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  • It does, but it will also bind a lot of the micro plastic pieces into the concrete matrix, which, I think (and, again, as I said, I haven't actually gone looking for any research on this), would keep them from entering the environment. If the concrete is then recycled, typically by crushing and using as aggregate, it would further trap the particles. It's not a perfect solution, but I don't think there is a perfect solution to plastics in general, we just have to find less harmful alternatives.

  • M O N C H

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  • The fixed eye contact makes me think the cat is sending a message, "I require snacks, or else".

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  • That's a fair concern, but, as you say, concrete is recyclable, and I would expect (though I admit I haven't looked for studies) that it still would be when it has some amount of plastic aggregate. If the plastic breaks down in the concrete, the microplastics should be trapped, and will be reincorporated when the concrete is reused.

    Nothing is going to be a perfect solution to plastic, we need to find alternatives to its use, but in the interim it seems sensible to find effective ways to reuse it rather than just dumping it and hoping for the best.

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  • The biggest issue seems to be around a lake of thinking. Recycling used plastics into more plastic is certainly energetically infeasible, and letting plastics escape to contaminate the environment is also unacceptable. However plastic can be recycled, or perhaps reused, into other things, notably as a partial replacement for aggregate in concrete. This process is low energy, doesn't require sorting the plastic, and actually enhances the thermal and noise insulation properties of the concrete, whilst also reducing it's overall weight. There are undoubtedly other things a stable, non-biodegradable, waterproof and hardwearing substance could be used for given some though.

  • What is the smallest hill you would die on?

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  • We fix it with rockets. Circularize the orbit and set it to an integer number of days that's divisible by 28.

  • What is the smallest hill you would die on?

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  • That only gives you 364 daya per year and we need just fractionally less than 365.25. You end up needing an extra day every year, and if we want to keep midnight in the middle of the night, and extra full day every four years (except when we don't). Adding those sorts of bodges onto an otherwise elegant system would be awful to work with.

    Instead, I propose we build giant rocket engines pointing straight up on the equator, and adjust the Earth's orbit until one orbit around the sun takes exactly 364 days.

  • "You saved me!"

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  • Terrified, confused and has no idea who the human is, but will definitely take that cuddle thankyouverymuch.

  • Trump Says He Could Free Abrego Garcia From El Salvador, but Won’t: Trump’s comments undermined statements by his top aides & were a blunt sign of his administration’s intention to defy courts

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  • I'm pretty sure the supreme court ruling was carefully worded to not require them to bring him back, but 'fascilitate' his return, which gave them enough wiggle room to say they wouldn't stop his return, so they were in conpliance. It was a lower court tgat required his return, the supreme court ruling overrode that.

  • MAGA’s Premier Conspiracy Theorist Becomes the Target of One

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  • They're willing to disregard the evidence of their own senses if it doesn't agree with their conspiracies. Mearly believing multiple, contradictory, theories would be as easy as breathing. They're all true, we just need Q to drop the next info dump that explains how. Trust the plan etc...

    That said, it would be quite entertaining to watch, so go for it, what's the worst that could happen...

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  • I couldn't agree more. Occasionally I'll use an appimage where something is not packaged for my distro version and I only need it temporarily.

    Maybe I'm just long in the tooth, but linux used to be a simple, quite elegant system, with different distros providing different focuses, whether they were trying to be windows clones, something that a business could bank on being there in ten years, or something for those who like to tinker. The common theme throughout was 'the unix way', each individual tool was simple, did one job, and did it well. Now we seem to be moving to a much more homogenous ecosystem of distros with tooling that tries to be everything all at once, and often, not very well.

  • So true

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  • Oh God, is everyone looking at me weird when I drink soda wrong?

    If you're not holding it in the crook of your elbow, lifting your arm, and pouring it onto your outstretched tongue, then at least one of us is doing it wrong, and I think it's you, and everyone is silently judging you for your weird way of drinking. They don't drink with their elbows probably because they don't want to embarass you.

  • Trump plans to sign an executive order requiring commercial truck drivers to speak English.

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  • Perfect, he gets to make a big fuss for the racists, but doesn't actually have to change anything. That way there's less risk of breaking anything, and he's probably looking for a win right now.

    It's a bit like decreeing that all English week day names must henceforth end in the letter 'y'. It's low risk, makes certain people think you're busy taking action, and leaves everyone else wondering what you're up to with this, taking some of the heat off of other issues.

  • How would you run a society?

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  • This is an interesting prompt. Critically it seems like you definitely aren't omnipotent, so whilst you can try to influence and teach the new inhabitants, there's nothing stopping them simply ignoring you and doing something else.

    Rather than some wanting to just not contribute, I'd be more concerned by a group deciding to focus their efforts on building weapons and simply taking what they want from others.

    Fully automated luxury gay space communism is certainly an ideal, but it is extremely vulnerable to hostile forces until it gets large enough and willing enough to excert eqivalent force in return. Hostile forces can be military, ideological, or resource limit based. Responding to all of those, is a massive challenge.

  • Ball for a ball

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  • I knew there was such a thing as slicing your shot in golf, I didn't know it meant that!

  • The Silence Of The Processes.

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  • Well, that's just bleak.

    The way I look at it, parent processes know they will outlast their children unless they deliberately turn them into daemons, traditionally by double forking them. Daemons live on, even when the parent dies.

  • The Silence Of The Processes.

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  • SIGKILL again? That implies it's been KILLed before and either survived, or come back. Either way, we don't like zombie processes in these parts.

    /me fetches the really big process remover/cattle prod.

  • An artist and his masterpiece

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  • "I am mighty hunter! I kill it! I kill it with my teefs!"

  • To whom it may concern

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  • Steady on Satan, they're only a credit card company! They're bad, but not that bad!

  • Note-taking in vim/neovim

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  • If you're used to markdown in Obsidian, you could look at vimwiki to use a similar syntax in vim. I find it works fairly nicely for standard notetaking, and is a lot faster to start than Obsidian.