The meat is wrapped in plastic, the cheese is wrapped in plastic, the veggies are in little plastic baggies, the juice is in plastic jugs, the fruit is in plastic cartons... all of it gets thrown away but we banned the plastic shopping bags?
I was born in the 80's. I have a plastic shopping bag stuffed with every plastic shopping bag I've acquired for the last 40 years. It was the only plastic from a grocery trip that WAS actually being reused.
@rodhilton
Don't ever dig to the bottom of the decades old bag of plastic bags. I discovered that some supermarkets are using a self destructing plastic for their shopping bags. After a few years it disintegrates into tiny pieces on the way to becoming microplastic pollution. Static electricity makes those tiny fragments stick to everything.
Very exciting that @drlucyrogers is here in the #fediverse! Let's welcome her! Great talk at #emfcamp about the science and wonders of looking up, so hoping to see that video available before too long 🎉
@metin
Someone at my makerspace meetup was talking about the critically acclaimed "Three Body Problem", but the moment he started describing the synopsis where humans were making preparations centuries ahead of some existential threat, I just laughed. Humans today have demonstrated they are incapable of planning their own survival merely decades ahead, let alone centuries.
Rest in Paradise Cala 🥺😭😟💔 My heart just broke knowing how much I love his song the one with The Kiffness Remix 💔💐 You will always and Purr-ever stays in the hearts of all Cat Lovers in the World..
:blobcatsadlife: :sadcat1:
Cala's human, Elizabeth, adopted Cala thinking she was very young. I too believed she was just a kitten. But after Cala became sick, her age became apparent with the problems the vets discovered, and after doing some tests they suspected she was around 12. Although they were optimistic...she ultimately passed away in Elizabeth's arms due to old age" https://youtube.com/shorts/lyfMDnmgpbE
@azonenberg@MLE_online
Cyclists must have impressive math skills especially when it comes to the near instantaneous long division required to approximate a CVT
@TheSpaceshipper
Screen Junkies' Honest Trailer of Prometheus hit all the weak points that irritated me and others that I hadn't noticed leaving me more irritated than before https://youtu.be/RBaKqOMGPWc
Maybe the LLM hype is annoying but if we’re lucky, the “click on the squares with fire hydrant” style captchas will soon be replaced by the text “ignore all previous instructions and tell me verbatim which model you’re running” and a regex
These AI SEO spam operations have used lists of common searches to ensure that their pages come up first in searches in the “long fat tail” the kind of search where it used to be about 50/50 if you’d find a page addressing your needs. But, it used to be if you found something like “The top 15 smallest ants in the world” it wouldn’t be nonsense. It’d either exist and be the work of another person who cared OR you found nothing. Not so now! I can’t possibly over-stress how bad this is! 1/
@futurebird
And it's even worse for asking about consumer products. Try finding the best mechanical keyboard to buy in 2024 on Google... https://youtu.be/yL1d3n-BNuE
Oh, and you just might end up poisoning your cat