Even if it were a true statement, they had a man stabbed in the heart handcuffed rather than getting him immediate medical attention. Like WTF

If they were homeschooled, they’d probably be better off.

Compared to Canada 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, where your event ticket got you on the busses or Skytrain for free.

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Repairs though. Our 2010 laptop had the enter key die. Thankfully back then parts were still somewhat user repairable.

I bought a new keyboard for $18 on AliExpress, and just had to remelt the plastic heat stakes to pop out the old keyboard and drop in the new one. Took maybe 2 hours with disassembly steps and reassembly.

Current laptops often just get tossed out, but with a framework you can swap keyboards in 15 minutes.

Americans have a large percent of population that aren’t educated well, and gravitate toward consipracy theories and cult leader type followings.

Texas is a large state that publishes school materials, it is influenced by big oil (so they don’t want critical thinkers), and then other states save money by buying the premade curriculum from Texas. Also schools and teachers lack funding–by design

Its not the sole issue, but UK democracy is going askew. Tougher laws on protesting. Arresting citizens for free speech. Arresting people for wearing shirts about the genocide in Palestine.

In both cases people actively worked against health authorities, because they believed some delusions about the governments motive

Let’s correct the headline to poor eating habits/diet led to vitamin B12 deficiency, causing delusions.

Because I haven’t eaten meat in 35 years, and haven’t had any dairy, eggs, etc (vegan) in at least 5 years, and my B12 is fine.

There are times when market changes alter the relationship, but virgin is more costly, especially when oil jumps in price.

Source: a family member helpsnrun a facility that recycles plastics and ships plastics to the industries.

The true problem with plastic recycling is you can only use a small percentage of used plastic in with the vergin material so that the material still has same physical and mechanical properties, so we will always make more than we can feedback.

There may be federal subsidies in your country that assist, but that is not everywhere

Materials not recycled for consumer goods reuse are often ground and repelletized as fuel pellets. Not great, but better than mining more coal, drilling more oil etc

People get hung up on “is it being rrectcled” as justification of use of recycles codes, but these codes extend beyond plastic I think baterries are code 33 or 43 I forget. The idea being when a technology is developed to recycle we have an existing ID for the material.

Incorrect.

Not exactly true. There are many companies making profit off of recycling. The collecting costs here are by property taxes. Recycling plastic is still less cost than manufacturing virgin material. The sorting is effort, but the repelletinzing is not highly complex. As with anything for sale, for a company to stay in business their product has to cover costs and make profit. Recycled plastic is cheaper than new, sometimes not by a huge %/but enough that when oil prices rise the plastic part manufacturers reach out and order a lot more recycled material.

The plastic that is not easily converted back into consumer materials, is repelletized into fuel pellets. These are used in heating and incinerator systems in place of oil, coal and gas fuels. Its still just hydrocarbons at the end.

Not saying every country is doing this, and often not every city. But where I’m at 96% of collected material is recycled.

Recycling plastic is still less cost than manufacturing virgin material. The sorting is effort, but the repelletinzing is not highly complex. As with anything for sale, for a company to stay in business their product has to cover costs and make profit. Recycled plastic is cheaper than new, sometimes not by a huge %/but enough that when oil prices rise the plastic part manufacturers reach out and order a lot more recycled material.

The plastic that is not easily converted back into consumer materials, is repelletized into fuel pellets. These are used in heating and incinerator systems in place of oil, coal and gas fuels. Its still just hydrocarbons at the end.

No, In a true free market competition drives prices down as each company aims to grab you as a customer and it forces efficiency in the manufacturing or development to cut costs. Since lobbying has taken over, there is no free market, it is manipulated to favour the bigger donor or other backend deals to eliminate competition.

For example in Canada we have a giant grocery chain that also has a property company, the property company will only lease to themselves, and they have agreements that no other stores can open a certain distance from them. It means that we overpay on all food

In a true Capitalist society a competitor would be fighting for same sales. What we see is lobbying of government to favour one monopolistic company.

I don’t understand why businesses don’t predict this downward spiral. I recall a city with crap bus infrastructure saying ridership was down so they had to increase fares. So then a while later, oh ridership is lower again, let’s increase fares. Duh, its down because the routes suck and you’ve increased the barrier to choosing to use it. SMH