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Re: Plastic-eating enzyme could eliminate billions of tons of landfill waste

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Post by TameAntelope » Fri, May 20, 2022, 5:23 PM UTC

fredrikholm wrote: post #289

TameAntelope wrote: post #278

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Infertility would be "none", and I didn't say that, I said "fewer". But I'm sorry you've put such an important emphasis on having kids in your relationship. The fact that you live in a society where that's reasonable is immensely sad, to me. You should feel whole without children, and the fact that you don't is the real tragedy, IMO.

Are you always this misanthropic and belittling?

I'm neither of those things now, nor am I always anything.

Are you always this antagonistic and reductive?

Re: Plastic-eating enzyme could eliminate billions of tons of landfill waste

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Post by fredrikholm » Fri, May 20, 2022, 5:28 PM UTC

TameAntelope wrote: post #291

fredrikholm wrote: post #289

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you always this misanthropic and belittling?

I'm neither of those things now, nor am I always anything. Are you always this antagonistic and reductive?

When someone infantilizes or shames people for their suffering, yes.

Re: Plastic-eating enzyme could eliminate billions of tons of landfill waste

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Post by TameAntelope » Fri, May 20, 2022, 5:31 PM UTC

fredrikholm wrote: post #292

TameAntelope wrote: post #291

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm neither of those things now, nor am I always anything. Are you always this antagonistic and reductive?

When someone infantilizes or shames people for their suffering, yes.

Considering I did neither of those things, your behavior remains unexplained...

Re: Plastic-eating enzyme could eliminate billions of tons of landfill waste

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Post by pastage » Sun, May 22, 2022, 4:15 PM UTC

DANK_YACHT wrote: post #195

pastage wrote: post #187

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Dams break and wreck havoc on ecosystems, the US has had it's fair share of coal mine sludge disasters. Even countries with strict environmental agencies and long history of mining have accidents.

So what's your solution? Stop building dams and decommission the ones that have been built? Humans attempt to create order. The universe naturally wants to increase disorder. It's natural that anything we create will need to be monitored.

We know that dams are dangerous and that they fail, the smaller ones are decomissioned when not in use not only to improve the ecosystem. A dam is not designed for a life of a 100 thousands years, it's a long time.