I wonder as well. My filter is made of plastic, and my water lines are plastic. Sometimes my cup is plastic. Do I get more micro plastics after the filtration process?

The Catholic Church thought they could pour their brand of religion into the entire continent for hundreds of years, gaining loyal support and broadening their power. Looks like they just found out they exported the bigotry, but couldn’t force loyalty when they change the message.

This is the danger we keep seeing when people use a religion as a power vehicle, and wrap it in “fear of the other”. Doesn’t matter if it’s Catholicism or something else. We’ll continue to repeat history over and over because clearly it’ll work THIS time and that leader will be able to control it.

It’s two fold:

1. it’s good proof of “user interaction with site” to sell to advertisers

2. they can use that to load more ads or refresh current ones after it loads more text, and you’re already bought in on the story so you’re likely going to keep going.

I suspect a third reason is to try adding other news stories at the end in case the current one didn’t grab your attention, but that doesn’t seem to be as consistent amongst sites that I’ve seen do this. I run ad blockers though, so I don’t really see the sites the way they expect me to.

No one wants to die at 75 - that’s a single decade (in old age, mind you, with limited options) to enjoy retirement. IF you managed to retire. There’s a lot of older people now that I work with that simply can’t retire, because they can’t afford it. That’s only going to get worse as we grow old and need to retire.

We can’t enact Logan’s Run at 75 and assume it’ll fix anything. We’ll all work till we drop, which I don’t want for my children. Hell, my parents don’t want that for me now!

Interesting, because the inability of people to understand basic concepts continues to disappoint me.

Shoplifting is actually stealing. You’re taking something away from the vendor. Piracy doesn’t actually take anything physically from the vendor.

Besides, if I can’t actually buy it (only a license to use it), then it’s not possible to steal it.

Yeah, but chrome doesn’t allow uBlock Origin to run fully, and it allows ads through.

Why does everything have fentanyl in it? Is it cheaper? Is it a planned thing to get more people to OD? I would think they’d cut it with someone cheap like flour. Unless it’s a cost effective way to get you high. If that’s the case, I would think there would be more demand for pure fentanyl?

I don’t understand what would cause these results.

This graphic indicates not eating meat saves 0.82 tonnes of CO2. Going car free is 2.4. So yet again, it seems like the vegetarian option is another “fix our problems so we don’t have to”.

I often eat vegetarian meals, but it’s not easy or cost efficient. I have gone car free and my 2012 Mustang GT has sat in the garage for a year now. I have one child, not 3. I’ll stop meat entirely when I see larger polluters do their part. I can’t save the world alone.

And even worse, insecure. Google Adsense used to allow ads from unvetted advertisers, who someone allowed malicious scripts to run. That’s when I got much more stern with blockers.

I don’t know if they still do it, but I’m not going to expose myself to find out. And it could happen again in the future, even if they did fix it for now.