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JohnDoe124on Plastic-based fuels may present an “unreasonable risk” to human health

>plastic shopping bags (use textile bags

iirc you would have to use a textile bag several hundred times to have a lower impact that plastic bags, maybe reusing plastic bags is a better option. Or polyester idk.

same for cotton, water use and carbon dioxide emissions are huge and debatably polyester clothes are better environmentally (it's hard to compare as there is no conversion rate between plastic waste/microplastic pollution and carbon dioxide) emissions)

JohnDoe124on ‘The Battery’s Dead’: Burnout Looks Different in Autistic Adults

can totally relate to this..

JohnDoe124on Plant-based meat is turning out to be a flop

I am a lifelong vegetarian and I completely agree, and tbh the idea of eating something that tastes like meat is pretty unappealing.

JohnDoe124on Beyond Meat is struggling, and the plant-based meat industry worries

>A familiar refrain I've heard in restaurants in the last few years is "we used to have a nice veggie patty, but they replaced it with the beyond/incredible/whatever patty."

So much, this, I have been vegetarian my whole life and quite honestly the idea of eating something that tastes like meat is almost as unappealing as the idea of eating meat. I get that it helps people give up, but it's not for me.

JohnDoe124on France directs schools to stop using Microsoft Office and Google Workspace

Title is misleading, it's just Office 365, not Desktop Office (I do wish they would switch to LibreOffice though..)

JohnDoe124on LibreOffice blogs about Blockchain, locks comments after negative user feedback

> possible ways for people to combine LibreOffice with blockchain technologies. (We’re not talking about putting blockchain into LibreOffice!)

anyone care to explain to me the difference here?

JohnDoe124on Robot treats 500k plants per hour with 95% less chemicals [video]

Is 'chemicals' not an uncountable noun in this context though? It's not talking about fewer individual chemicals, just a smaller quantity of 'chemicals'.

JohnDoe124on The world is run by people no smarter than you

> Elon adding, and then removing, a second verified checkmark to replace the one he devalued, something any B2C product expert would know is a terrible idea Elon proposing a $20/month price for Twitter Blue, and then immediately dropping to $8 at the first celebrity pushback, something any pricing expert would know is a terrible idea Elon (or his EA?) personally reinterviewing engineers at Twitter and telling them to print out code and then changing his mind, something any engineering manager would know is a terrible idea

I'm sure Elon knows how stupid these are, it's a publicity stunt

JohnDoe124on Bitcoin falls under $16,000

> What is it about bitcoin that brings people into these threads to say "good riddance! I hope it dies because all of it's negative externalities."?

> To the oblivious observer it would appear cryptocurrency lives rent free in many heads in this space. If you don't care for it why pay attention to it?

The environmental impact is something everyone should care about

JohnDoe124on Why Microsoft 365 is teaming up with OREO THINS to give you a break

>essential to our well-being

Yes, eating junk food is good for your wellbeing...