Which is basically irrelevant, since you need to dope the recycled plastic with fresh plastic for most applications and no one is doing this at a meaningful scale

And even if we did scale it up, this just means the amount of plastic use will continue to increase. We’d have to find uses for the lower strength and quality plastic even

Well the real problem is that what you’re saying does exist to some extent, and it’s a very easily controlled variable

So when execs and investors look at marvel, they learn the wrong lesson. Endgame threw in an insane number of expensive actors and made an insane amount of money

Instead of looking at the years of setup and buildup of characters in this grand artistic vision, they’re working with spreadsheets to try to min-max the actor to box office numbers

It’s why everything just keeping getting worse. The finance brained people are running the world, and you can always count on them to learn the wrong lesson

And you don’t understand what being effective means.

You’re why we’re fucked.

It’s perception. Like I said, hide the praxis. It must not be perceivable

Hell, discard it even. It’s more important to focus on immediate material issues than loudly dream about a better world

Praxis is not useful in this day and age, it’s a liability. If it’s your driving force, learn to pretend it’s not

Yeah… I’m using the word very intentionally

Praxis is academic. It scares people. We must hide the fact our arguments are driven by ideology and focus on the material conditions and how they can be immediately improved

Yeah, and a simple arm movement could put it back

It’s proportional

No? I just expect acknowledgement. Just a little head nod or basically any sound

I’m not a doorman. I’m holding the door so you feel like you’re in a slightly friendlier world, I didn’t have to do this. I don’t expect others to do it for me, but my day gets a little better when they do.

These little interactions are how a society feels friendly. It’s the fabric of civilization

When you walk through like you’re entitled to have doors held for you, then fuck you. You’re snubbing someone trying to make the world a slightly friendlier place

We need to stop with the praxis. It’s a playbook written in another era, further warped by decades of midwits and sabotage

And it just scares off the masses. No one is going to read your pamphlet unless they already mostly agree with you, in which case why are you talking to them?

Every successful political movement is evangelical

They could quit.

Or maybe they can’t afford to quit, which is kinda why we need acts of protest

Yes? Obviously? Someone else got mildly publicly embarrassed for not being polite to a stranger

As someone who does the little things like hold the door for others, I think to myself “okay, asshole” every time doesn’t acknowledge it. It makes me just a little more hesitant to do it in the future

When someone does get called out for it, it’s incredibly vindicating. Even seeing it second hand is validating

There’s such a thing as a good Karen. Society does need Karens, but we need them to call out people making the world a worse place in little ways like this

Yeah, but social punishment for rudeness is how you get a world where strangers are polite to each other

Causing a tiny inconvenience for yourself is worth it

Because your diet sucks. A few months of eating only unprocessed food and you’d probably eat McDonald’s exactly one more time in your life

And I do specifically mean McDonald’s… It’s uniquely disgusting, even among fast food. It tastes like it’s reconstituted food scraps doped with sugar

Yep… All those Europeans getting high and mighty about how we need to “fix our county” need to realize they’re right behind us on the pipeline

This is a global problem

That tracks. I mean, these boats would have to be refueled 20x to reach Florida, so they must all be Aquaman

They taste great to most Americans, the sugar is mostly in there to cover up low quality ingredients

No it’s not. Trump is obviously not calling the shots, I’d like to hear who is running the admin on camera

Pardon from who? Does the ICC even have a mechanism like that?

What he actually said was he would release it if they wanted to release it. That he’d have no problem with that

If we had real journalism in our county, the reporters would have asked who “they” were, since he basically said it’s not his decision

At this point, you just seem obscenely delusional to me. What you’re saying is so far beyond reason I don’t even know where to start.

You are not informed enough to have an opinion on the topic. I’m sorry, you’re just spewing nonsense, you need to keep your opinions to yourself

Why I signed up to go through this hellscape