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retrohondajunki

@retrohondajunki@mstdn.social

Nervous energy. Resonance fields. Scarcity is a myth. Future reimagined, let's keep all the good parts.😴😪 Who looks inside awakes. 🚸

I'm thrilled that we're all becoming "woke". It means self awareness to what is happening to ourselves, others, and our world around us. How else are we going to redeem humanity?

Stalemate. Life is fleeting.

CW: All posts are that of my opinion.

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prolrage , to palestine group
@prolrage@todon.nl avatar

Leaked ceasefire proposal 'psychological warfare': Hamas
@palestine

https://thecradle.co/articles-id/23640

retrohondajunki ,

@prolrage @palestine
What I get from this is that they're nowhere near close to a Ceasefire and Hamas believes the US is gaslighting them.

breadandcircuses , to random
@breadandcircuses@climatejustice.social avatar

A few days ago, we focused on the fraudulent scheme of plastic recycling. It does not work, it never has worked, and it never will.

The oil industry, which produces millions of tons of plastics every year and makes HUGE profits from it, has known all along that recycling doesn't do any good — yet they continue promoting the idea.

So should we just quit? That's the question asked by a new article at Salon.

"Plastic experts say recycling is a scam. Should we even do it anymore?"

Erica Cirino, communications manager at the Plastic Pollution Coalition, says, "Plastic recycling rates vary widely from region to region around the world. In the U.S., plastic recycling rates are currently below 6 percent."

Yet even those numbers are deceptive, Cirino warned, as they incorrectly imply that at least the plastic which does get 'recycled' is handled in ways that help the environment.

"Unfortunately, it doesn’t matter where or how you set out your plastic for recycling collection, whether at the end of your driveway, at your local recycling center, or in a municipal recycling bin: Most plastic items collected as recycling are not actually recycled," Cirino explained. "Surprisingly, plastic is not designed to be recycled — despite industries and governments telling the public that we should recycle plastic."

Instead the plastics that people think get 'recycled' are often instead shipped from the Global North to the Global South, with waste haulers often dumping and openly burning plastic without regard to environmental laws, Cirino explained. People who live near the sites where these things happen face a lifetime of health risks, to say nothing of living in a degraded environment.

Indeed, a compelling question arises from the fact that the crusade to recycle plastic is more corporate propaganda than true Earth-saving measure: Should we recycle plastic at all?

"No," Cirino told Salon. "Even if plastic recycling rates were higher, recycling alone could never come close to solving the serious and wide-ranging health, justice, socio-economic, and environmental crises caused by industries’ continued plastic production and plastic pollution, which go hand in hand." Cirino argued that, given how plastic production has grown exponentially and its pollution problems have likewise worsened, emphasizing recycling over meaningful solutions is at best irresponsible.

"It’s clear recycling is not enough to solve the plastic pollution crisis," Cirino concluded. "The fossil fuel industry, governments, and corporations really need to turn off the plastic tap. Ultimately, our world must decide what it values: money or life."

FULL ARTICLE -- https://www.salon.com/2024/02/23/plastic-experts-say-recycling-is-a-scam-should-we-even-do-it-anymore/

retrohondajunki ,

@breadandcircuses
The surcharge that's added to a "recyclable" plastic bottle purchase to make the customer have to recycle to recoup their money is just wrong. Recycling is a hassle that's passed off to the customer.

wdlindsy , to random
@wdlindsy@toad.social avatar

Why place your daughter-in-law as co-chair of the Republican National Committee, as Trump has done with his son's wife Lara Trump?

Roger Sollenberger explains:

"Trump will have more than enough say to turn on the money spigot, and can demand large personal cuts from party funds."

The RNC, flush with money given by donors to the party itself — not to Donald Trump — is a cash cow for Trump and he intends to keep milking it.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-truth-about-trumps-rnc-shakeupand-why-the-gop-will-suffer

retrohondajunki ,

@wdlindsy
It'll be a great way to destroy the Republican party once and for all.

