Plastic is not very biologically active (that's like half the reason we use so much of it) so I'd guess whatever effects it has are very mechanical things like impaired breathing or higher risk of blood clots/strokes.
With all of these policies, I'm not really worried about the Trump admin doing anything beyond chasing their own tail. What I'm worried about is when the dems get back in power and try to do all of these policies more competently in an attempt to win over racist suburbanites who hate them.
I came up with "culturally Christian" to describe myself (atheist but does the Christian holidays) like three minutes before the fascists started using it and ruined it. Very annoyed with them.
It sounds like you're mostly thinking of plastic containers though, which... well it'd still have to be carefully phased, because food comes in those, and it'd be better to still allow a little plastic film for safety seals, but yeah, it'd be entirely possible to switch back to bottles and cans. It'd probably cost like $0.10 more to produce per item or something trivial though, so corporations would never allow it.
A policy I like to daydream about is, after ending CO2 emissions, massively subsidizing lumber production until it makes sense to make disposable containers out of wood. All the wooden garbage in landfills would sequester carbon, so we could slowly get back to pre-industrial CO2 levels.
I think it's possible but unlikely. The structural forces that capitalism generates tend towards an ever shrinking share for the worker, and that sure suggests that this continues until something breaks, like finally prompting a revolution, or collapsing into neo-feudalism. But that's just the main, most likely future. It's tempting to reduce predictions down to the most likely handful of options, but history is full of chaotic bullshit. Maybe the next time capitalism reinvents itself leads to a lull in how much workers are exploited, maybe some new ideological movement causes a change completely sideways to "socialism or barbarism", maybe tech actually does save us after all.
But most likely, yeah, continually worsening conditions until something breaks.
Nah it bothers me too. I think a 7 person indie team is large.
Indie is supposed to mean 2.5 people (the .5 is the composer splitting their time) and, if you get big, a humorously lopsided credits when translation and console ports add another 50 people.
Is that one of the people who runs one of those anti tankie subreddits?
If so - I'd assume they just picked an anti-tankie position at some point in the incoherent walk through political stances that most people go through, then had a moderately successful subreddit dedicated to it, and "lets me be the head of a moderately successful subreddit" is more than any other political ideology offers, so they stuck with it.
Nintendo has always gone through waves of litigiousness and backing down. Hell if I know what drives it.