Lots of countries have their own exceptionalism going on. Especially in the demographics that can afford to travel.

Infowars is making the tshirts gay.

I saw war crimes and decided war was bad. Guess who decided that we shouldn’t be able to see war crimes?

All you gotta do is throw in some heroic 3 Percenters to make it the perfect Pratt film.

The blue check mark is throwing me off.

The bullies of the 90s became the techbros and aibros of today. They can’t code, but wanted to be part of the tech industry once they saw how much money there was, so they got MBAs and became the weirdo’s bosses.

Mean age in the US is 39. Lets round it to 40, make it 1.5 times that and cap it at 60.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/feb/28/ethiopian-women-given-contraceptives-israel

I’m not sure what part of my comment this tangent is replying to. When I cited Pirates of Dark Water, I’m comparing how Tula was portrayed in the pilot compared the to main series. The writers themselves said that the executives forced them at add maternal aspects to the Tula character because to the executives, any female character should be promoting traditional female society roles. In the pilot, she essentially written as a male or genderless character who happen to be female. Similar to Ripley in Alien. This isn’t some analysts made in Death of the Author.

Those types have been attacking “woke” cartoons this whole time. There’s a lot of stories about writers getting push back from executives for having independent female protagonists and being forced to shoehorn romantic or maternal aspects in like with Pirates of Dark Water.

Sometimes though, a whole “woke” show gets made, but then it becomes the butt of jokes like Captain Planet.

The only person I can think of who deserved people backing off of was Stephen Fry when he “defended” Rowling. Really, he only asked people to back off of her and didn’t comment on any of her ideas. He had too much of a history of political commentary and activism that carried more weight then a comedy show. I decided to sit on the fence regarding Fry.

Last year or so, he commented that Rowling was a lost cause. I’m guessing up to that point, he had been trying to reason with her because he knew her personally. He’s never not been an alley.

They’re laying the ground work to officially start their own religion.

Maybe they did get rid of him and what we’re seeing now isn’t the same person who ran off to Africa way back.

No, the choice between safely biodegradable tires vs petro tires is a separate discussion from better pubic transit to reduce the need for those tires.

A few things I’m going to point out though.

1. It’s not the run off into streams and into drinking water that’s the likely point of intake. It’s the air we breath, epically in cities or along major highways where people are intaking the plastic.

2. Don’t assume that just because something is natural means that it is completely harmless. Plenty of natural compounds are toxic.

3. The family of compounds that we need to be concerned about the most is PFAS. It is a synthetic, but it’s because it’s a forever chemical and doesn’t metabolize out of the body.

The first and easiest step would to remove the PFAS and create safe alternatives. It’s a weird Catch 22. It needs to be durable and long lasting so it doesn’t blow out on the highway, but it also needs to be weak and biodegradable so organic systems can break it down. EVs, even the EV busses, need even more durable tires as the torque is higher.

Even if you got wide spread train adoption, people still need to get to those trains and bikes still have rubber tires. Busses use less rubber compared to cars per person, but it’s still not zero.

Connecting mircoplastic from runoff seems like a wasted effort. What do you do with it afterwards? Burn it? Try and recycle it? Plastic is hard to recycle. Better to keep the most harmful plastics from being created in the first place.

He made 4 specials bashing trans people. He didn’t fail a purity test. He failed the thoroughly mixed test. Between the trans “jokes” and calling his audance poor for booing Musk, he’s clearly a class traitor.

And he called his audance poor when they booed Musk.

I mean, yes. But that’s a different discussion.

It’s much easier to switch to clothes not made of plastic then it is to replace what we make tires out of.

The vast majority of my media is stored locally and works offline. I’d probably get a couple more hard drives for more backups.