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Say hello to biodegradable microplastics: Plant-based polymers that can disappear within seven months
  • I think you're missing the compost part. Wood will break down in a compost, yet you can build houses from it. Indoor furniture made from wood will happily serve you for decades. Same with this biodegradable plastic: It'll have a shelf life of decades or even centuries. When shredded and composted it will break down. This material is likely not a good candidate for the wheel housing on your car, but there's no reason not to use it, for example, for a car's interior.

  • Um...you're in prison
  • After Camus and Sartre, I threw in some random Cicero (first half) and then something completely random (second) because I should hate to be predictable.

  • bread of wisdom
  • That stance is fair enough. Though I'd like to point out that language can shape perception. And using terms like "trans rights" suggests that trans people are sufficiently different from "normal" humans that they require special rights. But, in my humble opinion, it would be so easy to formulate human/basic rights in a way that no subset specific rights are required, that the entire notion of X rights seems alien to me. Let's assume we have four tiers of laws (true for some nations): constitutional law, common law, policy, and judicial precedence. Imagine the following subset of constitutional law:

    • Constitutional law applies to all humans residing in the jurisdiction of the nation.

    • Nobody has a right for unhurt feelings.

    • Nobody shall perform an act solely for the purpose of hurting someone else's feelings.

    • Everybody has a right for individual bodily autonomy.

    There's no mention of race, religion, gender, ... Yet, I'd argue that, for example, trans people are fully covered and protected by the wording. Required exceptions, for example limited accountability for minors, can easily be put into common law. If it becomes evident that some minority is factually disadvantaged, that could be addressed in policy without any need to extend the law because that is neutral and all-encompassing.

    I feel like "we" (politicians/societies) are talking way too much about special laws for trans people, women, ... when we should fix the root causes of overly specific laws/constitutions.

    TL;DR: humans are humans, and imho human law should be for all humans and avoid special treatment of any subset, but be worded in a way that any special need is met as best as possible.

  • bread of wisdom
  • The only thing that bothers me about terms like "trans rights", "women rights", ... is that there should be no need to prefix "rights" with anything but "human". And human rights should apply to all humans indiscriminately, obviating the need to label any subset of human rights that shouldn't exist. In my book, the slice of bread should read:

    Humans have human rights. Trans people are humans.

    And in a better world every bit of that should be so obvious that it wouldn't need mentioning at all.

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  • Yes, they do.

  • Um...you're in prison
  • Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. Now, insert your recreation rod into my receptacle.

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  • What about trick implies treat?

  • Um...you're in prison
  • This comment section is a prison. I'm not stuck here with you, though. You're stuck with me!

  • Think about it…
  • Overall I'm pretty happy with myself. The only thing I'd improve is my weak jawline. But, you'll be the judge:

  • Salema porgy - Fish that causes LSD-esque nightmares for 36 hours when consumed
  • I saw so many of those on my last visit to croatia. Here's a pic I took:

    Our host told us about the psychedelic effect they can have. I wasn't sure if he was bullshitting us ... guess he was not :)

  • just when you don't think about, bääm! a German.
  • Haben wir noch Apostrophs? Keinem mehr? Gar keinem? Zwei noch?

    Jetz' gibt's Maul!

  • just when you don't think about, bääm! a German.
  • Wat? Kaum drei Haare auf'm Sack und schon ein' auf dicke Hose machen hier, wie?

  • just when you don't think about, bääm! a German.
  • Hätten sie lieber die Spanische Inquisition?

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  • I wasn't going to. But maybe if you think I was, then I should.

  • 25 October 2023
  • We prefer the term 'behaviorally creative'.

  • ArcGis Pro in Wine?
  • It looks like it's "garbage" quality.

    To be fair, that's also true when running natively under Windows.

  • ESKALATION IM NAHEN OSTEN - und alle machen mit... [LeFloid]
  • Ich mag seinen Stil nicht und in dem Video war für mich nichts fundamental Neues, aber ich hab mir die Tonspur einfach mal parallel zur Hausarbeit angehört: Ich würde sagen es ist sehr bodenständig, sachlich und ausgewogen. Eine art der Betrachtung die leider sehr rar ist. Der enthaltene Appell zum defensiven Umgang mit "jungen" Informationen aus allen Quellen hat mir sehr gut gefallen. Es schadet auf jeden Fall nicht sich das mal anzuhören.

    Ob man ihn mag oder nicht, ich halte die Down Votes am Post für unangebracht.

  • Who wants to live forever…
  • I regret to inform you, Sir, that you are horribly mistaken. My memes are most splendid!

  • Harvest mouse on a dandelion
  • It's almost criminal to share those photos in such low resolution as OP did. His insta is a better source for the pictures: https://www.instagram.com/deanmason.wow/?hl=en

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