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Cake day: December 13th, 2024

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  • It seems there’s been a flip. The myth is now that plastic is not recycled and it’s all been a lie which is the actual lie.

    The information around what types of plastics are easily recycled has never been a secret.

    There is this weird mindset where people, often children are given a simplified explanation of things and then feel they were lied to when they find out their is nuance.

    The entire world of information works this way. If the nuance was included from the start no one would learn anything because they would be bogged down in details. Every topic is a Wikipedia like rabbit hole with no bottom. It’s what we have specialization in society.

    The issues with plastic are not in its recycling. It’s that is breaks down into what are essentially forever chemicals. This is the dilemma.

    Producing less plastic because it’s not recyclable is bad messaging.

    Producing less plastic because it creates a substance that will last for eons is the problem. We’ve known about this property for decades but the repercussions of it have become more pronounced.

    We need to stop making more plastic and work out how to chemically dissessemble the plastics already created without creating a worse output.





  • This is a problem even without this. The account owner can get lists of all outbound calls of their victim’s line if they share a plan.

    The fcc requires some remediation if a domestic abuse order is submitted but obviously that’s at the far end of the abuse cycle.

    The issue here can be traced all the way to phone companies pushing the very concept of family plans because it makes churn more difficult.

    An abuser can shut off their victim’s phone line on a whim with convenient online interfaces.

    Phone companies don’t treat their customers will respect because their is no requirement. No one of adult age should be subjected to any of these controls simply because someone else pays.

    The health industry has rules around this. The moment a child hits 18, their claims disappear and the parent loses access to medical records.

    There is absolutely no reason phones should not have the same restrictions but the industry lacks the will and will until the fcc or other three letter agency forces the issue.



  • Ultra processed it when it’s broken down and reassembled, often adding nutrients, preservatives and other additives.

    Oat milk is a good example.

    Cheese blocks and bottled wine are not ultra processed but American “cheese” is definitely ultra processed.

    This is not the gotcha, no one really knows, shrug that people pretend it is. There is no gray area.

    Given two similar products such as cheese, one can be ultra processed while the other is not. There is no cheese that is sort of maybe kind of ultra processed. There is a clear line that is crossed.

    Pretending otherwise it only yo the benefit of the food industry who prefers we pretend it’s a fuzzy concept because it would affect their profits.


  • Such events are so uncommon they aren’t going to change the supply chain for them.

    This particular event isn’t solved by supply chain management. The goods aren’t coming because the tariffs and uncertainty are too high and distribution contracts don’t change that quickly.

    There were many articles a few weeks back about how American companies were canceling orders.

    For the first round of tariffs, they squeezed the Chinese manufacturers but after the tariffs continued to rise those manufacturers had to say no more and the American companies had no choice but to cancel orders.

    There is absolutely no surprise in shipments dropping because we’ve know for weeks that orders have been cancelled.

    Places like Walmart have a contract that the distributor must sell goods to them below a certain price point and no one can hit that price so the goods aren’t ordered and nothing is shipped.

    Walmart’s contracts is the reason shelves will go empty but don’t expect Walmart to take the blame when everyone is primed to blame Trump.