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haveblue posted:Yeah one solution might be to have the delivery people pick up the old bags and return them to the store, but lol if you think instacart is going to pay them extra for this. You'd also need a different solution for drop-off deliveries made without interacting with the occupant We have a curbside compost service that does exactly this when you request a compost delivery. They drop it off in these giant bags, and then the next time they're round, they take empty bags back. It's not hard.
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Cranappleberry posted:pushing recycling of product containers onto the end-user is bullshit but there should be a massive, subsidized recycling apparatus for all types of plastic, glass, paper, metal and etc that are recyclable of all varieties and shapes. Of all of them, plastic is the biggest bullshit. Paper can be recycled pretty well. Glass and Aluminum cans are great for recycling, since they don't even really have to be clean, they're going to be melted down at thousands of degrees. Aluminum in particular is cheaper to make from recycled cans than bauxite. Plastic is recycled at about 5% in the US. Basically nothing. It's almost all going in the trash. Though it should be noted that plastic production is about 1% of all the petroleum greenhouse emissions.
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slurm posted:Is this because of our hideously inefficient land use? Maybe, but Canada and Australia are less population dense.
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BonoMan posted:Yeah I mean I assume this was one or two bags at a time. And that they'd reuse the bags themselves on their next delivery. It's not a fundamentally impossible dilemma, but it's one of those things that exposes the ways in which the gig economy ties itself to the modern trend of sacrificing efficiency for the sake of convenience. There's plenty of delivery services, even now, that deliver things in reusable containers and then take them back later. But they usually have consistent regular drivers who drive a consistent delivery route at consistent times. That makes it simple: on delivery day, you leave last week's container on your front doorstep, and when the driver drops off this week's container, they pick up last week's container and bring it back to the distribution center to be used for next week's deliveries. The problem is specific to the freeform nature of the gig economy. Being able to order whatever you want whenever you want through a centralized service and get it in an hour is convenient, sure. But it replaces those consistent regular schedules and centralized distribution centers with an entirely ad-hoc model that makes these kinds of things extremely difficult. It's similar to the cars vs buses tradeoff, where being able to go whenever you want wherever you want is convenient as hell, but introduces significant side issues like heavy traffic, a much higher motor vehicle fatality rate, much higher overall CO2 emissions, and many other negative externalities.
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Jaxyon posted:Of all of them, plastic is the biggest bullshit. Actually they burn a lot of plastic for fuel which is definitely worse than going in the trash
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I know we say that Trump is “actually losing it this time” every time he does this, but this is pretty out there even for him. https://twitter.com/ronfilipkowski/status/1565357420108455938?s=21&t=-LbzmAm2LjEqmNSr8b4jXw https://twitter.com/ronfilipkowski/status/1565356176161873922?s=21&t=-LbzmAm2LjEqmNSr8b4jXw
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Jaxyon posted:Maybe, but Canada and Australia are less population dense. That's huge areas of Alaska-like density though, but I just checked and they're also both extremely suburban.
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Tiny Timbs posted:Actually they burn a lot of plastic for fuel which is definitely worse than going in the trash They burn about twice as much as is recycled, but far far less than is landfilled. I agree it's worse than just landfilling it, for sure.
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Why would they be looking for Hillary's emails in... she really is just living rent-free in Trump's head isn't she?
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Jaxyon posted:Yeah the average doesn't really give you the whole picture. A large part of it is (like most things in America) about inequality. In the mid 2010's (I have no idea if this has changed or if it is even possible to reasonably calculate at this moment in time given everything that happened to education worldwide during Covid), if you removed the bottom 10% of worst performing schools from the U.S. average on standardized test scores, then the U.S. jumps from the mid-teens globally to #1 globally. Like most things in the U.S., education performance is incredibly unequal with a large chunk of people who it works out "fine" for, a chunk who do extremely well, and a chunk that are just completely left behind.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:A large part of it is (like most things in America) about inequality. In the mid 2010's (I have no idea if this has changed or if it is even possible to reasonably calculate at this moment in time given everything that happened to education worldwide during Covid), if you removed the bottom 10% of worst performing schools from the U.S. average on standardized test scores, then the U.S. jumps from the mid-teens globally to #1 globally. It's a good thing we base funding on the existing income of an area and if schools perform poor we pull further funding. Seems like a recipe
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Randalor posted:Why would they be looking for Hillary's emails in... she really is just living rent-free in Trump's head isn't she? I think it's more that Trump's brain has a limited number of logic gates, and anything related to conspiracy, corruption, or secrets trips the "her e-mails!" circut.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:A large part of it is (like most things in America) about inequality. In the mid 2010's (I have no idea if this has changed or if it is even possible to reasonably calculate at this moment in time given everything that happened to education worldwide during Covid), if you removed the bottom 10% of worst performing schools from the U.S. average on standardized test scores, then the U.S. jumps from the mid-teens globally to #1 globally. To be fair, however, you'd need to apply this same methodology to the other countries so you'd have a good comparison. I think everyone's scores would improve if you removed the bottom 10%; the question is, does the US improve more than the others?
