We stopped selling alcohol and cigarettes unless you dox yourself to shady gas stations and stores.

Both of which famously keep databases of everyone’s IDs, and require transmitting your ID over who-knows-what network to who-knows-where.

Oh, wait, no they don’t.

Again, if done correctly, it can be done privately and securely. I am not advocating that we give our ID to every sketchy internet site. I am advocating for a widespread secure and standardized solution.

Right, and such a solution will ultimately just require everyone to trust the fact that it’s been “done privately and securely”

The joke (?) was the title combined with the picture

Reminds me of this meme

Instructions clear, but grok is still shouting about Hitler.

@javiwhite@feddit.uk had it right, and also it’s specifically a derogatory term; the Oxford English Dictionary gives the definition “US English derogatory a contemptuous term for a white person, especially an impoverished white person living in the southern US. Also called poor white”

I had to check, and it looks like at least as far as plastic goes, in Finland it’s sent to two domestic recycling plants, and everything they don’t have the capacity to handle is shipped to Sweden’s Site Zero in Motala (dunno where they go from there.)

But yeah, something like using shredded plastic for road surfacing definitely isn’t what I’d call a sensible way to recycle the material. It’s just adding an extra step before getting to “microplastic endocrine disruptors EVERYWHERE”

We can still get lucky and only get 1346 London

🤞

There’s a good chance that the next influenza pandemic will be kicked off in the US. Get ready for the American Flu!

the recycling system is broken and often just a complete lie in many places in the world.

In many places in the world, or mainly the US? I keep seeing this claim repeated but usually any proof is just about the US

Fun English facts: “apron” used to be “napron”, but “a napron” was eventually incorrectly split into “an apron”. Same with “adder” which used to be “naddre”, and “umpire” which was “noumpere”

It’s a weird hill to die on

But at least they’re dead

And at least there’s now one(ish) standard instead of N+1