Much like how Europe was judged harshly for stopping the trains of exiled Jewish people leaving German borders, knowing full well their otherwise fate was Death in camps?
There are things that can't be replaced, however there is no reason we should be dumping it into the ocean.
If we must have plastic, it must incinerated with carbon capture - that's a cost but it's a cost that must be incorporated into the purchase of the raw polymers. Japan does not have a single use plastic problem, despite almost everything being wrapped in single use plastic.
The critically ill woman died at the entrance of the Agricultural Bank of China’s Tianxin branch in Zhuzhou City of the central Chinese province of Hunan before she could complete the withdrawal procedure, the nephew said in the video.
...She repeatedly failed to pass the facial recognition as she was too ill to blink or shake her head as required during the screening and died after nearly an hour-and-a-half of such failed attempts.
In China, banks like the Agricultural Bank of China have made it mandatory to use facial recognition technology to process withdrawals
Laser scanning is possible, 6-axis milling machines exist and on a subminiature scale.
Why is there no 6-axis painting machine? I understand there are 3D printers that can do this, but 3D printing costs more than just making a die (or reusing a similar die from another model) at a certain scale.
I guess the answer would be that an unlogged user can't vote.
But the points didn't matter on Reddit and they're even less of a consideration on Lemmy.