Really nervous about this psychiatric nurse (if that’s what she is) coming round tomorrow. I struggle to articulate what I think I need when asked. I think probably what I need most is a professional to seem like they care and hold hope for me that I will get better
TIL that not only is the Grand Canyon not the deepest canyon on land in the world, it’s not even the deepest one in the USA (where it’s third deepest!)
The deepest land canyon is in the Himalaya Mountains.
@StillIRise1963 Every time I am forced by necessity to buy clothes, I wonder if it’s just that I don’t have the skill set, or if the options are all bad.
Vor 39 Jahren, am 13. April 1985 trat Danuta Daniellson -Tochter einer jüdisch-polnischen Shoahüberlebenden - im schwedischen Växjö militant einer Nazi-Demonstration entgegen. Dabei hatte sie mit ihrer Tasche einen der Nazis vermöbelt. Seit vier Jahren wird mit einer Statue an die couragierte Antifaschistin erinnert.
Really important article here about how big oil companies, including ExxonMobil, knew plastic recycling was BS since the'70s, but kept pushing the lie anyway.
"New research by the Center for Climate Integrity reveals that the plastics industry knew this plastic waste crisis was coming. And so petrochemical manufacturers worked hard to persuade the public that we could recycle our way out of the problem."
"Twenty petrochemical companies generate more than half of all the world’s single-use plastics. They include major oil and gas companies such as ExxonMobil, the world’s leading producer of single-use plastic waste.
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"Behind the scenes, however, they were admitting all along that such efforts were “virtually hopeless.” For more than 40 years, they knew that plastic recycling is not technically or economically feasible at scale. More than 90 percent of all plastic has ended up in landfills, ecosystems, or incinerators.
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"Since the 1970s, these companies, their trade associations, and their front groups promoted recycling “solutions” using misleading advertising, inaccurate educational materials, performative investments, and commitments that they knew they were unlikely to meet.
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"Internal documents reveal that the industry knew by 1986, for example, that “recycling cannot be considered a permanent solid waste solution [to plastics], as it merely prolongs the time until an item is disposed of.” In 1994, an Exxon employee warned staffers at the American Plastics Council that they did not “want paper floating around” saying they could not meet recycling goals, since the issue was “highly sensitive politically.” These compelling admissions and many more are grounds for a thorough investigation.
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"Plastics are a product made from fossil fuels. As the world moves away from fossil fuels in a race to avert climate catastrophe, journalists have shined a light on how oil companies promote recycling, in part because plastics are their 'Plan B.'"
These days, the CEO of ExxonMobil likes to gaslight the public and blame activists:
"Frankly, society, and the activist—the dominant voice in this discussion—has tried to exclude the industry that has the most capacity and the highest potential for helping with some of the technologies."
Well, these same companies knew about the problems with toxic fossil fuel pollution since the 1970s. That's both greenhouse gas and microplastic pollution.
And they deliberately and knowingly lied to delay action.
Virustotal can be so frustrating if you just have a normal user account. Just know that a clean bill of health from VT is by no means an indicator that a piece of software is safe.
E.g., this file is known bad, from a deceptive download. But it comes out clean when scanned by dozens of antivirus and security tools.