ChrisMayLA6 , to bookstodon group
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us avatar

Defend our

(from @tomgauld)

@bookstodon

retrohondajunki ,

@ChrisMayLA6 @tomgauld @bookstodon
The world is in a bad shape once again and needs heroes.

oatmeal , to palestine group
@oatmeal@kolektiva.social avatar

#Biden / In Private Remarks to Arab Americans, Biden Aide Expresses Regrets on Gaza

In a private meeting with Arab American leaders on Thursday, Deputy National Security Adviser Jon Finer acknowledged that the Biden administration made mistakes in its response to the Gaza war that has killed over 27,000 Palestinians since October 2022.

“We have left a very damaging impression based on what has been a wholly inadequate public accounting for how much the president, the administration and the country values the lives of Palestinians. And that began, frankly, pretty early in the conflict.”

Finer admitted the U.S. failed to properly convey the value it places on Palestinian lives. He expressed regret over the White House statement on the 100-day mark of the conflict that did not mention Palestinian casualties. Finer also said the administration should have faster condemned dehumanizing rhetoric by Israeli officials comparing Gazans to "animals."

#NYT https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/09/us/politics/biden-aide-israel-regret.html or https://archive.is/4QOIG
@israel
@palestine
#IsraelUSAHamasWar
#Gaza

retrohondajunki ,

@oatmeal @israel @palestine
merely Republican "thoughts and prayers"

tzimmer_history , to random
@tzimmer_history@mastodon.social avatar

Republicans believe they don’t have to accept difference and compromise, regarding it as their prerogative to shape the nation in their image, to define the boundaries of “real America.”

If they don’t get to rule, they might as well ruin what they no longer regard as “America.”

New piece:

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https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/domination-or-dissolution-rule-or

retrohondajunki ,

@tzimmer_history
When will a new party rise to take the place of the old Republican party and make these far right loons irrelevant again?

tzimmer_history , to random
@tzimmer_history@mastodon.social avatar

Weekend reading: I wrote about the broader implications of Texas defying federal authority on the border.

Republican governors are aggressively endorsing precisely the argument slave states used to justify secession. That’s, uhm, really bad.

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https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/the-texas-border-standoff-is-an-acute

retrohondajunki ,

@tzimmer_history
Americans will just have to show how they out American conservative christo-fascists. It's hard to argue with the subset of people who prefer war.

retrohondajunki ,

@tzimmer_history
A Union cannot survive amidst constant kaos and divisiveness. Both sides will have to win or lose interest.

oatmeal , to israel group
@oatmeal@kolektiva.social avatar

/ Around 49% of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders adults said the U.S. is "not supportive enough" of Palestinians in the conflict with Israelis, according to the AAPI Data/AP-NORC Center monthly survey released this week.
PDF https://apnorc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/AAPI-Data-AP-NORC-December-2023-Report.pdf

[…] The broad poll of AAPI adults may indicate a crucial voting bloc of President 's election coalition disagrees with how the president is handling the Israeli-Hamas war.

Via https://www.axios.com/2024/01/31/asian-americans-aapi-palestinians-support

@israel
@palestine

retrohondajunki ,

@oatmeal @israel @palestine
What Palestine needs are international monitor personnel in some form to take down names of the perps. You can't just take the IDF or Israel's zero credibility word for it.

velshi , to random
@velshi@mastodon.world avatar

Israel’s military offensive in Gaza has inflicted significant damage on Hamas but appears a long way from the death blow Israeli leaders vowed to deliver. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/israels-offensive-hamas-gaza-succeeding-rcna130745

retrohondajunki ,

This forever war is going to be taxing and costly. Perpetually on our minds and polluting every generation. Israel demands preferential treatment and will take nothing less at any cost.

Why are Palestinians, uprooted from their homes, the bad people? When the Jewish were driven from the region, some ages ago, did they think they would return to do the same ethic cleansing to another people?

#Israel #Palestine #TaxPayerMoney #BDSMovement #MakePeaceNotWar #NoForeverWars

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