>"It is cheaper to just make a new plastic product than to collect it and recycle it or reuse it," says Kristian Syberg, who studies plastic pollution at Roskilde University in Denmark. "That’s a systemic problem."
That seems like it might be implying there is a pricing disconnect. It shouldn't cost more to recycle, especially since people provide the used plastic for basically free.
That would depend on how much it costs to convert used plastic into a useful form, compared to the raw materials. There's no reason to expect it to be cheaper.
There is IMO, because we don't factor the cost of disposal and it's management into just about any product. Except maybe nuclear reactors.
The reason plastic is so cheap is that you're free to make it and let it go where ever the fuck it does. The taypayer pays for cleanup in the long run, not you. You're externalizing a lot of costs.
Which isn't a one and done transaction, landfills require maintenance on the scale of decades. And, problem do occur, like leakage, which you need to manage. We're still paying for landfill management that are many, many decades old.
Fair enough. But that sounds very manageable compared to trying to replace or eliminate our uses of plastic, or compared to inventing a cost effective way to recycle them.
It does, which is why we do it, but really our dependence on plastic doesn't really come down to it's usefulness, but rather it's disposable-ness. We don't really reduce or reuse plastic consumption, even when it might make sense or might be more convenient. We use an excess of plastic with the intention it will just be thrown away - this is pretty contrary to how consumer goods were manufactured and used in the past.
It was common to return glass jugs or containers to stores so they can be reused. It was typical to buy goods in-store, which required significantly less wrapping than something like Amazon. And, in general, most goods were designed for longer-term use.
Now, some fields need that disposability, like medical supplies. But we really overdo it as a whole. There's a lot of plastic that we come in contact with on the orders of seconds, that we then immediately throw away. It's improving, though. Most people I know don't use plastic bottles anymore, they use reusable bottles they can refill.
Sure there is, the raw materials have to be mined and transported across the country and such, it's ridiculous that it's cheaper to do that than to shred existing material and melt it back down. Even if you're downcycling from something like soda bottles to something like fence posts or plastic bricks or whatever, it should definitely be cheaper to recycle.
That depends on the properties of the material and how much it costs to mine and transport it. Plastic is lightweight and ludicrously cheap to produce (hence why there are so many cost effective uses for it). Just the fact that it is dyed different colors may present an insurmountable cost problem for recyclers.
Which words should be attested? Presumably only uncommon ones? And how is it done, is the "quotes" section the attestation? Is there vandalism to clean up, like people adding their own names to define themselves as awesome? Wiktionary seems to "just work", and I don't really understand what holds it together.
I have a feeling that LLM model collapse will be accelerated as humans lose control of smaller Wiki projects like Wiktionary.
They’ll be unable to effectively patrol or prevent generative updates to the project, and for all intensive porpoises, humans will be unwilling to step foot into disputes, and AI will have free reign to redefine all human knowledge.
> There are lots of lines going on meandering routes through the suburbs. Not enough routes with going between dense areas with high frequency.
My city did a hub and spoke type system, but the flip side is that you need to go downtown and change buses to get on the right spokes, which is confusing for people, and can take longer than a route that just goes in a big circle, if you're going somewhere that isn't super far away. That said, our system seems to mostly exist to get poor people where they want to go, vs being designed for working professionals, so I'm still not sure what the best solution would be.
Uber and those $1 private buses that some cities have are able to cut the bureaucracy and just popup routes that make sense for them to service without having to worry about disabled folks and such, so I'm sure they give a better experience to their customers while not providing a universal experience that a publicly funded operation would require.
>I'd disagree with that. People build wild shit in Excel that only they can understand. It makes sense to them because they built it. Nobody else can use it.
I think the parent comment is talking about using excel as a grid based layout tool to show how they want the app to look, not implying that you should build GUIs based upon the convoluted stuff people build in excel to avoid having a dedicated app.
Namecheap has all the information they need to get to the bottom of it (ie they can see the actual person that registered it, instead of seeing that it's hidden), the fact that they haven't proves it's either them or someone they are working with.
Definitely worth having something other than the ground to sit on after a long day. I have a couple of light weight 3-legged stools, although they likely wouldn't be considered ultralight, that are light enough for the camping and hiking I do, although you have to sit just right to not crush your balls.
Even though they are African in origin (perhaps as birthing chairs), a lot of people know these as 'viking chairs' or sometimes as 'bog chairs' and you see them at SCA events and various sorts of old timey reenactment type gatherings, often decorated with celtic knots and such motifs.
Crazy to see them warrant a posting here, I had assumed most people had seen them before.
IME, most people that complain about brutalism don't know what it is anyway and even if they roughly do, are only familiar with decades old ran down versions and not the original vision.
That seems like it might be implying there is a pricing disconnect. It shouldn't cost more to recycle, especially since people provide the used plastic for basically free.