Great point, fungus is the best among us. I never cease to be amazed by what they can accomplish!
I think for long-term solutions to the plastic problem, it would be better to use a replacement for petroleum-based plastics, such as natural polymers, than to try to make it so petroleum-based plastics were viable in the long term. There are a lot of challenges to overcome in the area of alternative plastics, but I know some people working on this problem and there seem to be promising candidates. I believe it's only a matter of time and research before we have viable alternatives that are affordable, biodegradable on a short time-scale, and viable replacements for the petroleum-based plastics currently used.
While I think it's a technology issue now, I also think it will largely become an issue of gaining widespread adoption across the vast diversity of industries using single-user plastics today. There's also the problem of how degradation of such polymers will affect the environment when used on such a large scale, but I'd include this in the technology phase as something we could probably figure out, but if adoption was quick enough, we may not have this figured out yet.
my former manager who wanted projects estimated in minutes.
That wasn't a manager, that was a demon.
No. If you are using a decent bidet and using it correctly, you do not need to wipe. At most you'll need to dab dry, but some models have blow driers so this isn't necessary. The water is the friction you need unless your bidet has weak pressure or the stream is too dispersed.
Soap would always be better, but water alone is vastly superior and a complete replacement for wiping so long as something isn't wrong with the setup.
What if you bought ads for both campaigns and had them link to Hexbear's PPB through a tiny URL? Now that would be interesting news!
Taxing the rich isn't going to lower our cost of living, the changes needed are far more systemic. Taxes don't decide whether the government can afford to do something outside of the local level. To solve that problem, you need to remove them from power and ensure they cannot take it back.
If you want a quick bandage for the problem without addressing that last point, you're better off implementing fixed, affordable prices for necessities such as food, housing, utilities, healthcare, etc. so they can't be used to price gouge.
This is obviously not sufficient by itself to address all of the problems and it's almost certain it would never be widely implemented by the government of a liberal democracy. Cutting into corporate profits is unacceptable.
Until people realize that they must forcibly take back the power to define how their countries are run (not necessarily violently, but let's be honest, those in power don't even respond to peaceful protests without violence) and then begin to take actions that actually weaken those in charge, we will continue to live under their thumb and suffer the treatment they deem most beneficial to themselves.
One step that can be taken to weaken them is to organize your community to create alternatives to the institutional programs they expect you to rely upon. Develop programs similar to the breakfast programs of the Black Panthers. Organize your workplaces and local communities into workplace unions (not business unions!) and tenant unions organized, run, and composed of the members who will be covered. Force them to negotiate with you and be ruthless at the negotiation table.
Show the people that they DO have power and from there you can begin to build a movement to take it back.
Let me ask you something in return: do you think you can't use fractions with metric? If you prefer fractions, that's fine, but you haven't justified why it's better to use a system of measurement based on vibes.
1/4" = 0.25" 1/4mm = 0.25mm
Translations:
"If someone uses drugs, they deserve to be homeless."
"It's impossible that people would pick up a drug habit to cope with their homelessness problem."
"Anyone else who becomes homeless is just dumb or lazy. It's their fault they don't have my privilege and I'll ignore any amount of evidence to not rethink my shitty, self-entitled world view."
Mfw I remember Democrats had the majority in the Senate and the house as well as a SCOTUS that would back them, but they didn't codify Roe v Wade.
Lemmy Main or 
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Never in my life have I seen someone call Star Wars prophetic before this moment.
Don't turn it into Harry Potter. SW has seen enough pain as it is.