I love the downvote you got for that. The one lonely little downvote. There’s something poetic about it.

lmao, it’s always so obvious when it happens. If they just downvoted my political opinions, it’d be whatever, but when they downvote things like providing sources and explanations for anodyne posts? Just tells me I can mentally subtract 1 downvote from all my recent comments.

Luv me states. Luv me history. But realistically speaking, if they could be abolished and replaced with nearly any other modern system of national/regional government organization, it would be massive improvement.

The Roman Republic.

No, really - the Tribal Assembly, the democratic legislature of the Republic, was divided by tribes, and tribes sorted according to geographic residence. Urban tribes got 4 votes, and rural tribes got 31 votes. Just like today!

[sobbing]

Jesus Christ.

But as these bottles are largely single-use, many of them are discarded and dumped in the earth’s ecosystems, where they constitute a significant portion of all environmental waste.

Let’s break it down.

“But as these bottles are largely single-use” - does not define ‘single-use’ but implies that the following statement is about single-use bottles

“many of them are discarded and dumped in the earth’s ecosystems, where they constitute a significant portion of all environmental waste.” - says that many of the aforementioned are dumped and constitute environmental waste.

That’s it. That’s the entirety of the quote you provided.

Where do you get that single-use is defined as only the unrecycled bottles from THAT?

They only counted recyclable bottles as single use if discarded anywhere but a recycling center

That’s literally not what the quote says.

They’re only single use if they aren’t recycled, the article states that as well.

… would you care to quote that, because I’m pretty sure it says otherwise.

Obama had the White House , House , and Senate and didn’t close Gitmo as promised.

Did you follow the situation? Gitmo wasn’t closed because there was nowhere to transfer the prisoners. It was attempted, numerous times. There were legal battles over this.

Single-use bottles includes recyclable bottles. The point of single-use is that they’re discarded in some way by the consumer at the end of use, including discarded via recycling, not retained.

Recycling is explicitly mentioned in the link.

“Send your boss and landlord to life in American prison, the special unreformed wing saved for the irredeemable who need an ironic punishment, Dante’s Inferno style”?

Probably that ultimately even disposing of laminated paper is more environmentally friendly than the process of recycling energy-intensive materials like glass and plastic.

The tiny individual-use bottles, at least.

But… but… Glass is not single use.

When used for mass-produced beverages it very much is. Hell, plenty of beverages still use disposable glass bottles today, and that’s not even getting into the fact that glass bottles use to be the standard, which is part of the reason why there’s so much nostalgia around them.

In the same vein, plastic is not inherently single-use. If we’re comparing multi-use plastic and multi-use glass, then the same calculus applies.

Is that a “straw man” I smell?

Alright, I’m sure you can explain what the meme means and how it has absolutely nothing to do with an implication that glass bottles are less environmentally ruinous than plastic. By all means, I’m all ears.

As we all know, glass bottles are definitely not environmentally ruinous

“Return to tradition” may be tempting to some, but it’s not an actual solution.

Have friends, the rest fits. Should I be looking into a new career? I feel like serial killing has potential to be very fulfilling work!

What’s bad about OneDrive?

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