MightEnlightenYou @ MightEnlightenYou @lemmy.world

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I'm not a fan of Apple but saying that this radiation is akin to gamma radiation in some way its just ignorant.

Here's a source for the radiation levels for everybody else: https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-disputes-french-findings-says-iphone-12-complies-with-radiation-standards-2023-09-13/

I can't find a single source that ranks the US above Canada on quality of life. You got any kind of source for that that isn't anecdotal?

As an older fellow who was probably looking at internet porn (image loaded line by line) before you were born. Y'all kids need to learn how to use the Web browser and how to type the URL to porn sites. Once you learn this you'll have all the porn in the world avaliable for free in a few seconds when you want it. And also learn how to use incognito mode

Why are you arguing for Ukraine to forgive and forget the rapes and murders and to give up parts off their country to the perpetrators rather than arguing for Russia to go back to Russia?

Du råkar inte vara från Halland eller?

Yeah, the 3 Rs are great. But it's not happening and you'd need to change the government structure before you can enact the political change that would be required. But even if you'd manage to get rid of 90% of waste in the next decade, which you won't, what's your plan for the millions of tons that are left?

It is profitable right now and has been for a long time, anywhere in the world. What's lacking is knowledge that it could be profitable and investment will.

Take the US as an example. You get about 550 kWh of electricity per ton of burnt waste, that's $20-30 per ton. And If you'd have district heating, which only a few places do you'd get a lot more.

But counting low. $20 per ton, multiplied by ~150 million tons of trash per year and you get 3 billion dollars per year that you're burying instead of just burning.

Now this isn't even accounting for the fact that about 20% of that is plastic, and that plastic is worth anywhere from 1 cent to 70 cents per pound. Let's really lowball it and say that it's worth $5 cents per pound on average. That's $100 per ton. That multiplied by by the roughly 30 million tons of plastic that goes to landfills is worth another 3 billion. And we're not even discussing metals, paper glass and all the other things that have surprisingly great value.

And let's discuss compost. Here in Sweden we have a separate bin for that. It's all collected and the methane is collected and sold as well as the nutrient compost when it's done.

Yes! Reduce, Reuse, Recycle! But people aren't doing that and the slogan has had very limited impact in the last 53 years.

To all the confused former British colonies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Workers%27_Day#/media/File:Observance_of_International_Workers'_Day_RGBY.svg

Edit: Anyone know what's from with the formatting and that the link doesn't read the whole URL?

I'm from Sweden, we're among the best in the world at recycling. We have closed all our landfills and even import combustible trash to burn for energy (we clean the fumes extremely well).

Every time I see a discussion about trash anywhere in the world I get sad that people are so uninformed about what's possible.

One Swedish company, Swedish Plastic Recycling, is currently building a recycling plant that will be able to handle ALL of the country's plastic waste and automatically recycle almost all of the kinds of plastic there are.

This is even profitable if done right.

Sources upon request.

Why not both?

Edit: Didn't see that it was also a question of which is the greater problem. Overlooking is the greater problem.

Ah, a fellow non-American who thinks that the punishment for rape and torture should be prison and not a fine.

We're probably crazy though, right?

You probably should do that to preserve democracy and protect yourself and your country, but you're not going to. Instead what you'll see is them coming for group after group and first throwing them in prison and then concentration camps. You'll try to debate them and vote them out while they methodically kill you, thereby increasing their power.

It's the same pattern as always. If I were in the US I'd do everything to flee while I still could.

Lowering the quality of education is something that the right always does, everywhere in the world, when they come into power. It's a long term investment for them to stay or get back into power.

Education level is strongly correlated with political leaning so it's a smart move from them to attain their goals (which isn't making the country better).

Yeah, I just checked it out and it's not my cup of tea. It seems like I align with them on much of their critique on a lot of stuff but I'm not in support of their endorsements (like the CCP). I also don't like those kinds of memes and find the blending of serious discussions and (what I think is) juvenile memes to be off putting.

I saw both the best (well argued and sourced) and worst (denial of Ughurs genocide and the state of Taiwan) comments on that instance.

I'm not going back there though, I'm too old and tiered to have those kinds of discussion in an environment that is hostile to opposing views on certain topics.

I'm not the person you asked but I'll chime in since I share their sentiment.

The answer is no, not a single one. But that's because I'm on lemmy.world and hexbear is defederated from this instance. All the shit talking I see about hexbear is actually making me more and more curious about checking it out to see if its true, because it might be that hexbear is just a reasonable leftist place that is strong and people talking shit about it are just right wingers or centrists who are trying to give hexbear a bad name.

I'll probably check it out eventually when I've become curious enough due to people talking shit about it. It's probably shit though, but I don't know that.