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Starch-based bioplastic may be as toxic as petroleum-based plastic, study finds

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  • Ok so what do we want? Toxic plastics that last forever or toxic plastics that break down in the environment after 3-5 years?

    Because that is the gambit here. We're not going going to just get rid of plastics altogether.

    Also, this article is setting off my BS meter by claiming plastics contain 16,000 toxic substances but not showing how much of that is realistically possible to get into your body. The dose makes the poison!

    "This spider contains 1300 toxic substances—one of which will kill you if even a tiny droplet gets in your blood! And these spiders are out in the environment!"

    • Why aren't Americans filling the manufacturing jobs we already have?

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  • ...and not stable enough! Not only that but if they're paying $40/hour you can be sure as shit they're never going to raise that rate as long as you work there.

    Also, a huge chunk of your paycheck is going to go to useless health insurance and it's not like these companies are banding together to lobby Congress to make it so they don't have to pay for that anymore (by demanding a single payer system).

    • Microsoft introduces huge security risk in OneDrive

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  • I mean, as long as the enablement dialog is truthful...

    All your fetish porn is about to be synchronized to your OnDrive at work. [Embrace] [Abort Work] [OK]

    • Man checks out 100 books from Beachwood Library, then burns them in social media post

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  • Throw the book at them!

    • rideshare rule

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  • I'm thinking Miku Miku oooweeeoooh.

    • Man checks out 100 books from Beachwood Library, then burns them in social media post

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  • 1 year for every book seems an appropriate sentence

    No! An appropriate sentence would end in a period, question mark, or exclamation point!

    • Due to a congenital condition, I'm 5'7" (170 cm) with size 15 UK / 16 US wide feet and giant hands. My friends call me a walking L. This is what that looks like in case you're wondering.

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  • Your attitude is a step in the right direction 👍

    • White South African “refugees” will soon arrive in the United States

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  • Noted and corrected! 👍

    • White South African “refugees” will soon arrive in the United States

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  • No. Just a frikkkan american.

    • 14 nurses at the same hospital are pregnant at the same time

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    • Boy uses mother's phone to order 70K Dum-Dum suckers to share with his friends

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  • The story isn't finished!

    Did the kid end up having his sucky carnival‽

    • Trump Finally Drops the Anti-Semitism Pretext | The latest letter to Harvard makes clear that the administration’s goal is to punish liberal institutions for the crime of being liberal.

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  • She accuses it of admitting students who are contemptuous of America,

    OK. So what?

    Let's logic out that statement:

    • Educational institution accepts students that are "contemptuous of America" -> When the student graduates are they still "contemptuous"? Did they become moreso? No change? Less? None at all?
    • Educational institution actively seeks to deny students who are "contemptuous of America" -> Did they produce "contempt for America" in their graduates? Same problem.

    I wonder what would produce "contempt for America"? Maybe deporting people without due process? Or not recognizing human rights?

    Maybe we should agree, then: Harvard shouldn't accept students that hate the Bill of Rights. Reject conservative ideology that suggests that due process shouldn't be followed. Reject conservative ideology that actively seeks to undermine the US Constitution.

    Let's get keep those people (conservatives) with "contempt for America" away from places like Harvard 👍

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  • Ah, so cute. Here's what you need to do: Find what you like to do, then pick a realistic career path that you think you could do and do that instead. I highly recommend picking a career that lets you work from home. That way, you can skip the commute, do your laundry, and face existential dread at the same time; it's better for the environment 👍

    Comfort and happiness are what happens after work. You have to work to attain it! It's the capitalist dream.

    • Cheaper than student loans!

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  • That would be nice... If companies still promoted people beyond the levels of, "beginner peon" to "senior peon."

    • Why is nobody mad about TGI Fridays taking the lords name in vain?

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  • That's actually an unholey workaround! o contains 100% more hole than -.

    • China Just Made the World's Fastest Transistor and It Is Not Made of Silicon

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  • There is none. It's bismuth as usual.

    • Trump says "I don't know" about Due Process

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  • “I don’t know. I’m not, I’m not a lawyer. I don’t know,” Trump said, adding that such a requirement would mean “we’d have to have a million or two million or three million trials”.

    Yes! Fucking exactly. That's right. That's why everyone since forever has been saying that illegal immigration is an untenable problem!

    Except this guy... Who doesn't believe in civil rights or due process.

    • I'm new to lemmy. Any tips or advice?

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  • Try the chips.

    • Meta's Reality Labs Has Now Lost Over $60 Billion Since 2020 - Slashdot

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  • Are there any other websites that still let you put in your AIM and ICQ numbers? Or brag about your super low user ID? 19437 BTW 🤣

    • Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup

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  • They will do this but then what option will they have left when they make it even more bloated and slow—since they now have this "extra room", as it were?