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https://brightly.eco/diy-grow-bags/ They should mandate bags that already include wildflower seeds
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Morrow posted:To be fair, however, you'd need to apply this same methodology to the other countries so you'd have a good comparison. I think everyone's scores would improve if you removed the bottom 10%; the question is, does the US improve more than the others? Yeah, if you did it for everyone, then the U.S. still shoots up, but it isn't #1. The comparison was just to show how divergent the U.S. extremes are. The top 10% of U.S. students outpace the top 10% from every other country by a moderate amount. The bottom 10% do far worse in the U.S. than other places. So, the U.S. being "above average" in general is kind of misleading because a large chunk of U.S. students are the best in the world, but another chunk are in a league of their own in terms of poor performance that isn't seen anywhere else globally.
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JesustheDarkLord posted:https://brightly.eco/diy-grow-bags/ IDK about NJ but here the 'reusable' bags that the grocery stores sell are made of non-woven polypropylene rather than canvas and are covered in multi-colored printed graphics. Not sure you want people burying them everywhere.
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Non degrading fossil fuel based single use plastics should probably just be banned outright or heavily restricted. We did just fine before. For example there is no reason a dozen apples need a plastic blister pack style case. It doesn't provide meaningfuly better protection than alternatives. Same with eggs. The old cardboard cartons got swapped with foam and paper thin plastic. I'm almost certain most of these were done to make it less old fashioned seaming or because they stack and ship higher volumes empty.
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Just the best people https://twitter.com/renato_mariotti/status/1565405363176091648
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marshmonkey posted:https://twitter.com/ronfilipkowski/status/1565356176161873922?s=21&t=-LbzmAm2LjEqmNSr8b4jXw I know nothing matters, but isn't this literal quid-pro-quo bribery? Vote for me and I will give you this thing you personally need.
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Randalor posted:Why would they be looking for Hillary's emails in... she really is just living rent-free in Trump's head isn't she? Not quite. It's a message directly for his base, because it takes for granted that you hold some positions held only by his deepest supporters. He's saying that the DoJ thought he had evidence that they'd covered up Hillary's emails to protect her from consequences, and that they raided him to prevent him from exposing the measures they took to try to destroy Trump for Hillary's sake. You have to believe (or at least understand that his supporters believe) that the DoJ illegally put their thumbs on the scale to keep Hillary Clinton out of office, and that poor helpless President Trump was so oppressed by the deep state that he was barely able to do anything about this at all. That position is what his claims there rely on. Old James posted:I know nothing matters, but isn't this literal quid-pro-quo bribery? Vote for me and I will give you this thing you personally need. Not really, no. "Help me get elected and I'll do things that benefit you" is exactly what politicians are supposed to do. Of course, promising pardons to people who tried to overthrow the government to get him installed into power is bad for other reasons.
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Jaxyon posted:It's a good thing we base funding on the existing income of an area and if schools perform poor we pull further funding. For all the awful things about Texas, we do have a mechanism to transfer funds from wealthy districts to poor ones. at least until governor Dan Patrick abolishes public schools
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marshmonkey posted:I know we say that Trump is “actually losing it this time” every time he does this, but this is pretty out there even for him. Why is this losing it? Trumps going back to the well on poo poo that’s worked for him before. He’s just trying to rile up the true believers again. All the previous poo poo has just been his usual insecure, disorganized, narcissistic flailing. This sounds like it was planned. He’s trying to intimidate the investigation with the (credible) threat of violence.
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koolkal posted:On the bright side, Amazon drivers will now be able to poo poo into reusable bags on their trucks while in NJ instead of having to poo poo into thin plastic ones or pooper scoopers. Flying toilets are making their way to the US now?
