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100mg from one cup of coffee (in the style of a latte, cafe mocha, cappuccino etc.) on weekdays at work, on some weekdays a tea or coffee 50-100mg after lunch if I am feeling particularly tired. None regularly on the weekends, except for the odd time I meet people on the weekend at a cafe or something like that. …and I don’t drink colas.
I’m trying to keep it to a level that I don’t require it to function.
Who knows if any bills will get to Trump’s desk, before cholesterol gets to his chest.
I’ll have to update my priors now to see how this latest oil price increase affects the new versus recycled plastic difference.
Thanks my g. I can go to sleep now because of your effective slumber spell.
It’s an accurate snapshot of the American executive branch right now… the moron MAGA President asleep at the wheel, the moron MAGA underlings putting on full display their idiotic rendition of fascism.
🫰Done! I’ve deleted all existing recovery infrastructure! Now your disaster recovery routine has been reduced to 1 second, which is the time it takes to put your human head in your hands and cry!
Another victim to the Kavanaugh stop, which now has an entry in Merriam-Webster’s American English dictionary.
It’s complicated, take it material by material.
The one that’s closest to a scam is plastic. Virgin plastic is made from oil industry by-products, so in most places it’s a lot cheaper than recycled material and tends to be better quality, because it’s hard to properly sort composite resins. It tends to end up overseas somewhere in Asia, despite ongoing efforts by governments on both sides to end the practice. Burning the plastic to generate electricity is in many places labelled as ‘recycling’ but to me it’s not, it’s just efficient incineration. In British Columbia we take it a little more seriously, where RecycleBC is responsible for ensuring recycled material generally stays within the province, tracks the amount that is successfully recovered and generates reports on recycling’s efficacy, but it means people here sort plastic containers, flexible plastics and all separately.
Glass is not really a scam, there are two ways it gets recycled. In places like Mexico, glass bottles are returned, cleaned and reused. Most other times, glass bottles and jars are crushed into silica, which can then be heated into another glass shape again, so the main cost is heat.
Aluminum (pop cans) are one material that is easy to recycle and cheaper and far less environmentally impactful for industry to use than from new refined bauxite, no real difference in quality. Steel cans (think soup cans) are good as well, and generally metal material recovered from larger items at scrapyards is recycled for profit.
Recycled paper is fine, it does save trees if you care about them. Recycled paper tends to become things like cardboard boxes and bathroom tissue, as quality does deterioate each cycle. I’ve been by a paper recyling plant, it stinks a lot of the time but I know they do good work there.
Organics are not recycling, these do successfully become mulch a lot, but anyway the word “compostable” is a bit of a scam and not regulated well. Especially those compostible utensils and bags, they may compost in very specific conditions, but don’t just disappear if you leave it on the ground or in the water.
In any case you’ll want to also consider the cost of transporting, sorting and processing when recycling. That’s why reduce and reuse are better ways to reduce impact compared to recycling. So while there usually is a benefit to recycling, when it’s emphasized particularly by pop bottle companies and oil funded entities, it’s kind of a guise to get you to consume more plastic. I think that’s why people call it a scam.
Certain units of the Japanese Army conducted a lot of inhumane scientific experiments on human subjects they racially discriminated against during WWII, and the evidence collected was retained by the USA.
Well just like a MATLAB plotting program “draws” lines and curves and stuff, Claude is a programs that puts together various reasonings based on the mathematician’s input.
I wake up between 6 and 7am most weekdays, so the sun coming up at 8 vs 9am makes little difference to me.
An actually interesting use of artificial intelligence being able to accomplish something, when put in the hands of expert mathematicians. Definitely a lot of coaxing it back to doing the task correctly but it is pretty cool that it can solve problems (even if they are math nerd ones) in a way that are independently verifiable.
The US government - and they did this with Canada too - have resorted to lying to pretend other countries succumbed to their extraordinarily stupid demands, because other countries have long found out that going along with them brings nothing of value.
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On a more serious note, I think it’s important to have a variety of sources while having a check on both your and the paper’s biases. There’s no one paper that can perfectly cover everything, even Jacobin mag.
Habibi, why is Cuomo in my shawarma?
Windows Slop Edition
So capturing Maduro as Trump’s “Mission Accomplished”™ participation prize trophy wasn’t enough I guess. Once the Iran conflict gets stale, the administration will need to have another distraction from the Epstein Files ready.
Still faster than the House, that feels like getting around to voting on an active war on Thursday of this week.
Yes, because despite both being extracted out of the ground, fuel you don’t get to keep once spent, while lithium you can!
Coal is becoming super uneconomical for power generation, with a relative abundance of natural gas which itself (talking about the byproducts after burning it for electricity) is far better for the environment and doesn’t require a complete overhaul of the boilers. Renewables are becoming cheaper every year so long term, despite Republicans’ best efforts to play big government when they feel like it and go against the free market, renewables will proliferate increasing the impact of electric cars over gas. Better transport alternatives like bikes buses and trains are the best way, but EVs are a marginally acceptable alternative for car-brained societies.
The last distinct innovation I heard from them was the thing where they put cheese inside the crust, like 15 years ago or something.
Where I live there are so many options for pizza from large international and regional chains to small local independents, sit down restaurants or takeout, authentic Italian to mimicking Brooklyn’s dollar slice, that Pizza Hut ends up wayyyyy at the bottom. In terms of value for quality of food, I’d sooner opt for a Costco foodcourt slice than a Pizza Hut. The salad buffet bar still holds a little nostalgia in my mind, but the one closest to where I grew up closed, there aren’t any near me now and the ones that still have a salad bar I’ve never heard anything good about.