As I understand it, plastics themselves have no known negative impact on human health - it’s the additives in the plastics that are a problem.
What are these additive-free plastics you're suggesting exist? Should we make sure the microplastics lodged in our brain are only of the free-range, organic, and crafted with love variety?
There have already been preliminary studies linking higher concentrations of microplastics with poor medical outcomes with more damning reports coming out very frequently. In the meantime, maybe let's not pretend that whatever absence of evidence you perceive is evidence of absence.
Having no known negative impact certainly doesn't mean they have a known positive impact. So it's likely good to try to avoid them as much as you can.
I know it sucks because it's yet another tough to impossible problem to tackle alongside everything else, but that's just a Monday.
He only got more insane during the stretch from 2020-2024. The insanity was on full display during the 2024 race. I don't understand what's wrong with our electorate.
Eh, they're perceived as more "lefty" than most of the stereotypically "patriotic" corporations of the US.
There are a couple of reasons for this: (1) Steve Jobs has/had a "crunchy granola" reputation (despite likely being a crypto fascist) due to likening himself to civil rights leaders and other "woke" people and living in California, and (2) they have a large amount of usage by people in the creative arts such as music producers, visual artists, and other people who the right would call "woke" without blinking an eye.
I think it's all perception, and they are easily just as fascistic as the rest of the corporations. But they try to stay on the good side of a lot of people that care deeply -- or at least claim to care deeply -- about eroding democratic norms, and the rolling back of people's rights and that produce a lot of the cultural artifacts the right largely hates, but are broadly-speaking massively popular.
Was it this bad this fast? I Seriously don’t recall it being this bad.
It was pretty bad pretty quickly, but it was mostly changes in culture. Things like the "unite the right" rally happened pretty early on in his first term. Ultimately though, he was pretty hamstrung by an unreliable, rotating cast of supporting characters in his first term that weren't all on board with turning the country into Nazi Germany part two.
He's shed all of those people and now he's surrounded by dyed in the wool maga. The GOP and the makeup of the supreme court are also drastically different this time.
But it was terrible his first term, so terrible people don't even remember all or even most of it.
I want to believe a quieter majority of us aren’t cool with...
After the results of the last election, I cannot delude myself any longer. We're surrounded by fascist, imbecilic weirdos I'm afraid. The only thing we can do at this point is become louder and hope to pull defectors into our ranks.
There also is some amount of hope that can be obtained by the fact that this is a very large, very disorganized country that contains all kinds of people. That'll make ruling over all of us with an iron fist practically impossible to pull off. Unless, of course, we allow it.
My family is so full of wankery about being Irish and I fucking hate it. If you can't move back to Ireland and regain citizenship based upon ancestry you aren't fucking Irish.
I think it's a way for people to separate themselves from any last shred of responsibility for the country they reside in. They really are simply pieces of American shit just like me.
The desire to disassociate is strong among Americans.
I know it sucks because it's yet another tough to impossible problem to tackle alongside everything else, but that's just a Monday.