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:This seems like the first "official" confirmation that remote learning has been a disaster for many kids. The declines were among just about every race, ethnic, geographic, and income demographic, but was worse among low income students and already low performing students. As someone who left a VP slot at a very large video game company to work on educational software for schools in the 2nd half of the 1990’s, I am just blown away at how crappy and completely un-motivating the crap being used by schools is. It feels like “we have to make this completely un-enjoyable and difficult for students” is the operating principle here.
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VideoGameVet posted:As someone who left a VP slot at a very large video game company to work on educational software for schools in the 2nd half of the 1990’s, I am just blown away at how crappy and completely un-motivating the crap being used by schools is. LOL you think anyone involved cares about students? This is an administrator just getting whatever fills the requirements from a lowest bidder.
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Was told to post this here: https://twitter.com/wyattreed13/status/1565110149425123330?s=20&t=SslklZYNRQTyqOL2ImgSrg (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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VideoGameVet posted:As someone who left a VP slot at a very large video game company to work on educational software for schools in the 2nd half of the 1990’s, I am just blown away at how crappy and completely un-motivating the crap being used by schools is. "Good school" neighborhoods in the suburbs have been a self-fulfilling prophecy of systemic racism by and for the settler class of America since 1954; anything that would provide a solution will find seething violence where it cannot be passively frustrated. Distance learning is an alternative, and there can be no alternative.
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Cranappleberry posted:creating non-disposable bags has a higher carbon footprint than thin plastic ones. It may not lead to the same issue with tiny plastic pieces accumulating in the ocean or microplastics in drinking water, but it's still worse. There are compostable bags. Just saying.
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Randalor posted:Why would they be looking for Hillary's emails in... she really is just living rent-free in Trump's head isn't she?
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Tuxedo Gin posted:I wonder if anyone will think to try funding schools and paying teachers decent wages. Nope. According to my local WGOP radio station, this only happened in blue states and blue counties. I went into a rage listening to whoever this clown was say this because I live in NE FL in a blood red zip code and know for a fact that he was lying because my son's teachers are telling us this and it's effected every kid.
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Jaxyon posted:LOL you think anyone involved cares about students? The company I was at was The Lightspan Partnership.. A huge effort that was originally focused on TV Settop boxes since the theory in 1994 was that these would be network devices capable of running decent apps with embedded video. When the Time-Warner Orlando project failed, something about a SGI $5000 settop being a bit pricy and Apple abandoned their partnership to build one for British Telecom I was tasked to find a platform that could do video and run decent entertaining educational games. In one of the few smart picks of my life I picked the new Sony PlayStation and we became the publisher with more SKU’s than anyone else. Yeah, they were kinda lame by PS1 standards, but they were focused on K-6 students and they were good at conveying math and language concepts. And it was the 1990’s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8xF4C_Dh88 Not that I would do this today. Stuff like Dragon Algebra and Minecraft is vastly superior, but hey … at least we made the effort to go beyond drill and kill.
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Kammat posted:Biden doesn't seem to be holding back in this speech. Well it's about loving time. I wish he didn't wait until "holy poo poo the mid terms are coming up" to actually do it though. He was Obama's VP for 8 loving years and should know full well better than anybody that trying to work with the modern iteration of GOP is a god damned waste of time
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Kammat posted:Biden doesn't seem to be holding back in this speech. He all but called out Graham by name for stoking political violence.
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BiggerBoat posted:Well it's about loving time. I wish he didn't wait until "holy poo poo the mid terms are coming up" to actually do it though. He was Obama's VP for 8 loving years and should know full well better than anybody that trying to work with the modern iteration of GOP is a god damned waste of time Why did you expect this from Biden, when he was giving speeches to support a Republican candidate for Congress as recently as 2018 (two years into Trump's Presidency no less)? quote:https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2019/01/23/us/politics/biden-speech-fred-upton.amp.html
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Crymetimeboys posted:Why did you expect this from Biden, when he was giving speeches to support a Republican candidate for Congress as recently as 2018 (two years into Trump's Presidency no less)? I didn't expect it at all. I said it was a shame he didn't do it sooner and was also disappointed when he campaigned on reaching across the aisle. I reluctantly voted for him anyway because Trump.
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Kammat posted:Biden doesn't seem to be holding back in this speech. Zero mention of what he's going to do. Lots of bloviating about MAGA republicans being a threat to democracy, but never said what he's going to do to stop that threat. Also he was green most of the time 
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