instacrows.bsky.social
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A healthy amount of shame.
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I met the guy who designed that T bird logo. It was commissioned for a promotion, never intended to be a main logo. Guy got ripped off.
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But it's not just plastic, of course. Organic matter will release methane into the atmosphere no matter what you do, so it could be helpful to at least harness that for energy and offset production elsewhere.
Anyway. It's weird and gross and not as simple as it seems.
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And in a world where an outsized portion of the plastic we "recycle" ends up on a beach in Bangladesh, incineration is honestly kind of better in some ways. At least then we aren't passing the buck and we're forced to recon with the real issue: our addiction to crappy plastic.
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For example: plastics that find their way into the landfill will break down into microplastics. That particular issue is mitigated with incineration, but of course that introduces other issues. In a situation where that power offsets something worse like coal, that math starts making more sense.
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When it comes to waste incineration it's really about picking your poison. Literally. It's not "green" per se, but once that waste is in the landfill, much of it will find its way into the environment in one way or another. Burning it can sometimes be "greener" than letting it rot. It just depends.
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I just cannot wrap my mind around it. It's incomprehensible.
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We could not possibly be so fortunate.
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You know you watched too much daytime TV growing up when you immediately think this is an ad for hygiene products.
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Please make them bring back the moratorium. We'll give you the Order of NL
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There's a quantum state of wetness hanging over you like the sword of Damocles.
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Well? What was it?
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Car dealerships are the world's worst business model. They make very little money selling cars so if they stopped ripping people off they would cease to exist.
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True patriot love.
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yawn
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I'm genuinely curious who would benefit from attacking your site? It's just the silliest thing.
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It feels like AI has replaced Nietzsche as the thing privileged teen boys worship for a little while when they discover angst.
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Talking to gen z boys who weren't old enough to remember his time in office is like a waking nightmare. They seriously believe it was like some kind of golden age. Social media fucking sucks man.
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You and Grenier gonna duke it out.
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This mystery exists in a world where the biggest media franchise in history is literally about how the battle between good and evil is defined by how much harder it is to be good.
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Rob Manfred is literally stupid. An actual, honest-to-goodness idiot.
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The bill may be flawed, but I think the bigger issue is the lack of political will to stand up to these companies. If the public showed any willingness to support regulation of social media, the companies would probably back down. Something needs to happen to protect our media space. It's at risk.
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I really, really think it's doing everybody a disservice to paint the bill as the journalism killer when it is in fact the social media companies that are responsible.
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So this story was heavily edited, presumably after people complained. The source and the interaction were not initially described in any amount of detail. I dunno. It's hard to get past the initial reporting. Something just seems weird about this.
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It's also possible to question the reporting without outright denying the story. "I heard someone say it at a bar" is a WILD sourcing. I can't recall ever seeing anything like this before. I could be wrong. But I immediately thought this story was weird, and it seems I'm not alone.
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Granted: I failed out of journalism school.
But the sourcing here seems pretty weak given the allegations. It's something that definitely warrants reporting but there's something really odd about this report.
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You are so unbelievably bad at this.
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I particularly love the piece last week that praises PP for his sophisticated political craft, while neglecting to mention that this craft involves denying the existence of trans people.
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He's a magnificent old man.
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wint is here tho
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The only Canadian beat the New York Times should be covering is the only one they're not.
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looks like a weird blueberry pie.
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Hold social media platforms accountable for their content.
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You have to understand reasonable people will not take you seriously until you retract that 51st state piece, right?
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I'm begging every person involved with this dreck to lock themselves in a room and think very, very hard about what led them to this pathetic point in their lives.
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That is so sad. It's been lifechanging in NL, as I'm sure it has been elsewhere as well.
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I cannot believe child care isn't a bigger issue in this election. The threat of losing it under the conservatives is a major factor for so many people I know, particularly women.
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youtu.be/qOgnwhBruZw?...
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This tracks. Steve Kent is the biggest creep on the go. Staff at DHCS always said he was the worst minister they'd ever had to deal with by far. He gets run out of every job he gets for being a giant pos.
He should stick to writing his little Facebook updates and stay the hell out of public office.
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It's tough. The irony of them not showing the victim is undeniable after what they said in ep2. But if the essay was on the environment that creates that rage, they were spot on. The violence flowed through the boy. That's where it needs to be stopped. And any family could be raising that boy.
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Reserves need a higher operational budget across-the-board to go along with any pay increase. We keep getting inflation top-ups, but we work less and less because there's no budget. As a result our actual pay hasn't actually increased in over a decade.
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They tried to do this in Trump 1.0 as well.
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"lefty overreach"
Every single person needs to make it their mission to insist that anybody who says this shit in conversation gives specific examples.
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There's something unwholesome about the effort. It's got Hample stink.
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Good point. And Carney's negatives are way up, so the ads are having some impact.
Certainly feels like things are going in a certain direction, though.
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The amount of money the Conservatives have may work against them if they can't find a message. It's honestly so funny to watch as the Liberals very competently handle this crisis only then to get bombarded by the most embarrassing Conservative attack ads imaginable.
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The LPC has always been pro-business to a fault. One of the biggest criticisms they get from the left is that they almost always focus on market solutions to social problems, which is why child care was lauded by many as a welcome departure. That type of investment will do wonders for productivity.
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Neither your constituents nor the Republicans are going to come around to you way of thinking just because you repeatedly ask them to.
Nobody agrees with you. You can whine about it all you want. It won't change reality.
You're terrible at this.
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How is economic growth a Conservative platform? Or expanding markets? How are those things not squarely in the Liberal party's ideology?
What a profoundly weird thing to say.
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Famously, nothing bad ever happens when politicians wave fake evidence in the air on national television.