I’m a slut for soup so this is perfect

I see no downsides here

I had to check, and it looks like at least as far as plastic goes, in Finland it’s sent to two domestic recycling plants, and everything they can’t handle is shipped to Sweden’s Site Zero in Motala (dunno where they go from there.)

But yeah, something like using shredded plastic for road surfacing definitely isn’t what I’d call a sensible way to recycle the material. It’s just adding an extra step before getting to “microplastic endocrine disruptors EVERYWHERE”

We can still get lucky and only get 1346 London

🤞

There’s a good chance that the next influenza pandemic will be kicked off in the US. Get ready for the American Flu!

the recycling system is broken and often just a complete lie in many places in the world.

In many places in the world, or mainly the US? I keep seeing this claim repeated but usually any proof is just about the US

As someone with an autoimmune disorder, I’m honestly not all that sold on whether that’s a good tradeoff.

Yay, you’re not acutely dying of cancer, but now your body is attacking your internal organs and depending on how shitty your luck is, you can eg. look forward to liver and/or kidney transplants (possibly more than once, too)

I keep saying this but it feels like the Dems are a Russia-style controlled opposition party.

Doesn’t mean 100% of them are garbage, but the leadership sure does seem like it hates the idea of successful opposition

There’s plenty of studies showing that conservatism, sadism, and psychopathy correlate.

A transmasc friend of mine has speculated that this whole transmasc erasure thing is just a continuation of good 'ol misogyny

Making friends, you say?

Maybe it’s neuropathy? Maybe it’s Maybelline?

Fabergé egg

What’s this from?!

Fun English facts: “apron” used to be “napron”, but “a napron” was eventually incorrectly split into “an apron”. Same with “adder” which used to be “naddre”, and “umpire” which was “noumpere”

She does have a bit of the 'ol Hapsburg Jaw going on

Bruton’s engineering oddities are terrific. It’s just so nice to see someone building “utterly bonkers but wonderfully cool” things just 'cause

It’s a weird hill to die on

But at least they’re dead

And at least there’s now one(ish) standard instead of N+1

I respect and always will respect people who are ideologically consistent, even and especially when they are personally harmed by their position

Not sure there’s much to admire in pig-headed refusal to face facts

Everything is a conspiracy, except the actual conspiracies