It's a false choice. Metal straws are ideal, but cellulose straws are still better than both paper and plastic.

I've been saying since GWB cancelled climate action that the US has no continuity of honor in international agreements.

Dan Dare by Art of Noise

Yep, which further highlights the problem: @mozilla@mozilla.social 🔗 https://mozilla.social/users/mozilla/statuses/113153943609185249

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Not only do [the old trucks] only get 9 miles per gallon, they’re also noisy, smelly (I have to close my window every day when the mail truck comes around), have no air conditioning, hard to stand up in, and their only safety feature is mirrors that constantly fall out of alignment. AP also points out that nearly 100 LLVs caught fire last year – a common event when it comes to internal combustion vehicles.

So this question kind of made me go down a bit of a rabbit hole, but this really captures my feelings. https://www.rogerebert.com/features/how-we-choose-our-favorite-film-and-why-mine-is-joe-vs-the-volcano

And yes, taking less profits to distinguish your product as a prestige brand is fairly common.

Even load-balancing multiple servers in a homogenous network, where patches are only deployed in phases is better (and a best practice) than what, to outside observers, appears to have been everything going down due to a mass update everywhere, all at once.

Adtech has been controlling the Overton Window too long. That's what fueled the rise of (actual) fake news, as originally observed coming from Estonia, radicalizing dumb Americans.

https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/774-the-ad-money-fuelling-fake-news/

Press WinKey+Ctrl+D, then WinKey+Ctrl+(←or→). Windows already has multiple desktops.

…unless you're a horta.

"I came here the easy way: down the stairs."

"Down the stairs? To Ursa Minor‽ Wow, you must be unbelievably fit."