There are vegetarians on principle, vegetarians due to health issues, vegetarians for ecological responsibility.... and vegetarians at home by default, because touching raw meat is that nasty! Truly, I feel like I've found my people.
spinne
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I am so pissed about this. A room full of journalists? Just yell, "Hey, anybody read any good books lately?" and start writing shit down!
Update: it was a syndicated piece from a freelancer. CST pledges greater transparency when it comes to local reporting (their focus) vs. syndication
When you cancel your Comcast, telling them you're moving internationally ends things much faster than saying you're switching providers.
Peak '90s and I love it
Above is a free link to a Washington Post op-ed from a year ago about why plastic recycling is bullshit. Here's a human-generated summary:
- "Recycling" old plastic requires the addition of much more new, unused plastic. At least two-thirds of the most efficiently "recycled" plastic is the new, unused plastic holding the mixture together.
- Plastic is made from petroleum processed with really toxic shit that has never undergone human safety studies. (These are the PFAS that everybody's squawking about, along with heavy metals.) Plastic threatens human health, and now that we're starting to look for micro- and nanoplastics in tissue samples and out in the environment, it's being found everywhere from brains and reproductive organs to the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
- Plastic recycling plants are environmental catastrophes due to the amounts of plastic particles they release into their surrounding areas, putting an even greater health burden on the people living nearby.
- Plastic is for landfills. It goes against everything many of us were taught growing up, but plastic truly is for landfills. The stated goal was "reduce, reuse, recycle," but industry has really pushed the idea that recycling plastic is enough. It isn't.
I say this as someone who loves plastic: sherpa fleece, that super soft cotton-poly blend t-shirt material, colorful toys and tchotchkes, and everything else you can make out of a material that light, strong, and durable. I hate that it's dangerous and damaging because it's just so fucking convenient!
Thanks!
In New York (where I grew up), it's the rarity of the insult that's meaningful, not the word used. For a New Yorker to insult someone using something other than a common vulgarity ("fucking piece of shit," "asshole," etc.) means that the insult was heartfelt. Almost no adult New Yorker says "dork" and means it; writing it on a post-it in all caps and gently tucking it underneath the base of the wiper implies that the note writer stood there and laughed at the thing and its driver before walking away.
It's one of the most vicious insults I've ever seen and I'm glad it was shared with the world.
Ohh biiiiiiiiiig stretch!!
Poseidon's rimjob
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I started off using different colors because I liked them. Turns out that my brain really likes this style of information organization, and it's helped me a bunch when it comes to learning and sticking with good design habits!
Notebook: Colorverse Nebula
Pens, L-R: Platinum Preppy (fine, Colorverse Brane), TWSBI Eco (broad, Birmingham Pen Co. Lightning Twinkle), Opus88 Mini (fine, Pilot Iroshizuku Yama-budo), and Bonecrusher (medium, Diamine Writers Blood)
Photo description: Stationery items on top of a large desk mat printed with a night forest scene. A Colorverse Nebula notebook is open to two pages of notes and drawings on tips for designing snap-fit joints on 3d printed objects, written in different ink colors. The notebook is surrounded by pencils (a Bic mechanical and Tombow 4H), a plastic pencil sharpener, and a test tube rack holding four fountain pens.
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If you get some dishwashing rubber gloves instead, they'll be washable at the sink, last a while longer, and block slightly more gross textures, plus they have much longer cuffs