I don’t recall there ever being a time where Trump looked better for Palestine even if you believed him. The two candidates were at best tied on this particular issue but Trump so clearly was evil everywhere else

Landfills at least in the us absolutely are designed to encapsulate waste, to minimize leachate and to control runoff. The whole point is to bury it in a way that it will tend to stay buried.

There is evidence of paper not decomposing because it doesn’t get enough oxygen or water for microbes to do their thing

Suppose it might be easier to smuggle

It’s probably just jealousy that fashion designers compensate by giving men pockets!

I find it hard to believe that’s the same thing. It’s not that you have dangly bits that can be sat on but what you sit on.

Have you checked whether there’s still warranty coverage?

Yeah but you can’t do helicopters

You realize the church isn’t getting the money, the church is using the money

to house immigrant children entering the U.S. without adult supervision

You’re not hurting the church when you no longer let them use your money to help care for the needy, you’re only hurting those needy

Don’t let your hatred of organized religion distract who this hurts

I’m not buying this. Sure minimizing dependencies is a good practice, but not updating? That’s a recipe for disaster.

It’s important to note that you can’t predict supply chain attacks or vulnerabilities, and vulnerabilities are much more common. Also, while frequent updates might expose you to that supply chain attack more quickly, it also mitigates it more quickly. Frequent updates in combination with vulnerability scanning, and limiting downloads to reputable sources (that try to prevent supply chain attacks and discover them quickly) is a much better approach.

There also the maintainability argument, that I’m having right now with a couple of our legacy software teams. Not updating can lock you into the past, for entire ecosystems of dependencies. You cant update if you have to, you cant take advantage of new features anywhere in the ecosystem, and it’s now an expensive emergency when something stops being maintained or has an unresolved vulnerability. If you’re being continually kept up, then choices or features are easy

Then the goal is how do you automate your updates as smoothly as possible so they do not become noise, do not create extra work? Tools like dependabit and renovate bot have a lot of config options to help that

This means scientists and stakeholders can explore how shifts in transport systems, such as the move toward electric vehicles

And transit. But given transit takes decades even when the government supports it, the EV transition is key

Thanks, that seems like a clearer description than anything I read online

This is where you get to properly reducing lanes can improve speeds.

My town has a major road lined with strip malls that used to be two lanes in each direction. It was also one of the most dangerous and aggravating roads as there was always someone maneuvering for position, and sudden stops or lane changes when someone wanted to turn.

Then a few years back they restriped it, plus coordinated the lights. Now it’s one lane in each direction and that lane is a through lane. Every strip mall gets a dedicated turn lane, so there’s no more reason to maneuver, no more sudden stops or lane changes. The stop lights are more likely to let you through.

Now it’s clear and measurable, everyone’s individual speed is down, accidents are down, but stopping for any reason is way down so you get through the busy section noticeable faster. And it’s much calmer

I don’t get micro greens, can you point to actual non-hype details? Excusing the oversimplification, but is this just growing sprouts and clover to add to salads? When people talk about micro greens , they do NOT include spices, right? Nor anything we normally classify as salad?

I see one description including arugula but that’s “lettuce” found in any grocery. Is it just to harvest ypur own baby arugula, or is there no distinction?

bikes still have rubber tires.

I don’t see how this matters. It’s not whether that materials exist, but how much wear away into microplastics. Aside from the occasional kid screwing around, bicycles probably are not.

Connecting microplastic from runoff seems like a wasted effort

For sure it’s better that it not be created, however it is. Even if we were able to stop using it, there are mountains of goods already using it and goods already disposed of, leaching pollution into our air, our water, our food, our environment. Even if we were able to find away for tires to stop emitting microplastics, we have billions of tires that will continue to do so.

A surprising amount of “US Culture” is at least partly created in Canada and has more global influence. Y’all need to be more subversive: build up the Vancouver film industry to take over from within. I’m sure my countrymen would be on their knees begging for it, if you toss a few coins their way

But seriously, some racist stuff in there would never fly

“That’ll show them I’m the good guy”

Finally we have a new hope ……

Supposedly you can recycle them, but normally they will be confined to a a small section of landfill. While “on a landfill” is not a good answer, it’s much better than “in the environment “

You could even argue that leachate is “good” in that it pulls all these contaminants out of the landfill to a concentrated place where they could in theory be removed (and placed in a landfill 🤪)

Plus mandate a filter on clothes washers. I’m sure there would be an entire subculture of reactionaries dedicated to removing them but most people wouldn’t

Unfortunately not. Is there even another choice for tires that won’t shed microplastics? I’ve never read of one

That being said, someone was proposing an affordable way to filter runoff from highways that we should at least try