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How the Recycling Symbol Duped People into Buying More Plastic (www.scientificamerican.com)

Plastic wrap tangles around sorting equipment at recycling facilities, shutting down operations as employees try to cut it out of the equipment. Huge bales of paper shipped overseas can contain as much as 30 percent plastic waste. “Contamination is one of the biggest challenges facing the recycling industry,” the EPA said in...

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Unlikely. The public and political agendas are just the opposite for the two substances: most people support the expansion of cannabis products and oppose the expansion of nicotine products.

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Nobody:

Me: The “pter” in pterodactyl is the same as the one in helicopter.

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They are the very worst kind of economic vulture.

Edit: By which I mean that they take advantage of those who cannot afford transportation to stores with more variety, and are too cash-poor to save by buying in bulk. So they offer high-priced but affordable small portions of often inferior products to people who lack the economic freedom to buy better.

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I love this quote from certified baddass Wanjohi Gachie,

“I’m requesting the police not to arrest or beat us because we are fighting for their rights as well.”

Supermassive black hole roars to life as astronomers watch in real time (arstechnica.com)

In December 2019, astronomers were surprised to observe a long-quiet galaxy, 300 million light-years away, suddenly come alive, emitting ultraviolet, optical, and infrared light into space. Far from quieting down again, by February of this year, the galaxy had begun emitting X-ray light; it is becoming more active. Astronomers...

Doctor accused of illegally obtaining health data of Texas Children's patients, in crusade against Transgender medical treatments (www.houstonchronicle.com)

The doctor has publicly identified himself as the person who released information to a conservative activist about the transgender care program at Texas Children’s. Citing “whistleblower documents,” the activist published a story in May 2023 saying Texas Children’s provided transgender care, which was legal at the time,...

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For Americans who may not be aware, much of the critical Fediverse infrastructure, including Lemmy.world, is based in Europe.

Biden to announce protections Tuesday for undocumented spouses of U.S. citizens and ‘Dreamers’ (www.pbs.org)

The president’s executive action will shield undocumented spouses of U.S. citizens from deportation, allow them to obtain work authorization, as well as ease their path to permanent resident status, the three sources told PBS News. The announcement will be made at a White House event marking the 12th anniversary of an...

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That’s not how any of this works.

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Exactly. Unless you are convicted of a serious crime or fraud, etc. your status cannot be revoked.

Sudan’s Manmade Famine (www.foreignaffairs.com)

The biggest hunger crisis in the world is unfolding in Sudan, and it is manmade. As of now, more than half of the country’s 45 million people urgently need humanitarian assistance. In May, the United Nations warned that 18 million Sudanese are “acutely hungry” including 3.6 million children who are “acutely...

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I feel like the world is looking away

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Palestinian billionaires have also spent 20 years investing in telling their story more effectively to the West. Like for example how 30,000 killed became 30,000 civilians. According to the best reports available, about 1/3 of those were Hamas fighters (Hamas claims 8000, Israel unsurprisingly claims it’s much more).

The people of Sudan have no billionaires to tell their story. They only have us.

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Well, there was enough global pressure to establish the state of South Sudan as a safe haven for many of the minorities in the region. I wouldn’t say nothing came of it.

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Those are all from the group that is doing the genocide(s)

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How can the world be failing Sudan again?

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Are those in addition to all of the non-frivolous ones?

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No, that would only be true if there were a completely toxic userbase /s

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“The family suppliments business” It’s like watching a movie about about the lamest mobster.

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Or maybe he’s just a narcissist and racist enough that Ramin Setoodeh is not someone he would care about in the first place.

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I guess the other 20% have someone else buy all their groceries for them

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Israel has had something like five elections in the last three years. Getting a free and fair election is not the challenge.

Having people protest in the street is not, to my knowledge, how elections are initiated in any modern democracy.

Israel is a coalition government with at least a dozen different political parties (including Palestinian/Arab parties), which is why Netanyahu has managed to hold power despite most people disliking him; he is extremely effective at coalition building. Someone who opposes him may accept their party joining his government if their minority party is granted important concessions.

That is also what makes him so dangerous. He seems willing to make a deal with any fringe individuals who can help guarantee his power. The likes of Smotrich and Ben-Gvir, literal right wing terrorists, have been given influential government roles dispite representing just the most radical voting bloc.

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Coalition government offers a greater voice to minority voices, which is often a good thing. FPTP and two party systems are a race to the middle, which often leaves out people, but sometimes succeeds in diminishing extremists.

I’m not really aware of a system that effectively includes minority voices while deminishing extremists, although a robust constitution helps.

Unpopular opinion: Ranked choice is not much better than FPTP. It’s basically indistinguishable except in the case that a third party gains enough support to displace another.

Who tried to steal Graceland? (www.nbcnews.com)

The search for the mysterious company behind a scheme to steal Elvis Presley’s Graceland estate ended last week, not in Nigeria–where initial clues seemed to lead–but at the front door of “a grandmother in Branson, Missouri, a con woman with a decades long rap sheet of romance scams, forged checks and bank fraud totaling...

Dozens of Groups Push FEMA to Recognize Extreme Heat as a ‘Major Disaster’ (www.nytimes.com)

Dozens of environmental, labor and health care groups banded together on Monday to file a petition to push the Federal Emergency Management Agency to declare extreme heat and wildfire smoke as “major disasters,” like floods and tornadoes.The petition is a major push to get the federal government to help states and local...

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Wow these Q4 festivities start earlier and earlier

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It seems like an awareness campaign is a good start. People on this platform are generally very social media savvy, but the harms of social media are far from common knowledge.

One of the most important things that Lemmy has done is to introduce a transparent ranking algorithm. It turns out that people do like algorithms in our social media, as long as we can see and control them. There’s nothing sinister about an algorithm when you can easily see what is getting boosted and why (and switch it off at will)

Other federated media are developing personalized algorithms that will be well suited to other platforms.

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Image of someone voting for Robert Kennedy

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Thanks, I was posting in a hurry but I should have taken the time to proof it.

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Most likely.

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Great username btw

Australian police accused of 'unnecessary force' against demonstrators who were protesting against China during Chinese premier's visit to parliament (www.sbs.com.au)

- One protester has claimed the Australian Federal Police used “brutalising” force in Canberra, as China’s premier met with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and dignitaries at Parliament House....

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Your submission in “Australian police accused of ‘unnecessary force’ against demonstrators who were protesting against China during Chinese premier’s visit to parliament” was removed for Please don’t copy the entire article. Repost with an appropriate excerpt…

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I really hope this is the beginning of the end for him.

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I didn’t do that deep a dive but there are some skyscrapers like the Shard in London that are technically pyramids. So it depends on if you go by height and include those etc.

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