I'm pretty certain they don't say anything.

You do end up looking like Adam Jensen though.

Well, Adam Jensen with a fancy new beak aug.

I mean, that's a legitimate option.

Honestly, it's not Lemmy, it's the whole Internet being overrun by bots. There is no safe haven and I haven't heard a single feasible solution to the problem. But, at least in my experience, staying off the Internet works great. When I'm talking to someone face to face I practically never worry that they might be a bot.

Also, having offline conversations tends to make me happier. So there's another benefit. I know it sounds cliche or like I'm joking, but I'm really not.

Just don't grind it up into a powder and snort it and you should be fine.

Come to think of it, I would actually suggest the same for glass and plastic.

Do you mean what ubiquitous toxin will be next?

Or do you mean how can we get by without plastic?

If it's the second one, the answer is easy, fucking aluminum. We've had the answer forever and it still works great. Glass too, good for many applications.

Now the actual problem isn't plastic bags or beverage containers though, it's clothing and tires. Most clothing is plastic these days and tiny plastic fibers break up into micro plastics and take to the air or end up in the sea. Car tires are also just plastic these days, not rubber (which is arguably better for the environment than leveling rainforests for rubber tree plantations, sigh...), the tires rub off on the road like a pencil eraser on sandpaper. This also ends up in the air and sea.

So anyway, replacing plastic beverage containers is a great step, a no brainer, but it also doesn't address the real problem at all. I hope that some day soon tires and clothes can start to be made with biodegradable "eco plastics", but if that doesn't turn out to be feasible, we'll be in some serious trouble. And once we have some real, feasible, affordable replacements, then we need to actually outlaw the use of older plastic tires, in every country on the planet, despite heavy lobbying against any new measures from vested interests... I can't even imagine how to make that happen. How did we do it with lead? Has every country outlawed lead in gas?