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walruslifestyle

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manic pixie dream walrus

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during the summer bees cool off in swarming pools

loren , to random
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All a bunch of pochards

walruslifestyle ,
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@loren hoisted by my own pochard

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get! trouted~!

walruslifestyle ,
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@loren the trout is out there

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it's so fun that there's a special latin phrase, carpy diem, to describe having a day like a carp (lounging in silt at the bottom of a lake)

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All carp tunnel

walruslifestyle ,
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@loren carp eel tunnel

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Auroras, the rainbow trout of the sky

walruslifestyle ,
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@loren you know what you're talking trout

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oriole double stuf

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The
Rainbow
trOUT

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who up trouting the tl?

walruslifestyle ,
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@loren "trout" is short for "trot out (a trout)"

walruslifestyle ,
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@loren @owl wow thank you! i had my trouts id make the cut!

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hands you a random object

walruslifestyle ,
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@loren thank u

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Chip! And I reiterate, chip!

walruslifestyle ,
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@loren Chirp! At the Disco

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saw my first butterbutt of the season today!

walruslifestyle ,
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@loren love that butterbutt squash

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show me any bird, that is a good bird

walruslifestyle ,
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@loren what about this, an terror bird

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TroutAbout™️

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@loren what's this aboutrout

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scrabbages

walruslifestyle ,
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@loren s🦀ages

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Feeling litigious today. Who wants to get sued?

walruslifestyle ,
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@loren i think i might be up for that

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I need a fish to sing to me

walruslifestyle ,
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@artcollisions @loren fish* for

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people want to say whales evolved tails like fish but that's just a fluke

loren , to random
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mars soup eel

walruslifestyle ,
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@loren worm bat (🪱🦇)

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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/

walruslifestyle ,
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@remote_orb we can't "individual responsibility" our way out of this problem. one guy with his hand on the "make plastic" machine could sneeze one day and the accidental overproduction would completely swamp any scrimping you did over your entire lifetime. anything any individual does is a rounding error compared to the problem.

not to mention that "individual responsibility" is industry PR to avoid accountability.

the only way we move the needle on this problem is to force the companies making this shit to slow down or stop making so much.
@breadandcircuses

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growing more and more freaked out by these articles and blog posts with AI-generated images of people who are missing legs or arms, have extra hands or figures, or otherwise reside deep in the uncanny valley

walruslifestyle OP ,
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@BeAware or pay a human artist who knows what they're doing, which always was and continues to be the right answer

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