the internet was so exciting and interesting back then.

Compared to now where its just another corporate ruined hellscape that you cant even begin to get into without protection.

Its a real thing.

Google entered heavy enshittification stage and honestly… it’s sad to watch.

google has been in heavy enshittification for going on a decade now.

Honestly you could make the argument that its been on the enshittification slide since they tried to expand out from just being a search engine company.

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“Hes making life very hard for me and my family at the moment, but he is also making things even worse for non-whites, so its all okay by me!”

Promises are cheap.

same promises they’ve heard for decades, and seen broken for decades, yet they keep sucking it up because admitting they were wrong is just expecting to much (at least until their farm collapses and their life is in shambles, then they’ll release critical videos sobbing about the cruelty of it all)

on a totally unrelated topic, but harbor freight is a great place to get affordable tools.

Trump wants to provoke people so he can declare civil war and make himself el presidente` for life.

So he’ll continue to ruin everything until he provokes the response he needs.

Or, you know, Just release it on Disney+, for Disney+ subscribers, who already pay for it by subscribing to Disney+, instead of being a cunting multi-billion dollar company thats trying to double dip on customers during a financial crisis, and expecting them to pay more, just to keep getting the shit they’ve been watching, because you decided for no good reason to switch platforms for no justifiable reason outside of corporate greed.

I fucking hate when they do this shit. Disney is also guilty of it with other properties, like Kingdom Hearts… Oh, want to know all the story? Go buy 10+ platforms and twice as many games to understand what the fucks going on…

Recycling plastic is still less cost than manufacturing virgin material.

No it doesnt.

virgin plastic is cheaper.

The only thing that makes recycled plastic remotely viable is state and federal subsidies/incentives/etc… and even those don’t make recycled plastic cheaper. just marginally more affordable.

its not about the energy.

its about the cost.

Lets preface this by saying that “plastics” is just a universal word that describes like half a dozen or more types of commonly used polymer materials.

These materials are generally made from waste byproducts from the oil and gas industry, so the oil and gas industry could literally give these byproducts away and it would still be cheaper for them than having to incur disposal costs. fresh plastic will always win on price, as long as petroleum exists (Which may not be as long as some people hope…but thats another discussion)

meanwhile recycling all these plastics require massive complicated machines (if such machines even exist), or hordes of human workers manually sorting the various types. Which already makes recycled plastic too expensive to be anything but a propaganda tool for companies to slap “MADE WITH RECYCLED MATERIALS!” on their label, usually with an asterisk somewhere that says they only used like 10% recycled materials, because again, the sorting, cleaning, processing is so expensive as to make the final pelletized product magnitudes more expensive than fresh raw plastic could ever hope to be… so they only use enough recycled plastic to be able to slap that on their label in hopes of appealing to the environmentalist types.

Which is also why most plastic in the recycle bins ends up at the dump regardless, because if one person on the route is suspected of putting something they shouldnt in their bin, then the truck is sent to the dump where all the plastic is buried with the rest of the trash, because they dont want to deal with any sorting or processing. they just want to dump the truck into pelletizer and be done with it.

If you care about the environment, recycling isnt whats going to save it. getting rid of plastic and replacing it with something sustainable like glass and wood is what will save it.

the recycling movement is, ultimately, a big giant scam designed to shove the burden off onto consumers instead of on the producers.

and most everything but easy and valuable metals still end up more in dumps than being reprocessed in any way, because processing/sorting waste plastic is hard and no one wants to pay the money to do it… So if they suspect one wrong plastic in an entire truckload of plastic recyclables, the entire truck goes to the dump.

Flock can hear you.

And it can see you.

and it knows what you’re thinking.

and thats why its alerted authorities about you and your subversive anti-corporate attitude.

Whats the fucking point if they only let you attach a 25mb or smaller file.

i guess unregulated capitalism is inherently entropic… since its utlimately a system that consumes itself until everything is gone and it dies and returns to background radiation.

There is a certain type of people that absolutely hate public transit, because its the evilbad socialism.

So they do everything in their power to sabotage it and make it as awful as possible, with the ultimate goal of selling it off to one of their pals and privatize.

We know the enemy.

We know every unoriginal comment, trick, and bullshit they do, because they have repeated them over and over again for decades.

We don’t have to keep giving them the false legitimacy of equal time or attention.

Really need Theodore Roosevelt to rise from his grave and start taking his big stick to all the big, monopolistic companies again.

its a fucking tragedy theres no one making decent dumb TVs anymore. But dumb TVs last longer cause they dont run as hot or are as complicated… and disposable society needs products to burn so they can churn for extra profit.

Which is supremely funny, because the religious states always have the highest porn consumption. Which I guess means they wont get many customers.